Has anyone played RP-Style Mafia?

[Carcalilly]

It's basically mafia mixed with fourm role-play.

Here's one I played a loooong time ago:
http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/forga/1563150/21

I was wondering if anyone else was into that.

[BBmolla]

In a game that lends itself to reading others intentions through what they say, roleplaying really doesn't lend itself to mafia imo.

It'd be kind of like roleplaying poker

[Carcalilly]

True, it's honestly vastly different than this kind of mafia.
But it has a smiliarity and works in a totally different way. Its a little less nervewrecking, but role-playing still takes effort.

[FakeGod]

I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but a game I've run in the past had a rather sizable story/flavor elements, and some of the players were RPing as their characters.

[SunChild]

I'm not sure how you would design an incentive structure that was compatible with both playing to win in the game and roleplaying well. Sounds like something that a group of people might do for fun if they were more into roleplaying than mafia, I guess.

[callforjudgement]

I've seen it attempted. People stopped scumhunting, and were lynching people for roleplaying reasons. It was arguably fun from a roleplay point of view, but didn't really function as Mafia, and the scum won trivially.

[Ranmaru]

I have. It turned out to be fun to do. I think it's harder to scumhunt when everyone is focusing on RP'ing though.