AF "Mafia" Forum Game (PSA for people who have no idea what it is)
January 3, 2017 at 4:09 pm
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2017 at 4:13 pm by Tiberius.)
For a few years now, there's been a small group of people who have their own subforum for playing "Mafia" games. They usually keep to themselves, though you may have noticed the forum or even seen people chat about "Mafia" and wondered what was up.
Well, Mafia is a forum based game that is a mixture of strategy and luck, and is quite a lot of fun. The game takes place in a single thread, and the aim of the game is to figure out which of the players are "mafia" / "scum" and which are "town". Every day phase (which usually lasts 24 hours), everyone votes in the thread for who they think is playing as a member of the mafia, and at the end of the day, the person with the most votes gets lynched and they are either revealed as "town" or "mafia". Then there is a 24 hour night phase, where the members of the mafia (who are aware of each other) choose a member of town to kill. The game continues in day phases and night phases until either all the mafia are lynched, or the mafia outnumber the town.
That is the general gist of the game, however there are plenty of variations, and some players may have secret roles that give them abilities they can either use during the day or the night. For example, a player with the "Cop" ability can investigate a player each night, and will learn whether that player is "town" or "not town". A player with the "Doctor" ability can choose to protect a player at night, and if that player is the target of the mafia's night kill, they won't die. There are plenty of other weird roles that the game mods invent and come up with.
Some of the games (more often than not these days) are themed, which means that each player is given a character that matches the theme (for example we just had a game with the theme being Babylon 5).
The reason I'm making this thread is because we want to run some good sized games (13+ players) and we are unfortunately lacking in the player department at the moment. So I thought I'd at least give a basic overview of the game, and invite any people who are interested in playing to contact either myself or Losty, and we can give you access to the sub-forum where the games are played. Current players can also tell you how much fun it is, if you needed more convincing. In each game there is a small time commitment during the "day" phase (when everyone can post in the game thread) but as long as you check semi-frequently and make a few posts, respond to comments, vote for the player to be lynched, etc. it's not a time suck.
There are more resources and explanations / guides here: http://wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php?title=Main_Page
Well, Mafia is a forum based game that is a mixture of strategy and luck, and is quite a lot of fun. The game takes place in a single thread, and the aim of the game is to figure out which of the players are "mafia" / "scum" and which are "town". Every day phase (which usually lasts 24 hours), everyone votes in the thread for who they think is playing as a member of the mafia, and at the end of the day, the person with the most votes gets lynched and they are either revealed as "town" or "mafia". Then there is a 24 hour night phase, where the members of the mafia (who are aware of each other) choose a member of town to kill. The game continues in day phases and night phases until either all the mafia are lynched, or the mafia outnumber the town.
That is the general gist of the game, however there are plenty of variations, and some players may have secret roles that give them abilities they can either use during the day or the night. For example, a player with the "Cop" ability can investigate a player each night, and will learn whether that player is "town" or "not town". A player with the "Doctor" ability can choose to protect a player at night, and if that player is the target of the mafia's night kill, they won't die. There are plenty of other weird roles that the game mods invent and come up with.
Some of the games (more often than not these days) are themed, which means that each player is given a character that matches the theme (for example we just had a game with the theme being Babylon 5).
The reason I'm making this thread is because we want to run some good sized games (13+ players) and we are unfortunately lacking in the player department at the moment. So I thought I'd at least give a basic overview of the game, and invite any people who are interested in playing to contact either myself or Losty, and we can give you access to the sub-forum where the games are played. Current players can also tell you how much fun it is, if you needed more convincing. In each game there is a small time commitment during the "day" phase (when everyone can post in the game thread) but as long as you check semi-frequently and make a few posts, respond to comments, vote for the player to be lynched, etc. it's not a time suck.
There are more resources and explanations / guides here: http://wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php?title=Main_Page
