Murder Games and April 17th

Murder at the Table

(Full Rules posted at my Table Gaming Blog)

(if these rules do not make sense, know that the full rules are on my gaming blog)

What you will need is some form of hat or bucket and several pieces of paper.  The game is separated into Rounds and Turns.  You begin a round by writing "Knife" on one piece of paper, "Gun" on another piece of paper, and "Bystander" on all the others.  You put these in the container and the players draw them.  Until all the players have had a chance to take a piece of paper, no words are spoken.  After the last piece of paper is drawn the players are free to say what they will.  They can declare they are bystanders, they can even declare they have the gun, it would probably be unwise to claim to have the knife.

After each person has had the chance to defend/declare themselves, new paper is passed around to the players that is blank.  If the player is a Bystander(even if they have the gun), all they can write down on this paper is Innocent.  No one is yet to share what they write down.  The player with the Knife may also write down Innocent, or they may write down the name of a non-Gun holding player they wish to kill.  All the papers are folded and put into a container.  Before the papers are revealed, the person with the gun may reveal they have the gun and kill a player using it.

Each piece of paper is revealed.  If the Murderer has killed someone, they leave this game.  If the Bystander with the gun killed someone innocent, the killed Bystander killed will profess their innocence and leaves the game.  If the Bystander with the Gun kills the Murderer, the game is over.  If the Murderer tries to kill the Bystander with the Gun, and that Gun carrier never declared they had the gun, the Murderer is shot and killed and the game is over.  If there are Bystanders left, the game starts a new Round, repeat the steps of the Round.  If only the Murderer and the Bystander with the gun is left, the Murderer kills him or her and wins the game.  Repeat the rounds until either the Murderer kills the Bystander with the Gun, or the Murderer is dead.


April 17th, 2014

I am having wild Hobby swings as of late.  I'm jonesing to play a Fantasy video game that is similar to, or is in fact an MMORPG.  I am having a nostalgic yearning for MMORPG's, but I know that this feeling is actually a missing of friends or a want to re-capture past fun and neither actually happens.  I know that I start a new MMORPG when I want new experiences, and that's the only way they are successful for me.  I am equally swaying to the scifi area and wanting to play something like FTL or Sins of a Solar Empire.  Combining the two, I am wanting to GM a Traveller game or something similar.  I've been wanting to do a 30+ crew carrier/bed-in-breakfast ship game with a small group of players.  I know, weird?  I want the players have to deal with things like room service requests while also hunting supplies and avoiding piracy.  I also get a kick thinking about a player playing non-technical ship personnel, like being the concierge.

Summer rolls are amazing.  Its like the healthiest food I've ever seen that actually tastes good.  Think about the inside of a Spring Roll, but then don't deep fry it.  Add more fresh veggies and then something like shrimp for a kick of protein, then wrap it in a tapioca wrapper.  The wrapper is sort of like a thin, see-through dumpling wrapper that isn't nearly as unhealthy.  I had some of them yesterday for dinner, and it was awesome.

Because of my Sci-fi mood, I'm watching Enterprise.  This is the first time I've been able to stomach more of it.  I really do not like the way they are portraying Vulcans, especially after First Contact already established them as well meaning.  I think what they're doing to vulcans is xenophobic lazy-writing garbage.  The doctor though, is really good.  Star Trek has always had a good batting average with the doctors.  Only Pulaski was truly terrible, and Bashir got much better once they started adding the Garack stuff.  I like this Enterprise doctor from the start, he reminds me of a very intelligent Neelix.

The Easter grill out is shaping up very well.  It looks like we're going to have good hamburgers for me to cook, and I've been assured plenty of Hotdogs are coming.  I have my favorite choice of charcoal.  I need to get my work area planned out and set up.  Having a garbage can and several table surfaces near the grill is a must.  I'll be doing many of the hotdogs before the first guests even arrive, keeping them warm on the grill in a pan.  Once the guests arrive, I'll get the 2nd batch of coals on the grill so that the hamburgers have plenty of heat to be done quickly.  With the burgers being good and the charcoal being the no-hassle, long lasting kind, I think my main Easter concerns are taken care of.