[SETUP] Snow Globe

[Vi]

i had a bad idea today someone please tell me its bad

SNOW GLOBE

9 Players as follows:

2 Flitting Jealous Snowflakes

[X] Flitting Snowflakes

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35% of the time [X] = 6 and [Y] = 1
50% of the time [X] = 5 and [Y] = 2
15% of the time [X] = 4 and [Y] = 3

Guess what? YOU'RE SCUM.

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EVIL Flitting

- This is your standard factional chat with your partner ___. It's open until one of you dies.
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Death by Clumping

- This is your standard factional kill.
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Flitting

- Pregame, you

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submit the name of another player. You will open a private thread with them that will remain open until one of you dies. Remember: You may

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Jealous Snowflake

- You win when your faction is the only one left, or nothing can prevent the same.

Confirm via PM. I wish you the best of luck.

Wheeeeeeeeee you're Town!

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Flitting

- Pregame, you

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submit the name of another player. You will open a private thread with them that will remain open until one of you dies. Remember: You may

never

share links to private threads.
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Snowflake

- You win when your faction is the only one left, or nothing can prevent the same.

Confirm via PM. I wish you the best of luck.

Wheeeeeeeeee you're Town!

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Flitting

- Pregame, you

must

submit the name of another player. You will open a private thread with them that will remain open until one of you dies. Remember: You may

never

share links to private threads.
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~Special~

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Snowflake

- You win when your faction is the only one left, or nothing can prevent the same.

Confirm via PM. I wish you the best of luck.

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Snowflakes are basically Named Townies. The idea of the setup is to force the scum into making awkward WIFOMtastic decisions about whether to claim

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or not.

If the distribution of

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Snowflakes were even, then the scum can make pretty safe decisions regardless of how many

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Snowflakes there are. As a result, the probabilities are skewed so that it gets suspicious but not implausible if three claim (and of course if four or five claim, fun things start happening and the Town gets to feel salty when they lose anyway). Of course, if only one person claims

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, that person is confirmed Town, so...

Since there are some very easily imaginable ways this setup can go pear-shaped, each player can Neighborize one other and use that as a soft Cop role if they aren't bad at the game. I originally told the scum how many

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Snowflakes are in the game so that they can't walk somewhat blindly into a bad PoE scenario, but I've decided that they should go ahead and own the calculated risk in the name of further helping the Town out.

I still feel like there's something missing, though.

[Vi]

Not sure how neighborizer could be used as a soft cop...

How could you not? What do you think private threads are used for?

An interesting twist you could add is a 1-shot special/non-special cop for all special snowflakes, with scum always returning special. That would give scum more motivation to claim special. But it would probably make the game way too random.

The original idea for this involved Miller+Cops, but I don't think the game could handle two investigations from multiple Cops, so I made them Named Townies instead.

Could also be interesting to give scum special/non-special cops.

Scum don't need anything else.

It's probably a lot better for the massclaim to occur on Day 2. The idea is that people have pretty well-formed ideas about each other before they have to start judging claims; if you assume an immediate massclaim then the claims aren't going to tell you much.

Since it's probably worst for Town if there are two

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claims, maybe the probabilities should be changed to 35/50/15? That makes it a lot riskier for scum to claim

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. I'll go ahead and update the original post with that.