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Trine
March 14th, 2017, 06:35 PM
So I love deduction games like Mafia, and one of my all time favorites is Tragedy Looper. I've been thinking about running a game via forum (perhaps even on this site if I can generate enough interest) because it's proven so difficult to find players IRL. Unlike Mafia, you don't need a huge group so if anyone is interested and would like to know more or potentially set something up, let me know!

Tragedy Looper is a scenario-based deduction game for four players: one mastermind and one to three protagonists. The game consists of four location boards and a number of character cards. Each scenario features a number of characters, hidden roles for these characters (serial killer, conspiracy theorist, friend), and some pre-set tragedies (murder, suicide).

Each "day" (turn), players and the mastermind play three face-down cards onto the characters, then reveal them to move the characters around or affect their paranoia or goodwill stats. At the end of each day (turn), if the scenario has a tragedy set for that day, it happens if the conditions are met, i.e., certain characters have certain stats or are in a certain location together (or not together) with others. As tragedies happen, players loop back in time, restarting the scenario from the beginning and trying to deduce who the culprit was and why the tragedy occurred.

The players win if they manage to maintain status quo — that is, if no tragedies occur to the key individuals — for a set number of days, within a set number of loops. If not, the mastermind wins.

Trine
March 14th, 2017, 11:02 PM
http://i.imgur.com/NFXh0n4.png

An example of the game board.

http://i.imgur.com/im9EHgT.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/aP8lwOu.jpg

An example of a character card.

Mesk514
March 15th, 2017, 12:44 PM
im in for sure.
depending on the day im sure Unknown1234 is in as well... right buddy?

Unknown1234
March 15th, 2017, 12:48 PM
Yeah for sure, but I'll have no idea what I'm doing.

Trine
March 15th, 2017, 01:24 PM
I would be happy to teach you! Let me put a tutorial together explaining how everything works and then we can see which day/time would be best for all involved ^_^ I realized I probably should have put this under the Forum Games section but oh well...

Trine
March 16th, 2017, 04:17 PM
My tutorial is complete but I'm going to be running this in the Puzzle and Other Forum games section cause it makes more sense. Check it out! (http://www.sc2mafia.com/forum/showthread.php/39674-Tragedy-Looper-Tutorial)