Lovecraft
03-27-2014, 04:04 PM
An old friend of yours has won the lottery! And as one of his many noveau riche big splurges he decides to throw a huge party for all his friends and enemies. After all, you know what they say, keep your friends close but keep your enemies closer. Problem is, he might have kept them too close because now he has woken up dead and as his last living act he put the whole mansion in lockdown ... You can only hope the murderer won't be acting out again ...
~~ The rules ~~
1. Follow all of the PXr and F&G's rules
2. No Flaming or Baiting
3. No sharing of your role PM in any form
4. Roleclaiming, and fakeclaiming are allowed
5. Screenshots are allowed
6. Share all forms of communication with me. Only allowing PMs, QuickTopics and AIM chats though.
7. Day Phases will 48 hours and night phases 24 hours
8. Updates will be at 9-11 PM GMT-3 time (0-2 AM London / 8-10 PM EST)
9. You are allowed one after death post, unless you sub in as somebody else. No necroliking except for posts that are jokes or the like
Now with a quick guide for the newest players
I. Basic Set-up
Mafia is all about an informed minority (mafia, scum, werewolves) against an uninformed majority (town, village). For simplicity's sake it's assumed that the informed minority are the bad guys but that's not always the case, and that in particular never matters.
The mafia want to get rid of townies without drawing much attention on themselves whether the townies want to kill all mafioso with as little losses as possibles. Sometimes, (a) third party(ies) are placed in the game generally their goal is to survive to the end of the game but that can change.
The bare essentials are, the game is played in two phases, the days and the nights
Days are when everybody, townies, mafiosi and independents all get together on the thread and start discussing. Townies want to find and kill mafioso and generally can only kill during the day lynch, whereas mafioso want to get rid of active and/or important townies without drawing too much attention to themselves. Indepents may do both, either or neither depending on their role and/or goal.
Nights are when the mafia gets together to discuss their night kill, and some players can use their power roles. Most common power roles, that are likely even to show even in simple games are the cop and the doctor.
Cops can check a player's alignment during the night, i.e.: see if they're a townie, a mafioso or an indepent, but beware that some roles may be falsify or even block a cop's night check.
Doctors can protect a person, for the entire night no one but the mod can kill them.
II. Simple strategies for Townies
Try and analyze every post everybody makes, and makes sure there isn't anything suspicious with that. A strong unprovable conviction that someone is mafia, a quick strange of mind, blindly following the majority on every vote and or discussion, no logic on their posts, and or outright attacking someone an important active player for no reason are usually good hints.
It may change from player to player though. All in all, just go with your gut and avoid doing weird random stuff outside of early day where no one has any clues so everybody do random votes and stuff to start a discussion.
III. Simple strategies for Mafiosi
It depends really, some people take the initiative and lead the town, some others sit back and don't do much and both types can win. Just go with your gut on what wouldn't exactly be suspicious, generally the things listed on the Townie sections are things you might want to avoid.
IV. Common Roles
On Section I I only explained 3 roles, so now I'll explain some others but do bear in mind that unless explicitly stated all roles can vote.
Vanilla (Townie | Mafia)
- May only vote – mafia vanillas can vote for night kill too – and has no other abilities.
Doctor (Townie | Mafia) ~ Night
- Protect people from night kills
Cop (Townie) ~ Night
- Check someone's alignment
Role Cop (Townie | Mafia) ~ Night
- Check someone's role
Voteless (Townie | Mafia)
- Cannot vote and is pretty much there only for numbering up its faction
Super Voter (Townie)
- Votes count more, usually twice as much
Vigilante (Townie | Independent) ~ Night
- Can kill people, may have unlimited uses or not
Jester / Fool (Independent)
- Win if he's lynched / killed
Bulletproof (Townie) ~ Night
- Can survive night kills, may do so unlimitedly or not
Lynchproof (Townie | Mafia)
- Can survive lynches, may do so unlimitedly or not
Godfather (Mafia | Independent)
- If checked by a cop, will come out as townie
Miller (Townie | Independent)
- If checked by a cop, will come out as mafia
I'm thinking of closing sign-ups at April Fool's but if we have too little people I can expand that amount by some days or weeks (there are no number caps in amount of players, I'm just listing 5 because I'm lazy to make a long list.).
Players:
1. Peaceful Giraffe
2. Dragon Master
3.
4.
5.
6.
...
Subs:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
...
~~ The rules ~~
1. Follow all of the PXr and F&G's rules
2. No Flaming or Baiting
3. No sharing of your role PM in any form
4. Roleclaiming, and fakeclaiming are allowed
5. Screenshots are allowed
6. Share all forms of communication with me. Only allowing PMs, QuickTopics and AIM chats though.
7. Day Phases will 48 hours and night phases 24 hours
8. Updates will be at 9-11 PM GMT-3 time (0-2 AM London / 8-10 PM EST)
9. You are allowed one after death post, unless you sub in as somebody else. No necroliking except for posts that are jokes or the like
Now with a quick guide for the newest players
I. Basic Set-up
Mafia is all about an informed minority (mafia, scum, werewolves) against an uninformed majority (town, village). For simplicity's sake it's assumed that the informed minority are the bad guys but that's not always the case, and that in particular never matters.
The mafia want to get rid of townies without drawing much attention on themselves whether the townies want to kill all mafioso with as little losses as possibles. Sometimes, (a) third party(ies) are placed in the game generally their goal is to survive to the end of the game but that can change.
The bare essentials are, the game is played in two phases, the days and the nights
Days are when everybody, townies, mafiosi and independents all get together on the thread and start discussing. Townies want to find and kill mafioso and generally can only kill during the day lynch, whereas mafioso want to get rid of active and/or important townies without drawing too much attention to themselves. Indepents may do both, either or neither depending on their role and/or goal.
Nights are when the mafia gets together to discuss their night kill, and some players can use their power roles. Most common power roles, that are likely even to show even in simple games are the cop and the doctor.
Cops can check a player's alignment during the night, i.e.: see if they're a townie, a mafioso or an indepent, but beware that some roles may be falsify or even block a cop's night check.
Doctors can protect a person, for the entire night no one but the mod can kill them.
II. Simple strategies for Townies
Try and analyze every post everybody makes, and makes sure there isn't anything suspicious with that. A strong unprovable conviction that someone is mafia, a quick strange of mind, blindly following the majority on every vote and or discussion, no logic on their posts, and or outright attacking someone an important active player for no reason are usually good hints.
It may change from player to player though. All in all, just go with your gut and avoid doing weird random stuff outside of early day where no one has any clues so everybody do random votes and stuff to start a discussion.
III. Simple strategies for Mafiosi
It depends really, some people take the initiative and lead the town, some others sit back and don't do much and both types can win. Just go with your gut on what wouldn't exactly be suspicious, generally the things listed on the Townie sections are things you might want to avoid.
IV. Common Roles
On Section I I only explained 3 roles, so now I'll explain some others but do bear in mind that unless explicitly stated all roles can vote.
Vanilla (Townie | Mafia)
- May only vote – mafia vanillas can vote for night kill too – and has no other abilities.
Doctor (Townie | Mafia) ~ Night
- Protect people from night kills
Cop (Townie) ~ Night
- Check someone's alignment
Role Cop (Townie | Mafia) ~ Night
- Check someone's role
Voteless (Townie | Mafia)
- Cannot vote and is pretty much there only for numbering up its faction
Super Voter (Townie)
- Votes count more, usually twice as much
Vigilante (Townie | Independent) ~ Night
- Can kill people, may have unlimited uses or not
Jester / Fool (Independent)
- Win if he's lynched / killed
Bulletproof (Townie) ~ Night
- Can survive night kills, may do so unlimitedly or not
Lynchproof (Townie | Mafia)
- Can survive lynches, may do so unlimitedly or not
Godfather (Mafia | Independent)
- If checked by a cop, will come out as townie
Miller (Townie | Independent)
- If checked by a cop, will come out as mafia
I'm thinking of closing sign-ups at April Fool's but if we have too little people I can expand that amount by some days or weeks (there are no number caps in amount of players, I'm just listing 5 because I'm lazy to make a long list.).
Players:
1. Peaceful Giraffe
2. Dragon Master
3.
4.
5.
6.
...
Subs:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
...