Serpents puts a fresh spin on classic secret-identity games like Mafia and Werewolf. Play using our rules out of the box, or throw them out and use your own. Our team has taken measures to ensure this deck is flexible enough to play a range of unique hidden-identity games — known or as yet unwritten — and allows you to cater any existing version to your liking. Mix and match your favorite roles and start lying to your closest friends and family. One player will serve as The Fortune Teller. Remaining players will either be Innocents, striving collectively for survival using logic and deduction, or Serpents, fork-tongued deceivers, eliminating travelers from the game using pretense and lies. Only the Fortune Teller knows the true identity of each player. He alone will attend the players on their journey, acting as both moderator and story-teller.
The Innocents’ team may include any of the seven provided special-ability cards, as well as a number of Rat cards. More experienced players might take a liking to the unique ability we have given the rats. The ability allows the rats find other rats during the night time phase bettering their chances of surviving against the vicious serpents. Additionally Seven additional pre-made “blank” cards, with their own individual designs, are included with Serpents, ensuring any alternative roles can easily be worked into your game.
Each game begins with The First Night phase and cycles through subsequent Day and Night phases until one team is victorious. Will the Innocents weed out the Serpents and survive or will they turn their blades on each other?
Unique hand-illustrated designs on tarot sized cards will allow play with 6-17 players. Deceive your enemies and survive the night.
Vector Arcade is a three-man team based in Riverside, CA. SERPENTS is their table-top game debut. A vegan, a schizophrenic, and a football fan, they bring a lot to the table… top.
