Mafia Mutation

liaceltab These are games that are based somewhat on Mafia but are so different that they no longer really are Mafia. Good examples would be Confrontation Mafia, Conspiracy Mafia, and Gay Mafia. There is no exact administrative classification for such games on MafiaScum; some are considered to be Theme Games, while others are sent to The Whole Sort Of General Mish Mash with non-Mafia games.

What defines a mafia mutation as not being Mafia is not the degree of change but the kind. cuban smoker's Logic Mafia is not a mutation, as the group dynamic is essentially the same. Inner Circle, on the other hand, is a mutation, since the "town" and "mafia" no longer really exists, and players choose their own motives. The best way to describe it is to say that the primary question of the game changes. In Mafia the question is "Who are the good guys", whereas in Gay Mafia (or its simpler and less well-known version Spy Hunting Stand Down) the question is "How can we get people from the other side killed?" and in Inner Circle, the question is "Which alliances will leave me alive at the end?".

The distinction is a fuzzy one, and not well defined as yet.

The term "Mafia Mutation" was first coined on mafiascum by Foolster41 when describing his CCG Mafia, though games that could be defined as such existed before he gave it a name.