Stoofer's 3rd Law

[Primate]

Complexity, yes. I don't think a setup with a large

number

of power roles gives the scum sufficient advantage though, especially if any of those abilities are remotely testable. You end with a situation where it's 'confirm your abilty or die'.

[Primate]

I've actually noticed this before. There is obviously another Stoofer's constant here. I think a good game that would've proved this would have been Mini 372, by Kain. We never got to the part where we did a mass claim, but my role was disbelieved because of balance and such.

it kinda disproves the complexity aspect a little though. If someone had just claimed 'billy bunroe, doc', with no additional details, they would have been lynched straightaway, after the wifom discussions. A similar thing happened in higher mathmatics mafia, where the roles were all so complicated that the scum had to go with simple claims.