I don't see the point in removing the violent words from mafia. Whether it's 'lynching' or 'telling the character to go home' and 'killing' or 'removing from the game' doesn't really matter except to make the flavour more boring. Is there anyone actually offended by the violent words used in mafia??? You'd think people would have better things to complain about.
To be clear, I have a friend whose girlfriend is a Black woman, and she (the girlfriend) started having nightmares about being lynched after last summer. This woman is not a delicate snowflake, heh. So I started thinking about that in the context of this game.
I don't know that anyone is actually concretely offended by the violent terms used in Mafia (no one's actually made a request here to change them), but I've been thinking about it because I was worried it was something where we were possibly losing players over simple word choice.
Like, uh . . . ok, if the verb was "gang-rape," I would not be playing this game with you guys. Even if Mafia is awesome and my favorite thing forever and ever goodbye. There are some terms of violence to which people have really visceral reactions, not because of the intrinsic violence, but because of the "vector" of the violence.
Anyway . . . we've probably more or less exhausted this topic. I feel like I'm talking in circles. Sorry guys.
I think when it's a "witch/werewolf"-style game, hanging/lynching is literally the action. When it's a different setting, probably best to stick with the setting.
This is a compromise I can agree with.
Cool, this sounds plenty reasonable to me. If we get other feedback then we can discuss at that time, but it seems like a good way to make more space for discussion while not throwing the baby out with the bathwater.