Role Playing Game for Christmas time
have fun with your friends during festivities
For you that during holidays stay with friends, eat drink dance and sing ...
maybe often happens you get bored with usual boad games: bingo, card games, etc etc..
We could try a new game: now I will explain you a role-playing game made specifically
for the Christmas holidays
Introduction:
- You can play this sitting down, so do not worry if you do it after a big dinner
- The more people the better. Involve the whole group, so no one gets bored
- A deck of cards could be useful to assign the roles of players. If you do not have it you can use anything else, free up imagination!
- I know, it's stupid, but you'll have fun
Rules:
- THE GAME STORY:
The game is set in a community of Santa Clauses and each player is a Santa Claus. If someone
asks you what a community of Santa Clauses is, well there cannot be only one that get around all
the world in one night, so there are different groups of Santas working together, ok?
So we are in this community. Actually, not all of us are Santa Clauses, but there are some "infiltrated". There are monsters who hate Christmas, a sort of Grinch, who is disguised as Santas and infiltrate into the community to kill the real Santas while asleep, ie during daytime (by night they deliver gifts, remember?). So every day a Santa Claus die, killed by one or more Grinches that agree on target and kill it. Only one per day.
The community knows that there are these infiltrates but, failing to discover their disguise, the community states that each day one member of the group will be put in a sledge with reindeers and sent to the North Pole, where only real Santa Clauses can survive (so he is out of game).
Thus every day one true Santa Claus dies, every night one player is expelled but nobody knows whether it is an imposter or not (except him). If someone asks you why such thing has been going on for several nights (since the gifts will be delivered in a single night), well, the truth is that for Santa Claus Time passes differently so stop with questions, ok? :-)
The competition between true and false Santa Clauses ends only in two cases: either Grinch/es kill all Santa Clauses, or Santas are able to get rid of all Grinches in the community. - GAME SETTING
In the group of players there is a person who acts as Master ie the one who determines
the course of the game.
The Master communicates to each player his role, the backs of others. The Master decides in the group who will be a real Santa Claus and who an impostor. You can randomly assign the roles (eg choice from a deck of cards), or choose directly people that you think more cut out for the role; the important thing is that you find a way to notify it without other participants know.
Typically, the ratio of impostors / authentic Santas has to be set approximately to 1 / 4, then in a group of 8 people there will be 2 or (up to) 3 Grinches.
After roles assignment, Master decides the flow of time, ie says to players when it is day and when it is night. Each period (day or night) will last several minutes (Master decides how much) to allow players to perform the necessary actions.
In particular, when the Master says that it's day, everyone close eyes (because Santas fall asleep and imposters pretending to sleep), then the Master will ask for impostors to open his eyes. So Grinches will recognize each other and select together which Santa/player remove, indicating him with mutual agreement (and without making noise!)
Once this action done, Master will ask Grinches for closing eyes, and will state the beginning of the night. At this point, all players will open their eyes and the Master reveals the player's name of the killed Santa. The remaining players, during the night, discuss among themselves on who to send into exile, according to their suspicions, and argue about their ideas until a majority vote (or if a plebiscite!) for the elimination of one of the players. The Master must be careful this action doesn't take too much time, and let the verdict come out.
The exiled player can no longer participate in any way to the game.
The game resumes with the next day, and the day / night rithm beated by the Master goes on until an event of the ones described before takes place: either there are no more real Santas to be killed, and victory will be assigned to the Grinches; or all Grinches will be exiled and the Santas will win.
The Master will notify the end of the game.
Sometimes it can happen that one Grinch and one Santa are left alive: In this case the game is finished in a tie.
Istructions end here, do you liked it? Hope yes :-)
