I was going to say that you don't have the kind of players for something like that but fishing for old players to recylce with a bastard setup might be a good idea.
On a thematically related note (however useless to the goal of the prior topic) I was able to retrieve my old quicktopic account because it has much more restrictive and insecure password rules, and it turns out that I'd deleted the quicktopics I was writing the flavor and setup for Broken Hearts I in. I had similarly destroyed the text file originals of the quicktopic information. Obviously, that wasn't the kind of game you'd subject new players to (also I really wouldn't want to run it right now, though I would have time since I'm now retired).
From what I could recall the setup was a pretty basic 9 player variant of the 7 players: 2scum|2PR|3townies setup, with a loyal amorous psychopath (who had death as part of their wincon) and a jealous necrophile heartbreaker as the 'scumteam', 3 relatively vanilla girls who could only win in relationships with girls, a survivalist loner who the heartbreaker needed to lose in order to win, a popular antagonistic girl who won with girls, and two girls who could win with the heartbreaker or with 'town' roles, one of whom was nosy and the other jealous. Someone else might have been nosy or jealous (one of the 'townies').
I remember feeling like the overall setup was pretty nice since while the 'scum' pair would quickly form, both town PRs had strong options for keeping town alive through a mislynch, unlimited lynching cycles and the difficulty involved in killing the survivor without splitting up scum for a nightcycle or more helped prevent quick scumwins from survivor claims.
The thing that I wanted to ask you about was:
I had advice and/or metainformation in the role packets for most players, since I felt like the format was going to feel really strange to a lot of people and there wasn't the unlimited amount of time more strictly bastard setups usually have.
Is this kind of thing a good idea? I'm not sure I can bring up a good example if I can't find the original text, but for instance one of the players with the most basic role was told that it was uncommon for the roles to be so lacking in information, so that they'd not be surprised when the full diaries started getting posted or flipping.
I wrote a lot for the flavor of that game.
I might have copy on my old laptop with the failing harddrive, but I can't remember the encryption key I used for it so even if that is there I dunno if I'l ever be able to find it.
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