[CHALLENGE] February + March Challenge

[OkaPoka]

February + March Challenge

Since February is a short month and there is declining amount of submissions/votes let's trial run a double the time! Double the challenge!
Goal is to start voting 5 days before the end of March so we can declare a victor by April First!

Anyways here are the guidelines:

Your setup must meet TWO of the following restrictions

Less than or equal to 8 players

Every single time town chooses to lynch/remove slots from the game, two players must be simultaneously killed/flipped/eliminated

Games must be guaranteed to end by the start of Day 4

At least a majority of slots' alignments must not be completely random

The first majority day choice of town must be completely unique and happen once see: The Coalition

NO MULTIBALL NO THIRD PARTY THANK YOU

Spoiler: Notes/Clarification

Two players being simultaneously eliminated doesn't mean they have to be chosen to be eliminated simultaneously, just the flips happen simultaneously
Random aspect: You can have alignment be drafted i.e. Alisae vs Pine, or you can have it be done in the way of the Odds. In these cases however, alignments are not completely randomly distributed

[Kerset]

Cunning Saints

6 SuperSaint L-X

2 Mafia LoyalSaint

-Nightless

-Lynches are compulsive

In pregame Mafia have to assign a single number from 1 to 3 to each townie. Townie won't be informed, which number did he get.
Townies, which receive 1 will become: Town SuperSaint L-1
Townies, which receive 2 will become: Town SuperSaint L-2
Townies, which receive 3 will become: Town SuperSaint L-3

Spoiler: Town PM

Welcome, [player]! You are a

Town SuperSaint L-X

.

-If you get lynched then you will kill your L-X voter. You don't know which voter will it be.
-You win if all threats to the town are eliminated and at least one town-aligned player is alive.

Spoiler: Mafia PM

Welcome, [player]! You are a

Mafia LoyalSaint

.

-You may discuss the game with your teammate [here].
-If you get lynched you will kill your partner, if he was either your L-1, L-2 or L-3 voter. If he wasn't any of them then you will kill person, which hammered you.
-You win when you reach parity with the town

[OkaPoka]

Thats an interesting setup that is marathonable

[OkaPoka]

No supersaint for hammer tho?

[Kerset]

Right i meant it to be L-0 L-1 L-2.

Cunning Saints

6 SuperSaint L-X

2 Mafia LoyalSaint

-Nightless

-Lynches are compulsive

In pregame Mafia have to assign a single number from 0 to 2 to each townie. Townie won't be informed, which number did he get.
Townies, which receive 1 will become: Town SuperSaint L-0
Townies, which receive 2 will become: Town SuperSaint L-1
Townies, which receive 3 will become: Town SuperSaint L-2

Spoiler: Town PM

Welcome, [player]! You are a

Town SuperSaint L-X

.

-If you get lynched then you will kill your L-X voter. You don't know which voter will it be.
-You win if all threats to the town are eliminated and at least one town-aligned player is alive.

Spoiler: Mafia PM

Welcome, [player]! You are a

Mafia LoyalSaint

.

-You may discuss the game with your teammate [here].
-If you get lynched you will kill your partner, if he was either your L-0, L-1 or L-2 voter. If he wasn't any of them then you will kill person, which hammered you.
-You win when you reach parity with the town

[student]

what's the design primer/theme that unify these criteria?

[OkaPoka]

what's the design primer/theme that unify these criteria?

basically things that i like

first two encourages marathon type of games
third encourages not building an actual marathon game (as in does not drag)
fourth and fifth are concepts id like to be explored

[TemporalLich]

Two Buckets

8 players

2 Mafiosi

6 Townies

Lynching and nightkills are compulsive. Plurality rules apply for lynching and the bucket vote, and voting No Lynch is not allowed.

On Day 1, instead of a lynch, town must vote to split the town into two "buckets". A vote is counted as the same if it splits the two halves the same way. A valid vote only needs the four townies in the first bucket, the second bucket is implied.

A valid vote is in the form of VOTE: A, B, C, D

After the buckets are decided, the moderator confirms how many scum are in each bucket, and then the game goes to Night 1 as normal.

The Mafia have a PT with daytalk.

I'm not sure if this setup works. This meets restriction 1 and 5. It might fail 5 due to it being plurality and not majority though.

EDIT: actually this setup is broken, I'll submit another one. A 0 scum bucket effectively makes four ICs at once.

[OkaPoka]

Two Buckets

8 players

2 Mafiosi

6 Townies

Lynching and nightkills are compulsive. Plurality rules apply for lynching and the bucket vote, and voting No Lynch is not allowed.

On Day 1, instead of a lynch, town must vote to split the town into two "buckets". A vote is counted as the same if it splits the two halves the same way. A valid vote only needs the four townies in the first bucket, the second bucket is implied.

A valid vote is in the form of VOTE: A, B, C, D

After the buckets are decided, the moderator confirms how many scum are in each bucket, and then the game goes to Night 1 as normal.

The Mafia have a PT with daytalk.

I'm not sure if this setup works. This meets restriction 1 and 5. It might fail 5 due to it being plurality and not majority though.

It'll work because it fits the "spirit" of the rule i.e. town decides on doing something unique d1

Although I imagine this setup could be very very townsided

[TemporalLich]

yeah I'm not using that setup because it is broken in town's favor, especially if one of the buckets has no scum in it.

Only possible way of fixing it is to make it a large multiball setup, or giving the scum the choice of bucket (though it would need a lot of scum). But this setup works better as a multiball setup regardless. Neither of these are valid for the challenge (even if the "no multiball" restriction is only a suggestion and not a prohibition, since it would fail 1 and/or fail 5).

[popsofctown]

This challenge is way more reasonable when I realize I only have to meet 2 of the restrictions ahahahaha

[Kerset]

You could just meet two criteria but that would be too easy for someone like you. Pops you are an open setup veteran. You wouldn't just pass a real challenge of 5 criteria, would you?

[popsofctown]

Eeeheeehee one month we had a 2 of 4 or 2 of 5 and I did in fact meet all the criteria just because I could.

[OkaPoka]

I'll be impressed if you can make a good open setup that fits all the criteria

[popsofctown]

I bet I could dazzle you.

[popsofctown]

Tamers and Wild Things

4

Tamers

4

Wild Things

Nightless.
Pregame, the

Tamers

submit a ranked preference list of the two

Wild Things

they'd most like to be paired with, and a positive number. The player who submitted the highest positive number receives their first choice and is

Town

, the player who submitted the second highest positive number receives their second choice and is also

Town

. The remaining two

Tamers

are

Mafia

, and they are informed of the other two pairings and decide together how to allocate the remaining two

Wild Things

in their pairings. All

Wild Things

are

Town

.
Pairings are lovers who have a PT. Players can only vote for

Tamers

when lynching.
At the start of day one, everyone votes collectively and chooses a

Tamer

to lose her vote for the entire game.
When the first lynch reaches majority, the

Wild Thing

who would be lynched gets an opportunity to

Revolt

just before his lynch. If he chooses to

Revolt

against a

Mafia

aligned

Tamer

, then just before his lynch his alignment changes to

Unjester

who will win as a result of dying to the lover mechanic and his

Tamer's

alignment changes to

Neutral Survivor

. If he revolts against a

Town

Tamer

he becomes a

Neutral Survivor

and his

Tamer

becomes a

Jester

.

[OkaPoka]

Seems like a marathon setup

Could even work as a f2f

[popsofctown]

If I ran this as a marathon would you /in

I flipflopped whether procedurally you vote for the Tamer part of the pairing instead of the Wild Thing part so it's more intuitive for marathon behavior. It should still be equivalent as a setup.

[OkaPoka]

yes

it seems like a batshit chaos game perfect for marathons

[BBmolla]

I love you not

8 Players

2 Mafia

6 Townies

Nightless
Setting up: One Player is randomly chosen to be Mafia. They pick two players. One will be made their Mafia Partner, the other will be their Town Lover.
The selected Mafia Partner assigns the rest of the players into Lover Pairs, themself included. This will result in both Mafia being paired with a Town Lover.
Town Lovers are not informed who their Lover partners are.

[Ircher]

SS3 Draft

At the beginning of the game, players participate in a draft to determine if they are town or scum. The moderator determines the specifics of the draft, but something like that used in Pick Your Power would be appropriate. Once the sole mafioso is decided, mod rands the supersaint among the two town roles. The game then functions as a normal game of SS3. Draft numbers are hidden for obvious reasons.

[Hectic]

Sacrificial Pacts

2 Mafia

6 Town

• Nightless.
  
• Mafia choose 4 pairings pregame. They may pair themselves together, or each with a townie. Pairings are public.
  
• At any point during the game, a town person A in a pairing may sacrifice their partner B. If their partner B is mafia, person A lives. Otherwise, person A dies too.
  
• Mafia may also choose to sacrifice their partner, but this kills them also.
  
• A lynch results in both players in the pairing dying.

[Hectic]

Switch with your name on it

2 Mafia

6 Townies

During Day 1, players must vote to HEAL a player. Night 1 is skipped.
Once someone has been hammered, the mafia are given kill switches for every player in the game.
The mafia must gift each switch to a player in the game. For example, they can gift the kill switch that kills player A to player B, and so on.
Each mafia keeps a kill switch.

If the HEALED player is town, they may ask for a kill switch for any player they desire. This request must be fulfilled.

From Day 2 onwards, players may activate the switch they were gifted at any time they like.
Lynches and Nightkills occur as normal.

[DrDolittle]

gay dance 8p nightless satisfies all the requirements I think

[Kerset]

@Switch with your name on it
So player 3 has been hammered. After this event mafia will decide, which switch they are going to give him?