The Mafia Discussion Thread

[RoyWill Rumble]

The write-up has become a lost artform on these boards, especially for lynches.

[Plubby]

My death by sawdust was the best writeup ever!

Okay, maybe it doesn't top Norro's verbose efforts, but I liked it!

[Jimmy]

Matt, I say go for it. It sounds like an interesting idea, and it really can't hurt to try.

[RoyWill Rumble]

Split Second is also awesome for having Ben Templesmith art in his avatar.

Shit, a Fell and/or 30 Days of Night and/or Wormwood mafia would be rad.

[C-MIL]

I'm taking a mafia break, but I shall return with Family Mattersafia!

Or Family Mafters.

Edited February 5, 2009 by C-MIL

[Jimmy]

Split Second is also awesome for having Ben Templesmith art in his avatar.

Shit, a Fell and/or 30 Days of Night and/or Wormwood mafia would be rad.

My God, Fell would be awesome. I'm reading it right now, slowly of course, as I want to take anything. I might actually have to run a Fell mafia at some point. That would be quality.

[RoyWill Rumble]

Do it and sign me up as a pre-registration. Fell is one of the best non-superhero comics I've read in quite some time. Fuck it, it's one of the best comics in general I've read in quite some time.

[Matt]

I still fantasise about you too Josh, don't get jealous

EDIT: I was being stupid, obviously you can't stay in the same group from round to round. All the information is public from the previous rounds so once someone got lynched in the second round you'd know exactly what alignment their partner(s) from the first round were. Ignore me.

EDIT2: Were you meaning that the actual town/scum groups will be decided by seedings? I don't think that would necessarily be a good idea because it would make it easier to figure out who's in which group. It's like in other games where people tend to assume there'll be one of the best players in a group, one of the weaker players and then someone from in between. Occasionally you've got to have a newbie scum group or a totally l33t scum group to keep people on their toes. I reckon only the composition of each game should be seeded, then the teams would be random. That's probably what you're suggesting anyway

No that wasn't what I was suggesting. The "better players" will all play in one game, and the "lesser players" will play in another and ditto to those in between (this doesn't have to be the case, but some of the setups would also suit this format). Who is Mafia/Town within those games will be totally random.

And by the final round, which I don't want to talk about too much because it's a secret (), the "better"/"lesser" player split won't be important because of the nature of the game - or I'm hoping so.

[Ruki]

WWE is over....can't remember....do I have to wait for RW to give the ok, or can I just post the sign ups?

[nabeel]

Wtf >_>

I cant get my proper response up in Calvinball. HTML

[Matt]

WWE is over....can't remember....do I have to wait for RW to give the ok, or can I just post the sign ups?

Do it, because I'm online and I'm never online when signups are posted.

[R.W.]

WWE is over....can't remember....do I have to wait for RW to give the ok, or can I just post the sign ups?

You wait until I say so :@

Now you may.

[Ruki]

Sorry

Still wub?

Edited February 5, 2009 by Private First Class Ruki

[R.W.]

Yes

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

Thinking back to the 'random rules' debate, there's a huge difference between 'the first vote on anybody must be in iambic pentameter' and 'each post must start with the next letter of the alphabet'. If the rules don't really take away from the ability of the players to play the game, they're fine.

[Ruki]

Are you saying that Random Rules is better in that sense?

[The Mask of Norro]

The write-up has become a lost artform on these boards, especially for lynches.

Honestly, we have some really, really good writers running mafia games here from time to time. I know I put a lot of effort into mine when I do them, but off the top of my head I can give you a few people I consider to be great write-up writers: Sousa, C-MIL, thuggy, Split, Zan, Plubby... there's a good few that, when they put an effort into it, can write some really friggin' good updates.

But, that being said: write-ups go person to person. Some game runners LIKE using write-ups to drop hints and red herrings, and to create a story for the game. Others avoid them because they drop hints and red herrings, and let the players instead fend for themselves during the course of the game. Like I said, it all varies by how the game-runner wants their game to go.

[-A-]

Yeah, that's exactly what I think. Some games have extensive write-ups and some choose not to. When moderators opt for the descriptive ones, they tend to be pretty well written, I think. But I barely ever read them

[Pesci]

I never read them. I'd prefer people to just forget about them because it takes longer to get the update up.

[Matt]

I never read them. I'd prefer people to just forget about them because it takes longer to get the update up.

This. Although I did read C-MIL's in SBTB...