Be that as it may, 5 anti town roles in a game with 15 is far too many. Yes, the role abilities tilt things more towards being balanced, but the game at its foundation was in fact imbalanced.
This isn't to blame Shadow or say he did a shitty job. He was hoping for a lot more than 15 players, I can almost assure you of that. Taking that into account, hopefully I don't sound like I'm coming off unfair.
With 5 anti town, 4 of which would NEED to be lynched/night killed for Town to win, we would have had to successfully lynch 4 nights in a row at max. I'm not going to do the math for whatever the minimum would be.
You know what? I was going to make a big post about the imbalance and try to sound fair and reasonable and I still hope I do throughout the rest of this post, but really, I'm just gonna stop analyzing the imbalance.
Yes, this was role madness and that should have made things more balanced, but the truth is, it didn't. Despite the role madness, a third of the players in this game were anti town. A third. All of you have played plenty of mafia to know that's far too many. Just mathematically inappropriate for this game. (Also, favorite new turn of phrase, mathematically inappropriate).
My rule of thumb when making a game is 1 anti town per 5 town. Maybe adding in an extra one to make it spicy. With this few players, and I can't believe I'm saying that considering mafia was dead about a month or two ago, 5 anti town really is just far too many. Hell, I've been playing forum mafia since 2006. I'm not trying to pull that stupid fucking card I always pull, "I brought mafia to the forums, listen to me! Rabble Rabble Rabble!" At the same time though, I feel I have a good idea of what's balanced or not in specifically forum based mafia.
Anyways, despite the balance, I had two thoughts, at least for role balance.
My role should have had a stun or something. That's just a suggestion really. All I ended up being was a moody, period cow getting his dick milked while everyone else was dying and I gave no fucks. There wasn't much room for me to affect the game at all except through posting and that didn't help much, considering things out of mine and shadow's control. No blame anywhere, I was being a shitcunt most of this game, look how the wheel turns back 'round. I just would have liked some ability to do anything and not just be a Bulletproof Townie. Maybe something to consider for next League Mafia.
As for that Darius role, I am going to be a bit of a crybaby and say that role was imbalanced. I've lost interest in the rest of this post though, so I'm just saying fuck it and leaving this here as I wrote it.