Okay, yeah. Looks like there's no actual interest for it here, but it was worth a try. Thanks for reading!
Let's try it like Pokota suggested:
This is now a signup thread. If interest is as low as it seemed before it's not like doing signups rather than just an interest check will change the end result of "we're not playing".
So, to explain further how it's going to work - there are two types of players, the townies and the mafia.
The
mafia know who each other are, and their goal is to kill all the townies. Usually, the amount of mafia is 20-25% of the total number of players. In a game with 10 players, there would likely be three mafia. In a game with 20 players, there would be five mafia. In a game with 32 players, there would be eight mafia. Sometimes, the mafia gets some special roles. One that tends to be included is the godfather, who really only has the special ability that he detects as a townie when investigated by a detective (more on that in the next section), but also functions as the leader of the mafia, the person who tells the host what the mafia does.
The
townies don't know who anyone is and their goal is to kill all the mafia and to try to avoid getting killed. To help with this, there are certain special townies, with roles such as detective who can investigate players to learn of their roles, bodyguard (sometimes called doctor) who can prevent someone from getting killed and vigilante who can kill (sometimes a limited amount of times) at night. These are the three most common special townie roles, but there's a ton of potential roles that can be included, so you can be certain there will be more. I have, at this point in time, not decided exactly what roles will be included in the introductionary game. When I host, I tend to put in some kind of unique thing for each game, though it often depends on the theme of the game and if we do start playing here, the first one will be unthemed, quite vanilla and just be town vs. mafia. With a Film Noir style, I think, but that'll really only affect the narrative.
The game is divided into two phases,
night and
day.
During the
night phase, the mafia tells the host in PM who they are going to kill, and all special townies PMs the host with their actions (or lack of actions, sometimes they don't want to act). During night, talk in the thread should be kept to a minimum.
The
day phase begins with the host announcing who died during the night and revealing what their role was. Following that, the town discusses things, and attempts to figure out who the mafia are, based on the information they have, who seems suspicious, and a variety of things. During the day phase, players may vote on who they wish to lynch, and at the end of the phase, the player who has received the most votes will be lynched, and in most cases this means they die. This is the primary, and sometimes only, way the townies have to actually kill the mafia.
In forum mafia, at least in my experience, these phases are usually set to last
24 hours each, but phases can sometimes be ended early, such as a night phase ending if all actions get sent in long before the deadline, or a day phase ending early if there is a clear majority towards lynching someone. Day phases are however more likely to be allowed to last the full 24 hours no matter what, though.
The best way to learn the game is to play it, so if you have any interest at all in it, do sign up!
If you wish to sign up, simply start a numbered list. And then the next person copies that list and adds themselves at the end. Numbered and the full list in every signup post so that it will be easier to see exactly how many are signed up at any given time.
So yeah.
Not entirely sure how many players I want, but the more the merrier. And a multiple of four is the best.
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Original post:
You may have heard of
Mafia, also known as Werewolf. It's a pretty fun game. If you haven't heard of it before, the short of it is that there's a small group of bad guys who know each other who try to kill a larger group of good guys who are mostly in the dark about who's who.
It's also a game that can be played online, and was recently mentioned in #tasvideos, thus sparking a short discussion about possibly playing one or a few games here.
I've played quite a number of Forum Mafia games and have hosted myself on multiple occasions, and as such I offer to take care of hosting duties for at the very least the first game we play here.
But before I actually say anything more about playing, I need to check:
Is there any actual interest in playing Forum Mafia here? Need to know that enough people are interested in playing to even try to host it here. It's easy to learn and get into, so don't worry if you've never played it before!
This is not a signup thread. If enough (I decide what's enough) people make it known that they're interested and would actually play if a game does get started, then there'll be a new thread with actual signups and more detailed rules for the forum variety, as well as the intended theme (because it's always more fun if there's a theme, even if it doesn't actually affect gameplay).
So if you're up for it, let me know!
