Well that's fine. I didn't expect you guys to realize it either, if anything I was surprised when Scruffington came out and casually put all the pieces together.

I did post example games where the power of the writeups could be seen, but nobody ever reads those things anyway.

Well, now you know. =P

Really I think this format is especially well-suited to if you want to have a lot of crazy roles or extra rules in play and you want the players to figure it out as they go. I went with a simple game for the sake of easing everyone into the format, but ultimately, complex crazy messes are more of its thing.

If anyone else does ever feel like hosting a game with the same general format, my main pieces of advice would be to 1. have two-ish vanilla town players for every Mafia role that cannot be a town role (most notably the Murderer, or in this game, the Lackeys) and 2. be *very* careful about how explicit you are with information. I conversed with the game master of my previous Mafia games during the game and he told me about how he usually only gets more explicit during later night phases, and I think that's a better way to go. I got too caught up in giving everyone a recognizable trait in the writeups.