Normal Game Balance

[Isis]

Watchers are worse! (I'm not sure I can substantiate this logically, much like someone of my other opinions about closed setup design)

[Isis]

What does "NB" mean?

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While we're at it something that bugs me that is actually kinda common is when scum prs have very little relationship to town prs.

I occasionally float the idea of a universe where the scum always know the entire setup (not who the cop is, but that there's a cop) while town has to figure it out. For balance purposes if you adopted that scum would need less power, their massclaim claim quality would improve a lot. Symbolically having the scum play "informed minority" in an even broader sense of the idea seems attractive to me, but it might be a poison pill in a lot of ways I don't realize. I think it gets played with a bit, due to Mafia informed and some mafia informed variants getting more and more informative.

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I think it's something that, even though it could be a role, maybe fits better as a "setting" anyway?
Like Daytalk y/n Inherently Multitasking scum y/n, scum have Informed: "setup" y/n .
It gives you slightly more design space for vanilla cops hitting goons, that way.

I know the entire setup has rarely been used with informed, but I could swear I've seen a couple normal setups where an informed modifier told the mafia the -really important- aspects of a setup, so that comes kind of close.

But yeah, it's something that's always intrigued me too!

pedit: pedit makes my post relevant I guess.