Mafia Roles

[Amb]

The word I used was Useless and/or Lowly.

[Mgm]

Pawns are far less shitty than you make them out to be.
I'm disappointed, I didn't get a role.

[Antrax]

[Amb]

I picked names at random, and for the most part tried not to pick active players in case people read stuff into it. A few roles I could resist assigning to because of obvious history. What gets me, is that some people dont appear to have been in mafia for ages, but as soon as their name appears they post. Do they read everything

But Mgm, you can add your own role to the "Dead giveaway" set. Just post your ideas. Then you are immortalised in this thread at least until the cull...

[!Chucklez!]

[Ambicourk]

pssst Chucklez, I think Antrax knows that...

[raekuul]

Game: Boktai/Verimancer Mafia
Immortals: Mafia. May either Bokken-ify or kill one person per night.
Vee Carat: Shift+6. No affiliation. Knows who has what roles, but can only use this information to counter-claim. Cannot reveal who has what under pain of modkilling.
Bokken/Ghouls: Townies that have been touched with Galactic matter.Semi-masonic (you know who the other Bokken/Ghouls are). One night PM per night. No other special powers.
Gusts/Mummies: Cops-style investigation role. Can only post if prodded or voted. No other special powers.
Verimancers: Vigs. Can either turn a Townie into a Bokken or bump off an Immortal.
Townie: Just a generic Townie.

[Courk]

[Ctorj]

This is for Amb:

[Ctorj]

Dear ______,

You are a Word Eater! If you can get someone to say a word without saying it yourself, they will die immediately. The word must be at least 12 letters in length and have nothing to do with mafia. Pm me the word before the day begins for approval. If you violate the rule, you will be modkilled.

From a theoretical game: Word Mafia

[RubberDuck]

I found this one on Wikipedia. I thought it was pretty amusing, but not very practical.

[Ctorj]

Blocking Mafia:

12 players: 11 Role Blockers, 1 scum.

All 11 blockers can block every night. If the scum kill even once, game over.

Sounds interesting.

[ralphmerridew]

Town has a fairly trivial strategy: Everybody blocks the person after them. Last person blocks first person. The scum is guaranteed to be blocked every night. After that, they lynch randomly each day. Town has a 5/6 chance of winning.

[alphatango]

#1 blocks #2, #2 blocks #3, etc., leaving one random player unblocked. If the game's still going the next day, then just start lynching everyone else one at a time -- worst you can get to is 1 RB + 1 scum.

(If you want a win, I guess you'll have to pick two out of twelve -- still great odds for the town.)

EDIT: Beaten to it.
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[ralphmerridew]

Perhaps Ctorj meant "doctor", not "roleblocker"; that would be nontrivial.

[Ctorj]

What about 2 scum in that scenario? or 3 scum? Can someone do the odds on that? Might make the game more interesting...

[Ctorj]

[CzarJ]

Yeah... a doctor's just a roleblocker for killing roles.

[ralphmerridew]

There's a significant difference; some doctor would have to choose the person the mafia's chosen; some roleblocker would have to choose a mafia.

In the latter case, it's easy; each person is to be blocked by somebody other than himself.

In the former case, the only open night strategy that wouldn't give an immediate victory to the mafia would be a mutual protection strategy between everybody but X; even that will fail unless X is the mafia. Overall chance of winning is 2/12 for the town. (1/12 chance they lynch right day 1; 1/12 they pick the right person to leave out night 1 and lynch right day 2.)

[ralphmerridew]

Wait; I forgot something on my analysis of the original problem; roleblockers can stop other roleblockers. Any looped strategy will stop the scum when there's an even number of people and do nothing with an odd number. So pick one person randomly day one. That person is to do nothing on nights with an odd number of players; other players are to skip him in choosing targets. Town loses if he is the mafia (1/12), draws if the maf is last on their lynch list (1/12), and wins otherwise (10/12).

[Livingod]

You are Jesus CHRIST, town.

You are protected from night kills.
You have a one-shot ability to revive a dead player.
You may investigate/protect/roleblock up to two players per night.
If you are to die, the mafia will be able to kill 2 people per night.
You may not claim ANY of your roles until the ANTICHRIST is dead.
You do not know who the ANTICHRIST is, but you will be notified of his/her death if and when it occurs.
If there is a mafia/town draw and you are present, but not the ANTICHRIST, the town wins.
If you die, a scene including a crucifixion will be written.

Too strong? Too weak? (I'm thinking that this would work better in bigger games)
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[al_kohaulec]

With all of those abilities, I think immune to nightkill makes it too difficult to kill him, so unless if you can find some way around it, yes it may be too broken. Otherwise, it sounds like some of the mechanics in the game balance most of his power out. But I'd agree it sounds like he'd be better in a bigger game.
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[Sefer]

Here's one I was thinking about:
You are an interregator. Each night, you choose one player to abduct. You will then interregate that player, finding out his role name and abilities. If the player is town, you will release him for the good of the town. If the player is scum or neutral, he will escape when you leave the room to alert the authorities. Yes, you fall for that one every time.
The player you target will be told that you abducted and interregated them and be told the manner of his release. Therefore town members will know that you released them for the good of the town and may vouch for your innocence. However, scum that you have abducted will know your identity and the nature of your role. You really ought to learn to tie better knots.

[Sefer]

Oh, I missed a line in the interregator: You win with the town.

[Livingod]

So it's cop, but the target learns your role... It's good if you pick town, bad if you pick scum. Pretty balanced.

As for my CHRIST role, I'm thinking instead of nightkill immunity, scum nightkill immunity. This way, vigs and SKs can still kill him at night.
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[Narninian]

So he's invicible if anybody can confirm him as innocent. Still a very powerful role and you'd need to keep that in mind with the rest of the game balance.

[Livingod]

IF you can confirm him as innocent... He can't roleclaim Christ, so whatever he claims, he will be lying, thus cannot be confirmed. (And after the AC is dead, how many will believe a player to be their lord and savior? )
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[raekuul]

[Livingod]

Or how about, he can't be investigated cuz his dad won't let it happen?
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[IH]

dear _____ you are an

Asshole

you are a SK, and because of your annoying actions, no night actions will work upon you, but you will be lynched easier. You will recquire just half (or one more, such as if 7 votes are recquired, you would need 4 to be lynched.) for a recquired lynch in the first three days.
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[Poisonium]

I love such threads! Anyway, here's one of my simple creations:

Dear player, you are an annoying neighbor. You look around people houses at night, and if you find anyone sneaking up to there, you'll kick 'em out.

Or rather: You target one player at night, and of the other players who target that player, you'll randomly roleblock one of them. I guess this is much more powerful as mafia rather than as town.

[Ctorj]

Dear _____

You are Ctorj
You will be very active in the game then leave for 1/2 year or so then come back and expect praise and cheers upon your triumphant return. You will not get any of these things. You will be auto-lynched. In return, rinse and repeat what you did before.

No one likes you.....Enjoy your role!

[CzarJ]

*offers praise and cheers to Ctorj*

[Amb]

* follows up with an immediate lynch *

[raekuul]

/vote Amb

Here's a few random ideas that poped into my head.

Dear _____________

You are an Archer/Hunter. Once per night, you may either roleblock someone OR investigate someone.

You are the Biskmatar, Llednar Twem. Once per day, you may ask for the Mod's ruling on a role claim. This is the only time when you may quote the Mod's PMs. However, you must be the first to role claim a cop, and you must say that you are a mod-quoting cop, otherwise you are just a regular COP and may not quote the mod's PMs.

You are the Judgemaster, Cid Randell. Everyone thinks you are a vigilante. Three times maximum, you may choose a character. If they make a night action, they are nightkilled. Otherwise, nothing happens. You may not make the first vote on a person during the day.

[Beartalon]

You are a 50% Doppleganger.

On even numbered nights you are yourself, as you lack the power to dopple all the time.

On odd numbered nights, pick a player to imitate.

For ANY night action against that chosen player:
25% the action affects you and not the copied player.
25% the action affects the copied player and not you.
25% the action affects you and the copied player.
25% the action fails because the night actor is confused.

[Amb]

[H)und]

Remove the 'save investigation' bit.

[Poisonium]

Roleblocked cop:
He will think he is a regular cop, but he won't get any results at all from investigating.

Baker:
You can make nice cakes. Any informative role you target will get a "Danish pastry" result.

[MNOWAX]

lol

my favorite:

You are the Village Idiot. You can not be nightkilled (Idiots are very lucky), and you you cannot be lynched. However, You must be voting for the lynchee otherwise there will be no lynch until you are. Lastly, every other day, you knock yourself out and can not post that day except for smileys, and any day that you can not post will continue as a normal mafia day.
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