Mafia, a game of psychological warfare- where communication and deception are the keys to victory.
What is mafia?How is it played? A word on RolesSpoiler for Hidden:
I suppose I should talk more about roles. Most player’s roles are considered "vanilla", meaning they have no special abilities, or modifiers. The mafia equivalent to a vanilla townie is a "Goon". Players with roles that have special abilities, typically utilize these abilities at night. To use their role’s ability the player must PM the mod of their intended target during the appropriate window of opportunity. Both factions can have special roles; some are even shared, meaning either side might have them.
There are many roles, these are some common ones:
Cop: Can investigate another player at night. The mod then informs them whether the target in question is town, or mafia.
Doctor: Can protect one other player at night, preventing them from dying.
Vigilante: Town aligned player that can perform a night kill.
Tracker: Town or Mafia aligned, selects a player, and sees who they visit at night.
Roleblocker: Town or Mafia, aligned player that chooses one player at night, preventing the player from using their night ability.
Strongarm: Mafia aliened player that makes the faction kill unblockable, (typically one time use).
GodFather: Mafia aligned player that appears innocent when inspected by a cop.
If you are having any trouble understanding how the game works then here is a simple but effective instructional flash.
http://mikeburnfire.deviantart.com/art/Mafia-Tutorial-31409818Rules for proper play (MUST READ!!!)
Spoiler for Hidden:
1)To vote you must bold your choice, and leave it on a separate line. Example:
Vote: Grendel
2) You may do the same to UN-vote. Example:
UnVote: Grendel
Please keep in mind that you may move your vote where ever you like, but you only have one vote at any given time. Therefore moving you vote will automatically nullify your last vote.
3) It is always good to think about how close your vote puts somebody to a lynch. IF your vote puts a player one away from a lynch then please state so afterward. Because if a majority vote has been reached then it cannot be undone, and the next time I visit the thread that player will be lynched, and the day will end regardless what votes are placed after. Example:
In a 9 player game the majority decision requisites 5 votes. The player that placed the 4th vote should announce “L-1” in the same post. L-1 means that the slot is now 1 vote away from bieng lynched. This should help prevent accidental lynches.
4)Be an active poster. By signing up you are accepting a game to keep up with. If you sign up but then never contribute then you’re letting the other players down. If there are irl issues you’re contending with, please contact me instead of pretending the game doesn’t exist.
I’ve you’re buzy irl, but want to play. Shoot to post ever 24 hours with something game related. Even something as small as, “I think player x is town, and I still think that player y is scummy”
5)During the night phase nobody may post in the thread proper.
6) DO NOT talk about the game outside of the thread proper unless your role dictates otherwise. You may PM questions at anytime about mafia theory, but my advice won’t extend outside of that. The mafia may communicate outside of the thread proper with each other, but may not talk about the game outside of their faction.
7) DO NOT quote the role PM I send you. While a convincing fake role PM can be made, it’s still cheating from my perspective to quote your real one. You may paraphrase what your role is if, or when you claim it.
8) It is optimal to claim your role when put at L-1. You may claim at anytime, or even make a fake claim, but doing so when there is no need makes you a prime mafia target when otherwise you wouldn’t have been.
9) Each Day phase will last up to 1 irl week, 7 days, each Night phase will last 2 irl days. However, the day phase can be ended prematurely with a lynch.
10) Please don’t spam the game. While joke posting is all well and good, don’t forget you have to win the game at some point!
11) The term Mafia is interchangeable with the terms “Werewolf”, “Witch”, “killers”, “Mole”, and “Scum”. If somebody throws these terms around they are talking about the mafia. For example, being called “scum” is not an insult in this game; it means you’re a mafia suspect.
I personally prefer “mafia” because it stays true to flavor. While mechanically Mafia, Werewolf, and ToS are the same, and Spy fall are similar they all use a different flavor for their roles.
12) On a last note, remember this is a game where people lie to you, and you may have to lie to other people. You therefore, will be accused of lying at some point. Please don’t take things down to a personal/emotional level. It is a game after all.
I will create a new thread for the game itself once I can get enough players, my goal is 13. If I can’t get that many then I will close sign ups in 5 days. If I can’t get any more than 9 players to sign up then I won’t run the game.
To sign up, Denote it by typing "/IN"!
Also, please post your preferred name, or abbreviation, so I can use it when keeping track of every bodies votes later.
