Doctor Who Mafia: Game Thread

The allies numbered four, and knew there was a traitor among them. Phlegm continued to claim he was dorian - but Bedsey and Dougy seemed awfully certain of his guilt. Eventually, realising he was no chance of winning, Phlegm confessed his guilt - his final act admitting himself in order to help the allies succeed. Realising there was no other option, Phlegm was lynched.

Phlegm has been lynched. He was Dalek Caan, The First Dalek

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The allies celebrated, for they had survived the enemy invasion. While The Doctor was dead, there were no enemies left. Knowing that there was a machine blocking regeneration aboard the Sontaran ship - Martha and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart travelled to the ship and destroyed the machine. The Doctor could then regenerate, and he did. The Doctor and Martha Jones then continued their travels, dropping off Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart on earth.

Rassilon had achieved all he wanted. He cared about nothing aside from his own survival. A man so powerful, yet feared death so much. And he avoided it - and knowing that he could regenerate, he now knew he avoided it.

However, there is one thing Martha did not consider, and that was The Master. Could he now regenerate? Only time will tell.


TOWN AND RASSILON WIN

The survivors

Bedsey

TheShiv

BigDougy

 

Now - before everyone complains, the game was actually very balanced I thought. The mafia clearly disagree - and I've seen townies complain too.

There was an element of realism however. I didn't want it to be like a normal mafia game where it should be 50/50 (never is though) - I wanted the mafia to be underdogs. More like $2.00 town, $3.00 mafia, $6.00 third party or something. In Doctor Who - the Doctor always wins. Why should the mafia have a win on a platter? I think they had every chance - highlighted by the fact that if Dougy had chosen to side with Flem, they'd have won. As would he - he could have gone either way as he'd have won either way (unless flem went full retard and killed him).

Before Phlegm and Cribb complain - remember that GingerFurball - a framer, and someone I expected to last through the game, was lynched by The Master. Now, I, to a degree, expected some degree of mafia infighting but not that. In doing that however - the master gained the ability to kill. It was in his best interests but also his downfall. I thought he'd be more subtle about it. They also got a cop on Howe N1 and Mariner soon after. Most games it's like D3 before a mafia hit. The town had an awesome start.

What really, really fucked it up for them however was lynching McGrath. Phlegm wanted to have control (and I loved it - well done btw you made it really entertaining) so sent McGrath a message saying we know who you are (via process of elimination) and to kill heath tonight.

McGrath actually complied. But he also had to search for River Song - he got to search 2 people per night so as the game went on he had a good chance of finding her. He PM'd me after his actions saying - change to steve. I assumed, as he had one kill target and 2 search targets, and he hadn't unsearched anyone - he was changing his kill. He wasn't - but it was too late. (Heef was protected that night so the kill would have failed, lol) - so Phlegm wanted to prove a point and kill him.

If Phlegm hadn't done that, they'd have potentially had two more mafia.

They can claim they were doomed, but they weren't - essentially two to three of their own were slain by them. Eds dying early also wasn't great - and killing Downes the day that he was going to kill someone for them was also an excellent idea.

The Master was a role I constructed for a bit of a change. Mafia games were getting stale, and I wanted a changeup. It worked but it pissed off the mafia. I definitely could have constructed it better, I'd be the first to agree - such as making everyone anonymous or allowing the master to win with the mafia (however if he could what purpose would the anonymity of factions serve).

I think if Cribb had kept active it'd have been a much different story too. He can blame me for his inactivity but really - provided he kept active, at the moment of his 'going inactive' I'd say it was 65/35 in the mafias favour.

There was a cop and a detective in the game. There were a few one use detects/cops in the game. Nothing more. Only Baxter and Athers really had the power to clear each night. In a 33 man game I think that's fair. Bedsey's role was gun at the end but if he was killed early it was pointless.

Essentially - I know some people will slaughter me for the mechanics of the game, and with good reason in some instances but I tried, and I think it was better/more balanced than some people will say. I should be allowed to defend myself

Thanks everyone for playing. Hope you all enjoyed it.

 

Enemies discussion was made with 15 or so left, once you'd died essentially - so nah.

You outing the Daleks upon death was terrible, man.

 

Dalek QT
Enemy QT
Silence QT
Sontaran QT
Sarah-Jane & K-9 QT
Doctor + Tardis QT (& Jenny, later)

 

Not to shabby for my first attempt at a Mafia game outside of the Rays subbie.

I won't lie....at times my head was spinning during this game. I still have a lot to learn.

 

tbf was a complex game in terms of characters etc, especially if you didnt really know the theme that well.

 

I feel the gameplay was incredibly complex but still quite even. Would like to hear some townies thoughts on the balance