Mini Theme List (Players & Moderators)

[SpyreX]

Ohh sure if there's room

/in melee

[Zorblag]

Mini 848 ends in a mafia win.

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

[petroleumjelly]

/in to mod (and I have no clue what -- rebellious!)

[lobstermania]

/in for Existential Mafia

[Kast]

/in melee, provided it will be okay if I'm not around on weekends (I can submit orders for melee phase early if it looks like it will fall on a weekend).

[zoraster]

Real Time Mafia:

Mafia is usually a turned-based game. There are distinct stages of the game. For example, night and day. Mafia kills every night. Town lynches every day. Cops investigate every night.

Real Time Mafia isn't like that. You get to use your powers as often as you want, although they do have certain (and different) recharge times. For example, the cop may be able to investigate every 3 days. The vigil may kill every 53 days. The doctor might protect every 5 days but can then protect for a duration of 2 days.

Town may lynch every 7 days. If a majority is reached before 7 days is up, the day does not end and votes may change. At the end of 7 days, the last person to reach a majority is lynched. The mafia will have a similar but not exactly the same time frame for killing.

The mafia will be able to day talk starting 48 hours before their kill power is recharged until they decide to use their power.

Protection roles will protect for a certain time, perhaps not the same amount of time as their recharge time (e.g. doc protects for 3 days, it takes 5 days to recharge from when he first decided to protect).

I should note that due to the mechanics of the game, it is virtually impossible to assure the game is balanced as it will depend very much on how roles are used.

By signing up, you recognize this is an experimental game.

Joining Information.

Experience Requirement: You must have at least

two

completed games on Mafiascum.
Other restriction: Hydras are allowed if the account PMs me with who is playing on that account. All other alts must be known alts.
Beware: This will be a fast moving game. If you like to only post once every couple of days, stay out!
I won't be taking anyone who is known for lurking and/or making one sentence posts.

Game Rules:

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Real Time Mafia Particular Rules:
1. There are generally two measurements for a role: recharge time and duration. Recharge time is the minimum allowed time between first using a role and when it can be reused again. For roles that it makes sense, there will also be a duration time. For example, a doctor with a 2 day duration time will protect someone from kills for two days. The recharge time is measured from the START of the duration, not the end.
2. All lynches and actions are considered to be done instaneously. Obviously I can't be on all the time, so they will be posted as soon as possible. Things will be done in the order that I receive them by PM or in the case of lynches when majority is reached/7 days is up.

Please don't edit your PMs once sent

3. There will be little to no flavor. My goal is to get the actions out as soon as I'm able, and given the nature of the game, flavor would make things slower.
4. More specific information may be listed in your role PM.
5. If you try to use an ability but it fails for some reason (e.g. roleblocked), the recharge time is HALF of its normal time or 4 days, whichever is longer.
6. There will be at least three vanilla townies and possibly more. All roles are flavorless although obviously changes have to be made to fit the mechanic.
7. The game will be PAUSED for the following days: Christmas Eve and Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day. When the game is paused, the thread will be locked, and the timer for all events will be paused. Masons and Neighbors will be allowed to keep talking in their thread, and if the Mafia is currently able to at the time of pause, they will be allowed to talk in their thread. The game may be paused if I will have to be away from a computer for more than half a day.
8. The game will never be automatically called. The game ends when one side's players are the only ones left. There are no complementary win conditions.


Lynching and voting.
1. The town may lynch every 7 days or later.
2. At the end of 7 days, the last player to receive a majority will be lynched.
3. There are no unvotes, but you may vote "no lynch." If a majority are voting for "no lynch" at the end of 7 days, no one is lynched, even if someone else previously had the majority. No one is lynched until someone has a majority.

General Rules:
1. Have fun.
2. Bold all votes. Unvotes of any kind will be ignored.
3.

Red is my color. Don't use it

4. Normal jerkwad things are banned. You should know what they are, but an example would be using invisible text. Or quoting the role PM (yes, this includes talking about the role pm structure).
5. No quoting from mason or neighbor chat.
6. I reserve the right to do anything I want.
7. IF YOU ARE KILLED OR LYNCHED YOU MAY NOT POST, EVEN TO SAY "BAH!"

Roles Included:
1. Roles will be altered to fit the game, might be different from the norm, combined, etc. Roles will not have flavor.
2. All roles included will be at least based on or use the roles in this list.

A final thought:
Using your role as soon as it's available might not always be the best call. For example, if you're a doctor and you want to protect against a mafia kill, you might try and predict when the mafia kill is coming. As mafia, if you suspect the doctor is trying to predict when you're killing, you might try and outsmart them by waiting until their power is used up.

Sample Townie PM

You are a townie. You win with the town. The town wins when all opposing forces are eliminated.

Duration of Power: N/A
Recharge Time of Power: N/A

Confirm in thread

[Porkens]

/in for mellee

[Snow_Bunny]

/in for melee if there's still space.

[lewarcher82]

ehi I called out from existential!

[MeMe]

That's my October mistake.

[Pablo Molinero]

/in to mod



Completed Modded game here:

http://www.mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11968

[Kirbyoshi]

/in for melee

Sounds fun!

[chamber]

/in melee

[MonkeyMan576]

Is FL's game happening?

[Seraphim]

Is FL's game happening?

FL's game is starting after the move. Unless she says otherwise.

[Mr. Squirrel]

/in melee

[forbiddanlight]

Is FL's game happening?

FL's game is starting after the move. Unless she says otherwise.

This. if it doesn't happen soon though I'm starting it regardless. How about if there's no move by Saturday or any indication as to when it is, I'll start the game?

[Thestatusquo]

/in melee

It helps if people read the rules.

For obvious reasons I will not be allowing a first time player in my game.

[Mr. Squirrel]

/in melee

It helps if people read the rules.

For obvious reasons I will not be allowing a first time player in my game.

I've played mafia plenty of times on another site, but I respect your decision. I guess I'll have to muck through a few newbie games first.

[dramonic]

just a game that doesnt specify you need previous experience squirrel.

[Slicey]

Is FL's game happening?

FL's game is starting after the move. Unless she says otherwise.

This. if it doesn't happen soon though I'm starting it regardless. How about if there's no move by Saturday or any indication as to when it is, I'll start the game?

^_^ BTW, I finished watching the whole series, so I can replace in whenever.

[forbiddanlight]

Is FL's game happening?

FL's game is starting after the move. Unless she says otherwise.

This. if it doesn't happen soon though I'm starting it regardless. How about if there's no move by Saturday or any indication as to when it is, I'll start the game?

^_^ BTW, I finished watching the whole series, so I can replace in whenever.

That's good ^-^. I hope you won't be needed but I know how these things tend to go :S

[Vi]

Is FL's game happening?

FL's game is starting after the move. Unless she says otherwise.

This. if it doesn't happen soon though I'm starting it regardless. How about if there's no move by Saturday or any indication as to when it is, I'll start the game?

mith:

This Saturday, she said? I can ambiguously plan the move then...

[farside22]

/in melee

[Thestatusquo]

/in melee

It helps if people read the rules.

For obvious reasons I will not be allowing a first time player in my game.

I've played mafia plenty of times on another site, but I respect your decision. I guess I'll have to muck through a few newbie games first.

I really can't verify the level of skill or play of every outside site that happens to play mafia. I only use mafiascum as a measuring stick because I know the level of play that goes on on this site, and therefore can decide if people have enough experience to play in the game.

As was said, not all games have strict experience requirements, you are more than free to join one of them, I just want to make sure that everyone in my game has a thorough understanding of both mafia and D20 based systems, because my game is vastly different from both games.

No offense, and thank you for taking it well. I apologize.