Cardsagainsthumanity
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[edit] How to play
Cards Against Humanity - 'A party game for horrible people' is a dedicated deck card game. There are two types of cards, white answer cards and black question cards. Each player has a hand of ten white cards. The bot will play a question card and every player except for one, the 'Card Czar' will answer the question card by playing an answer card. Once all cards are played, the bot will list all the white cards played and the Card Czar will pick their favourite. Whoever played that one gets one Awesome Point. The position of Card Czar shifts to the next person in the bot set order and a new round begins.
The bot sends you your cards via CTCP notify. This may appear to you in a private query, in the server connection window, in channel or some combination depending on your client settings.
[edit] Channel rules
No canvassing - #xkcd channel rules say no advertising outside channels. Coming in regularly and asking for additional game players counts as advertising. Don't do it. You may ask for additional players in channels where the rules do not prohibit it, but please, only ask once. That means co-ordinating, and having only one person from the channel asking once.
Kick up, not down - Cards against humanity takes the ugly things in society and life and lets us poke fun at them. If you're mocking someone oppressed by society and not the oppressor you are doing this game wrong, at least for this channel. This channel has feminists and racial minorities and LGBTQ players and ops. Keep that in mind particulatly in your intereactions with other players. Not everyone will agree about what is funny, but if someone criticises your sense of humor don't accuse them of being uptight, not getting it, or being hysterical. We're here for the funny kind of offensive, not because the internet needed another collection of arseholes.
Don't assume gender, use preferred pronouns - Use they/them as default pronouns until you know what pronouns your fellow players prefer.
Don't harass the botops - We're turning over a fair amount of the code and sometimes that means bugs. Report it once to ladymondegreen *in PM*, that's enough. Assume any bug report in channel will be lost if the person is not actively in the channel. I am not going to go through hours of games in my backlog to see if the highlights are actually important. Not gonna happen.
[edit] Variants
- packingheat - Draw an extra card before Play-2 rounds. Standard rules have players draw two extra cards before Play-3 rounds, but not extra cards before Play-2 rounds. Packing heat addresses this. On by default.
- Rando - Adds a bot player that plays the top cards(s) in the deck. Player accumulates points, but cannot win the game. Three players are still the minimum required for a game. On by default.
- playercards - Adds the name of each player in the game as a white card. On by default.
- wikifeature - The titles of the past week's featured articles on Wikipedia are white cards. Off by default.
[edit] Commands
To communicate with the bot via PM, drop the !. Playing/picking cards via PM is preferable, especially in large games.
- !start - Used both to start a new game and to start gameplay of that game. A minimum of 3 players are required to start gameplay. Players may continue to join the game once play has started.
- !join - Used to join or re-join a game. If you !quit a game and rejoin, you will retain all your awesome points as well as the cards that were in your hand when you left.
- !quit - NECESSARY to leave the game. Parting or quitting the channel or timing out will NOT kick you. You may rejoin a game after leaving it at any time.
- !hand - To show your hand of cards.
- !play <number> - Play a card.
- !play <number> <number> - Some question cards require two or even three cards to be played as an answer.
- !pick <number> - Used by the Card Czar to pick their favourite answer.
- !gamble <number> - You may gamble an Awesome Point in order to play an additional answer. Whoever wins that hand wins that point. You may gamble as many points as you have. The !gamble command must be used 'after' the !play command and before the played cards have been shown to the channel. Be aware that when you play a card the cards in your hand get renumbered. If you !play 5, the sixth card in your hand will now become the fifth. The bot will show you your renumbered hand any time you play a card, make sure to look at it and use the updated numbers.
- !status - Gives the current game status including point totals and if applicable, the current black question card.
- !prompt - Reminds the players who need to play or pick a card.
- !help - Help command. Spits out all commands available to players and botops.
- !rules - Gives shortened version of the rules of gameplay.
- !variant - view variants and their current status
[edit] OP only
Note: Bot-ops do not necessarily correspond to channel ops
- ^auth username password - log-in
- ^start ContraHumanity - run the game plugin
- !variant toggle [type] - toggles from off to on and vice-versa (must be done before a game)
- !blacklist {[exact card text here]} - adds a card to the blacklist (must be done before a game)
- !reloadcards - reloads the card deck
- !del [username] - removes someone from the game
- !end - ends the game
