This is your standard Mafia game: any game with more than 12 players (usually 20-30) played with the standard rules, basic roles, and no theme.
It is natural for games to progress from the simple to the complicated. Players like to try new roles, mechanics, and so on. Theme games developed to add a bit of flavor to the standard game.
That said, the purpose of Sicily is to ensure that there are always a few basic games going. Theme games can be very fun to play, but often get away from the point of the game to some degree; the outcome is sometimes decided more by the players figuring out the setup and dealing with special mechanics than by suspicion. They can also be confusing, especially to newer players and to those unfamiliar with the theme.
For a long time, moderators have been pushing the definition of "normal" to the point where Sicily has lost most of its purpose. When I originally set the forums up, I thought it was common sense that even themes which are solely for the purpose of flavor are still themes, and that games with unusual mechanics were not "normal". Apparently that's not the case. So, here are some "official" guidelines governing what a normal game is. This applies to both Sicily and normal Mini games.
- The setting of a normal game should be Mafia related (or, on occasion, Werewolf related). Even flavor text should not be based on any book, movie, song, time period, etc.
- A normal game should have at least one Mafia family, and no more than two.
- A normal game does not have to have any other roles other than Mafia and Townies. If it includes other roles, they should mostly be considered standard: Cop, Doc, Vig, Roleblocker, Mason, Traitor, Serial Killer.
- Other (new or otherwise) roles can be included. However, there should be no more than 1-2 of these, and they should be based around the usual game mechanics: Killing, Protecting, Investigating, Voting.
- In general, normal games should include plain Townies. Don't overuse roles just to make your game more interesting (it probably won't make it more interesting anyway, just unbalanced).
- Certain setups which satisfy all of the above might still be better suited as theme games. Examples include Texas Justice, NYPD, and Hospital, in which all the innocent roles were the same. The setups of these games fit the guidelines outlined above, but their nature makes them more suited to be run as theme games.
- Moderators should have their game set up prior to signing up to the waiting list.
If anyone on the list, currently active on the forums or not, fails to answer their prodding PM within a week, they'll be removed from the list permanently. Exceptions will be made for those who posted in the Limited Access thread. You don't have to start sign-ups right away when you're prodded, there could be a period when you don't have enough time for modding a game. You can always be put in limbo in this case. All you have to do is let the list mod know what your plans are when your turn's up. Should you fail, tough luck.
- Mafia 55 (Yakuza) - Save the Dragons
- Mafia 54 (The Game Formerly Known As Moses In Egypt) - Kelly Chen
- Mafia 53 (A Bit Out Of The Norm) - Mastermind of Sin and Glork
- Mafia 52 (Back to the Basics) - VisMaior
(none)
- Mafia 44 (Generic) - HezLucky/cogito ergo sum (replacing Dranko20)
- Mafia 27 (Del Vaccio) - bigbenwd
- Mafia 18 (Gay) - Untrod Tripod
- Mafia 14 (Rumours) - Dourgrim
- Mafia 51 (No Use for a Title) - Cadmium/mikeburnfire - Town wins
- Mafia 50 (The Big Five Oh) - BrianMcQueso (replacing Commodore Amazing) - Town wins
- Mafia 49 (Big New York) - SpeedyKQ - Mafia wins
- Mafia 48 (Himalayan Mafia) - Norinel - Mafia wins
- Mafia 47 (Kingmaker) - BrianMcQueso - Town wins
- Mafia 46 (No Vanilla Townie) - mikehart - Town wins
- Mafia 45 (Back to Gambits II) - Mr Stoofer - Town wins
- Mafia 43 (Married to the Mob) - LoudmouthLee - Mafia wins
- Mafia 42 (Italian) - halo freak/Phoebus - Guilani Family wins
- Mafia 41 (Hospital) - Talitha - Docs win
- Mafia 40 (The Worst Game Ever) - Pie_is_good - Mafia wins
- Mafia 39 (Back to Gambits) - Cadmium - Town wins
- Mafia 38 (Dragon) - Iammars (replacing Save The Dragons) - Town wins
- Mafia 37 (Werewolves) - Mr. Flay - Werewolves win
- Mafia 36 (Open Role XL) - SpeedyKQ - Town wins
- Mafia 35 (PeaceCity) - PeaceBringer - Mafia wins
- Mafia 34 (Bizarre) - big_kahunia - Italian Circus Mafia (NanookTheWolf) wins
- Mafia 33 (Checkmate!) - AndrewS/big_kahunia - Town (Pooky) wins
- Mafia 32 (Rival Turf) - ralphmerridew - Red mafia wins
- Mafia 31 (African Mafia) - Yaw - Town wins
- Mafia 30 (Siamese Twin) - MeMe - Mafia (HairyMezican, Thoth) wins
- Mafia 29 (Mafia) - Yggdrasil - Authorities (Save The Dragon, SSF352, and olliep13) win
- Mafia 28 (THoMioST) - Macros/Talitha - Town wins
- Mafia 26 (Suburbia) - bloojay - Town wins
- Mafia 25 - Corsato - Town wins
- Mafia 24 - CaptainBlicero - Town wins
- Mafia 23 (Siege of San Quida) - Dasquian - Town wins
- Mafia 22 (Singled Out) - Yoko Kurama/Dirge - Mafia wins
- Mafia 21 (Paced) - Wacky - Pirates (Otaku376, TSS II) win
- Mafia 20 (Arbor) - willows_weep - Town wins
- Mafia 19 (Werewolves vs. Mafia) - Phoebus - Town wins
- Mafia 17 (Old Pond) - Leonidas - Rocks (Werebear, Dasquian) win
- Mafia 16 (Don't be Stupid) - Rite - Mafia (stewie) wins
- Mafia 15 (MaSiaSTOM!) - Macros - Sk (MeMe) wins
- Mafia 13 - Corsato - Town wins
- Mafia 12 (In/Dependant) - Dragon Slayer - Town wins
- Mafia 10 (Intrigue) - Cuban Smoker - Mafia wins
- Phoebus (Werewolves vs. Mafia II) (limbo)
- LoudmouthLee and petroleumjelly (limbo)
- PBuG (limbo)
- Dukester
- tidus_of_zanarkand
- Machiavellian-Mafia (next)
- inHimshallibe (on deck)
- Der Hammer
- Cadmium
- ChannelDelibird
- StevieT92