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Jim Groovester:
Welcome to the Mafia Subforum


If you've wandered down here, odds are you're curious about the game and want to know what mafia's all about, or maybe you already have some experience and are looking to find a place to play, or maybe you accidentally clicked the link and are wondering what the hell you're looking at.

Whatever the reason, we want you here.

If you don't know anything about Mafia, it is a game where a large group of players known as the town plays against a small group of players known as the mafia. The mafia begin the game with two advantages the town does not have: knowledge of who the other members of the mafia are, and a nightkill, the ability to remove a player from the game during the Night phase. It is up to the town to use the Day phase to scrutinize players and determine who the members of the mafia are, and then vote to decide who to lynch, which removes a player from the game. The town wins when the mafia are all eliminated, and the mafia wins when the town are eliminated. There are many variants of the game, and many roles which give players special abilities that can be used during the phases of the game, but at its core, Mafia remains a game about the interplay between the town and the mafia, and the day and the night.

If you're already excited about the game of Mafia and desperately want to play it, just post in this thread and say that you're interested. Posting here lets us know that you're interested, so it makes you easy to find when the next Beginner's Mafia Game starts up. Beginner's Mafias start up every couple of weeks, and there's always a need for replacements, so odds are you won't have to wait long to begin playing.

We like having new players, but it's often an intense and stressful experience for brand spanking new players to join a game and get thrown in immediately with experienced players. To help ease new players in, we started a Beginner's Mafia system, to train new players and get them accustomed to the game. Over the course of time, we've worked at improving the system, resulting in the highly polished, efficient training games we currently have now.

While we do have the Beginner's Mafia system, we don't have an easy way to inform new players about the unwritten rules we have for new players, and we don't have an easy way to gauge interest for the next Beginner's Mafia. This thread serves these two purposes.

As mentioned, if you're interested in the game of Mafia and learning how to play, post in this thread, and let us know you want to play. This thread will be kept up to date with important information about the current and next Beginner's Mafia.

In the meantime, if you absolutely can not wait to get your Mafia fix, there's several resources you can look over to give yourself a head start:

Mafia: A Basic Tutorial - A general rundown of the rules and how the game proceeds.

Spoiler: Beginner's Games Archives (click to show/hide)Here is the archive of Beginner's Games that have been played on this forum.

The more recent games are more polished and are better places to learn how to play the game. We reworked the system to include playing ICs again in BMXXI, so the games from then on have more hands-on training and direct advice.

Beginner's Mafia I
Beginner's Mafia II
Beginner's Mafia III
Beginner's Mafia IV
Beginner's Mafia V
Beginner's Mafia VI
Beginner's Mafia VII
Beginner's Mafia VIII
Beginner's Mafia IX
Beginner's Mafia X
Beginner's Mafia XI
Beginner's Mafia XII
Beginner's Mafia XIII
Beginner's Mafia XIV
Beginner's Mafia XV
Beginner's Mafia XVI
Beginner's Mafia XVII
Beginner's Mafia XVIII
Beginner's Mafia XIX
Beginner's Mafia XX
Beginner's Mafia XXI
Beginner's Mafia XXII
Beginner's Mafia XXIII
Beginner's Mafia XXIV
Beginner's Mafia XXV
Beginner's Mafia XXV Redux
Beginner's Mafia XXVI
Beginner's Mafia XXVII
Beginner's Mafia XXVIII
Beginner's Mafia XXIX
Beginner's Mafia XXX
Beginner's Mafia XXXI
Beginner's Mafia XXXII
Beginner's Mafia XXXIII
Beginner's Mafia XXXIV
Beginner's Mafia XXXV
Beginner's Mafia XXXVI
Beginner's Mafia XXXVII
Beginner's Mafia XXXVIII
Beginner's Mafia XXXVIV
Beginner's Mafia XL

The Notable Games Archive - Games that are spectacular above the rest.

Mafiascum Wiki - A helpful resource of roles and gametype information. Includes theory discussion and guides as well.

If you have a question, just ask! I can guarantee someone will be by to answer your question in minutes. Seriously, this is all we do all day.


Current Beginner's Game: Beginner's Mafia XLI: Sign up quick!

Last Beginner's Game: Beginner's Mafia XL: Scum victory!

Jim Groovester:
Reserved.

TolyK:
I approve.
This should be pinned.

Think0028:
Agreed, this should be pinned.

Darvi:
Voting for pin, and also suggesting to maybe add a descriptor to the BM's. Like in the notable games archive.

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