midwaybear's Mini Normal Review, January 2022

[Datisi]

neighborhoods are neighborhoods rather than masonries to most players.

my experience playing scum in normals tells me otherwise but i would agree that overall the original setup is definitely way too scumsided and that making it a masonry is Good

if the town is a doc + 3 masons, and mafia has an informed that knows about the existence of a town doc, one idea could be to give scum a combined traffic analyst + vanilla cop, maybe? in mastina's solution, there is a chance that the scumteam could think that the TA is pointless, here i don't think that's the case.

(also, my inner "screw the town" voice is telling me that the doc should have the indecisive or roaming modifier, but realistically i don't think it's really necessary.)

[Datisi]

oh, alternatively: mafia mason finder

i think that would be a very big hint that hey, there indeed are masons in this game. they'd be unable to find the doctor this way, but if they're already informed of its existence, they could always do it the old-fashioned way of actually reading the game.

[Datisi]

i think it's fine. i did have some thoughts on how likely is it that town concludes the doc is town due to all three masons being *just* masons, but i'm speaking from an informed perspective, and not like scum can't counterclaim, so.