# Mafia: Evil Dead - Signups and Night Zero

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [December 11, 2008, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-evil-dead-signups-and-night-zero/476736 "2008-12-11T17:51:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chucara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Chucara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chucara)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-evil-dead-signups-and-night-zero/476736/230 "2008-12-18T21:43:42Z")

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Here’s an idea (not mine, but I kinda like it):

What if every person states a (random) name in the first post of the day (Or at least once per day) as well as an alignment - for example:

TARGET: Storyteller: Town

If I were investigator, the alignment would be true and the name would be of last nights target. In case I were to die, all actions would still be recorded.  
If I were any other power role, the “Town” part would be random, but the name would the target of last nights action.  
If I were vanilla, the name and alignment would be entirely random. The only reason I’d be posting was to make it easy for an investigator to breadcrumb, and it’d also expose the previous actions of anyone dying or claiming… Theoretically making it harder for scum to lie.

Any comments before we begin - good idea? bad idea? Directly opposed?

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