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Velo- YOU'RE THE GODMOTHER ;______; How COULD you?!!?!?
-shot for bad living joke- ;D
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The n00biest mistake in Mafia is to seriously vote or suspect the GM. XDD
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Seriously, I have musician's hands. I used to play the electronic keyboard. :D
EPIC LULZ IN THIS BRIEF PM CONVO (read it from bottom to top - lousy PM system):
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Meh, I found it funny anyway, especially as Regy was also teasing me. :P
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Everyone has their own style.
In previous rounds I felt Bee was nowhere near interactive enough. :P
Besides, it's my duty to clarify the rules if people obviously haven't understood them fully.
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Whatever you deem is OK, is, I guess.
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As a GM, I like to make sure people are interested in posting and that the rules are understood. My near-constant presence is because I have to keep clarifying the rules. I don't think there's anything wrong with the rules but it's obvious a lot of people didn't take the time to read them because they're so big. :P
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The rules were that thorough as an attempt to remove any and all ambiguities from the rules - in that regard I failed miserably, but I still caught a lot of them. :)
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Bwahahaha. The paranoia craze is so much fun :D
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...Which is great, but I can't see it! ;__;
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The n00biest mistake in Mafia is to seriously vote or suspect the GM. XDD
Actually I was in a mafia game once, where the GM made everybody an angel (according to the rules, there were supposedly only 2 just in case of people trying to do role reveals to each other) and just GM Mafia'd and killed one of the people nobody protected that night.
We got up to day 4 or 5 before me and Chihiro figured out what was going on.
It's called the Evil Narrator variation, and it lives up to it's name.
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Maybe for the T&T cases? :P
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Maybe for the T&T cases? :P
The trick is though, you can't make it obvious what your doing. That, and you better hope you have a very nice group of players that won't want your head on a stick after they realize what's going on (either by themselves, or at the end of the game when you tell them).
And technically, the variation calls for everybody to be a townie, becaues that way it's near impossible to realize what is going on, but he wanted to let people think they had some importance to the game, which turned out to be how we found out what was going on after Chihiro got 5 people pming her saying they were angel the first day (we assumed some of them were mafia) and then a few more days of "what the heck is going on here". As soon as accusations went up about "Evil Narrator" being played, we had over half the players claim they were angel (about 14 or 16 players in the game, with 4 players supposed to be mafia) before the GM realized, and had no way to try to play it off. It was hilarious.
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Epic. Definitely want to do something like that sometime. XDD
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Obvious problem with this, of course, is that it strips the Townies of their ability to select targets. The lynch vote is supposed to be the Town's reliable weapon. Solution to that would be to have special roles, or a second system, that influences the pool of potential defendants. In the first case, certain investigative roles could submit subpoenas to the GM, boosting a particular player's likelihood they will be selected for that day's trial. In the second, instead of having one player on trial, several players could be on trial, and the players are limited to that set of choices for that voting session (the GM will be most judicious in incorporating "guilty" parties along with innocents).
This isn't a very good system for Mafia, I know, but I was wanting to mix it up a little.
On the other hand, my other idea for Round V is somewhat more workable: custom roles. Players who don't receive a predesignated role are presented a list of first and last names that they are free to combine. Specific combinations of first and last names will grant them a unique set of powers that they can use to further their team effort. Beware the likes of April Sahwit, Yanni Stone, and Lotta Nichols!
By limiting these custom roles to a first/last name combination, we can limit the sets of custom powers one can create. Perhaps they can also come with strength/weakness stipulations, much like Round IV Elise's inability to vote. Of course, this creation system allows for "doubles" to appear, so be careful - enemy factions could be using your own tricks against you! At the same time, a single faction may end up with stacked powers, and lacking variety in its arsenal!
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What if you made the day phases go like this?
The first half of the day phase would go as normal, players vote on who they think is mafia. The other half would take the top x amount of players, and people could then decide guilty or not guilty on the selected people.
That way, the town would still be deciding who's going to trial, and then you could have the trial system in place. The only downside however is the mafia could be able to stack the deck on who's going to trial, unless you make a role or two to counter it.
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I'll have to give this one some thought. I *might* be able to come up with a workable solution for both, though I admit I like the first idea much more.
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Which is why Damon Gant is going to have his own faction, too, so there will be three factions total: Gant, "Mafia," and Townies. Why "Mafia"? Because this isn't really a Mafia game - it's the cloak-and-muffler conflict between Damon Gant's prosecution network and the disgruntled former detectives from the SL-9 case, with the Townies caught between.
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If you'd like help with this, you'll probably need to divulge more information about the gameplay, because as it is it's not especially clear.
For example, I assumed Round V would have the SL-9 Detectives faction, the Mafia and the Townies. You seem to be suggesting SL-9, Gant and the Town. Right now it also sounds like it'll be over WAY too fast. :/
EDIT: This new system would benefit from as little special roles as possible. Keep them few and far between.
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But I'm kinda agreeing with Velo here, so far it's sounding like the game will be between the detectives and gant, with the town acting as the cannon fodder.
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That new trial system is totally bunk, I know. Too chaotic to leave defendant selection to democracy, too easy for factions to gain control over it using special roles. I should just leave it to regular old votes - the custom roles are enough of a draw.
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That new trial system is totally bunk, I know. Too chaotic to leave defendant selection to democracy, too easy for factions to gain control over it using special roles. I should just leave it to regular old votes - the custom roles are enough of a draw.
Oh no, it could work! However, it has to be handled very carefully. I'm going to give it some thought.
In actual fact, it's the custom role idea that makes me think... URGH. No-one will want to play a custom role.
That said, with the amount of OCs floating around... >_>;
FFS, it's the Sonic fandom all over again...
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Completly agree here.
Trying to decide who'd fit best where. Lemme think, we got...
Gant
Lana
Ema
Angel
Jake
Goodman(?)
Meekins
Along with the Character's we've already had for a while. If we have all the case 5 guys come in though, we may or may not need to cut back on some of the roles we already have, depending on how many people join up.
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3 Gantites
3 SL-9s
10 Townies
2 Wild
Make the roles:
Gant
Damon Gant
Police Turncoat (a special role given to more than one player that can change affiliation from Gant to anyone else)
SL-9
Jake Marshall
Angel Starr
Regular Private Eye
Townies
Phoenix Wright
Ema Skye
Detective Gumshoe
Miles Edgeworth
Regular Townie
Wild
Mike Meekins
Lana Skye
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I mean, currently, the most a majority of players can look forward to is a long round of spam posts flooding out the important info while they wait around, sitting in the dark, unable to make sense of anything for sure while they let the real brainiacs take hold of the situation. (There's a consistent brain trust among the Mafia players thus far, you've seen.)
Or does making everyone a potential threat destroy the cloak-and-dagger theme? What is it about a custom role that would make a nonroled player go "urgh?"
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