Just an idea from the next Mafia game...

[Nexus_Nocturnal]

RAGE TYPOS GERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. Just an Idea FOR the next Mafia game

This is gonna sound crazy but how about.....

DEATH NOTE STYLE!

Think about it....

We would start out with 2 groups, those siding with the police, and those siding with Kira. There would be 2 people with a death note and it's there job to kill every one siding with the police while keeping the deaths of Kira supporters to a minimum. It's the polices job to find and collect the 2 death notes. If one of the death note handlers discovers some one is a Kira supporter, they can then communicate with them at night and choose to give them a piece of the death note or the whole death note. One player would also be a Shinigami. If a death note owner can find the Shinigami he can make a contract to die in the next few days, but in return he would be able to see the role of all the players.

It would play like regular Mafia in the sense that the 2 Kira kill once a night and those siding with the police can choose to lynch a person during the day. The police would have people that would be like trackers and regular police that investigate while kira supporters would have people like roll blockers and such.

We could iron out the rules later if enough people are interested. Like make it so the death note owners can only hand out a single piece per night and such.

Just a thought.

[SilvaKairi]

hmmm maybe, or we can just add the kira roles, in mafia o.o

[Slayer0]

So it would be something like...

Kiras (plus Shinigami) - direct Kira side
Kira supporters - indirect Kira side, appears as villagers/anti-Kira normally?
Cops/anti-Kira - against Kira side

You would have to severely limit the amount of supporters, unless the supporters had to use their piece of the Death Note that night. Otherwise you could have everyone stock up on pieces then kill off a majority of the anti-Kira side in one go.

And what's the win condition for sure? Because this sounds horribly scum-sided from the likes of things...but I dunno how you'd want the roles to be divided up.

[Nexus_Nocturnal]

You would have to use the piece, you couldn't collect them. Thats why you either give them a piece or a whole book. And like Mafia, there would be way less Kira supporters than there would be those sided with the Police. Like say, 2 death note handler and 3 Kira supporters with 12 Police Supporters.

Also, the Shinigami wouldn't try to contact any one on the Kira side. The Shinigami appeared kind of neutral in the anime so it would be up to the Kira side to try and find the Shinigami. If the Police find the Shinigami first, the Shinigami would become like a Sane Cop and would investigate for the Police Side.

Kira wins when every one on the Police Side die and the Police Side wins when they kill they collect the Death Notes. Death Notes are collected when the carrier is killed. So if the Police lynch a Kira Supporter with a Death Note, the police would come in custody of it.

[SilvaKairi]

slayer, but isnt kira just like serial killer?

[Wedge]

See honestly I've never watched Death Note, so I wouldn't really relate to the game if that was the case, but adding a theme to the concept is pretty cool nonetheless.

[Nexus_Nocturnal]

For a regular game the roles would look like this I guess

Kira:

Death Note Holder
Roll Blocker
Regular Supporter
Regular Supporter
Corrupted Cop (Would appear as a cop and can communicate with the other cops to try and throw them off. Would normally be the person you wouldn't want Kira to know about)

Police:

Investigator (Cop)
Investigator (Cop)
Deputy (Deputy)
Hero (If Kira decides to kill some one the Hero has targeted, the Hero dies instead. can't really have a Doctor when the Death Note kills you 100%)
Watcher (Can choose to see what a person is doing during the Night. If they watch Kira kill some one he can report it. We could have paranoid version that would see a regular person writing in a journal and assume they were Kira)
Towns Person Supporter (Regular Townie)
Towns Person Supporter
Towns Person Supporter
Towns Person Supporter
Ect

Shinigami:

Shinigami (Would act as a regular townie. If he is discovered by the police he would become a sane cop. You would tell him in a PM as you wouldn't want Kira knowing he was discovered. If Kira discovers him, they can choose to make the deal with him to die in the next 2 days in return to see every one's role. Shinigami can be killed and they are not allowed to role claim anything other than townie. If investigated he would appear as a Shinigami instead of Police Supporter/Kira Supporter. Shinigami can be killed. If he is discovered by one side before the other, he would appear as a supporter for that side during investigations instead of a Shinigami. In essence, the Shinigami is the most important role in the game.)

The cops would all know each other off the bat and can communicate at night. They would work to find who is Kira, but non of them are sane. Kira would not know who his supporters are.

Kira can investigate a night instead of kill if he wants to.

Just tossing ideas out, so of course we could add or change roles and what not.

[The3p1cN3cr0p4th]

This actually sounds like a lot of fun... We should definitely try it out.

[Slayer0]

The Hero role sounds similar to a Bodyguard role.

Right now five scum seems decent, although that number would definitely have to change depending on sign-ups. Kraid and I seem to be in charge of the whole Mafia background, so I guess he can take a look at this too.

[Suppi]

You forgot to add L, M, N.

You can add a feature to death note users to switch around. Also add a way to give death note players the ability to read true names by looking *death eyes*.

Etc etc.