r/SecretHitler

In the opening section where the Fascists are being told who’s Hitler, is a Liberal permitted by the rules to indicate they are Hitler to throw off the Fascists?

Anyone want to play a no-host async ORG with me?

I've been building a thing called Pecking Order. It's a phone app that runs the game itself. You vote in the app, phases advance on their own, push goes out when stuff happens. No host wrangling Discord channels, no spreadsheet for votes. You join with a magic link.

Cohorts are 6–20 people, a game runs about 5–10 days. Smaller shape than what you're used to. Single cohort, no tribes, no idols or advantages. Same itch though.

It's in playtest, so it's free, and stuff breaks sometimes. I'm around to fix it when it does.

Here's a FAQ and the signup form.

I want to fill a cohort with ORG vets specifically, so people show up already knowing what an alliance is and how to read a vote.

If you're in: There's a source field on signup, put "ORG vet" in there and I'll group you with the rest.

Happy to answer any questions and grateful for any feedback.

— Manu

Hi. I play this game in a group of six and occasionally eight, and we like it, but we have a stranger problem.

No matter how much effort I put into shuffling fairly, and even letting players draw their own envelopes, some of our players are repeatedly Hitler and fascist to the point where they refuse to play. One person has been Hitler three times in a row on the same night, followed by a fascist, while another person has played with us probably north of ten games and never been Hitler, and been fascist only once.

The always-Hitler player has told me they will no longer play unless I let them opt out of being Hitler (they don't mind it occasionally, but they find it stressful being Hitler repeatedly). To me, straight letting somebody opt out of being Hitler breaks the game, so I negotiated them down to a maximum of one Hitler per night.

To enable them to play, I am thinking of adding a homebrew rule where anyone who has been Hitler at least once during the play session, or a fascist at least twice during the session, can, but is not required to, cancel the round as long as they do it anytime before the first law goes down.

Has anyone faced this problem before? Does anyone have a better homebrew rule to let players opt out of being Hitler more than once a session without breaking the game itself?