Game Information & Rules
Objective:
The object of Night of the Werewolves is similar to Mafia. In this case, there are a group of people within the town who are secretly werewolves. At night, the Werewolves (or similar bad group) will kill a member of the town. If you are innocent, it is your job to accuse/vote for a player, during the day phase, who you think is guilty of being a Werewolf (or similar bad groups). The player that has the most accusations at the end of the day phase is lynched by the rest of the town.
In this particular game, it is the objective of the bad guys to have their combined team ‘strength’ to exceed the combined ‘strength’ of the remaining players. And it is the object of the innocents is to lynch all the werewolves (or similar bad groups). How Strength is determined is explained further below.
Please note that a number of terms maybe different from your normal mafia game. It is my intention to preserve the integrity of what made a NOTW special to me.
See the NOTW information thread for more details
Time Cycle:
The game will alternate between 48 hour days and 24 hour nights. During the daytime, accusations votes may be made, and public messages may be posted. During the night, player abilities may be used in secret by PM'ing the GM. You will not be allowed to send Private Messages to other players
There might be extensions of time depends on whether I have time to do write ups and what not.
Private communication:
There is limited private communication is this game. All discussions are expected to be in the game thread. There are ways to communicate privately but only when certain conditions are met. This communication will be through QT that are provided by the GM. You are not allowed to share any WT links provided by me. If you have access to more than one QT, feel free to cut and paste info out of one and into the other but do not share the link.
Voting:
There will be no voting, just accusations. At the end of the day cycle, a player will be killed/lynched. You will not be required to accuse in a certain format, just bolding ([b][/b]) will be sufficient. I would prefer if you
do not use the words ‘vote: player X’ as it is out of character. Please see the Role-playing rule. To remove an accusation from a player, please use the bold ([b][/b]) and strikeout ([s][/s]) tags
Examples:
- “I know that the
Sita is a Werewolf“
- ”Actually I was wrong about
Sita. It is actually
Sprig who is the werewolf”
There will also be voting for Items (which will be explained further down) that are usually left behind after a person is lynch or killed. Voting for these items will be in a similar manner as an accusation above. The only difference is that items will be associated with a colour. The GM will define the colour.
Example:
- “I think the Mana Orb should go to
Sprig, he is omnipotent after all. “
Items & Stength:
This game will contain items, all characters will have at least 1 items. Most items enable spells. This means that they may enable an ability for any character that possess that item. More details on items can be found character stats below
Items can be' passed' or ‘show to another player. Items that are passed to another player will leave your possession and you will not longer be able to use any ability associated with that item. Items that are shown to another player are kept in your possession and the details of that item and the abilities it unlocks will be revealed to the player to whom the item is shown.
Both these actions are done in the Game thread. It will be difficult to keep hidden the items you carry in this game.
As indicated earlier, the objective is for the bad guys is to have a cumulative strength higher than cumulative total of the innocent. Strength in this game is marked by the number of items you carry.
E.g.
1 Mana Orb = 1 strength.
2 Man Orbs = 2 Strength.
I will make a warning here. What may appear to be a clear strategy to thwart the bad guys ability to win may actually hinder you chances of winning.
I will also make clear there is
no theft ability in the game. Players will not be able to steal items from you, should you have publicly made it known what you hold. however, on the flip side there are abilities that can affect items directly.
Ability/Spells:
Items activate Spells. Spells come in 3 tiers which will have certain requirements to be met before you can use the higher tier spells.
You will be only able to perform 1 spell per night. In order to use a Spell, you should pm the GM with your spell and who the target of that spell is.
Role-playing:
This is not a holdfast rule but please try to stay in-Character, and do not just make a post that just contains an accusation. It is not hard to add a little flavour. Each of you will have a role and will receive a role PM with a brief background story. Please use this (and embellish if you want) to help add a little flavour to your posts.
You will also be given a bunch Character sprites which you can use to add flavour to your posts. I encourage you to make use of these sprites in each of your posts. If you want to modify the sprites to add even more flavour please be my guest. I can supply you with additional material.
Lynch:
This game will feature a normal Lynch. A player will be lynched if at the end of the day phase they receive a plurality of the votes (The highest amount of accusations)
The only exception is on the first day which will require a Majority.
Dead-Dead and mostly dead:
While there is permanent death for which you will not be able to participate further in the game, it is most likely that you will be able once certain conditions have been met have a way to influence the living. Details of how this will work will be given to you at the time conditions are met. Private communication will be only permissible through QT links provided.
Other
Lastly, And I hope your paying attention still… This game is a not so subtle re-imaging of
a previous game I hosted but failed to complete due to the situation at the time. While not exactly the same, it should give you a fair idea of what to expect. Note: Roles, items and set-up will not be the same, you will not be able to meta game from it.