Large Normal 199: L'Hôtel Pleuvoir (Fin)

[mhsmith0]

Scum usually complain about town power. Here, scum won despite shooting their own traitor. Not really sure I'd agree w balance complaints. I'd have been fine w gunsmith being a tracker instead, but I didn't object to the boost there and still think it's well within standard balance range.

[mhsmith0]

Two masons, a vig, a gunsmith and something that was both largely useless and a reasonably plausible scum power. In a 13v4 vs, say, four goons and daytalk, that's a tad light, especially since the gunsmith could out the vig (and town vanilla cop is decent odds to get lynched w a guilty there), and a GS guilty isn't a hard guilty if on scum (and traitor gets an innocent from GS as well).

Some of it gets back to "what we think balance ought to be" vs "what balance actually is". I think balance here was fine, especially in light of some other large single ball normal setups that have gone out. There were plenty of vts, so scum could win without ever needing to lynch a pr. Town power was decent but poorly coordinated and with a very reasonable chance of mutually interfering (gs on vanilla cop or vig or traitor, vig on any town pr).

I approved this for balance and would do so again.