Post by Maya on Oct 18, 2018 18:48:09 GMT -5
Interest check time! This is a thing I've done on quite a few other RP sites, where sometimes some of us will get together to play a game of mafia! Generally we do this in-character in chat-rp style using one of the two big mafia online hosts: EpicMafia or Town of Salem, but of course, considering this is us, we can do it in any other way! Here's my proposal though:
Just whenever interest strikes and people are on, we use the discord channel to ping everyone and get an interest check and headcount of people who want to play mafia. Once that's decided, the host sets up the game on EpicMafia or ToS (depending on all of our preferences) and invites everybody who checked in to it. The game is played in character (obviously the characters are human, now) in the chat-rp style (short descriptions or dialogue only) until a winner is decided, just like a normal mafia game!
Obviously, we don't have to do it like that, we can just do a normal mafia game without being in character, but I've found being in character is pretty fun too, that's why I suggest it like that off the bat!
And then of course, if we decide we wanna do this sometimes, we gotta decide a platform. Some brief pros or cons of both:
EpicMafia
+ Entirely chat based, good for slow connections
+ Lots and lots of roles for unique game set ups
- No nicknames
- Can be hard to understand at first
- Game will stall if players idle and do not perform their actions
Town of Salem
+ Nicknames! So you can name yourself whatever character you're playing
+ Easy to understand
+ Dramatic as fuck
- Graphics based. Terrible for slow connections
- No such thing as private rooms/games (as far as I know) so we couldn't be in character and would have to play with strangers
+ Game will not stall if players idle