Board Thread:Forum Games/@comment-5422797-20121229054313/@comment-4060139-20130104013011

lol it's a game about deception, trickery, and mystery. Great for parties, and the mod for it on SC2 is pretty fun. I heard it gets played on forums a lot, but I don't really see how that would work. It's a really reallycomplicated game, but after a few rounds, you pretty much get it.

Basically, there are two teams: the mafia, and the town. A standard game has 15 players (usually 3 mafia, 12 townies). The objective of the mafia is to kill off the town, and the goal for the town is to kill off the mafia. People can die in one of two ways: through getting lynched during the day, or getting hit by the mafia at night.

The game goes through day and night cycles. During the day, players can talk about anything, usually accusing someone of being a member of the mafia. After a while, a vote is called to see who gets lynched. Whoever gets the most votes (or, in some cases, a majority must be reached) is put on trial. Here, the person may try to convince the others that he's innocent. After he makes his case, another vote is called: this time, whether to kill him, or to let him live. Either way, this ends the day cycle.

During the night cycle, the mafia chooses to kill someone. The selected person, well, dies. Most games also have an "investigator" or "sheriff" or "detective". Whatever the name, this person is on the townspeople's side, and he gets to find out the role of one other person per night.

The game goes through these day and night cycles until either all the mafia are dead, or all the townspeople are dead.

Now here are more complications: in the forum version, there are a crap-ton more roles. In most cases, there won't be any plain townspeople; all of them will have some kind of ability they can use at night, similar to the investigator/sheriff/detective. Like, the bodyguard can choose to guard someone at night, making it so if the mafia targets that person, both the bodyguard and one mafia member die instead of the targeted person. And there's the Mayor, who, if he decides to reveal himself, is counted for four votes instead of the usual one when voting to lynch someone.

and whoa this turned out to be a long post. But it's a complicated game, so eh. If you ever pick up Starcraft 2, I highly recommend trying out the custom game for it lol. It's really well polished.