The Scummie for Best Setup [Winner Announced!]

[Scummies]

Best Setup

Alisae (Once Upon a Time)
Nahdia (Civilization Mafia)
Something_Smart (XP Mafia)
Quipla (Prick Your Power: Double Deck)
SirCakez (The Thing Mafia)

[Scummies]

The Winner of the Best Setup in a Mafia Game (Rube Goldberg) is:

Nahdia

for Civilization Mafia

"Civilization Mafia had game mechanics/roles which absolutely PERFECTLY fit the theme of the source material, and furthermore, the idea behind the game was brilliant: the game would slowly, and progressively, reveal more and more, and give both town and scum more and more, which would lead to basically an arms race where both sides would vie for extra power.

The wonder and resolutions the game were absolutely brilliant, and the game was amazingly balanced. Though the game was by its nature swingy, no side was at an inherent disadvantage. Nahdia had plans for literally everything and had laid out every possibility, showing incredible variety in how the game could have played out.

Though a closed game, this same game could easily be run as an open in the future in my opinion, because it started out with every player as vanilla and allowed them to progressively select powers and game mechanics they wanted to see. You have to go to the mod topic/postgame to see the full list of what could have been there, but the full list is amazing."

Link to the game