Conspire

Conspire Design - Content Safety

Conspire is a game designed with comedy in mind. We want our players to laugh and have fun. The game includes a section of content safety, the safeguards against stuff that makes people uncomfortable. We want to educate hosts on what works best with Conspire instead of hoping they find their own mechanisms.

Because these guidelines exist to help community, we want to share our current draft with our CPG friends. Below is the text from Conspire's Content Safety section. If there's anything missing, poorly worded, or straight-up wrong, we need to know.

Conspire Design - Humor

Is Conspire a comedy game? This question sparked a long, post-game discussion at OrcaCon. We had just finished a ten-player session about using giant robots to fend off sentient space whales who wanted to terraform and colonize the human-controlled Mars. Between space walls, militant ghosts, a space whale supreme ruler, and a general plan to stuff the whales in a water asteroid, yeah… it was a silly game. It was also a bizarre parody of the 2016 US Presidential Election that allowed for catharsis and a better outcome (particularly if you are a space whale sympathizer). Conspire can be an utter giggle-fest, but does it have to be? Can you use it to play a straight-faced, political deduction game?