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The Basic Game Structure: THE RULES

Firstly, if you have questions within the game, review the rules or PM the proctor. Sometimes if you ask within the role play out of character, you may unintentionally reveal whether you're the killer or a civilian to other players!

Someone posts a game as a thread in the forum. Each game will have a story and a profile skeleton.

The person who creates the story will be the game's proctor. Basically, they're the games supervisor. Keep in mind, while the proctor participates in the role play, the proctor cannot be the killer nor can they be killed.

Use the skeleton to make a profile. PM it to the proctor.

Then post in the role play. You're not counted in the game until you've posted in the role play, even if the proctor puts up your profile.

When the proctor decides there are enough players (Usually five or more people, excluding the proctor) the game is closed, and this should be designated in the title of the thread.

The proctor will randomly choose a killer. If you are the killer, you will be pm'd. If you do not receive a pm from the proctor, then you are a civilian.

The killer will pm the proctor with who they will kill.

The proctor will in turn pm the victim and inform them they are dead.

The victim must immediately post a "death post," and then they can no longer post in the game.

Do not PM any of the other players during the game. This is to make sure players don't cheat and find out whether you are a killer or a civilian outside of the game. If you have questions, pm the proctor.

After the first victim is killed, the civilians can accuse someone as the killer. They should do this within the role play in character.

The killer cannot strike until an accusation is resolved.

No one can accuse until an accusation is resolved.

If a civilian makes a correct accusation, then the civilians have won.

If they are incorrect, the accuser must die, and post a standard death post.

The killer can't kill again until there have been three posts after a "death post," whether the death was inflicted by a killer or by a wrong accusation.

If the killer continues to murder until there is only one civilian left, then the killer has won. (Remember, the proctor does not count as a civilian.)

And of course, be literate, keep it PG-13 and obey Gaia TOS.

About Proctoring

Being the proctor is a pretty big responsibility. You're in charge of keeping the game on track for the three hours that it's being played. Seriously, if you got stuck with a proctor who was flaky or they weren't sure what they were doing, it wouldn't be very fun. And if there's confusion about the rules, then the game might go bad and people might not get their points. So take it seriously!

Rules before making a game:
1. If there's a game going, and there aren't enough players to start a new one, don't start a new game. Just join the other one! If that game is closed... well, sorry.
2. You cannot proctor unless you've played THREE complete games before. (Actually, please leave proctoring in the hands of a crew member, but if there's not a crew member around and there's a bunch of people who want to play, it's fine if someone else takes the helm.)
3. Before you make the game thread, review the rules. Be sure you understand them. Yeah, that's right, scroll up and start reading. Also, be sure you know the substitution rules as well. The whole substitution process hangs on you, so have the rules ready in case a situation comes up.

Rules during a game:
1. Be sure to put the status of the game, whether it needs more players or if it's closed in the title of the thread.
2. Choose the killer randomly. No one likes someone who plays favorites!
Open a Word document, put down all the players names, randomly number them. Then use gaia's "Post Action," "Random Number" and then choose a random number between 1 and how many players there are. The number you get will be the killer.
3. Above all, do not reveal the killer!! And don't reveal if someone is a civilian, that's almost as bad!

Try to guide the players through the game. Remind them of the stages of the game as it goes on. If the killer only needs to kill one more person to win, let everyone know. If it looks like a civilian is making an accusation, make sure they understand that they are accusing. (Sort of an "Is that your final answer?" type thing.)

Since the proctor's character is not a civilian or the killer, they cannot be killed or accused. After all, the proctor cannot help the civilians because the proctor has to keep secret who the killer is, and the killer has nothing to benefit from killing the proctor, since they are not a civilian.
Try to keep the game going! Since you're not a possible suspect, you should be focused less on developing your character and more on keeping the game moving. Not to say you can't have an awesome character, but try to use your awesome character to keep the other characters doing stuff!

Be sure to PM a crew member and tell them the usernames of who won so they can get their points! Remember, if the civilians win, there's points for all surviving civilians, but there's more points for the civilian who correctly accuses the killer, so be sure to include all the names and make the distinctions between the correct accuser.

Make sure the players know you cannot be the killer and you cannot be killed.

Be careful to not accidentally PM the wrong person when you're telling the killer who they are or informing the victim they're dead. Prevent confusion, don't create it!

These rules are a lot more clear xd

I'm a vamp shows fangs

I like these rules ^_^ They're easy to remember.

Okay, so I have a quick question, seeings how there's a little tiff in a current game, but anyways;

are we allowed to have more than one character? Yes, I understand that it could be concidered cheating, but you'd think that either a) the proctor would take them off the list, so that they cannot be a killer or b) the person would have enough sence to not be all like "oh its this person" with their other character and win, and eventually, kill off their extra chracter no?

now, in this rp that it is currently happening in, someone said it's happened before, and both characters died at the same time, which I think is fair. Or at least, you know, have them die one after the other, which works too biggrin

Ah okay that makes sence ^.^ Thanks for clarifying