For those who don't know, I am Giga13, this is my alt along with Giga and Giga96. I am using this account for this thread and these setups because I have no slots left to create setups on any of my other accounts (I've used all 60 slots lol)
I recently played GMoney509's Pernicious Ambiguity https://epicmafia.com/setup/1174003 and liked it very much. I don't think it's as scumsided as it looks but I tried making variants for improvements:
2.1: https://epicmafia.com/setup/1513105
2.2: https://epicmafia.com/setup/1513107
The only differences between these two setups are that they are Alignment Reveal vs No Reveal.
Which do you think is better and why? I want to test them and see if we can do GMoney509 justice for their original setup idea, and bringing the Mason role back into light.
I'm also having trouble coming up with strategies. Here's one I've drafted for the Alignment Reveal variant:
STRATEGY DRAFT--ALIGNMENT REVEAL
Night 1
Mason: You have a 2/7 chance of dying Night 1 by masoning. You can mason if you wish, but remember that the enforcer can block your mason from happening, and you won't know on Day 1 if your mason went through or not.
Lazy Cop: Pick someone to investigate, you won't find out what they are until Day 2.
Day 1
Cop stay hidden, you want to be able to live to see your report on Day 2.
Scumhunt and lynch. Governor should not overturn unless you're lynching something that is unCCd, for some reason
You cannot Mason List necessarily as there will be Enforcer to block it from happening on Night 2.
Night 2
If there are two masons, you probably shouldn't mason. You can lose the game potentially as if both of you hit mafia, you will both die. Figure out the math as to whether or not this, combined with the mafia kill, will cause town to immediately lose or not. If you lynched town and mismason with 2 masons, it's game over. If you lynched mafia, feel free to mason. If there's 1 mason, feel free to mason. Just remember you can also hit Governor or Lazy Cop with your mason ability.
Day 2
Lazy Cop can out. They may create a clear and their report if inno will mean that someone is clear. There is a miller, so if they get a guilty, scumhunt first and see if you think that person is mafia instead of automatically lynching them.
General information to remember:
You can use Mason Lists at any point to know what will be masoned without outting the masons themselves. Simply give three names in order and the masons will mason the first possible person in the list. If mason has claimed, they should out who they're going to mason before the day ends.
Mafia cannot kill on Night 1, but remember that the Enforcer can use their ability to prevent any masoning from happening (they're basically a mafia sided shrink. Mason can Mason Night 1, but they risk dying to the mafia.
If there are three or more masons, one mason should vote No One at night so that if there is a mismason (masons on mafia), the lone last mason will survive. But I wouldn't necessarily want to mason more people with three masons alive anyway.
I haven't tried making or balancing setups in a while. It's a difficult but fun challenge sometimes and I like promoting new stuff so here I am lol.
I acknowledge that this is a difficult setup and that some people don't like difficult setups, but I'm trying it anyway.
