Tutorial?

[Wabe]

I've just tried playing the game for the first time and just seemed to get thrown into an on-line match without the slightest clue of what to do.

Is there really nothing to help you get started?

[DeathMetalMarine PCMR]

Nope, nothing besides the Role description on the right. If you're evil, it's simple. Get your lying skills into action, make wills up.

[Wabe]

I'm sorry, but I don't understand your advice anymore than I understood what was going on in the game. Lying? Wills?

[Vandalay]

I do admit the game is a bit complicated to learn, and it's kind of hard to make a tutorial, because, even playstyle of the game is constantly changing, as it's entirely about lying and seeing through lies. Let me give a brief overview.

First and foremost the 3 sides.

Town - goal is to remove the mafia, and the neutral killer
Mafia - goal is to remove town + NK
NK - goal is to kill pretty much everybody

Each night each role gets a interface to do what their role does. The lower right basically picks a target, the upper right is your rolecard where it lists what you do.

If you are town, you will almost certainly be using your will, (there's an icon at the top looking like a piece of paper (not the bloody one if you are jailor vig or vet).

Basically your will is a record of where you are going and what you are doing. Typical format of it is

(YourName) the (YourRole).
N1. (guyYouchose) - result

IE so if you visit Tom sawyer, as a investigator, and you find he's a "bodyguard, godfather or arsonist". and your name is joe, your will will look like

Joe the Investigator
N1. Tom Sawyer - BG/GF/Arso

basically the will is what you leave the town when you die. so that they can figure it out if you don't live long enough. It also is a proving method for yourself. IE if someone questions you of being mafia or the NK, you will copy and paste from your will into chat.

Now if you are evil you usually will make a fake will, basically the same format, probably imitating a role you can at least take educated guesses at either from the graveyard, or claim a role that most of it's results are expected to be generic (say in my example if you were mafioso on mafia's side, you could claim lookout, and have a will as

EvilBob The lookout
N1. Tom sawyer - Visited by joe

(as you are using tom sawyers will to know where tom was, and thus pretending you were there watching him).


anyway that's all I got time to write right now...

a good starting point also, two percent skim has some good videos going over the starting of the game

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrqc2fgFy9iinYo3tuX8WF2akvnsGE6uw

[Wabe]

OK - Thank you for that :)

I'll take a look at the videos when I get time.

[Jirodyne]

I guide/tutorial is indeed a hard thing to make for this game.

The best we can do is describe the concept, and the roles, and give examples of what could happen.

In my opinion, I saw watch that people on youtube that letsplay the game. It's how I found out about this game, and watching them I slowly learned the mechanics of the game through them.