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WillowLuman

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Interest Check: JoJo's Bizarre Mafia
« on: September 12, 2016, 03:57:56 pm »

Perhaps not mafia per se, but following the format of the players having to figure out who among them is the antagonist. There will be both RP and Challenges, should players come into conflict.

Basically, one player will be trying to eliminate the rest using the power of a Stand. There are two variations I have considered:



Everyone has a stand:
All the players are Stand users. At first they will be unaware of what each others' stands are, having to figure that out through the course of the gameplay. The antagonist may be granted a more powerful stand than the rest. The antagonist must be both identified and defeated in order to lose. Players are free to pick and create their own stands, pending GM approval of course, but these must not be announced to the other players out of character.

Only the antagonist has a stand:
Players must face a killer stand user without stands of their own. Perhaps they can acquire them later, but unlikely. Two possible win conditions: either on the identification of the antagonist to the group, or if at least one player can escape alive after the antagonist is identified. Needs more thought.


In either case, much of the game will be hidden from general view. There will be a map to move around, investigation/action phases to mark the passage of time, and challenges should someone be attacked, allowing for at least a small chance of escape rather than an automatic kill.



Also, I've never really run a Mafia before, so some advice on formatting the game would be helpful. Does this count as actual mafia, and should I move it to the appropriate subforum when the time comes?
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Re: Interest Check: JoJo's Bizarre Mafia
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2016, 04:02:19 pm »

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Re: Interest Check: JoJo's Bizarre Mafia
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2016, 04:14:07 pm »

Consider me interested!
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Re: Interest Check: JoJo's Bizarre Mafia
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2016, 04:17:40 pm »

Sounds interesting, but I may not have the time. I'll at least watch this.
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Re: Interest Check: JoJo's Bizarre Mafia
« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2016, 04:33:52 pm »

It sounds like it counts as mafia, so I'd put it there if I were you.

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Re: Interest Check: JoJo's Bizarre Mafia
« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2016, 05:44:11 pm »

Interest:Check.

And yeah, Mafia.
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Re: Interest Check: JoJo's Bizarre Mafia
« Reply #6 on: September 12, 2016, 06:44:40 pm »

I would think so also.

Though... if it's a mafia game, you'll need to throw it in the queue.

Or rather... the QUEUE.

Thus named because it's currently eleven games long.
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Re: Interest Check: JoJo's Bizarre Mafia
« Reply #7 on: September 12, 2016, 07:22:01 pm »

*puts on dunce cap*

So is stand a common alternate name for roles in Mafia?
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Re: Interest Check: JoJo's Bizarre Mafia
« Reply #8 on: September 12, 2016, 07:48:39 pm »

PTW
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So is stand a common alternate name for roles in Mafia?
it's a thing from jojo
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Re: Interest Check: JoJo's Bizarre Mafia
« Reply #9 on: September 12, 2016, 09:26:00 pm »

*puts on dunce cap*

So is stand a common alternate name for roles in Mafia?

I'd thought that only JJBA fans would be interested, but perhaps I should put a crash-course on Stands up.

I would think so also.

Though... if it's a mafia game, you'll need to throw it in the queue.

Or rather... the QUEUE.

Thus named because it's currently eleven games long.

Yikes. This is far from ready, I'll need to do some test games and such, but still, I'd prefer to be able to start it at my own convenience. When it happens to come up in a queue might not coincide to when I have an opening in my schedule.
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Re: Interest Check: JoJo's Bizarre Mafia
« Reply #10 on: September 13, 2016, 06:48:41 pm »

As an RP, guideline, I'd say that Stand users are reluctant to reveal the nature and capabilities of their Stands to others, in order to protect their weaknesses. This is both canon, and guards against meta of hiding one's Stand being seen as automatic antag indicator.
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Re: Interest Check: JoJo's Bizarre Mafia
« Reply #11 on: September 13, 2016, 08:58:34 pm »

As an RP, guideline, I'd say that Stand users are reluctant to reveal the nature and capabilities of their Stands to others, in order to protect their weaknesses. This is both canon, and guards against meta of hiding one's Stand being seen as automatic antag indicator.

Perhaps make it so enemies start using your weaknesses against you if you make your powers known?
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Re: Interest Check: JoJo's Bizarre Mafia
« Reply #12 on: September 13, 2016, 09:47:57 pm »

As in NPC enemies? Not sure if it'd be a good idea to have those with this format, but that'd probably go without saying for player enemies.
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Re: Interest Check: JoJo's Bizarre Mafia
« Reply #13 on: September 13, 2016, 11:23:45 pm »

I'm interested. Count me in.
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Re: Interest Check: JoJo's Bizarre Mafia
« Reply #14 on: September 14, 2016, 12:03:28 am »

Never watched JJBA, but sounds interesting. PTW, in any case.
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