[SETUP] Mask of Monsters genre idea

[Isis]

3 Mafia Goons

12 Vanilla Townies

Modprovided Alt Game
Compulsive daily exile, compulsive factional nightkill.
When the first mafiosi is exiled, all vanilla townies are randomly paired as lovers, then those players exchange accounts. The mafia become lovers, but lose daytalk instead of exchanging accounts.
Mafia Goons can dayvig players by guessing their main accounts until they've guessed wrong twice all game.
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Fusion Mafia has the game turn nightless but the (1) run of the setup made it seem very townsided, and this grants even more information so I think the mafia need to continue to be able to nightkill.
I know Nahdia has been pitching setups where the mafia take over someone else's account and pretend to be them but this version of that general idea strikes me as fun. I think the large number of swaps makes it, funnier at a minimum.

[Nahdia]

do the lovers have any sort of chat? or just awareness of who their lover is?

[Nahdia]

also im not sure i understand the purpose of the account swap mechanic. everyone is just going to immediately claim who they swapped with, yes? so then you're hunting for the pair that didn't REALLY swap but has to pretend like they did?

feels to me like this could be simplified by having only the mafia swap.

[Kerset]

What if dayvig happens before people get paired? There will be uneven number of townies.

[Isis]

1. I'm agnostic to whether it should have a chat.
2. Yeah it's expected lover pairs would claim. The point is for mafia and town to differ in whether a swap occurred or not, but I figured having the townies swap keeps the mafia from intentionally adopting a lurkish playstyle day 1 that makes swapping easier. That argument might be reversible though, my head hurts. I think I like a version where the mafia swaps about as much.
3. Evenness/oddness is a good point, since the advantage from main claiming isn't in full force until loverization I can just disable the dayvig until loverization, I guess.

I'm not sure this would be funner to play than just playing Mask of Monsters again, but MoM seemed really stressful for scum to play and when I read Imposter setups I get stressed about the prospect of rolling scum, so that was a little of the thinking.