TBT Mafia
A murder has occured! Its up to the town to figure it out!
A murder has occured! Its up to the town to figure it out!
Introduction
Mafia is divided into 2 teams: Town and Mafia.
Mafia is divided into 2 teams: Town and Mafia.
How to play as Town
The Town is the uninformed majority of the town who don't know the identity of the other players, just their own. The Town is also trying to eliminate the mafia using guesswork and by making decicions on who should die each day phase by voting on who they find suspicious. Everybody, including the mafia, get a vote on who to lynch during the day phase.
The roles in town sometimes include the Townie, who has no special abilities besides posting their opinion, to special roles such as The Cop who can investigate players during the night to figure out which side their on, town or mafia.
Town wins by lynching and eliminating all the mafia.
How to play as Mafia
The Mafia is the team that knows their identity, and who is in the mafia with them. So for example, lets say that Justin is in the mafia. He knows his role, except he gets a private chat room with his partner in crime, Oblivia.
The mafia gets a vote just like the town, and THEIR goal is to equal or outnumber the town. When the game gets to 4 players and half are mafia, mafia wins.
Be warned - Mafia requires a time commitment. This generally depends on the player, but at minimum 30 minutes a day of solid effort is required. As part of the time commitment, Mafia requires a great deal of reading. Most people are actually quite poor at reading comprehension and playing Mafia is a great way to improve your reading ability, as well as your writing and ability to think and argue logically.
New to Mafia?
Are you new to mafia, looking at this and scratching your head as to how it works? Well, that be the case you should look at this flash game to help explain it to you much simplier then all of this text c: Click the link below!
Just remember that after you read this flash game, to come back and read the rules again. There are some different rules from the flash game describes but nothing too seriously different.
Playerlist - With Filters
Psst, click on any of the player names and you'll see all their posts in this thread!
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4. Jacob
5. Liamslash
6. Nightmares
7. Seroja
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9. Mogyay
Prods are marked by a *
Players still alive: 5
Mafia Remaining: 2
Mafia Killing Power: 1
Call me Daniel
Set-up information
This game will require 9 players. If you have any friends who you think would be interested, refer them to the game! This is actually a really fun game once you give it a shot, let your friends know on or off site!
The 4 roles in this game will be:
Townie x5
Town Cop x1
Town Doctor x1
Mafia goon x2
Welcome!
You are a Vanilla Townie.
You have no special abilities.
You win when all threats to the Town have been eliminated.
The game thread is here. Confirm by replying with your role name to this PM.
Welcome!
You are a Town Cop.
Each night phase you may investigate 1 player. You will receive a PM in the morning telling you if they're either Town of Mafia aligned.
You win when all threats to the Town have been eliminated.
The game thread is here. Confirm by replying with your role name to this PM.
Welcome!
You are a Town Doctor.
Each night phase you may select one player to "protect" for the night. If that player is attacked at night, you will heal them and bring them back to life. You can't protect the same person 2 nights in a row, nor are you notified if your target was attacked.
You win when all threats to the Town have been eliminated.
The game thread is here. Confirm by replying with your role name to this PM.
Welcome!
You are a Mafia Goon.
Your partner is PLAYER, who is a Mafia Goon.
You share a factional kill each night. You must choose which of you will commit the kill. You also share a factional PT, located here, where you may talk at all times.
You win when the Town has been eliminated, or nothing can stop this from occurring.
The game thread is here. Confirm by replying with your role name to this PM.
You are a Vanilla Townie.
You have no special abilities.
You win when all threats to the Town have been eliminated.
The game thread is here. Confirm by replying with your role name to this PM.
Welcome!
You are a Town Cop.
Each night phase you may investigate 1 player. You will receive a PM in the morning telling you if they're either Town of Mafia aligned.
You win when all threats to the Town have been eliminated.
The game thread is here. Confirm by replying with your role name to this PM.
Welcome!
You are a Town Doctor.
Each night phase you may select one player to "protect" for the night. If that player is attacked at night, you will heal them and bring them back to life. You can't protect the same person 2 nights in a row, nor are you notified if your target was attacked.
You win when all threats to the Town have been eliminated.
The game thread is here. Confirm by replying with your role name to this PM.
Welcome!
You are a Mafia Goon.
Your partner is PLAYER, who is a Mafia Goon.
You share a factional kill each night. You must choose which of you will commit the kill. You also share a factional PT, located here, where you may talk at all times.
You win when the Town has been eliminated, or nothing can stop this from occurring.
The game thread is here. Confirm by replying with your role name to this PM.
Game set-up rules
PMs:
PMs and other out-of-thread communication are NOT allowed UNLESS you are explicitly told otherwise. Any players doing so will be modkilled without warning.
Activity:
You must contribute one substantial post at least once every full day/night cycle. This means that if you only make one post, it needs to be more substantial than simply saying "I agree" or "RIP". If you post multiple times, this rule may may be less strict. There may be exceptions to this if day/night phases progress rapidly at any stage in the game.
Replacements:
This game uses replacements. Replacements will be made up until the end of Night 2.
Time Cycle and Phases:
The game will generally follow a 48 hour day and 24 hour night cycle. If I am not online and available to post when a phase is set to end, the game will be paused until I can post. No actions will be accepted during this period. The final deadline will always be 8:00 PM CDT. (9 PM EDT).
Day:
During Day, the town must choose a lynchee. If the number of votes reaches Majority, that person is lynched. Day will always be 48 hours long.
Night will follow after the lynch post has been published by me.
Night:
During Night, you can send in night actions. Night always ends after 24 hours, regardless of when all actions are submitted. This to prevent activity speculation as to who used what.
During Day, the town must choose a lynchee. If the number of votes reaches Majority, that person is lynched. Day will always be 48 hours long.
Night will follow after the lynch post has been published by me.
Night:
During Night, you can send in night actions. Night always ends after 24 hours, regardless of when all actions are submitted. This to prevent activity speculation as to who used what.
General Mafia Rules
Cheating:
Cheating includes (but is not limited to):
1. Posting after death. You may have one polite goodbye post, but it may not contain any potentially game-changing information.
2. Ruining the game by doing something like handing out your mafia's member list to the town.
3. Logging on to someone else's account to get their role or looking over someone's shoulder to get their role.
4. Comparing role PM timings to try and work out roles.
5. Posting or sharing any PM you receive from a host without permission.
6. Getting yourself modkilled to help your team. Your non-majority-decided death may not be used as a bargaining chip.
7. Signing up more than once using smurf accounts.
8. Offering favours/items/bells outside of the game for a ingame information.
9. Sharing accounts with other players.
10. Breadcrumbing the specific phrasing of your role PM. Do not compare the phrasing in your role PM to prove your alignment. You can claim the abilities you have, but you can't use the specific phrasing of your role PM.
11. Posting a false PM phrased as if you received it from the host. You can still fake roleclaim, but you cannot make it look like you are posting a PM you received from the host.
YOU MAY ONLY COPY AND PASTE TEXT FOR USE AS EVIDENCE. POSTING SCREENSHOTS OR ANY OTHER NON-TEXT EVIDENCE IS CONSIDERED CHEATING. THE ONLY EXCEPTION IS EVIDENCE THAT IS PUBLICLY AVAILABLE FOR ALL PLAYERS TO CHECK (eg. post counts in a thread). IT IS BEST IF YOU CHECK WITH ME FIRST.
Cheating is not tolerated here as it ruins the game for everyone. The mods and admins here CAN take action.
Mod Font:
This is the mod colour. It is reserved for the host. Please do not use it.
Question Font:
This is the question colour. Use it to ask the host questions about the rules in public. You can also PM me.
Spam:
Strategic spam is acceptable, within reason.
Editing:
Editing is not allowed for any reason. Editing will result in a warning. After that, you will be modkilled. While I ask for everybody to post as concisely as possible, post again if you have to edit anything. The board software automatically merges the posts anyway.
Wisdom of the Crowds
WoTC is In effect this game. If a player has over 4 WoTC votes on them, they will not be allowed in the game. Please send these votes in via PM to me.
Inappropriate posts:
Mafia games can get heated and emotional at times. Please keep it civil and remember that what happens in Mafia should stay in Mafia. Don't let things wash over to the rest of the forum, it's only a game.
Observers' Chat:
While spectators will be fuelling speculation, and dead players will be keen to give valuable "insight" into the game, please refrain from revealing game-changing information (eg. the identities of your fellow Mafia). Speculate, theorise and express bewilderment at dumb plays all you want, but remember that the chat is not leakproof and game-ruining information CAN get out.
Encryption: Don't create special messages in your posts that only 1 other person can understand. If you do this you will be warned.
Play to win.
You should try your best to help your team win while you are alive and in the game. Clearly not playing towards your win objective will be grounds for a modkill and personal ban from me. However, this does not mean that you should try to win by being a jerk to the other players so they all want to quit playing.
This also means that you cannot leave the game without a good reason. These situations will be dealt with on a case by case basis. PM the host if you need to leave the game.
You have been warned.
Voting rules
1. This game uses Plurality Lynch. Whenever a player has the most votes on them at the end of a day phase, they are lynched and out of the game til it ends.
2. Voting will be done in the voting thread: [link]
3. Please use the format: ##VOTE: Username. I'm not requiring this, but it makes it easier for me to notice.
Credits
Thank you KarlaKGB for introducing mafia to TBT!
Final words
No gimicks, no wacky roles, just a normal 9 player game of mafia. I will need a cohost for this, so please message me if interested. I'd also reccomend new players join this, even if it doesn't say "newbie" at the top.
My mission for all of this is to try and intoduce new players the basics of mafia in a friendly and simple way, using standard roles like Townie, Mafia, Cop and Doctor.
Thank you, -Ness
If you don't understand the rules, go back and read them. Rince and repeat until it makes sense. Don't read general rules first, go read how to play the game. Read the general rules after you understand the game.
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