Welcome to…
Two Rooms and a Boom Part 2: Avengers Level Threat
thanks besjbo for the rules
Two Rooms and a Boom is a fast-paced social deduction game where you must negotiate your team to victory to prevent - or guarantee - an assassination attempt, while you, your teammates, and your enemies are split between two rooms that cannot communicate.
Gameplay
- Two Rooms and a Boom has two teams, the Blue Team and the Red Team. The Red Team is trying to kill the President. The Blue Team is trying to stop the Red Team. Both teams have the same number of players, and a few characters have their own win condition.
- To set up the game, everyone gets a character, and is randomly assigned to one of two rooms that cannot see each other. From there, the game goes like this:
- Everyone gets to chat! Figure out who you trust, who you don’t, and make plans. You may even show players your token so that they know for a fact what you are! More on this below. You will have a limited number of private “meetings” per round. To meet with someone, simply create a private thread with them. Note that you cannot speak outside of a meeting while in one.
- Each room will decide who they want to be their Leader. At the end of each round, each Leader chooses some number of players (their “hostages”) to send out of their room and into the other room. Most of the day’s planning and politicking will revolve around this critical decision.
- With the hostages swapped, the next round begins! The game consists of five rounds, each of which has less meeting than the last, otherwise but all work the same way.
- At the end of the 5th and final round, after the final players are swapped between rooms, the Bomber explodes, and the room goes boom. If the President is in the same room as the Bomber, the Red Team wins. Otherwise, the Blue Team wins. That’s the game!
During the Round
- All rounds will last 24 hours. The first round has 5 meetings; Each subsequent round will have one fewer meeting, until the final round where everyone has 1 meeting. Meetings with more than 2 players cost 1 meeting per extra player.
- You may do absolutely anything you want as long as the rules say you can (and as long as you are nice!), including the mechanical actions below. Role cards in this game are color-coded by team, so if you want, you can share your color without sharing your character. If you wish to color share or card share (or perform any other mechanical action), ping me with the action. This works on honor code since IRL you would physically reveal the card - if you tag me and lie, you are cheating and this is an integrity breach, so please don’t.
- Some characters care about specific types of reveals.
- Some refer to a card share: this is when you and and one other player agree to look at each others’ characters at the same time. For example, the Negotiator can only card share - they aren’t allowed to reveal any part of their card publicly or privately unless it is a one-on-one full info trade.
- If you wish to card share, please tag me and say you are card sharing with X so it is clear that you are mechanically card sharing. Once you have both tagged me saying so, give your information to each other.
- Other abilities refer to a color share, which is like a card share, but you each only reveal your color to each other. The rules are the same, tag me and say you are color sharing with X, and then share the information. Both of these can only be done in a one-on-one meeting (since you can’t publicly reveal)
- You can also just choose to reveal some or all of your card, but only in a one on one meeting. As before, tag me to do this so that it’s easy to verify your honesty. (Don’t use this to bypass card sharing rules and abilities)
Choosing a Leader
- At the beginning of the game, the first Leader of each room is randomly decided.
- If you don’t like it, then you can nominate someone else to be the new Leader.
- You cannot nominate yourself, it has to be someone else. If the majority of the room raises their hand to vote in their favor, they are the Leader now!
- The Leader can unilaterally decide they don’t want to be the Leader anymore, and appoint a new Leader. They can do this at any time.
- There are no limitations on the number of nominations and votes possible except that a removed Leader cannot become Leader again in the same round (regardless of whether they abdicated power or were usurped).
- Unlike mafia, there are no ties or vote tallies: the moment any player has a majority of votes on them, they are installed as Leader, and if a future vote passes by any margin, another Leader is installed.
- As soon as you vote, it counts, so you can vote privately if you want but I will update it as soon as I see it (it won’t count until you or I publicly display it, so consider voting publicly if you’re playing footsie with the deadline).
- Your vote is never locked in before a majority is reached - vote and unvote as you please.
- I will allow conditional votes, such as “If Eevee is nominated I vote for her”, or “If Jimothy is nominated I vote for him unless Eevee or Chris is currently the Leader”.
- The moment that a player has sufficient votes to make them the Leader, they immediately become the Leader and the former Leader is removed.
- Whoever is the Leader at the moment that time runs out on the round gets to unilaterally choose their hostages.
- Hostages per round differ by player count, if we get the setup I’m looking for, it’s 3, 2, 2, 1, 1. They are allowed to think about it and everyone may advise them, but the choice is theirs alone. Leaders cannot choose themselves as hostages.
- Note that I will probably change the in between rooms time to match my schedule for the next round to make it feasible for the game to run.
- Leaders remain in power across rounds, but you can always vote them out if the room wants a new one.
Time Chart
The number in the clock is the number of whispers you have. It corresponds to the round number but in reverse. The rows numbered by playercount are how many hostages you have in each round, depending on that playercount
Characters
This game is very list dependant but I think I’ve got a good one down
All of these characters will be in play - unlike other social deduction games you may be used to, Two Rooms and a Boom is less about bluffing and more about choosing who to trust, since you can mechanically confirm yourself to your team, but neither team is in the majority. For those who know the game, yes, I’ve tweaked some of these characters to work better in longform.
Most every role has a // in the middle. This means there’s two variations of each role, one for each team.
Characters
(note that Security does not have the weird punishment for choosing a member of their team)
(note that it is now once per game and non-public until round 4)
Playerlist
- Hazard
- Marshal
- Cyanide (Atlas)
- Icet
- Ash
- Chomps
- Zugzwang
- May
- Marluna
- CarrotyReaper
- Pigeon
- Childe
- Leafia
- Hippo
- siobhan
- tutuu
- Gocj
- Aleph
