Rabbit Doubt: Just generating interest... NOT AN INTEREST CHECK THOUGH

Rose · Rose, May 23, 2013 at 12:37 AM

There's this really cool forum game I like to play (Sole would know it) called Rabbit Doubt. It can get incredibly complicated but fun if done right. Someone on another forum I visit wrote the following quote in the instructions for a current game, and I think it does a pretty good job of outlining the basic premise.

The core premise of Rabbit Doubt is simple: there are non-killers (rabbits in the original version) and killers (wolf, snake, etc.). The killers have the simple goal of staying hidden, surviving, and killing everyone else to achieve whatever the win condition of the game is (as decided on by the game manager), be it only killers left standing or only a certain number of players left alive that the killer(s) can then eliminate in one fell swoop and achieve total dominance. The non-killers have to find out who the killers are and deal with them before they're out of time/people to get the job done.

There are typically a lot of special roles involved, the amount and nature of them depending on the game manager's preference and imagination. Roles that you'll almost always see (aside from the killers) are a Mayor who is elected by the players at the start of the game and receives some benefit or power, Detectives who can investigate others to learn their roles, Protectors to defend others from the killers, a Matchmaker who can pair two players together at the start of the game so that if one dies the other goes with them, and a Doctor type who can save targets of killers or sometimes straight up revive the dead. Other roles can range from a Self-Sacrificial role who will take a killer with them in death, to someone who can prevent all role abilities of a target player, to a Vigilante type who can kill others but isn't a murderer that the non-killers need to take care of, and anything else the GM can think up to add to the game. Some roles will be known to exist, but others might be secret to all but the GM and the person with the role (for this particular game all roles that exist are known, but most of their powers are not).

The game is played in turns. There are two kinds of turns: Day Phase and Night Phase; they are sometimes named other things, but their function remains the same. Night Phase is when the primary killer strikes, picking and attacking their victim. There may be many other roles that can act in the night, so there could be a lot more going on than just a kill. The Day Phase is also known as the lynch phase because that is exactly what happens: the players vote to lynch someone that they think is a killer. Whoever receives the most votes is killed, and hopefully they were themselves a killer, else the non-killer players have squandered one of their few turns to save themselves.

While there might be a lot of discussion in the thread and in private messaging (depending on the rules of the GM, this may not be allowed; see rules section for the note on it for this game) going on, the main way of trying to figure out who the killers are and what the hell is going on comes in the form of story posts. There is a story premise for the games, ranging from the simple "you're a town of rabbits and there's a werewolf monster hidden among you, try to survive," to anything else the GM can cram the premise into (such as the Game of Thrones world), and that acts as the foundation for the story posts. Each turn's action is written out by the GM into a story post, the posting of which usually signals the end of the turn and comes with an announcement to send in actions for the next turn. The intent of the story post is to give subtle clues to roles, particularly the killers, and show/explain the player actions that took place in that turn. Hopefully they'll also be entertaining for the players to read and make up a hectic but cohesive plot, but that's a bonus rather than a main concern.

Hopefully that was all clear and informative. The TLDR version is "sign up, get role, read story posts, send in turn actions when prompted, try to win." Good luck, and feel free to ask any questions if you have them, but only after reading the rules type sections of the post to see if it's answered there.

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Anyway, all that aside, I'm putting this up here because it isn't technically a roleplay, but I don't want to put this in the Forum Game section because it isn't a game YET, and will most likely start once I'm out of school. Consider this preliminary signups because I don't want to slave for no interest at all, and the more the merrier. I'll put the full game in Forum Game Land when it's ready if it has enough interest.

Zantok · Zantok, May 23, 2013 at 3:41 AM

I'm seeing similarities to Mafia unless I'm very much mistaken. This seems interesting.

Keileon · Keileon, May 23, 2013 at 5:15 AM

Yeah, this is basically a Mafia clone. XD

That aside, the userbase here will probably like it well enough.

Rose · Rose, May 23, 2013 at 6:08 PM

Mafia? Never played, but I guess so.

CerberusLycan · CerberusLycan, May 23, 2013 at 10:27 PM

Yeah, Elegante tried to start something quite like this a while ago-- it collapsed in on him, apparently. It seems like a fun game, though, and I think I'd enjoy participating~

Eebit · Eebit, May 24, 2013 at 4:17 AM

I'd be greatly interested, if you're looking to run it~

As the others have said, yeah, this is a slimmed down and drastically less overcomplicated version of Mafia, methinks. Which is good, because Mafia's ridiculous amount of role additions is off-putting to some (or, at least it was to me when going through it, as I recall!). Zantok ran an iteration of Mafia back at the old ZEJ to some degree of success; it can be found HERE if you're interested in checking it out.

And for more info on Mafia in general (if you're interested in expanding your knowledge on the topic, lelz) can be found over on http://mafiascum.net/

Gist · Gist, Aug 11, 2013 at 7:21 PM

It's exactly like Mafia XD but yes, it's about time we had a collective forum game to play other than that sausagefest called Men v Women.

I'd love it~ <3

Rose · Rose, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:51 AM

I think so too, just a matter of gaining interest.

Gist · Gist, May 31, 2014 at 11:32 PM

@Rose pls make this A Thing

Rose · Rose, Jun 1, 2014 at 2:17 AM

Not sure if I have enough people to make it interesting....

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