What is Mafia?

**Best Sakuya NA** Wed May 28, 2014 3:52 pm

MorganLeah wrote:Mafiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!

Yes, we should definitely attempt to get one started. There's probably not enough people around, but we'll see!

Xmo5 (and anyone else not familiar with mafia): Mafia is a game, originally an RL party game, but also very suitable for online play. Its simplest form:
All the players are assigned to either the "town" or the "mafia" (many more town than mafia). Someone that's town doesn't know what anyone else is, but the mafia all know who each other are, and usually have a separate private communication area. The game alternates between day and night phases: during each day everyone decides on someone to "lynch"; during each night the mafia get to kill someone. The goal of the town is to lynch all the mafia, the goal of the mafia is to lynch/kill all of the town.

Here's a couple good links that discuss the basics of the game:
Guide 1 (this thing in particular: linky is a nice illustration of the basics)

Guide 2 (This one is fairly lengthy and in-depth about strategy and whatnot, if you're interested in that at this point)