[Challenge] Team Mafia 2020

[TemporalLich]

Are independent third parties (e.g.

Survivor

Unjester) allowed or does this challenge only accept standard alignment setups?

Also, are semi-opens allowed? (I assume yes for this one)

[TemporalLich]

Here's an attempt at a setup with some flavor-mechanics.

Standard alignment means no multiball chaos or WIFOM involving third parties that are mostly just motivated to townside (damn I wanted a singleball Unjester setup), and low swing means stuff like smalltown and ++ setups are out...

Even though this isn't a semi-open, I am still feeling this setup is innovative and new while still fitting the challenge conditions (15p, standard alignment, scum factional nightkill, semi-balance, low swing).

A Number 15 Large With Extra Flavor

15 players

1 Mafia 1-shot Double Neighborizer

(once in the game, adds two people into the neighborhood)

1 Mafia 1-shot Role Cop

1 Mafia Mailman

2 Town Masons

1 Town Mailman

1 Town Pregame Role Flavorer

(during pregame chooses role flavor for everyone on the playerlist. Flavoring a Town Mason "Dragon" causes them to flip as Dragon, Town Mason)

8 Vanilla Townies

Mafia have a factional nightkill and inherent multitasking.

All PTs have daytalk.

[TemporalLich]

The double neighborizer is just gonna be lynched if they ever use their power...

That's my attempt at including a scum neighborizer in a setup without having a town equivalent...

1-shot double means they act in only one night, but add two people to the neighborhood...

[TemporalLich]

But what's the point of a role that you can never use?

That's basically a named mafioso then, which does nothing for the mafia (especially considering a Goon would work just fine!).

[TemporalLich]

anyway my suggestion is to replace the 1-shot double neighborizer with a 1-shot role reflavorer (night action, changes target's role flavor, something zero-swing but still adding a small amount of power to the scum) and to clarify there is a 30 character limit on role flavor.

the masons might be iffy on swing terms though but I prefer them to a 1-shot cop tbh. I might consider removing them for balancing reasons though.

[TemporalLich]

A Number 15 Large With Extra Flavor v1.1

15 players

1 Mafia 1-shot Role Reflavorer

(once in the game during night, changes role flavor for a target player. Role Flavor is limited to 30 characters. Flavoring a Town Mason "Dragon" causes them to flip as Dragon, Town Mason)

1 Mafia Mailman

1 Mafia Goon

1 Town 1-shot Double Neighborizer

(once in the game, adds two people into the neighborhood)

1 Town Mailman

1 Town Pregame Role Flavorer

(during pregame chooses role flavor for everyone on the playerlist. Role Flavor is limited to 30 characters. Flavoring a Town Mason "Dragon" causes them to flip as Dragon, Town Mason)

9 Vanilla Townies

Mafia have a factional nightkill and inherent multitasking.

All PTs have daytalk.

Altered the setup by removing the scum 1-shot role cop, removing the town masons, changing the double neighborizer to town, and adding a scum 1-shot role reflavorer.

Hopefully this is a step in the right direction balance and swing-wise.

[TemporalLich]

I see it as a role that would allow adding flavor to an Open, which normally can't have flavor or can have only smalltown-like flavor.

Plus, the player gets to write flavor.

[TemporalLich]

yeah, getting 0% or 100% is really busted