Goonhub
11-24-2017, 07:23 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-24-2017, 08:50 PM by Mageziya. Edited 4 times in total.)
I feel like conversion will just end in people getting mauled and werewolf-chains getting quickly shut down.... Then again, that's sort of the point. It's like a cursed version of hot potato where you don't have a choice to drop the potato.
The big problem, if I remember from messing around, is that werewolves don't have a form of easy transit. Wizards are the only other active and visible antagonist and they need to phase through walls to survive. Granted, that's also where the transfer form comes in. If you can't run away, you infect someone else. If someone's not an active werewolf, they're not an antagonist.
I suppose the big points would be werewolves needing for transfer to be easy to pull off, and some sort of stun resistance to make transit more possible.
On the subject of self antaging, I can see a problem in people approaching a werewolf with hopes of becoming one, but it balances out by how the werewolf is intended to freely mass murder everyone and anyone. Heck, I think it could actually be a point of legitimate interaction. I can see people attempting to subdue the werewolf to be transformed, while the werewolf refuses to give up their powers, with a third element of people trying to stop others from transforming, while this third element is also trying to kill the werewolf, all with the werewolf-wannabe trying to fight off everyone. Alternatively, it'll just be a mob of people fighting each other over the wolf, while avoiding killing the wolf, while the wolf also tries to kill them, which is some good chaos overall.
I don't know if that made any sense, but it'd probably need to be explicitly stated that "hey, trying to become a werewolf is actually okay, just as is stopping people from becoming a werewolf." If this still doesn't work, you could probably make a secondary antagonist, who's goal is to become a werewolf at any cost, and add 2-3 of them for every werewolf in a round. Granted, the "at any cost" clause might just end up like original Spy where they indiscriminately murder everyone and it's no fun. Alternatively, you could have some sorta puritan role, whose job is to prevent x-number of werewolf transfers and ultimately exterminate the beast, as a counter balance.
In short, this seems like a perfect setup for utter chaos, and I love it.
The big problem, if I remember from messing around, is that werewolves don't have a form of easy transit. Wizards are the only other active and visible antagonist and they need to phase through walls to survive. Granted, that's also where the transfer form comes in. If you can't run away, you infect someone else. If someone's not an active werewolf, they're not an antagonist.
I suppose the big points would be werewolves needing for transfer to be easy to pull off, and some sort of stun resistance to make transit more possible.
On the subject of self antaging, I can see a problem in people approaching a werewolf with hopes of becoming one, but it balances out by how the werewolf is intended to freely mass murder everyone and anyone. Heck, I think it could actually be a point of legitimate interaction. I can see people attempting to subdue the werewolf to be transformed, while the werewolf refuses to give up their powers, with a third element of people trying to stop others from transforming, while this third element is also trying to kill the werewolf, all with the werewolf-wannabe trying to fight off everyone. Alternatively, it'll just be a mob of people fighting each other over the wolf, while avoiding killing the wolf, while the wolf also tries to kill them, which is some good chaos overall.
I don't know if that made any sense, but it'd probably need to be explicitly stated that "hey, trying to become a werewolf is actually okay, just as is stopping people from becoming a werewolf." If this still doesn't work, you could probably make a secondary antagonist, who's goal is to become a werewolf at any cost, and add 2-3 of them for every werewolf in a round. Granted, the "at any cost" clause might just end up like original Spy where they indiscriminately murder everyone and it's no fun. Alternatively, you could have some sorta puritan role, whose job is to prevent x-number of werewolf transfers and ultimately exterminate the beast, as a counter balance.
In short, this seems like a perfect setup for utter chaos, and I love it.