Hello there, mafia players. Maybe you're new, maybe you're not, maybe you're a veteran looking to refresh your skills. Either way, you're probably here because you're looking for a nice (relatively) sane mafia game that nonetheless has the appeal something like a Mountainous or classic setup lacks.
Well you've come to the right place - Bay 12 Mafia is all about the absurdity, but this game takes a gentler approach to it. So if you're new and want to give this a shot, step right in. If you're more experienced and want a relatively chill game compared to a more complete BYOR, you've come to the right place.
What is mafia?
Mafia is a social deduction game! While more complex setups may involve all sorts of third parties in some cases, in standard mafia (including this game) there are two categories of players.
The Town are an uninformed majority. If you're a Town player, you're aware of your own alignment and not the alignment of any other players. You're opposed to the Mafia, and you win the game once all Mafia players have been eliminated from the game. In this game there will be seven Town players.
The Mafia are an informed minority. Each of the Mafia is aware of the alignment of the other Mafia players. This makes them a coordinated, but small team up against the uncoordinated, but massive, Town. The Mafia win once the number of uneliminated Mafia equal the number of remaining uneliminated Town. In more advanced games, the Town may be able to fight on even in this situation, but only if their powers allow it, however that is not the case in this game. In this game there will be two Mafia players.
How are players eliminated?
An eliminated player is referred to as dead, and cannot post further in the thread, and in most circumstances cannot use their Abilities.
The game of mafia is played in two Phases. During the Day, a vote is held where every player has one vote. The Town must deduce who the Mafia are, while the Mafia attempt to blend in and manipulate the vote for their own benefit. At the end of the Day, which occurs either on a deadline, or when a majority of players are voting one person (this is an optional rule known as the Hammer) whichever player has the most votes on them is eliminated. This is referred to as Execution.
(In previous games, Execution was known as the Lynch, but that term has certain connotations, so we as a community are shifting away from its use.)
During the Night, the thread is locked and public discussion cannot occur. Most Abilities are useful during the Night. The Mafia have access to two privileges that give them an edge despite their small numbers. The Mafiakill is the shared Ability to forcefully eliminate a player of the Mafia's choice. The second privilege is the scumchat, a private Discord chat which allows the Mafia to communicate and coordinate in secret in both Phases.
This game in particular is what we call a
BYOR - or
Bring Your Own Role. This means that before the game starts, when you sign up to play, you send in the name of your role, which I then use to decide what
Abilities you will possess. Your role name has no bearing on your alignment (
Town or
Mafia), since alignments are assigned randomly.
You may select anything at all for your role so long as it does not violate the forum rules and guidelines. You could submit your favorite fictional character (
Dave Strider,
Superman,
Rick and Morty) or an abstract concept (
Time,
Philosophy) or some bizarre amalgam (
Twenty Kittens Riding A Scooter,
Ronald McDonald But Actually A Catgirl In Disguise) or even a Shakeragian role (
The Beginner's BYOR 3 Role That Is An Example In The Opening Post). I reserve the right to give you silly
Abilities if you send in a Shakeragian role.
Some more specific rules:
Day Phases last 72 hours for the first and second Days, and 48 hours henceforth, though they still end immediately on
Hammer. I reserve the right to extend the duration as needed if a player replaces into the game or a real-life emergency occurs, or such.
Night Phases last 24 hours always, though they may be shortened if every player submits their desired actions or lack thereof quickly.
No editing your posts, and no directly quoting any PMs you have received from me. You are freely permitted to paraphrase. If you are
Mafia, you may directly quote PMs from me in the
scumchat only. Likewise, if you are
Town and have a role that grants you a shared, alignment-verified private Discord chat with another
Town player, you may quote PMs from me in there. If you have access to a private chat without alignment verification included, you do not possess this privilege. Never directly quote PMs from me in the main thread no matter your alignment.
After the
Day is ended via hammer,
do not post. You may edit your posts to nullify content posted after the hammer, which is an exception to the above rule. If the
Day ends via deadline and not hammer, you may continue to post
until I close the thread, but further votes will not count and whoever was
Executed may not post (except to produce a single 'bah' post useful for mockery, a joke, or humor, but not permitted to contain game-related content).
Don't be too much of an asshole. Some aggression is fine, too much will have me stepping down from my cloud to warn you to cut it out.
I've decided to switch to the standard model of
not informing players when redirection (that is, the changing of your action target by the use of an ability) has occurred during the
Night. Sorry.
Finally, and this is a big one:
The starting Phase is Night 0, not Day 1. Players may not perform player-eliminating actions, including the Mafiakill, during Night 0.Bye-bye RVS.
To sign up, post the word 'in', bolded, in the thread, and send me your desired role name via PM. The game is capped at 9 players, since it's a Beginner's BYOR, however if you're a new player I will move a more experienced player out of their slot for your sake.
Current signups:- Knightwing64
- webadict
- TricMagic
- Lenglon
- Roden
- Shakerag
- Egan_BW
- Maximum Spin
- Jim Groovester
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