Who would like to play a game of werewolf? O_O (update 4/10)

LOL. I think it is more indicative of the time constraints. LadyT would have joined up, if she posted during the day. Unfortunately her work has blocked my site.
 
Grind said:
Werewolf is a in thread strategy game.

There are two teams:

1. Werewolves
2. Villagers

Wolves know who the other wolves are, and consequently, know who all the villagers are.

The villagers can only be certain of their own identity, and don't know the status of anyone else.

There is also a special role reserved for one villager, that being the seer. More on that role later.

The werewolves win by eliminating enough people so that they make up half of the players in the game. The villagers win by eliminating all the werewolves.

The game alternates between two phases, a Day phase and a Night Phase (this will likely be in real time):


  • Day Phase - During the day, the village (including werewolves) get together to discuss and decide who might be a werewolf. Essentially the werewolves are trying to trick the village into sacrificing one of their own. It's all about argument and strategy. If the wolves are too obvious the real villagers will figure out who they are. There is a lot of finesse that has to happen on both sides. As the game progresses, it's important to look back on voting behavior and statements made by everyone to draw conclusions based on people's identity.


  • Throughout the day, everyone votes who they think is a werewolf (votes may be changed at any time during the day). If someone gets a majority of the votes, they are lynched. If no majority is reached by a certain time (maybe 9pm eastern), then then a plurity will suffice. If there is a tie, I choose someone at random based on the highest vote getters.


  • Night Phase - During the night phase, the werewolves decide who they are going to eat. They are allowed to communicate privately outside the main thread to make this decision. Normally werewolves are not allowed to communicate privately during the day. Also, anyone with a special role (such as seer) gets to act during the night as well.
The Seer - During the day the seer talks and votes just like the villagers. At night, a seer is allowed to determine the role of any one townsperson by asking the game overseer (me) The seer is on the villager side and has the same winning conditions.

You don't want to stick out to the wolves or the villagers as both could kill you. Early on at night it's a good idea to search for people you think play well on both sides as it's good to know where they stand. Later obviously you should try to look at the people you think are suspicious. Another important decision for the seer is when to "come out" that is reveal that they are the seer. This varies widely game by game and depends on what information you have. The seer is very important to a villager win. You have to weigh the options of revealing your identity. The benefit is that you reveal all of your information; if you were to die then you cannot do so. The cost is that you are probably going to get eaten that night.

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There are some other rules but I'll go over the rest if we get this thing started.

The game will consist of 13 people.
3 will be wolves,
9 will be regular villagers,
and 1 will be the seer, who plays on the village side.

If there is lots of interest I can expand the roster.

The day phase will last from 9am eastern to 9pm eastern. Night is 9pm-9am. The game will take roughly a week or so unless one side owns the other really fast.

Any other questions feel free to ask in this thread.

Don't outright dismiss this game, it can get very strategic, indepth and dynamic, (based on the intelligence of those playing of course) and I think a lot of you would find it fun.

I am the game overseer, so I wont get to play :(.

Current Roster (updated 9:49pm 3/12)

1. Watermarx
2. Damocles
3. Troglodyte27
4. Froggie
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I'll play, but I will be confused the whole time!
 
Grind said:
the way it works is by looking at voting patterns and behavior, as well as statements made by other people. So for example lets say that everyone wants to vote for watermark, and then damocles defends watermark, saying he doesn't think he is a wolf, and that everyone should vote for someone else. Some may wonder why damocles is being so insistent when he doesn't have perfect information.

Some wolves like to stay under the radar, and they wont vote for people until a bandwagon has already started. Sometimes those that vote near the end could be wolves.

As the game progresses the more information you have allows you to make better decisions.
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It is like Clue or we played a Star Trek version of this at a New Years Eve party, the shorter version.

I will have to keep a notebook. My mind use to hold information, but since chemo it is more difficult, although, this could be just the thing I need to sharpen the mind, like cross word puzzle!
 
it should be awesome obviously. But now I'll have to reconfirm trog since it's been so effing long lol..
 
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