(joke entry) For The Win! The Game of Internet Asshattery

[casperlions]

The premise is simple. The players, as new posters on a highly active forum must troll, cajole, flame, joke, and debate the best they can on a thread started by the GM, who will check it out again in 8 hours and judge the posts up until that point.

Each player is essentially an actor, because as a poster they will be posting with a personality not of their own, but acting genuine. A quality may be "racist", "religious conservative", or "hot 19 year old" but the idea is to post in the most outrageous entertaining way that you can without being accused of being disgenuine by normal posters on that forum.

Teamwork is essential and will be rewarded by the GM. Both purposeful teamwork with each other (playing off of each other's ridiculous posts) and unwanted teamwork with normal posters' posts (playing off of other people's posts rather than just ignoring them).

There are several laws to the game. If a player breaks a law they are disqualified from the game (and any points the GM awarded their posts won't be in the running for winner of the game). The laws are:
-do not be accused of faking your personality (ie: the bad actor law)
-do not get banned (ie: the take it to the edge no further law)
-do not be accused of having a previous relationship with the other players (ie: the secret conspiracy law)

Follow these laws and your posts will be judged for their teamwork, in character-ness, and entertainment value by the GM, on a scale of 1-10. The player with the best score after the GM announces it to them gets to pick the next game the group plays, hopefully a real RPG and not silly party game crap like "For the Win!".

Setup: The gameplay takes place within an 8 hour period of the GM posting a thread of a random topic on a forum. However it is suggested that the GM and the other posters join that forum two weeks in advance so their chicanery is not as suspected. It's also not suggsted that the GM announce the disqualifications and scores on the thread at the end of the game, unless they all don't mind getting banned.

Oh, and if it wasn't obvious, it's the GM that assigns each player with a characteristic or character (souther racist, retarded midget, ect.) to portray in their posts.


In theory it's an idea that has massive entertainment potential, but in actuality its something no one will ever want to play (well, they'll want to play it but better judgement will take over).


It takes the time period of 8 hours in no matter how many sessions, and the package 2 qualities of law, actor, and team.

[darwin]

I'd play that. In fact if there are a few others ready to go right now I say somebody choose a forum. Game on!

In fact for practice ou could start at an IRC channel with lots of readers.

[casperlions]

an irc variant would be a single 2 hour session.

an optional rule either way would to not let the players know what the screenames of the other players are or what characteristics they'v each been assigned, and let them guess afterwards.

[darwin]

Now you're talking. That sounds excellent.

I'm just imagining the faces of the people in the forum/chat as you award the point at the end. maybe you could ask them to score for you as well.

[TonyLB]

Okay, but the game has to have a really catchy name.

Because, to me, the whole point of creating such a game would be that it would make people wonder whether the game was being played on them, even when it wasn't. The same way people of a certain era wondered "Am I on candid camera?" and more modern folks wonder "Am I being punk'd?", forum posters who see a thread degenerate into a total wank-fest of apparently random point-scoring have to wonder ... is this game (with the really memorable name) being played right now?

[darwin]

[casperlions]

Threaded

Forwin

Threads and Trolls (TnT for short)

Insider

Incrowd

Injoke

I'm thinking on the subject of a short catchy name for internet meme use.

[Joshua BishopRoby]

Man, I love playing this game!

...oh wait. I mean, that would be wrong!

[casperlions]

I'll have to figure out a scoring system so when the game is over the gm can go back and examine the thread and the individual posts by his players on it. I guess they will either be rated on a scale or given/deducted points for acting, teamwork, and how they followed the laws, primarily, with bonuses if, now in the postgame period, they can identify which posters were their fellow players.

I want to get pretty complex with the scoring system and probably plenty of optional rules and modes, because that will be the meat of the actual gamesystem itself.

[Queex]