Off Topic Mafia 10: sign up thread. the swarbs re-run!

ok so rules are simple, sign up like you always do

Kick off 20th July Monday, 9am.

Rule changes: TBD. Please input your thoughts on what might be TWEEKED (not outright wholesale changes) on the marvelous swarbs set up.

already we have the concept of the known mafia Don with special protective powers etc.

I will need help fleshing that out.


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1. Bodanki
2. RHC
3. Astro
4. IBWT
5. Tennisball
6. bobbyD
7. tobes
8. Valley
9. Mikey
10. Obi wan
11. Lucaaas
12. Sebb's campaign manager
13. TheJudeanPeoplesFront
14. AFCFtW
15. Style
16. Albert's chip shop
17. Gerrez
18. Less hope than neville
19. Nolberto
20.

 

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ok so:

IBWT has the idea of a known Mafia don with some kind of protective powers

This would in effect be a player who will have a team of two others in this set up. He is known but the cops have never been able to pin it on him. thats right isn't it IBWT? The town cannot lynch him, he can only be killed or found in the act of committing a crime and done over. I presume he cannot also just be arrested each night or no?

There are thefroe a few things to think on;

a) the game had a hitman and a thief also. what would you do with this team set up?

b) how do we handle the zombie aspect. Is the person infectable?

c) How do we ensure that he and the known cop don't just go hammering at eachother each night? what is the protection for both?

d) how does the super zombie AND the serial killer deal with him? they have to have some means of doing so? perhaps some earned ability?

many other questions.

 

In.

My Don/Godfather role post got a lot of likes:

You can also have the don appear innocent in investigations unless he acts himself, though that's quite powerful

 

I'm in.

Ill make some some comments about how I see my suggestion working later but was just an idea to make it more realistic.

Can I just say, don't like a known innocent as tends to mean people just follow and it's bit dull

 

I get the known cop role for sure. it depends on who is playing who. the best thing bobby did was tell people to get working themselves. If someone plays it as in i say whats what it gives perfect cover. but then if nobody has the balls to stand up to it... well another good hiding place is fighting with the know good guy a bit.

who knows.. if we have a known bad guy then a known good guy sort of balances, no?

 

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I mentioned a dodgy cop as a possible protective power. Rather than having a known Don, what if the game had three (or four) cops, one of which is the said dodgy cop. At the start of the game, they (and only them) are given three names on their QT board, the actual Don and two or three other suspects. Only the dodgy cop knows the true identity of the Don, neither of the other two cops know which of the other cops they can trust.

I'm thinking on my feet here (so to speak) so not sure how you would approach the investigations. Maybe a joint agreement on who to investigate meaning it could take four days to find the Don? Maybe suspect names aren't dished out at the beginning but they have to work in unison to investigate?

 

I'm In

 

#i was being lazy

thanks!

 

This is not a "tweek"

 

In total agreement about the known innocent.

 

Nope, it's another game within the game

 

so three possibles:

1. known don

2. don with same powers as all team mates

3. dodgy cop.

 

The cop board would be 1000 pages long and on the main forum they'd just scream who was dodgy

 

thats 2 of the players this time. I do agree but will not be playing.... if this changes we need to balance the ability to provide info to town and the powers of protecting bullets etc etc. I'd kile to know how that would work and if anyone else feels the same.

 

One of the things that happens in every game is the Mafia (or bad guys) run out of abilities. Maybe the powers need to be scattered about, so many per so many days or something rather than a set limit. I liked the game we ran were teams earnt money and bought their powers.

 

That one was very complicated (i did it) i also did the single mafia power to just kill each night one with the vampires.

The thing is yes the mafia run out of power. the theif was meant to collect bullets for you though last game. He didn't get a chance. mafia should by rights have had 4 kills.

with everyone working that should really get to end game with a mafia having a kill left.

Thats the thing if i let the don have the same power as everyone then he can steal each night qnd it will end up as mafia have unlimited kills.

the maifa in this game also balance the zombies as well as the town.

what were the main mafia issues in the last game... aside from the obvious.

Gerrez you said you felt you had to recruit as it was your only power.
the recruit ended up being the SK
the theif died night 2 so no money came in
the zombie bit a mafia and in effect got access if people wished to give it to the entire mafia

anything else?

 

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