Re: [pbmserv-dev] (Werewolf) new role

[Mark Ballinger <mballinger@fibres.net>]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Eric Shultz wrote:

> In the overly long wait for 27 to end and 28 to begin,
> I thought of a potential new role that is different -
> The Mayor.
>
> It would be different because it would be public. The
> Mayor would have the ability to grant pardons to lynch
> victims, except for themselves of course.
>
> Would it slow the game down, probably.  Would it be
> wacky, definitely.  Is it worth it, I don't know.  My
> ideas are like my children.  I throw them out of the
> house as soon as possible and forget about them.

Actually, that might work.  I trust the mayor is secretly "pardoning", and
at the end of the day we only see "jimreed has been granted a pardon."

Not sure if this necessarily hurts the bad guys, but it would make the
game a little screwier.

So, Ted and Richard, who wants to write a game simulator?  Write rules
like "masons never vote to lynch masons unless jimreed is a mason in which
case it's random" and then run a bazillion games.  See how the different
roles and game sizes affect outcomes.  At a basic level, this stats
gathering has been done:

http://www.eblong.com/zarf/werewolf-stats.html

-mark