Info Mafia Game Example-PMs

GrySun · Mar 22, 2018

This thread is for examples of all PMs a host would need to send to players both before and during a game. There are further explanations below each PM about who to send it to, when and under which circumstances to send it, and all that needs to be edited to use it.
This is mainly intended for hosts to have something reliable to copy-paste/reference when hosting, but it can also be useful for players.
These examples contain only the minimum of necessary info that must be in the PMs. Hosts can still add more text/pics as usual or rewrite the PM text fully themselves, but when rewriting please make sure to include everything necessary.

PMs before the game starts

Please confirm that you will play the upcoming Mafia Game which starts on 00.00.0000 00:00 CEST.

Before confirming, make sure that you will have enough time to play the game. This includes being able to:

Read other players' posts. There can be ~200 posts to read every Day Phase.
Post at least 3 times every Day Phase.
Vote for another player at least once every Day Phase.
Send in your role actions PM during the Night Phase (or in advance during the Day Phase) if you have an active role.
Talk to your group during the Night Phase if you have a group.

*To be sent to all players ~2 days before the game starts.
*Need to change: Date and time.

Your role is Detective

"The Detective 'investigates' one person per night phase i.e. asks the host through a PM about a player's allegiance. He gets an "Innocent" result for Townies and "Guilty" for non-Townies. The Detective doesn't know about his sanity."

Keep in mind the basic behavior rules of the game:

Post at least 3 times and Vote at least once every Day Phase.
Don't post more than 100 times per day phase.
No talking during the Night Phases, no talking about the game outside the game thread and no talking if you are dead.
You are not allowed to quote or screenshot PMs relating to the game, this includes quoting your Host, your role PM, or any private communication with other players. (You may, however, paraphrase in a way that leaves room for reasonable doubt). This also includes describing unimportant PM-details(color/font of text, fluff pics etc.) with intent to confirm your PM contents. If you do, you will be hostkilled and banned from future games (Hall of Shame). Fake screenshots and quotes will be treated the same as genuine ones.
Daytime-specific commands cannot be used in the last hour of the day phase.
Following the basic forum rules and the Fun Forum guideline, players are not allowed to insult nor bash each other, this will not be tolerated and will be punished. The infraction will follow the standard host approach for minor violations, favouring the host's discretion.
You are not allowed to ignore directions sent in to you by the host. It's a Minor Violation if you fail to respond accordingly.
You are not allowed to majorly edit the content of your posts, nor delete any of your own or someone else's post without the Host's approval. If you do, you may get a Minor Violation punishment or hostkilled immediately and banned from future games (Hall of Shame).
You are expected to play to your win condition(s). Intentionally undermining your team or joining a game with the sole intent to troll is not allowed. ("Bad" or "alternative" plays, however, are allowed, if you sincerely believe in their merit.) Remember that while you are playing for fun, others take the game seriously. Please do not play against your win condition or play in a manner that is deliberately harmful to your side, regardless of how small your chances are. (This infraction will follow the host's judgment or, if needed a second opinion, the Council's. It's recommended that the hosts don't do anything with the infractor during the game and only do so once the game is over.)

Not upholding these rules can lead to Penalty Votes or immediate hostkill/removal from the game and ban from future games.

If at some point you become unable to uphold minimum activity, please inform the host beforehand to find a solution.

The game thread is here. Read the Opening Post and make sure to wear your assigned avatar during the length of this game.

If you still have questions or concerns after reading this PM and the opening post, don't hesitate to ask questions by replying to this conversation.

Good luck and have fun!

*To be sent to every groupless player individually right before the game starts.
*Need to change(for every player): Avatar, Role, Role Description, Link to game thread.

Name1, Name2. You are the Mafia.

Name1
Your role is Mafia Boss

"The Mafia Boss shows the same to a Detective's investigations as a regular Townie would. He is usually in charge of coordinating the Mafia activity at night and may act as the contact person to the host. In case of disagreement with his fellow mafias over Night activities he has the final say."

Name2
Your role is Mafia Detective

"The Mafia Detective has the ability to investigate one player per Night and learn the player's Role. The Mafia learns the result of the investigation at the end of each night. Whenever the Mafia Detective's investigation ability is performed, he cannot be chosen to go for a kill on the same night."

*After the first Day Phase ends you will be given a private means of communication to talk with each other and decide on your actions during the Night Phases.

Keep in mind the basic behavior rules of the game:

Post at least 3 times and Vote at least once every Day Phase.
Don't post more than 100 times per day phase.
No talking during the Night Phases, no talking about the game outside the game thread and no talking if you are dead.
You are not allowed to quote or screenshot PMs relating to the game, this includes quoting your Host, your role PM, or any private communication with other players. (You may, however, paraphrase in a way that leaves room for reasonable doubt). This also includes describing unimportant PM-details(color/font of text, fluff pics etc.) with intent to confirm your PM contents. If you do, you will be hostkilled and banned from future games (Hall of Shame). Fake screenshots and quotes will be treated the same as genuine ones.
Daytime-specific commands cannot be used in the last hour of the day phase.
Following the basic forum rules and the Fun Forum guideline, players are not allowed to insult nor bash each other, this will not be tolerated and will be punished. The infraction will follow the standard host approach for minor violations, favouring the host's discretion.
You are not allowed to ignore directions sent in to you by the host. It's a Minor Violation if you fail to respond accordingly.
You are not allowed to majorly edit the content of your posts, nor delete any of your own or someone else's post without the Host's approval. If you do, you may get a Minor Violation punishment or hostkilled immediately and banned from future games (Hall of Shame).
You are expected to play to your win condition(s). Intentionally undermining your team or joining a game with the sole intent to troll is not allowed. ("Bad" or "alternative" plays, however, are allowed, if you sincerely believe in their merit.) Remember that while you are playing for fun, others take the game seriously. Please do not play against your win condition or play in a manner that is deliberately harmful to your side, regardless of how small your chances are. (This infraction will follow the host's judgment or, if needed a second opinion, the Council's. It's recommended that the hosts don't do anything with the infractor during the game and only do so once the game is over.)

Not upholding these rules can lead to Penalty Votes or immediate hostkill/removal from the game and ban from future games.

The game thread is here. Read the Opening Post and make sure to wear your assigned avatar during the length of this game.

If you still have questions or concerns after reading this PM and the opening post, don't hesitate to ask questions by replying to this conversation.

Good luck and have fun!

*To be sent to all Mafia Members or starting group of Masons/Mentor - Mentee right before the game starts.
*This is an example for the smallest Mafia team, consisting of 2 players.
*Need to change(for every player): Names, Avatars, Roles, Role Descriptions, Link to game thread.

Your role is Detective

"The Detective 'investigates' one person per night phase i.e. asks the host through a PM about a player's allegiance. He gets an "Innocent" result for Townies and "Guilty" for non-Townies. The Detective doesn't know about his sanity."

You have the secondary role Traitor

"The Traitor can only be assigned to a Townie role, but he can only win with the Mafia team. This secondary role lets the player know the names of all mafias at the start of the game, and if the player is targeted by the mafia with a successful killing action he gets recruited and becomes a normal Mafia Member. The Traitor counts as a non-Townie for Detective investigations, as well as for Mason/Mentee recruitment."

The mafia members are PlayerX and PlayerY.

Keep in mind the basic behavior rules of the game:

Post at least 3 times and Vote at least once every Day Phase.
Don't post more than 100 times per day phase.
No talking during the Night Phases, no talking about the game outside the game thread and no talking if you are dead.
You are not allowed to quote or screenshot PMs relating to the game, this includes quoting your Host, your role PM, or any private communication with other players. (You may, however, paraphrase in a way that leaves room for reasonable doubt). This also includes describing unimportant PM-details(color/font of text, fluff pics etc.) with intent to confirm your PM contents. If you do, you will be hostkilled and banned from future games (Hall of Shame). Fake screenshots and quotes will be treated the same as genuine ones.
Daytime-specific commands cannot be used in the last hour of the day phase.
Following the basic forum rules and the Fun Forum guideline, players are not allowed to insult nor bash each other, this will not be tolerated and will be punished. The infraction will follow the standard host approach for minor violations, favouring the host's discretion.
You are not allowed to ignore directions sent in to you by the host. It's a Minor Violation if you fail to respond accordingly.
You are not allowed to majorly edit the content of your posts, nor delete any of your own or someone else's post without the Host's approval. If you do, you may get a Minor Violation punishment or hostkilled immediately and banned from future games (Hall of Shame).
You are expected to play to your win condition(s). Intentionally undermining your team or joining a game with the sole intent to troll is not allowed. ("Bad" or "alternative" plays, however, are allowed, if you sincerely believe in their merit.) Remember that while you are playing for fun, others take the game seriously. Please do not play against your win condition or play in a manner that is deliberately harmful to your side, regardless of how small your chances are. (This infraction will follow the host's judgment or, if needed a second opinion, the Council's. It's recommended that the hosts don't do anything with the infractor during the game and only do so once the game is over.)

Not upholding these rules can lead to Penalty Votes or immediate hostkill/removal from the game and ban from future games.

The game thread is here. Read the Opening Post and make sure to wear your assigned avatar during the length of this game.

If you still have questions or concerns after reading this PM and the opening post, don't hesitate to ask questions by replying to this conversation.

Good luck and have fun!

*To be sent to the Traitor/Naive Traitor right before the game starts. For Naive Traitor the names of the mafia members are random players from the player list, excluding the Naive Traitor himself.
*Need to change: Avatar, Role, Role Description, Mafia members names and number, Link to game thread.

Name1, Name2. You two have the secondary role Lovers.

"The Lovers are secondary roles that are assigned to two players of different groups. If only one of them remains, he commits suicide on the following night. They win if their number is equal or greater than the number of townies remaining and all other non-townies are dead. They can talk in private at each Night phase."

In this game there exists a Threesome Candidate.

"At the start of the game the Lovers are notified that there is a Threesome in the game. The Threesome Candidate can join the Lovers, if he finds out who they are. He has one guess per Day by PMing the host 2 player names. He gets back a result whether he guessed correctly 0, 1 or 2 Lovers. If he guesses the 2 Lovers correctly in the same Day, he joins them as the third Lover. His guesses do not count as actions. If both of his Lovers die, he commits suicide on the following Night, regardless if he joined them or not.
If one of the Lovers dies before the Candidate has joined their group, he may guess on the night of the supposed suicide who the remaining living Lover is and becomes a substitute for the one who passed away, if he succeeds."

*After the first Day Phase ends you will be given a private means of communication to talk with each other.

Good luck and have fun!

*To be sent to the 2 Lovers right before the game starts.
*Need to change: Names, If the game has no Threesome Candidate remove the Threesome Candidate text.

PMs during a game, caused by player roles

You have been recruited to the Mason group by PlayerX (Mason Recruiter) and your role changes to Mason.

The other members of the Mason group are:
PlayerY (Mason)
PlayerZ (Mason)

*At the start of the next Night Phase you will be given a private means of communication to talk with each other.

*To be sent to a player who was successfully recruited by a Recruiting Mason at the end of the Night Phase in which he was recruited.
*Need to change: Recruiter name, number and name of other Mason members.

You have been recruited by PlayerX (Mentor) and your role changes to Mentee. Your win-condition changes to winning as 3rd party with your Mentor.

*At the start of the next Night Phase you will be given a private means of communication to talk with each other.

*To be sent to a player who was successfully recruited by a Mentor at the end of the Night Phase in which he was recruited.
*Need to change: Mentor name.

You have been recruited by the Mafia and your role changes to Mafia Member. Your win-condition changes to winning as Mafia with this mafia group.

The living members of the mafia group are:
PlayerX (Mafia Boss)
PlayerY (Mafia Janitor)

*At the start of the next Night Phase you will be given a private means of communication to talk with each other and decide on your actions during the Night Phases.

*To be sent to a Sleeper or Traitor who was targeted by a Mafia's successful killing action and recruited to their mafia at the end of the Night Phase in which he was recruited.
*Need to change: Number, names and roles of all Mafias of that Mafia group.

PlayerX was a Sleeper/Traitor/Insane Apprentice and joins your mafia as (Unskilled) Mafia Member! He will be given a link to your [means of communication] at the start of the next night phase.

*To be sent to all Mafias of the Mafia Group which recruited a Sleeper/Traitor or when an Insane Apprentice joins them.
*Need to change: Player name, remove the "Unskilled" part of the role name for Sleeper/Traitor or include it for Insane Apprentice.

PlayerX joins your Mason group as a Mason! He will be given a link to your [means of communication] at the start of the next night phase.

*To be sent to all living members of the Mason Group when an Apprentice/Insane Apprentice/Pirate/Mafia Pirate joins them by learning from a normal Mason at the end of the Night Phase in which he joined them.
*Need to change: Player name.

PlayerX was an Apprentice and joins your Mentor/Mentee group as a Mentee! He will be given a link to your [means of communication] at the start of the next night phase.

*To be sent to all living members of the Mentor-Mentee Group when an Insane Apprentice joins them by learning from the Mentee at the end of the Night Phase in which he joined them.
*Need to change: Player name.

PlayerX was a Threesome Candidate and correctly guessed (both Lovers/the remaining Lover). He will now join your group as another Lover. He will be given a link to your [means of communication] at the start of the next night phase.

*To be sent to the Lovers during the Day Phase when the Threesome Candidate guesses them both as the Lovers, or at the end of the Night Phase if the Threesome Candidate correctly guesses the remaining Lover with his last guess.
*Need to change: Player name, slight wording difference depending on if he guessed both at Day or the remaining Lover at Night.

Role Action PMs

Town

Your target is Innocent.

-or-

Your target is Guilty.

Your target's role was Detective.

Your target targeted PlayerX.

-or- (if Spy was blocked or his target did nothing that Night)

Your investigation ended with no results.

Actions used on your target in chronological order until his/her death:

Night 1 he was investigated and protected.
Night 2 he was blocked.
Night 3 he was killed.

*to the host: there's a more extensive list of possible results a Mortician may receive in the MG Interactions Thread.

Your target targeted:
Night 1 - PlayerX
Night 2 - PlayerY

-(Only sent if he used his action and wasn't blocked)-

Your action was used up and can't be used anymore, regardless if your target was a Bomb or not.

You may now pick a player you wish to kill, who dies at the end of the night.

You successfully stole the role Detective and can now use all powers of this role as your own.

"The Detective 'investigates' one person per night phase i.e. asks the host through a PM about a player's allegiance. He gets an "Innocent" result for Townies and "Guilty" for non-Townies."

You successfully learned two times from the same person. Your role changes to your teacher's role, which is Detective.

-or-

You successfully learned two times from the same person. Your role changes to your teacher's role, which is Mason. You join their Mason group.

-or- (Only if Insane Sanity)

You successfully learned two times from the same person. Your role changes to your teacher's role, which is Mentee. You join the Mentor-Mentee group of PlayerX (Mentor) and PlayerY (Mentee).

*At the start of the next Night Phase you will be given a private means of communication to talk with each other and decide on your actions during the Night Phases.

-or- (Only if Insane Sanity)

You successfully learned two times from the same person, but he/she is part of the Mafia. You join his/her mafia group and become an Unskilled Mafia Member.

The living members of the mafia group are:
PlayerX (Mafia Boss)
PlayerY (Mafia Janitor)

*At the start of the next Night Phase you will be given a private means of communication to talk with each other and decide on your actions during the Night Phases.

Your may make your post and vote during this day phase.

You successfully recruited PlayerX to your Mason group and changed his/her role to Mason.

0 of your guessed players are Lovers.

-or-

1 of your guessed players is a Lover.

-or-

You have correctly guessed both Lovers! You will now join their Lovers group as the third Lover.

*At the start of the next Night Phase you will be given a private means of communication to talk with each other.

-or- (Only at the first Night Phase after one Lover died)

You incorrectly guessed the remaining Lover.

-or- (Only at the first Night Phase after one Lover died)

You correctly guessed the remaining Lover! You two are now the new Lovers pair.

*At the start of the next Night Phase you will be given a private means of communication to talk with each other.

Mafia

Your target's role is Detective.

Your victim's role was Detective.

-(Only sent if he used his action and wasn't blocked)-

Your action was used up and can't be used anymore, regardless if your target was a Bomb or not.

You successfully stole the role Detective and can now use all powers of this role as your own.

"The Detective 'investigates' one person per night phase i.e. asks the host through a PM about a player's allegiance. He gets an "Innocent" result for Townies and "Guilty" for non-Townies."

You may now choose a role between the three previously stated roles:

Mafia Detective
Mafia Janitor
Mafia Gambler

You can use the role immediately from the moment you choose it, or decide to choose it at a later night phase if undecided.

*Examples of all roles that receive back PMs from the host because of their actions. To be sent after the Night Phase is over, or during the Day Phase for the Threesome Candidate.

Info Mafia Game Example-PMs

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