Vanilla-Less Games

[Zenith]

Two quick quesstions.

1. Do Vanilla-Less games (Games where everyone is a PR) exist on this site?
2. If so, is it possible to have somewhat balanced Vanilla-Less games? Or are they all horribly broken?

[Something_Smart]

1. Yes. The term we use is "role madness."

2. In theory, they can be balanced. That said, balancing role madness games is quite hard, and we have had our fair share of broken ones. Even the good ones are going to fall within a pretty wide range (in other words, they will be very swingy).

[BBmolla]

Most balanced ones I've played are where the alignments and roles are independently randomized and the roles are weak enough where this sort of thing doesn't even matter anyway.

[Vi]

Balance is likely not as important as swinginess in this context anyway.

[The Fonz]

Smalltowns are fun.

[Gamma Emerald]

Yes, we need more smalltowns

[Flavor Leaf]

I’m modding a role madness game, Shakespeare themed. In sign ups now.

They happen decently often. This is actually my first vanilla-less, though, at least in games that don’t have a unique mechanic.