Last year I wrote part of a strategy tutorial aimed at beginner players for dealing with information as both mafia and village, based around the meta used in Smogon OC mafia. I didn't finish a pretty major section (which was meant to cover accidental information slips, trust, etc.) and I wanted to add in examples for the cleaning people subsections as well as some advice on diplomacy/maybe ensuring information survives/spreadsheet technical info. I also never addressed multifaction/mafia vs. mafia stuff as I am bad at multifaction and saw the latter as redundant in this context. I was trying to avoid stuff that had already been covered in great substance in the non-out-of-date mafia articles written by Mekkah and UncleSam), but if anyone would like to finish it and edit it down for length/correctness that's fine with me.
Sam's guide on false claiming in The Smog is pretty good (although slightly out of date where the role shit gets specific I think) and he wrote a strategy guide for planning in The Smog as well that was pretty good at least at the time (haven't reread it) so that was one reason I didn't pursue finishing it (since the part of my guide that dealt with faking was becoming pretty similar), but I feel like we could probably amalgamate information from those articles with citations, update shit, add in new shit, and make a comprehensive guide on top of the glossary-esque thing we have.
I have finals and I'm (unusually!) sick right now, so I won't be making any revisions to the actual document, but I thought I'd offer it up if we were talking mutual intake with a new community, as Smogon OC 2v1 is pretty unique. We could also probably run some beginner games (annoyingly I had a bunch of beginner games designed but they're quite literally six years out of date and probably very imba). I think they're running #fluodome-type mafia games in #smogon again (#pokemon -> #smogon) but I can't confirm 'cause I don't go there.
This is just because while NOC gives you a lot of good skills for playing I am not sure what mafia variants the Showdown! people have played and I was bored a year ago.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D4dfOK1MP7OYZntsfHABeHI9KulRkLCfXfVDnBBzM5E
this was meant to supplement stuff written in this thread
#12 which was posted here
in this sticky but is a lot more concise. At the least Sam should go through his and Mekkah's guides and find the ones that are still relevant and make a new post in that thread linking them IMO
also I think the mods should prolly have a think about hosting issues...
Note that Coronis used to actually play mafia here btw, he was even in Sam's Very First Game :') :') :') and ofc good players from there will probably be competent but anything that encourages people to make the crossover and not get overwhelmed! New friends are good. Maybe we can even get them to play with Avalon with us