Werewolf / Mafia

[rancher]

I was thinking it'd be fun to play this game together. We'd need one person as game master -- anyone can volunteer, I will assume the role if no one else does -- and 7 victims players for the game.

Game premise: there are two teams, mafia (2 people) and town (5 people), and game turns are split into two phases, day and night. During the night period, there is no public discussion; the mafia secretly talk to each other and choose a town member to kill, at which point the game transitions to day period, where all surviving players talk amongst each other and vote to kill the most suspicious person; the meeting begins with the announcement of who was murdered by the mafia that night, if anyone, and ends with a public hanging. Upon death, the game role of the player is revealed by the narrator. Mafia wins when they are 50% of the town or greater. Town wins when they find and kill all the mafias.

The inclusion of two roles among the town, the detective and the doctor, help the town greatly in the task of hunting down the mafia. During the night phase, the detective can choose a person to investigate and is told by the game master whether that person is town or mafia, and the doctor can choose a person to be saved -- if that person is targeted by the mafia to be killed that night, the doctor will block the kill attempt and no one will die during the night. The three townspeople who are neither mafia, detective, nor doctor spend the night period doing nothing and receive no special information outside of death announcements and by listening to what people say in the day's public discussion.

Mafia can lie and falsely claim to be the detective or doctor, complete with false reports.

There are many others clever roles people have came up with to add depth & strategy to this classic party game, but starting with this setup seems good. If people like the game, we can try more advanced setups / roles after we play a few rounds.

I am opening a poll for interested players: if we hit the minimum number by the deadline, I will be sending out PMs and we'll move on to actually playing.

[Maypews]

I think it's an interesting premise. I'm willing to give it a shot, never played this before.

[Maypews]

Bumping this back up the threadlist for interest since it got buried a bit.