What is Mafia?
These rules are entirely rewritten to reflect recent changes. Please review them because I will end you if you break them.
- All Mafia discussion is limited to this thread. You may not theorize, collude with other players, or otherwise ruin the game except in the thread. If you are part of a team, such as the mafia, you may discuss the game with them during the designated times.
- Whispers will be allowed in this game. To secretly contact another player during the day, PM me your message and the intended recipient. To keep this from breaking the game, whispers have a 10% chance of leaking to the other players. There is a 5% chance that both the sender and the recipient will be revealed in these leaks; otherwise, only the sender will be revealed.
- You may not post at night. There is one exception: all dead players are allowed to make one final post whenever they choose. You may not reveal any information about the game in these posts.
- The host is not a player, and is completely impartial (I'm talking to you, anomaly). Posts made by the host can be trusted.
- During the night, you must send me, the host, your night action in a PM. If you do not send it in a timely manner, you will be killed.
- If you have to leave for a few days or are otherwise incapacitated, let me know ASAP so I can kill you.
- If you are not an active player (i.e. not posting, not voting, etc.) you will be killed. Do not sign up if you aren't going to play.
- During the day, everyone votes on who should be killed. Once a majority is reached, that person dies. If everyone has voted and no majority is reached, a countdown begins, at the end of which whoever has the most votes will die.
- Days will last a minimum amount of time to accommodate different timezones.
- Talkhaus Mafia is based on epicmafia rules, but does not necessarily follow those rules to the letter.
- The game ends when all mafia are dead, or when the mafia outnumbers the town.
How to Play Well/Poorly
Mafia games are fun when people use trickery and mind games to help their team win.
This is an art form, and is hard to master, but don't be discouraged from trying. In almost every game there is inevitably a bandwagon phase, or a phase in which people simply stop posting. Mafia is not a game of mindless voting, it is a game of thinking. Games go well when mafia use the system to their advantage (posting fake reports, claiming to be roles they aren't) and townspeople have actual discussions about the evidence - fake or real - that is presented to them. Games go poorly when no reports are offered, no roles are claimed, and no discussion happens. To see what a good game looks like, check out the starred games below. Any game with "RIP Mafia" beside it was so terrible that it killed the fad for a while, so check those out to see how not to play.
Mafia Hall of Fame Shame
Vanilla Mafia (Sillyman)
Caramel Mafia (Wareng)
Chocolate Mafia (Sillyman) (RIP Mafia #1)
Double Mint Chocolate Chip Mafia (Time Traveler)
Neapolitan Mafia (Wareng)
Mocha Moolatte Mafia (Argumentable)
*Cookies 'n' Cream Mafia (limepie20)*
Double Chocolate Mafia (Sillyman)
Secret Santa Mafia (O-Card) (RIP Mafia #2)
*Vainilla Mafia (O-Card)*
*Butter Pecan Mafia (Wareng)*
Strawberry Mafia (Argumentable) (RIP Mafia #3)
Cookie Dough Mafia (Wareng)
Pumpkin Pie Mafia (Aposke) (RIP Mafia #4)
*Avocado Cinnamon Swirl Mafia (Wareng)*
*Mystery Meat Mafia (Argumentable)*
{Various games lost to the talkhaustrophe}
DELUXE Banana Split Mafia (anomaly) (RIP Mafia #5)
Signups
Signups last until game reaches 16 players
pholtos
RedMageMike
8flight
Falky
ano0maly
OC
jayScribble
Jesuiscontent
zmonbobbo
LukaRamu
Cubewano
freelop
Holy
phencer42
Ignoritus