Let's see. This will be a basic game.
Players are randomly assigned to one of two teams when the game starts: the uninformed majority (Town, a.k.a. Innocents) and the informed minority (Scum/Mafia/Wolf/askthepizzaguy). They win by eliminating the other or, in the mafia's case, whittling down the town to parity.
The game has two main phases:
- In ‘Day’ phases (48ish hours) all players publicly vote to have one player killed (lynch) and that player's alignment is revealed. There might be a tie and there are tiebreaker arrangements, in this case an extension of the voting period in which the first person to cast a tiebreaking vote ends the phase.
Voting is done by writing vote: player's name (bolded) and they can be unvoted (unvote: player's name) as many times as you like before the phase ends -unless the GM states otherwise but this game is not big enough.
- In ‘Night’ Phases (24ish hours) players send in secret actions directly to the GM (i.e. me) and all those actions are resolved at the end of the phase. More often than not players are forbidden from posting at night.
The only Night Action that's always allowed is the Mafia faction's ‘kill’ which directly kills a player from the game.
At the end of each Day or Night phase there is a big update post by the GM with the results of that phase.
Posts made by players cannot be edited. The GM
can punish you for it and all votes in edited posts are automatically invalid.
Dead players cannot post anymore.
You cannot post, quote, screenshot, etc. any private communications between you and the GM here in the thread.
You cannot contact other players outside the game thread unless specifically allowed to by the GM.