Mafia the Game - forum version

[Timon]

Hello there!

 

I've got a proposition and been wondering if anyone would like to join a forum version of popular Mafia game: Wiki - readme

 

We played it on forums when I was a Prime-Squadron member and we had a lot of fun. It doesn't involve that much time and it definitely brings people together. I've got it all figured out, just need to open up my portable harddrive with rulebook, roles and we would be ready to go

 

It makes sense with around 10-15 people, otherwise it ends too quickly and there's not enough players to distribute various game roles.

 

Starting a pool to see if there's enough people interested.

 

Lemme know what you think!

 

Cheers!

Tim

 

[Hesis]

I'm all in!

 

I'm sure it will be fun 😁

[Tukkonen]

Read the gameplay on that wiki and i will propably suck at this, but sure i'm in! How would the night and day phases work at forums?

[Timon]

Thanks for your replies guys!

 

The phases take some real time, like 1-2 days (depends) and for the night the main game thread should be blocked. I dunno if this will work as prolly requires some moderator powers, but maybe I could ask sb to do it.

 

Anyway, we will worry about that only if we get enough people on board

 

If you guys are hungry for more I can dig up that rulebook and roles.

 

Cheers

[Timon]

Play proceeds as follows: 

 Each participant gets their role assigned via PM. Mafia players are advised who the other mafioso are. Mafia players are permitted to interact with each other via PM, innocents may only interact in public on the posted thread. Mafia players will, of course, also post on the public thread as well. 

 The game has 2 phases, "night" and "day". Typically 24 hours each (to allow enough time for infrequent posters). But previous games showed that one phase can even last for 3 normal days. 

 During the "night" phase of the game, the mafia will send me PMs indicating which innocent they intend to kill during that round of play. The mafia's victim will be selected by majority vote. If they are dumb enough not to have a majority in their PMs, then no innocent will be killed on that turn. However it might happen that other roles actions will prevent mafia from doing their kill. For example: mafia will fail to kill somebody protected by the Doctor. Roles which can use their abilities may send their PMs both at night and during the day. Effects which should be shown to publicity will be included in stories posted at the beginning of every phase. 

 Once I posted the results of the PMs, the "day" phase of the game begins. During the day phase, the players who are still alive discuss who they think might be a mafioso and vote for someone to kill. The mafioso are posing as innocents during the day and they also vote with the innocents. A majority of votes is required to reach a decision. If there are 15 innocents alive, then 8 people must vote for the same person in order to "lynch" them. When the person is lynched, I will reveal if they were innocent or mafia and we will begin the cycle again at the top. 

 Once a player is "dead", he can no longer post anything of substance to the thread. Exception is a Ghost role. 

 In slower moving forums, the "day" phase is usually indicated at a specific time each day. In faster moving ones, it ends when a plurality is reached. We'll see how it goes, but we'll probably target one round per 24 hours. 

 The game ends when the innocents have lynched all the mafia players or the mafia have killed enough innocents that the innocents can no longer muster enough votes to lynch any mafia players. 

 You should check the game as much as possible, inactivity for more then 4 days will be punished with a 'death from above' (like suicide, car accident, overdose...  ) 

 Posting pm's from me to you is strictly forbidden. Violation of this rule will lead to direct elimination.

Use this rule if there are many roles in the game and only few (max 3-4) simple Innocents:

- Unnecessary role revelation will result DEATH This means telling your role/lieng you role without being getting voted out by majority is NOT ALLOWED. 
 - You ARE ALLOWED to tell your role/lie your role if you are being voted out by majority (>50% of votes are to lynch you out)

When there are many simple Innocents, telling/lying your role is allowed at all times.

Optional: Silencing fellow mafia is now allowed. From now on poeple claiming themselves to be silenced are not 100% innocents. 

 
If I receive 2 or more PMs with opposing actions ( fe: Hitman going to kill innocent and Vigilant going to kill Hitman) the action included in EARLIER PM will be performed as FIRST.
 

Forum mafia rules.doc mafia story 1.txt

[Nancy]

1 hour ago, Timon said:

I dunno if this will work as prolly requires some moderator powers, but maybe I could ask sb to do it.

 

I volunteering, I will /lock and /unlock Mafia thread then needed.

 

 I am also in. It will be !FUN 

 

ps but we still need more people.... Like 10 or so?

 

 

Edited November 1, 2023 by Nancy

[Tukkonen]

Now it's more clear how the day/night phases will work. In the normal game at night, mafioso can only communicate with gestures to decide who to kill, is this feature included to forums or does mafiosos just try their luck and cast their votes and hope others has voted the same one? 😄

[Timon]

48 minutes ago, Nancy said:

I volunteering, I will /lock and /unlock Mafia thread then needed.

 

 I am also in. It will be !FUN 

 

ps but we still need more people.... Like 10 or so?

 

 

10 is really a minimum to make it at least worth a while

 

24 minutes ago, Tukkonen said:

Now it's more clear how the day/night phases will work. In the normal game at night, mafioso can only communicate with gestures to decide who to kill, is this feature included to forums or does mafiosos just try their luck and cast their votes and hope others has voted the same one? 😄

 

Nah, Mafia can use any means they want to communicate: forum messages, any messeging software (Msg, WhatsApp, Discord) of their choice, etc.

 

Usually other people chat outside of the main topic as well, even on ET servers, but when you're in the Innocents team then you cannot trust anyone.

[Tukkonen]

1 hour ago, Timon said:

 Mafia players are permitted to interact with each other via PM

 

2 minutes ago, Timon said:

10 is really a minimum to make it at least worth a while

 

 

Nah, Mafia can use any means they want to communicate: forum messages, any messeging software (Msg, WhatsApp, Discord) of their choice, etc.

 

Oh yeah, it was in the earlier post. Understood this word permitted wrong and now used google translate 😅 my bad.