I've several times on this site seen players scumread other players for rolefishing. While I understand the rationale behind this, I think rolefishing is not inherently scummy and I would like to discuss the idea of "cooperative rolefishing".
is what I call a situation when a vanilla member of town correctly guesses the identity of a PR (or sometimes doesn't but just picks a target at random), and coaxes the person into a softclaim of PR. Once this is done, the vanilla can claim PR to protect the real PR, or heavily push guilty results in place of the PR.
A prime example of this is Avalon, where the best breaking strategy is for a vanilla townie to find Merlin, and then pretend to be Merlin to divert the Assassin.
But I've also done similar things in off-site mafia games: I asked a player "if you were a cop, who would be the two players you investigated as guilty?" (having already soft claiming cop myself). The player, who was a watcher who got 2 guilties, gave me the names and I led 2 successful eliminations.
So, what do you think of this strategy? Discuss.
