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[Datisi]

running under the presidency of Datisi,

the psychology club

was a godsend to the majority of psych students, and not just because of their wild substances-fueled parties. tutoring, group study sessions, cliffnotes creation, mock exams, all of that and more was being offered by the club to other psych students for free. knowing that psychology is a difficult course, the best students currently at university had gathered with the same goal in mind: making sure that becoming a psychologist was an achievable feat to all psych students.

the university's professors were not thrilled - they held the belief that the path to a psychology degree needs to be filled with pain and suffering. determined to end the club once and for all, they found a group of like-minded students, those who also understood the importance of the profession. these

professors' pets

infiltrated the club, posing as genuine members while they sabotaged the club's actions and gathered enough material to get club members, and eventually the club president, expelled from the university.

as the battle is happening, another presence lurks among the struggle;

someone

whose loyalties lie neither with the psychology club nor its infiltrators....

19p large theme.
mechanical sequel to Datisi's Café.

[TemporalLich]

Coming to a Large Theme queue near you...

TemporalLich's Grandest Idea uPick

17

players will pick four roles from the Grand Idea Mafia thread. Each of them has a different alignment requirement though.

The first pick is a

Town

pick, which must be either Town or Mod Discretion aligned. If a Mod Discretion role is picked for your Town pick, it is guaranteed to be Town-aligned.

The second pick is a

Groupscum

pick, which must be either aligned with a groupscum team (such as Mafia) or Mod Discretion aligned. If a Mod Discretion role is picked for your Groupscum pick, it is guaranteed to be groupscum aligned.

The third pick is a

Free Space

pick, which may be of any alignment.

The fourth pick is a

Mod Discretion

pick, which may be of any alignment but the picked role will have the alignment be up to moderator discretion.

If you fail to submit a pick or your pick is vetoed, it will be replaced with a Mod Discretion Vanilla.

Game-breaking or unfun roles may be vetoed. Roles that massively change the setup may also be vetoed.

/pre-ins accepted.

To /pre-in you must send in your four picks. Picks should ideally be sent as post numbers.

Like with any Grand Idea Mafia game, balance is very not guaranteed and the game is mechanically and procedurally bastard. Expect anything and everything.

[Thestatusquo]

Welcome to the

Wheel of Sadistic Garbage

. Be warned, this is an extremely bastard setup. The theme of this game is "how many horrible things can I do to the players of this game." If you sign up for this game, please be aware that any and all awful things can and will happen to you up to and including: Modkills for no cause, alignment changes, moderator lies that cannot be reasonably anticipated, undue mod influence, and more. Do not sign up for this game if you are going to be upset if anything of that nature happens to you.

The core mechanic of the game is the wheel of garbage. Each game day I will spin the wheel of garbage between 1 and 3 times throughout the course of the day, which will be determined by RNG. The timing of the spins will also be determined by RNG. The wheel will land on one horrible mod action and I will gleefully take that mod action, then we will all go on with our lives and pretend that nothing has happened. I will not confirm or announce what the mod action was, though some will be more obvious than others.

Additionally this setup is bastard in design for roles and resolution.

I cannot stress enough that you should not join this game if you do not want to play a game of mafia heavily influenced by random and frequently unfair and unpleasant mod actions.

[Korina]

ANNOUNCING A NEW KORINA GAME

Are you tired of GIM games being boring and having a lot of garbage roles or extremely broken roles?
Do you wish just one person could arbitrarily decide what roles were good and fun?
Do you wish your mod would suffer for no reason, other than their autistic interests demanding they do something extremely stupid?

You don't? Too bad!

Announcing the bullshit that is:

Korina's Best of GIM

!

I am going to spend the next several months looking through posts 0-11700 and picking what I think is the very best of the dumpster fire known as the GIM thread, and I will randomize off of that pool. I will not announce what roles I thought were good, nor reveal the criteria of what I thought was good.

It's going to be a 17 player game, and I am accepting pre-ins now!

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

DEFCON 6.0
A 21 Player Large Theme Game

Moderator: PookyTheMagicalBear
Reviewers: Jingle
Co-Moderator: Jingle

Game will be mountainous with nukes - players will be given the option to customize their nuclear arsenals in order to hunt down the mafia - democracy has been suspended and there will not be any voting or nightkills in this game - there are significant elements of RNG in the game.

Game role breakdown will be

1 Third Party

:

5 Mafia

:

15 Town

8 pre-ins will be accepted

Hydrae are not allowed

[Cook]

Good evening, mafiascum!

I will be running

three 13-player setups

of my design (and with review from TemporalLich), each of which adhere to the following rules:

• There are 10
  Town
  members in each setup, at least one of whom is a
  Vanilla Townie
  .
  
• All Role PMs and flips are correct and all investigatives are Reliable.
  
• There are no hidden win conditions or alignment changes.

Overall, I expect these to play somewhat similarly to a Normal game.

As always, flavor will be present and optional.

If you'd like to play any of them, please look for them in the Theme queue!

[Skygazer]

love child

or, a politer synonym of "bastard."

this game will contain, at most, one thing that some people might consider a moderator lie

- you might not even consider it a moderator lie
- even if you do, it's possible that it won't even happen
- all role pms contain zero lies!

this game will be on the sillier side

- you can count on that
- if this game were a movie it'd uh probably be rated pg-13? (

disclaimer #1: i'm not the motion picture association

)
- i am allowing myself to banter with the players as long as the banter isn't game-related
- hmm maybe i'll let some other folks banter, too
- i should reiterate: "love child" is a politer synonym of "bastard."

this game will be a 13p theme game

- i'm pretty sure this is my first mini theme!!
- it will have ten town players and three mafia players
- daytalk is in effect for all private threads
- mafia are multitasking
- flips will only contain alignment and role name, not the full role pm.
- i won't be allowing people to redact their private threads
- this game is currently in signups!

disclaimer #2: i suppose it's possible that some of this might not be accurate by the time it enters the queue but eh i'll let ya know if anything changes

[Firebringer]

Eminence in Shadow

Game Details:

• This game will be a 17 player Large Theme game.
  
• More wisdom from the shadows to be added

Current Preins: 3/7

To give incentive to pre-in, a new letter from the mysterious Shadow will detail more information to the game setup will be added after each prein.

Coming to the Large Theme queue on

Edit: Pushing this to 11/15/23 setup not finished with reviewers.

[Cook]

Cook's Kitchen Sink

is now live!

10:3 with no alignment changes or crazy mechanics.

viewtopic.php?p=13967614#p13967614

Sign up now!

[FakeGod]

There are two

Daughters

in this game. They are aligned with

Town

, and know each other's identities.

Daughters

are

Compulsive Hiders

, but they cannot

hide

behind each other.

If all two

Daughters

are

killed

, then

Mafia

wins.

[fferyllt]

JOAT uPick

A 17 Player Large Theme Game

Moderator: fferyllt
Reviewers: Syryana, Prism
Co-Moderator: Prism

Have you ever lamented that you didn't get the role/abilities you wanted in a Mafia game? Have you ever thought "What I wouldn't do for a dayvig just about now"? Have you ever gone down the ability modifier rabbit hole?

Yes? Then this game is for you!

Each player will get to choose up to 5

non-bastard

1-shot abilities. Players can also request modifications for those abilities. Normal modifications are ok, non-normal are also ok, but if they are waaaay out there I'll say "No".

I will craft roles based on your ability request, giving you 1 to 3 of them depending on game balance considerations. I may not be able to take specifically requested modifications, also depending on game balance considerations, but I will do my best to honor them while making the game design fun, challenging and balanced.

This game will almost certainly be swingy.
There will be no bastard abilities, no bastard mechanics, and no moderator lies.

WOTM is in effect. Please let me know if you're avoiding any players and I will keep that in mind both for initial sign-ups and if replacements are needed.

Hydrae are welcome.

8 pre-ins will be accepted. Pre-ins remaining: 6. PM me to pre-in.

Pre-ins:

• Bell
  
• Joyboy

[SirCakez]

Scream

21-player large theme

woodsboro

vs

ghostface

you can call someone, but is it really them?
coming soon

[Firebringer]

Shangri La Frontier

Game Details:

• This game will be a 15 player Large Theme game.
  
• Regular Unique Game Events
  
• Expand your abilities by acquiring gear
  
• Team up with players to form a guild

Coming to a large theme queue near you. Expected to launch in April

[Prism]

Unfortunately cancelled due to timing issues, but perhaps in the fall!

Spoiler: Cancelled (or Delayed?) Persona 3 Reload Mafia

Persona 3 Reload Mafia

You will die. It's true. Time brings an end to all things.

Even if there was a thing like eternity, how would we ever know? It would be the same as if it didn't exist.

But you still dare to hope for the future? Man cannot face death without first finding meaning in life, but the world has realized that any meaning in life was lost long ago...

Is this world really worth saving? Why delay the inevitable? What could possibly be waiting for you except the end?

. . .

The Dark Hour approaches.

Personal 3 Reload Mafia is, prospectively, a 17p Large Theme. The game is currently in the design phase and will enter formal signups in late May.

This game will have a postcap mechanic. Each slot will be allowed up to 100 posts per gameday for every slot, with some wiggle room for simple vote changes, replacements, etc. Each player will also be given a reserve pool of 10 posts to last the entire game. See Mafia Invictus Redux for an example. There may be other mechanics that affect this restriction.

Pre-ins:

1. Not_Mafia
2. Kismet

6 pre-in slots are still available via PM. Hydras are acceptable, but will share the postcap. WOTM/Blacklists will be enforced.

The first pre-in slot is specially reserved for Not_Mafia, but may open up if he declines.

[FakeGod]

Touhou UPick 6 - Anonymous is now in sign-ups!

[Skygazer]

LOST IN THE SAUCE UPICK

!!! friends and enemies masquerading as a thirteen player upick !!!

~~~
~~~ everyone submits a reasonably edible substance ~~~
~~~
~~~ players have a 72 hour discussion phase ~~~
~~~
~~~ after discussion, players target each other to make sauces ~~~
~~~
~~~ sauces will be rated by an anonymous unwitting friend ~~~
~~~
~~~ the three best sauces become masons ~~~
~~~
~~~ MORE INFO HERE | TAKING PRE-INS ~~~

edit: CANCELLED

[lendunistus]

THE COUNCIL

who needs rules when you can make your own?

an MS-adapted playtest of Kevan Davis's

The Council

• a 13-player theme game
  
• hopefully in signups this July
  
• starts off mountainous, but rules/mechanics can be created (or modified) by majority vote
  
• do anything: bombs, guns, medbays, an alternate win condition for the mafia...
  
• ...(hopefully) kept within the bounds of balance by a veto-enabled
  Outsider
  
  
• accepting pre-ins!
  
• on that note...

Outsider

I need an Outsider!

your job will be to review newly made proposals and veto them if necessary, taking into account the impact on game balance. it's the most important role in the game and is what the enjoyability hinges on.

if you feel like you want to do this (and also maybe help me figure out some more proceduralities), please PM me with any questions you may have. thanks!

an Outsider has been found. thank you for your interest!

links that may also be of interest:
work-in-progress ruleset
relevant Mafia Discussion thread

[Cook]

Grand Idea: Reject Rare Cube

A game that may be coming soon...

1. Grand Idea Mafia, but with yet another take on uPick.
   
2. 15 players, daytalk, inherent simultaneous/multitasking.
   
3. Each player /in's with
   ten cards from the thread
   they would like to see in the cube. (This should make for 150 cards)
   
4. After signups are completed, players will each, in a circle,
   ban three cards
   from the cube. (This should be 45 cards that get banned)
   
5. The resultant list of 105 cards will be shuffled and played like a normal Grand Idea game otherwise.

Put in your roles! Put in broken ones that you want to see run, even if they'll get banned! Put in your favorite atypical faction!

[Gypyx]

Slaughter Horse 2

(as in based on the second game, this is the first instance of this mafia setup)

A

15

Player Open theme organized by yours truly !

-Protect your leaders !-

Both the town and the evil team are led by their most powerful members, if they fall, so will everyone else on their side !

-Executions? Booooring !-

The Day phase features both a modified execution system that pits two players against each other, and a variety of other options at the town's disposal for all kinds of situations

-Vist'er? I hardly know her !-

Oh my ! Look like everpony has forgotten where their fellow townsfolk live ! Looks like you'll have to figure it out as you go by instead targeting directly houses, and having your action affect whoever lives in there !

-Is anyone home ?-

But that would be too easy now would it, how do you even plan on murdering someone who isn't home? that's right, instead of regular night actions, players have to choose between 3 different hours of the night during which to act, and most roles, both good and evil require their targets to actually be home in order to work !

-For your eyes only-

In this game, quite a lot of players, both good and evil have something to hide, in order to communicate stealthily, you may arrange private meetings during the night with your fellow ponies, but be careful that whoever you're meeting will not greet you with a knife in their hoof though !

-Have you noticed this is about horses?-

And that's right, this is a my little pony flavored game ! And as well as being offered a house, every player will be given a chance (and forced, yeah it's game relevant) to create for themselves an in game pony avatar !


Coming in like a week or something

The (almost) complete setup doc, barring a few potential balance tweaks / fun-oriented modifications : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JxU ... sp=sharing

[SirCakez]

Spoiler:

Coming soon to the Mini Theme queue...