Realms Beyond Werewolf

[sunrise089]

Are we playing this as mafia or werewolf mode? Mafia gets my vote as a lot less emo.

[Sciz]

Are we playing this as mafia or werewolf mode? Mafia gets my vote as a lot less emo.

same here lol

[fire&ice]

i have not heard of mafia mode so unless there is a major difference i should know of i don't care which

[Selrahc]

I don't want to play, but I'll watch and lurk, or serve as the narrator if you like.

Thanks for the offer, but I think I'll be okay narrating. If this works out well enough to get a repeat, I'll be happy to give someone else a turn.

I've played in RL, and usually get pretty good at figuring out who's who -- which makes me the first to get ganked by the wolves.

The real life game is a bit different, for lots of reasons really. Lack of body language cues, more time to think, secret messages.... But keen observation can still be deadly. I've played this game online quite a lot, and there were a few players in the community who were just incredible at the game. Especially compared to me .

Its a good thing too, because without observation and debate over it, the core of the game would just be pure guessing.

On game structure - It would work for the game to play out in public in a forum thread, right? That holds the daytime discussions and everything else happens in secret (the narrator handing out identities, werewolves chatting, and telling the narrator who to kill.) There is no risk of spoiler leakage and lurkers can read along trying to guess.

Yep. That's the system.

in the version i play you get a seer who can look at one player during the night phase and see if they are a villager or a werewolf. It’s powerful but also dangerous depending how you try to give out the information

I'll be deciding on the specific special roles once I've got the numbers, but seer is definitely going to be included at this point. I'll post explanations of the roles included when I close up recruitment.


EDIT:

I learned the game as werewolf, so I've got a preference for that. I'll bow to the consensus though. If we get a firm wave of support for mobs and citizens rather than wolfmen and villagers, then I'll flip the flavour. There isn't a mechanical difference.

[Bobchillingworth]

Compromise and make it a werewolf mafia. A non-angsty werewolf mafia.

[Cull]

I would prefer mafia only because thats the way I learned it. Would only take 10 minutes or so to learn the werewolf terms though. Not a big deal to me. Are we running 48/24?

[Cyneheard]

I think werewolves are more of a fit with the FFH nature of this board.

[pocketbeetle]

Sounds fun, count me in!
Although I have to say: I'm a very delicate flower and I'm not sure I can stomach all this sneaky stuff.

I like the werewolf theme: OP's game, OP's rules.

I'll play if only to give you guys an easy choice for a day 1 lynch.

[zakalwe]

Never played this before, but I'll give it a try. Sounds like I basically just need to check the forums once per day, right? I do that anyway because I'm an addicted lurker, so it shouldn't be a problem.

[Selrahc]

Alright, thank you everyone for signing up. I'm going to call an end to recruitment now.

The roles being used in this game are:

Team Village:
9 Villagers
2 Masons
1 Seer
1 Baner

Special village roles explained:
Masons are villagers, but know the identity of all other masons.

The Baner is a villager, but can pick one player each night to protect from wolf attack. Wolf attacks on that player will fail.

The Seer is a villager, but during the night phase picks one player. They are told whether that player is a werewolf or villager, but not their specific role.

Team Wolf:
3 Werewolves
1 Devil

Special wolf role explained:
The Devil is a werewolf, and knows the other werewolves. Each night phase he may pick a player and is told that players specific role.



I'll be sending out role PMs now. Once I'm done I'll post up the game thread. Just a few notes.
No restriction on what live people say in the game thread. Dead people aren't allowed to talk while the game is ongoing, and neither are lurkers.
I will be using a cookie cutter role PM for villagers, which I'll post in the opening narration, to avoid people seeking out wolves by asking for quotes from the villager role PM.
Remember the autolynch rules. Two consecutive day phases without a vote, and you're dead. Try and vote every day phase. If someone has out of game reasons I'll take it into account as long as you tell me before hand.
If you don't get a role PM, but think you should have, PM me about it rather than asking in thread.