Post by Admin on Apr 24, 2016 15:46:01 GMT -6
Hello, all! Welcome to werewolf! This will be a quick guide to online mafia (werewolf being merely my preferred flavor of the game) and a reference point for all of you newer to the game/its online incarnation.
What is Mafia/Werewolf?
To quote the MafiaScum wiki, Mafia (hereafter referred to as Werewolf and with that flavor to avoid confusion) is a game that "at its heart pits the uninformed majority (the town) against the informed minority (the werewolves)". The game is split into two phases, daytime and nighttime. During the nighttime, the werewolves working as a team will elect to kill a member of the town. During the daytime, the full town (i.e. with werewolves blending in as townies) will vote on one member of the town who they believe to be a wolf, who is then killed, and the game moves back to nighttime. The game ends when either every werewolf has been eliminated, or the werewolves hold parity with the townsfolk (at which point their picking off the remaining survivors is assured). As with two rooms and a boom, there are a TRULY ASTOUNDING NUMBER of power roles that do zany things. Usually this is to balance the game in favor of the town, because the mafia tends to have an inherent advantage. (For our specific setup(s), see the signup thread for any given game.)
How does Werewolf work on this forum?
So, assuming you followed the instructions in the email I sent you to come here, you have an account on this forum that is totally dissociated from yourself and no one (including me) knows which username belongs to which person. If that is not the case...you've screwed up. There's still time to try again. Once you've posted in the signup thread, I'll know you're in. Once I have enough people in to justify starting the first game, away we'll go!
So how this works is in the pregame, I will PM you your role assignment. If you're a werewolf, I'll PM you the list of other werewolves as well, so you know each other. The game begins in the night phase, so the werewolves will have a chance to plot together privately. UNLESS YOUR ROLE EXPLICITLY ALLOWS YOU TO PM DURING THE NIGHT PHASE (WHICH I WILL TELL YOU), DON'T DO IT. The first night will last for 72 hours, during which the werewolf in charge of sending me kills will PM me their target. Also, any other town-aligned power roles will need to PM me their target, or else they'll do nothing that night.
For the daytime, I will make a thread in this here forum titled something like "Werewolf Game X Day Y", and announce any relevant information from last night. Like, for instance, who died the preceding night. Once we move to daytime, NO ONE SHOULD BE PMING WHATSOEVER. You're all in broad daylight now. Any discussion should happen in the thread. You will vote on who to lynch via a bolded declaration, and I will update votes periodically. At the end of 72 hours, whoever has the plurality of votes cast against them will be lynched and we'll move back to night phase. Questions can be PMed to me.
Generally, do please work to retain your anonymity. If you figure out someone else's true identity outside the game, treat that as a personal advantage, but one that doesn't need to be shared with everyone. I want to see how this works as a true test of deductive reasoning. Also werewolves eating things.
If any of this seems confusing, don't worry too much! I will go over as much as I can with each player individually about their roles or about game mechanics through the signup thread and initial role PMs, and more generally I am always just a PM away! I can also answer general mechanics questions in real life, but I'd rather not know what account I am speaking to, so keep that in mind.
Good luck, and happy hunting!
What is Mafia/Werewolf?
To quote the MafiaScum wiki, Mafia (hereafter referred to as Werewolf and with that flavor to avoid confusion) is a game that "at its heart pits the uninformed majority (the town) against the informed minority (the werewolves)". The game is split into two phases, daytime and nighttime. During the nighttime, the werewolves working as a team will elect to kill a member of the town. During the daytime, the full town (i.e. with werewolves blending in as townies) will vote on one member of the town who they believe to be a wolf, who is then killed, and the game moves back to nighttime. The game ends when either every werewolf has been eliminated, or the werewolves hold parity with the townsfolk (at which point their picking off the remaining survivors is assured). As with two rooms and a boom, there are a TRULY ASTOUNDING NUMBER of power roles that do zany things. Usually this is to balance the game in favor of the town, because the mafia tends to have an inherent advantage. (For our specific setup(s), see the signup thread for any given game.)
How does Werewolf work on this forum?
So, assuming you followed the instructions in the email I sent you to come here, you have an account on this forum that is totally dissociated from yourself and no one (including me) knows which username belongs to which person. If that is not the case...you've screwed up. There's still time to try again. Once you've posted in the signup thread, I'll know you're in. Once I have enough people in to justify starting the first game, away we'll go!
So how this works is in the pregame, I will PM you your role assignment. If you're a werewolf, I'll PM you the list of other werewolves as well, so you know each other. The game begins in the night phase, so the werewolves will have a chance to plot together privately. UNLESS YOUR ROLE EXPLICITLY ALLOWS YOU TO PM DURING THE NIGHT PHASE (WHICH I WILL TELL YOU), DON'T DO IT. The first night will last for 72 hours, during which the werewolf in charge of sending me kills will PM me their target. Also, any other town-aligned power roles will need to PM me their target, or else they'll do nothing that night.
For the daytime, I will make a thread in this here forum titled something like "Werewolf Game X Day Y", and announce any relevant information from last night. Like, for instance, who died the preceding night. Once we move to daytime, NO ONE SHOULD BE PMING WHATSOEVER. You're all in broad daylight now. Any discussion should happen in the thread. You will vote on who to lynch via a bolded declaration, and I will update votes periodically. At the end of 72 hours, whoever has the plurality of votes cast against them will be lynched and we'll move back to night phase. Questions can be PMed to me.
Generally, do please work to retain your anonymity. If you figure out someone else's true identity outside the game, treat that as a personal advantage, but one that doesn't need to be shared with everyone. I want to see how this works as a true test of deductive reasoning. Also werewolves eating things.
If any of this seems confusing, don't worry too much! I will go over as much as I can with each player individually about their roles or about game mechanics through the signup thread and initial role PMs, and more generally I am always just a PM away! I can also answer general mechanics questions in real life, but I'd rather not know what account I am speaking to, so keep that in mind.
Good luck, and happy hunting!