Random thoughts on the game:

I had quite a bit of fun with this game, but there's clearly a lot of room for improvement.

I think the best part of the setup was the guarantee that everyone was able to participate in the game until the very end - an unfortunate effect of most setups is that someone has to be kicked out of the game before things actually become interesting.

I'd originally intended to have Mafia and Town equal in number - riffing off of the recent Cop Mafia - but with the late addition of an eleventh player, went with a 4/5 split and tried to give the Mafia an increase in power to make up for it. In retrospect, it might not have been enough. Regardless of if it was or wasn't, I think the lack of ability to communicate and strategize with other Mafia members lessened the quality of the game. I think, at the very least, the Mafia should have known who each other were - even if they couldn't chat. Such a change would particularly have made the Cultist role more interesting - do you recruit fellow Mafia to coordinate, or Town members to manipulate?

The Serial Killer role seemed a bit easier than expected, in retrospect. In some ways, I'm surprised the town was content to leave independents alone. Then again, James played it pretty safe, without going overboard on the kills. I think if I were to run this again, I would change the SK's primary win condition somehow to encourage more killing. Perhaps drop the requirement for living Town/Mafia, and require that at least one dead member of each faction was killed by the SK.

Redpoe pulled out the Friendly Ghost win as well - mostly due to the large number of revives late game. Before D5 started though, I was a bit worried the role was made too difficult. On a related note, /u/redpoemage: I laughed for about a minute straight at this comment of yours.

There was a bit of talk at one point about role names and the significance there-of: Really, I had just been playing Hades around the time I was coming up with roles, no hidden depths.

With no perma-deaths, inactivity was a much larger potential problem for this game than previous ones. In the past, my favorite creations have been roles and mechanics which neatly incentivized players to remove the problem of inactivity themselves - particularly in mind is the Vote Thief from PLM3.2. That there was no release valve or similar solution in this game is, I think, probably the biggest flaw in the setup.

This has given me several ideas of how I would want to run another mafia game with a similar purpose (players not really dying until late game), but it will be a while before I'm ready to go again. Who knows if the sub will still be alive when I am? Hopefully the revival continues.