How to Balance WW games.

[wdcbooks]

I have to say Luckay, that is really compelling work.

[matrix]

lots of good stuff to read here [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

the outline for the game I want to run looks like.

some wolves
some villagers

A Godfather - peeks as villa role revealed on death

A Traitor - knows wolves (but NOT GF) but is not a part of wolf chat

has a one time night chat with the GF - after his chat he gets 1 extra night kill for the evils that nightbut in killing that night he exposes himself and also dies. Wins with the wolves

2 masons who know each other but cannot night chat - they also get a one time night chat at any point in the game.

A seer

Possibly an angel who can save 1 person 1 time from NK.

Possibly also a twist that gives 1 player (either randed or a player who solves an in game puzzle) a 50% invulnerability from NK for one night only. The person that wins this chooses who to protect.

One corruptible villager who thinks they are normal and peeks as villa - village will not get informed that villager got corrupted directly but a fat hint will get dropped

(this kind of banks on their being some way of no NK happening other than a villa being corrupted)

How many players (vanilla village and vanilla wolves) will I need to balance the gameplay?

[Kumubou]

Luckay, I think you should implement synergistic bonuses into your system at some point. Like the traditional seer/angel example, having a game with both a seer and an angel (especially a full-effectiveness angel) is going to be worth more than both a seer by itself and an angel by itself, since the seer gets its peeks out 100% of the time and angel tells are much thinner than seer tells.

Also, as a point of reference, I tried running this system with Tsukihime:

Goods:

Shiki: Combo seer/vigilante; but kills come at cost of peeks (and vise-versa). 7 points.

Arcueid: Almost invincible, confirmable, can have bonus lynch, high variance character. 5 points?

Ciel: Straight vigilante. 3 points. The odd death rules end up being a wash, imo.

Akiha: Extra vote, one-time bonus lynch, confirmable. 3 points.

Hisui: Confirmable, 2 points.

9 vanillias: 9 points.

Bads:

Roa: lol important. Extra kills, extra death. 10 points.

Kohaku: Has several good one-off abilities. 8 points.

Walachia: Like Kohaku, but weaker (since he only gets the powers from whoever dies). 6 points.

Mech-Hisui: Acts like a weak evil seer, 5 points.

29/29. I design goot.