- Go to the Board Index andfind the right subforum.If you are modding a Normal game, you want New York. If you are modding an Open Game, you want Central Park.
- Click the "New Topic" button above Announcements.
- In the subjectline, write your game number, game title, game phase like this "Normal 1000 | Panda Bears | Pregame". Normal and Open games often don't have flavour but if you want something quick and easy you can pick a topic that is easy to google image search.
- Select the moonicon so that people know that your game is not open yet.
- In the body, you can put a picture and some kind of introduction, but most importantly: put a list of players, in the order the listmod gave you. Below it, put "Events:", where you will, at a minimum, put a link to the start of each dayphase, and possibly when people were replaced.
- Previewthe OP, make sure it looks good, then submit it.
- At the very bottom of the page is "Quick mod tools:Lock topic". Click "Go"
- At the bottom of the page, click "Bookmark topic." When you're moderating a game there are lots of threads to keep track of, so the bookmarks page is handy.
- The thread is locked, but you can still post, because you're the moderator! Click the locked button!
- Post your rules. If you don't have a ruleset yet, feel free to steal mine and change the parts you don't like. If you press "PM" on the link it will show you the formatting.
- Post any open parts of your setup. This can be its own post if you have a lot of information to share, or you can put it after the rules. What roles exist, what roles are guaranteed not to exist, whether mafia have daytalk. If you are running a normal game, put a link to the Normal Game page. If your setup has a wikipage of its own, like 09:12, then link to its wiki page in addition to putting the sample role PMs.
The bare minimum your mod PT needs is your
- Go back to the Board Index and find the subforum.
- Click the New Topicbutton.
- In the subject, put the game number, the name and Mod PT
- First post: mod PT navigation links and playerlist.Spoiler: Navigation code
- Previewit to make sure you like how it looks
- Then at the bottom of the page, find the "Users that can moderate this topic" box and type in your backup mod's name, hit "add moderator". Type in the listmod's name, hit "add moderator". Don't hit preview again or you will have to start over. Hit submit.
- Bookmarkit!
- Second post: role assignments. Write the roles that are in your game into this post. Then go to random.org/lists and enter your playerlist and click randomize. Paste the results. Then put it together: playerA is the mafia goon, playerB is the town doctor etc, everybody else is a VT.Spoiler: role assignments code
- Third post: links. You don't have all your PTs made yet, so in a new browser tab, make some more PTs, one for the mafia, and one for the dead thread. If you have neighbours or masons, make them a PT too. Fill in the subject line correctly (game number, name, Mafia or Dead), but just put adsf in the body for now. You'll fix it before you add anyone who can see it.Bookmarkthem. Now in your mod PT make your links post.Spoiler: links code
- Fourth post: Game Events. This is for keeping track of night actions, and after the game you just copy this wholesale into the main thread.Spoiler: Game Events code
Change the verbs to match your setup. Then copy paste 3 more times and edit the number in the area tag for which day/night it is.
- Fifth post: Next flip. I like to have my youtube video lined up well in advance so i'm not scrambling to find a good one when they eliminate someone just as I'm heading out the door. You don't have to fill it in now.Spoiler: Next flip code
- Sixth post: Flavourplaceholder.Spoiler: flavour placeholder code
- Seventh post: Phrasebook, for prodding in a hurrySpoiler: phrasebook code
- One last post, in which you'll get your role PMs ready Spoiler: role PM post code
You should already have these made from when you got your setup reviewed but if not, check the wiki, most roles have a sample role PM available. But just in case, here is a sample mafia rolecop PM that you can modify for any other role by changing the colours or the abilities or removing the PT link.
- It's really important to send your role PMs out one at a time, and in the order of signups. If you send all the VTs out together then everybody with the 07:32:51 timestamp is a VT, and it's really easy to accidentally click "add" instead of "add BCC" and then everybody can see all the other recipients. To make this as painless as possible, paste all role PMs into your mod PTin order of signups and then later when you send them out you can just go in order. Not now, though, you don't even have a mafia PT yet!
At a minimum, the mafia PT needs to contain the
- Find your mafia PTand edit the post so it doesn't say asdf anymore.
- Here is what I use for the newbies I mod. Feel free to remove or change the parts that don't suit you. Spoiler: mafia PT
- In particular if your setup is not open then you should only post a vanilla townie role PM or their fake claims, and if they don't have daytalk then edit that line too.
- For the deadline, if you type "2 days" then it will automatically put it in the right format for you as soon as you preview it, but you want it to be 2 days from the time you send out your role PMs, which is still in the future, so put 2 days, then edit it to round up by a half hour or so, that should give you enough time.
- Previewit to make sure it looks good.
- add your backup mod and the listmod to the add moderatorbox. Add the mafia players to the add user box. Don't preview it again before submitting or you'll have to add everybody again.
- I make my dead PT at the start of the game because I often get spectator requests. I don't like having spectators in my mod PT because I like to dole out spoilers slowly.
- In the OP for the dead thread, lay out any expectations for how the dead players should behave, such as not posting in the thread before you say that the game is over, even if they know/think it is.
- Here's the code I use for my dead thread. It is pretty simple. Spoiler: dead thread code
- Add your backup moderator and the listmod to the "add moderator" box. Don't preview before submitting.
- Send out your role PMs, one at a time,in the order of the playerlist. BCC your backup mod on all the PMs you send out!
- Post a message in thepublic threadthat you've done this and when the deadline is. Here's what I use:Spoiler: all PMs sent code
- In your mod PT, quote your role assignment's post and your links post, and reply to the PM the listmodsent you with these, so they know everything's set up. CC your backup mod on this.
- Add the deadline to your calendarso you remember to start the game in time.
- When people confirm, edit the first post in your mod PT to be bold, to help you keep track of confirmations.
- I like to put a link to the game in my signature. Later, when I need to post a replacement request, if i've forgotten to copy the game's URL to my clipboard, i can just preview my post and copy the link out of my own signature.