Has mafia become less fun?

[EWB's Best Poster.]

Oh one of the best thing about Sousa's WCW game was that he wrote my fake claim into write-ups. That was really cool. When I've run games lately, I think I ditched writing write-ups in favour of just saying who was dead. I hate when write-ups go some way to clearing people and there's nothing liek fake claims being put in their to even it out.

Youll note in my writeups I give nothing. I agree.

[Dingle]

Oh one of the best thing about Sousa's WCW game was that he wrote my fake claim into write-ups. That was really cool. When I've run games lately, I think I ditched writing write-ups in favour of just saying who was dead. I hate when write-ups go some way to clearing people and there's nothing liek fake claims being put in their to even it out.

Youll note in my writeups I give nothing. I agree.

This, so much this. I intend on having story bits (maybe the wrong phrase, but whatever) intersected throughout my mafia game (will be PM'ing you again soon rider, since i'm almost up if that's alright of course), but anything that could be used to give anything away certainly won't be.

[EWB's Best Poster.]

Of course you can. Im always willing to lend a hand.

[Steeb]

Which mafia gave birth to Jesusmonkey? I want to say an FF mafia, where he was Kefka?

[Ruki]

He was The Blue Mage! Any power used on him he could use. So, I think by the end of it he could: investigate, protect, revive (once), roleblock...

Horribly broken role.

[Sousa]

I can't believe you gave that role to fucking Kimahri of all people. Nobody used Kimahri! You might as well have made Wakka overpowered!

Duelists is one I'd count as a failed experiment (I've had a few--NXT had a big-time failed scum role, and Welcome to Candor Falls was broken), but it was certainly fun for RW.

[Nick Adams]

I used Kimahri and Wakka frequently. Don't really know why, beyond the 3D water polo mini-game, but whatever.

[Ruki]

I can't believe you gave that role to fucking Kimahri of all people. Nobody used Kimahri! You might as well have made Wakka overpowered!

Duelists is one I'd count as a failed experiment (I've had a few--NXT had a big-time failed scum role, and Welcome to Candor Falls was broken), but it was certainly fun for RW.

Duelists...was that the one where I turned on my mafia? That was fun.

And I couldn't think of another Blue Mage! And I didn't really have many FFX characters. I think. I can;t remember.

[Sousa]

Duelists was indeed the one where RW offered you the world to sell out the Mafia. Really, that game would've gone slightly better had not every single person done what RW asked them to do, volunteered information, etc.

[EWB's Best Poster.]

Yeah, I was more talking of game balance with my choices than players, but even people that said not to do what he said did so. Christ. Headshake.

[Ruki]

How the fuck was that game 2 years ago?

[MalaCloudy Black]

How the fuck was that game 2 years ago?

I know, right? I was looking at my Arkham Mafia PM and it's from 2009.

[EWB's Best Poster.]

heh. Ive done like 10 mafias here. Well 8 and created 2 for others. All of which AFTER duelist.

[Nick Adams]

I can't believe I still have the Mel Brooks stuff in my PM inbox... god, I still feel terrible for selling Molly out. The Mafia winning anyway kinda' made up for it. And at least SOME good guys won.

[Benjamin]

How has no one mentioned Jack Chick as a fun game? That game was often.

I miss FD. He was a great player.

[Nick Adams]

I remember the Jack Chick mafia. I just forget which people were the scum and who were the town. Like, were the believers "scum" and non-believers "town", or was it the other way around?

[Benjamin]

It was a Sousa mafia. What do you think?

[Nick Adams]

With it being Sousa, I was surprised he'd heard of Jack Chick in the first place, so I'm not entirely sure. Of course, it's most likely the former.

[Sousa]

You're surprised that noted guy from an evangelical Christian family in Ohio Sousa has heard of Jack Chick?

That Jack Chick Mafia may have been my favorite game ever to run aside from the giddy thrill of running a diary based on The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer.

[Nick Adams]

Yeah. I grew up evangelical Christian, am still a Christian, and had never heard about the guy until Jack Chick Mafia (so my forgetting which side was which is even more embarassing). The illustrations all seemed so... I dunno, overly fundamentalist would be the best phrasing that comes to mind. Not quite what most evangelical Christians that I've met (come to that, Baptists, too) would use as teaching material.

And I really missed out on some awesome mafias, if the lists are accurate.