The Mafia Discussion Thread

[-A-]

Yup, that's why I love small games so much. And lazy PMs

[TheRossWalker]

What I love even more is when your internet decides to shit itself right in the middle of sending them out.

[oldskool]

Fuck, I think my old hard drive took my BioShock Mafia files with it.

I was probably never going to end up running it but still

[Sousa]

So I've got an idea for a pair of parallel games: The Monday Night Wars Mafia. I originally had RW in mind for the idea, but he posted his new project before I could ask him. Essentially, two game runners would run parallel games at the same time. I would run WCW Monday Nitro Mafia, and somebody else would run WWF Monday Night Raw Mafia. There'd be potential for crossover between the two games, as well as a system in place to determine who ultimately "wins" the Monday Night Wars.

I've got no time period in mind, either. We can run from the first showdown in fall 1995, from 1997 at the height of the nWo and the Hart Foundation, from 1998 when the war really started to heat up, from 1999 or 2000 when it was a total squash... we can negotiate that later.

Essentially, it'd be similar to MPH's parallel Avengers games, with two notable differences: a different GM would run each game, and there'd be no "good player/not as good player" game setup. Each GM would go back and forth "hiring" different people for their game, sort of like choosing teams for a schoolyard baseball game.

I've got some ideas for this that I think would make for a hell of a fun pair of games, but I don't really want to run both myself, plus I think two minds working together would be a lot of fun. If any reliable, talented, experienced GMs are interested in running Monday Night Raw Mafia alongside me, drop me a line and I'll tell you more about my ideas.

[R.W.]

It's an intriguing idea Sousa. As resident WWF runner , I'd be interested in discussuig with you anyway.

[Guest Mr. Pumpkin Head]

And if RW doesn't work out, I might be interested.

[Sousa]

Okay, two interested potential GMs means the idea's worth pursuing. I'll get my ideas down in writing later.

[HailtotheYo]

That idea absolutely owns ass. consider this a pre-signup if it actually comes to fruition.

[stokeriño]

I would so be lost if I were to play in that...

[oldskool]

Three GMs means somebody should take ECW and constantly have their entire game roster & alignments looted by the other two.

[-A-]

It's definitely a great idea. After Avengers I thought there was scope for a more of a cross-over kind of game. There's so much potential for swerves and original set-pieces that it's also a good move to have 2 people involved setting it up. That's actually something that I'd quite like to do with a normal mafia game - have two people heavily involved in running it. I really love the process of designing a game and balancing sides, adding in a couple of original roles; but I don't like the creative writing side of it much. I even quite enjoy the process of writing PMs, within reason, but I really don't enjoy doing the action write-ups.

Edited October 29, 2008 by -A-

[Mx. Canadian Destroyer]

Somebody should take those two threads, your favorite and least-favorite EWBers, and run a Mafia game out of it. Make the least favorite EWBers the mafia and run with it. I think it'd be fun.

[RoyWill Rumble]

Because people won't get pissed off and offended by that.

[Mr Evil Guy]

Who cares, it's a message board.

I would join in. And I haven't joined a mafia in weeks.

[-A-]

Yeah, mafia games based on posters are good (like Cubed and Domed) but there are plenty of other ways to do it rather than using that as inspiration. Somebody should do a Game Cube posters mafia - the -Matt- character can have an ability where he's told once 51% of threats are eliminated.

EDIT: Actually, there's an even better role. You can submit two or maybe three names each night an you're only told whether there's a scum player in the group or none at all. It'd be like the Mastermind board game.

Edited October 29, 2008 by -A-

[Matt]

Yeah, mafia games based on posters are good (like Cubed and Domed) but there are plenty of other ways to do it rather than using that as inspiration. Somebody should do a Game Cube posters mafia - the -Matt- character can have an ability where he's told once 51% of threats are eliminated.

Surely it should be an investigator ability with only a 51% chance of being accurate.

[Mr Evil Guy]

The mafia should be GoGo, Pesci, me, LCS and LD. With me having the mafia investigator role(which I've won like, 3 with) and GoGo's role being don, with Pesci wanting to overthrow him desperately or something .

[-A-]

The Mafia could be the notoriously good scum-side players - MEG, LD, Josh, GoGo maybe, Jam even? Pesci plays equally well as town and scum I think, likewise for LCS who's probably one of the best townie players.

[C-MIL]

Pesci would have to be the lie detector.

[Ruki]

I haven't ever had a good read on LCS, mainly because I don't notice him in games...and in the last few I joined, he was always killed right away.