The Syndicate

"Tangy" is a nickname that can really work tho

Welcome Tangrowth!

MangoSenpai wrote: ↑Fri Jan 29, 2021 11:07 pm Hello, new person here! I'm itching to play Monster Mafia but can't find anyone hosting it anywhere, any leads here?

What is Monster Mafia?

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2020 5:15 am

Vulgard wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2020 4:37 am hello hello
sorry for not doing it myself but i honestly didn't know what to start with :[
hoping i don't embarrass myself in the first game i play here hahaaaaaa

Welcome aboard! Don't worry, we all embarrass ourselves every day around here.

OH yes. You have nothing to worry about.

nutella wrote: ↑Wed Jun 17, 2020 3:44 pm I think that's strictly LC's job description at this point

I wasn't even involved in the last one.

K-Ness wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2017 12:06 am Hi everyone.

The site was recommended to me when I popped back into the mafia forums at HCRealms.

I've been playing mafia for almost ten years now, off and on. I've run several games (some with wacky and completely broken roles). I'm glad to be a part of this community. It may take me a bit to sign up, as I want to explore about a bit (plus I'm currently running a game elsewhere).

And yes, Mal is always mafia.

Hi K-Ness!

I'm currently playing the HCRealms game K is hosting.

A chunk of us started playing Mafia on Lostpedia Forums, dunya, and the LP folk have been tight for some time. Like Spacedaisy said, we have partied together several times (one guy travelled from Australia to Washington DC for a party... my family and I attended the same from Ontario).

The community is more important than the Mafia games.

Nice!

Long Con wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Are You New? Welcome! You have taken then first step in becoming a member of HCRealms.com, The HeroClix Community! Before we can give you full access of the site; drop into New Member Forum and introduce yourself! Once we've determined that you're a real, live, person (or zombie), we'll grant you access to the full site automatically. BTW, don't post links ... the system will think you're a SpamBot and automatically ban you. Thanks!

Pffft, as if I read the rules. I'm unbanned now anyway.

No, wait, I'm not... I was just not signed in.

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Are You New? Welcome! You have taken then first step in becoming a member of HCRealms.com, The HeroClix Community! Before we can give you full access of the site; drop into New Member Forum and introduce yourself! Once we've determined that you're a real, live, person (or zombie), we'll grant you access to the full site automatically. BTW, don't post links ... the system will think you're a SpamBot and automatically ban you. Thanks!

Pffft, as if I read the rules. I'm unbanned now anyway.

Jackofhearts2005 wrote:Okay. You've been moderator unbanned but Quebbster (mod) wasn't sure it went though and might need admin approval.

I can click on your profile now without the site erroring out so...you're probably no longer banned.

Still banned on my end.

Jackofhearts2005 wrote:Haha. Probably happened if you linked to the Syndicate in your first post. Sent a message to a mod to unban you.

Thanks, that's exactly what I did.

Jackofhearts2005 wrote:There is a Christmas game open on the realms that could use some more players if anyone wants to try something different and try to siphon off a couple more players for the Syndicate.

http://www.hcrealms.com/forum/showthread.php?t=569190

LOL I tried... and then posted a thread in the new member forum, and:

You have been banned for the following reason:
SpamBot

Date the ban will be lifted: Never

Jackofhearts2005 wrote:Heh. The vague awareness of Mafiascum as the only other online mafia site and that it is an unpleasant place to play mirrors our awareness exactly pre tournament.

Ahhhhh, that's too funny.

HCRealms also rarely has vanilla roles but our roles are generally not revealed at all except in name only through nightkills/lynches and then in full at the end of the game. Having setup knowledge is usually reserved for specific mafia variants like Texas Justice or One Night Ultimate Mafia. Should be interesting trying out a home brew game with an open setup.

Infodumping is one of the main things I dislike about that community and there has been heavy resistance to restricting roleclaims. The plethora of powers has lead to an attitude of "waiting for info" or "pressure votes" that get removed when someone name claims. I'm okay with a couple townies being able to self confirm with name claims but I've also played games where the theme and player count were so restrictive that there was no room at all for false claims and any townie could self confirm. That's not much of a game, IMO, and it's frustrating that some players have no idea what to do without roleclaiming or a cop to follow.

It has been a very long and difficult battle around here, trying to balance "no infodumping" with "game censorship". Too many times, I have seen a role-checker type of role who KNOWS someone is Mafia, and they get too frustrated trying to get that player lynched... so they drop a post that says something like "I'm 100% sure that this person is bad" in one way or another. Once something like that is out, it never goes away, and everyone else can easily put the pieces together that it was said by a role-checker... and then the game is tainted by infodumping, and the role-checker never really even meant to do it.

You just gotta make a case. If you KNOW someone is bad, then cobble together any convincing-sounding thing you can to sawy hearts and minds - I think that those players who "have no idea what to do without roleclaiming" just need to play harder, do more research, and be more creative. Which is why I support the "no infodumping" side of things.

And it is very much a "spirit of the law" thing, rather than the "letter of the law", which is why some players still go to far and accidentally infodump. To me, a game should be played within the desired parameters that a Host wishes, and it's not good sportsmanship to try and find a loophole in any rules or roles that the Host didn't intend. But I'm rambling now. It's cool to see that you seem to be someone that will enjoy The Syndicate, Jack.

Well, it's good to be back. Maybe I'll just take summer off for the most part, since that's the time that is hardest to commit to Mafia for me.

And welcome jackofhearts2005... and thanks for the history of your name. Have you ever considered just being Jack of Hearts?

I'm an old LP member. This is my first game. Ikkl Genius brought it to us, and we basically developed the game in more and more radical ways, completely unaware of the larger Mafia community that existed. Except for a vague awareness of mafiascum, which, it was generally agreed and taken on faith, was an unpleasant place to play.

Yeah, 2016 was a little quieter around here... do you think it will pick up again?

"MP07"... it must be the way, for now and for always.

Thus spake Long Con. So let it be done.

This is cool to me. I went to Jesus Toast Mafia completely randomly through the Champs game, and fingersplints, juliets, and S~V~S all showed up there after I had signed up for the 90's Kids Mafia game that's currently running. Now I come in to see some big names from JTM over here... I hope that this is the start of a beautiful friendship between our two sites that pumps up games on both sites with more players!

That being said... MP07, I feel like it's gotta be time to get the 2015 Poll up for what games are going to get played in what order! I wanna start A World Reborn with some sassy JTM players in the mix!