Barry Presents: an Oversimplified MAFIA Game Thread

[Poyser]

Without roles to inform us, all it takes is one mislynch and we're on the back foot. After that scum gets to watch while we blame each other and play us like a fiddle.

Surely we've got roles, therefore. A game without roles is heavily scum sided

A game without roles is inherently scum sided, but a mislynch is not necessarily a bad thing. In a game with no info, the most powerful info is the flip. A town one can often prove just as useful as a scum one

 

[Poyser]

Yeah I’m gonna need to see more from smark

 

[Smart Marx]

I was responding to the idea that "vanilla = no roles at all" that was being tossed around

That's fair, then, but that's not vanilla. That would just be torture, lol.

 

[Smart Marx]

Yeah I’m gonna need to see more from smark

I'm not sure what you expect out of me on day 1 after 3 years and however many games.

 

[Smart Marx]

Damn should I stop doing that?

Don't let them pressure you to conform!

But also, probably.

 

[Comrade Khan]

A vanilla game still typically has a cop.

Yeah that's kind of what I'd assume, like a cop n mb a bg depending on what he felt like giving scum ? Usually there's at least a God father, hence cop right?

 

[Smart Marx]

Really don't appreciate you trying to pre-empt Poyser here. Agreed with him on how this feels like a prepared response from someone who knew they'd start badly

Sometimes you get just as much information getting the person in the middle's integration of a reading.

What exactly makes you think Fourth knew they'd start poorly in your words?

 

[Poyser]

I'm not sure what you expect out of me on day 1 after 3 years and however many games.

Dude the game has been going for a while and there’s over 30 pages, you usually bring more than this

 

[Smart Marx]

Yeah that's kind of what I'd assume, like a cop n mb a bg depending on what he felt like giving scum ? Usually there's at least a God father, hence cop right?

A vanilla game typically has a cop and a doctor on the town side, and a roleblocker and godfather on the scum side and if it's a larger game, role cop.

 

[Smart Marx]

Dude the game has been going for a while and there’s over 30 pages, you usually bring more than this

I really don't. I'd say only a couple games I've ever done any real scum hunting on day 1. I work best with actual info and interactions.

 

[Comrade Khan]

Tbf smark I'd expect you to have as much or more posts than me

I'll be a nice guy and admit I know it's the weekend though. But I'm greedy, I want more smark

 

[Smart Marx]

In fact, I'd say the my most "productive" day 1s are typically when I'm scum and fake content.

 

[Smart Marx]

Tbf smark I'd expect you to have as much or more posts than me

I'll be a nice guy and admit I know it's the weekend though. But I'm greedy, I want more smark

I honestly saw how active day was already without me and chose to slow down because I'm often way too over productive and people often criticize me for posting too much. Especially after Tweet said he couldn't catch up.

I'm here now and looking through the back pages. I'll see what I see.

 

[RDK]

I thought when he said vanilla game he just meant not super role madness fwiw

 

[Smart Marx]

Tweet voting Chris is...interesting to say the least, because I was thinking to myself how town he feels from the start. I would actually go as far to say he's my strongest town read at the moment, well as strong as a Day 1 town read can be. His posts feel natural.

What feels natural about them? Strongest town read is a strong charge.