Maybe I’m just dumb, but what are you actually supposed to be doing in this game? The rules doesn’t say. How can this be newbie friendly?
Finding scum or killing town, depending.
It's newbie friendly because it's a simple to understand setup. The anagrams are all flavor and just for fun.
I’m just a simple Coppersmith, so I’m still not getting anything, but that’s fine. Enjoy your game!
It's a social deduction game. Basically, there's an informed minority (mafia) vs. an uninformed majority (town). Each night, mafia kills a member of town that they secretly choose, and then the night ends and a new day phase begins. Each day, all the players who are still alive in the game can talk in the thread, try to figure out who the mafia are, and vote for someone to get lynched until someone has a simple majority of people voting for him at which point he dies, his role is revealed to everyone and a new night phase begins. This process is repeated until the entire mafia is dead (town wins) or the entire town is dead (mafia wins).
There are also power roles that do something special. For example, a Cop is a town player who can investigate someone during the night, and then the Cop is told the alignment of that person, and a Doctor is a town player who can protect someone during the night and then if the mafia try to kill the same player, the kill fails. Most people don't have any special powers.