If you want some practice with fast paced games and a lot of power roles, I would suggest Town of Salem. There are a few different mechanics, but the games last only half an hour so you can get down the basics rather quickly and practice deduction from voting and Night Actions.
Town of Salem: http://www.blankmediagames.com/TownOfSalem/

At this point, you could also just play offsite in a couple of games if you want some practice.

Bump

Christmas bump.

Bump. If any more people are interested, feel free to sign up.

i will

New Year's bump

Bump. Still room for more. At the current number, we'll have at least one alternate.

I have never played, but having read the rules on another site, I'm definitely interested. Count me in!

I'll throw my name out. Learned a lot last game and I'd love to get in on another.

A few updates:

Tentatively speaking, we have 15 townies, 4 mafia members, and 3 power roles - cop, vigilante, and doctor. We have 24 players signed up right now. I'm not going to close registration - if we can get to a ratio where we can have 5 mafia, great, and we could find a place for another power role too if necessary. That said, we're currently slated to have two alternates. I feel like it would be fairest to choose alternates with the roles (by random selection), but if anyone would like to volunteer to play as an alternate instead of a full role in the coming days, feel free. It's kind of like an airline - we're overbooked, so if you give up your seat, we'll love you forever and give you nothing of substantial value in return. (If the next GM decides to, you may end up getting a guaranteed spot in the next game or something like that.) Otherwise, I'll just pick those with the roles.

To review a little, there are a few changes going into place in this game:

First and foremost, we aren't using the SK role. We'll experiment with that this game and see if the SK affects the game flow as drastically as it seems from the last few we played. As such, it's probably best to keep everything else pretty consistent so we have an accurate comparison.

I am going to enforce a two-post-per-day rule in order to try to cut down on the kind of severe lurking we saw in the last game. Posts that include nothing but a vote will not count. I won't enforce a quota to meet during the night. Unless you have a valid excuse, I'm not going to offer second chances on this and you'll end up being replaced if you don't meet it regardless of your activity on previous days.

I don't expect that I'll have to modkill, especially if we have alternates. I will try to avoid it at all costs and will happily give an extra day/night phase to find a replacement rather than kill an absent player.

Dead posting will also be prohibited during this game. I'll remind players of that in their death PM. A first offense will be a warning and a second will be a suspension from M7.

I'm going to create both a god QT and a discussion QT so that observers and dead players have the option of discussing the game without seeing all of the roles.

As of right now, role PMs are written, the opening posts are completed, and I am working on some pre-written death stories. Hopefully they'll be enjoyable.

I don't think I forgot anything, but if I did, please let me know. I'm targeting a January 13 start. Phase changes will occur at 3 PM CST (4 PM EST, 1 PM PST). It's not a perfect time of day but it's tough for me to guarantee I can be around at any other time due to my class schedule.

Current player list:

1. ghug
2. uclabb
3. Captainmeme
4. Maniac
5. Mintyboy4
6. Chaqa
7. tvrocks
8. Jeff Kuta
9. Yoyoyozo
10. Atrum
11. VashtaNeurotic
12. phil_a_s
13. SandgooseXXI
14. President Eden
15. ALEXTREME333
16. guak
17. OB_Gyn_Kenobi
18. Fluminator
19. stupidfighter
20. DeathLlama9
21. Pjmansfield99
22. fuzzyhartle1
23. drano019
24. thdfrance

Feel free to sign up if you want to play.

Bump.

I ran several rounds of FTF mafia at a party last week, and it got my interest in testing myself with the text version of it again. So I'll add myself to the current list. I can be an alternate if that's easier for you creating balance or w/e.

Without an SK at all, the chief difference is the number of deaths each night. One potential change which could keep the pace is allowing the mafia to choose each night if they want to kill twice or kill once and Roleblock. (I haven't looked through the thread at all to see if this or any other pace suggestions have already been made.) Either way, I'm in.

1. ghug
2. uclabb
3. Captainmeme
4. Maniac
5. Mintyboy4
6. Chaqa
7. tvrocks
8. Jeff Kuta
9. Yoyoyozo
10. Atrum
11. VashtaNeurotic
12. phil_a_s
13. SandgooseXXI
14. President Eden
15. ALEXTREME333
16. guak
17. OB_Gyn_Kenobi
18. Fluminator
19. stupidfighter
20. DeathLlama9
21. Pjmansfield99
22. fuzzyhartle1
23. drano019
24. thdfrance
25. WardenDresden

Oh my

So, just going to put it out there: we could have two smaller games.

I'm happy with a larger, longer game. Should be interesting :D

We could either split it up (in which case I might play one) or add another nightkill. Any other ideas besides a double kill?

I know you are going to try to avoid mod kills for the post x 2/day infractions. If there are frequent offenses we may run out of alternates. Do you think that will shorten the game appreciably? Maybe starting a larger number of players isn't a problem or bad idea.

Personally, I find it fairer to the faction that player belongs too if they simply sit inactive for a day while we look for another alternate, but at that point, I would probably have to kill them. I hope we don't have so much lurking that we run out of alternates, but if we do, oh well I guess.

I don't think this game will take too long if we simply let it happen. We could give the vigilante an extra shot or something if that makes sense to people, but it should provide a lot of opportunities to point out slips and gain information, which makes it tougher for mafia to survive and yet easier for them to manipulate the votes. It could make a fun dynamic.

/out

not enough time.

might sign up as an alternate in case a replacement is needed again like in m2

I'll leave you in as an alternate. Hopefully it won't be needed. We'll talk first if it is.

This many players should be fun. I think town should get a night vig and a day vig to speed things up. Mafia should probably get roles that would allow them to potentially kill 2 players a night though for balance and speed.

I would love to keep it simple, personally. It's no fun to get nightkilled.

I don't really know why people are looking to speed up the game. Wouldn't it be interesting to have a longer one for once? That was the main effect of taking out the SK, I thought.

I understand this makes it a bit more weighted against mafia, since the town have more time to collect information, but at the same time the removal of the SK weighs the game in favour of the mafia since there are less kills that it's harder for the mafia to affect (only the Vigilante, rather than the Vigilante and the SK). I think the longer game is needed to balance this out.

The balance of the game can be maintained by slightly increasing the percentage proportional presence of mafia in the game. No need to change the pace of it.

I think the idea is simply to maintain similar victory percentages if the game were to be randomized.

Bump.

I think I am going to need to change the deadline. Would it be best if it were earlier (around 1 PM CST) or later (around 5 PM CST)?

In the case I live into the time I go back to college, I would prefer a 5PM CST Deadline, but it really depends on how that affects our English Friends.

If we do 1 PM CST, I won't be able to give vote counts before the day runs out. I will simply log on for the deadline. If we do 5 PM CST, I'll be available for something around an hour prior to the deadline on most days. I have class from 2:30-3:50 on Monday-Thursday. Otherwise, I'll update the votes sometime each day.