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Post Post #900 (ISO) » Mon Apr 16, 2012 10:14 am

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Soooo it's a pro-town role with a particularly anti-town power?
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Post Post #901 (ISO) » Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:26 pm

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In post 899, mcqueen wrote:
Coast GuardYou are a
Coast Guard
. Your goal as part of the Town is to eliminate all of the Mafia.

  • During the night, you may swim out into sea, and guard the waters. Any inspections, investigations, watches, or tracks will fail for that night.
  • You may only coast guard 3 times over the course of the game.


Why would anyone ever use this?
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Post Post #902 (ISO) » Mon Apr 16, 2012 1:00 pm

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3-shot hider. Next.
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Post Post #903 (ISO) » Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:53 pm

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If I understand correctly, it roleblocks all investigative roles. Only useful as scum - and belongs in the other thread.
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Post Post #904 (ISO) » Tue Apr 17, 2012 3:20 am

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In post 903, izakthegoomba wrote:Only useful as scum - and belongs in the other thread.

I would use it as town if the only dead pr was a cop.
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Post Post #905 (ISO) » Tue Apr 17, 2012 3:22 am

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I would use it as town in a game where all of the investigative roles were scum-sided.

Soooooo it belongs in the other thread.
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Post Post #906 (ISO) » Tue Apr 17, 2012 3:23 am

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In post 902, Ythan wrote:3-shot hider. Next.

3-shot commuter, you mean.
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Post Post #907 (ISO) » Tue Apr 17, 2012 3:25 am

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Neither? It says nothing about stopping kills. It also says nothing about those roles targeting
you
, just that they'll fail. So yeah it's an investigative role stopper...which is silly for town to use.
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Post Post #908 (ISO) » Tue Apr 17, 2012 4:50 am

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In post 906, Kublai Khan wrote:
In post 902, Ythan wrote:3-shot hider. Next.

3-shot commuter, you mean.

Named Townie, you mean.
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Post Post #909 (ISO) » Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:11 am

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>Named townie in a closed setup

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Post Post #910 (ISO) » Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:23 pm

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In post 901, Amrun wrote:
In post 899, mcqueen wrote:
Coast GuardYou are a
Coast Guard
. Your goal as part of the Town is to eliminate all of the Mafia.

  • During the night, you may swim out into sea, and guard the waters. Any inspections, investigations, watches, or tracks will fail for that night.
  • You may only coast guard 3 times over the course of the game.


Why would anyone ever use this?


Um. I guess if there's a mafia cop alive and no town cops still alive, it'd be useful, if you knew that. I donno, maybe some kind of open setup?
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Post Post #911 (ISO) » Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:12 pm

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Mafia Contractor - You are an emotionless tool for the syndicate. You deal with anyone who gets in their way, they pay you and keep your identity a secret. Although you are a remorseless killing machine, lately you have been hesitant in your actions, you don't know why, but you do know you want to cut ties with the syndicate and start a new life. They will kill you if you try to leave them, they can't have any loose ends running around now can they? Fortunately you make a lot of money, unfortunately the plastic surgery and shades will take all of your cash. You need to complete this contract so you can escape the syndicate's reach.

You do not know the Mafia and vica versa. You have the mafia's night kill. During the day the mafia will decide the target they want you to kill, however you can kill whoever you want. If you die mafia's night kill is passed on to a surviving member. Try to figure out who mafia is, it's probably not the people their asking you to kill! You win with Mafia.
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Post Post #912 (ISO) » Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:41 pm

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That is a weird role. Maybe it should have the survivor win condition instead?
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Post Post #913 (ISO) » Thu Apr 19, 2012 1:36 pm

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In post 912, Seacore wrote:That is a weird role. Maybe it should have the survivor win condition instead?


With a survivor wincon, the right move would be to claim D1 and then choose not to kill, thus denying the mafia their factional kill while the town cleans house. It has to be aligned with the mafia in order to work.
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Post Post #914 (ISO) » Thu Apr 19, 2012 2:38 pm

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Retweak it so that that the role can only redirect the mafia kill instead of making it.

I just think that the player should never ever disagree with the mafia, which effectively makes them a traitor, which is interesting but not new.

It also doesn't quite match the extensive flavour that goes along with the role.
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Post Post #915 (ISO) » Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:37 am

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I got a role for a poke mafia themed game.

I'd rather not post it though because that would ruin the game if I decide to run it XD

Anyone mind takin a look at it through PM?
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Post Post #916 (ISO) » Sat Apr 21, 2012 8:49 pm

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In post 358, Oman wrote:I like it, it reminds me of a CPR doctor, but like a CPR gunsmith. I'd like to see something like that.


You are the
Overly aggressive, action-movie-type cop.
Each night you may tie someone up and interrogate them. If they are guilty they will confess to you, however, if innocent, you will refuse to believe their cries of innocence and continue the interrogation. This will kill any innocent members.
variant
: This will permanently roleblock the innocent member after you confiscate their equipment.
Variant
: They will be unable to vote for the next day as their injured fingers recover from your violent methods.


I really like the final version, give the cop choices a new twist, like CPR doc did.


Yeah this is awesome. I wonder what variant is best, I'm thinking the smashed fingers.
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Post Post #917 (ISO) » Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:20 am

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You are a
Stealth Governor
. As long as you are alive, no number of votes is sufficient to lynch a player other than you unless you are voting for that player. You win with the town.

Governor modified to avoid the need for extended twilights, while staying true to the original role; it should play the same way apart from that, except that the governor is probably going to have to claim if they want to stop a lynch. This variant doesn't work as scum, for obvious reasons.
scum
· scam · seam · team · term · tern · torn ·
town
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Post Post #918 (ISO) » Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:40 am

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Ha. Cobalt's Law right there.

Vi and myself would probably like that role. >.>
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Post Post #919 (ISO) » Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:54 am

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What is Cobalt's Law? I can't find it on the wiki.

EDIT: Oh right, an achievement, "be on every lynch and L-1 wagon in a game, except against yourself".
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Post Post #920 (ISO) » Thu Apr 26, 2012 9:18 am

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That is it's own special kind of horrible.
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Post Post #921 (ISO) » Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:44 am

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In post 920, izakthegoomba wrote:That is it's own special kind of horrible.
...if by horrible you mean
perfectly legitimate and awesome way of playing
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Post Post #922 (ISO) » Thu Apr 26, 2012 11:04 am

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In post 921, Vi wrote:
In post 920, izakthegoomba wrote:That is it's own special kind of horrible.
...if by horrible you mean
perfectly legitimate and awesome way of playing
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Glad to see you like it too. :mrgreen:
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Post Post #923 (ISO) » Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:38 pm

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In post 921, Vi wrote:
In post 920, izakthegoomba wrote:That is it's own special kind of horrible.
...if by horrible you mean
perfectly legitimate and awesome way of playing
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Post Post #924 (ISO) » Fri May 04, 2012 4:03 pm

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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.
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