Thawmus
03/13/2008, 14:07
Yes indeedy, I'm getting the signups ready. Vanilla Mafia II is still running.
For those of you who are wondering what Vanilla Mafia is:
The theme? Go ahead, ask again. The theme? THERE IS NO THEME!! Buh...wha????? That's right. No theme. No characters. When you get the role PM from me, it's going to be telling you whether you're vanilla or not, and that's it. There will be nothing but a crime scene in the writeups, and there won't be a single clue to find in them. An overwhelming majority of people in this game will be Vanilla. That is to say, you will have no night or day abilities, whatsoever. This goes for both town AND mafia.
"Well, how do we play, then? We won't have any info!" Well, Mafia games are in a sad state of affairs lately because of this. The whole point of Mafia is to do things without having info, and putting trust into people blindly. That's where 99% of the action in Mafia should be taking place. Bluffing, lying, pressuring, distracting, etc. The idea behind this mafia game is to put you all into Rehab. That is.....to rehabilitate you all in playing the game without information. In essence, you're going to learn how to get really good at the game, regardless of what the mod hands you. And it'll all be the school of hard knocks.
If this is successful, this is something that I'll regurgitate every 3 months, so that we can continue to "rehab" players in this. If you guys are willing to give this a shot, and learn a few things about getting down and dirty in Mafia, then it is my belief that mods will have an easier time balancing out the games in the future.
"But I didn't get an ability, this is boring!" I've said this before, but I LOVE being vanilla. It enables me to put my neck out on the line, and really get nasty in a game, when, hey, if they kill me, the town loses a vanilla player. And if I can manage to scare the mafia into killing me when I don't have any abilities, I must be doing SOMETHING right. Vanilla roles are only as fun as you let them be. I can assure you with 110% of my being that if you really give this a shot, and start learning how to look for BS in the writings of other people, you are going to REALLY enjoy mafia, as if you hadn't even been playing the game yet.
The rules for Mafia can be found here: http://www.hcrealms.com/forum/showthread.php?t=221058
Sign-ups begin now. We'll re-assess a start date as of the end of Vanilla Mafia II (Should be sometime at the beginning of next week, probably.
Also, it makes absolutely no difference how many we get signed up. I don't have a set number of characters, so the more, the merrier.
Who's willing to take up the challenge? :classic:
Current Players (23):
kontrol
sstralkowski
TMNT99
MSU
Truffle Shuffle
m_a_caque
Uknown352
Domi
Grinner
bigkahuna83
Antipathy
RCricket55
Robo-Onion
Malakim2099
The BoyBlunder
Kitsushel
JacinB
Grinner
Amora's_best_friend
Jackassterson
Raiserb1ade
anonym0use
Rokk_Krinn
For those of you who are wondering what Vanilla Mafia is:
The theme? Go ahead, ask again. The theme? THERE IS NO THEME!! Buh...wha????? That's right. No theme. No characters. When you get the role PM from me, it's going to be telling you whether you're vanilla or not, and that's it. There will be nothing but a crime scene in the writeups, and there won't be a single clue to find in them. An overwhelming majority of people in this game will be Vanilla. That is to say, you will have no night or day abilities, whatsoever. This goes for both town AND mafia.
"Well, how do we play, then? We won't have any info!" Well, Mafia games are in a sad state of affairs lately because of this. The whole point of Mafia is to do things without having info, and putting trust into people blindly. That's where 99% of the action in Mafia should be taking place. Bluffing, lying, pressuring, distracting, etc. The idea behind this mafia game is to put you all into Rehab. That is.....to rehabilitate you all in playing the game without information. In essence, you're going to learn how to get really good at the game, regardless of what the mod hands you. And it'll all be the school of hard knocks.
If this is successful, this is something that I'll regurgitate every 3 months, so that we can continue to "rehab" players in this. If you guys are willing to give this a shot, and learn a few things about getting down and dirty in Mafia, then it is my belief that mods will have an easier time balancing out the games in the future.
"But I didn't get an ability, this is boring!" I've said this before, but I LOVE being vanilla. It enables me to put my neck out on the line, and really get nasty in a game, when, hey, if they kill me, the town loses a vanilla player. And if I can manage to scare the mafia into killing me when I don't have any abilities, I must be doing SOMETHING right. Vanilla roles are only as fun as you let them be. I can assure you with 110% of my being that if you really give this a shot, and start learning how to look for BS in the writings of other people, you are going to REALLY enjoy mafia, as if you hadn't even been playing the game yet.
The rules for Mafia can be found here: http://www.hcrealms.com/forum/showthread.php?t=221058
Sign-ups begin now. We'll re-assess a start date as of the end of Vanilla Mafia II (Should be sometime at the beginning of next week, probably.
Also, it makes absolutely no difference how many we get signed up. I don't have a set number of characters, so the more, the merrier.
Who's willing to take up the challenge? :classic:
Current Players (23):
kontrol
sstralkowski
TMNT99
MSU
Truffle Shuffle
m_a_caque
Uknown352
Domi
Grinner
bigkahuna83
Antipathy
RCricket55
Robo-Onion
Malakim2099
The BoyBlunder
Kitsushel
JacinB
Grinner
Amora's_best_friend
Jackassterson
Raiserb1ade
anonym0use
Rokk_Krinn