midwaybear's Mini Normal Review, January 2022

[mastina]

Honestly if the neighbors were just masons I'd call it balanced. Doctor to protect the masons is very strong, but giving the mafia information about the setup and/or an investigative to find the masons serve as a reasonable offset especially given the setup being closed imo.

However, if you want the neighbors to be neighbors? Absurdly scumsided since the setup relies on the neighbors assuming each other to be town in order for them to have any power. (And they won't, because neighborhoods are neighborhoods rather than masonries to most players.)

[mastina]

Imo, informing of the doctor is good, and if you opt for traffic analyst, that'd let them know about the masons. (There's a tradeoff obviously. Rolecop lets the scum know the mason if they hit the mason and allows them to find the doctor, but traffic analyst allows the scum to at least reasonably suspect and not be blindsided by masons.)

One, perhaps a bit niche, solution would be to combine the two into a combined rolecop + traffic analyst. The traffic analyst part is worthless because rolecopping a player lets them know the role, but it'd be a way to subtly hint to the scumteam about the masons without explicitly telling them about that. (I'm not entirely sure it's as obvious to players as it is to me, but at least in my view, a rolecop tells the scum everything and then some a traffic analyst would, so the traffic analyst to me is redundant, and thus it being present in spite of being redundant would be to tell the scum that there's private topics to be weary of, without using the Informed to make it explicit.)

[mastina]

So, that'd be
Maonx3
Doctor

Vs.

Informed Mafioso
Mafia Traffic Analyst

As the setup you are thinking of, right?

[mastina]

*Mason

[mastina]

I think I am good with that setup, unless Datisi has any additional concerns to bring up.

That leaves updated role PMs as next.

[mastina]

I think that's everything and is a /pass unless I missed anything.