How to Play: Specific Roles
Doctor (and Common Variants) Questions
Cop (and Common Variants) Questions
Vigilante (and Common Variants) Questions
Serial Killer Questions
How to Play: In General
- How to Play on Day One, 3-24-2004
- Playing Optimally, 4-1-2004
- What is the Best Mafia Skill?, 6-21-2004
- Becoming Better, 4-30-2005
- Voting Yourself?, 4-12-2005
How to Play: As Town
- Logical v Behavioral Scumhunting, 2-19-2007
- Using Balance to Catch Scum, 6-3-2004
- When to Claim (Townie), 5-7-2007; When to Claim (Roles), 4-4-2007; When to Claim (Roles), 12-14-2003
- Fake Claiming as Town, 8-18-2005
How to Play: As Mafia
Theory Questions
- Random Voting, 5-20-2004; Random Voting, 2-22-2006; Random Voting, 11-1-2003; Random Voting, 8-19-2005
- Not Reading your Role PM, 11-30-2005
- Merits of Mass-Claim, 3-28-2006; Mass-Claiming, 6-16-2005
- Metagaming, 11-12-2003; Metagaming based on Mafia Discussion threads, 11-18-2003; Metagaming, 4-30-2006; Metagaming Ethics, 5-24-2006; Metagaming Ethics on Lynch All Liars, 5-22-2006
- Policy Lynching, 6-3-2006; Policy Lynching ‘Village Idiots,’ 5-29-2007; Policy Lynching ‘Village Idiots, 7-1-2007
- Codes/Encryption Ethics, 6-18-2006; Codes/Encryptions, 7-25-2004
- Lurking, Dealing With, 6-15-2006; Lurking v Keeping Quiet, 11-13-2003
- When to Share Thoughts, 5-31-2007
- What is OMGUS (Oh My God You Suck)?, 7-25-2007
- Why is Nighttalking only for Mafia and Masons?, 9-25-2003
- Cop v Townie, 2-6-2005
- Cop v Doctor, 6-24-2005
Endgame Questions (Highly Relevant to Mods)
- 2 Townie, 1 Mafia, 1 Serial Killer, 11-4-2004
- Vigilante in Endgame, 5-9-2005
- Endgame: Mafia v Mafia, 11-20-2005
- Endgame: 3 Mafia v 3 Town, Town can technically force a Draw, 12-15-2005
Questions on Moderating
Set-Up, Choices
- Role PM Wording, 8-14-2003
- Balancing, 10-5-2003; Balancing, 1-30-2005; What is Balanced?, 3-4-2005
- Starting With Day/Night, 11-13-2003
- Optimal Size, 1-4-2004
- When to give Unnightkillability, 1-6-2004
- Two Mafia Groups, 1-6-2004
- Buffing a Serial Killer, 5-5-2005
- Differently Aligned Masons, 8-5-2005
- Unthemed Mafia Groups, 1-12-2006
Resolving Night-Choices
- Roleblocker v Roleblocker, 1-20-2004
- What to do if Somebody does not send a Night Choice, 9-16-2004
- When a Doctor dies and Protects Somebody Who Would Die, 6-21-2005
- Randomizing N1 Cop Investigations?, 12-09-2005
- Roleblocking a Mason, 11-28-2005
Giving Information to Players
- Giving Information about Doctor Choices, 3-1-2004
- Informing Players about a Triggered Role, 11-11-2005
(Suggested) Rules
- Rules for Games, 10-19-2003; Standard Rules, 11-18-2005
- Allowing Twilight Talk, 10-10-2004; Posting in Twilight, 11-17-2005
- Mod-Quoting, 10-25-2004
- Voting/Unvoting, 5-19-2005
- When a Player Self-Votes or Gives Up, 5-20-2005
- Deadline Lynches, 7-13-2005; Deadline Lynches, 12-20-2005
Miscellaneous
- Qualities of a Good Mod, 10-13-2004
- When to Step In, 1-12-2004
- Using a Spreadsheet, 10-10-2004
- Incompetent Mods, 1-20-2004
- What Makes a Game Themed?, 2-22-2004
- Abandoning Games, 2-22-2005
- Vote Counting, 5-14-2005
- How to Make Day Ones Faster, 11-16-2005
- Allowing Mafia to Daytalk, 11-28-2005
- Enforcing Post Restrictions, 12-3-2005
Suggested Reads
On Newbie Games
- Should we Change Newbie Games?, 2-24-2004
- Newbie Games: Cop & Doc, 2-28-2005
- Suggested Newbie Set-Up, 6-30-2005
- Newbie Statistics, 6-18-2005
- Breaking Newbie Games, and Solutions, 2-26-2005
Ethics of Playing
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Goals of this thread:
1.)
To compile all threads concerning mafia theory into one, easy-to-access resource.2.)
This resource will have links to the more commonly asked questions in mafia discussion. These questions will surely become more refined over time, and a topic can have multiple subsets, such that even the more uncommon questions are accessible.3.)
By compiling, this will hopefully be an excellent source of determining how the meta of mafia has changed over time, as the same questions may have different answers as they have been asked multiple times in different ways over the years.If players would like to do research on a few questions and link to mafia discussion threads, we can hopefully get this started. I will simply try to update this first post continually as research comes in, and I will definitely do research of my own when I can find time to do so.