Board Thread:Wiki Mafia Games/@comment-29253708-20191226101129

I don't know what y'all did to it but I'm lookin' at the right now and like... let me just put it this way, I disagree with your choices to change that role into what it became, and I will continue to reference it throughout this TED Talk (all in good fun, please don't be insulted, just because I've been on this wiki for 86 years doesn't mean I haven't been an idiot at some point, because I definitely still am, it's fine. I also think  was already trash in the first place, so I'm at least happy you tried, cuz you certainly did more than me with that role). Regarding the asterisks on roles that "shouldn't be in standard games", my main complaint is that you removed like fifty or so roles, and I'm pretty sure that's a hair under half the roles in the game. Along with that, most of them were either from the Testing Grounds or Forum Mafia, which defeats most of the purpose of Wiki Mafia, but I digress. I will be retiring some roles officially. Not nearly as many as you added to that list, but a few of them for sure. I'll make notes below.

Anywhozits why did I say that, the founder of Wiki Mafia is back, and he's making some changes. It's been two years since I've looked at this stuff and it's time to get my more sensible and understanding 19-year-old brain to work on it.

Some roles such as the should've been retired already. Heck, I could've sworn I wrote that it was retired somewhere already. Any version of the role should not exist, and it is very difficult to keep a player from posting in a thread or commenting on anything for a whole day. Other retired roles probably include the and, which, in my opinion, are completely ridiculous roles anyway. The defeats the point of a  and pales in comparison to the 's gameplay. Comparatively, the two roles are the same role with a different goal, and the 's goal is much more based on chance than skill. The, put simply, is absolute trash, just like the (in general).

Other roles, such as the only make sense to BE in standard games. The is meant to catch power roles from non-power roles (namely the, the most plentiful  role in the game). It's meant to see who can visit and can't visit. It allows scum to choose not to visit if they wish to gain an alibi, and that creates risk, or they can choose to visit and push blame on others that did visit. It's another layer of playing and scum-hunting that can be used that no other role in the game can produce.

Now that the main explanations are out of the way, I want to give some information. Hopefully in the near future, after roles are changed around, I'll be hosting this game over on https://boardgamegeek.com/. I invite all of you to join, and I'll try to keep things updated here.

Any questions or comments? Maybe you made changes and want to yell at me for complaining about them? Don't be scared. I know I'm a wiki veteran but that doesn't mean I'm gonna pump you full of shotgun pellets...

Unless you touch my Spy again okay that's the last time, I swear.

First, I want to thank you. Thank you for continuing the legacy of this game. I'm glad you guys did something with it in my absence and have fun and let some creativity flow in the SFM games that I've read through. However, I don't really know your interest in this anymore. It seems to me that a few games have gone inactive in the past, but I wonder if a reboot could help with the new players I hope to find on BoardGameGeek. All my past wiki friends are dead and I don't know many of you, but we'll see where this goes. I hope you're excited, because I am.

Welcome back to the original Wiki Mafia, friends. 