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Forum Mafia 19: Forbidden Actions

papuito
about 8 years

Welcome to Forum Mafia 19: Forbidden Actions!

Game is over. Ended on Day 5

Mafia wins! This game was ranked.

The mastermind's behind this game are Gerry, Mori and myself.

The game will be played like any other Forum Mafia game, with one twist! Every player will be given an action pregame. If the action they are given is performed, they will be Killed from the game, with their forbidden action being shown afterward. More information will be given under Rules.

I. The Schedule:

72 Hour Days. 24 Hour Nights

  • If you don't submit actions by the deadline I will consider you taking no action.

II. The Set Up:

  • There is no "possible roles list". I promise not to get too crazy.

  • Mafia will have Day chat. And will know each other's Forbidden Actions

  • You will get an Alignment PM. Town or Mafia and your alignment will not change.

Sample Role PM:

Welcome to Forum Mafia 19, papuito!

Your role is Vanilla Townie, you are sided with the Town.

Your only power in this game is your voice and your vote. Good luck.

Your forbidden action is: Using pictures or gifs in any of your posts

YOU CANNOT SHARE THIS FORBIDDEN ACTION WITH ANYONE

You win if all threats to the town are eliminated and at least one town-aligned player is alive.

Mafia Sample:

Welcome to Forum Mafia 19, papuito!

Your role is Mafia Goon, you are sided with the Mafia.

You are partners with (Player name) and (Player name). You share a day talk here (url here).

Your forbidden action is: Using pictures or gifs in any of your posts

YOU CAN ONLY SHARE YOUR FORBIDDEN ACTION WITH MAFIA MEMBERS.

Each night, one of you or your partners may perform the factional kill. You may kill and perform your role action during the same night.

You win if at least one member of your group is alive and all other players are dead (or if nothing can prevent the same)

III. The Rules:

Forum Mafia 19 Rules:

http://pastebin.com/kEUDw4T9 (The only modification is that mafia may kill and perform role action in the same night. Only 1 mafia member commits the kill.)

As explained earlier, there will be forbidden actions. YOU CANNOT SHARE YOUR FORBIDDEN ACTION. If found to, you will be mod killed. If you commit the forbidden action, you will be killed from the game. You may speculate forbidden actions of others within the game. If asked whether your forbidden action is something, you cannot confirm or deny. You can also not soft or hint as to what your forbidden action is.

We also will be strict about ISP and replacements. If you think for any reason you MAY have to be replaced, do not sign up. We also reserve the right to deny anyone from joining, if we believe you will troll, isp, sub.

IV. Votes:

  • Votes must be made in the format Vote: Playername. Bolding is done using the tags [b][/b].

  • I will not take any other type of vote. If I can't tell who you're voting, I won't take it.

MOD NOTE Mori will be giving out a token prize to a player from each alignment who the hosts determined played best.

V. Game Log:

XXNicoleXX: Vanilla Townie. Lynched Day 1.

Her forbidden action: Town NLing any day.

Damned: Vanilla Townie. Killed Night 1.

His forbidden action: Double Posting and editing post.

yoyo200900: Vanilla Townie. Lynched Day 2

His forbidden action: Any Day lasting less than 36 hours.

VI. Subs:

yoyo200900 subs in for Ideal

Jeff
about 8 years
fkin DANIEL
thecolonel
about 8 years
I'll play in the next one.
Jeff
about 8 years
literal garbage.
UltraAug
about 8 years
>lynched my final townread

>kept my final scumread

>LOST IN AUTOWIN

please
deletedabout 8 years
On Town's Play:
Impoetic should have been lynched right after she claimed. A single rolecop is already a strange role for town to have; there's no reason to seriously entertain the idea of there being two rolecops that are both townsided. In general, two players having an overlap in power means they're on conflicting alignments unless you've got an intricate setup like my tracker madness.

Town was a bit too obsessed with lynching people who were playing anti-town and not thinking about lynching people who were scummy. It can be easy to fall into justifying yourself on anti-town lynches because you really don't want those players to survive but at the end of the day, people playing super anti-town can be town just as easily as they can be mafia.
deletedabout 8 years
There should have been a maximum of one wrong lynch this game, we had five
PatrykSzczescie
about 8 years
Watching the game was amazing, but it'd look way better if half of forbidden actions didn't begin with "You cannot", directly it could be read as opposite that "you must" in order to avoid getting mod-killed. It's a bit unsightly.

By the way I had the feeling somebody had forbidden action of somebody else being alive in the end.
deletedabout 8 years
Who remembers when i was the only person in the first 2 days to vote a mafia at the end of day

Who remembers when retti lynched like 3/4 town
deletedabout 8 years
actually meh i'll write them up now

On the Forbidden Actions design:
I think the forbidden actions was an interesting mechanic and worth experimenting with but this game shows the major flaws in how it was designed. For one, the fact that players could essentially suicide at any time to give town extra lynches or place it on a mylo track isn't a good thing. This could have been fixed by having forbidden actions haterize or by having any and all deaths end the day phase immediately. For another, really severe restrictions like not being allowed to out townreads are a poor idea in general. You know how fiddler isn't allowed in comp? Same concept; stifling someone's ability to communicate just makes the game agonizing. Not really sure how to fix that one though, maybe letting people claim their forbidden actions and finding some other way to create an inherent risk to that.

On moderation of this game:
Two things. First of all; in game mode put the moderators at the bottom that way people can easily see how many players are in the game and how many players are alive just by the numbers.
Second of all; the way you handled N1ed's hinting at his action was really bad. The first thing I did in this game once I had my role PM was talk you moderators to figure out what exactly was and was not allowed. When you give someone a pass because of ignorance, you punish people who are careful. The rules were clearly stated in the OP, there was no good reason to give him a warning except that you didn't want to kill the doctor so quickly. Don't do that again, seriously.
deletedabout 8 years

Ideal says

okay, this is the last time i'm posting cause n00bs

denial is town
damned is town
himiko is town
soda is mafia

i'm gonna die with 4/4 reads compared to you trash tier players voting an obv town day 1



Ideal says

okay, this is the last time i'm posting cause n00bs

denial is town
damned is town
himiko is town
soda is mafia

i'm gonna die with 4/4 reads compared to you trash tier players voting an obv town day 1


Who remembers when my slot got lynched the day after this and everyone called me mafia and said I played bad
citeopmI
about 8 years
i think everyone knew n1ed was claiming doc
denial
about 8 years
I should say he was obviously CLAIMING doc. I didn't think we had a doc in the setup mostly but wasnt sure
deletedabout 8 years
Wow! Fantastic game by the town!!!!!!!!!!
coolkidrox123
about 8 years
I think I was the real MVP of this game! The mascot you could even say!
denial
about 8 years
N1ed was also obv doc. I explained what he was claiming and told him to unvote me cause I wasn't ccing him. He immediately fosed me when I claimed it blah blah
denial
about 8 years
I don't think it was scumsided either. I thought last maf would've been a stronger role tbh
Gerry
about 8 years

mist says

this wasn't scumsided.


I agree. Town got unlucky at times like with Pony's orcs. Town had 4 ml and kinda messed it up. If n1ed pushed on denial hard when he claimed doc, it woulda been fine and everyone woulda assumed he was doc. Also town shoulda lynched in visits that retti got as well. No reason for 2 towns to be on the claimed PR.
Gerry
about 8 years
"You win if at least one member of your group is alive and all other players are dead (or if nothing can prevent the same)"

You have to be alive to win as mafia, so Impoetic would have died had she hammered, thus not being able to fulfill her win condition.
Mori
about 8 years
I personally didn't agree with the way the other two handled N1ed's forbidden action (to me, he should've been able to fakeclaim a different PR). But other than that, I don't think it was scumsided.
citeopmI
about 8 years

Gerry says

Impoetic slipped when claiming to retti and for some reason town didn't notice


to elaborate: i slipped because i claimed role cop without realizing it didn't make sense for town
Mori
about 8 years
It wasn't at all.
deletedabout 8 years
i've got some thoughts overall i'll post later but for now i'll just bait people into a shouting match.

this wasn't scumsided.
citeopmI
about 8 years

Mori says

And yeah, denial. It was auto if you guys made impoetic hammer.


yeah but he couldn't risk it
Gerry
about 8 years
Yep. I couldn't answer cause it was basically confirming it was auto win for town. But, if impoetic hammered, she'd lose, we made it clear to her.

I'm surprised shears got lynched as she was the reason Transcend got mod killed? She was basically confirmed town then. Also, Impoetic slipped when claiming to retti and for some reason town didn't notice
Mori
about 8 years
And yeah, denial. It was auto if you guys made impoetic hammer.