Board Thread:Debate of The Week/@comment-36558623-20191205010244/@comment-35890342-20191211043825

Faraday242 wrote: OnlyShots wrote: Faraday242 wrote: OnlyShots wrote: oh this sure why not

Executioner requires skill unless town is brain dead

Makes it fun

And so is jester i disagree.

it's in town's best interest to enact 1 v 1's, so if an exe just wants to win, they should claim sheriff. if they try to be creative it can be fun, but also backfire and cause their lost. Not really- exe makes it fun for unconventional plays in a social deduction game; it tests your skills in an interesting way

If you're going to claim sheriff d2 and accuse a random person (your target) and manage to get your target lynched, your town is braindead I disagree, on d2 a few important things happen. all ti's besides lo come out, and vfr begins.

however, this changes if one of the ti's who reveals themself has suspicious info on one of the townies. some invest claims may get a lynch but the most clear cut example is when a sheriff reveals.

this shifts vfr on to this person, and it pressures a 1 for 1. in almost all 1 v 1's, the defendant is lynched and the accusor is executed if their claim is false.

the strategy presented here is the best for town, as it ensures that an evil will be killed, with the one key exception being if a framer got lucky, but that assumes that there's no spy, a quality framer, and a suspicious townie on both sides of the spectrum.

besides that extremely rare exception, it's in town's best interest to sacrifice (or potentially not if the sheriff claim is legit) a member to kill an opponent, it's the reason bg is so great. it doesn't matter if the exe wins to the town, because everyone get's exactly what they want. Actually, it’s in the sheriff’s best interest to not push the N1 check instantly out there- they should be pushing the person they checked privately and get them to have an answer if not, push suspicion on them, but not call for a lynch.

A sheriff may be clear and cut, but just saying ‘hey 2 is evil since I checked them, lynch’ and believing it is simply illogical- unless the person checked isn’t speaking and a vfr is required. Depending on the role claimed; some time should be given to help the defendant prove themself in a day or two. Ofc, if the person doesn’t give a role or does really suspicious things, obviously you’d lynch them. But saying that it’s best for the town isn’t true.

Not lynching them actually decreases your risk of losing unnecessary townies- it’s for the benefit as a whole. Chances are and eye for an eye doesn’t work in favor for the town, since evils would kill at least 4 townies by the time all evils would be lynched in the eye or an eye strategy

D2 claims like that aren’t very effective, and chances are you *wont* get your target lynched due to other things happening D2.