Great Idea Mafia

Great Idea Mafia is an open setup designed to be as flexible as possible. The original forum-based incarnation ran with 15 players.

Setup

1. VT
2. VT
3. VT
4. VT
5. VT
6. VT
7. VT
8. Mason
9. Mason
10. Mason
11. Lover
12. Lover
13. Lover
14. One-shot Dayvig
15. One-shot Dayvig
16. Innocent Child
17. FBI Agent (“SK or “Not SK”)
18. Cop (“mafia” or “not mafia”)
19. Cop (“mafia” or “not mafia”)
20. Seer (“werewolf” or “not werewolf”)
21. Seer (“werewolf” or “not werewolf”)
22. Doctor
23. Doctor
24. Bodyguard
25. One-shot PGO
26. Vigilante
27. Jailkeeper
28. Rolecop
29. Bulletproof Townie (un-killable by any role)
30. Supersaint
31. Retired Werewolf Hunter (Named Townie)
32. Tracker
33. Watcher
34. Compulsive CPR Doctor
35. Lyncher (target chosen by random.org)
36. Unlyncher (target chosen by random.org)
37. Serial Killer (Immune to Mafia kills)
38. Serial Killer (Immune to Werewolf kills)
39. Mafia Godfather (investigates as “not Mafia”)
40. Mafia Goon
41. Mafia Goon
42. Mafia Goon
43. Mafia Tracker
44. Mafia One-shot Dayvig
45. Mafia Lover
46. Alpha Werewolf (investigates as “not Werewolf”)
47. Werewolf
48. Werewolf
49. Werewolf
50. Werewolf Watcher
51. Werewolf One-shot Bulletproof
52. Werewolf Mason

A larger deck has been created and expanded for the playing of the variant Greater Idea Mafia and is listed on that page. There is no particular reason why you couldn't use it for Great Idea Mafia as well should you so desire. It adds the Alien faction and a whole lot of other silly things.

Possibly Confusing Setup-Specific Things

• If only one Mason or Lover is pulled, then they are essentially a VT.
• If more than 2 Masons or Lovers are pulled, then all the Masons form one mason group, and all the lovers form one Lover group (rather than separate pairs).
• The One-Shot PGO will target only one player. If multiple players target him in a single night, he will target the one that arrives first, according to NAR. If there is still a tie, then the player which dies is randomized via Random.org.
• It is strongly advised to only run setups that start with at least 50% Town roles. This should also be advertised to the players. Broken setups are no fun.

Mechanics

• Roles are assigned to players via the Random.org List Randomizer.
• Balance is explicitly not guaranteed.

Setup Design

This setup was invented as a Face-to-Face game at Scummer of Love, using a partial card deck. The setup is intentionally goofy, especially when roles such as the Werewolf Mason, Retired Werewolf Hunter, and Mafia 1-shot Dayvig are drawn relatively frequently. The list of roles was designed to be based heavily on the initial F2F deck by quadz08, with input and approval from Hoopla, the Open Queue Listmod at the time.

Variants

Greater Idea Mafia was designed at the UK Scummers Meet 2013, based on Great Idea but tweaking the random element to include player choice and WIFOM. Every player is dealt two cards at the start of the game and reveals their discard at the start of Day 1 after buddies have identified each other.

A small expansion of 19 cards added to the Greater Idea deck at the 2013 Baltimore meet by the attendees thereof was also intended to serve as the Greatest Idea Mafia deck.

Role PMs

Maybe later, you needy person, you.

Great Idea Micro (Micro 44)

ChannelDelibird ran a Micro edition of the game. The setup replaced the town Lovers of 11, 12 and 13 as well as the Mafia Lover of 45 with a VT, a Jack-of-all-Trades (random two of: [1x Seer investigation, 1x Cop investigation, 1x jailkeep, 1x doc protect]), a Friendly Neighbour and a Mafia Suicide Bomber. Hoopla graciously stepped in to mod it to conclusion after CDB flaked.

History

• Open 435 (Town Win)
• Micro 44 (Werewolf Win)
• Micro 163 (SK Win)