Hi there! While I know Sandbox tends to prefer playing actual games of mafia, would anyone prefer to play a game of forum mafia in the upcoming weeks?

There's already a tradition of them in Main Lobby; twenty-one finished games can be found archived in that lobby if you need examples of what I'm proposing here. However, I would like to begin a Sandbox series of Forum Mafia here. I would run the event without participating in the game itself (with someone assisting me, if anyone feels to do so) and provide a token award for a person voted as the one who played best (by the standards of the other players in the game).

While I cannot post a setup right now (as this would be a closed roles game, as well as the fact I am unsure how many people would wish to join), I can explain a bit more on the type of roles that would be included. While some of the more "fun" Sandbox roles might not be included, variants often found in classic mafia, such as cop, doctor, watcher, and others will be included in this setup. Both mafia and town will have access to power roles of some sort. For the first game (as I do intend to host more, should the first be a success), it would be town versus mafia, with no third party to interfere.

Each "day" period for this game will take place over three real-life days (or 72 hours), with the "night" period consisting of one day (or 24 hours). During the day, players will post on the forums and attempt to lynch a player, though that player may depend on a person's alignment. The mafia will know their teammates, but the town will only know their personal alignment and abilities. Players must rely on their abilities to read other players and scumhunt in order to find and lynch the mafia, or for the mafia themselves, to manipulate and kill off the town.

I will post links below to useful references and archives for players, such as a list of terms and roles that are common in forum-based mafia. Using features such as the newly-created ISO function allows for this experience to be improved on, based off of the former Main Lobby games; I believe that now is the time to try these new features and see what we can accomplish, and in the spirit of the website I believe forum mafia will help to achieve that.

If you have any interest in playing in this round of forum mafia, please post below; at most I will accept 13 players for this first round, with perhaps one or two people assisting me in role management, receiving night actions (PMed in by players during the night phase) as well as day actions, should they exist. Once there are enough players, I will create a setup and send out each player's role to them privately. Until that point, however, please just post to indicate interest in this.

Helpful Links:

http://wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php?title=Category:Roles_Main_Page - A list of common roles used in forum mafia.

http://wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php?title=Category:Theory - Useful theory to improve on and help players new to forum mafia.

http://wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php?title=Category:Articles - Further analysis.