Rogue OM Squad

From YPPedia

Rogue OM Squad, or ROMS as it is known in short, is a forum role-playing game, based on the popular game Mafia.

It consists of a town of around 30 players (although this number varies per game). Most of these players are innocent. However, a select group of them are the Rogue OMs, or Rogues for short. The Rogues know who each other are, whereas the Innocents know only the identity of themselves, and must work out who the other Rogues are. All players, rogue or innocent, may choose to work in a team, or work alone.

Over the course of the game, the innocent players are trying to lynch all the Rogues, whereas the Rogues are trying to lynch or ban all of the innocents.

Each round consists of a lynching period and a banning period. During each lynching period, all players have the opportunity to vote for someone who they think is a Rogue. As Rogues are not going to vote to lose their own players, they will vote pretending to be a misguided innocent. Once a majority consensus is reached, the selected player is lynched, and removed from the game.

Once the lynching period is over, the banning period begins. One Rogue, using the anonymity of a specially-created shared account, will post in the thread, announcing that one of the players is banned. The banned player has no further participation in the game, and the next round begins with another lynching period.

Lynched players have the luxury of being able to reveal their true status in a death scene - that is, if they were an innocent or a Rogue. Banned players may also post a death scene, but they may not reveal their status; however, most banned players are innocent.

Lynched and Banned players can congregate in the ROMS Dead Thread after their deaths to discuss the ongoing game and root for their team.

If at any time the number of innocent players is equal to the number of Rogues, then this is equivalent to the Rogues winning, and the game ends. If the last remaining Rogue is eliminated, then the game also ends.

Members of the winning side get to post a victory or survival scene, in which they do not die, and can round off the story how they see fit.

The games are well-known for paranoia. Sometimes, in the early rounds, lynching periods resemble a witch trial, in which a decision is made based on very little, or very insiginificant, evidence.

So far there have been six whole-numbered Rogue OM Squad rounds, two of which (IV and V) consisted of two games running in parallel, and one half-numbered game. A naming convention is in the process of evolving where half-numbered games are humorous, offbeat, or experimental, while whole-numbered games are more serious and straightforward in nature. ROMS6.5 will begin soon, and VII is being planned, with a current estimated start date of August 1st, 2008 (subject to change).

The Rogue OM Squad
		Forum thread	YPPedia page
Game 1:	Attack of the Rogue OM Squad	.
Game 2:	Return of the Rogue OM Squad	.
Game 3:	Rogue OM Squad III	.
Game 4:	Rogue OM Squad IV Coconut	.
	Rogue OM Squad IV Lime	.
Game 5:	Rogue OM Squad V Vanilla	.
	Rogue OM Squad V Wild Mango	.
Game 5.5:	Rogue OM Squad V.V	.
Game 6:	Rogue OM Squad VI	.
Game 6.5:	Rogue OM Squad 6.5: Wild Humor	.
Game 6.875:	Rogue OM Squad 6.875: Pussycat	.
Game 7:	Rogue OM Squad VII: [Redacted]	[{ .]
Ongoing	Rogue OM Squad Live!	[{ .]