User:Lendunistus/TheCouncil/Ruleset

Immutable

General

• This is the ruleset for this game; all players must follow it.
• [insert names here] are the moderators of this game and have supreme power over its proceedings.
• Rules in the Immutable section cannot be edited by proposal. Please do not try to circumvent them.
• Pretending to break the rules will be treated similarly to actually breaking the rules.
• Follow all site rules.
• Play to win.
• Treat others as you would like them to treat you. Heated discussion is fine, personal attacks are not.
• Quoting out-of-game communication (e.g. your Role PM or Mafia PT) is forbidden. Paraphrasing is okay.
• Discussing other ongoing games within this game or discussing this game within other ongoing games is forbidden.
• Don't use encryption, hidden text or excessively small text in your posts (except where required by the ruleset).
• Don't use any form of provable randomness (e.g. dice tags) except where required by the ruleset. Saying you flipped a coin is okay, providing proof that you did isn't.
• If you have the ability to edit or delete your posts, do not do so.
• The moderators' decisions are final.

Activity

• You are expected to make at least one game-relevant post every 48 hours. Players who go 48 hours without posting will be prodded.
• If you are prodded, you have 24 hours to post in-thread. If you do not respond within 24 hours, you will be replaced. Additionally, if you have to be prodded 3 or more times, you will be replaced at the moderators' discretion.
• If you're being replaced for inactivity and post in the game thread before a replacement is found for you, you get to stay.
• If you want to be replaced, send me a PM requesting replacement and do not talk about it at all in the main thread.
• Abuse of prod dodges will result in you being replaced at my own discretion.
• If you are going to be V/LA, please announce it in thread or PM one of the moderators. If your V/LA will last 7 days or longer, you may be replaced.

Mafia

• There are 10 Town members and 3 Mafia members in this game.
• All players start the game alive. Upon the start of the game, you are privately informed of your alignment.
• Members of the Mafia have access to a private thread, in which they may communicate at any time while alive.
• Upon dying, a player's alignment is publicly revealed in the game thread (unless stated otherwise).
• Players who have died are not considered to be players for the purposes of this ruleset (except for rules in the Immmutable section); these players may be referred to by the term "dead players".
• Dead players may not post in the game thread or any private topics with the exception of the dead thread.
• The game starts at the Day phase. Once the Day ends, Night begins.
• Players may only post in the game thread during a Day phase unless otherwise specified.
• Once per night, the Mafia may nightkill a living player; that player will die at the end of the Night.
• Day phases will last for a maximum of 14 real-life days. Night phases will last for a maximum of two real-life days.
• Town wins when all members of the Mafia are dead. Mafia wins when every member of the Town is dead or when nothing can prevent that from happening.

Council

General

• [name] is The Outsider.
• Unless otherwise stated, proposal history and all publicly available gamestate is tracked at [insert wiki page here]. If this page does not properly reflect the current gamestate, any player may correct it.
• Each Day phase has 12 hours. When the number of hours reaches 0, the Day phase ends immediately.
• Unless otherwise stated, resources cannot be spent if doing so would cause that resource to go negative.
• Quorum is the half the number of living players plus one, rounded down.

Proposals

• A living player or The Outsider may, during a Day phase, propose a change to the rules and/or gamestate. This is known as a Proposal.
• A Proposal must have a title, body, and time cost. The time cost may not be higher than the current amount of hours left in the Day Phase.
• Once a Proposal is made, it must be approved by The Outsider, at which point it is made Pending.

Voting

• While a Proposal is Pending, any living player may vote either FOR or AGAINST it. Once a player has cast their vote, they may not change it.
• If a Proposal has a quorum or more of FOR votes, The Outsider or a Moderator should, at their first opportunity, Enact it, applying its changes in full.
• If a Proposal has a quorum or more of AGAINST votes or it has been Pending for 72 or more real-life hours, The Outsider or a Moderator should, at their first opportunity, Fail it.
• The Outsider may, at any time, Veto a Proposal that has not been Enacted or Failed. Upon doing so, that Proposal is immediately Failed.
• The Outsider is encouraged to Veto Proposals that they feel would cause a significant unfairness in the game balance.
• The Outsider may not veto Physical Proposals.
• If a Proposal would be impossible to Enact even with a quorum of FOR votes, the Outsider or a Moderator may Fail it at any time.

Items

• An entity is a physical item if it is described as some sort of physical object or is explicitly defined as a physical item.
• A physical item can either be placed on the floor or be held by one player. A player may hold any amount of physical items.
• A player holding a physical item may, at any time during a Day phase, put it on the floor or give it to another player.
• Physical items start on the floor unless otherwise specified. They may only be moved from the floor to a player by a Proposal.
• Physical items may only be taken away from the player holding them by a Proposal.

Physical Proposals

• If a Proposal's effects are limited to moving around physical items and/or eliminating players, and it would not require the knowledge of hidden information to Enact, it is a Physical Proposal.
• Physical Proposals always have a time cost of 1 hour, unless otherwise specified.
• If a Physical Proposal would directly result in the death of another player when enacted, it is an Elimination Proposal.
• Elimination Proposals always have a time cost of 6 hours, unless otherwise specified.
• An Elimination Proposal may only kill one player at a time. Only one Elimination Proposal may be Enacted per Day phase.

TODO: ambiguities, what happens when someone dies mid-day