UPDATE: As of May 2021 Beginner's Games have not been run on this forum for several years as there's not enough activity to support them. If you are interested in playing mafia, state your interest in the
Games Threshold Discussion and List thread.
Welcome to the Mafia Subforum
If you've wandered down here, odds are you're curious about the game and want to know what mafia's all about, or maybe you already have some experience and are looking to find a place to play, or maybe you accidentally clicked the link and are wondering what the hell you're looking at.
Whatever the reason, we want you here.
If you don't know anything about Mafia, it is a game where a large group of players known as the town plays against a small group of players known as the mafia. The mafia begin the game with two advantages the town does not have: knowledge of who the other members of the mafia are, and a nightkill, the ability to remove a player from the game during the Night phase. It is up to the town to use the Day phase to scrutinize players and determine who the members of the mafia are, and then vote to decide who to lynch, which removes a player from the game. The town wins when the mafia are all eliminated, and the mafia wins when the town are eliminated. There are many variants of the game, and many roles which give players special abilities that can be used during the phases of the game, but at its core, Mafia remains a game about the interplay between the town and the mafia, and the day and the night.
If you're already excited about the game of Mafia and desperately want to play it, just post in this thread and say that you're interested. Posting here lets us know that you're interested, so it makes you easy to find when the next Beginner's Mafia Game starts up. You'll be added to the waiting list, which makes it even easier for moderators to find you when games start up. Beginner's Mafias start up every couple of weeks, and there's always a need for replacements, so odds are you won't have to wait long to begin playing.
We like having new players, but it's often an intense and stressful experience for brand spanking new players to join a game and get thrown in immediately with experienced players. To help ease new players in, we started a Beginner's Mafia system, to train new players and get them accustomed to the game. Over the course of time, we've worked at improving the system, resulting in the highly polished, efficient training games we currently have now.
While we do have the Beginner's Mafia system, we don't have an easy way to inform new players about the unwritten rules we have for new players, and we don't have an easy way to gauge interest for the next Beginner's Mafia. This thread serves these two purposes.
As mentioned, if you're interested in the game of Mafia and learning how to play, post in this thread, and let us know you want to play. This thread will be kept up to date with important information about the current and next Beginner's Mafia.
In the meantime, if you
absolutely can not wait to get your Mafia fix, there's several resources you can look over to give yourself a head start:
Mafia: A Basic Tutorial - A general rundown of the rules and how the game proceeds.
The Notable Games Archive - Games that are spectacular above the rest.
Mafiascum Wiki - A helpful resource of roles and gametype information. Includes theory discussion and guides as well.
If you have a question, just ask! I can guarantee someone will be by to answer your question in minutes. Seriously, this is all we do all day.
Current Beginner's Game: Beginner's Mafia LV Last Beginner's Game: Beginner's Mafia LIV: Town victory!
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