[Chris Britton]

Originally Posted by Ross Hendrie

May I suggest a much simpler game. Dont have a trapper or any ridiculously complicated roles like that. Just have a few townies, a doctor, cop on the side of the town. Then for the mafia, only have the godfather as well as a few ordinary mafia.

As for the sequence of events, as soon as the night is over, publish a newspaper with clues as to who could have been the killer, and use clues that people would know about each of us in real life. Then have a discussion and a vote, and after there is a majority vote, the person is lynched and it is revealed whether they were mafia or town etc. Also, some important things people should know, dont reveal your role. For example, if you are the cop and you investigate someone during the night and find they are mafia, then dont go shouting during the day about how you know him to be guilty... then the Mafia will just kill you the next night. And it is a good tactic for the Mafia to try and get an innocent lynched during the day.

This is the variation of the game that they have on Max's SW site, and it works wonderfully.

In that case Ross, would you take over as the game master. You've played that version before and I am more familiar with what I wrote above.