Best Role Ideas?

[Foxace36]

Welcome, ..., you are Slaking. Your lazy ass may only post up to a maximum of 3 posts per day. Posts that contain votes do not count towards the limit of 3 posts. However, if you are targeted, the restriction will be removed for the following day and placed upon the player(s) that targeted you. You win with the town.



What do you guys think?

[TheButtonmen]

People would just include votes in all of their posts to sidestep the restriction, also that role isn't fun and it lowers activity.

What do you see the upsides to it being?

[Foxace36]

Ehhh, it's kind of like a watcher towards themself.

Also, what do you think would be a better way to variate it? t's for a poke themed game I'm making and I couldn't really think of much else for slaking.

[TheButtonmen]

Ehhh, it's kind of like a watcher towards themself.

Also, what do you think would be a better way to variate it? t's for a poke themed game I'm making and I couldn't really think of much else for slaking.

Make their actions delayed / pseudo-unblockable like a poisoner to showcase the slowness and brute power.

[Foxace36]

Alright, thanks

[Viktyr Korimir]

This is based on something in the worst role ideas thread.

You are a Vengeful Lover. You have a quicktopic with [player], who is town aligned. If you die, he/she will commit suicide. If he/she is nightkilled you will become a compulsive town vigilante, but if he/she is lynched(without you on the bandwagon), you will become a serial killer. If you were on the bandwagon you will commit suicide. You win with the town, unless you become a serial killer.


You are a Vengeful stalker. You have are in love with [player], who is town aligned. If he/she is nightkilled you will become a compulsive town vigilante, if he/she is lynched (without you on the bandwagon), you will become a serial killer. If you were on the bandwagon you will commit suicide. You win with the town, unless you become a serial killer.

These roles are by my reckoning hot-buttered awesome. Especially if both Lovers are Vengeful.

[November 11]

You are an

Insider

. Once per game during the Night, you may ask the Mod how many mafia members were on the

most recent

lynch.

Mod note- Godfathers' will be treated as Town in relation to this power. If role-blocked, or if there were no mafia on the lynch, the answer will be "no result".

[izakthegoomba]

I believe that already exists.

Edit: yeah, the Sensor

[November 11]

Oh, I see. Well the wiki says it's usually OP, but with a Godfather(and counting GF as town count) and/or a Roleblocker I think it'd be great.

[callforjudgement]

With a roleblocker it'd still be quite obvious, because it's very rare for a lynch to be entirely towndriven. (The godfather would work, though.)

[nhammen]

I was reading something a while ago about proper 1-shot vig play in games with odd numbers of players, and thought of a role:

You are a

kill container

. At first, you have a doctor ability. If you successfully protect someone, you lose the doctor ability, but gain one use of the kill that was used against the player you protected. You win with the town.

Another thought:

You are a

sequential JOAT

. You have one shot of each of the following abilities:
{insert usual JOAT abilities here}
You must use these abilities in the order listed. You win with the town.

I don't see too much point in this though.

[Cogito Ergo Sum]

The first is also known as Armed Doctor (although I haven't seen it used; Armed Doctor is definitely a more descriptive name though.)

[callforjudgement]

Thanks for putting Sequential JOAT in the thread! I suggested that as a fakeclaim to a scumbuddy during Worst Roles Mafia, now it'll be more believable in future games. (We were going to suggest it as a nerf of some other role in here, which would have been overpowered without a nerf.)

Bonus points if the first couple of sequential JOAT abilities are highly counterproductive for the person using them.

[Quilford]

Triggerhappy Bodyguard - Kills anyone who targets their target

[AGar]

Triggerhappy Bodyguard - Kills anyone who targets their target

Armed Bodyguard would be the proper name, and Havingfitz deserves the credit for this particular role idea.

[quadz08]

^^^ badassest fakeclaim EVER

[chamber]

Triggerhappy Bodyguard - Kills anyone who targets their target

Armed Bodyguard would be the proper name, and Havingfitz deserves the credit for this particular role idea.

He can take credit for the name. How a bodyguard functioned was ambiguous between behaving like this, and behaving like we currently think of body guards for a very long time.

[Quilford]

Aren't bodyguards generally armed anyway

[RichardGHP]

If they weren't they'd be called Shield.

[Quilford]

Triggerhappy Bodyguard - Kills anyone who targets their target

Armed Bodyguard would be the proper name, and Havingfitz deserves the credit for this particular role idea.

And no, he doesn't... I searched fitz's posts for 'bodyguard' because I wanted to see where he posted an idea for anything like this, and in Experimental Role Mafia where he claimed 'Armed Bodyguard', the role was quite different to what I suggested.

If either the person I protect or I myself are targeted for a kill, I die…along with the person attempting the kill. If the person I protect and/or I myself are targeted for more than one kill, only the first kill will be retaliated on. Any subsequent kills will go through, barring other protective actions that may be in play, without retribution.

1. Action only activates on kills -- as opposed to my role where the action activates on any sort of targeting action
2. User dies -- as opposed to my role where no such thing happens

My role essentially allows the user to target another player to make them a PGO for that night. Think of it that way.

[Cogito Ergo Sum]

As I know it, Quilford's suggested role is called an Elite Bodyguard.

[Quilford]

Not exactly. Once again, the user doesn't die and the player performing the action on the target dies even if the action is not a kill.

[Staeg]

Fitz's role is an Elite Bodyguard. Quilford's is new.

[AGar]

Oh, Quilford's is an awkward cross between a PGO and a bodyguard...

Triggerhappy Bodyguard - Kills anyone who targets their target

Armed Bodyguard would be the proper name, and Havingfitz deserves the credit for this particular role idea.

He can take credit for the name. How a bodyguard functioned was ambiguous between behaving like this, and behaving like we currently think of body guards for a very long time.

This I did not know, nor would I have ever in a million years thought of a bodyguard in this manner.

[Oversoul]

Elitebody guard? Been done in at least 1 Tar game.

I am somehow missed CES and Staeg's posts.