how would that work on the forum?

So usually it involves games of varying sizes. Forum mafia in a nutshell is paced at 48 hour day phases and 24 hour night phases. Town aligned players post in the forum about who they think might be the bad guys. The bad guys post and try to blend in. During the day people vote on who to eliminate. At end of day players eliminate someone and learn if they were good or evil.

At night the evil faction of mafia chooses a player to kill.

Mafia win once they have parity
Town wins once they have killed all mafia

Here is an example of the only other vdip mafia game we ran

https://vdiplomacy.net/forum.php?viewthread=73084#73084

Ive been a dedicated member of many forum mafia communities and one of the stigmas people have is that it can create drama or take over a forum. I think it can be free from both of those problems if you have clearly defined rules and it doesnt turn into too radical of setups.

A basic game you can do 11 players
3 mafia vs 8 town
And the town has a cop and a doctor
The mafia has a godfather and roleblocker

Thats a very common setup, and thats pretty much what was ran last time.

I might be interested. I remember it used to take over my life though with endless posting.

I can confirm mafia is fun

The mafia game that I played most is 16 players, with 4 cops and 4 mafias

that is a very good point uber. and since this would be our own house rules we can implement whatever restrictions we want. including perhaps posting limits.if you think something like that would be best. like 50 posts per day phase max. and night chats are closed, so no posting during nights. all of that is things we can do. most communities dont talk at night.

Been watching The Traitors and it sounds very much like Mafia.

yep, the only difference is that there is no internal incentive for the bad guys in mafia to kill each other for prize money. any evil on evil violence is done purely to help one bad guy look good for later on in the game.

MAFIA 2 - SIGNUP

This setup will be 11 players. Role distribution will be:

1x COP
You are the town's COP. You win when the Mafia have all been eliminated or nothing can stop this from happening.
Each night, you may visit a player by PM-ing the GM with the order ##INVESTIGATE <NAME>. Your target will not be aware of your visit. At the end of the night, you will learn the alignment (not the specific role) of that player.

1x DOCTOR
You are the town's DOCTOR. You win when the Mafia have all been eliminated or nothing can stop this from happening.
Each night, you may visit a player by PM-ing the GM with the order ##SAVE <NAME>. At the end of the night, if they have been targeted by the mafia nightkill you will save their life. You will know if you successfully performed a save. Your target will learn of your visit ONLY if you save them. You may not visit the same player on consecutive nights.

6x VANILLA TOWNSFOLK
You are a regular ordinary townsperson. You win when the Mafia have all been eliminated or nothing can stop this from happening.


MAFIA
1x GOON
You are a GOON of the Mafia. You win when the Townsfolk have all been eliminated or nothing can stop this from happening. Each night, you may converse with your team mate(s) [REDACTED] in the Mafia Discord.

1x ROLEBLOCKER
You are a ROLEBLOCKER of the Mafia. You win when the Townsfolk have all been eliminated or nothing can stop this from happening. Each night, you may visit another player, this order is submitted in mafia discord chat. If that player attempts any night actions, they will fail. They will learn that they were roleblocked. If a player did not perform any actions they do not learn they were roleblocked. Each night you may also converse with your team mate(s) [REDACTED] in the Mafia Discord.


1x GODFATHER
You are a GODFATHER of the Mafia. You win when the Townsfolk have all been eliminated or nothing can stop this from happening. If you are visited by a COP you will appear to be aligned with the town. Each night, you may converse with your team mate(s) [REDACTED] in the Mafia Discord.

Official Rules
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ykBtOgBgchaUEy_0P0mnh5CeGVBMYfSl42PMA66CCAY/edit?usp=sharing



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I would aim for this game happening sometime in June depending on if enough people join. We can run a game with as few as 7, or up to 15 depending on interest.

Welcome back BB it's been a while! I hope you also sign up to a couple games while you're here as well!

If you don't mind me I'll give Mafia a skip, but i know many people love playing this and i wish them all the best.

A reminder to the forum in general, Mafia tends to take a lot of posting, and i suggest that if you don't wish to participate in the game that you make use of the 'mute thread' function of you don't want to spectate the game.

Cheers!

Ill try. My reliability is not so great anymore haha

I’ll have to wait until I sign up pending other mafia games, but I am interested depending on the start date

or maybe we can create a game and extend it for always

Hey all. I’m a big fan of Ultimate Werewolf, and Town of Salem. I’d be down to play.

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Go ahead and add your name to the list if youre interested. Lets tentatively say we would start thurs june 5th

Never played this online, but it sounds hilarious. Count me in!

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Everyone go ahead and join the discord also so we can stay in touch about any changes to start dates and it helps with reminders.

https://discord.gg/hra7f72rYP

This remains open. If youd like to play add your name to the signup and expect a fairly relaxed game. Im still seeking some players from other parts of the world that arent webdippers mostly because the point of this is to make this all uniquely your community and not just another webdip sub forum

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put me in if you need me to fill but otherwise i don't want to ruin the dream of a separate community

Youre a vdipper

You are more than welcome mimi

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bump

Need a few more vidippers! Forum mafia is here baby

Bump for mafia on vdip! Building a community

Even if we cant get a game lets continue growing and see what we can do later this summer

For now no game but weigh in if interested