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Post by DC on Apr 21, 2009 9:46:00 GMT -5
I'll be attending Gen Con in Indianapolis this summer: August 13-16. For those of you who don't know, Gen Con is a gigantic gaming convention (board games, card games (like MTG), electronic games, RPGs, LARPs, etc.). There are all sorts of events and tournaments, including - oh my heck - live mafia. gencon.highprogrammer.com/gencon-indy-2009.cgi/type/ZED/Are_You_a_Werewolf%3fI'm planning on getting the blue ribbon pass ($10) and spending a ton of time playing live mafia/the werewolf game. So yeah, if anyone else knows they're going to attend Gen Con this summer, let me know! Gen Con general: gencon.com/2009/indy/default.aspx |
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Post by Ryan on Apr 21, 2009 11:27:58 GMT -5
Actually sounds fun, but camp as always  It's a shame too, cause I used to play Mafia Live and prefer it to online. Although I don't really think those conventions are for me either lol |
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Post by DC on Jul 28, 2009 8:17:33 GMT -5
Bumpin' dis shit.
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Post by Gabriela on Jul 28, 2009 8:32:43 GMT -5
You are such a dork, DC. LOL
Oh, in a completely unrelated note that I don't know where else to put and hardly ever see you on AIM or anything: Solitary 4.0 appears to be in production. Huzzah!
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Post by DC on Jul 28, 2009 9:51:27 GMT -5
Who you callin' dork, you ... you ... dork!
It's 3 hours away from you. You should go :-)
This "Solitary" news is very exciting, so thank you for sharing. I still rave about how great season 1 was.
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Post by Gabriela on Jul 28, 2009 9:56:12 GMT -5
I work Friday 11p-4:30a and Saturday 11p-5:30a, so that wouldn't work all that well.
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Post by DC on Jul 28, 2009 10:20:32 GMT -5
I refuse to believe it, Ms. Gabby.
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Post by Almathea on Jul 28, 2009 13:10:18 GMT -5
I would go if I wasn't over 3000 miles away! Last year I was in chicago in august!
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Post by Kirsten on Jul 28, 2009 19:01:19 GMT -5
Sounds fun. I probably won't go, but I will choose to entertain the idea.
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Post by DC on Jul 29, 2009 1:08:08 GMT -5
They have a games library where you can rent just about any board game ever made!! And all the board game companies are there with their new games to demo. And lots of card games and miniatures and LARP and D&D events and tournaments. And 220 workshops on everything including game design, making Stormtrooper costumes, publishing games, Submarine and Anti-Submarine Warfare, designing characters, and writing shit (or how not to write shit, whatever). And 50 random films, with everything from Star Trek II to Frankenstein Conquers the World to Hellevator: The Bottled Fool to Plan 9 from Outer Space (I'm going to this, with riffed commentary by Mike Nelson from MST3K) And lots of wacko stuff like drum circles, a Billy Mayes tribute, Knights of the Dinner Table, swordfighting, a Zombie Walk, and a Queen of the Geeks pageant. And DID I SAY MAFIA? Yes, there will be mafia. In 15 days I will get my fix. gencon.highprogrammer.com/gencon-indy-2009.cgiBrowsable catalog |
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Post by Gabriela on Jul 29, 2009 5:36:02 GMT -5
I refuse to believe it, Ms. Gabby. What's not to believe? And that's Mrs. Gabby, thank you. I'd prefer to preserve the memory of my deceased husband, if that's alright with you. |
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Post by DC on Aug 17, 2009 9:19:22 GMT -5
I'm baaaaaack!
GenCon was fantastic. It was just epic. I couldn't describe it and still do it justice. Picture a giant convention hall + the 3 attached hotels filled at all hours with gamers, RPGers, LARPers, card games, and miniatures. I got to play dozens of board games, I tried anime (I watched volume 1 of Ergo Proxy, didn't like it all that much), didn't go to any seminars (maybe next year), saw lots of fun costumes and this corner of the convention where there were always people sitting on the floor playing some kind of war game with large ships made of Legos. There was a convention-wide puzzle involving word games that I took a stab at, a Klingon jail, and swords for sale. And of course, mafia. Lots and lots of mafia. I played every night, maybe 20 games in all. They assigned roles randomly, using cards, and I always got the plain vanilla townie card. Always. I picked out mafia on round one in a sole accusation about 66% of the time but got majorly fooled in some games. My favorite games were the one I played with a bunch of rowdy, good-natured southerners (they were the only group to use variations, like the Possessed [the traitor but knows the identity of the mafia] and the Hunter [gets to kill someone when killed]) and the one where it came down to me and 2 guys in the F3 and I correctly picked the right mafia (gave the guy a big hug afterwards).
Also told a couple people about the board, including these brothers who I became very fond of to the point where I could no longer tell if they were mafia or not (emotional interference) and one of them night-killed me in the last game I played! Bah.
I'm definitely returning to this nerd paradise next year.
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Post by Kirsten on Aug 17, 2009 11:50:23 GMT -5
Rowdy, good-natured southern mafia for the win!
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Post by Judge Sam on Aug 17, 2009 19:39:15 GMT -5
That sounds really enjoyable.  The only big convention I've been to was a journalism education one when I was in high school which filled up the huge lobby in this really nice hotel and like 10 of their business rooms for a few days. Can't even imagine what one the size of a convention center + three hotels is like haha. Did you take any pictures, possibly of people in funny costumes?  Sucks about the always being a regular citizen. Were the people playing mafia like you got to know the same group of people or was it new people each game or each night? If so did you get a reputation of being a mafia-killer?  |
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Post by Mei Yun on Aug 17, 2009 20:02:39 GMT -5
Oh god... I knew I was forgetting something!!! I'm so happy you got to go there. Share pictures!!! |
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Post by DC on Aug 18, 2009 8:34:14 GMT -5
I don't own a digital but everyone in my group did, so I let them take all the pictures. I shall share some once they post them.
There are definitely pictures of people in costumes. People wore them all the time, but especially on the last day when there was a costume contest. My favorite was an 8-foot-tall Chewbacca. I walked right up to him and casually asked, "So, who are you supposed to be?" Everyone around me laughed.
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Post by ambrose on Aug 19, 2009 15:11:45 GMT -5
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Post by DC on Aug 19, 2009 15:56:06 GMT -5
Hey, you kicked ass when you were mafia or the seer. Awesomeness for sure.
(In case it wasn't obvious, this is one of the brothers I mentioned in my previous post. Welcome to Spies!!)
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Post by Jason on Aug 19, 2009 22:27:31 GMT -5
Real life mafia is amazing!! My WoW guild plays it when we get together usually, I'm jealous of you, DC!
And you're lucky that Chewbacca didn't pull your arm out of its socket.
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Post by DC on Aug 24, 2009 9:36:02 GMT -5
Okay pic time! I'll try to sum up GenCon + provide costume shots:  Giant artwork  Obligatory booth babe photo  Poor quality but oh well. This is Cardhalla, where people build card house structures. At the end of the con, you can pay money to destroy everything (proceeds go to charity; first couple of shots are auctioned off).  Demoing a board game at the vendor's table. I won this game of Wits & Wagers and got to spin the wheel for a prize!  This is me not correctly accusing the mafia, as they are the guy to my right and the guy 2 over on my left. The mafia won this game because the seer and the hunter were complete idiots - the seer let the group lynch her without role-claiming late in the game, when she knew plenty of IDs, and the hunter let herself be lynched at the F3 without role-claiming and killed the other citizen with her.  Unsuccessful game of Werewolf. I joined this group for 1 game but it was like 2 a.m. and people were getting kind of tired-silly. In round 1 I was like "Okay, pink shirt (left side of the pic) is definitely mafia, and white shirt (guy next to him) probably is too" but everyone was like, "Oh, but pink shirt's so nice, we don't want to lynch him" and killed off the sheriff instead. I was like "I can tell this game is going to be long and ridiculous, and it's late anyway, I want to go to bed, so mafia, please night-kill me" and they did. And I found out afterwards that I was right on both. Booya. |
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Post by DC on Aug 24, 2009 9:39:24 GMT -5
 Batman villians  Star Trek & Star Wars  Chewbacca  Buy me this shirt. |
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Post by Ellis on Aug 24, 2009 16:36:21 GMT -5
Dammit dammit dammit I wish we had stuff like this over here.  This looks fabulously awesome in a fantastically brilliant kinda way. |
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Post by DC on Aug 25, 2009 12:47:45 GMT -5
August 5-8, 2010: Start saving your vacation time!
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Post by Jaya on Aug 25, 2009 21:58:47 GMT -5
I've never played live mafia. I'd love to try it the next time I have a group at the house. Do the mafia get to discuss at night? And how do you send in your night moves?
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Post by DC on Aug 26, 2009 9:44:05 GMT -5
Setup: Everyone sits in a circle, moderator walks around as they please.
Two primary ways to distribute roles:
1. Randomly - moderator hands out cards - "whoever receives an ace is mafia", "whoever receives the queen is the cop", etc.
2. Moderator chooses - everyone puts their heads down and the moderator taps people to give them roles - "two taps on the head is mafia", "five taps on the shoulder is the seer", etc.
Moderator tells everyone to put their heads down. In some games people will loudly tap their leg so noise doesn't give the mafia away.
Moderator says "Mafia, heads up" "werewolves, awaken", whatever. Mafia look up and see each other.
1. If there's an odd number of players, the mafia just see who their cohorts are
2. If there's an even number of players, the mafia make a night kill so there's an odd number of people going into the voting round (optional)
Moderator says "Mafia, heads down"
Moderator says "(Name of role), heads up" - moderator's choice on whether the person with the role gets to use their power or not. Like if the roleholder is a cop, they will get to silently point to anyone in the game, and the moderator will tell them (either vocally, "You have/have not found a member of the mafia" or silently with a thumbs up or thumbs down) if they are right
Moderator says "Everyone, heads up", "town, awaken", etc.
Voting round - moderator decides how voting goes.
- You can do "you need a complete majority to lynch" - so if there are 9 players, at least 5 must vote together for one person for the kill to go through"
- You can do simple "majority rules" - whoever has the most votes when the moderator calls for the voting period gets killed
- You can do nominations - person A nominates person B, person C seconds the nomination of person B, person A makes their case, person B has the chance to defend themselves, everyone then votes for or against person B
The moderator reveals the identity of the lynched person (if roles were given via cards, people will flip their cards over)
Moderator says "everyone, heads down" and the cycle repeats
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Post by Faith on Aug 26, 2009 21:56:10 GMT -5
I want a picture with Chewie |
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Post by Mei Yun on Aug 27, 2009 21:00:57 GMT -5
OMG DC You look awesome as a Booth Babe!  |
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Post by DC on Aug 28, 2009 11:03:10 GMT -5
LOL that's NOT me.
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Post by Pete on Aug 29, 2009 16:56:05 GMT -5
Most of the mafia games (the vast majority of them) I played before being in Spies was live games, with my mates. I introduced the game to them, and about 20 of them know it and play (so we play games from 7 to 21 players). Obviously, the rules can get very windy and long, and you cant have as many roles in the game as you would otherwise like, which is a shame. Everytime I try and add in a role outside of the basic 'cop/doctor' setup it takes a while for them to get used to it, funnily enough the roles that they did take a shining to are 'bomber' which is like the vigilante but if your victim is citizen then you die too....and 'clan' rules, you sign up, at night, to join a clan and if anyone shouts 'clan suicide' then all members of the clan must commit suicide. Yeah. We totally play that seriously. To further simplify the game, we vote using an 'accusation' system, one person accuses someone else, and vote is between the accuser and the accusee. Roles are determined by cards, with cardflips being...well...card flips and the cop is allowed to look at what the card is (so the chance to find the doc is available). These rules seem boring, but, weve had fun times playing it |
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