I've been throwing around the concept of a bastardized mafia game where the only way to win is for the players to add rules and win conditions themselves. I'm thinking that the vote to add a rule should be 3/4 or unanimous. Looking for some feedback.
Unanimous requirements would force people to come up with fair (or seemingly fair, but hilariously broken) rules that everyone will be ok with adding in. To make this sane(r) i'd allow for neutral votes.
3/4 would work similarly, but has the disadvantage that vilteam could potentially win very rapidly by adding a "vilteam wins" rule.
It would probably otherwise follow standard mafia rules for roles (wolves kill, seer sees, villagers idle out) but with nonexistent game rules (until they're added)
The rulelawyering would be strong with this one.
I like the concept. Maybe if players voted anonymously, the mafia could cancel out any rule that would make town win immediately...
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I'm thinking about FBYOR 4. In each FBYOR, I select a Theme which changes how the game goes. For example, in FBYOR 3 I selected TvTropes as the theme, allowing players to submit tropes that can be later activated in game.
I'm thinking up some themes for FBYOR 4. And tell you what, I'm putting it to a vote!
Nightless: Mafia with no nights and no mafiakill. Day focused. To compensate for the lack of a mafiakill, the mafia would gain additional players in proportion to the total number of players. If there were a total of 9 players, for example, there would be 3 mafia instead of 2. Three mislynches or three successful lynches win town or scum the game.
RPG: Players have hit points(among other stats), and losing all of them kills you. Furthermore, by accomplishing objectives and surviving, players can gain EXP to level up, unlocking new abilities, improved stats and improvements to old abilities.
Shakeragian: Each player must submit a Shakeragian role instead of a normal one. For example, "The FBYOR 4 Role That Corrupts Votecounts" or etc.
Mass-Submit: Each player submits three roles, one town, one mafia, and one third party. I then choose from the roles and hand them out as appropriate. Players may not necessarily get a role that they submitted. Roles not used may be used in a future FBYOR.