these are the best rules I could find, but there are MANY variations on the game.

A bit of a read the first time, but don't be put off. It all becomes much clearer as the game begins.

Werewolf Rules

Werewolf is a game that takes place in a small village which is haunted by werewolves. Each player is secretly assigned a role – Werewolf or Villager. There are three special villagers – Tinker, Traitor or Seer. There is also a Moderator player who controls the flow of the game. The game alternates between night and day phases. At night, the Werewolves secretly choose a Villager to kill. Also, the Seer (if still alive) asks the moderator whether another player is a werewolf or not. During the day, the Villager who was killed by the werewolf is revealed and is out of the game. The remaining Villagers then vote on the player they suspect is a werewolf. That player is lynched and is out of the game. Werewolves win when there are an equal number of good players and evil players. Villagers win when they have killed the wolf.

Gameplay:
At the start of the game, all players are randomly given a role to play. The game starts during at “Dawn” with the seer asking the moderator if a player is good or evil. The seer DOES NOT reveal this directly to the rest of the villagers. The seer can then PM the moderator with a message about anything pertaining to the game. The moderator will post this message. Whoever is the wolf can also PM the moderator with a message which the moderator will then post. Villagers will have to decide which message is more genuine. The villagers then vote on who to lynch (hoping to lynch an evil player). Whoever recieves the highest number of votes is lynched and is eliminated from the game. This conclude the “daytime” portion of the game.

When “nighttime” is declared, the wolf will e-mail the moderator who he will kill during the night. The moderator will then post the wolf's choice, and that player is eliminated from the game. This concludes the “nighttime” portion, and the “daytime” portion is repeated.

Players are free to post their ideas regarding who has what role. Players ARE NOT permitted to PM each other about the game.

Evil Characters:
Werewolf – This person select one player to kill during the nighttime portion of the game. The wolf's only goal is to survive until there are equal numbers of good and evil players. This can be accomplished by posting misleading information about other players and through sending one PM during the “daytime” with misleading information to the moderator for him to post. Sending a PM to the moderator is optional. The wolf does not know any other players' roles.

Traitor – This person knows who the werewolf is at the start of the game. His goal is to keep the wolf alive so that the evil characters will win. This is accomplished by posting misleading information about other players and even going so far as to sacrifice himself.

Good Characters:
Seer – The seer is the only character that can truthfully discover if the other players are good or evil. He does this at the beginning of each day. After his discovery, he has the option of sending one PM to the moderator with information for the moderator to post. This is done so that the wolf has a harder time discovering the seer and also so that the evil roles are not immediately outed.

Tinker – Though the player assigned as the tinker is a good character, the seer will “see” him as an evil character. The tinker does not know beforehand that he is the tinker. The tinker will have to try and convince the other villager that he is actually a good character if the seer tries to out him via a PM to the moderator

Villagers – The only thing regular villagers can do is vote on who will be lynched at the end of the day.

Optional Roles:
(These roles may or may not be included at the discretion of the moderator)

Guardian – The Guardian is a good character. Each night, the Guardian may choose one player to “save”. If the wolf chooses to kill a player who has been saved then the kill is unsuccessful and the wolf does not achieve a kill that night (the wolf is held up battling the guardian).
However, the Guardian may only choose each player once throughout the whole game. If a player has already been chosen by the Guardian previously, they cannot be chosen again.
During the day the Guardian partakes in play just as a regular villager would.

Martyr

The Martyr is a regular villager with one exception. If they are selected as a kill by the wolf, the the alpha wolf will be killed with them. In this way their job is to get themselves killed by the wolf. However they may not make false claims about their role to do this (i.e I'm the seer!).

If the Martyr is killed by the villagers, nothing special happens.

Special Notes:
Each day someone will die, and each night someone will die.

The wolf may unintentionally kill the traitor.

Villagers may unintentionally kill the seer.

The seer may implicate the tinker which might lead to that player's death.

Depending on the number of players, the moderator will increase or decrease the number of roles (werewolves, seers, etc.). At the start of the game, a list of how many of each role is in the game will be posted.

Players are strictly forbidden to PM each other with information pertaining to the game. Please do not spoil the game for others.

Only the traitor begins the game with knowledge of another player's role.

Messages that the moderator posts to the board may be from either the seer or the wolf. The players will have to decide.

The moderator will post messages from the seer and wolf as soon as he checks them. There is a deadline of one hour before nightfall for these PMs

Players may post their roles, but they may not be telling the truth.

The wolf, traitor, and seer should try and keep their role a secret for as long as possible. Villagers should try to lynch the wold and traitor immediately once found out, and the wolf should try to lynch the seer once found out.

Each day sequence of the game will last approximately 12 hours, and the game will be paused over weekends. A time will be posted as to when the “day” will end and all votes must be submitted. The night sequence of the game will last until the moderator recieves information from the wolf about who he killed during the night.

im definitely down.  one problem is I have never run a game and have not played in so long im not sure I even remember all the rules.  lol

Anyone with some experience interesting in running?

Sadly we need more people…I think a lot of people have no idea what it is and therefore dont realize how awesome it is 🙂

yeah, we did not get enough people and it kind of died…seem to be getting a bit more interest tho!