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He is like 15 years old.

At this point I'm starting to feel like I have distracted the town from its true goal, scumhunting. Not that much scumhunting usually takes place Day One. However, some of the logic I have seen does not make any sense, so I'm going to address it.

(I don't like editing)

To add to this, I think Final-Fan is probably the only person to give my proposal a fair shake.

A town mis-lynch is worse than a mafia kill?  You're going to have to explain that one.  I'm really interested.

My take:

Let me preface this by saying that mis-lynches are bad, bad things to be avoided.  However, I'll take one any day of the week over a mafia kill.

When trying to lynch someone, we at least have a chance of getting mafia.  A mafia kill has zero chance of getting mafia, unless we have multiple mafia factions (unlikely in this game).

We also have a public record of the mis-lynch.  We know who supported it, who was against it, who barely commented on it.  All that information can be used later in the game.  A mafia kill is done in secret.  We don't know the reasoning, and it can be difficult to parse.  It could be the murdered person was on the right track, it could be to make someone else look guilty, it could be to get rid of a historically strong player, it could be to get rid of someone the town thinks is innocent, it could be to get rid of a talkative player, it could be that the mafia thought that player had a strong power role, etc.

That is why I prefer the town maintain all the killing power it can.

(Lettered to respond to your points.)

A) Not true.  For a game starting with 13 players and assuming 3 mafia, we can mis-lynch three times and still make it to the maximum number of days.  It is only that fourth mis-lynch that ends the game early.

Also notice that chart I posted back on Page 1 (@100 posts per).  A no lynch does not by the town an extra day, it buys an extra night.  It only pushes back the end game by half a day cycle.

B) A tactical no lynch later in the game could be very beneficial to the town.  Scenario: 4 players left, which means only 1 mafia left.  One mis-lynch ends the game unless there is some luck during the night, assuming the town even has the right roles still alive.  Otherwise it is just game over.  A better situation is 3 players left, 1 mafia.  A no lynch gets you there, or a no lynch a day or two earlier in anticipation.  I would always prefer the endgame to occur during the day phase.

So you are just ignoring the evidence as to why it is in the town's favor to lynch?

No, it's gone right over my head. And your reason for voting someone just screams "scummy" to me. 

My vote on Day One is very fluid.  I don't mind moving it around to get people talking.  It is not just about pressuring any particular player, it is about pressuring the game.  Falcon was just the ideal place to put the pressure to everyone.  It wouldn't do anything to vote for someone who had no votes.  I am fully willing to move my vote at any time.  Besides, he is a long way from danger still.

You can't deny it got the town going, finally.

Check out the reasoning above.

Also, check out the tables I posted.  One of the reasons for a first day no lynch was that it bought the town an extra day.  It actually only pushes back the endgame to the night.  That is nothing that can't be accomplished later in the game anyway.

(By way of Trangentspree's request.)

I think it was probably unnecessary for this game.  There are a lot of available characters to choose from, and the game is pretty small.

If it were a theme with few available characters, and it would be obvious which were good and which were bad, then the rule may be necessary to prevent a mass-roleclaim from breaking the game.  Although I do hate it when games devolve to mass-roleclaiming, which can be common for themed games.