The Syndicate

The game thread is now open here.

Ok, I'll get roles out to people over the next day or so, and we'll aim to start the game tomorrow night... in roughly 21 hours or so.

Tranq wrote:I've changed my vote!

Yay! One more to go...

juliets wrote:LC, i'm not sure how many more you need but I think Tranq said he would be returning somewhere around the 24th which is tomorrow. I'm sure he'd be willing to become a player rather than an alternate.

I believe the same! Then we will need only one more player... providing that the three folks who have yet to post at all in the Syndicate are legit going to play.

I just want to be sure that all players are going to be here to play before I start the game.

Who are NANANANANANA_BANANA, Luke11646, and BUGLABUSH?

None of these users have any posts at all on The Syndicate, not even in this thread. I'm not currently considering them to be part of the player list, until I know more about them.

Dom wrote:Curious, how have you combatted the btsc outing that happened last game where if you didn't out yourself in btsc then you were lynched?

Team affiliation is not revealed with the roles, so outing oneself is not proof that one is a Civvie.

Turnip Head wrote:Will I explode if I move into the wrong square?

I currently have no squares that cause death. Actually, I don't even have a bomb that a player can set as a trap to kill someone. I want to minimize the impact that map stuff has on the overall game flow - for the most part, kills should happen at the same rate, and for the same reasons, as in a regular Mafia game.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Is there a bust of Mike Steffler hidden somewhere on this map?

There will be now.

Matt F wrote:Was going to keep it to one game at a time, but this looks really fun.

I've never played a map game before

Welcome!!!

Typhoony wrote:Will the game have Action RPG'ish elements?
Like interacting with stuff on your square which will result in you getting new items / info or possible negative stuff like getting trapped in a beartrap?

Yes! I'm keeping it relatively simple, but there's things like a place where you need to have an item, to trade it for a special item. There will be "characters" on some squares, but interaction with them will be limited... like talking to a villager in an RPG video game who always says the same thing over and over. I do plan to have a maze in this one. It'll be so easy, I've already technically started it, as in the one I never got finished for Recruitment Mafia.

Here's what the map looks like currently. I might add a couple more things.

nutella wrote:I've never played a map game D:
Is it kinda like Positions but individual rather than group choice?

It is nothing like Positions. Everyone has their role, and the thread operates as a normal Mafia game. There is also a 10x10 square map that you will be on, and you can send in a movement each night to explore different squares. If you end up on the same square as another player or players, you will have BTSC with them for that phase. The Mafia nightkills are on a usual kind of schedule, but they have to kill a player that is within two squares of one of the Mafia team. As Mafia members die, the kill range of the rest increases.

Map squares have many different functions, and you can find Items on the map that can benefit you in different ways.

Also, this will be the best map game ever. I don't usually care to toot my own horn, but I have taken my experience hosting and playing previous map games, and used it to inject much more map-fun into it. As much as I can, honestly.

Blank squares are boring, but I don't want to destroy game balance by jamming everything up with overpowered stuff, like too many protections, too much vote-manipulation, too many free kills. So I'm filling a lot of potentially blank squares with information. Minor info, like where you might find a precious item, or an important map square. You'll see, good stuff.

Leave your sanity behind when you come to The Syndicate!

There are 15 Civvies, 8 baddies, and 7 independents at the start of the game.

I'm not concerned with how a Mafia purist classifies my games, my main goal is a fun and interesting game with Mafia at its core.

I made some pretty pictures for all the roles.

Turnip Head knows what is what.