Menalque's Mini Normal Review, November 2019
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Here was my rough logic in the creation:
I wanted to make a setup with some element of power from what I view as the main groups of power — offensive, defensive, investigative, confirmable town. I don’t really love confirmable town, as I feel it’s fun if you are one but otherwise slightly more stagnant.
So I decided on the doctor first. I was originally thinking something like 2 macho doctors one of whom was weak, but decided it would be less fun if there were two potential protections every night.
I was originally also thinking a weak hider, because I liked the concept after seeing it in AvP. But I thought that the potential for two people being safe per night would be slightly unbalanced against scum. So I thought it would be a fun concept to have the doctor be weak instead. It was a way to add some additional investigative power, but in such a way that it wouldn’t be too strong (if the crumb was unclear and they went after scum, for instance) or letting them try to save town. It would also mean that if they crumbled they’d need to be clear on whether they’d picked someone to save or someone to investigate. Lastly, I thought it was fair to scum — as in, if someone was scum but playing a very towny game then they might get to kill the doctor for free. It would also expose them to greater suspicion though, so I don’t think this would be too scum siding.
I also wanted some sort of investigative role, and I stumbled across the psychologist on the wiki. I liked the idea of having an investigative who would become weaker as the game went on in the game. So if they had a good read on who to check they’d be rewarded, but they would be unlikely to save the game with a good check right before lylo, unless scum were to deepwolf and have only one player kill every time.
The vig is in to partly help balance against the psychologist but also as a potential save for the game later on if accurate but only 1 shot to stop excessive shooting.
Then mafia power was to balance against the town. I thought town power was fairly weak due to modifiers so I wanted to make scum power pretty weak too. 1 shot strongman was to balance against a possible fox’s psychologist from early on, or otherwise to prevent doc from being able to indefinitely save a universal townread or otherwise very strong player.
Commuter was to give scum a longshot counter against a psychologist investigation, weak doctor attempt, or the vig. Didn’t think they needed much more than this, although I guess making it factional might work?-
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Yeah, this is the one!In post 17, mastina wrote:Weak Doctor,
1x Vig,
Psychologist,
Motion Detector,
VT x 6
vs.
1x Strongman
Goon x2
That's the proposed setup, yes?
I believe that'd be balanced, yes.
Okay, I’ll gostealfind a ruleset and get the role PMs done.
I think that’s it before it’s ready for sign ups?-
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Updated psychologist, is this clearer?In post 21, Menalque wrote:Spoiler: VT
Spoiler: Weak Doctor
Spoiler: Psychologist
Spoiler: 1 shot vig
Spoiler: motion detector
Spoiler: 1-shot strongman
Spoiler: goon-
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sad menalque is sadIn post 35, Menalque wrote:Spoiler: VT
Spoiler: Weak Doctor
Spoiler: Psychologist
Spoiler: 1 shot vig
Spoiler: motion detector
Spoiler: 1-shot strongman
Spoiler: goon-
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