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Dr. Who Mafia Game
What is Mafia? Sometimes called Werewolf, it's a fun party game of accusations and conspiracy. If you haven't had the pleasure of playing this charmingly devious game at a convention or on another web forum, there's a fun Flash animation here to help you understand the rules.
I'll be moderating a Dr. Who-themed Mafia game here on the GeekDad Community. If you're interested in joining in, all you have to do is sign up below.
Some rules to read before you sign up:
- First and foremost: this is just a game. It can sometimes be a tense and dirty game, yes, but you should be doing it for fun.
- Each daytime phase will last 1 week maximum. The night phase will last 48 hours.
- If a player hasn't posted in 72 hours, I'll prod them publicly in the thread. If they don't respond to the prod within 24 hours, I'll look for an alternate. 5 prods and it's an automatic replacement.
- If you're going on vacation, just post it to the thread in bold, or PM me.
- If you have any other questions, please consult the MafiaScum Newbie Guide and FAQ. If those don't answer your question, feel free to message me.
If you haven't already, just sign up to join the GeekDad Community here and then respond below if you'd like to join the game!
(Thanks to Michael Harrison for setting up the first GeekDad Mafia game, and providing the layout I'm using here, although the roles have been modified to add flavor)
Players (looking for 13 total Looks like we're going with 11):
- Michael Harrison
- Gene Davis
- Bob Sandlan
- Nathan Barry
- Kevin Clem Joe Earnest
- Eric Lund Russell Collins
- Valerie Merriam DeBill
- Chris Earnest
- Daniel Donahoo
- T Kelly
- Chaos Mandy
Tags: doctor who, dr. who, mafia
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Gene Davis on -
If the rules were changed to be "if at the end of the week you haven't voted to lynch someone, someone at random will die anyway", how would we react to that in turn 1? It would seem that we would want to try to find a scum, and not do nothing. I agree with the general consensus (Valerie/Randy/Mandy/Kevin/Bon).
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Permalink Reply by T Kelly on -
As a humble first-time Mafia player, I would certainly prefer to take part in some banter as opposed to getting ruthlessly offed by the cold hard numbers crunching of random.org. I'm down with the Gene plan.
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Permalink Reply by Valerie DeBill on -
Michael, the problem with offing someone at random is that, unlike someone choosing a townie and bandwagoning, the random victim's death doesn't give any indication of intent when someone votes for them.
At least with the bandwagoning of an innocent, while it certainly sucks, you get to look back on the day and see who voted for them and what reasoning they gave and you can start to ferret out alignment. You give far too little credit to the benefit of just seeing how people justify their votes.
Random order gives the scum a cover for voting for a townie on day one and puts town at a disadvantage.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Clem on -
Michael Harrison your not helping yourself with coments like:
Sure, because there are more townies than scum, if we vote randomly, we have a higher chance of hitting townsfolk.
I am pretty close to voting for you unless you can somehow dig yourself out of the pit you made. To me, it feels like you are not defending your position but instead are deflecting towards someone.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Harrison on -
At this point, I understand how unpopular the random selection option is. As is so common with this game, I should have just kept my mouth shut and waited for someone else to pipe up.
Anyway, like I've said a couple of times: if the rest of you townies think it's a scumtell for me to recommend lynching a random person, then we're hosed. If I were scum, I'd either start off by FoSing someone I knew was town or I'd just wait and hop on the bandwagon once a townie FoS'd another townie. Or I'd do what Valerie did and cast aspersions on a townie's well-meaning plan and get the bandwagon started.
My defense comes to this: you may think it's mathematically stupid to lynch a random person, but is it something that scum would do?
Quick question to Gene. Any reason why you were for the idea at first and now you're against it? Feeling the peer pressure? ;)
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Permalink Reply by Gene Davis on
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Quick question to Gene. Any reason why you were for the idea at first and now you're against it? Feeling the peer pressure? ;)
To be honest, before you threw out your suggestion, I was starting to get worried about this game since no one had said anything yet. So when you made your suggestion I thought what the heck, at least it gets things going.
Then Valerie made her points - really good ones - and others chimed in as well. Now I am convinced we have a much better chance of lynching a scum by avoiding the random route, for the reasons brought up previously.
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Permalink Reply by Chris Earnest on -
I have no clue what a Chameleon Arch is but it is hurting my Mr. Grumpy Face, so we need to fix this now, but then again I can wait as long as possible.
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Permalink Reply by Valerie DeBill on
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Michael, I'd love to know how I'm bandwagoning you. I haven't even said I think you're scum, let alone voted for you. The more defensive and accusatory you get, though, the more scumlike you seem.
To answer your question, yes.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Clem on
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A lot of people still have not chimed in on this debate, I request that everyone, in the very least, write a sentence...
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Permalink Reply by Chris Earnest on
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I am not sure what all this bickering is about a random kill. Everyone get off of that and focus on getting info and lets save the Doctor.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Clem on
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Hence me asking for complete participation.
Everyone get off of that and focus on getting info and lets save the Doctor
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Permalink Reply by Chaos Mandy Horetski on -
Who hasn't spoken? Maybe we should be looking at those people because their silence is a little unsettling.
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