Monsters and Murderhobos

A game based on Werewolf, Maffia, and The Resistance... but with monsters and tossing your friends into hot lava! Fun for the whole nest!

One fateful Monday at the Dungeon Office...

You are Monster Interns with deadlines to meet but pesky Murderhobo adventurers have disguised themselves as fellow coworkers and seek to disrupt your company's plans!

Can you deduce who is really a monster in time to get your project done or are you doomed to 'Early Retirement' inside a lava pit?

I made this game to play at Comic Con as a way to promote my Kickstarter: The Dungeon Office - Sinister Startups

Now you can play it too!

Players: 4-6

Time: 15 min

Rules

GOAL

• Win 3 out of 5 rounds

Game Start

Randomly and secretly assign each player a Character Card. Do NOT reveal them to each other.

If you are a...

MONSTER - You work for the Dungeon Office. When assigned to a TASK you MUST vote PASS

MURDERHOBO - You are an adventurer determined to thwart the Dungeon Office. You can vote PASS or FAIL. Being a Murderhobo-styled adventurer, you came into the dungeon by yourself and do NOT know who your fellow adventurers are. Trust no one...

Assign one player as the TEAM LEADER. He shuffles the tasks, assigns out one PASS and FAIL card to each player and the game begins.

GAMEPLAY

TEAM LEADER

The TEAM LEADER draws a TASK and reads it out loud before assigning the required number of players to work on the task

The TEAM LEADER cannot assign himself to the task

The table may OBJECT to the party formed. If there is a majority for (Or a tie) the party is locked into the TASK and the game moves onto VOTING

Otherwise, the party is disbanded and the TEAM LEADER position is given to the next clockwise player.

If no player can form a party to complete the task, the game ends, and the MURDERHOBOS win

VOTING

Players assigned to a task secretly vote if the task is successful by placing either a PASS or FAIL card face down on the center of the table. The TEAM LEADER shuffles the cards and reveals them

Monsters win the round if there are ONLY pass cards, otherwise MURDERHOBOS take the round.

Repeat until the game is won!

Optional Rule

Pass the Buck

• When a task fails, the TEAM LEADER must choose who they think is the MURDERHOBO. If the majority of the table agrees, then that player is thrown into a pit of lava and eliminated from the game.
• Otherwise, the TEAM LEADER is ejected instead. Ties cause the TEAM LEADER to be ejected as well.