yes I reused the same banner, no I will not apologize for it.
Welcome to Realmafia round 16! This is a rotmg-themed mafia game originally hosted by Toastrz before being taken over by myself and Mrunibro’s… “bot”.
Click HERE if you're new and need a rundown of the rules
It’s a battle of wits between the innocent denizens of the Nexus (civilians) and the defectors to Oryx’s legions (Mafia)! The only thing stopping you from gunning down the traitors like everything else in RotMG is… well, you don’t know who’s who! The civilians win when all Mafia are successfully eliminated, while the Mafia win once they outnumber or match the amount of living civilians. Approximately 20% of the players are mafia-aligned, the exact number will be made known before the game begins.
When the game begins, every player will be privately informed of their randomly decided role. You know the truth about yourself, but unless you’re in the Mafia, everyone else is not necessarily trustworthy. It’s a game about uncertainty and the ability to convince others of your arguments and reasoning.
This should really go without saying, but it is forbidden to share proof of private host messages to confirm your role with anyone else, even non-players. There are no prizes for winning, this is all just for fun, so I ask that all players keep with the spirit of the game and not defeat the purpose of it. You are completely free to declare yourself as any role (regardless of whether or not it’s true) with a statement like “I am the Doctor,” but you are not allowed to definitively prove it with information outside of the game mechanics.
In each Day phase, all living players can publicly share their suspicions and vote against someone with the idea being to vote out a Mafia member. The Mafia members participate in these debates as well, except their intent is to convince others of voting out innocent people instead of themselves. The person with the most votes by the end of the phase will be executed/lynched and removed from the game. If the votes result in a tie, then the tied players will typically either guess a number or do Rock Paper Scissors during the following Night phase.
In each Night phase, players will not be able to speak in the public channel. During this phase, the Mafia team selects one person to assassinate during the night, and each special innocent role will choose who to use their abilities on during the night. This phase lasts until all parties have made their decisions, within reason.
You can choose not to vote (abstain) and change your vote as much as you’d like until the given deadline. If any player goes without posting for too long (two in-game phases), they’ll get the inactivity boot, which will occur alongside the majority vote. Keeping relatively quiet is a valid strategy, but you must at least meet this minimum threshold of participation.
Any murders by the Mafia and executions by majority vote will be noted at the start of the following Day phase, with the roles of the dead revealed. Innocent special roles like the Doctor are often who the Mafia want gone the most. Dead players and folks who never joined cannot vote or try swaying people’s votes. There will be a spectator room on the Discord server that players cannot see, but these spectators should not privately contact players about the game, whether that be through Discord PMs, being a part of another server that they are in, or talking in RotMG itself.
THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE THREAD, YOU MUST READ THIS SECTION TO PLAY:
Similar to the last game, this game will also all take place on one day in a single setting. Unlike last game though I will be increasing the phase duration somewhat, and then scaling it back down as the number of players decreases. I’m aiming for ~20+ minutes for day 1 and 10 minutes for the final day. I won’t know how exactly I’ll be calculating it until the roster is complete though. it will be announced on the discord server as soon as I get it figured out. Night phases will be 5 minutes. There will inevitably be a few extra minutes on the end of each night phase to give myself time to record actions and adjust the game state accordingly, but after those 5 minutes I will not be accepting any do-overs or missed actions. (if the last game is anything to go off of, I suspect those 5 minutes will rarely be needed but just in case)
The time and date for the game has been scheduled for 2 PM MDT, July 13th , which is next Monday. This time around I tried to aim for a time that’s easier on people in european regions since the last game was basically inaccessible to them. So if you wanted to join the last one but couldn’t, hopefully this one should be possible for you!
Now with that out of the way, here is the role lineup for this game. It’s still a bit short but I did add a couple new ones:
Nexus Team roles:
Warrior (Civilian)
This is the most basic role. They have no powers and are on the Nexus team. Despite having no special abilities, they are the most common role and therefore have the most power in the daily voting. They must determine if they are on the right track or being misled on their own.
Priest (Doctor)
The Doctor is on the Nexus team, they have the power to defend anyone of their choosing from a mafia kill during the night. If the protected player is targeted by the mafia, they won’t die and it will be announced in the morning.
Mystic (Sheriff)
The Sheriff is on the Nexus team. Every night, the sheriff secretly learns the true identity of anyone of their choosing. This is extremely useful because it can potentially expose any mafioso posing as a civilian, but the Sheriff must be careful in the timing and wording of their revelations. Too soon and the mafia will take out the Sheriff before much has been accomplished, too late and the mafia may kill the Sheriff before they can say anything.
Necromancer (Gravedigger)
The Gravedigger can bring a dead player back to life for one turn. The resurrected player can speak in #nexus like any other living player, but they cannot cast votes. Resurrected players are also unable to communicate back and forth with other dead players while alive, they are cut off from #undead-lair just like the other living players. The Gravedigger can use this ability up to 3 times throughout the game. It’s important to note that this power can only be used on ordinary Civilians.
Mafia Team roles:
Assassin (Mafioso)
Basic Mafia team member. Technically they have no special powers, but they work together in a private channel with their comrades and choose one person to assassinate during the night each turn. The game ends if the Mafia team members equal or outnumber the Nexus team members, or if all Mafia team members are killed.
Knight (Blocker)
The Blocker acts on the Mafia team. Each night he chooses a person to block, and that person’s special abilities are disabled for the night phase. However, no notification is sent to either the blocker or the public channel that a block successfully blocked someone capable of doing anything that can be blocked. The target of the block will be notified that they were blocked if they were a role that could be blocked.
Trickster (Don)
The Don’s ability is uniquely passive, they behave no different from a normal Mafioso until they are killed. Once the Don is killed however, they are identified as a Civilian in the death report instead of a mafia team role. Their true identity will be revealed after 2 turns have passed, but until then it will appear as if they had been innocent all along. If the Gravedigger attempts to revive a Don while their post-mortem identity mask is in place, the resurrection will fail. The Gravedigger will be notified and will not lose one of their ability uses.
Once again, the game will be played on the Realmafia Discord server, I’ll share the invite link since many people are already there. Here’s a quick rundown of the server:
#rules will have a link to this thread if you forget the rules and/or need to refer to something
#announcements will be where I post the results from the night phases and daily lynchings, as well as the deadline to act before the end of the current day phase.
#player-status shows a list of all players, whether they’re alive or dead, and what their role was if they’re dead. This channel will also now show what roles are still alive for easy reference.
#nexus is the primary chat channel. debates, arguments, and discussions take place here. Everyone on the server can see the channel, but only living players can speak in it. dead players and spectators cannot speak in this channel to sway the discussion.
#lynch-voting is where you’ll officially declare you votes to avoid having them buried in the nexus channel. do not speak in this channel unless you’re actually declaring or removing an official vote.
#off-topic is for casual chat not relevant to the game. try not to seriously discuss the game in the channel to keep it clean.
#peanut-gallery is for spectators. everyone will be able to join the server regardless of whether or not they signed up, but only players will be able to speak in the game channels. if you want to watch the game, this is where you can comment or share theories with other spectators. players cannot see this channel at all, regardless of whether they’re dead or not.
#undead-lair is for players who are dead. similar to spectators, they can see the game channels, but can only speak in their designated channel. dead players still cannot see the peanut gallery.
#art is where players can put fanart of events that have taken place in the game. It doesn’t see a ton of use, but it definitely still gets used so it’s still here. Anyone with the “Artist” role can post in this channel, regardless of whether they are a living player, a dead player, or even a spectator. Therefore it’s extremely important you do not abuse your privilege to speak in this channel to attempt to sway the game if you’re not supposed to be able to. Only put actual artwork here. If you’d like the “Artist” role, DM me with something you’d like to put in it, I’ll give it to you when you prove you have something to contribute.
#game-funnies is a new addition, it’s basically a collection of screenshotted quotes you find funny, especially when taken out of context. You’ll get a feel for it when you see it, trust me. To post in this channel, you also need the “Artist” role. Same restrictions apply, please be careful not to post anything relevant to actual game progress or you will lose your permissions, especially if you’re a spectator or dead player.
Sign-ups:
Due to the fast-paced, short-term nature of this game, sign-ups will be handled a bit differently this time around. There were already a few polls on the discord prior to this thread to figure out the scheduling, and as a result I’ve already got quite a few players interested in playing so they’ve been marked down to play ahead of time. I also don’t care how many players we get, there is no cap on how many I’ll accept. But if we only end up playing with the ones who helped with scheduling, so be it. The game will commence at the scheduled time and date regardless of how many players we end up with in total. You can sign up on here or by DM’ing me on discord (Xaklor#2460). If you do sign up here, make sure to give me your discord tag so I can friend you. This is necessary in order to set up the mafia chatroom. Anyone who has not accepted my friend requests when it’s “go time” will be immediately dropped without question.
Also unlike past games, the strict time scheduling means that there is a definitive deadline to sign up before the game begins. You have until July 12th to sign up. I will not budge on this in any way since there’s less time available to me in the morning this time so no sign-ups on the day of the game will be accepted.
Again as a reminder, the game will take place on July 13th, 2 PM MDT . You will need to be able to devote your full attention to the game for roughly 1 - 2 hours (could be significantly longer or shorter depending on what happens). Please bear that in mind before signing up.
Current Roster:
- ItsLALM
- Geo
- Ruby.
- CandyShi
- TROLLDLLR
- HorusKane
- Zuzu
- Ludfru
- Orsome
- RyanYoon
- GBSlayer
- Nameness
- GammaGamer
- Shelfinder
Here’s the server invite: https://discord.gg/FnP5XUz
Even if you don’t plan on participating, join the server!