Thursday, August 27, 2009

Concept: “Doomsday Cult” (not a proposal)

Discussion item, not a proposal.  I don’t have any free proposal slots anyway.

Create a new dynastic rule entitled “Doomsday Cult”, as follows:

On a single occasion, the Leader may select two random Survivors (excluding himself) to become members of the Doomsday Cult (each of whom may be referred to as a Cultist).  .  When a new Survivor joins the game, or when ann idle Survivor who has not previously participated in this Dynasty reactivates, the Leader may (within 48 hours) determine randomly whether this Survivor is a Cultist.  The chance of a Survivor becoming a Cultist by operation of the previous sentence is x/y where x is the number of uninfected Cultists and y is the total number of active Survivors.  Should idling ever cause the active Survivor list to lack any Cultists at all, the Leader may randomly select z new Cultists, where z is the number of uninfected Survivors divided by 5 and rounded down.  Whenever the Leader determines that a Survivor is a Cultist, the Leader shall alert the Cultist via PM but shall not alert that Cultist of the identity of any other Cultist.

So ultimately there are going to be three factions: infected/zombies; uninfected; and Cultists (who might choose to ally with the infected/zombies, or with the uninfected, depending on what their goals turn out to be.

Yes, this is the old werewolf dynasty mechanic.

Comments

Klisz:

27-08-2009 18:16:00 UTC

forfor , and more for .

spikebrennan:

27-08-2009 18:18:49 UTC

Just as a reminder… such a rule would dump a lot of extra keeping-track-duties on the Leader.

Qwazukee:

27-08-2009 18:28:59 UTC

Caught the Werewolf bit. Looks like Infected could also be Cultists?

spikebrennan:

27-08-2009 18:31:54 UTC

Yes, that’s true.  It’s possible for a Cultist to be Infected.

spikebrennan:

27-08-2009 18:34:47 UTC

Actually, if this ever gets proposed, it should provide that only an uninfected Survivor can _become_ a Cultist, but nothing is stopping a Cultist from subsequently becoming Infected (while remaining a Cultist).