Conquer Club

In most mafia games, roles are given out randomly. Do you think its a good idea for a mod to give out roles based on who they think would use it the best? The only game I can think of that did that was AD's tombstone mafia. Good Idea? Bad?

I think it can help making a better game, though with some people *cough*Mandy*cough used to rely on metagaming it might be better if the mod doesn't say the roles are not random
The downside of it would be if you pick people based on their past performance rather than to see how they would handle a particular role (eg make LSU cop, Koesen scum... They get the same roles damn often )

I think that this is ok if the mod still tells players that it's random. Otherwise players could guestimate who has what role.

jnd94 wrote:In most mafia games, roles are given out randomly. Do you think its a good idea for a mod to give out roles based on who they think would use it the best? The only game I can think of that did that was AD's tombstone mafia. Good Idea? Bad?

I write the roles down next to the list and assign based on who joins first. It works easily.

ga7 wrote:I think it can help making a better game, though with some people *cough*Mandy*cough used to rely on metagaming it might be better if the mod doesn't say the roles are not random
The downside of it would be if you pick people based on their past performance rather than to see how they would handle a particular role (eg make LSU cop, Koesen scum... They get the same roles damn often )

I am not metagaming in that sense! I only metagame by trying to notice scum-tells of other players.

Do they have the stupid/aggresive alcoholic Jock role in mafia ???

Sometimes I give people random roles, other times theres more hand selection involved with a bit of randomness.

mandalorian2298 wrote:I am not metagaming in that sense! I only metagame by trying to notice scum-tells of other players.

Ok but I meant in the sense that if roles are said to not be random some would use way more past tells as arguments =)

Thats why I always claim my roles are random

I use a random generator but some times i mix it twice to get an interesting mix

Balsiefen wrote:I use a random generator but some times i mix it twice to get an interesting mix

I always do it twice (at least) because the list generator if you do it once gives you the same order as you had before

I think it will be too easy to guess who has what role if they are being distributed by considering past performances/who can use it best.

I always give them out randomly, except of NV3 and one time where I gave a replacement a role I thought would make the game better. (for me. )