Lifthrasil: The game is open. I.e. all roles are known. (Town Parity cop, Vengeful Townie, Scum Vanilla Cop). The only unknown will be, whether neutral roles are in the game. Up to two are possible (Survivor and/or Survivor/Lyncher)
Ixamyakxim: Is this certain? Can I get a rundown on what these roles do before game starts? For obvious reasons, I don't want to be asking in game ;)
Vengeful typically means they get to take someone out with them if they get lynched. In some cases that may be whoever hammers, or they may get to pick someone on the wagon, or they may get free reign to target any living player.
Vanilla cop tells if a player has a PR or is vanilla. Pretty straightforward unless godfather role is in the game. It's almost always a scum role, and tells them who is a PR (or not), but not WHICH role [Edit - though much more powerful in a game with few town/neutral PRs, 3 of 4 they'd have reason to prioritize killing].
Parity cop compares two players, so say you are neutral survivor, zfr and agent are VT, and mud is mafia.
If the parity cop spent N0-N3 copping you, then mud (N1), then zfr (N2), then agent, they'd get the following reads:
different, different, different, same. If mud were lynched D3 and flipped mafia, they could then deduce that all 3 of the others were not mafia, though couldn't tell if you were town or neutral. Likewise, if you flipped neutral before any of the others, they would have some info about zfr/agent being teamed (but not whether maf or town) and that mud was whichever those two weren't, but would only definitively know none of the 3 of you were neutral.
Make sense?
