SemiRPG

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The SemiRPG Social Game

SemiRPG is a short social game with elements of an RPG, also known as Werewolf / Mafia / Aliens or any number of other things depending on the roleset employed.

Games occur primarily in #Werewolf on Tel'Laerad, regardless of which roleset is being employed, for reasons of tradition, with #Werewolf-OOC the OOC channel used to organise games.

Historically Werewolf is based on the Social Game Mafia which is credited generally to Russian psychologist/professor Dimma Davidoff. The game is loosely similar to memes in other games where the challenge is loosely a disproportional balance of power.

Our games HEAVILY emphasize playing one's role. As such, winning is only a secondary goal.

Setup and Game Play

Setup follows the following general steps

1. A moderator is selected.
2. The Moderator assigns roles to the players
3. The Moderator announces any house rules or special notes about the game
4. Game play begins

Game play ensues as follows

• The game is divided into two recurring phases generally called Day and Night.
• During the night phase the smaller (villain) group kills a member of the larger body of players and a number of other roles declare their actions for the upcoming day.
• During the day phase the entire body of players learns the results of the previous night and chooses to lynch/kill one player whom they believe to be in the smaller group.

Beginner's Guide

If you would like additional assistance you are highly encouraged to check out SemiRPG/Rin's Beginner Guide and to actually dive into playing a game yourself. While, understanding the actual system is best done by playing, Rin has been kind enough to write up a helpful beginner's guide aimed at people new to RPing in general and Werewolf to guide them through how playing the game usually goes.

Winning

In a normal game play continues in the above fashion until either the smaller Villain group is exterminated in which case the Larger Hero group wins or Until the Smaller group has killed enough of the larger group that the numbers are equal that of the larger body in which case the Villain group wins.

There are however several games which have and do modify this by introducing restrictions or special winning conditions. In addition certain roles such as the Werehamster by their nature alter the game's winning conditions.

Rolesets

Rolesets define the roles a player can play in a giving setting.

• The Werewolf Roleset - This is the more common roleset.
• The Mafia Roleset - This is an older, but still popular roleset of the game.

Variant, Optional, and House Rules

Complete Logs

A repository of session logs for our games can be found here.

If you have a log you wish to have added to the repository, please contact a member of staff to have it added.

Channel Information

In TelLaerad's #werewolf, some unusual access levels are employed. Auto-status levels are all disabled, but opdeop and such are all still enabled. The effect of this is that the channel's userlist won't be cluttered with mode symbols by people not currently using them. To op yourself or someone else, the command /cs op #werewolf <nick> can be used.

The access list is available for viewing with the /cs access #werewolf list command. Level 5 or above denotes users who are known game moderators. To be added to the access list, ask in #werewolf-ooc, or PM or memo Beo.