Some of you might be familiar with this game, some of you might now. Me, I have over 20 games under my belt and has successfully modded a game, so I know how this game works. Mafia is personally my favorite forum game as it requires logical thinking and when logical thinking are used well, it can create a hell of a lot of fun.
This is a game of uninformed majority and informed minority.
How many players is required for a game?: At least three players is needed, but there is no upper limit at how many players can join, thought it is recommended that at least seven players should be in and that the limit should be reasonable.
What's involved in the game?: Basically any role can be put into a Mafia game, but there are generally two things to a game, a town and a scum. In more complex games, it includes third-party roles such as Serial Killer and a Survivor. Town generally wins if they eliminate all threats to town and scum generally wins if they are the majority or if nothing can prevent that.
There are a ton of variety for town roles and scum roles. Two examples of this variety are a Doctor (Generally aligned with town, but could be aligned with scum) and a Roleblocker (Can be aligned with either role). There's also Cop, Vigilante, Arsonists, etc. First game will be simple so that people can get used to the game, but roles can be complex. You can even form new roles yourself or name roles already made in a different way.
How long will the game last?: If you join a game, you are expected to commit to it and stay in the game. Considering that this is a site that has yet to play Mafia, I expect all my players to be in the game from start to finish and not drop out unless it's absolutely necessary. Finding replacements in a forum not used to Mafia is going to be difficult, so I want to prevent that from happening here.
As for how long you're expected to commit, it will go on for at least over month and usually between two and three months. Some games go over that, but not many last more then four months. There are no specific deadlines in which a game must finish, only deadlines are in Day phases and Night phases. Which is explain more in the next section.
How does it work?: There are three phases to a game; Day, Twilight, and Night. Day is the discussion phase where you discuss which person should be lynched. There are no definite ways to lynch scum, but you can find scum by looking at scummy behaviors such as contradictions, hypocrisy, the tone of the post, and many other reasons. To vote someone, make sure to say Vote: [Person A]. If you decide that person is not the scummiest player in the game, you can switch to another person by saying Unvote and vote another person by saying Vote: [Person B]. Now how do you get a lynch going? Simple, just get a majority to vote for a single person. Once a majority has been reached, the person is lynched, we go into Twilight, and the moment I come in to decide the lynch, it turns into the night with alignment and role revealed and possibly flavor (Which is created purely for entertainment purposes, not anything else).
Twilight is the same as Day, except that it starts when a majority has been reached and ends when I get here. There is no definite time when Twilight last. You can discuss the game and hunt for scums, but you may not change your vote.
During Night, people do not discuss in the thread. Instead, this is where scum privately communicate with each other on who to kill and what their plan is for tomorrow. Once they decide on a kill, they send a PM to me telling me who they wish to kill. Same with Town PR, except that they cannot communicate with other town members and if you're a Vanilla Townie (A townie with no powers outside of being able to vote and discuss the game inside the thread), you don't do anything during the Night.
When Day dawns again, usually a townie (Or maybe scum depending on if the Vigilante is involved) has died. The game follows the same routine until either the Town or Mafia wins (Or in some cases and/or 3rd party). Then I post the roles and description of roles with mod commentaries to follow. People may continue to discuss the game endgame and talk about how they could have done better/how to improve.
Deadline for Day usually last somewhere between seven days and three weeks and Night usually last between forty-eight hours and seventy-two hours.
How to sign up for a game and how a game gets started: Now you're wondering "How do you sign up for a game?" It's easy, just find a sign-up thread and say /in. Then unless you're blacklisted (Meaning you can't play in a person game), I or someone else who mods in the future adds you to the list of players. When the playerlist is full, I PM everyone with their role and everyone confirms, then the game starts. I also make a thread for said game so that the sign-up thread is purely for signing up for games. There are rules to follow in the game, so I expect each and everyone of the players to follow every rule.
So what do you think? Are you interested in Mafia now and do you want to give it a try? Then sign up below and if we get somewhere between seven and nine players, we'll start.
I want to mod? When can I do that?: When I see that you have sufficient experience to mod. Right now, I'm putting it at one game, but I may need to increase the limit if I deem it too low of a limit.
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1. Ruthie
2. Waller
3. Epic Kirby
4. juanpa899
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Edited by Limelight788, 25 June 2011 - 06:36 PM.
