PSMafia game anyone?

by **Harpix** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 20:15

I found a new way to waste some more valuable time

Some people may know this game as it's pretty popular on other sites

The game is called "Mafia" aka werewolves and the set-up is like this. We need a bunch of players (I think it plays best around 15/20 but it can work with numbers as low as 9 or 10). I will assign roles randomly to those who sign-up from the following categories:

The Innocent roles

Detective (1)
You are the Detective. During each night you may select any one person to investigate and if you survive the night I will tell you what their role is. You may send me your PM at any time during the day or night, but I must receive it by 22 PM or you will investigate no one. Obviously, it is better if you can wait until night so that you can make the smartest decision. Use this strong power well. The town is counting on you

Doctor (1)
You are the Doctor. During each night you may select one person to protect and that person will not die if they are the target of the mafia attack. You may protect yourself if you wish. You can protect somebody from a Mafia/vigilante hit, but not from the town decision's kill. Use this strong power well. The town is counting on you

Vigilante (1)
You are the Vigilante. Once and only once during the game, you may send me a PM and say that you elect to kill any one other player. If you are still alive that night, you will sneak out to their house and kill them. You are an innocent, so you should choose someone you strongly believe to be mafia. However, you only get one chance to perform this action, so you have to act before you are killed.

Innocent Bystander (1)
You are an innocent bystander. You have the ability to stumble into a Mafia meeting once during the game. You decide when. If the Mafia plan a hit, you will get the name of one Mafia member. Hopefully you survive the night and are able to share this information... But will the town believe you ?

Bullet Proof (1)
You are Bulletproof. You are protected from a Mafia/vigilante hit. You are not safe from a Yakuza hit. You can off course be lynched by the townsvote, just like everybody else. Use this strong power well. The town is counting on you

Innocent
You are an Innocent. You are trying to root out the mafia from your midst and live out a peaceful life free of crime and danger. Good luck to you.

The Mobster roles

Mafia (3)
You are a member of the mafia. Your goal is to completely dominate PSland by murdering and tricking the innocents until they no longer outnumber you. Use Pm's to discuss your hits with your Mobster friends

Yakuza (1)
You are Yakuza. You are part of the Mafia and take part of all the decision making. You can however take right into you own hands once during the game and PM me with a name to be killed. Your hit is too sneaky for the Bulletproof's armour, so you can kill him, unlike the regular Mafia hits.

Assuming we get 20 or so interested participants, the breakdown would be something like 3 mafia, 1 yakuza*, 1 detective, 1 doctor, 1 vigilant*, 1 innocent bystander*, 1 bulletproof* and 11 innocents.

*These roles wont exist if only 10 or so people are interested.
The amount of mafia will also be reduced in case of low interest.

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).

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 detective sends me a PM indicating who he intends to investigate and the doctor sends me a PM indicating who he intends to protect that night. The doctor may protect himself. 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. If they select someone who was protected by the doctor, then the person will not die. Otherwise, the person they finger will show up dead the next "morning." I will send a return PM to the detective indicating if their investigation revealed the subject to be mafia, doctor or innocent.

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.

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.

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

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

Variations of rules can be introduced but i guess we should stick to the "basic" rules for the first game.

If you want to play just post it here, but while doing that you should be prepared to check the site and the game in particular at least once a day.

If there is enough interest, I'll start up a game thread and send off the initial PMs to the players.

Hope you ll like the idea

Players subscribed:

Sign up period finnished

by **deep** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 22:21

i want to play

by **nick** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 23:19

count me in too

by **Daghel** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 0:40

I dont understand nothing from this bunch of craps but count me in

by **Harpix** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 10:21

Well if you have questions just post them here...
I ll do my best to answer in clear and comprehensive english

by **Wastl** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 12:24

W H A T ?

Rephrase the first post please.

Thanking you in advance,

Wastl

by **Daghel** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 12:34

-If i will play for example as doctor how can i win? After all mafia members will be dead? Same as innocents?
-How i can choose role? I must send PM to You, and who's faster is better or You will type in PM who is who?
-If i want to lynch someone its an "blind shoot" or based at any arguments. How is must choose? Becouse i don't like his nick?

-How's the typical message should looks like? (In this topic not via PM)
-Yakuza can kill a player protected by doctor?
-Innocent Bystander, how he can stumble into mafia meeting if discussion between mafia members are via PM's?

So far...

by **Harpix** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 12:35

a small amount of intelligence and time to read are requierd to play/understand the game wastl. Sadly you dont pass the first requierement... :wink:

Still luv you
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On topic:
-There are 2 possible senario's:
1) All mafiosi are lynched by the innocents -> Innocents, including doctor, detective, etc wins.
2) Mafiosi obtain a majority ( more mafiosi alive then innocents) -> Mafia wins.

-The roles are chosen randomly, i ll write each name on a seperate paper and pick blindly a paper for each role

-To lynch someone, you should all discuss who is suspect: who doesnt talk much, who tries to change the votes to hit someone else, etc. Wont explain much here, because tactics are things that you should find out yourself

-A typical message to lynch someone is rather simple:
I vote to lynch Harp
You should also say maybe a reason or so. You can also just post a message to discuss why someone was killed by the maffia. Did the victim knew something? Was he close to the truth? etc.
To change your vote you need to post something like: I change my vote from Harp to Daghel

-The doctor protects a target from being hit even by yakuza/vigilant.

-The innocent bystander just needs to pm me that he wants to stumble in and i wil give him the name of one of the mafiosi.

by **nick** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 14:35

@ dagh you cant choose role, you get one appointed

only harpix knows who everyone is

by **Spyhawk** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 15:23

I wanna play too !

Never did that before through website, but I've played it IRL around a table (and some bottle of shit

)

by **Daghel** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 16:04

Spyhawk wrote: bottle of shit

Poor Spy... Come to Poland and i will show you what is beer, wÃ³dka... erm...water

After few rounds of mafia maybe we can play an RPG session xD
I've got lot of experience in this

by **GoldenBullet** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 16:09

Ok i wanna try this thing
Count me in

by **Plastic_Jesus** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 19:52

I have just played that real Mafia game

I dont want to read so long text I mean I don't have time to do it. So count me in. If I have probs I read that text :>

by **Harpix** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 21:50

RTFM!!! xD
Just read them when ur bored, i know its a pretty long post... (my longest one ever!

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by **GoldenBullet** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:20

At the edge of offtopic:
nice picture in the opening post

(what RTFM stands for?)

Oh I thought the bystander would get ALL names of the mafia.
I guess that would have been unfair...

This is gonna be so exiting!

by **FlowerPower** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 12:50

Sounds interesting... I wanna join too

by **warren-the-ape** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 13:59

GoldenBullet wrote:(what RTFM stands for?)

Read The F#cking Manual ^^

by **Harpix** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 16:15

The more players we have the more exciting it will be...
We still didnt pass the minimum requiered!
So dont be shy! We wont kill you...
<3

nice picture in the opening post

Thought a picture would give a positive stimulans for the people to read that piece of literature...

by **-KrIpTo-** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 21:57

oh, finally a normal italian game <3

gimme 2/3 years to read all, and i'll be ready

Mafia is in da house, now really

SIGN ME ON

by **FlowerPower** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 23:53

Does anyone else want to join? Come on, don't be shy!!

by **Spyhawk** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 14:29

Any news on this ?

by **LaZerByte** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 18:11

I usually check this site once a hour, so if its not running already sign me in please

by **flow** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 21:40

sign me in too

(if you still need ppls :S )

by **Harpix** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 0:14

everyone is still welcome,
I m waiting for warreno to begin this thing

by **warren-the-ape** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 0:24

And I was waiting for you

Ill see if i can catch (PM) you tomorrow.

PSMafia game anyone?

PSMafia game anyone?

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