I have a small question about Mafia then: on the first turn I see people often call out "obvscums" – is that simply guesses to start the conversation or is there somehow some way of actually feeling it? I feel like in this community we don't throw that term around very much during the first day. Ho...

Aw man, I'm missing out on Dousing! Hope you are well.

I think I haven't moved on from this topic. I think we haven't had enough people talk about it and give their thoughts and inputs in. I think we haven't found a perfect solution yet. Though I think no single person can call exactly what to do here, and given it has grown this big, I think the best ...

I don't think I can trust someone to GM Mafia games if they don't swear to never ever watch a Kevin Spacey movie.

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I'll play. I'm in, but will be using perplexity.ai to help me phrase everything in terms of a game I don't know. Also, @brain, if a PR is recruited and consumes the tadpole (eww...why?!), do their retain their powers? Why yes my young apprentice. If Lord Gortash sees fit that you fine PR join his l...

Have fun y'all! I like the idea of Mafia Chat always on.

sweet doesnt beleive in MVP awards. so put him in the hall of fame on discord! It really felt like a team effort. Bunny and Balki played critical roles in the win. And Town generally had good reads, good enough for several sets of plausible hypo scans. Definitely a memorable game, it even featured ...

NOTE: Also, I am only talking about role assignment here. If there is some complex item madness or other mechanical structure to a game that requires something other than RNG, I don't have any view on that at all. That is a game structure balance issue, and it's well above my pay grade. Thanks. I t...

I think you are looking at the trees instead of the forest here. I am also curious to hear others' opinions on it. For me it is just a way to ensure a game doesn't turn into a dumpster fire immediately if we had for example a mafia team made up of all people who had never played before. But SO WHAT...

1. I trust the GMs and I trust their discretion. 2. I assume it is pretty rare, but I can understand that in some scenarios the game's assignments are such that concerns arise, such as a Mafia team composed of all new players who have only posted once in forum (bot game? (; ). If the GMs deem the as...

I had a great time, thanks Chaqa for putting on the game and tolerating my mountains of messages.

Yeah, y’all got me. I’m not going to dilly dally any longer. School year is ending, and I have to lock in HARD to get some grades up. I don’t see an out here for myself either. I’m not sure if this is bad etiquette or something (always fight on, etc.), but as I said, I don’t see an out. Well played...

I guess it has to be this way, then. It certainly can't be Bozo; so I was wrong about that. If Sweet has pulled the wool over our eyes it would be quite an impressive feat. If Sweet is the Cop and has managed to live to endgame, it is quite an impressive feat too. Either way, well played, Sweet. ##...

One thing Harry Potter has over LOTR is that the series could conceivably go on forever, into the future, into the far and distant past etc However, LOTR has an end game, and LOTR is basically the last chapter of it. There's some more stuff afterwards but it basically fades off into nothingness. I ...

Finished

And that leads us to D8. Where I had no hope of a scan getting through.

I chose Pirate because I figured the only way a scan would get through is if Pirate was Mafia and missplayed or someone exceedingly clever would allow it, which would have (in my mind) implicated Jamiet trying to frame Bozo.

I'm not going to cover D7, but I continuously insisted Bona was Town and speculated that he was Clerk. Other than the MK on Ham, I think I misplayed that day because I thought it was virtually guaranteed that Bona and I were going to be hit by NK/RB. In hindsight, I should have considered taking my ...

Definitively washing my hands of Balki's Town scan on Pirate. Yeah, I think Ham has to be final Mafia, he fits the profile I would expect of this team, consisting of lower posting more lurky types and/or newer players. It's fortunate that Balki scanned Pirate as Town or I would be suffering from par...

Aligned "Miller" under "Balki" twice. Also "Mafia" over "Balki" once. Balki what is your opinion on Dip? Miller Dip, or Mafia Dip? Personally I don't think Dip is Miller. I've already scumread him previously, and the Mafia datapoints I have are pretty compelling to me. 1. Balki returned Mafia after ...