Do not say a word game

Components

• Card holder
• 100 game cards
• timer
• score pad
• pencil
• Rulebook

Object of the Game

The first team to get 100 or more points wins.

Setup

Divide into two teams determined by age, with older players on one team and younger players on the other team.

Decide whether you will play Easy, Medium or Difficult levels. The difficulty levels are determined by how many words you are NOT allowed to say as you try to get your team to guess the main word.

Younger players may choose Easy (can’t say two words) while the older members may choose Medium (can’t say three words) or Difficult (can’t say four words). (see illustrations).

Shuffle all the cards together and place them in the top of the holder. The younger team starts the game and gets possession of the card holder.

Game Play

One player on the starting team moves the cover down to their difficulty level: 1, 2 or 3. This team member shows the main word and the forbidden words to the opposing team and presses the buzzer to start the turn.

If the player is able to get his/her team to guess the main word and there’s still time left, they pull out the guessed card and start playing using the new main word and forbidden words on the second card. Game play continues in this way until the buzzer sounds.

Forbidden Words

If the player mentions any of the forbidden words, a member of the opposing team presses the buzzer-BOING! The card is removed from the holder and the points noted on the card will later be subtracted from the team’s score.

Meanwhile, the timer and the game continue with the player using the card just revealed.

End of a Turn

After 60 seconds the buzzer will give one final long beep. At that time, the team’s turn ends and their score is calculated as follows: Yellow card = 1 point

• Blue card = 2 points
• Green card = 3 points
• Red card = 4 points

Deduct any points, using the same color guide, for cards you were not successful with.

The next team takes their turn and the game continues as above.

End of the Game

The first team to reach or pass 100 points wins.

Continue Reading

This is my first post here in RPGhorrorstories though I have read a lot of the posts here, and never really thought I would be making one of these. I’m not entirely sure if this is a ‘true’ horror story but it’s upset me nonetheless.

Every Sunday morning I play a game of Vampire the Masquerade. I was invited to join the game by my friend whom is the storyteller, joining at the same time as another friend of mine does. Anyone else in the game? I don’t know them, though I get to know them over the course of the games.

One of the players when I first join is playing a brujah. During one of these early sessions, the player gets drunk and proceeds to make some very off colour jokes, especially one that makes fun of date r*pe. I call him out on it, disgusted at the joke. Few sessions later, brujah character is killed and the guy goes AWOL for a while, the storyteller telling us he is dealing with some computer issues. I’m a little suspicious especially considering the timing but I look past it.

About a month or so later, the player rejoins the group with a new character. He’s with us for longer this time now, and his character has a good deal of impact on the story and the other members of our group. We’ve got a good dynamic going. It’s a lot of fun!

Then, cut to today. We’re having a good session and the guy starts talking about his cats and sharing photos. He shows a photo of his cat and refers to it as the “r*tarded one” of his cats. As my friend and the storyteller know, I’m autistic and don’t tolerate people saying that word because it makes me incredibly uncomfortable and upset.

I politely ask him if we could not use the r slur, verbatim. That was all I said. The player then disconnects from the call and I don’t notice this straight away, I’m a little distracted by talking to my parents. The storyteller’s mood changes while attempting a scene with another player, so much so he declines doing the heavy scene because he doesn’t feel good emotionally. This confuses me a little and we continue on in game, going about having a good session and a good time! Then the storyteller drops that the player’s character has called a meeting and when we get there: he’s dead. Session ends and we’re all incredibly confused.

Storyteller tells us the player is going to be leaving the game due to some personal issues. We’re all very confused and sort of concerned as it was incredibly sudden and out of nowhere. The storyteller ends up insinuating he left because he didn’t want to upset the group so I say “Is this because I asked him not to say the r slur?”

The storyteller tells me yes, it is. This player is concerned about continuing to mess up and that he doesn’t want to upset the group. Not once did I ever say I was upset about it, I actually was incredibly polite as far as I know? All that had to be done was a simple “Yeah sorry!” And that would be it. I would have been more content to let it go and continue on. And yet, this player decided to up and leave the whole game because I asked him not to say a slur.

I don’t know if this is exactly a horror story but it’s left me dumbfounded and confused and a little angry.