Stoofer's 3rd Law

[Rainbow Brite]

stoofer's 3rd law applies when people overcompensate, particularly with "bastard-modding", for the addition of extra power. the law isn't in and of itself meaningful - it's all about balance, which becomes increasingly difficult as the game gets more saturated, and the approach of the meta to balancing saturated games.

[Rainbow Brite]

The point of Stoofer's 3rd Law is to make mods think: will adding [role] to the game really help the Town? Or will it make it more difficult and confusing, due to (amongst other things) unanticipated interactions between pro-town power roles?

now that raises an interesting question - you're implying the former is a good thing and the latter is a bad thing, which i don't think is

necessarily

true. i'm not a fan of the spiderweb nightgame, but some people appear to be.

what is the purpose of town roles? that's probably worthy of a thread w/ poll in its own right...

[Rainbow Brite]

yeah, i was being tangential - that's ok isn't it?