I think I trend towards Johnny. I like role interactions and so forth when creating, hosting and even playing games. I also like to set up moral dilemmas for players and see how they handle them. Does that count as torture...? lolnutella wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2018 11:16 pm Hey guys here's another thing that might be fun. The Player Archetypes from Magic the Gathering can to some extent apply to player styles for different games/gaming in general and I was just wondering if they might apply to the priorities of different mafia players and hosts.
The basic archetypes are
Spike -- just wants to win. @JaggedJimmyJay says he will do whatever it takes for his faction to win so he is probably a Spike.
Johnny -- likes clever combos.
Timmy -- likes plays that have really big effects.
Each of these has some subgroups outlined on the wiki page I linked which are more specific and I think could apply even more interestingly to mafia (use of flavor, mechanics, social interaction, etc)
There's also a separate axis of Vorthos, who cares about lore/flavor, and Melvin, who cares about mechanics.
I recommend reading some of the descriptions in the article, it's a pretty interesting approach. (Also I think Timmy is a little harder to apply to mafia, but it can definitely apply to big gambits and such)
Personally I think I lean most toward Spike but I love big plays and cool mechanical combos as well (in any type of game, not just mafia)
Additionally this TVtropes page lists these as well as a few other paradigms for classifying gamer types.
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Lawful Good
Juliets
Golden
JaggedJimmyJay
Sloonei
A Person
Lorab
Neutral Good
Elohcin
Kylemii
dunya
Quin
spacedaisy
bea
Chaotic Good
Dr. Wilgy
Dom
Dragon D. Luffy
Made
nijuukyugou
Boomslang
Lawful Neutral
MovingPictures07
speedchuck
Fredwood
colonialbob
Scotty
True Neutral
nutella
Marmot
Jackofhearts2005
sig
Vompatti
Chaotic Neutral
Long Con
Ricochet
Turnip Head
reywaS
sprityo
Lawful Evil
Epignosis
boo
thellama73
Matahari
Neutral Evil
Tranq
Black Rock
Typhoony
S~V~S
Chaotic Evil
insertnamehere
G-man
aapje
DharmaHelper