Game Ideas

In CAHniverse, we're always looking to try and find more ways to keep things fresh. We have lots of bottle games and more of those are always welcome, so if you know of a game and want to share the concept, edit this page and jot that shit down. Maybe more people will help get your idea off the ground and make it work. Let's find creative ways to use the tools we have at our disposal.

Charades
I always wanted to try the charades outlined on the room games f-list profile. Here they are, reproduced:


 * Spin the Bottle, and PM that person with a word.
 * That person then tries to act it out in RP.
 * First one of the other players to say what it is wins, and gets to give the next spin and word.
 * You cannot use the word in your RP posts whatsoever.
 * You must act out everything, and use no verbal responses in your posts.
 * You may post at any size or speed, and guesses can simply be guessed words.

Any takers? ~Netkeeper

Games with Host roles
Games that single out a player who instead takes on the role of a host, providing functions that we can't automate, like dealing out hands of cards, assigning various secrets to players [secret ID numbers, roles, passwords, etc]. A host's job would vary depending on the game. The Sorrow would be a great host, I think, though we could also ask someone that isn't playing at all to take on a host role when we want or need an unbiased party... but since this is RP, it doesn't seem like it would be necessary.

Ideas for host games:


 * Giving out words for charades mentioned up the page.
 * Host passes out secret "identities" to people, everyone has to act out their identity without anyone else figuring out what it is. Roles like "crazy cat lady" or "desperate for a sugar daddy".
 * Everyone sends the host a secret about themselves that must be true. The host reads them one at a time, and everyone votes on whose secret they think it is.

Match Game
Dude, the new Match Game is fucking amazing and the banter that goes on reminds me too much of CAH and our wildly inappropriate blank cards, so I've been trying to find a way to adapt it into something for roleplay. My idea was using the Pretend You're Xyzzy site without any standard decks, just a custom deck full of black cards and an absurdly high number of blank white cards. Play would go as follows:


 * The Card Czar does not play this round... not sure what to do with that role, it's the one snag I've come across but may find ways to use it later. It would be nice if the Czar could be the one whose turn it is, but they can't play white cards so that fucks it all up.
 * Everyone has a hand of blank cards. The person whose turn it is has to play last, after everyone else has played their white cards.
 * The person whose turn it is has to label their card so we know when matches are found, but nobody else has to label their plays, although they're free to do so anyway.
 * Ignore the PYX scorecount. The real scorecounts are based on how many matches are made.

I'll probably do a test run of this idea soon and provide screenshots for clarity as to how it might work. Or this site won't work for it at all, I don't know.

EDIT: Our other Apples Against Humanity site would work better for this, but similar basic idea, yeah? They have an all blank white cards feature, iirc. ~Netkeeper

Monopoly Mapcrunch
Guys. Guys seriously I came up with an idea. What if we combined the Mapcrunch Meme with Monopoly? I got this idea from this article.

The idea is to pick a starting point for your characters by using Mapcrunch, and instead of the goal being the airport, the goal is buying everyone out. I have no idea if this would make a feasible chat-based RP, but it can make a decent post-based game, I think, like on a forum/journal/Litphoria. Let me hear your thoughts! ~Netkeeper