Mafia Capital (WWC XIII): Important Info Here -- READ OPENING POSTS!

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Spoiler: How Narrators Should Use This Thread

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In addition to the ways players should use Central, narrators can:

• Post the rules of games you’re planning, for balance advice, and potentially to garner interest in advance.
• Look for a co-narrator.
• Book a place for your game in the schedule.
• Let us know when your game is recruiting/starting/ending.
• Share fun stuff you've created, such as Korith's games spreadsheet.

Spoiler: Interesting & Important Notes by Lucky

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A couple other things to note when running a game of Werewolves:

Having a co-narrator is highly recommended. This is to assist with the flow of the game, and just makes it easier on the narrator.

Rules on cheating:

The SMBG stance on cheating applies to all of these games, and cheaters will be punished as dictated by the SMBG rules.

However, after the culprit has been punished and s/he has served his time off from the werewolf games, it will become forgotten history. No one is to speak of it further, and any concern will be PMed to the narrators of that game, not posted in the thread.

Spoiler: Scheduling Your Games

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For the time being, I'm asking that all games (Big Name, Small, Classic) please schedule your games ahead of time. Games will be scheduled as one for every two weeks, not one per week as before. This is due to the recent lack of players. Hopefully this will be a fix. Additionally, at least for the last while we've been making the recruitment threads in the Recruitment subforum rather than here (as was the precedent historically) in order to increase visibility and maybe drive new traffic to the Stuctured Games subforum. If you don't want to do that, and just want one thread for recruiting and playing, you can do that instead, full power to you.

We've all decided amongst ourselves that we should only have one game starting in any given week. Small games (<20 players) do not need to be scheduled in advance. Normally, up to two small games may be started each week, unless the the total number of small games would then exceed the number of large games recruiting or running at the time. If you’re uncertain, just ask here in Central. Additionally, while small games do not need to be scheduled in advance, they can be, if you wish to stake your claim in advance to be sure no-one beats you to it by posting their game first. However this shouldn’t come up too often. Big name games which have no difficulty attracting players (Such as Classic) can ignore the schedule and start the same week as another large game. In such a week, no small games may be started.

Above all, be considerate. Everyone wants players for their game, and no-one likes for their game to end up short of players because they’re all playing in other games.

Please PM me or post here if you're planning on starting a game, so that we can coordinate everything properly. This will ensure that every game gets the attention that it deserves and will make every game more enjoyable. Thanks in advance.

Just as the Three Post Rule is usually enforced by ourselves rather than getting Mods involved, so too should rules that we've created for ourselves be so enforced. Please politely direct anyone starting a game out of turn to this thread. As this is not a forum rule, this can only be enforced by us. A little common courtesy goes a long way.

A note on posting Recruitment/Game Threads:
Threads created in the Structured Games subforum have to wait to be approved by a mod (Haruki-Kun, flat_footed, and/or truemane). If you need a second post to open your game, simply put that in the Title of your thread so that your players will not post as soon as it goes up, like I did for this thread. Then change the title when you're ready to play.

Suggested Thread Submission for Mod Approval:

Step-by-Step:

1. At the top of the Structured Game Forums, above the threads, but below the forum pages, you'll find a dropbox for "Forum Tools". Click.
2. At the very top of the drop box, click the "Post a New Thread..." link.
3. For the prefix, choose "WW/Mafia".
4. Title is the name of your game.
5. Just like when posting or PMing, you need subject matter. Write as little or as much as you want. Just remember, you are trying to entice people to play your game, so be a little descriptive, if you can. Use other games OPs to help you, if needed.
6. Click "Submit New Thread" at the bottom. And now it'll go on for Mod approval. But you're not done.
7. PM Haruki-Kun, flat_footed, and/or truemane, letting them know that you have submitted a game for approval. It usually only takes a day or two. But Mods have lives too, so it may take a little longer. (That's why I suggest PMing at least two Mods.)
8. Post in Werewolf Central, once your thread appears in Structured Games, preferably with a link to the game.

Also some more general advice in regards to whether one should wait a few days or PM a Mod right after creating the thread. My recommendation would be to not wait; please feel free to drop me a line about your game thread. I'll try and get to it as soon as I can, though sometimes that will mean waiting until I get home from work. Happy gaming!

(Chambers is a retired mod at this point, so don't go bugging him about games, but his advice is still sound for contacting other mods so it's been left in. Mods have a lot to keep track of, and PMs are a good way of bringing something to their attention, even just as a thing on their "list of things to do later" Better to get that PM sent as soon as the thread is posted and waiting, rather than three days later when you finally realize they must have not noticed it going up.)

Recruitment and Game Schedules
Large games:
Note that the date listed is for the week Game Thread should go up, not the recruitment thread. Begin recruitment at your leisure.

Small games:
For small games the date listed will be the week the thread goes up, though the game may not start that week, depending on recruitment. This is to help keep track of the 'Two small games per week' restriction. At least for the time being, games you expect to be small (which...should be most of them, honestly) should get scheduled for when they'll start. Get the thread made a week or two before your start date so you've got some time to recruit.

Spoiler: Co-Narrators

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If you want a co-narrator, ask here in Central. It will probably help to say what your game will be like, though some people will narrate anything.

Spoiler: Claims on specific Editions/Variants

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In general, a WW variant someone runs is considered specifically theirs. If you want to run another one of it, you must ask them nicely to let you co-narrate. However, there is nothing to stop you doing something similar, which you can devise for yourself. If you’re uncertain, ask here in Central. The exceptions to this variant ownership are WW Classic and Simply Werewolf, which get passed around. If you want to run one of these games, just ask and we’ll dig out the rules for you.