Mafia - Forum game

The way the game works in person is that as soon as day starts, a 5 minute countdown begins. At the end of the 5 minutes, everyone points at the person they want to kill at the same time. This does lean things towards the werewolves, but this is required. The point of the game is that you have lots of information over a short time and you have to figure out what is truth and lie.

The roles being used in the game are always known before the night starts.

During night, everyone carries out their action as per the character they were given at the start of the game, even if someone swaps out their character before their turn. Hence the existence of the insomniac, their power is to look at their card at the end of the night and see if it changed or not.
 
Interesting... as Richard was werewolf and assuming Audrey wasn't lying, then Richard could say Audrey was werewolf. I guess that's were the lying and assumptions come in!

It sounds like there should be a lot of information flying around, in contrast to the Mafia games we've been playing where it feels like fumbling around in the dark!
 
Yeah, it's a different dynamic to what we've been playing because there is little reason for the human team to lie, except for if they want to draw out information (Often claiming to be a troublemaker and saying they switched certain cards when they were actually a different role, for example). It's hard for the werewolves because they need to react and find a role to claim and build themselves up an alibi, though this is much harder when you suddenly have to do it on the spot.
 
Well, that's 7 people so far, and that would make a pretty good game. For 7 people I would propose:

2 Werewolf
3 Villager
1 Seer
1 Robber
1 Troublemaker
1 Insomniac
1 Minion

Would starting monday at 10pm, night until tuesday at 10pm and then day ending wednesday at 10pm work for people?
 
Righto. Be prepared for lots of reading and posting on the Wednesday then! Obviously we won't have those tokens to claim with, but being text based it's going to be pretty simple to just list out the player names along with the role you believe then to be. There will be lots of information and lots of lies flying about, you won't always want to claim your role right away to try and gain more information, but obviously this is an information based game and that means it does need people posting to allow that information to get out.

Depending how this game goes, I'm actually considering condensing the next game into an evening rather than 24 hours since there are some people who can post at work while others would have to wait until the evening.
 
Sorry, I'm going to have to drop out of this one and let Leprechaun take my place. I'm going to be away from home next week and don't know what level of internet access I'll have yet so I'd rather drop out now than possibly ruin the game by not being able to participate properly. Hopefully It'll go well and I'll be able to play at a later date.
 
Right, our player list is:

chriscubed
Shamikebab
Egon
Brabbinho
shorttricky
K1LLSW1TCH
Leprechaun

I'll Trust out the roles at 10pm on monday evening, you'll all have 24 hours to get back to me with your actions, and then you'll have from 10pm Tuesday until 10pm Wednesday to make your votes.
 
Right, roles will be going out in a few hours. I just want to clarify for everyone. When I ask for people to carry out night actions, I will be sending you a list of the player names so if you have someone to target you can specifically select a certain player. Equally, the three cards 'on the table' will also be numbered from 1-3. This is because people may look at certain cards on the table, so knowing which roles have been looked at may be of great use (Albeit not as much in this particular game as there is no drunk).

Regardless, if you are interacting with cards on the table I will be asking you to name specific people, or to name (1-3) which cards on the table you are interacting with.

I'll also be explaining this in my email, but I just want to give you all the heads up now.
 
Thread is up, all roles have been messaged out. If you have any questions feel free to either ask here or Trust me if they may be incriminating! If anyone hasn't received their Role message, please tell me! Otherwise, please do not post in the thread until I post in there tomorrow confirming the beginning of the 24 hours for the day period. Good luck all!
 
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