Theme Test Market

Mr Stoofer · Post Post #575 (isolation #0) » Fri Feb 25, 2005 5:26 am

big_kahunia wrote:

Would anyone play European History (12th to 20th Century) Mafia. The characters would be drawn from prominent people in that time frame. They would be assigned a role according to their real life impact on the development of history in Europe. It would contain about 20 players.

I'd be on for that.

Mr Stoofer · Post Post #597 (isolation #1) » Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:54 pm

MeMe wrote:themes I'd love to do -- but need to know whether they're too obscure: ...

The Office (mini)

I don't know about the US, but in the UK The Office is definately not too obscure. I bet it fills up fast. In fact:

/in for MeMe's Office mafia.

Mr Stoofer · Post Post #724 (isolation #2) » Thu Nov 24, 2005 12:06 am

I don't like the above suggestion: Mafia is a team game and a requirement that you have to urvive destroys that.

Surely the simpler solution is to have just townies and mafia - that way they can never be confirmed town. Plus it is always preferable to have a simpler set-up with novel mechanics.

Mr Stoofer · Post Post #729 (isolation #3) » Thu Nov 24, 2005 3:51 am

Seol wrote:...that said, the game may be overly prone to encouraging lurky behaviour. Obviously, due to the game's fundamental mechanics, the result of any deadlines would be No Lynch, Lights Out. Maybe, seeing as we're talking multiple lynches per day, a constant week's deadline (starting at the time of the most recent lynch) would be appropriate.

Except that nobody seems to like the mechanic.

I like that idea

a lot

. If you have a plain (mafia+townies) set-up, the town have little to gain from a night, so forcing them constantly to lynch on pain of losing a townie would definitely keep the momentum of the game up.

Mr Stoofer · Post Post #741 (isolation #4) » Wed Nov 30, 2005 12:04 am

Bacde wrote:Does anyone think that an 'open' game of mafia would be a good idea? E.g. Where players would be allowed (and encouraged) to do things that you usually aren't in mafia, like quote role PM's, talk to anyone privately during the day or the night, post in the thread during the night, and pretty much lie in any way possible? I'd of course add in little quirks to players' roles that would make the players want to talk privately, or create false quote.

Better than allowing the quoting of role PMs, is just to post all role PMs in the thread. Many set-ups - not just newbie games - do this, and it avoids the problems mentioned by Yaw.

Mr Stoofer · Post Post #1121 (isolation #5) » Tue May 29, 2007 3:28 am

I'd play speedlynch by way of experiment. I think it would be interesting.

Mr Stoofer · Post Post #1124 (isolation #6) » Tue May 29, 2007 4:54 am

It'll have to be a Mini Theme Game. Mods don't get a choice of set-up in the Open List...

Mr Stoofer · Post Post #1505 (isolation #7) » Mon Jan 14, 2008 1:02 am

I'm waiting permission to start sign-ups for Pirates v. Ninjas!

If anyone wants me to save them a spot, PM me or AIM me.

Mr Stoofer · Post Post #3249 (isolation #8) » Sat Oct 29, 2011 9:57 am

I'm still thinking of running Space Monkey Mafia 3: the final part in the trilogy, where the Gorillas make their final push on the Space Monkey homeworld.

Mr Stoofer · Post Post #4581 (isolation #9) » Thu Nov 23, 2017 4:53 am

In post 3249, Mr Stoofer wrote:I'm still thinking of running Space Monkey Mafia 3: the final part in the trilogy, where the Gorillas make their final push on the Space Monkey homeworld.

I'm still thinking about this.