Mafia Game -- anybody interested?
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 19:15
In case you don't know about it, Mafia is a very fun social game to play in places like forums, etc. I've had great fun with it in the past, and I would be willing to moderate, narrate or "GM" a game here to see if everybody liked it, if anybody's interested.
Basically, it goes like this:
Players can have several different roles:
Civilian: The default, non-special role. Can vote on who to kill each cycle.
Killer: Gets to murder one person each cycle. If there are several, they debate among themselves whom to kill. Against the civilians.
Detective: Can "discover" any one person's role once each cycle. With the civilians.
Healer: Can "save" one specific person each cycle from being killed by the killers. With the civilians.
When the killer is dead, or the killers outnumber the civilians, one side wins.
These rules vary a lot from game to game. Depending on the amount of players, the number of roles can both shrink and grow quite a lot, as there are endless variations on this general theme. When the game starts, these roles are doled out randomly by the narrator via PM. Usually, a cycle of 24 hours is used. Thus, a single game can take an entire week.
Each cycle, the special roles PM the narrator with what they're doing to whom. The killer gets special leeway with the manner in which he wishes to kill his target. He can leave clues, make it horrible to invoke fear, or do it in a specific way to point to another player, or even himself, to alleviate suspicion in a two-level maneuver. Strategies are only limited by your creativity.
When the cycle ends, the narrator posts up an "in-character" scene in which everything that everybody's been doing takes place.
This may sound dry, but this game is so fun. Everybody gets extremely paranoid and jumpy as civilian after civilian fall to the killer and the pool of suspects shrink.
It's also usual to have a thread that can be discussed in a special forum with a password, where the identities of the roles are posted and everybody who's dead + the narrator can sit and speculate on what everybody's going to do, and in general follow the game in glee from the safety of "heaven". If the game comes through, a limited moderator status for the current narrator would be in order, where he can essentially change the password of the "death forum", and moderate the thread which he's running the game in.
Obviously, nobody who's dead can reveal any roles, and nobody who's dead can post in the main thread any more, either.
I'd like to run a game, as I said. I think this could be great fun with these people. Come on guys, spread the word. This would be so awesome.
Who's in?
Basically, it goes like this:
Players can have several different roles:
Civilian: The default, non-special role. Can vote on who to kill each cycle.
Killer: Gets to murder one person each cycle. If there are several, they debate among themselves whom to kill. Against the civilians.
Detective: Can "discover" any one person's role once each cycle. With the civilians.
Healer: Can "save" one specific person each cycle from being killed by the killers. With the civilians.
When the killer is dead, or the killers outnumber the civilians, one side wins.
These rules vary a lot from game to game. Depending on the amount of players, the number of roles can both shrink and grow quite a lot, as there are endless variations on this general theme. When the game starts, these roles are doled out randomly by the narrator via PM. Usually, a cycle of 24 hours is used. Thus, a single game can take an entire week.
Each cycle, the special roles PM the narrator with what they're doing to whom. The killer gets special leeway with the manner in which he wishes to kill his target. He can leave clues, make it horrible to invoke fear, or do it in a specific way to point to another player, or even himself, to alleviate suspicion in a two-level maneuver. Strategies are only limited by your creativity.
When the cycle ends, the narrator posts up an "in-character" scene in which everything that everybody's been doing takes place.
This may sound dry, but this game is so fun. Everybody gets extremely paranoid and jumpy as civilian after civilian fall to the killer and the pool of suspects shrink.
It's also usual to have a thread that can be discussed in a special forum with a password, where the identities of the roles are posted and everybody who's dead + the narrator can sit and speculate on what everybody's going to do, and in general follow the game in glee from the safety of "heaven". If the game comes through, a limited moderator status for the current narrator would be in order, where he can essentially change the password of the "death forum", and moderate the thread which he's running the game in.
Obviously, nobody who's dead can reveal any roles, and nobody who's dead can post in the main thread any more, either.
I'd like to run a game, as I said. I think this could be great fun with these people. Come on guys, spread the word. This would be so awesome.
Who's in?