Chat mafia

Much faster-paced than Forum Mafia, games in chat may be played by as few as 3-5 players, and may run from start to finish in an hour or two, rather than days or weeks!

Scumchat

While MafiaScum has a built-in chatroom, most people prefer to go to the AOL Instant Messenger chatroom #scumchat these days, due to better functionality. This is where impromptu mafia games are occasianally played, but more often ScumChat is used as a place for Scummers to discuss anything and everything, including, but not limited to Mafia Theory, Reality Shows, and the Harry Potter series.

You can access scumchat via the link at the bottom of the Forums that reads "Click to join AIM Chat", or by copying aim:gochat?roomname=ScumChat&Exchange=5 into your browser's address bar (Firefox or Internet Explorer). AOL Instant Messenger or a similar client (Pidgin, Trillian) is required.

IRC

Several IRC channels exist for playing Mafia; some have 'bots' moderating the game, others are run by actual people:

• irc.globalgamers.net #mafia XylBot supports everything ever - this is the most commonly used irc mafia channel, and is the channel most people refer to when they talk about mafia on IRC. Xyl posted a list of the roles used in this channel in this thread. Also known as xmafia.
• irc.synirc.org #mafia MafiaBot and MafiaBot2 (MB supports cop/doc/lynchproof/bulletproof/rb/vig/bodyguard and kingmaker, MB2 supports those and also watcher/tracker/godfather)
• irc.synirc.org #fluodome mafia open setup, very fast games (45s night, 30s day discussion, 30s day voting)
• irc.freenode.org ##jswolfbot sometimes someone has a gun, like multishot dayvig, where bullets only kill wolf and don't kill town, but sometimes gun will explode. Games running every day.
• irc.esper.net #werewolf wolfbot
• irc.coldfront.net #werewolf Werebot 1 seer, 2 wolves, N townies bot has ugly colors
• irc.foonetic.com #mafia Siobhan noreveal setup at 6p+ w/detective who sees roles of dead players. Channel's website and the channel's wiki.
• irc.foonetic.com #xkcdmafia human moderated pyp games
• irc.rizon.net #mafia MafBot / Bot modded, 3-21player game. 5 minutes - 2 hours depending on size. More interesting roles as the number of players increase / weird money based role leveling / RPG-ish mafia
• irc.swiftirc.net #mafia MafBot seems like the same bot as rizon #mafia
• efnet #wolf 1 seer, 2 wolves, N townies (they play LONG games for IRC, 3.5 hours)
• irc.gamesurge.net #werewolf WereBot seems like a variant of coldfront Werebot (or vice versa)
• irc.dynastynet.net #mafia MafiaBot can randomly distribute roles, take votes, and can explain roles. Human moderated. Range of Styles, themes, and roles. Website