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Title: Mafia question: surviving characters?
Post by: GameBoyBlue on November 08, 2015, 01:28:26 am
Has anyone made a mafia, where your character can survive to the next game? Cus I think I'm about to make one.
Title: Re: Mafia question: surviving characters?
Post by: Cheeetar on November 08, 2015, 03:14:08 am
How do you mean that the character survives to the next game- the role attached to the player does, the player does alone (as in some sort of knockout tournament), or just the role by itself? I believe King of the Mafia has done one of these.
Title: Re: Mafia question: surviving characters?
Post by: GameBoyBlue on November 08, 2015, 04:38:15 am
How do you mean that the character survives to the next game- the role attached to the player does, the player does alone (as in some sort of knockout tournament), or just the role by itself? I believe King of the Mafia has done one of these.

Oh that's interesting, like a continuing story. Whereby anyone can take up the role of the survivor? That's not what I meant.

I mean like, say your character can get better by surviving sessions of mafia.
Title: Re: Mafia question: surviving characters?
Post by: Deus Asmoth on November 08, 2015, 04:47:48 pm
It'd be kind of difficult to work with. Unless the character could change their alignment between games, they'd be confirmed as town or scum from the first round. Plus, one or two characters being stronger than normal at the start would be kind of unbalancing for whatever faction they're with, and if the same player was guaranteed to get them then that player would probably just get lynched or killed during the first round as a precaution.
Title: Re: Mafia question: surviving characters?
Post by: GameBoyBlue on November 08, 2015, 05:42:14 pm
I'm not sure, as its just a theory(a forum game theory). I think I can solve all these problems. My question was, if anyone already has.

Again my solution is theoretical not proven.
Title: Re: Mafia question: surviving characters?
Post by: notquitethere on November 09, 2015, 02:40:40 pm
In Choose-Your-Own-Mafia, surviving players get experience at the end of each day which they can spend on new powers.
Title: Re: Mafia question: surviving characters?
Post by: GameBoyBlue on November 09, 2015, 10:16:14 pm
In Choose-Your-Own-Mafia, surviving players get experience at the end of each day which they can spend on new powers.

Thanks. I mean surviving from one game to the next, but that sounds cool.
Title: Re: Mafia question: surviving characters?
Post by: notquitethere on November 09, 2015, 10:59:47 pm
You should check out King of the Mafia (search the subforum)-- a player keeps their secret role power between games if they survive and each game they have a chance of becoming the next mafia.
Title: Re: Mafia question: surviving characters?
Post by: GameBoyBlue on November 10, 2015, 02:33:41 am
You should check out King of the Mafia (search the subforum)-- a player keeps their secret role power between games if they survive and each game they have a chance of becoming the next mafia.

How do you do that.

I searched "King of the Mafia" (with and without " ") and it just randomly searches each individual word.
Title: Re: Mafia question: surviving characters?
Post by: Jack A T on November 10, 2015, 03:18:17 am
All four KotMs are in the Notable Games Archive (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=144075.0), under Classic Games.

The in-forum search system isn't very good, honestly.
Title: Re: Mafia question: surviving characters?
Post by: GameBoyBlue on November 10, 2015, 01:11:02 pm
You should check out King of the Mafia (search the subforum)-- a player keeps their secret role power between games if they survive and each game they have a chance of becoming the next mafia.

Ok, I think I see. So you keep your role between 2 sessions. Correct?
Title: Re: Mafia question: surviving characters?
Post by: notquitethere on November 11, 2015, 07:51:04 pm
Players who survive a game keep their role for as many sessions it takes for someone to win.
Title: Re: Mafia question: surviving characters?
Post by: Tomasque on December 03, 2015, 12:14:55 am
Don't search King of the Mafia, search "King of the Mafia" (with the parentheses). It will very much narrow down your search.
Title: Re: Mafia question: surviving characters?
Post by: Tomasque on December 03, 2015, 12:15:38 am
EBWOP

This sounds like a good idea, if you can get it to work.