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Changelings is a pony version of the Online forum game Werewolf. Posted below are a set of rules taken from a different site.
 
1.1 What is Werewolf?
 
There are two basic principles to the game:
 
  1. Two teams, uninformed majority vs informed minority, try to eliminate each other by using two ways of killing off players: lynching and nightkilling.  
  2. The game alternates between two phases: days for lynches and nights for nightkilling.
     
    In some versions of the game, one day in real-time usually stands for one day in game time and thus there is both a day phase (long) and a night phase (short) during one real-time day.
     
    For the purpose of deciding which team wins the game the roles in each (basic) game can be divided into 3 main categories: Good roles, Max Evil roles and Aux Evil roles.
     
    The standard victory conditions in a game are these:
     
    Team Good wins when all the Max Evil roles are eliminated.
     
    Team Evil wins when the Max Evil roles reach parity with the Good roles plus the Aux Evil roles.
     
    It should be noted that Aux Evil Roles work toward the Evil victory condition but count against Evil parity. It should also be noted that Players may win even if they are eliminated. If their team wins, all eliminated players on that team also win.
     
    1.2 Lynches
     
    During the day phases of a game, every player votes for another player. These votes can be changed as often as a player wants during the day. The player that has received the most votes at dusk (which is the name for the deadline for submitting votes and marks the transition from the day phase to the night phase) will be eliminated and cannot post any messages in the game thread after that point. Voting is done by making a post in the thread that has the username of the player you want to vote for in brackets and bolded, like this: [vote Snaak].
     
    During the day phase players are free (and encouraged) to strategize in the thread and post explanations for their votes.
     
    Obviously the Good players (uninformed majority) will try to lynch an Evil player during the day, while the Evil players (informed minority) try to prevent this. This will result in a discussion based on truths, half-truths and lies combined with strategically placed votes. The key is to find out who is telling the truth and who is lying.
     
    In case the lynch vote ends in a tie, a tiebreaker is used to decide who gets lynched. In most games the tiebreaker is given at the start of the game and will usually be LHLV. LHLV stands for Longest Held Last Vote. This means that if 2 or more people tie in number of votes, all votes will be disregarded except for the last vote cast on each of the players tying. Of those votes the one that was cast first in chronological order is the vote that decides the tie. Voting tallies will be kept during each day phase of a game. In these tallies all votes are followed by a unique number. The lower that number is the earlier the vote was cast and thus it will be easy to determine which vote will decide a tie.
     
    As an example:
     
    Melsana - 4 - LudesFactor(4), Gelatinous Goo(9), jageroxorz(13), Spud(15)  
    LudesFactor - 4 - kristiefix(2), Whirlinghurly(3), Spud(7), yohanleafheart(11), Melsana(16)  
    Valkerie32 - 2 - kuchick(5), Kaldar(10), Geniesse(12)
     
    In this tally Melsana & Ludesfactor have an equal amount of votes (4) and so they tie for lynch. The last vote on Melsana was cast by Spud and has the number 15 following it. The last vote on LudesFactor was cast by Melsana and has the number 16 following it. As explained, the lower the number, the earlier the vote was cast and thus Spud’s vote will decide this tie, meaning Melsana is lynched.
     
    1.3 Nightkills
     
    During the night phases of a game the max Evil players decide together which of the players they want to kill. The target will be announced at Dawn (the start of the next day phase) and this player cannot post any messages in the game thread after that point.
     
    This cycle will continue until one of the victory conditions is met.
     
    1.4 Communications
     
    In a standard game of online Werewolf Good players and aux Evil players can only communicate in the public thread. Max evil players will usually have a secret chatroom in which they can discuss their strategy and who they want to kill during the night phase.
     
    Every player can PM the current game mod to ask questions that he/she doesn’t want to ask in the thread.
     
    It is strictly forbidden for players to contact other players outside of the public thread to exchange information vital to the game in progress. Exceptions to this rule are possible (in case of mason roles) but will be explicitly explained in the rules post for a specific game.
     
    Basically, this is all there is to playing Werewolf. However learning how to play it well will take some time and lots of experience. There are many different strategies found in Werewolf as well as different types of play. A player could for instance focus on analyzing other players’ past votes or instead they may play the game entirely based on gut feeling or a combination of the two. Every type of role will also demand a playing style that differs from the next.
     
    1.5 Moderation
     
    A game of werewolf can only function with the help of a moderator. The moderator is a non-player who knows all the roles and carries out the orders that players give during the game. The moderator is also in charge of dawn and dusk and will post the results of the lynches and nightkills in the thread. Usually the moderator is also the one who designed the role set and/or the theme for the game. In every game, the mod will be a human.
     
    Click Here to download and read a list of roles that can be used in future games.
     
    Here is the possible role list for Season 1  
    Bodyguard  
    Healer  
    Priest  
    Seer  
    Knight  
    Villager  
    Werewolf/Changeling  
    Vigilante  
    Hunter  
    Mayor
     
    Sign Up here, and Good luck.
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