Hello town

Mafia was a huge success last year at ESA and despite the fact that it was the first time playing the game for a lot of people, there were plenty of memorable moments coming from both great and ... questionable plays.

There will be more mafia this year, and we're hoping to make it even better.
Some of us kept playing every week over internet, and we slowly started excluding or tweaking some of the more imbalanced roles in our games. 
We feel like we have arrived at a fairly balanced state and even though we've played quite a lot of games by now, they're still fun.


But first of all, for those who don't know, what is mafia ?

It's a party game of logic and lies. At the start of the game, the players are divided into two teams: the majority will end up being members of the town, and only a few will end up being the mafia.
Members of the mafia will know who the other mafiosi are, while the townies know nothing besides their own role.
The game has two alternate phases: the night phase, where the mafia will kill a townie and where the so-called power roles (more on this later) do their actions, and the day phase where the whole group discusses what happened and chose one person to lynch.
The game ends in a town victory if all the members of the mafia are dead, and a mafia victory if there are an equal or larger number of mafia players left than there are townies.

There are some power roles to spice things up.
-The Medic can protect a player during the night. If said player is targeted by the mafia to be killed, he will survive instead.
-The Parity Cop can check a player each night and gets told if the person he checked tonight is of the same or different alignment than the person he checked the previous night. (Yes, he is useless night 0 - the regular cop is actually way too strong)
-The Vigilante can kill a player at night, once per game.

There are many, many more, but those are the ones that are the most balanced and that we use regularly.


Oh, and one more thing.

We're gonna set up a stream and stream everything on twitch!
We actually sort of wanted to do that already last year, during one of the open blocks of the second stream but it ended up not working out. This time, we're setting something up just for ourselves.
Besides the obvious interest of watching a bunch of speedrunners play a party game, it's also a good opportunity to show the "behind the scenes" of ESA.

The setup is gonna be pretty simple, though we're gonna limit the number of players in a single game to 20 probably, not just to be able to fit them all on the couple cameras we'll have, but also because it becomes quite messy at anything above 20 as we've experienced it first hand last year.

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