First of all, welcome to NUF mafia. Some of you have already played before, while others are brand new, so I'll try to keep this simple. Mafia is a game about deception between the two main factions: The uninformed majority (town) and the informed minority (mafia). Logic, mind games, etc. are all part and usual of mafia. Town and Mafia both have pretty straight-forward win conditions: eliminate the opposite team. While the mafia has the opportunity to kill periodically, the town cannot rely on their own killing roles to win the game - for that, they must vote to kill a player by "lynch". The game is divided in two phases: the Day, and the Night. · Day is when the players post on the game thread, discussing about what happened during the night, other players and who should be voted for the lynch. · And Night, where the mafia might chose their target to kill and any player who has a night action may use it. The game will only end once one of the major factions fulfills their win conditions. General Rules: Spoiler 1. Be respectful. 2. Do not discuss the game outside the game thread. 3. Do not edit your posts after writing them. 4. Do not gamethrow (act against your win condition). 5. Do not use any sort of code or encryption during the game. Signals are allowed (When I say "x" I mean "y happened") but any sort of hidden message that requires a cipher/rule to read, or otherwise hidden message is not allowed. 6. Do not quote, screenshot, or otherwise post any messages received from the game master or anything related to the game outside of the thread. 7. Pretending to break any rule will be treated as if you broke that rule. 8. Most importantly, remember that this is just a game, so just try and have fun! Terminology: Spoiler General terms: Hard Claim: Directly stating one's own role on the game thread. Soft Claim: Hinting one's role without explicity stating it. For instance, saying "there are a lot of people that are more important than me" may imply that you are soft-claiming citizen. Make sure you have a plan in mind before attempting this. Scum/Scummy: Scum is the name given to any role which doesn't win with town, and needs to be eliminated for town's win condition (like, mafia or any sort of neutral). Being scummy means adopting a behavior which doesn't line up with the behavior expected from a town member. Reads/Reading: The read you have on a player is the conclusion about their alignment and/or role through their posts or other factors. If player X posts things that look like they’re a mafia member, you have a scum-read on them! Mis-lynch: An incorrect lynch on a town member. Tunneling: Solely focusing on a player and their posts, ignoring others. Often considered scummy. Game Throwing: Playing against your win condition with the intent of making your own faction lose. Slightly more uncommon terms: LyLo - Lynch or Lose. A stage in the game where town must lynch scum or they lose. PoE - Process of Elimination. OMGUS - "oh my god you suck". ISO - Isolation. Looking at a player's total posts in a game, in succession. Playing as town: Spoiler While Mafia can talk strategy during the night, the town needs to use the day phase to discuss and figure out who is and isn't town as well. What can you do, then? Try to look for posts that feel scummy, ask and answer questions other players have made, try to see which intentions a player has behind their posts, be active and post what you think of other players regularly. Avoid plays which could benefit scum instead (e.g Hard-claiming for no reason, fake-claiming), and try your best to think for yourself - it's a common mistake to follow blindly whatever other players have to say. Townies have no reason to lie and should never do it. Spotting a lie can be almost as sure as spotting a mafia itself. Link to a citizen guide made by ObiWan on the ToS forums. Playing as mafia: Spoiler As scum, you should play exactly like you would as town - be active, post reads, try to look productive, etc. The difference here are your goals: Hiding information, misleading the town and stalling out long enough until they no longer outnumber you. This means appearing as scum-hunting, but in actuality pushing for a mislynch by questioning, false reading and trying to depict a player as scum. However, keep in mind that if a teammate is acting undeniably scummy and their lynch looks like the right call, try not to oppose it too obviously - or it could be tracked back to you. And remember: you are a team, and thus communication is essential. Try to talk over every situation so you can plan in advance. Golden Rules: Don't be inactive. Remember what your goals are at all times. Don't panic if you commit a mistake, but try to work your way around it. Have fun. It's a game, after all. ------ If you ever feel anxious playing FM, like I do every single time I play, look at yourself and realize things aren't so bad. As long as you are having fun it's always worth it. Don't be scared to post. For anything else, feel free to ask the game master in a private message, or in the thread game thread. ------- Intro borrowed from Melanora on ToS forums.
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did I forget about anything? hope not. I'll be updating the first posts and the title depending on the current situation.
k, great. Adding you to the playerlist Friendly reminder to everyone who wants to play: Please read the "Additional game mechanics" post, this game's mechanics will be a bit different compared to the previous ones and it would be good if you were aware of that before starting the game.
Hey, @A5G_Reaper you haven't been able to play for a while, because you were the GM in most of the games. Do you want to take the last spot?
I switched to dark mode so that I know if sth goes wrong with the color, but lol...?????? I honestly don't know why does it keep happening. @Blitz @juniorjawz @Nurman @OceanMagix would any of you want to switch to the normal playerlist?