The Syndicate

I guess no Dancer then.

Kylemii wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 7:54 pm

I just read that our roles will apparently include backstories? is roleplay allowed or is it inadvisable

Perfectly allowed. One of the nice things about safeclaims is that claiming and roleplaying don't hurt the scum team.

Nice avatar Dunya.

Marmot wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 5:57 pm Are you taking bribes for the mafia drafter role?

I'm asking for a friend...

Randomized. This shit is serious.

I'm really hyped for this game, especially all the parts about Rico.

Kylemii wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 4:53 pm

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 4:51 pm

Kylemii wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 4:49 pm

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 4:38 pm

dunya wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 3:12 pm 25 is the ideal number anyway, screw all those sissies >:(

@Kylemii
@Quin
@Sprityo

Dancer or Manakete?

hmmmmmm.... if you're asking me if I want to play or not. I'm definitely still in. I'll find a way to make time.

if you're asking which class is better, I'd always include a dancer over a manakete. Manaketes work outside of the weapon triangle and I think good at resisting magic or something? but they don't have access to any ranged attacks at all so it's tough to get them into a position where they can be useful. dancers give you the opportunity to use another unit again and make whatever strongest unit you have for any particular matchup twice as effective. so dancer all the way.

I'm saying I have a 24 player list and a 26 player list and I have 25 players and I can't decide if I want to keep the Dancer or the Manakete in the game.

oh. I haven't read the roles lol

They haven't been posted.

Kylemii wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 4:49 pm

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 4:38 pm

dunya wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 3:12 pm 25 is the ideal number anyway, screw all those sissies >:(

@Kylemii
@Quin
@Sprityo

Dancer or Manakete?

hmmmmmm.... if you're asking me if I want to play or not. I'm definitely still in. I'll find a way to make time.

if you're asking which class is better, I'd always include a dancer over a manakete. Manaketes work outside of the weapon triangle and I think good at resisting magic or something? but they don't have access to any ranged attacks at all so it's tough to get them into a position where they can be useful. dancers give you the opportunity to use another unit again and make whatever strongest unit you have for any particular matchup twice as effective. so dancer all the way.

I'm saying I have a 24 player list and a 26 player list and I have 25 players and I can't decide if I want to keep the Dancer or the Manakete in the game.

dunya wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 3:12 pm 25 is the ideal number anyway, screw all those sissies >:(

[mention]Kylemii[/mention]
[mention]Quin[/mention]
[mention]Sprityo[/mention]

Dancer or Manakete?

Kylemii wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 2:52 pm

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 2:50 pm Just kidding. Kyle's not allowed to downgrade.

yeah i'll stay in i guess

You changed your avatar and everything.

It's important to me to have you and Quin in this game especially.

Just kidding. Kyle's not allowed to downgrade.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 2:36 pm Y'all calm down. It will be fine.

Me re-balancing the game for different player counts all day instead of working.

speedchuck wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:32 am Oh no no no no no

Not 4 games at once.

Jackofhearts2005 If you see this in time to change things, I'd like to be a replacement. If not, I guess I'm in.

Draft phase may take a few days and you'll get killed a lot in other games I bet.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:52 pm Changed my vote to no and made this a very interesting game in the process:

Spoiler: show

good luck, ddl.

Like a Chuck Norris joke.

"DDL once signed up for a game 27 times. The host was forced to let it stand for fear of DDL. DDL played by himself and it was the best mafia game of all time."

Aiming to start on Thursday.

Marmot wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 1:19 pm

lapluie wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 1:50 am

Marmot wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2018 2:00 pm Tell me your secrets on so many signups Jack!

I need 34 players for my next large game.

Sign me up in advance

I'm hoping Fullmetal Alchemist Mafia will be played soon. It's been ready to roll for 3 years now.

The first game I ever ran was a 34ish player FMA game.

Marmot wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2018 2:00 pm Tell me your secrets on so many signups Jack!

I need 34 players for my next large game.

Get Dunya excited about your game.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2018 12:29 am I ask because I'll be unable to play between the 13th and 20th of February. I may need to slide down to being a replacement if that's going to be a major part of this game's timeframe.

It really depends on how long MK lasts and when Quin gets back. If I can keep you in by flexing the start date a little, I will.

Might be able to draft a Realms player to hydra your slot. Or yeah it might be better for you to be a replacement in case we need one when you get back. Thanks for the heads up.

I guess I should wait for Quin to come back from his trip. Not sure when that is.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2018 8:17 pm what's the timetable for this thang?

A day or two after MK ends.

Need to give everything a once over for the new player count and rewrite the opening for Rico but otherwise, I'm ready to go.

Spoiler alert: Rico's gonna be in this game whether he likes it or not.

Time to go tweak some roles.

Quin wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2018 8:14 pm

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2018 7:26 pm Wow. 24 counting Rico. So exciting.

How many players can you accommodate for this game? You're already 2 over assuming the 21 on the OP was your expectation.

28 is probably the max. The setup would have to be modified to put some indies in at higher player counts, which somewhat marginalizes the core draft mechanic. Plus you start to run out of tropes as you get too many players.

Wow. 24 counting Rico. So exciting.

Yeah this will start as soon as MK ends.

I've got a Realms game, a Naruto game and the current job plus a lot of players are in Fiddker, too.

Plus it's like the law or something.

Lamplighter will never forget his poor fallen friend Nightblue and how he failed to save him.

I can modify the setup if we go over the 21 planned roles I have. Not sure how many lost mafia players Dunya is planning on bringing in.

Yeah, Realms mafia (especially 9 years ago) is a bit more casual than your average Syndicate game.

colonialbob wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2018 12:30 pm I've been quiet on the mafia front the last couple months but this game idea was what originally brought me back to the Syndicate and I've been wanting to play a draft game for forever sooooooo.

Yeah, you missed my last draft game on the realms.

Here's an example of how this has worked in the past for anyone curious.
http://www.hcrealms.com/forum/showthread.php?t=251870

Marmot wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2018 6:32 pm This game looks insane!! And fun.

Question. Does the mafia don have that part of their role revealed? More specifically, if the don was lynched, will the rest of the players discover that he/she drafted the mafia team?

No.

All players will flip town or scum and have the flavor gist of their backstory (fake example: they are the prince) revealed when they die, day or night.

Actual backstory mechanics (fake example: the prince is a double voter) and the don's identity will not be revealed upon death.

Quin wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2018 4:41 pm does permadeath mean that if we die our syndicate accounts get deleted and we cant play mafia anymore? i'm in if so.

Yes. At the very least, you have to go back and replay all the mafia games you lost.

dunya wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2018 3:52 pm So I guess it's possible for a member of mafia to be on a mafia team and also have a civ assigned power role in the game.

Yup.

dunya wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2018 3:35 pm Wow, a hand drafted mafia team and civ POWER ROLES. It's like gym class all over again.

Love the concept of this game; have no idea about the theme. How long do you anticipate this game runs for? I see after 10 levels (which is basically 10 day phases) we get new powers. So it's a pretty long game?

One level per day and night phase each so 5 days before average promotions. No longer or shorter than any other 21 player job.

In a nutshell, the story of every Fire Emblem game is "Once upon a time, the seemingly peaceful nation of Badguyia up and invaded the nations of Goodguyia and Allyia out of the blue with an army of people in black armor with menacing looking helmets. The prince of Goodguyia slowly recruits a ragtag army of brave peasants, surviving Goodguyia and Allyia soldiers, his childhood friends, enemy defectors and mercenaries with hearts of gold to defeat the king of Badguyia as well as Actual Bad Guy, who was the mastermind behind the invasion all along."

Standard Jack Rules


Special rules
1) This is a draft game. One player will randomly be selected to be the mafia don. That player will then hand pick his mafia from the player list and pm it to me. They gain immediate BTSC. After the mafia is determined, I will provide a list of power roles based on Fire Emblem character classes and name a random player to start the draft. The starting player will assign a power role to a second player by posting his decision to the thread like "Epi, you are a knight." Then, the second player will assign a role to a third player and so on until all players have roles. Then, we will have Day 1. The draft period is considered Day 0 and will last until 48 hours have passed and all roles have been selected. Trying to extend Day 0 by not picking will result in penalties to your faction.

2) In addition to their publicly listed class power(s), all players will start with a secret backstory and related power, generally a one shot or passive ability. Two players with the same class will never share the same backstory. The mafia has their own backstories that replace the townie ones but they will be told what their townie backstory would have been as a safeclaim.

3) All players start at level 1 unless otherwise specified. All players that are voting at the end of the day gain a level. All players who submit their night action in the first 12 hours of the night gain a level. At level 10, you will promote to a new class, gaining new powers.

4) All townies will be randomly assigned to the nations of Goodguyia, Allyia, Nomadia or Badguyia if their backstory does not specify one. Scum are all from Badguyia. This is mostly flavor but some powers are affected by what country you are from.

5) At night, all flying players will resolve their actions first. Then, all horse riding characters will resolve their actions. Then, all infantry will resolve their actions. Roleblocking a player who has already resolved their action will have no effect, etc.

6) All players have one or more weapons. If you have multiple weapons, you must choose one each night. Swords > axes > lances > swords. Anima magic > light magic > dark magic > anima magic. If you use a weapon to target a player with a weapon yours beats, you have a 25% chance to self guide (be unblockable and unmisdirectable). If you use a weapon to target a player with a weapon that beats yours, you have a 25% chance to fail. If you miss your night action and have multiple weapons, you will use the same weapons you used last night. IIf you miss your night one action, your weapon choice will be randomized.

7) Bows are not weak or strong against other weapons but have a 100% chance to self guide against fliers. Bows allow players to retroactively effect actions of fliers that have already resolved. Example: 8) Staves are not weak or strong against any other weapons.






Originally made for 21 players but can accommodate more.