I got help for balancing my game. It'll need 24 players for the full experience, but it can acomedate fewer players. I can made ads if anything + the newbies from the nub game might join. Still a longs way away from my turn to host though. But I can assure you the set up is fun.
Any advice on writing flavor text/Role pms before the game starts?
Do them early. It's really stressful to try and smash out all of the role PMs if you want good flavour. GoT mafia was lacking in that aspect because I waited until the last minute to finalise everything. I feel like the flavour in my bioshock mafia was pretty good, so if you want a jumping off point on how to include role types heavily involving the story of your theme.
http://www.belltreeforums.com/showthread.php?172746
I used an open set up because I really want it to be flavour heavy and put characters as roles that would most closely align to them as I saw fit. I enjoy a good story and a well formatted first post. Try to keep everything clear and make use of the coding that you can do on the forums.
I also like doing role PMs with a small photo of the character so it looks kind of cool. Example:
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| Lord Varys (Kingmaker)
You are the spider, master of whispers. Other see you as a self-serving eunuch, but truly you serve the realm. Everything you do strives for the betterment of the realm and those in it. With your knowledge of secrets, you have the intuition on who would succeed as king. You may PM the host each day to crown a player king for the day. You may not crown yourself. You may not crown a hero that has been outed in the thread as the hero. You may crown the same player twice in a row.
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Your win condition is:
Eliminate all of the mafia trying to steal the throne for themselves.
It gets more condensed in a role PM, but yeah you get the idea. I think Tina was the first one to do it on TBT.
All in all, have a few word documents because the coding does make it get quite extensive when you're writing out full PMs. I usually have one for town, one for mafia and one for my main post. And I can't stress this enough:
Double, triple, quadruple check everything. Don't accidentally reveal the mafia or PM the wrong thing.
I'd also like to stress another point and not just at you, but at everyone looking to host:
You need to post minimally in a game after it starts. I mean just answering green text questions and posting the day/night posts and that is it. By posting in the game, your words as the host can be interpreted in any way. Don't give town or mafia a possible edge by misspeaking or posting too much information. You have to keep your hosting somewhat "professional" or you skew your own game.
