Daniel Blackworth Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Below is a list of common Mafia terms which may be good to be aware of or useful in reasoning or posting: Bandwagon Refers to the situation wherein there are several votes on a player. It is common to observe later votes to be unjustified and lacking in substance, and are best to be analyzed. Buddying An action typically denoting to positively reacting to a player to be less seen as a threat. This is usually done by mafia to gain the trust of town, directing it to townread people. Bussing To throw your mafia partner out of the bus by way of voting on them or accusing them immediately. This is done by mafia to either not be directed suspicion upon or to gain the trust of town. Closed Setup A setup which hides information on the roles at hand and what they can do. This involves not indicating the roles on the opening post of the game. Utilized to either provide better game balance or to make a game more interesting and/or speculative. Day Phase The phase wherein players discuss in the thread the recent events and argue on certain matters such as whom to lynch or what to do with a certain action. Town greatly benefits from this phase to direct current and subsequent actions in finding mafia. Claim An action which involves revealing your own role and actions done previously. Commonly done to either benefit the populace or to avoid getting lynched. Contributing without actually Contributing (CWAC) Players who do CWAC are ones who post (typically a lot), but without actually contributing something new to the discussion. This may involve posting one-liners, irrelevant information, or simply repeating what other players have already said. Counterclaim An action which involves claiming an already claimed role. As town, this is done to argue with a mafia fakeclaim of your own role. As mafia, this is done to confuse the town on whom to trust or encourage a lynch on the real owner of the role. Fakeclaim An action which involves claiming a role you don't have. Commonly done by mafia to confuse the town or to avoid getting lynched or suspected by other players. Finger of Suspicion (FoS) Pointing or suspecting a player of being mafia, but insufficient to warrant a vote from you. Hammer Not typical in Reborn Mafia, this involves a final vote which either ends the day early or seals the lynch on a player. Isolation (ISO) An action which involves going over all the posts of a specific player and giving your analysis individually. Lurking An action which involves a player who often checks the thread, but not actually posting anything. Lynch To eliminate a player during Day Phase. The player who gets lynched is typically the one who receives the most votes or the majority of the votes. Making good use of the lynch is the greatest weapon of town. LyLo (Lynch or you Lose) A situation wherein town must lynch a mafia member successfully to prevent them from winning. This may be announced depending on the discretion of the host. It implies that town has made a lot of mistakes to get to this point. Mafia Also known as Scum, they are the Informed Minority who know of each other's identities from the start and have a private chat between them. Their goal is to eliminate Town players one by one, until they equal or outnumber them. Massclaim A situation wherein all players are asked to claim their roles. Commonly perceived as bad, but in some setups may be useful for town to do so. Meta A type of reasoning used which involves an observation of a person's behavior in a certain alignment. For example, Player X may be accused of being mafia because they are more forceful and aggressive and this behavior is seen in them as mafia in a previous game. Alternatively, Player Y may be perceived as town because they are as contributory as they were as town in previous games. Debatable on whether this is useful or not. Mislynch This involves lynching the wrong person i.e a town person. Town is given the leeway to be able to do a limited number of mislynches before they lose. MyLo (Mislynch or you Lose) A situation similar to LYLO except that voting for a No Lynch can still give opportunity for town to have another day. This may be announced depending on the discretion of the host. It implies that town has made a lot of mistakes to get to this point. Night Action (NA) Actions that come along with the role of a player. These are actions that may be done to benefit a player's faction during the night. There are other actions that may also be done during the Day and are called as Day Actions (DA). Neutral / Null A read that indicates that you are unsure of a player's alignment and cannot judge them as either town or mafia yet due to inadequate amounts of information. Night Phase The phase wherein players are not allowed to post in the thread. Players may also perform specific night actions to benefit their team while mafia discusses on a player to eliminate for their factional kill No Lynch A situation wherein players may choose to not lynch anyone to avoid killing someone during the day. Commonly done where there is a lack of information to support a lynch. OMGUS (Oh My God, You Suck) Refers to the situation wherein you vote for another player mainly because they voted for you. Open Setup A setup wherein roles and what they can do are revealed in the opening post. Sometimes, certain pieces of information are kept hidden by the host to provide balance or entertainment and this kind of situation may denote the setup to be Semi-Open. Opening Post (OP) This refers to the first post of the thread. It commonly includes an overview of the mafia game, roles and factions, rules, and other pieces of information depending on the host's discretion. Power Role A Power Role is a role very beneficial to your own faction and detrimental to the other faction. Examples of which are Cop and Doctor. It is advisable to not have an excess of such roles and have them in sufficient amounts. It is important to have a deterrent to specific roles by placing a role that counteracts it in the other faction. Read Refers to a player's personal judgement on other players' alignments. Role Refers to the identity and role you have in the game. This denotes to a special quality or perk you have which you can use to influence or benefit your own faction. Scumlean A type of read wherein you judge someone as mafia or scum slightly and not sufficient to warrant a vote in most cases. Scumread A type of read wherein you judge someone as mafia or scum and are quite sure of it, and are ready to place a vote on them. Sheeping An action which involves a player only following other players' votes or actions without any care for the result. It may be a sign for a player to be mafia. Town They are the Uninformed Majority, who do not know of the other members of their faction. They use the discussion to find other players of their kind and the vote to eliminate the threats to their faction such as the mafia. Their goal is to eliminate all threats to town Townlean A type of read where you think a player is town, but are hardly sure yet on whether to trust them or not. Townread A type of read wherein you judge a person to be aligned with town and can trust their ideas. This is useful to have in order to eliminate possible candidates for mafia. Tunneling An action which involves a player solely focusing on one person alone and disregarding most other players. Third Party Third Parties, also known as Independents, have other win conditions which may or may not be aligned with town or mafia. They have specific goals and are often not belonging to a team, except for cultist roles. Vanilla Refers to roles which do not have an additional power aside from discussion and voting. This comes in both town and mafia versions. Are typically utilized to keep the balance of a game. Wine In Front Of Me (WIFOM) A situation where something can be interpreted in two different ways because of “you know I know” arguments. The logic goes as follows: “If they are town, they would do X. But what if they are mafia who want us to think they’re town? What if they are town and think we may consider they are mafia because of that and do Y instead? What if they are mafia and think of all the previous argument and do Y to look town?” and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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