Terminology

• Bandwagon – Refers to when a person votes another person without evidence and everyone else piles on to nominate the player to be trialed or lynched.
• Basic Roles – Refers to any role that is basic by definition. Basic roles are generally more “mundane” but necessary for the game to function smoothly.
• BD – An acronym for Bus Driver.
• Benign Roles – Refers to any role that is benign by definition. Benign roles are neutral roles without a specific desire to see any certain faction lose.
• BG – An acronym for Bodyguard.
• BM – An acronym for Blackmailer; may also be shorthand for "bad manners" depending on the context.
• CC – Acronym for counter-claiming. Refers to a person claiming a role, then another person claiming that they are that role and not the first person (If it is known there is only 1 type of that role in the game).
• Cit – A shortened version of Citizen.
• Claim – Also referred to as Role-Claim, claiming is the act of publicly claiming to be a certain role, whether true or not.
• Cleaned – Refers to when a player has been sanitized by a Janitor or Disguiser.
• Cleared - Refers to when a player appears to have their allegiance with the Town guaranteed (having lead a lynch on the Mafia or been checked by the Sheriff or Investigator)
• Consig – A shortened version of Consigliere.
• Doc – A shortened version of Doctor.
• Evil Roles – Refers to any role that is evil by definition. Evil roles are neutral roles that wish to see one or all factions die.
• Framed – Refers to a player that has been investigated and found to be Mafia due to having been targeted by a Framer.
• GF – An acronym for Godfather
• Guilty – Can refer to voting to have someone die in a trial or refer to proclaiming a player to be scum.
• Host – The player that sets up the game
• IH - An acronym for in house. Often used in the mafia channel when creating games that are not public.
• Innocent – Can refer to voting to spare a players life in a trial or proclaiming a player to be Town or Benign. **Often shortened to Inno.
• Last Will - An in-game function that allows players to leave a message to be displayed when they die.
• Lynch or Lose - Usually refers to the situation where the player count is one more Town than Mafia. If the Town waits one more day to lynch, the Mafia will kill and thereby take majority vote after. The only winning move for the Town is to lynch randomly if there is no information, and hope that they catch a Mafia player.
• Mod – A moderator of the game. Moderators have the ability to warn and kick bad-mannered, trolling or other disruptive players from the game.
• Power Roles – Refers to any role that is power by definition. Power roles have direct influence on the course of the game via their night actions.
• PM - The in-game Private Message system.
• Premade – Also referred to as Private or In-house, a term for a partial or full group of people that joined or created a game together – often via the Mafia channel on Battle.net.
• Pub – A term (frequently derogatory) for players matched into a game by the public match making system or otherwise not part of a premade.
• Random Lynch – Refers to lynching players without any form of proof. Random lynching is often looked down upon.
• RB – An acronym for Role-Block, a night action performed by Consorts, Escorts, and Jailors that prevents another player from using their night actions.
• SK – An acronym for Serial Killer.
• Spam – Refers to flooding the chat with many aimless messages. Mafia has a spam filter that prevents players from repeatedly sending messages.
• Support Roles – Refers to any role that is support by definition. Support roles do not have direct influence on the course of the game as their night actions are either severely limited or non-existent. They must influence the game with their own deductions.
• Switched - Also referred to as Bussed or Driven, refers to when a player has been switched by a Bus Driver.
• Trolling – The act of purposely trying to ruin the game either by excessive flaming, deliberately trying to lose, completely ignoring the roles, constantly trying to random lynch and so on.
• Vet - A shortened version of Veteran.
• Vigi – A shortened version of Vigilante.
• Witched – Refers to when a player has been manipulated by a Witch.