[New Game?] Werewolf
Pat McCrutch
So I've seen this game work in many other places, usually on forums, but whatever, and so I've figured "Hey, why wouldn't it work here?" Instead of answering that question I've decided to plow straight on.
I will now post the rules and how I'm going to attempt to adapt them to Erep 😃
Basically there are two teams, the villagers and the werewolves.
Villagers
The job of these poor guys is to try and lynch (vote to kill) off the werewolves. These guys don't know who else is a villager, making it difficult for them. The villagers win when all of the werewolves have been lynched.
Werewolves
The aim of the werewolves is to kill off the villagers one by one until they outnumber them. The werewolves generally make up 1/4 of the players.
Special Roles
To give the villagers a chance at winning, there are other roles as well.
Doctor
Each night the Doctor may choose one player to protect. This player cannot be then by the werewolves OR the vigilante.
Seer
Each night the seer can choose to investigate one player, and will discover whether or not they are a villager or a werewolf.
Vigilante
This caped bandit takes justice into their own hands, each night phase he may choose to kill a player that they suspect of being a werewolf. The vigilante can also choose not to kill a player.
Mayor
The mayor is elected by the villagers on the first day. If the mayor is killed off, a new mayor is elected the next day. The mayor holds a deciding vote in a case of tied votes, the 'lynchee' (not a fruit) that the mayor chose will be killed. *Note that this can happen even if the mayor was the only villager to vote for this person.
Game Play
The game is divided into two sections, a day phase and a night phase. Each phase will last for one erep day. All votes must be in within the day phase, otherwise the villager(s) in question will be killed off, regardless of role. Exceptions can be made if I'm contacted earlier though.
The Day Phase
During the day phase all players vote whether to not lynch, or to lynch (and in this case, who to lynch). On the first day phase they also vote for their mayor. Results from the previous night phase will also be announced during the day phase.
The Night Phase
This is where a lot of the action happens. Once night phase begins all of the roles (wolves, seer, doctor and vigilante) will message me with their choices. (The wolves decide collectively)
This is the order in which the events unfol😛
The events take place in this order:
Seer goes into seer trance.
Doctor protects a player.
Werewolves attack.
Vigilante attacks their target.
Seer wakes from trance with result of investigation. Which will be sent to them privately
So, each day I will either release a new article or update an old one with the results of the previous phase. Players who receive roles (decided as randomly as possible) will be PM'd and will PM me with their decisions each night phase. Any voting i.e. mayor voting or lynching will take place in the comments section of the article.
At the moment this is only a question of who's interested and, if you'd like you can also point out the impracticality of this and crush my dreams. If you have any questions just comment below and I'll attempt to answer them. I'm looking for between 8-12 players interested to kick this off.
Comments
This sounds good. Count me in 😛
I'm down for anything fun 🙂
Still a bit confused about how it would work in practice, and unsure if through pm between the involved if its possible to cheat, but i guess deception comes into it so you couldn't trust much anyone says, a werewolf is always going to claim to be a villager...
Also if the villagers know who the seer/doctor/vigilante are.. and how the results would be posted would the public know if a doctor protected someone attacked, or would the doctor know, would the seer's knowledge become public knowledege, and if not the seer could just shout results they would be a target for werewolves but also a protectorate of the doctor for the gain they'd both, well gain.. could he just protect the same person continuously?...
And if a werewolf gets lynched what happens to them, they aren't involved anymore, but with many days passing with no involvement, might lose repeat players from early deaths... also once dead, they would know the identities of the other original werewolves and could aid villagers
I just can't help but imagine villagers asking each other for screenshots of pm's to prove their innocence to each other and narrowing down who to lynch
Yeah its him...WyvernJack...he's the god damn werewolf you can tell by his post. LYNCH HIM AND SAVE THE HASSLE OF WRITING OTHER ARTICLES!
Count me In, don't know how to play but I'll get my social worker to read this and explain it to me in small, broken down details.
...Watching you WyvernJack...
...watching you!
Dr Hugh, you're hilarious.
I have never had a problem making a woman laugh, I am usually stood in front of them naked at the time though.
I'm trying to get hold of a few bottles of JD, a posse and some rope...wanna help me lynch WyvernJack?
What?! Nah never me, i'm innocent... I swear!...
oh, these large ears you ask??
Why, all the better to hear you with my dear
And what do we do with the ropes once we're done with him?
As I said, only roles get PM'd, so there's no real proof of being an ordinary villager. And it would be a big risk for the seer admit to being the seer as it could have been a wolf asking for proof....
Ok, PMs are only sent to roles, so there's no 'proof' that anyone is a villager. If the seer feels that they should post a print screen of their message, and send it to a wolf, they're wolfbait.
I think there was also a rule that once a villager claims to be the seer (in public), then the doctor cannot protect them now. So I should probably add that in. The doctor, and everyone else will know if the person they protected was attacked, the dialogue would read something like "Jimmy was attacked viciously, but somehow survived the night...." indicating he was saved by the doctor. If he wasn't attacked, then no one will ever know who the doctor protected.
Once a werewolf is dead, they're dead. I hope that for the sake of the game their gracious enough to remain loyal to their fellow wolves and not give any of them away. I don't quite get your question about early deaths.
Hope this clears things up. 🙂
I know a different version of this...but yeah...this works as well 🙂
Webcam twister?
Mafia?
Does it involve webcams and unusual positions whilst drunk?
Sounds interesting.
ill do it
Count me in!
Mafia but with Werewolves. Yeah let's do this!
Booooo -.- I should have read further down before replying to Riyusaki...
omfg....i played this game in RL before...pretty badass
btw I wasn't trying to crush dreams with my above post, just trying to be constructive to help it be more erep friendly... I just tend to default to being the devil's advocate 😛
....WOLF!!!
There's a bot on IRC that runs a game like this...would be easier, but we can try this.
javatwg.sourceforge.net for the IRC game
If I'd known about this 😨 Would be sooooo much easier 😛 Might still use it.... >.>
Well fuck this...we got to try the IRC game 😛
Yeah I'll play.
I'm in.
Miss Wolf is at a distinct disadvantage.
It can also confuse people. I may or may not be a wolf.
I will have to lynch to be safe.
I'll play! ^-^
I got time for dat
I have the IRC bot working I think, should we make a new channel for it or use one of our current ones? Let me know and i'll log it in. Just gotta have enough people on willing to play.
When does the lynching happen in the order of night things?
Dont no the game but sounds like fun..