Grand Idea Mafia

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Toad (from Mario)

You are a survivor.

You must talk in all caps.

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Gun Thief

All other people with vig abilities lose them. You get an X-shot night Vig ability, where X is the number of people you made lose their vig abilities.
(You steal vigs from dayvigs, but you are a night vig)

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Mafia Pagetop Checker

You know which people have a role that was the pagetop of the page that it was on. You don’t know the page, though.

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Student

You start the game as a factionless survivor. At the end of D1, you have to choose one person. You join that person's faction and become a backup version of their role, meaning you get their role when they die. If they die N1, you still get their role.

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Student

You start the game as a factionless survivor. At the end of D1, you have to choose one person. You join that person's faction and become a backup version of their role, meaning you get their role when they die. If they die N1, you still get their role.

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Student

You start the game as a factionless survivor. At the end of D1, you have to choose one person. You join that person's faction and become a backup version of their role, meaning you get their role when they die. If they die N1, you still get their role.

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Insane Town Paranoid Recruiter

If someone targets you at night, they join the mafia. The player thinks that they are a regular paranoid town recruiter.

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Town Paranoid Recruiter

If someone targets you, they join the town.

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Mafia Cop Checker

You know if there's a cop or not.

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Informed Townie

You know what players have a role that is in the wiki (ignoring modifiers).

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Town Healvoter

You vote with heal tags.

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Mafia Healvoter

You vote with heal tags.

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Informed Townie

You know what players had a quote in the post that their role came from.

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Informed Goon

You know what players are mafia.

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Sane Cop

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cop

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mafia cop
you can tell if a person is guilty or innocent

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Town Day 1 and Night 1 Skipper

Day 1 and Night 1 are skipped. The game begins on day 2 or night 2, depending on if the game would have began on day 1 or night 1.

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Mafia Day 1 and Night 1 Skipper

Day 1 and Night 1 are skipped. The game begins on day 2 or night 2, depending on if the game would have began on day 1 or night 1.

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Mafia Extremely Astute Investigator

You are a member of the mafia. Once per night, you can investigate someone. If you succeed, you are told if they are a member of your faction or not.

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I love your work!

If the person who gets card role has posted in the Grand Idea Mafia thread, the mod chooses a role from among their posts. Otherwise, they are a vanilla townie. They are not informed of receiving this card.

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Croupier

Town. In your role PM, you are told whose role has involved a reroll somewhere in the role assigning process.

(For instance, a post instructor a moderator to "reroll, but have the alignment be town" or "reroll three times. You choose one of the roles to be your role.")

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Town Astrologist

Each night, target a player. The next morning, that player receives a PM detailing their horoscope for the real-world day when the in-game day starts. Their zodiac is determined by the date they joined the site. The mod may use whatever source they want for the horoscope, including making up their own horoscope.

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Mafia Astrologist

Each night, target a player. The next morning, that player receives a PM detailing their horoscope for the real-world day when the in-game day starts. Their zodiac is determined by the date they joined the site. The mod may use whatever source they want for the horoscope, including making up their own horoscope.

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Mafia 1-shot Page Cop

At night, you may target a player to learn what page of the Grand Idea Thread the post detailing their role is on. You can only activate this once per game.

(If a player's role involved multiple pages of posts, then you learn of all the pages.)

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Book Club Member

Alignment up to mod discretion. You are in a PT with other Book Club Members. Each day, the game moderator assigns a book of their choice as the discussion topic in the Book Club PT. Book Club Members are not obliged to discuss the book, though not discussing the book might make the moderator sad.

Mason Feasibility Clause applies to this role - Add "Book Club Member" to another random player's role if any Book Club Member was rolled.

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Mafia Book Club Member 1-Shot Page Cop

You are a member of the mafia.

You are a book club member.

If there are no other book club members, a random other player becomes a book club member in addition to the rest of their role. You are functionally the same as a mason with a daytalk and nighttalk PT with other book club members, but also, at the beginning of each day, the mod assigns a book of their choice as the topic of discussion. You are not obligated to discuss the book, but also if you don't it might make the moderator sad.

You are a 1-shot page cop

At night, you may target a player to learn what page of the Grand Idea Thread the post detailing their role is on. You can only activate this once per game.

(If a player's role involved multiple pages of posts, then you learn of all the pages.)

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Street Evangelist

Alignment up to mod discretion. After rolls are done, the mod chooses another player to have that player's alignment be up to the mod's discretion. A mod can pick someone whose alignment was already up to their discretion.

You and the chosen player have a daytalk and nighttalk PT. You are both informed of the fact that you and the other player's alignments were up to the mod's discretion, but not what alignment the other person in the PT is.

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Town Adder

During pregame, you must choose two players other than you. Their role numbers will be added together and you will receive the role (but not alignment) corresponding to the sum.

If the sum is a post number not in the thread, the mod will divide the sum by two and round down until the sum is a post in the thread.

I'm honestly surprised no one has reposted this classic role by BBmolla yet.

"round down" provision exists as post numbers are only integers as far as I know.

example: choosing players with the roles 10738 (Town 1-shot Ability Thief) and 2413 (Mafia Werewolf-Framer) will generate a sum of 13151 (which isn't a role yet), which divides by two to 6575.5, which is rounded down to 6575 (Survivor Kill Amplifier, which means this role becomes a Town Kill Amplifier).

(I really like this role)

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Rumor Mill

Alignment up to mod discretion. When your alignment is investigated, the investigator receives something along the lines of "You didn't hear this from me, but I think your target might be scum!"

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One Who Builds Up Rage Over Time

The mod rolls another post in the Grand Idea Mafia thread. If the person who made that post hasn't posted in over a year on a forum that the game mod can access, then you are scum. Otherwise, you are town.

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X+1 Shot

You are a member of the alignment with the most players with X-shot abilities (abilities that can only be activated X amount of times). If multiple alignments are tied for the most, the mod chooses one of the alignments for you (including if every alignment is tied with X-shot abilities).

All members of your alignment with X-Shot abilities get one extra shot. They are informed of this bonus but not how or from whom they received it.

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Follow the Golden Rule!

Reroll, but you are informed that any action you take targeting another player will also target yourself. This modifier applies even if it doesn't make that much sense or would be entirely useless, and persists if your role is ever changed.

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Town 0-Shot Vigilante

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Public Braggart

Alignment up to mod discretion. You may investigate one person at night to see if their role is the vanilla for their alignment or not. If it is, the mod will make a public post announcing the fact that they are vanilla but not what alignment they are, preferably in a mocking tone.

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Vanilla Townie

Randomized Discard Janitor

(alignment up to mod discretion)

A random player (other than you) will have their public discard redacted.

Mod Note: If a public discard can't be redacted for some reason (likely because public discards aren't a mechanic in the game, e.g. you are playing standard Grand Idea), add "This ability doesn't matter in the context of this game however, so you're effectively Named..." to the ability text.

what exactly is a public discard?

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Town Doctor

what exactly is a public discard?

A public discard is a discard that everyone can see. They are relevant in Grander Idea and Grandest Idea, as those are based off of Greater Idea Mafia and Greatest Idea Mafia and are formats where role cards are discarded.

Oh okay.

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1-Shot Mutual Doctor

Alignment up to the discretion of the mod. Once per game, you can prevent the death of you and another player.

I dunno if there's an accepted name for this modifier lol

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Mutual Watcher

Alignment up to mod discretion. You may target one player each night. You learn of everybody else who targeted that player and everybody who targeted yourself. (Respectively)

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Bibliophile

You are a book club member.

Alignment up to mod discretion. If there are no other book club members, a random other player becomes a book club member in addition to the rest of their role. You are functionally the same as a mason with a daytalk and nighttalk PT with other book club members, but also, at the beginning of each day, the mod assigns a book of their choice as the topic of discussion. You are not obligated to discuss the book, but also if you don't it might make the moderator sad.

Everyone in the book club is lovers with each other. (If one of you were to die, everyone else in the book club dies too.)

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Bibliophobe

If there are no book club members, two random other players become book club members in addition to the rest of their roles. If all book club members have the same alignment, your alignment is one that opposes their alignment. Otherwise, you are a 3rd party. You do not know who is in the book club. You cannot become a member of the book club.

Each night, you may investigate someone to see if they are in the book club or not.

You win with your alignment (if you are not a 3rd party) or if at least two members of the book club are dead at the end of the game.

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Alien Illiterate Book Club Member

You cannot read any books.
If this role receives a book somehow, do not tell the player the title; they can't read that either.

You're not entirely sure how you got here.

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I'm assuming the Book Club is like a neighborhood but with books?

yeah I think so.

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Choosy Suzy

Town. Once per night you may target a player. You learn if that player made a choice. You do not learn what the choice is.

The choice must be a game action, so choosing what to eat for breakfast, for instance, doesn't count.

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Gourmet

Alignment up to mod discretion. Once per night, you can check someone to see if their role is food related. What counts as food related is up to the mod.

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Town 1-Shot Humorous Backwards Gun Inventor

Once per game, you may give someone a gun. They will be told that this gun allows them a 1-shot vigilante ability. In reality, regardless of who they choose to target, they will target themself with this ability and shoot themself. This cannot be redirected to another player.

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Mafia 1-Shot Humorous Backwards Gun Inventor

Once per game, you may give someone a gun. They will be told that this gun allows them a 1-shot vigilante ability. In reality, regardless of who they choose to target, they will target themself with this ability and shoot themself. This cannot be redirected to another player.

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Blanket Vigilante

Town aligned. Each night, you may target a player. If that player would attempt to kill one or more players that night, their kill instead fails and they die.

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Prism

Alignment up to mod discretion. Each night you may target a player. If that player takes an action that targets one player, that action is instead multiplied to target everyone except that player, their intended target, and yourself.

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Town Record Keeper

At the beginning of each day, you are informed via dm what factions are currently in the game.

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Reroll, but the alignment is up to mod discretion rather than whatever the card says

probably cool and good to have more of these in the mix

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Reroll, but change the alignment to a 3rd party survivor.

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[Insert Name Here]

Alignment up to mod discretion. Mod may also give you discretion. You get to choose your role name at the start of the game. Rolecops will receive your role name but not what your role actually is.

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Town Shy Follower

You may target a player each night to see what kind of action they performed. However, if another player targeted that player that night, your action fails. You are informed that your action failed, rather than receiving no result.

mods, use your best judgment to classify some of these actions in gim lol

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Astrologist

Alignment up to mod discretion. Each night, you may target a player. You learn what action that player took and who they targeted, if any. They receive a star token (☆) and are told that they receive this token.

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Accountant

Alignment up to mod discretion. Each night, you may target a player to learn how many modifiers their role has.

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Leader of the Discretioned

After all rolls are finished, if anyone's alignment was up to mod discretion, they are instead put into a new faction of the Discretioned. This factions wins in a similar manner to the town but is separate from the town and does not win with them. The Discretioned do not know each other's identities.

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Town n! Night Vigilante

You may choose to kill someone on any night that is a factorial of a nonnegative integer.

practically you can shoot on night 1, 2, and 6. I hope that no one's game ever goes to night 24.

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2147483647-shot Vanilla Townie

Vanilla Townie

Town Shy Watcher

You may target a player each night to see what kind of action they performed. However, if another player targeted that player that night, your action fails. You are informed that your action failed, rather than receiving no result.

mods, use your best judgment to classify some of these actions in gim lol

This role is called Follower, not Watcher.

oh true whoops

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Reroll, but days and nights are instead numbered by their square roots instead of their regular numbers

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Time Wizard

Alignment up to mod discretion. Before the start of the game and each phase, you may choose what numerical day or night it is. Game actions that previously happened don't become undone, but abilities that care about what day it is are affected.

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Town Namecop

Each night, you may target a player. You are told that player's username.

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Virus

Third-party serial killer. Not affected by mysterious energy.

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Town Gossip

You may target a player each night to learn if they are in a PT.

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Town Voltmeter

Each night you may investigate someone to see if they are capable of charging themself or another player with mysterious energy.

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Safety Inspector

Alignment up to mod discretion. Each night, you may target a player. You learn if that player can die or cause someone to die indirectly.

For instance, babysitters can cause someone to die indirectly, and the weak modifier can cause someone to die indirectly.

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The Mysterious Forces of Errata

Reroll twice. Add a small aspect of the second card to the first one. Label this added aspect as "erratum". You can choose what you consider a small aspect for each role. The player receives the first card with the aspect from the second card.

Erratum: "You" refers to the moderator here.

Spoiler: Example Role PM

In this example, 8894 was rolled first, and 4167 rolled second.

ROLE PM

You are a

Mafia 1-Shot Doctor

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Once per game, you may target a player. You will attempt to protect them from a single kill.

Erratum

: The targeted player will also be given a fruit. They will be informed that they received fruit, but not who gave it to them.

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Vanilla Townie with a Fruit Allergy

If you receive fruit from any source, you die.

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Vanilla Townie with a Fruit Allergy that Makes Them Explode

If you receive fruit from any source, you die. If you die in this manner, the one or ones who gave you the fruit that killed you, if anyone, also die.

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Mysterious Stranger

Alignment up to mod discretion. Each night, you may target one player to have them either become charged with mysterious energy or learn the effect of mysterious energy. You cannot target yourself.

Mysterious energy is mysterious, it will have a subtle effect. Mysterious energy is a lingering effect that lasts indefinitely. Mod discretion applies on mysterious energy's effect.

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Culture Shock

Alignment up to mod discretion. If this game is being played on Mafiascum.net, the game starts on Night 0. If this game is being played anywhere else, the game starts on Day 1.

Grand Idea Mafia has been played on other forums. I found a thread once on a not-Mafia forum that was like the 10th whatever of it. Pretty cool but I forgot what site it was. They had a warning that the Grand Idea Mafia thread might contain some foul language.

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Town Soup

Each night, you may target a player to have them eat you. You will be informed if you are delicious or not.

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Faction Thief

Alignment up to mod discretion. You get a 1-shot of each factional ability present at the start of the game.

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Reroll, but give this card a night restriction.

If the card has no night restriction, the mod randomly chooses between even-night or off night and gives it that. If it does, the mod inverts the night restriction. For instance, an even-night role becomes an odd-night role and a night 2 role can act/be active on every night except night 2. Give the card a night restriction even in situations where it doesn't make sense, such as on vanilla townies.

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Town Informed Insane Cop

You are a cop but your guilty and not guilty results are reversed. You are aware of this.

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Town Weak Disloyal Publishing Cop

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