Karnos

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Some of my philosophy.

Town can and should lie. "Lynch all liars" is a fallacy. As an obvious example, a town cop who is questioned "are you a cop?" should almost always lie, unless he was in a situation where revealing his role would have been the best move anyway. Note, however, that certain lies are much more likely to hurt town rather than help. For example, claiming a power role you don't have may cause the real power role to counterclaim you- you just hurt town. These sorts of lies that tend to hurt town should lead to you being lynched, if caught. You will make town lose, and you will deserve to lose. A quick way to tell if your lie is pro-town or not is to pretend someone else used the lie. Would you be inclined to lynch them? If so, don't use that lie!

Don't Always Show Your Hand Common meta on these boards seems to be that a good town should be constantly sharing reads. I disagree. In short, this can give a useful road map to the scum team. If you are reading them all as null/town or better, they know they can safely keep you alive, while the kill the person with less favorable reads. There certainly are times where you want to dump your full reads- when in the spotlight of L-1 for example, in twilight after being lynched, or when you have a strong reason to believe you will be killed at night. But for the majority of the game, I think the better strategy is to be fairly vague, only sharing reads as needed to explain your votes or avoid lynching a strong town read.

L-1 is a Useful Tool Some players have a strange aversion to seeing anyone at L-1 before the town as a whole is ready to lynch the player. I don't. My philosophy is simple- you will get the best reads from someone who is at L-1 and who thinks he could be hammered at any time. If you have a timid-townie who immediately unvotes to protect your potential scum from a derphammer, the effect is enormous: the potential scum immediately knows the pressure was fake, there is no real risk of getting lynched right now, and he can take his time and think about the best possible strategy. The fear tends to be that a clueless player will hammer the L-1 in error. To me, that is a stupid thing to be afraid of. If you have a player that terrible, then you need to out them and remove them from the game, because they will cause you to lose in LYLO. Trying to dance around the possibility of a derphammer early game just helps the clueless townie blend in until endgame when he becomes a huge liability. You should always play as if all town players are rational and decent players, working around town being dumb just opens you up to being fooled by scum who feign being dumb townies. Sanity check: this is regard non-LYLO play. When you get into a situation where scum can hammer and don't care about being seen as scum, the play is a bit different.