[OLD] Open Setup Discussion and Nominations

[Fiasco]

not really open, but:

Ringmaker mafia: have a Ringmaker and maybe some hobbits, dwarves, elves, ring wraiths, gollum as SK. Ringmaker hands out sets of 9/7/3/1 rings. Each set of rings gives a kill or other power, target decided by plurality vote of the owners. Have some mechanism to destroy rings, hand them over to others, have using them be dangerous, etc etc.

[Flameaxe]

This one was IMed to me and I like it:

BAM'S TRUST NO ONE

1 GF + 1 Goon
1 Cop
2 millers
2 townies

Millers would be told they're townies I assume.

OMG Theft!

[JDodge]

ANOTHER GIMMICK-LADEN SETUP

4 2-life mafia (resurrect upon death, there's 4 'cause they're EVIL)
4 3-life mafia (like the above but they resurrect TWICE)
6 cops that have RANDOM SANITY from (sane, insane, paranoid, naive, random, pine fresh*)
1 doc that is actually a vig that is actually a PARANOID GUN OWNER
1 miller-delayed-nk immune-cop immune-immune immune vig that only kills scum
9 MILLERS
9 DEATH MILLERS
9 MILLERS AND DEATH MILLERS
1 Steve Jobs**
2 townies
And a partridge in a pear tree***

*Gets a result of "fresh scent" or "bad odor" randomly
**PR townie, must add the letter i to the front of every iWord
***dies at night unless someone feeds it

Now can we stop with the line of broken, awful gimmicky setups that would never work in an actual mafia game?

[Xythar]

Dammit I want to play in that game

[JDodge]

I added a role to make it more balanced

[Thesp]

not really open, but:

Ringmaker mafia: have a Ringmaker and maybe some hobbits, dwarves, elves, ring wraiths, gollum as SK. Ringmaker hands out sets of 9/7/3/1 rings. Each set of rings gives a kill or other power, target decided by plurality vote of the owners. Have some mechanism to destroy rings, hand them over to others, have using them be dangerous, etc etc.

I'd like to guide you to this thread.

[Oman]

Nominate the following (or second if Previously Nommed):
Monks and Masons
Quack Mafia
Picking Simplicity
Strawberry Mafia
Pie E7

[somestrangeflea]

Third: Masons and Monks

[Aimee]

Second: Quack Mafia

(Although, for balance reasons, I'd advocate a Day Start.)

[Sammich]

Third: Quack Mafia

Suggestion: Texas Justice Variation.

Justice Nightless

4 Mafia w/ day Kill option
8 Townies w/ day Kill option

And some other setups I got in a creative spurt.

Disguised Mafia

4 Mafia, for one night mafia can show up as town in substitution of in cop investigation, the person they choose also makes for the NK.
8 townies

Reverse Kingmaker

5 Assasins
8 Townies
1 Kingmaker
1 King; However, the support of eight players must be reached to execute a player
1 Cop
1 Doc
1 Town Hero

[b)Generic Dethy Ripoff[/b]
4 Mafia
8 Townies w/ Oneshot doc option

Paranoia Nightless

1 Mafia
11 Townies

Paranoia Plus

Unnamed number of Mafia
The others are townies

[shaft.ed]

Second Pie E7

[Simenon]

Reverse Kingmaker
5 Assasins
8 Townies
1 Kingmaker
1 King; However, the support of eight players must be reached to execute a player
1 Cop
1 Doc
1 Town Hero

I like this a lot, but it shouldn't be in the open queue.

[xyzzy]

SS3.1

1 SS SK
1 Judas (begins as town)
1 Saulus (begins as scum)

If the SS is lynched, then he dies and his hammerer dies as well. He wins all endgames.
If the Judas dies by SS, he becomes scum.
If the Saulus dies by SS, he becomes town.
SS SK and Saulus both have a NK if they should choose to NL.

I'm pretty sure I got this idea from a variation of an IRC game I played at some point. Don't quote me on that; I'm hazy.

I came up with this setup with the goal of having several different possible strategies for each player - none of them have any particularly good reason to choose one strategy over another, so it's entirely possible that a scenario like everyone claiimng the same thing will occur. Based on those strategies, there's dozens of ways the game could be played.

I'm aware that this setup will result in an immediate mass claim (unless the players are stupid...?); that's my goal; it's designed to test the ingenuity of each player in constructing a believable claim that will win the game.

[JDodge]

Instructions for playing SS in that setup:

1.) Find gun

2.) Point at head

3.) Pull trigger

[xyzzy]

/noob moment

I totally meant to leave "lynch or" out of that.

/fix

[JDodge]

how the hell is the SK even supposed to win that setup

[xyzzy]

Getting one of them lynched, or winning by way of NK.

[IH]

Blocker mafia

1 goon
1 rolecop
2 mafia roleblockers

8 townies
1 cop
1 doc
1 jailkeeper
1 roleblocker

[Sammich]

The scum roleblockers make it unbalanced IMO.

Just putting it to one a side or something would be good.

[Flameaxe]

That ruins the entire game of BLOCKER mafia...durr.

Maybe only 1 mafia RB IH?

[UltimaAvalon]

Can I

Fourth: Quack Mafia

?

[Adel]

East County Mafia

4 Mafia Goons
3 Cops
1 One-Shot Day Vig
4 Townies

Daystart

[pablito]

East County Mafia

4 Mafia Goons
3 Cops
1 One-Shot Day Vig
4 Townies

Daystart

I hope these cops aren't all sane.

[mith]

With 4 scum in a 12 player game, they'd pretty much have to all be sane for there to be any chance at balance.

I suspect as it is it's probably roughly balanced with a huge variance.

[Adel]

The cops are all sane.

Mith: while the variance is large, wouldn't the results of cop investigations tend to balance out, making the game a little less "swingy" than a typical mini normal where the town plays "follow the cop"? I put the vig in to make the game a little more swingy than it would otherwise be. I have high hopes for this game being fun to play.