User blog:Thebiggesttdifan/An IRC Game To Be Played This Weekend

Hello, everyone. I've had an idea for a game in the IRC for a while that would be sort of like a roleplay, but not exactly. Hear me out.

This idea is based off a concept from Epicmafia. At the start of the game, a random player is chosen to be the Impersonator. Before every round, the Impersonator picks a player to impersonate for that round. That player is out of the game, the Impersonator taking over their role.

Now, the rest of the players know who the Impersonator is, but they don't know who he's impersonating for that specific round. It's their job to guess based on social cues and tics of the player that's being impersonated and the player that's impersonating. At the end of each round, all players take a public vote on which player they think is being impersonated. Whatever player has the majority vote is then out of the game, and the cycle continues until there are an equal amount of normal players as the player being impersonated, or the Impersonator is found.

Now, this could be seen as somewhat difficult to implement in the IRC, but I think I know how to make it work. At the end of each round, assuming the Impersonator has not been eliminated, I will PM him in the IRC asking who he'd like to impersonate next. After he tells me, I will send a PM to the player he chooses to impersonate, saying they are out of the game. Then, I will ask everyone playing to leave the IRC chat. When everyone playing has left, I will direct them to return, most likely on the wiki Chat. All players will keep their real name, except the impersonator, who changes his to the player he's impersonating, and the impersonated player, who changes his name to Spectator263 or some other name like that.

It'll be a rather difficult game to work out, but I think I could make it possible. On Epicmafia it's very fun, involving a lot of behaviors people recognize of certain players, and a lot of deception on the Impersonator's part. I know a lot of people here dislike the Epicmafia system, however, so I decided to bring it here.

I plan to start it off either Saturday afternoon or Sunday evening. It probably won't take long, assuming we get 8-14 players; it's considerably shorter than the average RP. I hope you can all join and experience it.

Oh, and one last thing--everyone plays as themselves, not as characters. I don't want to have to repeat that.

I can't decide if you're trying to be Ben Vereen or Randy Newman. 03:21, October 26, 2013 (UTC)