Theme Test Market

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7. Fight Club (<3)

9. Metal Gear (I am suprised there hasn't been one already. Then again I may not have looked hard enough.)

Both of these are currently going on in Mini Theme.

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SO, have you taken a look at Mini 188 (Hold'em Mafia)? That had a similar mechanic-somebody with a large number of posts could attempt to go all-in against somebody with a smaller number of posts ending the day as an attempted lynch. I do think that your idea is quite different (and possibly better balanced).

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I'm claiming "Music of Squaresoft" (Square?/Square-Enix?) as a theme (although it probably won't be run for a couple months). I'm also looking for a comoddish type person to bounce some ideas off of and to work out some kinks-obviously experience with games like Final Fantasy, Xenogears, and Chrono Trigger would be helpful.

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Check out this idea: SK mafia (no roles other than Townie and Serial Killer):

Variation #1: 11 townies, 1 SK. Lynched roles are not revealed. Whenever the SK is lynched, one of the players who voted for him takes over his role. Obviously the game can only end with an SK win, the only question is: Who will it be?

Interesting idea but the randomness isn't a good idea. (I'd hate to be a townie who lynched the SK in a three person endgame, and then lost the coinflip to become the new SK.) Perhaps have the old SK pick his sucessor?

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Yet Another Scummer Game (Mostly people who haven't been in a scummer game before, and a lot of people from when I was in my glory days.) 25 people

If you run this we will eventually have enough roles to be able to run Meta Meta Mafia, where the roles are Mafia Games that had Mafia games/players/avatars/sites as roles.

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What happens when one vampire is killed? Is it now only two bites to kill somebody, or do the vampires lose their ability to kill?

Does the double vote thing ability apply if a vampire has been bitten twice by his teammates?

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It seems like an interesting idea viper, but you should try to tweak things so it's more balanced and so that town doesn't win easily. Don't give up on this set-up just because the first version of it has some problems.

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Viper-I suggest looking over the wiki to see what people have done before. For example, here is a link to All Roles.

Also, a good rule of thumb is that scum should be between 1/4 to 1/3 of the roles of the game. The stronger the town, the more scum you should have.

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How does the swinger/cop get the second to last person dead? Does he have a kill of some sort?

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TCS-feel free to bounce any thoughts you have about the post restriction with me. No Pressure was a bit weird, as it was a game that was designed to keep people from posting (it also had a max 2 posts per day restriction, which probably isn't what you want, and weird lynching rules that meant that people didn't need to agree to get as lynch).

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I'm trying to decide if a 52 themed mafia (based off the DC comic book) is feasible, especially if I do something with like 4 threads and 52 players.

This probably won't be run for another year or so if I did it.

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That was the idea behind the four threads; I'd have 4 mini sized games (13 each) with movement between them/merging them slowly together.

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Basically, NabakovNabakov is suggesting a variant on Two Headed Mafia. This will only work if heads talk with each other consistently.

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Random Idea I had, that I'm not sure I have time/the desire to work out so I'm releasing it into the public domain.

Random day Mafia

Instead of game play happening day 1, day 2, day 3, it happens day 1, day 5, day 7, day 8, day 12 etc (day number advancing pseudo-randomly). This idea is obviously paired with various variant forms of odd night and even night roles (so for example, a role that only works if the night is a multiple of 3, or if a cop who only investigates if the night is a prime).

I would expect that day number should be advanced by using something like dicerolls.

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Thok, are you sure the days should be completely random to the Mod too? It would make a bit more sense if the mod were to decide the progress of days before and not tell anybody. It would probably help the balance a tad.

I can see it going either way. Nonrandom days means that mods have to try to control more details to handle balance (random days means that mods should focus more on average case scenarios to determine blaance)

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I also don't agree with games that look like normal games but end up being something different. While themes are fun, sometimes I (and others) want to be in a normal game, where the theme is easily figured out (in normal games it is simple: there is none).

If I ran this game, I would make this mechanic public knowledge, and use flavor that makes day behavior make sense.

(For flavor, I've considered something like people visiting a vacation home/conference [they don't vist these on regular intervals] or people waking from suspended animation [again, people are asleep for irregular intervals].)

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@Adel-if the first two people to die are player 5 and 6, what are there alignments? (More importantly, what are players 4 and 7 alignments?)

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Games with weird mechanics (which yours clearly has) fall squarely under the category of theme game.

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I was afraid it wasn't even going to be mafia anymore.

Ah. That's a separate issue.

Do you have an informed minority trying to kill an uninformed majority? From your description, the answer is yes. Therefore, it's mafia.

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OK, send it to me by PM.

This has absolutely nothing to do with a scumchat conversation with Glork. NOTHING!

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Could a large themed game be played out in a speed format, specifically deep south? Also, has there even been one before? I know that speed type games work best as minis because there's less people to replace, it's easier to keep tabs on people for both mod and players, and it's shorter overall. However, there seems to be a desire for more speed games, so I'm wondering if this is a good idea or if it's rife with issues.

Take a look at GL-amb's run some large themed Deep South games. (The original Deep South was essentially themed, and he also ran Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes themed Deep South games.)

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How about a "Lost" themed Mafia game? Seems perfect, for anyone who doesn't watch the show: you'd have the Survivors of the plane crash, the "Others" (Mafia) inhabiting the Island, then you'd have a Doctor (Jack), a Torturer/Lie Detector (Sayid), and a Tracker (Kate).

The Others would have a hierarchy too, with Jacob being the Godfather, Ben being a Usurper, and the rest of the Others being regular Mafia Goons.

Several Lost games have been run, for example this game.