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.
February 15th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
As someone who was completely hoodwinked… I still thought it was cool. Eventually.
February 16th, 2008 at 1:04 am
And as the other person that was completely hoodwinked, I still find it hard to accept that Adam wasn’t a werewolf that round.
That was some fine misdirection.
February 16th, 2008 at 1:14 am
I am glad you guys still had fun. I was a little worried that you guys would not be happy with us. We just had to. It was too hard to pass up!