Variants of Mafia Rules

Resurrection
                                       

In the game of Mafia, the dead are completely excluded. Any number of variants may be played in which the dead may somehow be brought back to life. Don Steven J. Miller has suggested that the archangel be given a choice: wither protect someone or bring someone back to life. However, there's a catch-- if the archangel chooses to bring someone back to life (by pointing at a deceased person), the moderator informs the mafia and reawakens them-- they get to guess whom the archangel is resurrecting. If they're wrong, the dead player comes back to life. If they're right-- they catch the archangel in the act and kill him. This is just one suggestion-- others include giving some civilian the right to bring someone back to life once in the course of the game, or allowing the archangel to bring someone back to life only on turns when he successfully thwarts the mafia. It goes without saying that the dead must keep their eyes closed at night if resurrection is a possibility for them.

Note - Compare the variants of the bookie and the vampire.

7/16/99 - A suggestion from Steven Phelps: Perhaps resurrected people could draw a random card from a stock pile containing some mafia and some civilians.



Source: http://www.princeton.edu/~mafia/v17.htm

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下面是引用bbsriver于2006-04-25 20:30发表的:
bbsriver翻译和评注

[*] “复活”规则明摆着对平民有利。所以游戏中设置了种种限制。我对其中“杀手猜中了医生要复活谁，医生就非但复活不了死者，自己也会送命”这条规则比较感兴趣。这就导致医生在游戏开始，死者很少的时候不敢用自己的复活权力，只有到游戏后期死者很多的时候才敢使用复活的权力，免得被杀手猜中。但是恐怕医生又活不到那么晚的时候。我想把这条规则引入狗狗版规则的“招魂”之中。

这里的复活和招魂似乎还是不太一样的，复活了以后就一直活着了，而招魂本来就只能赋予死者当轮的投票权，过后还是死了。狗狗版的招魂只有两次机会，一般也不会在前期不是关键的投票轮就被用掉的。