Mafia is a party-game-turned-forum-game that pits an informed minority against an uninformed majority. Though it seems complicated at first, it's a lot of fun. There are 2 sides: the Town and the Mafia. The Town wins when all Mafia are eliminated, and the Mafia wins when they hold a majority (at least 50% of the players are Mafia). The Mafia are aware of each other's identities, whereas the Town are told only their own allegiance and role. There are 2 phases of the game:
Day Phase
During the day, all players who are currently alive must discuss who they should lynch, if anyone at all. The townies will want to lynch someone they suspect of being mafia, and the mafia, pretending to be innocent townspeople, will want to try and eliminate the townspeople by deceiving them and making them lynch each other. Type #vote [Username] (or [No Lynch]) to vote for someone to lynch and #unvote to retract your vote. This makes it a bit easier on me. Once a majority is reached, the person that was chosen is removed from the game and their allegiance and role is revealed. So begins...
Night Phase
During the night phase, no one may post in this topic. The Mafia may communicate outside the topic about who to kill. (This may be done through a separate forum, or a chatroom. Making another channel on the chat may not be a bad idea. If there are only 2 mafia members, PMing works fine.) PM your votes to me. Some players may have special night actions, which I will explain later. These are also performed by PMing me. At the end of a specific time period, or once all votes have been cast and night actions have been performed, the death(s) will be announced and the Day Phase will begin again.
Do not talk about the game outside of the topic unless you are Mafia. This is just by honor system. Now, because this is the first game, I'll keep it simple: 7 players, PieC9 setup, which is as follows:
Town
They rely on their reasoning abilities to try and identify and eliminate Mafia members through voting during the daytime. Remember, the mafia are always listening!
-1 Doctor
During nighttime, they may select one person to protect from harm. If that character is selected by the mafia to kill, they will stay alive. They may not protect themselves.
-1 Cop
During nighttime, they may select one person to investigate. The cop will be told their allegiance and role in the morning.
-3 Vanilla Townies
They have no special actions.
Mafia
They rely on deception to swing the vote away from themselves and eliminate the townies during the day, and deciding on someone to murder during the night. Once they control the vote, they win.
-1 Roleblocker
During nighttime, along with voting to murder someone, they may select someone to roleblock, eliminating any night action they may have. The roleblocked will be notified of this, and their role- if any- will remain a secret.
-1 Goon
They have no special actions.
That should cover it, but if you're confused or you have a question, feel free to ask. Sign up in this topic, and once we have 7 players, I'll get this underway.
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