The Thing

The Thing is a hidden role game based off the 1980's movie The Thing. This game was made by Matt Yancey, Luke Cunningham and Morgan Lehmkuhl.

Setup

• Game plays similarly to Avalon (Hidden role game)

• One person is the Alien while other 4 are the survivors:

• MacReady    (Survivor)

• Childs           (Survivor)

• Blair              (Survivor)

• Nauls            (Survivor)

• The Thing     (Alien)

• Roles are chosen at the start of the game by drawing random “role card” decks

Basics

• One person is the Alien while the other 4 are the survivors.

• Game takes place over 10 turns

• Work to complete 5 quests to get out of the antarctic base alive before time runs out.

• Highest die roll gets the weapon first.

• The weapon card is passed clockwise between players each turn.

• The player with the weapon that round cannot be killed during the voting phase.

• Each player secretly decides whether to succeed in the mission or sabotage it.

• If a quest fails, one player is “killed” by the person with the weapon.

• Use the weapon to try to kill the alien without mistaking them for your friends.

• The player with the weapon gets final say on the “killing”

• If Alien gets out of base with everyone the Alien wins, that makes it so “human” players have to play fail cards sometimes

• At end of game, if the survivor has the weapon, the survivors win. If the alien has the weapon, the alien wins