Game of Thrones 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 Game of Thrones-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:

  1. 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.
  2. Each daytime phase will last 1 week maximum. The night phase will last 48 hours.
  3. 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.
  4. If you're going on vacation, just post it to the thread in bold, or PM me.
  5. 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!

So far, we have:

  1. Chris Earnest
  2. Randy Slavey
  3. Nathan Barry
  4. Denine S
  5. Ian M'Rock
  6. Chris Lee
  7. Kevin Clem
  8. Chris Barber
  9. Gene Davis
  10. Andy
  11. Bob Sandlan
  12. Spencer Post

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Permalink Reply by Chris Lee on May 3, 2012 at 11:59am

Finally would be Chris Lee's response to Ian calling out Gene on the "6 townies" thing. I've laid out my thinking on this already, and won't waste your time adding to this already lengthy post, but to summarize, I felt Chris Lee's attack on Ian was overly aggressive and timed to take the focus away from Ian's "6 townie" analysis of Gene...and, given the direction of the discussion and voting, it appears to have worked. I'd rate this quite high (as is obvious by my vote), except 2 out of the 3 explanations for Chris's behavior can be explained if he was the cop. However, he has failed to respond at all to my accusation. Silence makes me nervous (which is why I was a hair's breadth away from switching my vote over to Andy until he finally joined the conversation). I'm going to give Chris Lee 3 "scum points", the same as Spencer and Gene, for his unprovoked and ill-timed attack on Ian, plus an extra for failing to respond.

To clarify, I did not directly reply, nor base any accusations on Ian based on the "6 townie" thing. If you read my post you'll see it has nothing to do with that. You'll see that I said this, "Ian has obviously played before and is sharing some good information, however he also did a very good job at maintaining the momentum for Chris E's D1 lynch. It looks like we have several new mafia players in here (myself being one of them), and it seems like it was very easy to get them to follow along." The suspicion was directed at Ian not for sharing information, but for playing a leading role in the lynch of Chris E. Maybe my sheep joke took away from that.

You say it like that alone got everybody to follow along and vote Ian, but the only vote to follow mine was Gene's retort to Ian voting for him, where he said, "Hmm, you are right - where did I read 3 as the magic number? I can see how that would make me seem a likely scum candidate, but I know I am not. But as you are so quick to jump on me: Vote: Ian"

And then you went on to leap at some fantastic and incredibly stretched claims. Let me reply to these 1 at a time:

1: Chris has discovered that Gene is a power role within the town via investigation and wants to protect him.
If that was the case and I was getting hit this hard, it would make sense for me to roleclaim. Normally one wouldn't want to roleclaim a power role so early, so they're not targetted by scum, but if the investigation results lead people to believe that person is scummy it's a no brainer that it would be better to claim. I would say "Hey guys, I'm cop. I investigated Gene, he's totally town." That would probably put me in the spotlight for scum, but would help people not vote for Gene. If Gene was still getting votes regardless, I would then say that he's a power role. Unfortunately that would also put Gene in the spotlight, but scum can only do 1 kill per night so we'd at least have him, or me, another day or 2.

2: Chris is focusing so intently on Ian because he has discovered via investigation that Ian is scum and wants the rest of us to recognize how certain he is.
Again, if this was the case and I was getting as much heat as I'm getting right now, I would roleclaim cop and tell it all. Then, if Ian was lynched based on my alledged cop investigation and turned out town I would obviously be the next day's lynch for lying.

3: Chris knows Gene is a fellow scum and is eager to quickly shift the focus somewhere else.
That is absolutely the dumbest way to handle that. For starters, if that was the case, I wouldn't be so quick to jump the gun and attract so much attention to the case Ian made. I would have let it slide by and made a different case completely unrelated. And if that didn't work, I could have began to agree with the case against Gene, my scumbuddy, to seem innocent. Sometimes scum need to bus a buddy as a team strat.

So again, I just want to clarify that I am not voting Ian for sharing information or for his "6 townie" analysis. Many times Ian has mentioned his experience, and he is knowledgeable about mafia, and I say that he is manipulating people and using that experience to ease people into trusting him. Maybe it is town. Information is town's best friend, and it's also the Lannister's best friend and well, we see how they act.

Unfortunately, the act itself of making cases can leave holes open to scum cases. Some of the main things I think are scummy are people not thinking for themselves and simply going along with cases others have made and people changing votes often. I don't think pushing cases is a scumtell generally, otherwise I could say you were being scummy since you're pushing me so hard.

Permalink Reply by Michael Harrison on May 3, 2012 at 12:16pm

Vote Count 2.5:

Ian M'Rock: 3 / Chris Lee, Spencer Dylan
Spencer Dylan: 4 / Nathan Barry, Kevin Clem, Ian M'Rock, Gene Davis
Chris Lee: 2 / Randy Slavey, Andy
Nathan Barry: 1 / Denine S

With 9 alive, it takes 5 votes to execute someone! The deadline is TONIGHT at 10pm ET.

Permalink Reply by Randy Slavey on May 3, 2012 at 12:24pm

Chris:

First, you talk about getting hit hard and getting heat, but really it's just me and now Andy that have accused you. Uncomfortable, probably, but not nearly enough pressure to justify roleclaiming.

Second, prior to now, you have made, what, four or five comments, one of which was about the email problems we were having? Your point #3 would only seem logical to someone else if that someone had any reason to believe you were able to think this strategically, or even interested in the game at all. Why would anyone make this assumption based on your history? More likely it was that you were panicking that your scumpal had tipped his hand and were scrambling to protect him (Gene hadn't received a single vote prior to this point).

This is why, despite what others are saying, sharing information is important. I only rated your actions higher than others because I combined them with what appeared to be a reluctance to engage with the group. Based on lack of information, I drew the conclusion that seemed the most likely to me. However, now that I have that information, I'm willing to admit that I need to reassess those conclusions: not taking you off the hook, but at least ranking you equal to the other two.

I still don't see any damning evidence to be voting for anyone, but in the interest of making sure we don't end the day without a lynch, I will agree, providing no new information arises, to vote for whichever of my top three suspects (Gene, Spencer, Chris Lee) has the most votes towards the end of the day.

Unvote: Chris Lee

Permalink Reply by Randy Slavey on May 3, 2012 at 12:39pm

Reply by Chris Lee 26 minutes ago

To clarify, I did not directly reply, nor base any accusations on Ian based on the "6 townie" thing. If you read my post you'll see it has nothing to do with that. You'll see that I said this, "Ian has obviously played before and is sharing some good information, however he also did a very good job at maintaining the momentum for Chris E's D1 lynch. It looks like we have several new mafia players in here (myself being one of them), and it seems like it was very easy to get them to follow along." The suspicion was directed at Ian not for sharing information, but for playing a leading role in the lynch of Chris E. Maybe my sheep joke took away from that.

To be clear, I didn't primarily base my analysis on what you said about Ian, just in the timing of the responses. It appeared to be the time-honored strategy that certain organizations have used quite well in the past called "attack the attacker". If you don't like the attention that Person A is bringing against Person B, attack Person A with a level of aggressiveness greater than the original attack.

Permalink Reply by Chris Lee on May 3, 2012 at 3:24pm

First, you talk about getting hit hard and getting heat, but really it's just me and now Andy that have accused you. Uncomfortable, probably, but not nearly enough pressure to justify roleclaiming.

Fair enough. It probably felt like some heat because you really are the only person making long case postings.

Second, prior to now, you have made, what, four or five comments, one of which was about the email problems we were having? Your point #3 would only seem logical to someone else if that someone had any reason to believe you were able to think this strategically, or even interested in the game at all. Why would anyone make this assumption based on your history? More likely it was that you were panicking that your scumpal had tipped his hand and were scrambling to protect him (Gene hadn't received a single vote prior to this point).

Even though technically this was my first mafia game ever I've signed up for, in the time it's taken us in these long day cycles to get almost at the end of day 2 I've completed 3 other Mafia games and am currently in 2 others. However it doesn't take a mafia pro to know that panicking and drawing attention if your scumbuddy was getting targeted would be a really really dumb move.

Permalink Reply by Spencer Dylan on May 6, 2012 at 8:59am
You fools. Don't you see? You're being played by ian. If you kill me you will shed more innocent blood.
Permalink Reply by Denine S on May 3, 2012 at 7:35pm

While I believe the reasons for my vote for Nathan are still valid, I am now more suspicious about other members and it seems that others may have similar concerns.

I am not 100% convinced that Spencer is scum so I do not feel comfortable casting the 5th vote for him.

Therefore I am changing my vote with hopes and prayers to the Seven that others do the same.

Unvote:  Nathan Barry

Vote:  Gene Davis 

Permalink Reply by Michael Harrison on May 3, 2012 at 7:41pm

Vote Count 2.6:

Ian M'Rock: 3 / Chris Lee, Spencer Dylan
Spencer Dylan: 4 / Nathan Barry, Kevin Clem, Ian M'Rock, Gene Davis
Gene Davis: 1 / Denine S
Chris Lee: 1 / Andy
Not voting: 1 / Randy Slavey

With 9 alive, it takes 5 votes to execute someone! The deadline is TONIGHT at 10pm ET. Which is in about two hours!

Permalink Reply by Ian M'Rock on May 3, 2012 at 8:44pm

Mike, I know math isn't your strong suit, but I when I add Chris and Spencer's votes for me, it only makes two. Is there new arithmetic in Westeros?

Permalink Reply by Michael Harrison on May 3, 2012 at 8:58pm

Mike, I know math isn't your strong suit, but I when I add Chris and Spencer's votes for me, it only makes two. Is there new arithmetic in Westeros?

Yes, Ian. Yes, there is. ;)

I know it was a slightly larger number, but you might also want to look at the last vote count from day 1.

Permalink Reply by Denine S on May 3, 2012 at 9:59pm

Two minutes until the deadline and we don't have a consensus.  What happens then?

Permalink Reply by Randy Slavey on May 3, 2012 at 10:10pm

I was waylaid by robbers on the road (i.e. stomach bug). Is it too late to:

Vote: Spencer Dylan?

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