Be Excellent To Each Other

As always.

OMFG ZOMG THIS ISN'T THE RECRUITMENT THREAD FFS LOL BBQ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111oneoneoneringtorulethemall

[vote:Grim...]

That's right, antagonise the guy who controls the vote counter. That couldn't possibly go wrong!

Well, I *am* trying.

*poke*

Whoever gets R2D2 will be pretty obvious.

Not the recruitment thread you say?

IN LIKE FLYNN!

In.

Is this the recruitment thread?

I'm in.

Apologies to first-timers, as this game is a little complicated... but should be a laugh.

Any feedback before we go live (Tuesday?) is appreciated.

Please note - if I've gone non-canon at any point then I really don't care, unless it's game-altering.



Star Wars Scum

The Jedi
1 Luke Skywalker
You are a young Jedi knight. You wish to topple the Empire, defeat the Sith and keep your friends safe, you idealistic little scamp! During each night you can either Hunt Sith or Free Slaves (or do nothing).
Hunt Sith – You will go out into the night and kill who you believe to be a Sith. If you kill two people with a win condition other than Sith then you give up your calling as a Jedi and leave the game.
Free Slaves – If you perform this action on Jabba The Hutt then he is killed and the slaves are freed. If you perform this action on the Lonely Jawa then he is killed and any droids he has are released.
You know the identities of Obi-Wan and Yoda, and can communicate with them at any time.
Your win condition is Rebels

1 Obi-Wan Kenobi
You are a seasoned Jedi, wise in the ways of the Force. You can use this skill to protect a person of your choosing every night. You know the identities of Luke and Yoda, and can communicate with them at any time.
Your win condition is Rebels

1 Yoda
You are an old, green Jedi who was surely never meant to jump around wielding a light sabre like some kind of deadly pinball. Each night you can call upon the power of the Force to find out any single simple question to which there is a yes/no answer known to the GM.
Should either of your Jedi comrades be killed you will come to the fore and take their abilities, losing your previous question asking prowess.
You know the identities of Obi-Wan and Luke, and can communicate with them at any time.
Your win condition is Rebels


The Empire
1 Emperor Palpatine
You are the most evil man in the world. You are protected by your army, and should someone try to kill you during the night you can choose to sacrifice a Stormtrooper instead. You know the identities of the other Sith (Vader and Maul), but not of the faceless Stormtroopers (you will know how many you have). You get to pick someone for your Stormtroopers to kill each night, and should any of your fellow Empire types get bumped off, you can perform one of their actions in their stead.
Your win condition is Sith

1 Darth Vader
You are Anakin, aka Dark Vader. You used to be a whining little brat and we’re glad you got what was coming to you. That said, you’re still a bad-ass, and you can use your Force Grip on any person at night and prevent them from taking any action. Additionally, should you find yourself alone amongst the Empire, you can go out and kill instead of using the Force Grip. You know the identities of the other Sith (Vader and Maul), but not of the faceless Stormtroopers.
Additionally, at any point during a day phase you can yell “LUKE, I AM YOUR FATHER!”, which will rather give yourself away, but will render Luke powerless to do anything at all for the remainder of the day phase or the following two night phases. No other person in the game can utter this phrase, upon pain of a stern talking to from the GM.
Your win condition is Sith

0 – 1 Darth Maul
You wield a double light sabre and look kinda cool. You can protect someone each night with your mad skillz. Additionally, should you find yourself alone amongst the Empire, you can go out and kill instead of protecting someone. You know the identities of the other Sith (Vader and Palpatine), but not of the faceless Stormtroopers.
Your win condition is Sith

0 – 3 Stormtroopers
You are the Empire’s crack troops. During the night phase, the Emperor can call on one of you to go and shoot someone in the head. Should Emperor die, his duties fall to Darth Vader, and then to Darth Maul in turn (should Maul be in the game). If all of the Sith die, then the Stormtroopers have to elect a leader, who will make orders. You can talk amongst yourselves, but do not know the identity of the Sith Lords (though you will know if you’ve killed anyone).
Your win condition is Sith


The Rebel Alliance
1 Admiral Ackbar
You are the leader of the Rebel Alliance, and as such you’re pretty freaking paranoid. During every night phase you MUST run in to someone and shout “IT’S A TRAP!!!”. That person will be both protected from any other night action, and roleblocked from performing any action themselves, HOWEVER, they will also know who you are due to your shouty trap-avoiding ways.
Your win condition is Rebels

1 R2-D2
You are an expert hacker droid, and can use your technological skills to access the Imperial Database. During each night phase you can use these skills to uncover the primary win condition of a person in the game. Unfortunately, your communication skills are limited, and the data you extract can only be understood by your comrade C-3PO, so you never actually find out what it is that you’ve discovered. Should C-3PO be killed or captured, your data instead goes to Princess Leia, just so she has something to do.
Your win condition is Rebels

1 C-3PO
You are an expert linguistics droid, and whenever your comrade R2-D2 uncovers the win condition of someone, you are the one who can find this out and translate it. You have no night action of your own.
Your win condition is Rebels

1 Princess Leia
You have silly hair, but look pretty good in a gold bikini. You fancy Han Solo, but that’s not really important right now.
Your win condition is Rebels

1 Chief Chirrpa
You’re an Ewok. That’s about it. You’re only in here to sell toys.
Your win condition is Rebels

A Number of Assorted Rebels
You are a rebel. You have no particular powers or abilities.
Your win condition is Rebels



Spacers and Mercenaries
1 Han Solo
You are a dashingly handsome man who pilots the Millennium Falcon and has a slightly suspicious relationship with a Wookie. Nevertheless, you’re good at escaping a tight spot, and the first time someone attempts to kill you during the night you make a swift getaway piloting the Millennium Falcon and return the next day unharmed. You know the identity of Chewbacca and can communicate with him freely.
Your win condition is Rebels

1 Chewbacca
You are a Wookie, but you live on the Planet Endor. That does not make sense! You are friends with Han Solo, and thusly know who he is and can communicate with him in any way you so desire. Should Han be killed or captured, you can take over flying the Millennium Falcon and gain the single ‘escape’ benefit
Your win condition is Rebels

1 Boba Fett
You are the awesome looking but largely ineffectual bounty hunter. You have been tasked with bringing in Han Solo to Jabba The Hutt, but to be honest he’ll accept you grabbing any of the following from his shopping list:
Han Solo
Chewbacca
Princess Leia
Lando Calrissian
Admiral Ackbar
Chief Chirrpa
Should Jabba be killed, you can deliver these people to Darth Vader, who will just kill them outright.
Each night you can choose to put someone under surveillance. If you pick someone without Jedi powers (Kenobi/Skywalker/Yoda/Palpatine/Vader/Maul) then you will grab them and deliver them to Jabba or Darth. If not, they are far too dangerous and you’ll not bother. You will be told whether or not the person you kidnapped is on the list or not, but not who they are (the kidnapped person will also be informed).
Your primary win condition is Eat that, Sarlacc!
Your secondary win condition is Sith (else you won’t get paid)

0 – 1 Lando Calrissian
You are a handsome man. You know the identity of Han Solo, and can sell him out to Boba Fett should you so desire.
By the end of the second night phase, you must either choose to side with the Rebels or whether to turn and assist the Empire. If you choose to help the Rebels then you are allowed to communicate with Han and Chewbacca. If you choose to help the Empire then you are allowed to communicate with Boba Fett.
Win Conditions – Sith or Rebels (character choice)

1 Jabba The Hutt
You are Jabba The Hutt, and are one enormous bastard. You have bounty hunters doing your bidding, and you want to collect on a big shopping list of people that you’ve given to Boba Fett. Only problem is you’re stealing friends of the Jedi. If Luke Skywalker catches you with any of his friends (the people on the list) then he’s going to be angry, and he’s gonna kill you. Whilst you have captives, they lose their night actions, but cannot be killed at night and also remain active in-game. If the person given to you is on the list you are told their identity. If not, you are not.
Should Boba Fett be killed, you can go slave hunting yourself, but if you target any of the Empire, any Jedi or Princess Leia, they will kill you.
Primary win condition – Slaves Galore!
Secondary win condition – Sith

0 – 1 Lonely Jawa
You’re a lonely Jawa, trying to capture some droids to sell on. You want nothing to do with the battle between Rebels and the Empire, you just want to sell some droids. During each night action you can choose someone to investigate, and if they are a droid you will capture them. If not, you learn nothing else. Any droids in your care lose their night actions, but cannot die at night either.
Your primary win condition is These ARE the droids you’re looking for
Your secondary win condition is Utinni!
Your tertiary win condition is Survive

The Other One

0 – 1 Jar Jar Binks
You are Jar Jar Binks. Everyone hates you and you should die in a fire like the abomination that you truly are. You are ostensibly against the evil Sith, but mostly you need to die.
Your win condition is REJOICE!
Your secondary win condition is Rebels


Win Conditions:

REJOICE! – Jar Jar Binks is dead.

Rebels – Everyone with a Sith win condition is dead.

Eat that, Sarlacc! – Boba Fett delivers at least three listed people to Jabba The Hutt and/or Darth Vader

Sith – Everyone with a Rebels win condition is dead

These ARE the droids you’re looking for – Both droids are captured by the Jawa, at which point the Jawa retires and sells the droids at a tremendous profit (and all droids and the Jawa leave the game)

Utinni! – One droid is captured by the Jawa, and the Jawa survives

Survive – You survive

Slaves Galore! – You have five captives, at which point you sell them into slavery for vast profit and retire from the game, with the slaves also leaving.


Action order
Roleblocks - Identifyings - Protectings - Kidnappings - Questionings - Slave Freeings - Killings

Question - Does Yoda have to take on the other rebels abilities / can they chose to or not ? / or can they mix and match - also if one of the others is killed does yoda take on the power then , or only when both are gone ?

(it seems the empire have the choice but Yoda is forced into taking the others powers at some point?)

Yoda is forced, the Sith have a choice.

This will be interesting!

Why is Jabba's secondary sith? I think it should be survive.
How will the storm troopers know they have performed an action? Can they be killed/detected doing so (doesn't look like it)? And who chooses which ST performs the task (if relevant)?
JJB's role is to get himself killed? Can they state outright, "I am JJB"?
What is Han Solo's win condition?
Can yoda ask questions of the ilk, "Is X character Y?"
Do Boba Fetts deliveries stack, ie if he has deleivered 2 to JTH, and JTH is killed, he then delivers one to DV, does he win?
Actually, can JTH win? Boba Fett's win conditoin kicks in prior to JTH, but JTH is relient upon BF to win.
DV's shouty tactic, end of this day/next two night sections; which one, and who chooses?

I'm assuming that, for the purposes of the game, everyone has magically learnt to speak English? (apart from R2)

It's both. Luke can do nothing for the remaining day phase... not even post. He also has no night action for the following two nights, so shocked is he.

R2D2 and C3PO can talk to each other, right?

Han has no win condition? Probably rebel/survive?

It's Rebel, but I can't edit the post until a Mod gives me the rights.

No, for the lolz.

It would appear that 3PO should try and kill himself, because the rebels would be much better off with R2's Intel going straight to Luke.

So Jar Jar just says "I AM JAR JAR" and then he dies, right?

I think my English question is still valid, otherwise it's going to be bloody obvious who the jawas are...

Yes, they all speak English.

Why would anyone kill him? It's not in their interest. So if he does that then nobody will kill him. You could even argue roleclaiming as Jar Jar is against his win condition...

Because he's mother fucking Jar Jar Binks!

Make everyone with a killing ability lose if they kill jar jar?


Malc

I like this. Power roles galore! I like that there appears to be two 'mafia' going against each other.

LOOKING FORWARD TO IT

('cept I probably be a fucking ewok)

True, but I expect a desire to win the game will come ahead of the desire to off Jar Jar.

Perhaps a foolish belief, but it's up to y'all.

Oops - you should have them now. These rules excite me.

However:

Maybe so... perhaps they should go to Leia instead?

Could just have them not going anywhere - basically reducing him to a standard detective role.

I'm gonna put together a set of rules for Red Dwarf Scum, I think.

This sounds complicated. So many rules there is.

Wait, what happens if a jedi dies, can they still participate in the game, they did in the films

"run luke!"
"use the force you fucking idiot"
etc...

No, but they gain entrance to the Qui-Gon Jinn Memorial Dead Thread.

I propose a game of Vanilla Scum.

Sorry, I realised this not long after posting - I should have asked if they're aware of each other's identities.

Again, nope. Pesky midichlorians.

I don't know what that means.

Just chucking these out as I've written them on my lunch break. Comments? Tried to keep it fairly balanced, but may not have managed it!

Rules for DwarfScum:

Boys from the Dwarf:

The Boys from the Dwarf know who each other are and can communicate freely. Their win condition is Red Dwarf.

Kryten: You are the know-it-all mechanoid of the posse. Once per night you can investigate another player and you will be told that player's win condition (not role).

Rimmer: You're a total coward with all the social grace of a pubic louse. You can choose one player per night, and pay them a visit. Once there, you'll use your skills in hypnosis to fix them with the mesme-stare, rendering them powerless for that night (effectively roleblocking them).

Lister: Before the crew were resurrected you were the last human being alive. Great example, eh? You're a total slob, but deep down you're a good person. However, you have no special abilities.

Cat: You give pleasure to the world because you have such a beautiful ass. You also have a tremendously sensitive nose and can smell when danger's imminent. If anyone tries to kill you during the night, you will sense the danger and escape, but not before making a note of who came for you.

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The Bad Guys:

All of the Bad Guys know who each other are and can communicate freely. Their win condition is Bad Guys

The Inquisitor: You are a simulant, hellbent on forcing everyone in the universe to be judged. Once per night you can pick a player, and that player will be erased from history. All of that player's previous posts, across all of the day phases, will be removed (including quoted portions). Any other player who mentions an erased player after they've been erased from history will also be removed for creating a time paradox!

Note for RDGeeks: The Inquisitor's self-repair function has been broken, so he can be killed.

Hackhackhack-ach-hachhachach: A GELF from the Kinitawowi tribe, Lister jilted you at the altar. You've tracked him down to Red Dwarf but don't know who he is, it all happened a while ago. Once per night you can send your Emohawk to a nominated player. If the player you choose is Lister, he will be killed. If the player you choose has a role with a night action, the Emohawk will steal that night action from them and they will not be able to use it again. You have a secondary win condition of Lister.

Queeg 500: Red Dwarf's backup computer was resurrected along with the crew, and after being disabled for three million years has gone insane and wants control of the ship. Once per night he can investigate a player and their role will be revealed (not their win condition).

Camille: A pleasuregelf. Once per night you can nominate a player, and that player will be unable to perform their night action from being infatuated with you.

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The Wildcards:

Dr. Hildegard Landstrom: Once a brilliant scientist, you've been infected with a holographic virus and now have the ability to fire hex vision at people. Nominating a player during the night phase will fry them alive with the hex vision. However, using your ability shortens your lifespan. At the start of the game, you will live for 5 nights. Each time you use your hex vision, that lifespan is shortened by 1 night. Her win condition is Dr. Fruitloop. She also has a secondary win condition, Rimmer.

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The Innocents

The rest of the players will be unnamed members of the Red Dwarf crew. Their win condition is Red Dwarf.

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Win Conditions

Red Dwarf: All of the bad guys are killed.
Bad Guys: Enough of the Innocents and Boys from the Dwarf are killed to make a voting majority against them impossible.
Dr. Fruitloop: You successfully kill 3 other players with your hex vision.
Lister: Lister is killed by the Emohawk.
Rimmer: Rimmer is killed by Dr. Hildegard Landstrom.

Christ, have fun doing the admin for the Inquisitor one.

Quite - what happens if you remove someone who voted for someone who died? Would you resurrect the dead person?

Also, Rimmer's roleblock should be telling the target about a game of Risk.

No, I'd hand-wave that away by saying that the "sperm that never made it" would have voted the same way


Much better

I was going to suggest that !

<then I rolled a 6 , and .....>

I think in the current setup the bad guys are too powerful , for one thing remove their inter communication (it also increases the chances they hit each other or the emohawk steals better than dwarf powers).

I'd also be inclined to add a talkie toastie to the character list with something about an obsession with toast and not caring who lives or dies but how much toast he can get consumed (each night he has to get X number of people to agree to eat some toast and only certain players are toast eaters?)

While we are sharing upcoming games, a sneak preview of something I am working on I'll need a lot of help, as it is turning out to be bloody complicated!


Super Scum

A sunny day at Metropolis prison, all is well in the world…
Superman and his two good buddies, Batman and Robin have taken the opportunity to have a picnic in the grounds.

<BOOM>

What's that noise?

<BOOM>

Yes, that noise

It appears that Lex Luthor and his cronies have turned up, and they are attacking the prison, too many members of their volleyball club have been locked up and if they don't get some out, they will have to forfeit their next match! No way they are going to lose to the Smallville Middle School under 12's… again…

But all is not as it seems, the attack is a distraction, Lex flicks a switch on his robot suit and a mysterious dome covers the immediate vicinity, a dome made of kryptonite. Everyone is trapped!
(Oh, and when Lex flicked the switch a kryptonite infused length of rope fell out of his pocket, no one notices, maybe that will come in useful in future? Nah...)

Seems as if Lex made a few miscalculations on the dome makeup, not only has it trapped everyone, but it has also had the side effect of removing specific parts of specific peoples memories, and has also taken away their ability to recognise some people.
How strange.

Only one way to settle this…

Yep, that would be excellent. We did Batman a while back, and that was superb.

Also - STOP POSTING IN HERE I KEEP THINKING THE NEXT DAY HAS STARTED.

That'll stop 'em!

P.S. Still waiting on night action(s) and going out now, so no update for a while.

WELL FUCK YOU BUDDY

Any chance of a sign up thread at some point I know it's not been that long since the last game, but this looks quite cool.

And then I think we should have a game with the cult in again.

How does the cult work?