Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Mafia - Page 7

On June 21 2010 20:13 Radfield wrote:


The question always seems to be, lynch someone who is inactive, or someone who is mildly scummy. Given the likelihood that we have a fair number of townies with some sort of special power, lynching an active player doesn't seem like a great idea. However, we have two days until we(the mayor) need to make a decision, and hopefully we'll have a good amount of discussion on all topics by the end, so it should be easy to pick out the contributors from the non-contributors.

On June 21 2010 21:50 Amber[LighT] wrote:


By no means am I saying that we should lynch an active townie, but we should more-or-less alleviate the blame of the day 1 lynch from the mayor to the town as a whole. This gives us a "suspect list" to work with rather than turning on the elected official, which happens more often than not.

I'm a little skeptical as to how these spells work or how they are allocated, but we should be careful about protecting players. I think we also may have a lot of people who can role block (expelliarmus). Pretty much we should decide how to allocate spell-casting so we don't have people overlapping and we make the best role blocks possible.

We don't know if the red spells are mafia-only spells or if they can be used by blue players (ie a vigilante role using avada kedavra)

Also excuse my spelling I am not a Harry Potter fanatic so I won't reference the OP just to spell-check...

On June 22 2010 00:51 Roffles wrote:

I'd presume that the red spells are Mafia type spells, as typically AKs and Imperius Curses are used to eliminate people in the HP books, and holds the same purpose in Mafia.

What I'm more curious about are the spells and how they work, like whether or not they work like in the books. For example, based on the description, the Medic would have Episky, which is the healing/protection spell for the night in typical Mafia, but whether or not that would work against lets say an AK (Killing Spell) is beyond me. I'm skeptical as to how these spells work, what can counter/not counter and what roles get what spells, so a lot of this is still up in the air.

On June 22 2010 01:08 JeeJee wrote:


yeah i don't think we're supposed to know
but on the offchance we are -- Bill, how close is this to the actual book? i.e. are the unforgivable curses unblockable?
or we can't assume that, and you balanced it around whatever's balanced rather than what's by the book

Detective: See Legilimency and Occlumency

On June 21 2010 21:24 lakrismamma wrote:
This is my first game on teamliquid in a long while. I think I haven't been playing since Ace game before the creation of the mafia forum.
I recognize some names like LaXerCannon, Amber[LighT] and Roffles but cant remember enough of their playingstyle to be able to nominate somebody.

It is likely that the death eaters are going to sponsor one kandidate but that is the whole point of the sponsor thing to find if we get one we might find another.

On June 22 2010 00:49 Radfield wrote:
I think it's important to note that in this set-up, it's basically more important to have a pro-town pardoner then a mayor. The mayor really doesn't do much, he only gets one vote, and gets the day one lynch which is essentially meaningless. An anti-town pardoner however, can take a close game, and turn it into a mafia victory. From a mafia perspective, pardoner is a much more powerful role.

However, if we can get someone with a powerful ability(a detective/medic) as mayor, then it's a big boon for the town, since that player is unkillable for a decent amount of time.

Auror: A bodyguard role. The Auror may be a role that has a 50% chance of successfully protecting the target and finds out his target's attacker, and a 25% chance that either the Auror or Minister dies instead (depending on roll), and a 25% chance that both the Auror and the Minister dies.

On June 22 2010 01:08 JeeJee wrote:


yeah i don't think we're supposed to know
but on the offchance we are -- Bill, how close is this to the actual book? i.e. are the unforgivable curses unblockable?
or we can't assume that, and you balanced it around whatever's balanced rather than what's by the book

On June 22 2010 02:56 Bill Murray wrote:


AK is uncounterable. Some things are close to the book, others are not. I have no idea if it's balanced.

On June 21 2010 23:36 Hesmyrr wrote:
~OpZ~
Nice to see you claim pro-town. I had anticipated for someone trying to claim anti-town :p
Also, how does Mafia benefit from knowing who the hidden horocrux is? Well, according to the flavour, Harry Potter the last horocrux did need to be killed by no one other than Voldemort so the person who is horocrux may also need to be killed by Death Eaters in this setup- which is another vast strike against the mass roleclaiming; I doubt Bill Murray would introduce such harsh win condition though.

I will hold off nominating someone until I am pretty certain of one town read. Experience is not bad when we are picking someone to be protected, but most importantly I rather have player I have most confidence in being town-aligned. There seem to be enough good players in this roster anyhow.