Lily x
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Heres a little information I thought I would post.
It is easy and fun to make and host mafia's, but sometimes it is hard to make it stand out, make it exciting and make people want to be active, here are a few tips on making your mafia better than the rest.
Have a theme
Try to always have a theme for a mafia, it can be boring and uninventive just to have an unthemed mafia, and unless you are a very expirianced host, not many people will want to sign up, pick a theme, somthing you are knowledgable preferbly, you could choose a game, TV program, book or anything to base it on, this will attract fans of the theme as well as it can be somthing to base any twists, roles and stories on
Make inventive roles
Roles can be a tricky bit as you must work out which roles work, and weather the village:mafia ratio is right, when writing roles try to connect the characters with their power, make the main villain the godfather and the main hero the cop/vigilant, if there is a protogonist who is in love with an antogonist, create a 'heartbroken' power, also feel free to give players more than one power and attempt creating new powers, you never know, people might love the power and use it in their own mafias.
Write creative stories for each phase
A mafia can become unintresting if every phase ends
Always be one step ahead
Try to be prepared for issues, a mafia will not always run smoothly, if their are innactives try sending a reminder to them, and create a 'mod kill date' when all innactives will be killed, if you feel that their will be innactives, try to get replacement, if you cannot then you can revive players who died early with an innactives role, also if you are going to be away try to inform everyone so they are aware a good few phases before you leave, also if you are stuck, feel free to ask any expirianced hosts for advice.
Be creative with ratings.
To make your mafia exciting even after the final phase has ended, do ratings, when doing ratings try to be fair, take everything into account and list positives and negatives of all players, consider how long they survived, how often they used their power and how tactical they were during the game, after this, score the player out of 10, when you have done all players do MVP's and LVP's based on who did best/worse, also you may want to consider including hounorable mentions to any players who you feel did somthing notable in the game, by doing this you can continue the disccussion even after the game has ended.
I hope these tips will help you, if you have any queeries feel free to PM me or any other expirianced mafia player/host.
Lily
*STICKY PLEASE*
It is easy and fun to make and host mafia's, but sometimes it is hard to make it stand out, make it exciting and make people want to be active, here are a few tips on making your mafia better than the rest.
Have a theme
Try to always have a theme for a mafia, it can be boring and uninventive just to have an unthemed mafia, and unless you are a very expirianced host, not many people will want to sign up, pick a theme, somthing you are knowledgable preferbly, you could choose a game, TV program, book or anything to base it on, this will attract fans of the theme as well as it can be somthing to base any twists, roles and stories on
Make inventive roles
Roles can be a tricky bit as you must work out which roles work, and weather the village:mafia ratio is right, when writing roles try to connect the characters with their power, make the main villain the godfather and the main hero the cop/vigilant, if there is a protogonist who is in love with an antogonist, create a 'heartbroken' power, also feel free to give players more than one power and attempt creating new powers, you never know, people might love the power and use it in their own mafias.
Write creative stories for each phase
A mafia can become unintresting if every phase ends
Try to invent stories, have other users making comments which could hint at their role, have people trying to escape death, also create differant ways they can die, rather than using 'dead' try to make players commit suicide, be stabbed, be shot, be crushed, doing this makes the mafia more intresting to read and play and it adds emotion to the mafia, also use any intresting quotes or themes which happen in a story as flavour text.
Always be one step ahead
Try to be prepared for issues, a mafia will not always run smoothly, if their are innactives try sending a reminder to them, and create a 'mod kill date' when all innactives will be killed, if you feel that their will be innactives, try to get replacement, if you cannot then you can revive players who died early with an innactives role, also if you are going to be away try to inform everyone so they are aware a good few phases before you leave, also if you are stuck, feel free to ask any expirianced hosts for advice.
Be creative with ratings.
To make your mafia exciting even after the final phase has ended, do ratings, when doing ratings try to be fair, take everything into account and list positives and negatives of all players, consider how long they survived, how often they used their power and how tactical they were during the game, after this, score the player out of 10, when you have done all players do MVP's and LVP's based on who did best/worse, also you may want to consider including hounorable mentions to any players who you feel did somthing notable in the game, by doing this you can continue the disccussion even after the game has ended.
I hope these tips will help you, if you have any queeries feel free to PM me or any other expirianced mafia player/host.
Lily
*STICKY PLEASE*
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