Interested in a Mafia Game?

[Sindri]

"What's Mafia?"

Mafia is a party game (also known as Werewolf among other things) which at it's core is about a conflict between an informed minority and an uninformed majority.

"I know what Mafia is, why are you talking about it?"

What you may not know is that Mafia has a thriving presence online. While face to face Mafia has nice features online Mafia also offers a lot. It's so much more convenient for the members of the Mafia/Whatever faction to converse and plot when playing online. It also allows a focus on different skills. Everything is recorded, people have time to compose replies and aren't betrayed by physical tells. Finally it allows people to play it a bit at a time instead of reserving everyone's time to play a full game.

"Can you give a bit more detail than 'conflict between an informed minority and an uninformed majority'?"

Sure. Here's a quick description of the vanilla version. There are two factions Mafia and (innocent members of) Town. The game involves successive Night and Day phases. During the Night the Mafia debate who they should kill and then use their Night Action to kill them. With Day the dead person and what faction they belong to is revealed and then everyone debates and then publically votes (with the ability to switch votes at any time) for who they should Lynch which will also reveal what faction the dead person belonged to. The Mafia attempts to balance appearing to be an ordinary member of the town and swaying the vote to their advantage while the rest of the Town attempts to figure out who is a member of the Mafia so they can eliminate them in the Lynch with their greater numbers. Variants exist such as adding Roles like Cop which allows a player to detect what faction one player belongs to as a Night Action and/or additional factions besides Town and one Mafia but the gameplay still remains fundamentally similar.

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People Playing
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I will play the role of the first person to be killed by the Mafia. I will have no other effect on the game.

Possible Roles and Role Modifiers
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A player can make one Action per phase. It is possible for them to not have abilities that allow them to make Actions for every phase. Group abilities such as the Mafia's Nightkill do not take up an action but must be performed by a specific player. Abilities can be limited to a specific number of uses during a game. Role PM's will mention any exceptions to these rules and any restrictions on legal targets.

Possible Effects of Actions
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The Town faction wins when there are no members of anti-Town factions alive. As it stands the only anti-Town faction that will be in this game is the Mafia. The Mafia faction wins when they form the majority of the alive players. If no one dies for two Days and two Nights the game will end in a draw between the Town and Mafia factions. Win Conditions can correspond with faciton wins or not. You are required to play to your Win Condition. The game will end when every player's Win Condition is satisfied or impossible to satisfy.

When the game starts you will receive a PM detailing your role. You may directly copy the text of your role PM to a post in the thread. You may counterfeit a role PM. Each role PM is phrased differently, even within the same role. A similar degree of difference is not guaranteed.

Once everyone has received their role PM I will post that Night 0 has begun. Each Night lasts 24 hours or upon receiving all Night Actions whichever is shorter. You may send me instructions for Night Actions during the Day. You may override Night Actions at any point until I receive the last Night Action. The mafia will Nightkill Sindri during Night 0. Other Night Actions will operate as normal even if it is the Night Action of a mafia player. I will resolve Night Actions once I have received all of them in order of priority starting with priority 0. Conflicting Night Actions within the same priority will be resolved in a random order.

After every night I will post flavour text and reveal anyone who died during the Night, the factional alignment of anyone who died during the Night and any other public information generated due to Night Actions. Flavour text is entirely incidental and carries no clues whatsoever.

After that post Day begins and everyone may post to the thread. Default Day length is 72 hours. Days will be extended or shortened by 24 hours with every majority vote for extend or shorten. At any point you may vote to lynch anyone, extend or shorten. Votes for extend or shorten are unrelated to lynching votes. Votes may be reassigned at any point.

Once the hours in a Day end you may not post. If anyone has more votes for lynching than anyone else they will be lynched. I will post flavour text for the lynching. This flavour text will also be entirely incidental and carry no clues whatsoever. I will reveal the factional alignment of anyone who is lynched.

You may not post about the game outside of the game. You may not PM other players about the game. You may PM me about the game including for private requests for rules clarifications.

You may not edit posts.

No one's role will involve a restriction on how they can post.

I will post a votecount once every 24 hour period. I will also post a votecount upon request.

For the following purposes colour the relevant text. Votes for lynching and Extend/Shorten are not legal without colouring. Do not use colour outside of the following purposes.

Lynch Vote: Red (Red)
Extend/Shorten Vote: Blue (Blue)
Question for the GM: Cyan (Cyan)

I will colour text notifying of phase changes as purple (purple).

The Mafia has access to it's own chat. We will use Quicktopic for this unless there are objections. These chats can be used at any point, including during the Day. Players outside of the Mafia may also have access to separate chats. Dead players will also have their own chat. These will be handled similarly.