This ignores mafia. When I'm mafia I can totally to head to head with mastina and convince town to lynch her. If I need to fool nacho, I would take a completely different approach. If you two are in a hydra, either approach would fail as you two discuss how scummy I am and high-five over finding scum. I consider that an unfair advantage.In post 121, Nachomamma8 wrote:In post 5, Kublai Khan wrote:Mafia is about having instinct and wrestling with second guessing those instincts or not. Having a second (or third!) person to sound off your doubts to is not something that other players have. It's an unfair advantage.In post 116, Nachomamma8 wrote:I also don't think that hydras provide a significant advantage (as either alignment) to justify the "hydras are cheating argument" - as Wisdom notes, hydras with two active heads are typically easier to read since it allows people to pick on a weak link, and as town, getting someone to talk with about the game is certainly helpful, but compromising in good points and minimizing dissonance and finding a way for your reads to mesh is difficult, and means that it takes a decent amount of skill to produce a town hydra stronger than the sum of its parts.
Also, "We are easier to read" is a cheat in itself. You've reduced the challenge of trying to get town to read you as town which can be a great difficulty in mafia.
