Take a seat while we shuffle the cards. Welcome to Poker Mafia!!!
Welcome to my very first Forum Match. Poker Mafia!
This is a mafia game heavily based on gambling and RNG, but there won’t be any bastard mechanics or unfair advantages! If you don’t like RNG you are not forced to gamble, everyone gets free tokens each day!
The game works mostly like a normal forum mafia game, with a town faction, an evil faction and a few neutrals. However, instead of having different roles for each player, most players (except the neutrals and the Godfather) will have classes that start with no abilities.
To get an ability, you need tokens. Players start the game with 5 tokens. At the beginning of each day except day 1 every player gains 3 tokens and can gain more with daytime events related to gambling. You can also “sell” your abilities for tokens.
You don’t buy the abilities directly with tokens, instead you have to bet. Every day there will be a pool of abilities. During the day, you can place any number of tokens on one or multiple abilities, and at the beginning of the night whoever placed the most tokens will get the ability permanently. There is not a maximum number of abilities a single player can have at the same time.
Host: Psychoneirik
Cohost: Firekitten
#Rules
#Gameplay
General:
- Days will be 3 IRL days long, or shorter if someone dies
- Nights will be 1 IRL day long
- Actions are done by messaging me
- Mafia will talk through a special Discord server. They have both day and night chat.
- When you receive a card you will have 24 hours to reply, confirming you have received it
Ability pool and betting:
- The pool will have abilities equal to the number of players minus 3. There will always be a minimum of 3 abilities in the pool.
- The ability pool changes every day.
- You can place your bets by messaging a host with the number of the ability and the ammount of tokens, for example: “I want to bet 10 tokens on ability #4”.
- Bets are private and will not be revealed to anyone, except for some specific abilities or events.
- You can place or change your bets at any point during the daytime.
- Even though I call it betting, getting abilities is more like an auction. The player with the highest amount of tokens in each ability will get said ability.
- If there is a tie, the person with the less number of non-starting abilities will get it. If that is also a tie, it will be solved by rng.
- Each night, a player will get ALL the abilities in which they had the most tokens.
- The abilities are given to the player at the beginning of the night, which means they can use them that same night.
- You can have more than 2 day and night abilities. There is no limit.
- Players can only use one day ability per day and one night ability per night. The only exception is The Cheater, who can pay tokens to use more than one ability.
- You are not forced to bet every day. You can save your tokens for a later day.
- To sell an ability send a message to the host telling him which ability you want to sell.
- You cannot have duplicate abilities. If you get an ability you already have you will get increased uses instead.
- You will get 5 tokens back for selling unused abilities, and 1-4 tokens if you have used some of its charges. You will get no tokens for selling abilities with 0 uses.
- Passives are sold for 5 tokens, unless its a one shoot passive that has already triggered (such as death immunity once).
- Abilities that you sell will go back into the pool for anyone to buy. They will have the same remaining uses.
- You will know whether you got an ability or not at the beginning of the night. If you lose a bet, you will not know who got the ability.
- If The Gambler gives a special token to a Leprechaun, they will give them 10 normal tokens instead.
Events:
- There will be one event every day.
- Some events require you to vote for someone or pay a certain amount of tokens. This is done through messaging the host.
- The event will end in 24 hours or earlier if everyone has performed the required actions.
- You can discuss about the game and lynch people while an event is running. Lynching someone will immediately end the event.
- The results of the event will be public unless stated otherwise.
Executions:
- To accuse someone say “/lynch [player]” or “/vote [player]”
- If a player gets enough votes they will be lynched.
- Executions end the Day, so be sure to bet before someone is lynched!
Journals
- Message me your entire journal, the last draft I receive before you die shall be the one displayed
Mafia/NK/Neutral specific interactions:
- Godfather can make himself attack someone, but it would still use up 3 tokens.
- If the GF makes a mafioso kill someone, he uses the 3 tokens. The mafioso DOESN’T get them.
- If a member of the mafia attacks a gambler or leprechaun, the attacker will know their class.
- Gambler wins with mafia but is a neutral class, which means he is allowed to out the cheater or members of the mafia.
- If Godfather sends someone to attack a leprechaun, the mafioso that attacked him will get the bribe.
- If you attack a leprechaun with less than 7 tokens, you will get the bribe AND kill them.
- If you try to attack a gambler you will be prevented from doing it. Which means it wouldn’t count as an attack for abilities purposes.
- If a leprechaun loses their tokens on the day time for any reason, they will die immediately.
- Leprechaun’s passive works like a heal, so he can survive any attacks, poison or bleeding as long as he has enough tokens. Abilities that go through immunity will not kill him, but abilities that go through healing will.
#To Join
- To join, simply express interest in joining by saying something like “I want to join” or “/join” or “/in” or “sign me up, coach” or whatever you want
#Class cards
Classes
Townie
Townie has no starting abilities. They must exchange tokens for them.
Goal: Defeat Mafia and The Cheater
Mafioso
Mafioso has no starting abilities. They must exchange tokens for them.
Goal: Defeat Town and The Cheater
Godfather
Filthy rich (Passive): You start the game with 10 tokens. You cannot buy any abilities for yourself, instead, any abilities you buy will be given to a mafioso of your choice.
Pass the torch (Passive): You are immune to death at night. If you die, a mafioso of your choice will gain the “Hired Gun” ability.
Loan (Day): Give a player a loan. You will give them 5 tokens. They must pay you 10 tokens back. If two days pass and they don’t pay you back they will die. 3 uses.
Hired gun(Night): Pay 3 tokens to make a mafioso kill a player. If there are no mafiosos alive, you will kill them yourself. (The mafioso won’t get the tokens, they will be lost)
Goal: Defeat Town and The Cheater.
Leprechaun
Neutral
Lucky 7 (Passive): You start the game with 7 tokens. You are unable to buy abilities from the ability pool.
Bribe (Passive): You will bribe your attackers, giving them 7 tokens to spare your life. If you ever run out of tokens you will die.
Cursed Gold (Day): Select an ability from the ability pool. You will steal all the tokens from anyone that placed a bet on that ability and no one will be able to get said ability. People will be notified when you use this ability, but they won’t know which ability is cursed. 2 uses.
Make Deal (Day): Select a player and make a deal. If they accept, they will give you half of their tokens and become immune to death, occupation an redirection for one night. If they refuse, their class and abilities will be revealed to the whole court. 3 uses.
Trickster (Night): Select a player. They will lose 1 use of all their non-starting abilities, and you will gain 2 tokens for every ability affected. Unlimited uses.
Goal: Survive.
The Gambler
Neutral
Let the game begin (Passive): You are unable to buy abilities from the ability pool. You will secretly gain 50% more tokens from events.
Persuasion (Passive): You cannot be killed by Mafia or The Cheater.
High stakes (Day): Select an ability. If that ability has the least amount of tokens at the end of the day you will gain 10 tokens. Unlimited uses.
Proxy meeting (Day): Use 10 tokens to send an anonymous message to all Mafia players and The Cheater. Unlimited uses.
Poker Face (Night): Use 10 tokens to learn the exact class of a player. Unlimited uses.
Special Gift (Night): Use 10 tokens to give a player a special token, they can use it instead of normal tokens to guarantee they will get an ability. The Special token only lasts for the next day and if they don’t spend it they will lose it. Unlimited uses.
Goal: Survive to see town lose.
Cheater
Neutral Killer
Card counting (Passive): Immune to death at night. You know the highest number of tokens on each ability from the pool.
Sleight of hand (Passive): You can pay 5 tokens to use an extra night or day ability. You cannot use the same ability multiple times.
All-In (Night): Kill a player.
Rigged event (Night): Rig tomorrow’s event. No one will win tokens in said event and whoever “wins” the most tokens will die instantly. 1 use. (Only one person can die to this ability).
Goal: Defeat the Town and Mafia.
#Notifications
Day Notifications
“The Leprechaun has cursed one of the abilities in the pool! Anyone that places tokens in that ability will lose them!”
“You got 5 tokens from the Godfather. You must pay 10 tokens within the next two days or you will die! To pay, write /pay loan in your class card.”
“The Leprechaun has offered you a deal. If you pay him half of your tokens (rounded up, including the ones currently on events or the ability pool) you will become immune to death and occupation tonight. If you refuse, your class will be revealed to the court. Write /accept or /deny on your class card.”
“The event was rigged! The person who “won” the most tokens has died.”
Night Notifications
“The Leprechaun has stolen 1 use of all your non-starting abilities!”
“You could not attack [Player]. They are the Gambler.”
“[Player] gave you 7 coins last night to stop you from killing them!”
#Role List
Townie
Townie
Townie
Townie
Townie
Townie
Townie
Townie
Townie
Godfather
Mafioso
Mafioso
Leprechaun
Gambler
Cheater (NK)
Players:
- Marluxion DEAD, Townie died N2
- PokemonKidRyan
- MaximusPrime - DEAD, Townie died N3
- Celeste_Ludenberg
- Whammerist DEAD, Cheater lynched d3
- Moleland - DEAD, Townie died N1
- Hippolytus - DEAD, Townie died N1
- CaptainNerbins
- NightX DEAD, Townie lynched D2
- NuclearBurrito DEAD, Mafioso died N2
- boss110 - DEAD, Townie died N3
- Sam17z
- Memesky
- htm
- Twil1ght - DEAD, Townie lynched D1
#Notable events
Day 1 ability pool and highest bids
Day 1 event results
Twil1ight was lynched! They were a Townie!
Start of day 2, two bodies were found! (Hippolytus and Moleland)
Leprechaun revealed Celeste’s class! They are a Gambler!
Day 2 ability pool and highest bids
Day 2 event results
NightX was lynched!
#Today’s Ability Pool
The number of abilities in the current pool is: 6!
Day 4 Ability Pool
= Passive
= Day ability
= Night ability
1 - Force a player to target another. Cannot force them to target you or themselves. 3 uses.
2 - Increases the number of votes required to lynch someone by 1 today. 2 uses.
3 - Heal a player from attacks, doesn’t heal poison or bleeding. 4 uses.
#Today’s Event
-The three boxes: There are 3 boxes. The Blue Box has 20 tokens, The Green Box has 15 tokens and The Red Box has 10 tokens. You may choose one of the boxes. The tokens from each box will be split between the players that picked said box.
