Talk:Custom Setups (Classic)/@comment-67.244.40.179-20190104092014

Alright here's my idea for a vampires vs werewolves custom setup. I can never seem to convince a random lobby to give it a try.

1x Godfather

1x Mafioso

1x Consort

1x Mayor

1x Sheriff

1x Medium

1x Investigator

1x Spy

1x Werewolf

1x Vampire

5x Executioner

Now, this requires some explanation, starting with the most frequent complaint: the executioners. However, executioners are the entire reason this lineup works. If an investigator sees a werewolf, that werewolf registers as a "Sheriff, Executioner, or Werewolf." The five additional executioners makes it far more difficult to determine the identity of the werewolf. Further, as executioner targets are killed in the night, the executioners will become jesters, at which point they serve a similar purpose for the vampires. This obfuscation makes it quite difficult to pinpoint the supernatural threats, and it is exacerbated by the prevalence of jesters and executioners confounding the townies' ability to pinpoint a target for lynching.

Significantly, this mode does not have any townies who are capable of killing in the night, meaning much of the defense against the neutral killers must come from the mafia. In turn, the mafia lacks a consigliere, demanding that they rely on townie investigators to uncover the enemies' identities. This scenario, then, forces the mafia and the townies to work together to defend themselves against an existential thread, before ultimately, should they succeed, turning on each other.

The one flexible character in this setup is the consort. It may be replaced with pretty much any mafia member except the consigliere.