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[The Resistance] Totally Spies (SPIES WIN!)
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The Resistance is a quick Mafia style card game where players are divided into two secret teams of Resistance (good guys) and Spies (bad guys). Instead of voting each other off, everyone stays on board the entire game. Players elect their team mates to go on missions, where the elected players secretly choose to help or hinder. You only have five missions before the game ends, and majority wins.
In Detail.
Players will receive a role in secret, denoting if they are Resistance or Spies. The Spies will know who each other are. Not so for the Resistance!
Each player takes a turn being the Leader. When you're the Leader, you get to send a number of your fellow players on the current mission. Each mission takes a different amount of players. The Resistance, when Leader, wants to send only fellow Resistance on the mission, whereas Spies want to send along at least one (and preferably more Spies, in larger games).
After the Leader has chosen candidates, everyone will vote in secret if they Approve or Reject this roster. You base this decision, of course, on whether or not you believe someone on the mission is a spy (or, if you're a spy, if you're bluffing, and want to get a spy on the mission.) Votes are then revealed. The majority wins, and ties count as a Reject.
If the vote was Rejected, the next player in turn becomes Leader, and the Vote Track goes up by 1. If the vote track gets to 5, then the game ends and the Spies win! There's just too much suspicion and paranoia to be a cohesive team.
However, if the vote passed, then the elected players go on a mission. On a mission, those players will secretly submit a vote of SUCCEED or FAIL. If even a single FAIL shows up, no matter how many people are on the mission, then the entire mission is a failure, and the Spies earn 1 victory. If there are no FAILS, victory goes to the Resistance. First to 3 wins!
Special Forum Rules.
Players can communicate openly in the thread, but they cannot communicate elsewhere. That means no secret Spy PMs or anything off the board. Spies will merely have to pay attention to what each other is saying, and drop subtle clues.
The turns go as such:
=When it's your turn as Leader, look at the current mission and see how many people are needed for it.
=Discuss it with the other players if you want, but then choose that many people to go on the team. You can declare this openly in the thread.
=Once that happens, everyone should then vote in secret: Approve or Reject. PM me your answer. After all votes are in, they will be revealed. People will know how you voted, and it's up to you to justify it, but nobody will know how anyone voted until all tallies are in.
=If the vote fails, the next person gets to be Leader, and we start over.
=If the vote passes, the elected players PM me whether they want the mission to SUCCEED or FAIL. Resistance members MUST select SUCCEED, here. Only Spies have the option to FAIL a mission.
=I repeat, if you are Resistance, you CANNOT vote for the mission to FAIL. You'd think it's common sense, but the people I've played this with have proven otherwise.
=Votes are revealed, but not attributed to people. You won't know how anyone voted, just what the votes were. Then we start over.
Sign Ups and Players.
MegaMek
tzeentchling
BradicusMaximus
vertroue
Cerberus
Capfalcon
THE TABLEAU
MISSION ONE: 2
MISSION TWO: 3
MISSION THREE: 4
MISSION FOUR: 3
MISSION FIVE: 4
Vote Track: 0
In Detail.
Players will receive a role in secret, denoting if they are Resistance or Spies. The Spies will know who each other are. Not so for the Resistance!
Each player takes a turn being the Leader. When you're the Leader, you get to send a number of your fellow players on the current mission. Each mission takes a different amount of players. The Resistance, when Leader, wants to send only fellow Resistance on the mission, whereas Spies want to send along at least one (and preferably more Spies, in larger games).
After the Leader has chosen candidates, everyone will vote in secret if they Approve or Reject this roster. You base this decision, of course, on whether or not you believe someone on the mission is a spy (or, if you're a spy, if you're bluffing, and want to get a spy on the mission.) Votes are then revealed. The majority wins, and ties count as a Reject.
If the vote was Rejected, the next player in turn becomes Leader, and the Vote Track goes up by 1. If the vote track gets to 5, then the game ends and the Spies win! There's just too much suspicion and paranoia to be a cohesive team.
However, if the vote passed, then the elected players go on a mission. On a mission, those players will secretly submit a vote of SUCCEED or FAIL. If even a single FAIL shows up, no matter how many people are on the mission, then the entire mission is a failure, and the Spies earn 1 victory. If there are no FAILS, victory goes to the Resistance. First to 3 wins!
Special Forum Rules.
Players can communicate openly in the thread, but they cannot communicate elsewhere. That means no secret Spy PMs or anything off the board. Spies will merely have to pay attention to what each other is saying, and drop subtle clues.
The turns go as such:
=When it's your turn as Leader, look at the current mission and see how many people are needed for it.
=Discuss it with the other players if you want, but then choose that many people to go on the team. You can declare this openly in the thread.
=Once that happens, everyone should then vote in secret: Approve or Reject. PM me your answer. After all votes are in, they will be revealed. People will know how you voted, and it's up to you to justify it, but nobody will know how anyone voted until all tallies are in.
=If the vote fails, the next person gets to be Leader, and we start over.
=If the vote passes, the elected players PM me whether they want the mission to SUCCEED or FAIL. Resistance members MUST select SUCCEED, here. Only Spies have the option to FAIL a mission.
=I repeat, if you are Resistance, you CANNOT vote for the mission to FAIL. You'd think it's common sense, but the people I've played this with have proven otherwise.
=Votes are revealed, but not attributed to people. You won't know how anyone voted, just what the votes were. Then we start over.
Sign Ups and Players.
MegaMek
tzeentchling
BradicusMaximus
vertroue
Cerberus
Capfalcon
THE TABLEAU
MISSION ONE: 2
MISSION TWO: 3
MISSION THREE: 4
MISSION FOUR: 3
MISSION FIVE: 4
Vote Track: 0
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From the Desk of Darth Vertroue Diplomat to the USA.
Also, a few people who I know 'should' play this... @Flimflammery @blahmcblah
I love playing this game. Not that I mind or trying to be nitpicky but how hard would it be to include the expansion?
Everyone remember, Bradicus is always a spy.
I'll leave this open for recruitment until the end of tomorrow. We can still hold five more!
I'm hurt.
I'm not even sure if I want to Sign Up any more...
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The player order above is the turn order. You can also see the Missions, and how many players get to go on each one. Finally, the Vote Track underneath keeps tally of how many votes were rejected.
We start on Mission one, obviously, which can hold 2 people.
MegaMek, you're our first leader! Elect two people to go on this mission.
Everyone else: lobby for why you're the best choice / why someone else is the worst choice.
Once MegaMek has picked, everyone will send in your ACCEPT or REJECT vote to me in PM.
From the Desk of Darth Vertroue Diplomat to the USA.
Would this face lie to you?
Twitch Stream
I'll take Bradicus and also... Tzeenchling.
Unless you want to pick me, then you should spend more time rethinking it.
Twitch Stream
I tagged you to notify you...
I don't know what that is!
Think all you need! Part of the fun of this is the huge debate before throwing people on a mission. Do you still want to send Bradicus and tzeentch?
How are we voting, is that just a PM to our host?
Bothered to actually read!
Stop playing Counter Strike and vote!
EDIT: But only if you aren't going to fail us.
Welp
Not much speculation to go on for the first round.
Twitch Stream
From the Desk of Darth Vertroue Diplomat to the USA.
@tzeentchling, you're the new leader. This time, pick 3 people to go on the mission.
From the Desk of Darth Vertroue Diplomat to the USA.