Gamma Emerald's Mini Normal Review

[Nexus]

13 Players
No back-up
No modding experience/commitments
Opening posts:

Welcome to Musical Mafia!

The Rules (mostly taken from other moderators)

> Follow the site rules
> Play to your win condition.
> Do not communicate with players outside the game unless your role permits it.
> Do not attempt to encrypt or otherwise hide information. If I cannot understand it, it is not allowed.
> Do not quote any information given to you by the moderator. Please paraphrase.
> If there is an error or concern, please post with "@Mod" in bold in the game or send me a PM. Please end any and all PMs about the game with "Mini Normal XXXX" so I can respond to you with ease.
> Players may Bah post, as long as they do not add anything that may interfere with the game.
>The color

#0000FF

is MINE. Do not use it.
> I have the right to add any rules necessary.

Gameplay

> Day Phases will be 14 real life days. Night Phases will be 72 hours (3 days). Extensions will be granted in extreme cases.
> Inactivity for >48 hours will result in a prod. Players will have 24 hours to respond to the prod before being replaced. 3 prods with a lack of improvement will result in force replacement.
> Please post in bold that you will be V/LA or PM me. If someone is V/LA for the length of a Night I reserve the right to replace them.
>Please use voting tags or bolded text to vote, on a separate line.
VOTE: Gamma Emerald

Vote: Gamma Emerald

> Please use unvote tags or bold for unvoting, on a separate line.
UNVOTE: Gamma Emerald

Unvote: Gamma Emerald

> You are NOT required to unvote in order to vote someone else.
> You may also use bold tags to cast a Finger of Suspicion. You have as many FOSes as players in the game.

FOS: Gamma Emerald

You may use bold tags to UnFOS a player.

UnFOS: Gamma Emerald

> I will attempt to keep track of FOSes along with votes.
> Players with night actions must submit their action as "Target Player". If no action is received No Action will be taken. You may also send a No Action PM.

Spoiler: Vanilla Townie Role PM

Hello (Player Name)!
You are a

Vanilla Townie.

You have your voice and your vote. Use them wisely!
You win when all threats to the town are eliminated.

The game is here

Please confirm with your role name.

The members of the band Scum of the Earth have been murdered! It is your job to find out who was behind this terrible crime!

All vote counts will have a YouTube video of a piece of music attached. Lynches and Nightkills will have flavor.
Roles will be:
1 Town Odd Night Cop
1 Town Even Night Cop
1 Town Jailkeeper
1 Mafia Rolecop
2 Mafia Goons
7 Vanilla Townies
Role PMs:

Spoiler: Vanilla Townie Role PM

Hello (Player Name)!
You are a

Vanilla Townie.

You have your voice and your vote. Use them wisely!
You win when all threats to the town are eliminated.

The game is here

Please confirm with your role name.

Spoiler: Even Night Cop Role PM

Hello (Player Name)!
You are a

Town Even Night Cop.

You have your voice and your vote. Use them wisely!
You may also investigate one player each even numbered night (2, 4, 6, 8...) to see if they are aligned with the

Town

or the

Mafia

You win when all threats to the town are eliminated.

The game is here

Please confirm with your role name.

Spoiler: Odd Night Cop Role PM

Hello (Player Name)!
You are a

Town Odd Night Cop.

You have your voice and your vote. Use them wisely!
You may also investigate one player each odd numbered night (1, 3, 5, 7...) to see if they are aligned with the

Town

or the

Mafia

You win when all threats to the town are eliminated.

The game is here

Please confirm with your role name.

Spoiler: Town Jailkeeper Role PM

Hello (Player Name)!
You are a

Town Jailkeeper.

You have your voice and your vote. Use them wisely!
You may target a player to protect them as well as to stop them from taking any action that night.
You win when all threats to the town are eliminated.

The game is here

Please confirm with your role name.

Spoiler: Mafia Goon Role PM

Hello (Player Name)!
You are a

Mafia Goon

You know your partners are [name] and [name]. You may communicate with them [here]. Your team may submit a kill each night.
You have your voice and your vote. Use them wisely!
You win when your living team is 50% of the alive players.

The game is here

Please confirm with your role name.

Spoiler: Mafia Rolecop Role PM

Hello (Player Name)!
You are a

Mafia Rolecop

You know your partners are [name] and [name]. You may communicate with them [here]. Your team may submit a kill each night.
You have your voice and your vote. Use them wisely!
You also have the ability to investigate a player and discover their role.
You win when your living team is 50% of the alive players.

The game is here

Please confirm with your role name.

Result PMs:

Spoiler: Town

Town

Spoiler: Mafia

Mafia

Spoiler: VT/Goon

Vanilla

Spoiler: Even Night Cop

Even Night Cop

Spoiler: Odd Night Cop

Odd Night Cop

Spoiler: Jailkeeper

Jailkeeper

Spoiler: No Result

NO RESULT

[Cheery Dog]

First glance reads as town sided.
I'll look at it in more detail after the weekend is finished

[Gamma Emerald]

I considered adding a Miller to counterbalance. Would that work?

[borkjerfkin]

I think millers are generally pro-town in practice -- usually acts as a named townie.

I don't think it's townsided. If scum is even remotely decent at PR hunting, town don't really have all that many weapons.

[borkjerfkin]

I definitely like it better without the miller.

[borkjerfkin]

What's the policy on Mod blessed FoS in normals? Do we care? I have never heard of such a thing.

[Gamma Emerald]

Mostly a carry-over from my home site. If it's annoying I can remove it.

[borkjerfkin]

also having two cops, even if they are complementary, will strain credulity. that makes it a little less townsided than you might think, too.

[Cephrir]

I think this is probably balanced.

[Cephrir]

What's the policy on Mod blessed FoS in normals? Do we care? I have never heard of such a thing.

I haven't either but it sounds dumb.

[borkjerfkin]

Role PMs look fine.

[Cephrir]

If I cannot understand it, it is not allowed.

Not sure this is a great standard for what is or is not encryption

[Gamma Emerald]

If I cannot understand it, it is not allowed.

Not sure this is a great standard for what is or is not encryption

I understand that crumbing happens.

[Cephrir]

Can the rolecop act and kill?
The mafia PM seems to imply the kill is a factional action not carried out by anyone in particular which seems unlikely
The cop PMs confirm there is no SK in the game

jailkeeper PM: protect them FROM ONE KILL

[borkjerfkin]

Ugh I forgot SKs could be in normals

[Gamma Emerald]

Cops get "Mafia" or "not Mafia" results. That may have been an over simplification.
Rolecop cannot act and kill.
For the factional kill, I may rephrase it to "One of you may send in a kill each night"
I don't really get why protective actions only stop one kill.

[Cephrir]

Cops get "Mafia" or "not Mafia" results. That may have been an over simplification.
Rolecop cannot act and kill.
For the factional kill, I may rephrase it to "One of you may send in a kill each night"
I don't really get why protective actions only stop one kill.

OK, great, their role PMs and results don't currently say that though
K
That sounds good
Because they do in normal games.

[Gamma Emerald]

Revisions:

Spoiler: Even Night Cop Role PM

Hello (Player Name)!
You are a

Town Even Night Cop.

You have your voice and your vote. Use them wisely!
You may also investigate one player each even numbered night (2, 4, 6, 8...) to see if they are aligned with the Mafia or not.
You win when all threats to the town are eliminated.

The game is here

Please confirm with your role name.

Spoiler: Odd Night Cop Role PM

Hello (Player Name)!
You are a

Town Odd Night Cop.

You have your voice and your vote. Use them wisely!
You may also investigate one player each odd numbered night (1, 3, 5, 7...) to see if they are aligned with the Mafia or not.
You win when all threats to the town are eliminated.

The game is here

Please confirm with your role name.

Spoiler: Town Jailkeeper Role PM

Hello (Player Name)!
You are a

Town Jailkeeper.

You have your voice and your vote. Use them wisely!
You may target a player to protect them from one kill as well as to stop them from taking any action that night.
You win when all threats to the town are eliminated.

The game is here

Please confirm with your role name.

Spoiler: Mafia Goon Role PM

Hello (Player Name)!
You are a

Mafia Goon

You know your partners are [name] and [name]. You may communicate with them [here]. One member of your team may submit a kill each night.
You have your voice and your vote. Use them wisely!
You win when your living team is 50% of the alive players.

The game is here

Please confirm with your role name.

Spoiler: Mafia Rolecop Role PM

Hello (Player Name)!
You are a

Mafia Rolecop

You know your partners are [name] and [name]. You may communicate with them [here]. One member of your team may submit a kill each night.
You have your voice and your vote. Use them wisely!
You also have the ability to investigate a player and discover their role. You may not do this if you are the one doing the kill.
You win when your living team is 50% of the alive players.

The game is here

Please confirm with your role name.

Result PMs:

Spoiler: Cop PM for Mafia

PlayerName is aligned with the Mafia

Spoiler: Cop PM for Town/SK

PlayerName is not aligned with the Mafia

I also decided to add player names to the Cop results for clarity.
Should I remove the inclusion of FoS-counting?

[Cheery Dog]

The FoSes aren't really going to make a difference, they're barely used in my experience.

I'm trying to remember back to the mini normal I played that had odd/even night cops. The two basically confirmed each other as town, but then the mafia team didn't actually do very well with what they were given. (And we believed the possibility of a doctor the setup). There's where I got my town-sidedness from, but on rethought it was just mafia not doing their job well

[Gamma Emerald]

Also, how should I reword my rule against cryptography to make it better?

[borkjerfkin]

my ruleset just says:

"Please do not use hidden or encrypted text."

[Gamma Emerald]

Wait, I actually remember that was in place for small text.
Still worth fixing.

[Gamma Emerald]

Revised rule will say:
"Please do not use hidden or encrypted text, as well as font sizes that are below X"
I'll test what "X" will be later.

[Gamma Emerald]

This is how tiny looks

size 20

Size 20 is when text becomes near invisible

size 40

Size 40

Small text

No text below "Tiny" size seems to be okay.

[Gamma Emerald]

Also, is the point of BCC to prevent people from seeing who else recieved the PM? It says to use it for role PMs so I assume that's the case.