WW Central VI: Important WW information goes here - READ OPENING POSTS!

[happyturtle]

Heh... everyone got used to doing my job for me, Thufir.

[Zar Peter]

@Zar: While I appreciate your efforts, I'm doing pretty well at keeping the schedule up to date. In fact, I didn't notice your post until after I'd done it myself...

Games switched, labeled, etc. Changed the game start on Mafia to '????', since we don't know when Andre will be ready to do it, and I've put Thursday Next II down as cancelled, since we're well past when it was supposed to start (And Bookworm still hasn't posted the ending narration for the first one yet...)
I also remembered that a while back Paul Muad'dib asked for his game to be removed from the schedule, and no-one did it. It has now been done, leaving an open slot in the week of March 15. Anyone want to move up?

OK, I won't do it anymore. Just had the time for it.

Oh, and still no reply from Uncle Festy about the swap.

[Uncle Festy]

Oh, and still no reply from Uncle Festy about the swap.

Oh, right.
Um…
Yeah, let's do it. I was gonna say that I'd see where I was with the rules this weekend, but I'm gonna be away for most of it, so sure, yeah.

[Thufir]

Games swapped.

[happyturtle]

Let there be cake!

[Zar Peter]

Werewolf Classic X sign up is waiting for Mod-Approval

[BishFish]

I would like to use the May 31st spot to co-narrate a Percy Jackson WW game with Bookworm.

[Mustiado]

Just a reminder: Werewolf Classic X: Chilled Blood Becomes Spilled Blood is now accepting sign-ups. Because, you know, it's going to be awesome.

[Dirk Kris]

Hey guys, sorry to anyone whose game I was in and then, you know, disappeared! Apologies, as personal drama has been running the show. But things are better now. And will be back at some point. Miss you guys - play well.

[billtodamax]

Yay, Dirk! *huggles*

Come back soon!

[happyturtle]

Happy birthday, to the playground's oldest resident!

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

I had an idea for a Pokemon themed WW game, but then I thought there already was a Pokemon themed WW game, but I couldn't find it in the archives.

Was there once a Pokemon WW?

[Shadowcaller]

I had an idea for a Pokemon themed WW game, but then I thought there already was a Pokemon themed WW game, but I couldn't find it in the archives.

Was there once a Pokemon WW?

Yeah, there was. I think... someone narrated it. Istari maybe.

The wolves won a perfect victory thought. That I remember.

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

Oh, fiddlesticks. I don't wanna step on toes with further game design ideas. Hmmmmm .... does anyone have the rules?

[Reinholdt]

Yeah, there was. I think... someone narrated it. Istari maybe.

The wolves won a perfect victory thought. That I remember.

That we did. Meowth!

^ It was a basic game, just using Team Rocket as wolves and Ash and company as baner/seer/masons. But there wasn't any special rules.

[Fawkes]

The wolves won a perfect victory thought. That I remember.

Hell yeah we did.

Booyah.

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

Ooooh, then I can write special rules and not offend anyone.

Good, I was afraid I was gonna have to make my idea into a Digimon game and I know nothing about Digimon.

[Trixie]

Why not Reksio game?

[Mordokai]

Spytrap V thread has been posted and awaits for moderator approaval.

[Oddity]

I'm back from holiday now, ready to be auto-lynched.
jk.

[PhantomFox]

Universal Smash Bros 4 has ended with a victory by Team Nintendo. Want to run another one, but can't write scenes anymore. Anyone to take up the mantle? I'll help with mechanics if need be.

[Dirk Kris]

Question: I wanted to look back on that Jack the Ripper WW game Twobi and I did a while back. Tried searching and nothing's come up. Can anyone get me a link or help me find it, please?

[Reinholdt]

Done and done.

[Supagoof]

So my brain has been thinking up some more fun twists to try in a game. Feel free to take these and use them.

Moonlight - Every 4th day, the full moon rises. On that night, instead of a kill, the wolves get the chance to recruit a player.

Mad-Money - Game is played with money similar to bandits in YOW. Only rather then kills, players are eliminated when they run out of money. - The catch - the bandits can steal up to X amount of coins each night (X determined as 1+ average money player starts with). So if X = 5, and the bandits steal 5 from player bob, but bob has 6, then bob survives the night. If bob had 5 or less, he'd be removed from the game. Lynching works as normal. Can also work with multiple teams of bandits. And store is an option to better circulate money. Needs some fleshing out, but if you want to run with it please do.

[whitehelm]

Mad-Money - Game is played with money similar to bandits in YOW. Only rather then kills, players are eliminated when they run out of money. - The catch - the bandits can steal up to X amount of coins each night (X determined as 1+ average money player starts with). So if X = 5, and the bandits steal 5 from player bob, but bob has 6, then bob survives the night. If bob had 5 or less, he'd be removed from the game. Lynching works as normal. Can also work with multiple teams of bandits. And store is an option to better circulate money. Needs some fleshing out, but if you want to run with it please do.

There's a potential problem here that games should account for. If transferring money is allowed and there is a seer, the seer could go public and ask for most of everyone's money making it very hard to kill the seer. Anyone not giving money to the seer would be the first ones scryed. There are probably several ways to avoid this, its just something to keep in mind.

[gardenphilosoph]

Hey there, I'm new to the Structured Games section of the GitP forums but I frequent the play-by-post area. I'm GMed a hefty amount of play-by-post games in a variety of systems and I've played in a few WW games back over at the Elder Scrolls forums, and now I'm thinking of running a small one myself.

It'd be 20 players or less, and it'd would be relatively simple. Only the Villager, Werewolf, Rogue (kill a player, on the Villager's side) and Doctor (protect a player, on the Villager's side) roles.

The theme would be John Carpenter's The Thing. The names of the roles would obviously be changed. Villagers would be Researchers and the Werewolves would be, collectively, the Thing.

The only rules twist that would need is that the game starts with only one 'werewolf', which I will now refer to as the Thing. The Thing chooses to assimilate someone every night. The twist is that the longer the game goes on, the higher the chance is that the person is just killed instead of assimilated. Assimilated players act like normal civilians during the day, and even though they are part of the Thing they still only choose one player to assimilate, they just must start coordinating. The goal is to, of course, kill or assimilate everyone else.
--1st night 100% chance Turn into a 'thing', 0% chance the player dies
--2nd night 50% chance Turn into a 'thing', 50% chance the player dies
--3rd night 25% chance Turn into a 'thing', 75% chance the player dies
--4th night 12.5% chance Turn into a 'thing', 87.5% chance the player dies
--5th night (and all following nights) 10% chance Turn into a 'thing', 90% chance the player dies

This would be my first time hosting a game of WW, and I don't exactly know what the forum etiquette around here is for doing so, so I'm announcing it here to ask for advice and garner attention/gauge interest. I've read the very helpful first post in this thread.

So, what do you think?

[rakkoon]

So it is possible to lynch the only wolf on the first day?
This has happened in other Alpha wolf games (fond memories)...
Perhaps he can choose one ally the first day?

[gardenphilosoph]

So it is possible to lynch the only wolf on the first day?
This has happened in other Alpha wolf games (fond memories)...
Perhaps he can choose one ally the first day?

Well I was thinking that the game would 'start' on a night, which would also serve as a roleplaying/confirmation. Which is why there's a 100% assimilation rate the first night, so essentially yes, he is picking out an ally, but it's not completely at random since he gets to watch the players interacting with each other.

[rakkoon]

Well that solves that problem. Rest looks fine to me but let someone with some rule-making experience comment further. Games up to 20 players are free to start anytime but it is friendlier to announce it here first.
Start a thread, pm a Mod (Alarra) to approve it and go for it I would say.

[The Bushranger]

Hm. Sounds interesting...but Face of Evil ran a The Thing game awhile back.