Werewolfless Werewolf
February 14th, 2008
Last night at out monthly Portland Werewolf Gathering, we decide to play a trick on some of the late comers. We played a game with only villagers. Thats right, no werewolves, healers, or seers, just villagers. The four late comers had no idea while the rest of us giggled to ourselves.
I moderated the game. It was a little weird at first because I had to fake the night play while everyone’s eyes where closed. At first I chose the nightly victims, making sure only to pick those that new about the game and then they helped me out to choose the victims.
It was pretty amusing when the village lynched the first unsuspecting player. Her face was priceless has she looked around the room trying to figure out who the werewolves where and how they chose their next victim.
The original plan was to have an end game of unsuspecting players, meaning that there would be three players alive that knew that they were villagers, but not know that there were no werewolves present . It ended up being two unsuspecting players and one in the know. Their expressions when I announced the villagers had one was priceless. They where both so confused that they double checked their cards. It was great.
The most interesting thing for me was that I realized that there is no need for roles, just the illusion roles. The game play did not change at all. I will need to moderate a game one day with only villagers again, but this time not tell anyone else.
