r/HiddenWerewolves • u/Chefjones he/him • Jul 07 '26
Game VII - 2026 Game VII 2026 | Build Your Own Game | Phase 1 | Organizing your planning
There’s a lot of ways to organize your game and keep track of whats going on. Usually mid-game managing is done on Google Sheets, and it can be useful for some of your pre-game planning too, its a great place to keep track of your roles and mechanics. The first thing I do when making my spreadsheet is make a To Do list sheet for tracking setup stuff, both for setting up my sheet how I want it and also for setting up everything else, from making a host account to finalizing the roles to writing the rules post.
Some other things I recommend are a planning discord (shared with your cohosts/shadows if you have them but I also have a private server that I do my basic planning in), a game design doc as an outline of mechanics and what you’re trying to do with the game, and a big doc to write your flavour in.
During the game you’ll likely end up relying on your spreadsheet and your host server. The only things your sheet really needs are a votes form and an action form, but a lot of the time people will add more to it. Sheets to keep track of those actions and votes are super useful, and I usually have a general main sheet for tracking player roles, strikes, confirms, and who’s alive, as well as any other game specific stuff (this game its how long people are delayed), and if you want to you can automate the vote/action tracking. I also use sheets for a nightly checklist for turnover and use a OOO sheet both to help work through mechanics and in role heavy games to help me manage resolving actions.
I’ll post my current sheet and design doc post-game if anyone is interested, but for now I posted the same docs for the mistborn game
Meta
- Someone must be voted out today. Submit your votes through the voting form
- Everyone who didn’t take delayed can use their actions starting this phase. Actions should be submitted through the action form
- Countdown to phase end
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u/Dangerhaz Jul 08 '26
The one interesting thing is that, looking at the Rules, Miller isn't a trait that can be chosen by a wolf. And if my interpretation of the Rules is correct, a Role seer can check whether someone has chosen Miller. or not.
If they have then they can't be a wolf - they are town. Conversely if they claim Miller and they are not, then they're probably a wolf.
u/redpoemage am I interpreting correctly? I'm making the assumption that you've read the Rules more closely than most people.