The New Newbie Game Setup

[Plotinus]

Maybe we should take the two town dice and change them from "2 or 3, reroll 1" to "1 or 2, reroll 3". It'll look less confusing at first glance (people won't be asking where the 1 is).

		Table A		Table B		Table C
First die	Mafia	Mafia Roleblocker		Mafia Rolecop		Mafia Goon
		Number 1	Number 2	Number 1	Number 2	Number 1	Number 2
Second die	Town	Town Tracker	Town Roleblocker	Town Doctor	Town Rolecop	Town Doctor	Town Rolecop
Third die	Town	Town Cop	Town Jailkeeper	Town Cop	Town Jailkeeper	Town Tracker	Town Roleblocker

This means the list of setups would be:

• A11: RB x Tr + Cp
  
• A12: RB x Tr + JK
  
• A21: RB x RB + Cp
  
• A22: RB x RB + JK
  
• B11: RC x Dc + Cp
  
• B12: RC x Dc + JK
  
• B21: RC x RC + Cp
  
• B22: RC x RC + JK
  
• C11: Gn x Dc + Tr
  
• C12: Gn x Dc + RB
  
• C21: Gn x RC + Tr
  
• C22: Gn x RC + RB

I think this is almost the clearest chart, but one thing that was clear in one of the charts but is not clear in this one: what are mafia's safeclaims? You can kind of parse it out if you think about that in Table A the safeclaims are doctor-or-cop, in table B they're tracker-or-cop and table C they're roleblocker-or-jailkeeper, but that's not obvious from the chart and it should be.

[Plotinus]

daytalk helps retention and part of the newbie queue is getting people used to site norms. daytalk is very common outside of the newbie queue and it is more fun. I heard somewhere that giving scum daytalk is like adding an extra member to the scumteam. It's not a problem you just have to balance accordingly, giving town more power to counteract it.