Hello all.
This thread was designed by Lucky originally for the purposes of coordinating and maintaining all the werewolf games and variants. It has become a great tool for us. This is where you come to place a claim on running your own Werewolves or Werewolves variant game. It can also be used to develop ideas and gather interest for your own version of the game. Whatever you're looking for in regards to werewolf games should be found on this page.
Maybe not in this post, but somewhere on this first page.
Everything from start dates to active games, rules (and optional rules) to games archives can be found here along with tools designed to make your game run smoother.
If there’s something useful you think is missing, mention it. We will immediately eventually spring lurch into action to sort it out.
--Playing--
--How Players Should Use This Thread--
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If you need to check the basic rules, they are in this post.
If you have a query about the general/basic rules, this is the place to ask. Questions about a specific edition/variant should be directed to the narrator.
If you want to know when a certain game is starting, the schedule is in the second post.
If someone mentions a past game which interests you, someone here may well remember it and be willing to elaborate. Or, you can check the archives.
--Basic Game-Play Overview--
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The game is played in turns that consist of two different phases.
There's a day phase that happens from dawn ‘til dusk in game. This period typically lasts 48 hours. During this time all the players try to decide who the bad guys are by voting for them. Votes are done in red text. You may change your vote if you wish, in which case, you should edit your previous post and strike-through your previous vote. Once the day has ended, whoever has the most votes is removed from the game (Lynched). In the event of a tie, common practice is to lynch whichever player reached that number of votes first.
The 25% Rule: Part of the original rules, but not all narrators use it now. By this rule, a lynch only occurs if at least 25% of the players vote for the same person. If no 25% majority is reached, the mob cannot gather sufficient numbers to lynch anyone.
Additionally, if a 50% majority is reached, day may optionally end early at that point, if the narrators want it to.
Auto-lynches: If a player fails to vote for a certain number of day phases (Usually 2), they will be auto-lynched. If you will be unable to get online to post in your games for some period of time, you should notify the narrator(s) in advance, either in-thread or via PM.
The next phase is the night phase, which lasts from dusk ‘til dawn. This phase typically lasts 24 hours. During this phase, anyone that has a special action to perform during that time does so via PM to the narrator(s). This is the phase of the game where the wolves would tell the narrators who they would like to kill.
After time's up, the narrators will post the opening of the following Day Scene and it starts all over again.
This continues until either A) all of the Wolves are destroyed by the Villagers -or- B) the Wolves reduce the total number of non-wolf players to equal their own.
This is just a brief overview of the basic rules. Specific games may have variant rules which will be detailed in the game thread.
--Basic Role Descriptions--
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Once a game has closed recruitment, the narrator will randomly assign roles and PM all players with their role. Traditional roles are as follows:
Team Villager
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Villager: You are a villager. Your job is to stay alive, and ferret out the werewolves.
Mason: Your job is to ferret out the werewolves, and to protect your fellow Mason(s). There will always be a minimum of 2 Masons in a group. The masons are told each other’s identities.
Seer: Each night phase, you may PM the Narrator and co-Narrator to look into the heart of one other player. When you select a player, the answer given to you will be villager, fool, or werewolf. Seers see the Devil as a Werewolf.
Fool: Thinks he is a seer. Is told that he is a seer. When a fool gets his foresight in the evening, he gets a random chance as to what he sees when he points somebody out. When he points to the Seer, he will always see the Fool, and vice versa.
Baner: This person is the carrier of the wolfsbane. Each night he may protect someone he believes is a villager, from the werewolves’ night-kill.
Team Werewolf
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Werewolf: Each night phase the werewolves choose among themselves who they want to kill, and send this in to the narrator(s).
Devil: Is basically the seer for the werewolves, however gets more precise results (Specific role rather than just villager, fool, or werewolf).
Note that other than villager and werewolf, none of these roles have to appear in any given game, and there are other roles which may be included. The narrator has the right to include whatever roles s/he wants, and alter them as s/he sees fit.
Victory Conditions:
For Team Villagers to win, the villagers must lynch all of the werewolves.
For Team Werewolf to win, they must simply reduce the number of villagers (Including special roles on Team Villager) to equal their current numbers.
Finally, if anyone has any other ideas as far as what to put in this thread, feel free to voice them here or PM them to me.
** Games of 20 players or less. These are put in the table for recordkeeping, but don't require scheduling a slot (However see section in post 3 on scheduling games).
Re: Werewolf Central VIII: Important WW information goes here - READ OPENING POSTS!
--Narrating--
--How Narrators Should Use This Thread--
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In addition to the ways players should use Central, narrators can:
Post the rules of games you’re planning, for balance advice, and potentially to garner interest in advance.
Look for a co-narrator.
Book a place for your game in the schedule.
Let us know when your game is recruiting/starting/ending.
Share fun stuff you've created, such as Korith's games spreadsheet.
--Interesting and Important Notes by Lucky--
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A couple other things to note when running a game of Werewolves:
A) Having a co-narrator is highly recommended. This is to assist with the flow of the game, and just makes it easier on the narrator.
Rules on cheating:
The SMBG stance on cheating applies to all of these games, and cheaters will be punished as dictated by the SMBG rules.
However, after the culprit has been punished and s/he has served his time off from the werewolf games, it will become forgotten history. No one is to speak of it further, and any concern will be PMed to the narrators of that game, not posted in the thread.
--Scheduling your game--
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We've all decided amongst ourselves that we should only have one game starting in any given week.
Small games (<20 players) do not need to be scheduled in advance. Normally, up to two small games may be started each week, unless the the total number of small games would then exceed the number of large games recruiting or running at the time. If you’re uncertain, just ask here in Central.
Additionally, while small games do not need to be scheduled in advance, they can be, if you wish to stake your claim in advance to be sure no-one beats you to it by posting their game first. However this shouldn’t come up too often.
Big name games which have no difficulty attracting players (Such as Classic) can ignore the schedule and start the same week as another large game. In such a week, no small games may be started.
Above all, be considerate. Everyone wants players for their game, and no-one likes for their game to end up short of players because they’re all playing in other games.
Please PM me or post here if you're planning on starting a game, so that we can coordinate everything properly.
This will ensure that every game gets the attention that it deserves and will make every game more enjoyable.
Thanks in advance.
Just as the Three Post Rule is usually enforced by ourselves rather than getting Mods involved, so too should rules that we've created for ourselves be so enforced. Please politely direct anyone starting a game out of turn to this thread.
As this is not a forum rule, this can only be enforced by us.
A little common courtesy goes a long way.
A note on posting Recruitment/Game Threads:
Threads created in the Structured Games subforum have to wait to be approved by a mod (Alarra or Zeb The Troll)
If you need a second post to open your game, simply put that in the Title of your thread so that your players will not post as soon as it goes up, like I did for this thread.
Then change the title when you're ready to play.
Recruitment and Game Schedules Large games:
Note that the date listed is for the week Game Thread should go up, not the recruitment thread. Begin recruitment at your leisure.
Small games:
For small games the date listed will be the week the thread goes up, though the game may not start that week, depending on recruitment. This is to help keep track of the 'Two small games per week' restriction.
--Co-narrators--
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If you want a co-narrator, ask here in Central. It will probably help to say what your game will be like, though some people will narrate anything.
Claims on Specific Editions/Variants:
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In general, a WW variant someone runs is considered specifically theirs. If you want to run another one of it, you must ask them nicely to let you co-narrate.
However, there is nothing to stop you doing something similar, which you can devise for yourself. If you’re uncertain, ask here in Central.
The exceptions to this variant ownership are WW Classic and Simply Werewolf, which get passed around. If you want to run one of these games, just ask and we’ll dig out the rules for you.
Re: Werewolf Central VIII: Important WW information goes here - READ OPENING POSTS!
--Extra Stuff--
--Optional Rules--
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Recruitment
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In some games, rather than, or in addition to, killing the villagers, the wolves may instead recruit them. The targeted villager becomes a werewolf instead. Power roles are typically immune to recruitment, and recruitment may be refusable, at the choice of the narrator
Scrying
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It can of course be played that the Seer and Fool get specific roles in response to their scries, rather than just team allegiance or Fool.
Optional Predetermined "Fool's Scry" Roles
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You may wish to randomly generate a second role distribution to be used for Fool scries, rather than randomly generating the result of each scry. This will ensure the Fool’s scries are consistent (Can’t scry the same person as different roles on separate occasions) and save you work.
Of course, if you give the Fool specific role results, you’ll have to decide what result they get if the role the Fool should scry is already dead. Obvious solution is to change said result to a basic Villager or Werewolf.
The Devil
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It can be played that the Devil and the Werewolves do not start the game knowing each other (This is the case in WW Classic). This can potentially make things rather interesting, as it’s harder for everyone to know who to trust...
Helgraf's Scry Interference Rule
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Under Helgraf’s Scry Interference Rule, any attempt by multiple scryers (Seer, Fool, Devil, etc.) to scry the same target on the same night will result in ‘interference’, i.e. no result.
--Additional Roles--
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Here are some more roles which you may see/use in a game of WW: Team Villager:
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Day-baner: Each night, this player may choose someone to protect. The following day, that person cannot be lynched.
Not Team Specific:
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Disguiser: Each night, this player may choose a target and a role. If someone scries that target, they will see the chosen role rather than the target’s actual role (What this does to Fool scries is up to the narrator).
Voider: Each night, this player may choose a target. That target will be unable to use their own night action (If they have one)
Transmuter: Each night, this player chooses a target. The narrators randomly select one of the abilities usable in the game and use it on the target.
Team Werewolf
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Beast: When this player is lynched, one of the people who voted for him will also die. This may be chosen by the player, randomly selected, or the last person to vote for the beast.
Alpha: Alpha can have three possible meanings – either the Alpha scries as a villager, or they get to choose their own team, or both. This should be specified in the rules of any game where the role is used.
Korith's Excel Spreadsheet. - A great tool to assign all the basic roles. Also includes an option to add up to 10 custom roles, making it also useful for almost any other werewolf variant.
Instructions are included inside.
The only concern that we've found with Korith's wonderful tool is that in some circumstances you may need to use it twice with slightly different configurations each time in order to get a fully randomized role distribution.
This will come into play when you're running an Alpha Game or when you have possible secondary roles that could be in addition to the player's primary role (such as lovers, feuders, etc.).
Also for inspiration and other possible purposes, the Mafia Wikipedia Article
We've had some concerns about shrinking player-base, so to help potentially attract new players, here are some banners, drawn by Elder Tsofu:
He also made some for specific players, which are in amongst the Player Inspired Posters in the next post.
Attention All Werewolves:
If there's anything you'd like added to this thread, just let me know.
If there's a game you'd like to run, just let me know.
If you'd like to put a bid in for a start date, just....
....You get the idea.
Questions? Comments? Concerns? Feedback?
Let's have it!
Re: Werewolf Central VIII: Important WW information goes here - READ OPENING POSTS!
--For Teh Lulz--
--Player Inspired Posters--
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Player-specific banners, by Elder Tsofu:
((I'm missing lots! Post them, and I'll add them in!))
--Other Werewolf Posters and Images--
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--Songs and Poems--
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From Memesville:
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The Lolrus and Anonymous
took all the memes aside.
"O Memes, do come and walk with us
And I will be your guide
I haz a shiny bukkit
In which some of you can ride."
The little memes all hurried up,
Quite eager for the treat:
Their coats were brushed, their faces washed,
Their shoes were clean and neat--
And this was odd, because, you know,
They hadn't any feet.
The Lolrus and Anonymous
Walked on a mile or so,
And then they rested on a rock
Conveniently low:
Where all the little memes were standing
Waiting in a row.
"The time has come," the Lolrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of pirates--ninjas--bukkit thiefs--
Of internets--and memes--
And why did raiser b1ade confess--
And why Rick Astley sings."
"But wait a bit," the memes all cried,
"Before we have our chat;
For some of us are out of breath,
And all of us are fat!"
"No hurry!" said Anonymous.
They thanked him much for that.
"A loaf of bread," the Lolrus said,
"Is what we chiefly need:
Pepper and vinegar besides
Are very good indeed--
Now if you're ready, dearest memes,
We can begin to feed."
"But not on us!" the memes all cried,
Turning a little blue.
"After such kindness, that would be
A dismal thing to do!"
"The night is fine," the Lolrus said.
"Do you admire the view?
"It was so kind of you to come!
And you are very nice!"
Anonymous said nothing but
"Cut us another slice:
I wish you were not quite so deaf--
I've had to ask you twice!"
"It seems a shame," the Lolrus said,
"To play them such a trick,
After we've brought them out so far,
And made them trot so quick!"
Anonymous said nothing but
"The butter's spread too thick!"
"I weep for you," the Lolrus said:
"I deeply sympathize."
With sobs and tears he sorted out
Those of the largest size,
Holding his pocket-handkerchief
Before his streaming eyes.
"My dear memes," said Anonymous,
"You've had a pleasant run!
Shall we be trotting home again?'
But answer came there none--
And this was scarcely odd, because
They'd eaten every one.
-by Happyturtle
From Tales of Kyou II:
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If I played werewolf long enough in Kyou
I'd find a way to believe that it's all true
I'm not saying that you lied
straight-faced while Llama died
Still I look to find a reason to believe
Someone like you makes it hard to lynch
Somebody else
Someone like you is easy to lynch
You should point at yourself
If I gave you time to change my vote
I'd have to actually read the stuff you wrote
I know I just picked
your name off the list...
Still I look to find a reason to believe
If I played werewolf long enough in Kyou
I'd find a way to believe that it's all true
I'm not saying that you lied straight-faced while Llama died
Still I look to find a reason to believe
Someone like you makes it hard to lynch
Somebody else
Someone like you is easy to lynch
You should point at yourself
-by Happyturtle
The Murska Constant:
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[music= Hungy Like the Wolf by Duran Duran]
(Ha ha)
Dark in the village, night full of desire
Steam in the kitchen, go put out the fire
Do-do do do, do do do, do do do, do do do, do do
Wolfy you want me, I hope I’m baned
And catch my edits while we’re going insane
Do-do do do, do do do, do do do, do do do, do do
In touch underground
I'm on the hunt I'm coming after you
Who made that sound, I'm lost in a crowd
And I know Murska is a wolf
Straddle the line, parody and rhyme
I'm on the hunt I'm after you
Mind is alive with juices like wine
And I know Murska is a wolf
Stalked in the forest, too close to hide
I'll be upon you by the moonlight side
Do-do do do, do do do, do do do, do do do, do do
Better start running, you know that I’m right
Leading the mob by pitchfork and torchlight,
Do-do do do, do do do, do do do, do do do, do do
In touch under ground
I'm on the hunt I'm after you
Don’t come around, it’s you that I found
And I know Murska is a wolf
Strut on a line, parody and rhyme
I bring the village after you
Mind is alive all running inside
And I know Murska is a wolf
-
(Murska is a wolf
Murska is a wolf
Murska is a wolf)
Burning the ground I break from the crowd
I'm on the hunt I'm after you
Don’t come around, it’s you that I found
And I know Murska is a wolf
Strut on a line, parody and rhyme
I'm on the hunt I'm after you
Mind is alive with juices like wine
And I know Murska is a wolf
Burning the ground I break from the crowd
I'm on the hunt I'm after you
Don’t come around, it’s you that I found
Strut on a line, parody and rhyme
I'm on the hunt I'm after you
Mind is alive with juices like wine
And I know Murska is a wolf
[/music]
-by Supagoof
From Jack the Ripper:
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[music = American Pie by Don McLean]
A long long time ago
I can still remember
How that wolf games used to make me smile
And I knew when I joined in like Fin
That I could help the villagers win
And maybe they'd not lynch me for a while
But Day three made me shiver
With every point that I'd deliver
Bad news in the game thread
I found out that I was dead
I can't remember if I lied
When asked about my team's side
But something touched me deep inside
The day the Goof has died
So...
Bye, bye to a villager guy,
Made a posting, now a ghosting from up in the sky
Them good ole wolves were laughing deeply inside
Singing this'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die
Did you write the rules of this game
And do you point at people for their fame,
If the wagon tells you so?
Now do you believe in reading it all?
Can the Goof's words save your mortal soul?
And can you explain why your point at Cristo?
Well, I know that Mordy's in love with him
'cause I saw them prancing with the nymph
They both kicked off your shoes
Said Goof, parody the rhythm and blues
I was a old school rhyming rappin' buck
With a game being played with Llama's and Duck's
But I knew I was out of luck
The day the music died
I started singing
Bye, bye to a villager guy,
Made a posting, now a ghosting from up in the sky
Them good ole wolves were laughing deeply inside
Singing this'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die
Now, for two years we've played on our own
And the forum has slowed down to the bone
But that's not how it used to be
When the Goof sang parodies of Atreyu and Faerwain
In a coat he borrowed from Indurain
And a voice that came from you and me
Oh and while Llama was looking down
The Goof guarded his thorny crown
The courtroom was adjourned
No verdict was returned
And though Murska got pointed at by Jontom Xire
They both knew what was their desire
And winning was all that they aspired
The day the music died
We were singing
Bye, bye to a villager guy,
Made a posting, now a ghosting from up in the sky
Them good ole wolves were laughing deeply inside
Singing this'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die
Holy moly with a roly poly,
They slipped one past the narrating goalie,
Speaking of how the game was going fast
Perhaps they were smoking grass
The wolves tried for a forward pass
With the Goof was on the sidelines in a cast
Now the half-time air was sweet as most
While Dirk Kris updated the daily post
We all got up to dance
Oh, but we never got the chance
'Cause the wolves tried to take the field
The villagers refused to yield
Do you recall what was revealed
The day the music died?
We started singing
Bye, bye to a villager guy,
Made a posting, now a ghosting from up in the sky
Them good ole wolves were laughing deeply inside
Singing this'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die
Oh, and there we were all in one place
A gaming group who was lost in space
With no time left to start again
So watch out Jack be nimble, Jack be quick
Jack Ripper killed them hookers slick
Scrying is the devil's only friend
And I watched him dance about the stage
My hands were clenched in fists of rage
No I shouldn't be so cruel
I won't break the games rules
And as the wolves silently killed on in the night
To light the sacrificial rite
I saw Jack laughing with delight
The day the music died
He was singing
Bye, bye to a villager guy,
Made a posting, now a ghosting from up in the sky
Them good ole wolves were laughing deeply inside
Singing this'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die
I sat by, and I sang the blues
And I watched for updates with the news
But soon I smiled and turned away
I went werewolf central,
Where I'd made music years before
But Shadow there said the music wouldn't play
And in the streets the children screamed
The losers cried, and the wolves dreamed
But not a word was posted
The good guys all were ghosted
And the three people I admire most
Alarra, Indy, and Zeb the Troll,
They caught the last game with a role
The day the music died
And they were singing
Bye, bye to a villager guy,
Made a posting, now a ghosting from up in the sky
Them good ole wolves were laughing deeply inside
Singing this'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die
Sooo bye, bye to a villager guy,
Made a posting, now a ghosting from up in the sky
Them good ole wolves were laughing deeply inside
Singing this'll be
the day
that
I
die ...[/music]
-by Supagoof
Well, you can tell by the way I still walk,
I'm a baner's man, now let's all talk.
Music loud and blood's still warm.
I've been killing wolves since I was born.
And now I'm all right, I'm O.K.
But I won't look the other way.
We can try to understand
The voting records effect on man.
Whether you're the Devil
Or whether you're the Alpha,
I'm stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Feel the wolves breakin'
And ev'rybody shakin'
And I'm stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin' alive.
Stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin' alive.
-by RedScholarGypsy
From Kingdom Hearts:
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Who does he think he is? That narrator has tangled with the wrong man. No one forgets to PM Murska!
Heh heh. Darn right.
Forgotten? Rejected? Publically Humiliated! Why it's more then I can bear.
More beer?
What for? Nothing helps. I'm disgraced.
What you? Never! Murska, you got to try to get back into the games one way or another.
Gosh it disturbs me to see you Murska,
Arguing about all your tactics.
Every guy here'd love to be you Murska,
Because we all think your fantastic.
There's no man in the game as feared as you.
You're everyone's favorite player.
Everyone's in awe and terrified by you,
And I'm not just another nay sayar...
Noooo...
Ooonnne's...
Slick as Murska
No one's quick as Murska
No one's eye as incredibly green as Murska,
For there's no man in town worth all the babble,
Perfect a pure paragon
You may be compared to likeness of Shadow,
But I'll tell you whose team we'd prefer to be on
No one's been like Murska
A king pin like Murska
No one's got us all to give in like Murska
As a specimen, yes, I'm intimidating
My- what an eye, that Murska
Give five "hurrahs!"
Give twelve "hip-hips!"
Murska is the best
And the rest is all drips
No one fights like Murska
Says he right like Murska
In a heated debate nobody writes like Murska
For there's no one as seeing and knowing
As you see I've got receptors to spare
Not a bit of him's blinding or slowing
(That's right!)
And ev'ry last inch of me's free of all hair
No one hits like Murska
Matches wits like Murska
In a spitting match nobody spits like Murska
I'm espcially good at expectorating
(Ptooey!)
Ten points for Murska!
When I was a pixie I played four dozen games
Ev'ry morning to help me get fame
And now that I'm grown I play five dozen games
So I'm roughly distrusted by NAAAME!
No one shoots like Murska
Makes disputess like Murska
Then goes tromping around with refutes like Murska
I use trophies in all of my decorating
Say it again
Who's an Eye among men?
And then say it once more
Who's the hero next door?
Who's a super success?
Don't you know? Can't you guess?
Ask his fans and his five hangers-on
There's just one eye in town who's got all of it down
And his name's M-U-R- S -
M-U-R-S - K -
M-U-R-S-K - ah!
At first I was afraid
I was petrified
Kept thinking I could never live with wolves on all my sides
But then I spent so many nights thinking how I voted wrong
And I grew strong and I learned how to play along
And so we're back
In cyberspace
I just logged in to find you here with that wolfy grin upon your face
I should have changed that stupid vote
I should have made you the lynchee
If I'd known for just one second you'd be back to 'wagon me
Com'on let's go
Use your red text
It's turned around now
Cause you're the one who's dying next
Weren't you the one who tried to kill me with a false scry
You think I'd crumble
You think I'd lay down and die
Oh no not I
I will survive
Oh as long as I know how to type I know I'll stay alive
I've got all my roles to live
I've got all my votes to give
I'll survive
I will survive
Hey, hey!
-by RedScholarGypsy
(PM me or post these! Supagoof's brilliance must be archived!)
--Common Knowledge--
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Murska Constant: Murska is always a wolf. ALWAYS.
The Rule of Shadow: If Shadow has not been night-killed by day three, he is a wolf. Lynch him.
What Hyozo has learned playing Werewolf:
-Murska is always a wolf.
-Murska is frequently not a wolf.
-All wolves point randomly.
-All wolves are bandwagoners.
-Only wolves like to keep a low profile by frequently missing days
-Only villagers get autolynched.
-Shadow usually isn't a wolf, I still shouldn't ever trust him.
-Using petty revenge to determine early votes is meaningless and likely to get me lynched.
-Using petty revenge to determine early votes is better than nothing and therefore a good idea.
-People who claim to be a villager never really are villagers.
-Sometimes people who claim to be a villager really are villagers.
-Wolves don't point at each other on days where it makes a difference.
-Wolves like to point at each other to make it look like they're not on the same side. Since changing points would make them look extremely suspicious, this means that wolves frequently start bandwagons against each other.
-When a wolf is likely to be lynched, other wolves join the bandwagon to throw suspicion off themselves.
-Wolves covet easily defended positions, the easiest of these for them to gain is "I was the vote that pushed that wolf bandwagon into the lead, clearly no wolf would do that."
-Whenever I have a theory which I believe to be worth telling people, it is probably wrong.
-Whenever I have a theory which I do not believe to be worth telling people, it is probably right, and I will probably die before I change my mind.
Join up, people! I need at least 30 for all the roles, and the more I get the more chance for me thinking about adding an extra role to keep things even! No player limits like in D&D4E WW, this one is as many as join get in!
*Offers Cookie?*
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Is there somewhere a set of adapted rules of original werewolf for playing in real life?
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Is there somewhere a set of adapted rules of original werewolf for playing in real life?
Probably. I know I've done it before with cards. (Everybody gets dealt a card, there are more (or less) Wolves based on number of players, per normal, a Villager is a number, a Wolf is a Jack, the Seer is a King, the Baner is a Queen.)
Main differences are that if the Seer actually finds one, they (the wolf) get killed instantly, and that you can only have one bandwagon a day, resulting in several no lynches. (At least, that's how I've done it)
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Originally Posted by Castaras
Is there somewhere a set of adapted rules of original werewolf for playing in real life?
Looney Labs, among other people, make decks of cards that are useful for playing the game at home, but a special deck certainy isn't necessary. The first time I did it we used a regular deck of cards to randomly distribute roles. I think we used Aces for wolves, a Queen for the Seer, and a Jack for the Baner or something. It wasn't very many people, but it worked smashingly.
Here's their site which includes their rules for the game.
If you have a little extra cash and want something with a LOT more variation and complexity available, Lex-Kat and I are fond of Ted Alspach's Ultimate Werewolf.
Hope that helps. Playing it in person is LOADS of fun and completely different from playing it online here.
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Is there somewhere a set of adapted rules of original werewolf for playing in real life?
I believe both "Are you a werewolf" and "The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow" fit this bill, complete with snazzy role cards.
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Is there anyone out here who'd like to join My Little Pony Werewolf, and take over Penguinator's role, please let me know.
This is open to anyone who's already died, but hasn't learned anyone else's role.
Sure. If he decides to go, that is.
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Is there somewhere a set of adapted rules of original werewolf for playing in real life?
What Zeb and Penguinator said.
Typically the game plays out like this....
Narrator is killed. The narrator controls the day/phase. Day phase, everyone has their eyes open. Players can nominte and second the nomination for why someone might be a wolf. The person nominated gets a chance to explain why they aren't a wolf, including but not limited to role claiming, fake role claiming, etc.... After they give their defense, a vote is taken and if enough people believe, that player is killed and they show their card/role.
Night phase - At night everyone shuts their eyes. Not a word is spoken except for the narrator. The narrator asks each role (determined by the cards) to open their eyes. Then that player with the role opens their eyes - narrator asks them to pick a person to kill/bane/scry by pointing. The narrator then gives a thumbs up for acknowledgement (or in the case of a scry, a thumbs up or down pending if the scry target is a wolf or not.). After each role takes their turn (Open eyes, point at person, close eyes, next role), the night is ended and the narrator announces the actions of the night.
The player who is killed at night does not reveal their role. = More opportunity for role claiming.
If the wolves and the baner point at the same person, then "No one was killed" is annouced the next morning. This is left vague so the villagers/seer are still guessing, even though the wolves/baner know who was protected.
If more then 1 wolf, then they both open their eyes when the "Wolves, please open your eyes" is called, and can both see who the other wolf is on their team.
I typically recommend at least 8 people to play, and will only add the seer at 12+ people and baner at 15+ people. 1 wolf per 5 players works ok.
As for the which cards are which - here's how I remember.
2-10 (Villager) - plain, ordinary non face cards = plain, ordinary roles.
Aces (Wolves) - Called bullets when you get a pair in poker. And what do bullets do? They kill people. = Wolves/Mafia
King (Seer) - Command of his kingdom. He knows what's going on and whose who. = Seer
Queen (Baner) - Female card. Since historically females are known as care-takers, it's easy to see why the queen is the best choice for taking care of the villagers.
Dead players can be allowed to keep their eyes open, but should no way speak or indicate who is who for the game.
I've had games where both the seer and wolf claimed they were the seer = a lot of fun in the arguing and reasons why one was not a wolf and the other was. I highly recommend it if you get a group that's big enough - say at a Meetup with your fellow gitpr's.
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Also, whenever I've played, we usually slap our knees, or make some other noise, during the night phase. It makes enough noise so that everyone next to those waking up don't easily hear them moving about when pointing.
I do seriously suggest getting Ultimate Werewolf. They have some really great roles, like Count Dracula, Zombies, Ghost, Old Man, Drunk, Hunter, Teen Wolf. And it gives you +/- numbers on each card, to better help you balance the game.
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Also, whenever I've played, we usually slap our knees, or make some other noise, during the night phase. It makes enough noise so that everyone next to those waking up don't easily hear them moving about when pointing.
I've never done this in groups I've played in, so a lot of the accusations revolve around accusations of people moving during the wolf phase, while the wolves try to move as little as possible while pointing. On top of that, some villagers will make noise during the wolf phase just so that in later games where they are wolves, they can point back to their earlier noisy behavior as villagers.
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Woah, loads of info. Thanks very much, everyone.
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2-10 (Villager) - plain, ordinary non face cards = plain, ordinary roles.
Aces (Wolves) - Called bullets when you get a pair in poker. And what do bullets do? They kill people. = Wolves/Mafia
King (Seer) - Command of his kingdom. He knows what's going on and whose who. = Seer
Queen (Baner) - Female card. Since historically females are known as care-takers, it's easy to see why the queen is the best choice for taking care of the villagers.
I can't help but see the Jack being able to do anything at 50% accuracy.
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