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Regular Mafia Host Rules & Guidelines
These rules & guidelines are directed towards hosts who wish to run Regular Mafia games, every member wishing to host and/or hosting a game should read this thread for reference and clarity.
General Etiquette and Rules
A host must ensure that their game, its content and anything related to it must abide by the Thriller Bark Community Guidelines. If a player(s) are stepping outside the community guidelines, the host can ask them politely to abide by the governing rules of Thriller Bark. If the hosts words have no impact, a host can feel free to report messages and the staff will look into the issues.
A host must also be respectful to the players and members involved in their games, a host must also ensure to keep the games balanced and fair. Favoritism while giving out roles, or providing special abilities to certain participants just because they are your good acquaintances is wrong. A host must also respect the decision made by Mafia Section Moderator(s), as they overlook the smooth functioning of the section.
General Gameplay Rules
1, The host should use the correct prefixes when creating a thread to avoid confusion, if a host selects the wrong prefixes they should report the thread using the report button, alerting the staff to fix the prefix thread.
2. Every host should maintain a fixed day and night time cycle. You are allowed to end Night cycles if all actions are received and you are allowed to end Day cycle if all participants have voted, but you may not reduce the day and night cycles without proper justification. You are allowed to increase the cycle time if you are unable to post the story or are busy.
3. Every host should first send out the roles before creating the game thread. This is to avoid confusion, especially for the new players.
4. While creating the game thread & the sign up thread, the host must include the Regular Mafia Rules and Guidelines thread for members participating to read.
Regular Mafia Rules & Guidelines: http://thrillerbark.com/threads/regular-mafia-host-rules-and-guidelines.38/
5. You are allowed to host a game when:
6. At the request of the community to make things easier for the players of Regular Mafia, I'll be adding a few more standard rules for all the regular hosts to follow in their games so players don't have to get confused about what rules apply from game to game. If a hosts game mechanic for their round goes against one of these rules it should be stated in the game thread:
When creating the roles for your game, there should be a few points to keep in mind and follow:
Balancing Guide
When you are balancing a game there is stuff that needs to be considered depending on the faction of a character, the setup of the game. Right now I'll just explain how the balancing is for a basic regular game:
Story Writing Guide
Tips and Tricks
A little tips that could help you as a host to go a long way is that when you're creating roles for your game try and keep everything as tidy, clean, simple and understanding as possible.
These rules & guidelines are directed towards hosts who wish to run Regular Mafia games, every member wishing to host and/or hosting a game should read this thread for reference and clarity.
General Etiquette and Rules
A host must ensure that their game, its content and anything related to it must abide by the Thriller Bark Community Guidelines. If a player(s) are stepping outside the community guidelines, the host can ask them politely to abide by the governing rules of Thriller Bark. If the hosts words have no impact, a host can feel free to report messages and the staff will look into the issues.
A host must also be respectful to the players and members involved in their games, a host must also ensure to keep the games balanced and fair. Favoritism while giving out roles, or providing special abilities to certain participants just because they are your good acquaintances is wrong. A host must also respect the decision made by Mafia Section Moderator(s), as they overlook the smooth functioning of the section.
General Gameplay Rules
1, The host should use the correct prefixes when creating a thread to avoid confusion, if a host selects the wrong prefixes they should report the thread using the report button, alerting the staff to fix the prefix thread.
2. Every host should maintain a fixed day and night time cycle. You are allowed to end Night cycles if all actions are received and you are allowed to end Day cycle if all participants have voted, but you may not reduce the day and night cycles without proper justification. You are allowed to increase the cycle time if you are unable to post the story or are busy.
3. Every host should first send out the roles before creating the game thread. This is to avoid confusion, especially for the new players.
4. While creating the game thread & the sign up thread, the host must include the Regular Mafia Rules and Guidelines thread for members participating to read.
Regular Mafia Rules & Guidelines: http://thrillerbark.com/threads/regular-mafia-host-rules-and-guidelines.38/
5. You are allowed to host a game when:
- You have created or aided in the creation of the roles that are going to be used in the game.
- You have created or aided in the construction of the game/helped in the planning of the game.
6. At the request of the community to make things easier for the players of Regular Mafia, I'll be adding a few more standard rules for all the regular hosts to follow in their games so players don't have to get confused about what rules apply from game to game. If a hosts game mechanic for their round goes against one of these rules it should be stated in the game thread:
- Town dies within one lynch no matter what. Lynches is town's weapon to use since they always start with the majority, therefore none of them should be able to survive a lynch.
- Specify if avoids/dodges are only triggered by killing actions or also blocks.
- Specify how the story write up will be ( i.e a protect that was used on someone who wasn't targeted will show up or not)
When creating the roles for your game, there should be a few points to keep in mind and follow:
- Which ability fits the character in question?
- How does it compare to the original/canon character?
- Ability cooldown, is it needed or not?
- Which faction does fit the character in question, town? mafia? 3rd?
- Does the character fit into the story/arc that is being played?
- How will it impact the game if a specific character dies early on?
Balancing Guide
When you are balancing a game there is stuff that needs to be considered depending on the faction of a character, the setup of the game. Right now I'll just explain how the balancing is for a basic regular game:
- Town: has the numbers and thus their main offense lies in the day phase and the lynch control, but that also means that their individual strengths are much lower than the majority of mafia. A good note is that Town ALWAYS dies from a lynch; no matter what, you can be the most important Main Character in the series and still die from one lynch even if they have more than 1 life.
- Mafia: Mafia operates during the night and are the minority faction. Their strength is the night phase. Their individual strengths are above the average town member and will be able to survive a lynch or two.
- Third Party:
Story Writing Guide
Tips and Tricks
A little tips that could help you as a host to go a long way is that when you're creating roles for your game try and keep everything as tidy, clean, simple and understanding as possible.
- Explain the abilities as simple as possible, don't over extend with text that has no meaning- keep in mind your making a role and not a biography of the character in question.
- If you're using pictures to compliment your roles, using the same image size and theme/format is much more organized and neat. Avoiding big pictures (at-least in length) is also neat since it doesn't take up too much space and has a lesser loading time.
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