Forum Mafia game

[wichita]

I'm really enjoying my first go at the werewolf game. I had an idea for a variation on the same theme after reading the suggestion of forming mafias in another thread ("What would you like to see in Cantr" I think).

The characters could consist of cops, mafia guys, and citizens. Special characters would consist of the Police Chief, the Mafia Godfather, crooked cops, and possibly a Mayor. Citizens could be business owners and the mafia guys would be disguised as business owners.

The cops would be trying to hunt down and arrest the mafia guys before they can pull of the big heist. The premise to start is that a string of robberies / murders have been occurring in Metropolis. During the day, the cops would investigate and select someone to arrest. At night the mafia would pick a goal to achieve toward the big heist, or pick someone to whack.

The possible downside would be it might take a lot of people to make it really interesting, but we could probably make it work.

[kroner]

yeah, mafia is the variation of the game that i usually see.

typically there are townspeople, the mafia, and then an informant or a detective. the informant knows who the mafia is. the detective takes a guess each night (i suppose this is like the seer you have) at who the mafia is.

[Riddrev]

Sounds fun, count me in.

I will call dibs on being a crooked cop.

[AoM]

Same game, different names. But I'd be up for playing once the WW game is over. Would be a change in mood I suppose.

[Crosshair]

Kind of on this topic, although feel free to delete if apropriate, The game rules your describing sound similar to a mission in a game i play called Operation Flaspoint: Cold war Crisis. The mission is an RPG much like cantr in which you can buy cars, build hideouts etc, there are civillians, a Mayor, Cops and mafia. Its called Nogville, although there are variations called Crime City or GTA Nogova (nogova being the name of an island) I was just wondering if you've played that game or indeed mission. but yeah the game you describe could work really well i think.

[Schme]

Sounds like fun.

[Revanael]

We should keep it to one forum game, I think.

Werewolf scenarios seem more... fitting to these boards than a mafia one would. And I think more people would try to use inappropriate language in a mafia game, perhaps.