Quote Originally Posted by Freya View Post
I've played both where the mafia is told what happens to their actions and then the way it's not.

I prefer the not. Leaving them to guess what happened. That way they aren't told it's a doctor or whatever, they have to guess if it is one or if it is some other crazy role.

As for the serial killer announcement, I'm super against that. Telling them WHO killed what can mess things up from a knowledge perspective.

So say there's a doctor, mafia, and a serial killer.

Mafia targets person A, Doctor protects person A, and SK targets person B. So person B dies come morning.

Townies don't know about the SK. Doctor thinks they just protected the wrong person. Mafia freaks out cause that wasn't their target, so what happened! time to guess what's going on!

Too much revealed about the actions takes out an element of deduction from the game and I think that makes it even more fun when it's there.

That's my opinion at least, different GMs host it different ways. It's still fun, that's just my preference.
That's not really the way mafia is played.

There are a set number of roles in the game, and it's always defined from the start. There will always be a Town Killing, a Town Investigative, a Town Protective, a Town Support, a Random Killing, and at least one "Unknown" role from a selection of a few. Usually it's a random neutral such as Jester or Executioner.

If you are playing as the mafia, and your kill fails and you receive the message "Your target was immune," you still don't know what role your target was. That information is not revealed. You don't know if you failed to kill a Serial Killer (who has night immunity), a Doctor (who can protect themselves a limited number of times), or someone who the Doctor protected. You still have to deduce things by playing the game.

The presence of a Serial Killer absolutely has to be disclosed in the game. Obviously you wouldn't reveal who it is that has the role, but there needs to be a distinction between who is killing who. So a death post would look like "_____ was killed by the mafia" and "____ was killed by the Serial Killer." If two people are dying every night, it's obviously both mafia and SK killing people. This just provides some clarity for the game, and in no way detracts from the "deduction game."