Board Games Feature: Avalon | The Odyssey Online
Start writing a post

Board Games Feature: Avalon

For the second of the Board Games Feature series, we present Avalon!

23
Board Games Feature: Avalon

This one is really fun if you're a fan of TOS or werewolf. You are a town trying to successfully go on quests, but there are bad guys and deceit ready to stop you. You have to figure out who the bad guys are and successfully complete 3 quests, or else the bad guys win.

How to play:
The game starts by picking the number of bad guys based on the number of players. Each game will consist of x amount of bad guys, good guys, and Merlin. Once you play enough of the game and get the hang of it, there are other characters and game changes that can be implemented, but I'll just talk about the base game for now.
The cards are then dealt out to each person anonymously, and the game begins with everyone having their heads down/eyes closed. Some, usually someone who has played the game enough to memorize the speech, starts by having all the bad guys open their eyes and see each other, then close their eyes. The bad guys then put up a thumb, and Merlin opens their eyes. Merlin is a good guy who knows who the bad guys are, but if the bad guys figure out who Merlin is, the bad guys win. Merlin closes their eyes, and everyone awakens.

The active player, whoever your group decides goes first, will have the crown and then assign people to go on a quest. You get 5 chances to do 3 successful quests, but the number of people who have to go on each quest increases each time. Once the quest takers have been chosen, everyone gets to vote on whether they are ok with that group going or are they against it. If majority vote ok, the quest happens. If they vote not ok, the crown gets passed to the next person and they choose a new party.

Now, the quest. Everyone on the quest will get 2 cards, a pass and a fail. Good guys can ONLY vote for the quest to be successful, but bad guys can either vote to succeed or fail. All votes are anonymous. All successes, the quest passes, but just one fail and the quest fails. The game continues until either team has 3 successes/failures. At the end, the bad guys will guess who Merlin is. If they get it right, the bad guys win.

Tips:
- As Merlin, try to be sneaky. If it's your turn to pick quest takers, and you still have a few quests left, take a bad guy with you. It will make you less suspicious.
- If you are a bad guy and chosen for the first quest, you generally want to pass it. The first quest has the least amount of people, and it will be easier for people to figure out who you are and not take you on more quests.
- Suspect everyone. Especially with more characters added, things start to get confusing and even the bad guys don't know one of their own team mates.

Overall:
This is a really fun game, especially when you gave a large size group of people (the game can support up to 10 players). It's fun to suspect everyone, and throw everyone else off. It opens the books to roleplaying, being deceitful, and all around just having fun. This game can be played many times, as no 2 games are ever the same. The rounds can be fairly short, so it's easy for people to jump in or out of a game. All in all, please play this at your next party.


Report this Content
This article has not been reviewed by Odyssey HQ and solely reflects the ideas and opinions of the creator.
student sleep
Huffington Post

I think the hardest thing about going away to college is figuring out how to become an adult. Leaving a household where your parents took care of literally everything (thanks, Mom!) and suddenly becoming your own boss is overwhelming. I feel like I'm doing a pretty good job of being a grown-up, but once in awhile I do something that really makes me feel like I'm #adulting. Twenty-somethings know what I'm talking about.

Keep Reading...Show less
school
blogspot

I went to a small high school, like 120-people-in-my-graduating-class small. It definitely had some good and some bad, and if you also went to a small high school, I’m sure you’ll relate to the things that I went through.

1. If something happens, everyone knows about it

Who hooked up with whom at the party? Yeah, heard about that an hour after it happened. You failed a test? Sorry, saw on Twitter last period. Facebook fight or, God forbid, real fight? It was on half the class’ Snapchat story half an hour ago. No matter what you do, someone will know about it.

Keep Reading...Show less
Chandler Bing

I'm assuming that we've all heard of the hit 90's TV series, Friends, right? Who hasn't? Admittedly, I had pretty low expectations when I first started binge watching the show on Netflix, but I quickly became addicted.

Without a doubt, Chandler Bing is the most relatable character, and there isn't an episode where I don't find myself thinking, Yup, Iam definitely the Chandler of my friend group.

Keep Reading...Show less
eye roll

Working with the public can be a job, in and of itself. Some people are just plain rude for no reason. But regardless of how your day is going, always having to be in the best of moods, or at least act like it... right?

1. When a customer wants to return a product, hands you the receipt, where is printed "ALL SALES ARE FINAL" in all caps.

2. Just because you might be having a bad day, and you're in a crappy mood, doesn't make it okay for you to yell at me or be rude to me. I'm a person with feelings, just like you.

3. People refusing to be put on hold when a customer is standing right in front of you. Oh, how I wish I could just hang up on you!

Keep Reading...Show less
blair waldorf
Hercampus.com

RBF, or resting b*tch face, is a serious condition that many people suffer from worldwide. Suffers are often bombarded with daily questions such as "Are you OK?" and "Why are you so mad?" If you have RBF, you've probably had numerous people tell you to "just smile!"

While this question trend can get annoying, there are a couple of pros to having RBF.

Keep Reading...Show less

Subscribe to Our Newsletter

Facebook Comments