The Syndicate

Golden wrote:

Turnip Head wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Will there be a map?

Map? Where we're going, we don't need a map.

Happy BTTF day!

It's still October 20th for another 10 minutes here. What are you, from the future?

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Will there be a map?

Map? Where we're going, we don't need a map.

Alpha Patch 1.1 has been released. Patch notes:

• Warlocks gained a new ability (Unending Resolve); Soul Swap's effectiveness on target has been decreased
• Kel'Thuzad has received several buffs to make his win condition more feasible
• Hunter pet mechanic overhauled; all Hunter specs now have access to a pet. Beastmastery ability changed as a result
• Several classes tweaked: Paladin rotation is less rigid; Death Knight rune regeneration increased; cost of Rogues' Deadly Poison increased to 6
• Added pictures for the independent roles

Plans for the future:

• Reassess balance concerns for priests and shamans
• Improvements for mages and monks
• Demon Hunters?

This game will be played Soon™

Long Con wrote:Holy crap, TH, I just looked at this for the first time. This looks really cool, you're on my List of Seven for sure!

I'm very glad to have your vote, Long Con. You will love this game, I know you will

UPDATE: Paladins have gained a couple of new abilities Warlocks might be next.

boo wrote:Really? SotA? You're not one of those awful people who actually likes that BG, are you?

It's not that bad! I picked it to represent the game because it has objectives that could line up with a mafia setup. The only other one in the running was Warsong Gulch, which is always going to be my favorite BG.

And hey I could have used Alterac Valley [insert puking emote here]

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Turnip Head wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

Turnip Head wrote: [*]Dying does not mean losing - As long as you are on the winning team, you will qualify for a winner's banner. Even if you get lynched Day 1!

Did MM ask you to introduce this feature?

The civilian who is lynched on Day 1 should always have a chance at redemption.

There's a few ways that can happen in this game Beware the Dead.

Is this game based on a video game?

I'm going to give you the answer I'll probably be giving to a lot of questions in the game:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

Turnip Head wrote: [*]Dying does not mean losing - As long as you are on the winning team, you will qualify for a winner's banner. Even if you get lynched Day 1!

Did MM ask you to introduce this feature?

The civilian who is lynched on Day 1 should always have a chance at redemption.

There's a few ways that can happen in this game Beware the Dead.

No, you shouldn't tell everyone what your preferred class would be at this time, probably a bad idea. However, class claiming and faction claiming are probably going to end up becoming important aspects of gameplay, actually. Mass outing though - as in everyone claiming something at once - is going to be strictly forbidden. Other than that, the role outing rules in this game are going to be pretty lax. I think this approach will likely enrich the strategy.

Game Features:

• Alliance vs Horde faction warfare - Unlike most games, Warcraft Mafia will require you to work as a team against an opponent with equal numbers and abilities in a war of attrition.
• Choose your own role - choose the class or character that best suits your style.
• Dying does not mean losing - As long as you are on the winning team, you will qualify for a winner's banner. Even if you get lynched Day 1! There's also more than one way to come back from the dead.
• Infinite ways to play - a dynamic set of abilities allows you to play the game however you want
• Lots of shenanigans!

There are 11 different classes and two players for each class: One for Horde, and one for Alliance. Choose the class that most interests you.

Passive abilities are always in effect.
Active abilities can be used each Night.
Special abilities must be specialized in and are generally one-time-use unless otherwise specified, or unless you respecialize ("respec").
Bear - Guardian
Bears cannot be lynched unless a majority of their votes are from the opposing faction.
Growl - Redirect a player’s action onto himself or herself. You may use this ability on one Even night and one Odd night.

Panther - Feral
Prowl - Learn a dead target’s class.
Maim - Once in the game, switch a lynch. You must first have shifted from another form before using this ability. The player you switch to must have a visible vote from you. You cannot shapeshift or use any abilities the following night unless the target was a member of the opposing faction.


Moonkin - Balance
Lunar Guidance - learn how many players are left in your faction.
Soul of the Forest - Once in the game, target a player. The target will brought before a tribunal of 3 players; two from your faction and one from the opposing faction. If all three vote unanimously, the target will die.


Dryad - Restoration
Mark of the Wild - send a player a message. Will first be approved by the host.
Lifebloom - Once in the game, grow a lifebloom mushroom. Any player who targets you will target the mushroom instead. Success rate while in dryad form is 100%, except for kills which are 67%. Success rate while in other forms is 50%, except for kills which are 25%. The mushroom absorbs up to 5 actions. The druid may use the mushroom again at any time to release its spores.



Passive Ability
Tame Beast - If you use no other active ability, you can attempt to tame a beast. 50% chance to tame. If successful, every night you can choose to make your vote worth 2 OR you may use 2 active abilities, until your pet is killed. Your pet dies if you take at least half as many votes as the player who is lynched. If you are the lead vote getter, your pet will absorb the last two votes and then die. If you are targeted for a kill, your pet has a 25% chance to absorb the hit. Limit 1 tamed pet at a time.

Active Abilities - use one each Night
Tracking - Learn target’s class. You must use all other active abilities before tracking again.
Explosive Trap - Set a trap to be applied to the thread (come up with a secret trigger). The first player who breaks the trap receives 2 votes that Day. Successful trappings will be announced in the thread by the host. The second player who breaks the trap (after the announcement) receives 3. Traps disappear after 2 Days if they haven’t been sprung.
Trueshot Aura - Make your next vote against a member of the opposing faction count for 1 extra. Stays in effect for up to 3 Days.

Special Abilities - choose ONE to specialize in
Beastmaster: Frenzy - If you die at night while your pet is alive, your pet will attempt to avenge you. You have three chances to guess the identity of your killer. If you guess correctly, and the killer is not a member of your faction, the killer will die.
Marksmanship: Kill Shot - if a player has more than 6 visible votes (or 5 and your pet’s vote or a Trueshot Aura), automatically lynch that player.
Survival: Feign Death - can only be used at night. If you take the most votes in either of the next 2 lynches, there will be no lynch.



Passive Abilities
Each time you vote, gain 5 mana. Each time a player you vote for is lynched, gain 5 mana.

Active Abilities - use one each Night
Spellsteal (10 mana) - choose a player. You will gain access to a random active ability of that player. Repeated use of Spellsteal on a specific player costs 20 mana. Cannot use on consecutive nights.
Teleport: Dalaran (20 mana) - choose a player to gain temporary anonymous BTSC with.
Counterspell (20 mana) - If a player targets you on either of the next two nights, you will receive 3 names. At least one of those players targeted you. You may afterwards use History of Counterspell for 15 mana to narrow it down to only players that targeted you.
Ice Block (30 mana) - create a block of ice that you can use at any time. The ice will surround you, and if any of the next 10 votes are cast against you, they will not count. Targeted effects are dispelled by the ice the following Night. However, you will start the next Day with as many votes as you had before you used your Ice Block.

Special Abilities - choose ONE to specialize in
Arcane: Arcane Intellect - Choose a player to gain permanent BTSC with.
Fire: Pyroblast - Kill a target.
Frost: Blizzard - Roleblock 3 randomly selected players of the opposing faction.


Passive Abilities
Jab: Every time a monk votes, gain 1 Chi.
Monks may use talents as many times as they are able to.

Active Abilities - use one each Night
Zen Pilgrimage (1 Chi) - learn a secret of the game and gain 2 Chi.
Nimble Brew (3 Chi) - shed all harmful effects from yourself.
Blackout Kick (3 Chi) - Block all actions by a player. Cannot Blackout Kick the same player more than once every 3 Nights.
Transcendance (4 Chi) - receive a snippet of data from the host’s spreadsheet about a specific occurrence in the game.
Spinning Crane Kick (5 Chi) - choose a player. Each time you vote for that player, your vote’s weight increases by 1 until that player dies.

Special Abilities - choose ONE to specialize in
Brewmaster: Elusive Brew - every 4 Chi you gain, you gain 1 stack of Elusive Brew. Consume your Elusive Brew stacks at any time to gain a 10% chance (for each brew consumed) to make each vote against you not count, or increase your chance of surviving a kill by 10% for each brew.
Windwalker: Tigereye Brew - every 4 Chi you gain, gain 1 stack of Tigereye Brew. Consume your Tigereye Brew stacks at any time to gain a 10% increase in your vote or a 10% chance to gain a nightkill.
Mistweaver: Mana Tea - every 4 Chi you gain, gain 1 stack of Mana Tea. Consume all Mana Tea stacks and target a player. You have a 10% chance for each stack consumed to block a player’s action and prevent them from ever using that action again.




Active Abilities - use one each Night
Hand of Protection - Protect a your target from being killed at night. If targeted by anyone other than the Paladin, refresh Avenger’s Shield and immediately gain access to it.

Avenger’s Shield: Choose a target. If they are a member of the opposing faction, you will secretly control their vote. Must use every other active ability before using Avenger’s Shield again.

Hammer of Justice: Remove a player from the poll.

Crusader Strike: Write a blog post.

Holy: Flash of Light - Heal yourself and one randomly selected member of your faction of all curses. That random player will receive a small buff and both players will start with -1 vote.

Protection: Divine Shield - The next two times you cast Hand of Protection, you will also cast it on yourself. Avenger’s Shield will refresh for each effective cast.

Retribution: Avenging Wrath - Refresh Avenger’s Shield. For the next two nights, increase your haste, allowing you to use two active abilities each Night.


Passive Abilities
Mana Gain - Each Day that you receive no visible votes, gain 5 mana. Each time you vote, gain 5 mana. Each time a player you vote for is lynched, gain 5 mana.
While a priest has 50 or more mana, the priest cannot be nightkilled unless they are also blocked.
Priests can use their chosen talent as long as they have the mana to do so.

Active Abilities - use one each Night
Power Word: Shield (5 mana) - Choose a player. That player will start the next Day with -2 votes. Cannot use on the same player on consecutive Nights.
Dispel Magic (15 mana) - Remove all harmful magic and disease effects from a player.
Thoughtsteal (40 mana) - Learn a player’s faction.


Special Abilities - choose ONE to specialize in
HOLY: Divine Providence (20 mana) - Choose Player A and Player B. If Player A is targeted for a kill, Player B will die instead.
SHADOW: Mindflay (30 mana) - target two players. If they are of opposite factions, the player from your faction will be notified of the other's allegiance.
DISCIPLINE: Resurrection (60 mana) - Revive a dead player.



Every time your vote is cast against a successfully lynched player, gain 2 combo points.

Active Abilities - use one each Night
Backstab - your vote will secretly count for a different player, to be decided before lynch deadline. Gain 1 combo point.
Sap (costs 2 combo points) - target cannot vote the next Day.
Shadowstep (costs 3 combo points) - start the next Day with -2 votes.
Crippling Poison (5 combo points) - control a player’s actions for the next Day.
Deadly Poison (6 combo points) - poison your target, causing them to accumulate one vote each Day. Poison does not stack.

Special Abilities - choose ONE to specialize in
ASSASSINATION: Blindside - Learn which players are diseased, poisoned, cursed etc. and what afflicts all of them, and expose all current traps to the rogue. *secrets*
COMBAT: Cheat - earn an advantage in your faction's win condition. *secrets*
SUBTLETY: Premeditation - Steal a player's resources and gain 10 combo points. *secrets*



Passive Abilities
Each night, summon a random totem. A shaman is notified when a totem is destroyed, but not what kind of totem was generated.
Healing Stream Totem - automatically stops the first vote cast against a player of your faction, destroying this totem.
Searing Totem - the first player of the opposing faction to receive a vote will gain one extra vote, destroying this totem
Grounding Totem - upon creation, randomly chooses two players from your faction. The first harmful spell to target one of these players will be redirected onto the Grounding Totem, destroying it.
Capacitor Totem - upon creation, randomly chooses one player from your faction. The first player to vote for this player will be stunned, silenced for 24 hours and unable to use abilities for 48 hours and destroying the totem.

Active Abilities - use one each night
Totemic Recall - choose which totem to create instead of it being random.
Chain Lightning - choose two players. Their targets are swapped, and they also swap places.
Hex - turn a player into a frog; they cannot use any abilities or speak until they are targeted or receive a vote. You can only hex a specific player one time in the game, and you may not use Hex again until you have used your other active abilities.

Special Abilities - choose ONE to specialize in.
ELEMENTAL: Earthquake - all votes currently cast are randomly redistributed among all players except the caster and up to two other players of the shaman’s choice. All players will be informed when an earthquake occurs.
ENHANCEMENT: Feral Spirits - Only usable at Night. Summon two spirit wolves. One removes votes from Player A. Another redistributes those votes alternately between Players B and C. Spirit Wolves linger until one of the three players is dead.
RESTORATION: Spirit Link Totem - choose three players. All votes currently cast against those players are redistributed evenly among them. You may use this talent twice in the game.




Active Abilities - use one each night
Ritual of Summoning - Gain 2 permanent votes and create a portal to your location from target’s location. You will gain temporary BTSC with the target player. It can be anonymous or not.
Eye of Kilrogg - choose a player to spy on. For each Night you continuously spy on this player, you will receive 1 vote. You will be told who this player targets each night.
Unending Resolve - Gain 2 permanent votes and become immune to all Night abilities.
Corruption - choose a player. For each 2 votes that player receives the next Day, 1 permanent vote is removed from your cumulative vote total (cannot go below 0).

Special Abilities - choose ONE to specialize in
Affliction: Soul Swap - swap permanent vote totals with a player. Only useable at night, and both parties will be made aware of the swap. The victim will be given a choice: delay the effect by one full cycle, or cut the vote total in half.
Demonology: Drain Life - choose a player. If that player is lynched, the warlock loses all cumulative votes against him and gains access to that player’s active abilities for one night. Useable at any time, but not usable on a target who currently has 3 or more votes.
Destruction: Immolate - choose a player. That player gains 1 permanent vote each Day.



Passive Abilities
Warriors use rage: As they take votes, their voting power increases. After a warrior’s vote has successfully been used to help lynch a player, their rage meter resets back to 0. Warriors can request at any time to be told how much their vote is worth. Warriors have a 25% chance to survive night kills.

Active Abilities - use one each night
Taunt - Choose a player. Any votes that player receives will not count. The votes will fill up your rage bar and will count as .5 vote toward you. You cannot target yourself with this ability.
Piercing Howl - The next two players to vote for you will not have their votes counted the following Day, and they count for .5 the Day after that. You may not use this power on consecutive nights.
Pummel - block a player from using an ability. They cannot use that same ability the following night either, but you cannot Pummel that player again for the remainder of the game.

Special Abilities - choose ONE to specialize in
PROTECTION: Shield Wall - Lose all your rage and shed all votes cast against you.
ARMS: Whirlwind - Your vote also counts towards two other targets of your choice. If a tie occurs between any of these three players occurs, the warrior decides who is lynched.
FURY: Berserker Stance - your rage-infused voting power is multiplied by 2.



Passive Abilities
Starts the game with 2 runes of each: Blood, Frost, and Unholy. Each night, 1 random rune will regenerate.
Death Knights may choose ONE specialization: Blood, Frost or Unholy. In that spec, the corresponding runes will regenerate as Death Runes, able to be used as if they were any other rune. In addition, one extra rune from your spec will regenerate every 3 nights.

Active Abilities - use one each Night
Rune Tap (2 Blood) - votes cast against you have a 50% chance of not counting the next Day.
Plague Strike (1 Unholy) - cast a disease on a player. Set the terms of how the disease affects the player. Players will be punished for not complying with the terms of their condition.
Anti-Magic Shell (2 Frost 1 Unholy) - choose a player and make a list of eight living players. That player may only target the names on your list. (If there are fewer than 8 players remaining, the list goes down to 6.)
Appeal to Arthas (1 Blood 1 Frost 1 Unholy) - appeal to Arthas to increase your chances of becoming a faction leader.
Chains of Ice (2 Frost) - Search a player. If that player is the opposing faction’s Disciple of War, they will be captured.
Death and Decay (1 Blood 1 Unholy) - check a dead player’s faction.
Dark Simulacrum (2 Blood 1 Frost 1 Unholy) - For every player that has targeted you tonight or in the past two nights, randomly redirect their power to a random target.
Raise Dead (1 Frost 2 Unholy) - summon a dead player who may post on topic and vote for one Day.



In addition to the Alliance vs. Horde warfare, four individuals will have various win conditions.
Kel’Thuzad - 24 hours into each Day period, Kel’Thuzad must predict who will be lynched that Day and which faction they belong to. Each Night, he must also make a prediction: either which player will be killed, or the killed player’s class and faction. If he is right, he raises the dead player as a lich under his command. Successfully raised liches may post on-topic for one full cycle after their death. Kel’Thuzad wins if his army of liches ever outnumber the living players. If Kel’Thuzad is lynched or night killed, he will return to the game, but will lose control over all of his zombies and they will return to the grave. He will survive the first NK attempt on his life and won't lose his followers.

Arthas Menethil - every 3 Days, Arthas sends his commands for who will become the new leaders of each faction. Arthas also chooses a target Disciple of War for each faction at this time. *secrets*

Nozdormu - A Dragon Aspect charged with ensuring that time always flows in the proper direction. Nozdormu can move all players in the game through time, bringing them into the past, present or future. If he brings the game into the future, whatever happens there will be fated to happen. If he moves the game into the past, the players have a chance to change fate. *secrets*

Kil’jaeden - Eredar Lord of the Burning Legion. He seeks utter destruction of the universe and will use anyone he thinks can help him achieve this goal. Kil’jaeden must choose one player before the end of each Day to become his lieutenant. This player will carry out the night’s kill in service of Kil'jaeden's goals. If Kil'jaeden's current lieutenant is ever lynched, all members of the opposing faction of the lieutenant will have all cooldowns reset on their abilities; in addition, the first time this occurs, these players will also gain the power to respecialize their abilities. The "respec" can be used at any time to change one’s specialization. If Kil’jaeden is pleased with his lieutenant’s work, he may retain their services. All players will be made aware when Kil’jaeden has chosen a new lieutenant. *secrets*