callforjudgement's 13 Player Predesigned Setup

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Final setup:

Town Loyal JOAT (Neighbouriser, Babysitter)
Town Even-Night Gunsmith
Town Novice Roleblocker
Town 2-Shot Doctor
Vanilla Townie ×6
Mafia Goon ×3

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Seems pretty good to me at a glance.

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Everything plays nicely with everything else except for the roleblocker. The gunsmith could potentially be afraid that the doctor is a mafia doctor, but is unlikely to think so after massclaim unless they suspect a traitor. A no-kill might be interpreted as success by both the doctor and roleblocker, leaving one with either a false innocent or a false guilty. So there are a number of potential tricky interactions.

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Scum claiming strategy based on their roles in setups presumed to be balanced is something I vaguely meant to write an MD article on at some point but never got around to.

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Ha.

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Yeah that role is actually great. It's completely normal and literally the entire thing somehow makes thematic sense, AND it makes complete mechanical sense.

I think I'm happy to pass that as balanced.

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Buffing the roleblocker by making it novice is clever.

This seems better.

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I've noticed there's no role PMs written; if you can it'd be good if you can do that cfj since it's your design. If you want to you can write them instead, Dunnstral; if neither of you wants to then I can.

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Have at it then, and I and/or cfj can take a look.

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Either way should be fine in principle; if there is daytalk, then the scumteam should also get daytalk and it should be noted in the rules. If cfj had a specific direction in mind when balancing the setup he can say so.

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Looks good to me, modulo replacing the ___'s with "night" or "day and night".