MAFIA: Online Roleplaying Forum Game.

[Smudge]

Now, I ran a few of these before and people seemed to like them, who would be interested again?

THE RULES:
The game has all the players in a group, generally in a situation where they are all trapped in or by something. Within the group there are townies and there are mafia.

The Townies:
These are the good guys, the people who just want to escape and go home. Some of these may have abilities that are individual to themselves or a small group. If your character has a power like this then you will be informed of it as the game begins.

As a townie you will win the game when there are only townies left alive.

The Mafia:
These are the bad guys of the situation. They are there to try to kill off all the townies so that they are the only ones left standing at the end. They will generally be involved with the situation that everyone finds themselves in and will be using it to their own advantage. The mafia also have powers, most notably an ability to kill a player.



The game is split into to main sections, the Day phase and the Night phase.

The Day:
During the day, all players may post in the thread. Discuss what has happened the previous night and anything they want to talk about. Unless your specific ability states otherwise, you may not use PMs during this time. This is the time for talking with your fellow townies about what to do to survive the situation you all find yourselves in. This is the only place that you can discuss Mafia as a game, using outside communication like PM, email or IM is against the rules.

Also, during the conversations of the day you are able to cast votes on other players who you think may be mafia. If a person gets more votes than half the players they are lynched. When this happens the players all mob together to kill the lynched party, thus removing them from the game. This is how the townies eliminate the mafia players.

The Night:
During the night, nobody may post to the thread. If you have a night action ability, this is where it can be used. During this time it is understood that all the characters have retired to bed for the night. Some players may have a communication ability, it is during the night phase that this ability can be used. When selecting to use your night action, decide what it is you will be doing and then PM the game runner with your choice.

At the end of the night phase the game runner will PM people that require an answer to their night action and anyone else who has had anything happen to them that night.

The game ends when there are either only Townies or Mafia left alive.

[RawkHawk]

I'll sign up. This was really fun, I hope you can get enough people.

[Smudge]

As do I, I need a minimum of 6 or 8, although there is a 3 player game.

[RawkHawk]

I'll gather you as many people as possible.

[Dunncor]

Sign Cory up!

[Ghost]

*Raises his hand*

[Smudge]

Rawk
Ghost
Dunncor

That's enough for the 3 player game, there's special rules for it, and it really doesn't take a great deal of time.

Still need atleast 5 more players for a normal game however.

[NotNamedJohn]

I'd like to participate in this, it looks fun.

[Smudge]

That gives us 4, half way there guys, any idea of a theme for the first game that you'd like to see or just a basic one?

[Darren]

Oh you'd best believe i'm joining up to this one

[Smudge]

And were up to 5

Game ideas folks?

[NotNamedJohn]

Hehe, not that this idea would be liked by everyone, but I just had the thoughts "superhero vs. civilian" and "civilian vs. mutant", the first being more generic and the second being based on X-Men -- or more accurately, the Golden Man, from which X-Men stole a lot of its stuff.

[Smudge]

Hmmm, An X-men based one could be good, but with all the characters you'd need a few more players than 8

Plus i'd need to read up on human characters =D

[RawkHawk]

I'd say basic for the first one. I know some people don't know how the game works, so a basic one will help them learn practically, then they can start a new game with a theme.

[Smudge]

Probably for the best. So we just need 3 more people.

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