Worst role ideas?

[Yosarian2]

Infiltrated Mafia

: Four players told they are mafia, but also told one of them is an independantly winning SK (not told who). The SK cannot NK any of the mafia.

Didn't we basically have that role in Cultural Revolution mafia?

[Yosarian2]

Heheh. The tricky thing is how do stack it so that the target is confirmed, without the town doubting it? Making him a mason doesn't really do it. He'd have to have some power that there's no way scum would possess.

Or else just do it like the "innocent child" in Open Role Mafia, and have the mod just tell the town that the person is a good guy before the game starts.

The problem is he might not get online in time to hammer, even if he's honest.

I can see it working fine like this though: Once someone gets to -1, and it's not the Hammah guy, and the Hammah guy isn't already voting that person,

GAME EVENT

where the mod describes Hammah guy finishing him off by some means. Chainsaw maybe. Or sucks out all his blood like a vampire does. I wouldn't post restrict him at all then.

Eh, that proves the role, though; the point is to just give the person the role and let him go with it.

I don't really see the role being a problem here; "If you ever look at the game and notice that someone is at lynch -1, you must hammer them." Sure, a dishonest person could mess it up, but most people on mafiascum would just do it, no problem. Heck, some people play like that anyway.

[Yosarian2]

Vig with a Persecution Complex: Every night, if anyone voted for you, you must kill one of the people who voted for you during the day. If no one voted for you during the day, you may not kill anyone at night.

[Yosarian2]

Fritzer's favorate role

: You may daykill up to 3 people by saying

kill:person's name

in the thread during the day. You can only use this ability on day 1, within the first 5 pages of the game; any kills that have not been used by that point are lost.

[Yosarian2]

Of course, there's always a way around a restriction like that.






















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is

scum

[Yosarian2]

How about a maximum of one standard emote per post?

Then you just use morse code. Sure, it'll take several dozen posts to say anything...

[Yosarian2]

dammit, can we please stop the "post restriction" roles which still allow morse? all they do is frustrate. if it's meant to prevent communication, ban code. if it's just meant to frustrate, then you're a bastard.

It's hard to ban code though. I mean, let's say all a person can do is bark, then someone else is going to say "bark once for yes and twice for no." Then if the person barks once, do you modkill them?

Some kinds of post restiction can work, but generally only if it's easier and/or more fun to more-or-less follow the restiction rather then to try and get around it with a code.

[Yosarian2]

In any case, a post restriction should usually not be the type where code is useful for easier communication. A good example I saw was where a guy had to speak in rhyme with a certain poetic structure. Sure he could use code, but he'd still have to write poetry.

You mean, me?

Grrr...

Actually, it wasn't so bad. Early in the game, it was rather fun, but it was still more difficult to participate in a useful manner, and quite hard to defend myself when people decided to attack me. Still, note that a person with a post rescrtiction, even one that allows that much communication, simply will not post as much content or push the game as well as a person without a post restriction. A "fun" restriction like that isn't necessarally a bad thing. but if you've got even one post-restricted person in a game you're modding, you've got to be that much quicker about prodding/replacing lurkers in order to keep up participation.

Another post restriction I has was one where I always had to agree with two people but disagree with two other people (and as it turned out, the people I had to disagree with were town and the people I had to agree with were scum). I did ok with that one, I think, I actually managed to help the town win dispite the restriction, but the vaugeness of it really got to me and made it quite difficult for me to post much at all. It was an interesting challange to overcome, and I had some fun doing it, but it basically forced me to be a semi-lurker for most of that game.

[Yosarian2]

It was in an AA/BB rhyming scheme, and there were a "reccomended" number of sylables per line. And everyone thought I was faking a post restriction and lynched me. Making random posts in verse was kind of fun, but actually trying to defend myself against repeated attacks in verse was a nightmare.

[Yosarian2]

Well, this was about the best I could do, when trying to defend myself in verse.
(From Post Restriction MEGA, viewtopic.php?t=3414&postdays=0&postorder=asc&&start=0)

Voting for me just because I'm vanillia makes no sense
Don't see why you say der hammer is cleared beyone all recompense
And ubertimmy's claim does not seem ironclad
Especally as his claimed target last night makes me mad

Ubertimmy's restriction could be faked
And PBUG's role still not confirmed, seems half-baked
If thedocsalive's not dead, then where is he?
If not dead, then why not today do we see?

I'm not sure what's going on, and will soon snooze
But somethings not right, we've got something to lose
I really don't think it's likely primate is scum
Following the plan, lynching me then lynching may will cause town loss, is dumb.

Don't just look at claims
Examine everything, use your brains
"Lynch all vanillias" not good
No reason it's understood

Bah...BJ may be right, in sooth
Good guys should never tell the truth
If silly people like all of you
Want to lynch me for claiming true

Heh.

[Yosarian2]

One role I was acually considering using in a game was this:

You are a lunitic who thinks he's a cop.

Your entire life, you've wanted to be a cop. You've got a police badge, a police uniform, and a real police firearm. However, you would never be accepted into the police force, partly because you're an absolute barking lunatic who talks back to the voices and is often seem having long conversations with flowers. But now that the mafia's here, here's your big chance to prove you really are a cop!

You must claim cop during day 1. If you fail to do so, or if any any point you hint that you're not actually a cop or give any hint there might be a problem with your sanity, you lose all night abilites.

At night, you can attempt to "investigate" someone. You have absolutly no idea what will happen if you do. You win with the town.

[Yosarian2]

Oh, sorry, forgot to put that part there. Basically, the "cop" finds out nothing, but the target notices that he was wandering around his lawn and peeking in his windows at night.

[Yosarian2]

You are the

psychic vampire

.

At night, you can drain someone's psychic energy. This dosn't really do much, but they'll get a PM saying they're feeling kind of depressed and moody the next day, for what it's worth.

You win if you're the last one left alive, or if everyone else is just to moody and goth to give a damn anymore.

mod note

: Anyone targeted by the psychic vampire twice loses all night abilities and is required to write a depressed poem the next day. Anyone targeted by the psychic vampire three times gains the ability "you may daykill yourself at any time" and their win condition changes to "you win if and only if you die before the end of the game.

[Yosarian2]

Hippy Pacifist Cult Recuriter:

Each night, you may recruit another member to the Hippy Pacifist Cult, and you may also role-block one person by giving them pot. Your cult dosn't believe in violence, so neither you nor any of the members of your cult are allowed to vote for anyone, although you are allowed to vote no-lynch.

If your cult wins, you win. Also, if there are two days with no lynches and no nightkills, a "happily every after" ending, you win. And so does everyone else. Puff the magic dragon lives by the sea.

[Yosarian2]

Heh. Well, that's just funny.

[Yosarian2]

Mason

You are part of the masonry. Unfortunately, you are the only member.

Do you get to talk to yourself at night?

[Yosarian2]

Angry mob

You are an entire angry mob. If you vote for someone, it counts as 15 votes, lynching them instantly without needing any help from anyone else; however, this action also causes the angry mob to break up, so if you vote, you not only lynch the person, you also die.

[Yosarian2]

You are the

Pathalogical Liar

You are not allowed to tell the truth. If you make a true statement during the game, you will be modkilled. You win with the town. Have fun!

First post: "Um, I think I'll vote for fritzer.

vote:fritzer

MODKILL

[Yosarian2]

Prove he was actually

thinking

when he posted that. Clearly he wasn't, since if he had read his PM correctly or had it in mind while posting, he would have thought, "This post will kill me!"

vote: Yosarian

"No, mod, I actually THOUGHT I was going to vote Yaw instead, but I surprised myself"

[Yosarian2]

Oh yeah. I can't imagine typing a single coherent post without dying...

[Yosarian2]

You are a

Drunken Hick Vig

You're a pissed-off achoholic hick.

Every night, you get stinking drunk and drive around in your pickup truck with your shotgun looking for some gash dang mafia people to vent your frustrations on. You don't have all that much control over your actions while drunk.

Every night, PM a name of a player you want to kill to the mod. While drunk, you might kill that person, you might kill some other random person, or you might kill no one at all. You might or might not remember the next day what, if anything, you did all night. You can not try to kill yourself. If you do not submit a name, then if you kill it will be completly random.

Note that your wife is in town, although you're too drunk to remember where, and if you accidently vig her you will then kill yourself out of guilt.

(Mod note:50% chance of killing. If he does kill, 50% chance it'll be the person he wanted to kill. And no matter what, there's a 50% chance he'll be told by the mod who, if anyone, he ended up killing last night. )

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You are a

Drunken Hick's Wife

(Serching mason)

You don't know where your husband got off to while them mafia started killin everyone in town, and you're worried about him 'cause you know that when he's stressed, he be getting to drinking, and when he gets to drinking he can get himself in some serious trouble.

Each night, you can submit a player's name to see if that person is your husband. If you find your husband, you will be able to talk to him at night. If you so chose, you will also be able to prevent him from going out at night and getting into trouble.

(Mod note: If she finds her husband, she can roleblock him at will if she wants and stop him from killing, so long as she is alive)

[Yosarian2]

Divine townie. You can modkill. You win with the town.

Heh...that gives me an idea...rules lawyer mafia!

Have a mafia game with an absurdly complicated ruleset, and:

Mod's Assistant: (pro-town)

You are the Mod's assistant. If any player breaks any of the rules, you may PM the mod a message pointing out who and in what post, and they will be modkilled. You win with the town.

Bastardmod's dark side: (SK)

You are the bastardmod's dark side. Each night, you may choose a post restriction for another player in the game; however, it can not be so severe that it will make it nearly impossible for the other person to communicate (mod's discression). That person must obey that post restriction for the rest of the day. If that person violates his posting restriction, or if any player breaks any of the rules, you may PM the mod a message pointing out who and in which post, and they will be modkilled. You win if you are the last survivor; if it comes down to you and one other player during a day, you automatically daykill the other player and win.

Mod's bizzare typo: (neutral)

Each night, you may change any of the rules except the first 10 in any way you wish so long as it does not affect win conditions or make the game unplayable (mod's discression). This can be as subtle or as dramatic as you want; you can add, remove, or change the later rules as you will. You win if 5 or more players are modkilled.

[Yosarian2]

That was a lie by the way.

Was that?

I love Yos' game especially:

Mod's bizzare typo: (neutral)

I could see them chucking on a random vote. Making a "10 minute deadline per day. Everyone who is not voting will be modkilled. The person with the most votes will be modkilled" and winning D1.

hehe...notice how I specificially said that any rules that make the game unplayable will not be put in, mod's discression. Which means if he sends in a rule change like that, he simply loses his night action for that night.

[Yosarian2]

[quote="Dead Rikimaru"][quote="KaleiÐoscøpe"]Truthfull Goon - You can't vote for your teammates.[/quote]
Actually, you can't vote AT ALL. Otherwise as soon as you die and your role is revealed everyone you voted is automatically cleared. (or at least do not belong to your faction)[/quote]

Well, yeah, you'd have to make sure that you only vote for people who are going to get lynched that day.

[Yosarian2]

Your role: A Man Destined To Hang... (pro-town)

A long time ago, a gypsy fortune teller told you that you were destined to die by hanging. You've always taken a strange kind of confidence from this; you knew you wouldn't die while skydiving, or mountain climbing, or in any other activity like that, so ever since then you've always been a real risk-taker. Even when the mafia started to take over your town and kill off your neighbors, you weren't afraid. However, when the town decided to start lynching people, you realized you might be in trouble...

You have two-shot protection against nightkills; that is, the first two attempts to nightkill you will fail. However, if you ever, at any point, have 3 or more votes on you, you will be lynched instantly. (Note you can still be lynched normally by 2 voters in a 3 man endgame.)

[Yosarian2]

Well, actually, you do have some control. I reckon I could make someone not want to be in a game with me if necessary.

It's really, really dependent on who you're stuck forcing to replace. If say, you're forced to get me or Yosarian2 replaced, you're probably completely screwed. At least with a lyncher you could fake a cop claim or something.

What if we made the game unbearable for you? For example, were simply massively offensive in every post? Could we get you to ask to be replaced then?

That wouldn't work for me; if someone was being massivly offensive to me, I wouldn't ask to be replaced, I'd just get them lynched.

[Yosarian2]

You are the

Bidding Bridge Player

! You won the opening bid, so now you've got to play! Your partner, the Bidding Bridge Player's Partner (or the Dummy, however you like to refer to him/her), is waiting for you to make his move for him. You may PM your partner at anytime during the day, and then your partner must copy and paste that PM to the thread (being the Dummy, it is the only way your partner can participate in the game). Your partner, however, cannot PM you at all. You win with the town IF you and your partner survive. If one of you is lynched or killed, the other is eliminated as well.

You are the

Bidding Bridge Player's Partner

, commonly refered to as the

Dummy

. Good news: Your partner, the Bidding Bridge Player, won the bid! Bad news: You're now the dummy! You have no night abilities, you may not talk to your partner at all, and you cannot post anything else except for the PMs your partner sends you (Copy and paste the

entire PM

, except for the heading and title). You win with the town IF you and your partner survive. If one of you is lynched or killed, the other is eliminated as well.

That's a pretty funny idea, but why make the dummy a seperate player at all if he can't do anything? Why not just made a mod alt and have the Bridge Player play both roles? (And, of course, make SURE the list mod knows this is going on so he knows there's no cheating going on here).

[Yosarian2]

Repentant Scum:

Initally Pro-mafia, but if all other mafiosi are killed, can claim repentance and becomes pro-town. Loses if killed, no matter what.

So...dosn't he just win by claiming and backstabbing his last remaining scum-buddy at a key moment?

[Yosarian2]

You are Godzilla

If there are no other Movie Monsters in the game, you are a SK, and must kill everyone else in order to win.

If there is one other Movie Monster in the game, you are pro-town, and in order for you to win the game must end in a town win with at least 4 other pro-town people left alive.

Each night, you may either nightkill a player, do nothing, or attack Tokyo.

[Yosarian2]

You are a Ninja, a member of the "Overused Internet Cliches" mafia.

Once per game, you may yell

*NINJA SMOKE BOMB*

, throw a smoke bomb, and vanish for the rest of the day. This will remove all votes on you and make it impossible for you to be lynched that day; however, any votes you have made will also vanish, the number of votes necessary to lynch will be reduced as if you were not in the game, and you will not be able to post for the rest of the day. Tommorow, you will be back in the game as normal.

(could also be a pro-town role, of course)

[Yosarian2]

Hehe...or how about:

Idiotic vigilante

Player is not told that he/she is an idiot, he believes he is an ordinary vig. Each time he attempts to kill, instead of killing his target, he will target the most useful pro-town power role currently alive instead. (Note: For the purposes of this role, the most useful pro-town power roles are, in this order, Cop, Doc, Tracker, Roleblocker, Sane Vig, townie.)

[Yosarian2]

You are

Adel

.

As your post restriction, you must make all of your posts encrypted, using a key that only you and the mod knows. This includes all of your votes and such. Your votes will show up in the vote count.

[Yosarian2]

You are the

Witchhunter General

. You've got an absolutely foolproof way of telling if someone's evil or not - you toss them in a lake and see if they drown. If they do not drown, they are obviously practising the dark arts.

Each night you may investigate a player, and I will tell you if they are innocent or guilty. However, if they are innocent, this will kill them.

Heh. That's actually a pretty cool pro-town role; there are times I would use that ability.

[Yosarian2]

Well, not just roles themselves but groups...

Townies. Exactly the same.

Mafia. Exactly the same.

Independent. Exactly the same.

Justice. Win when only Justice and Town are left.

Nature. Win with whichever team wins; must survive to endgame.

Nature is just another name for survivor. What happens when only Justice and Town are left - Justice wins and it's immediate game over for town?

I would think that justice and town both win; it sounds like the only difference is that Justice has to kill off all independent/survivor roles as well as the scum roles.

[Yosarian2]

You are

JFK

. You have nothing to fear but fear itself

Heh...actually, that was FDR who said that. Close, though.

You are FDR. If the majority of the town votes for you, you won't be lynched, you will instead become president for the next day. You win if you are president for 4 days in a row.

[Yosarian2]

Wow. Wow. Wow. You are my new favorite scummer. If I had a desire to have sex, I would beg you to allow me entry into your vagina immediately. You, madam, are a god among these mortal fools.

...I am not sure whether to slap you with my piggie-ballerina gloves challenging you to a duel such that I may defend my honor through use of my trusty shotgun (or, that being disallowed, finally get my father to cough up that gift of dueling pistols he promised me when I turned old enough to legally own guns), or to take that as a compliment...

Well, you could always take it as a compliment but shoot him anyway.

[Yosarian2]

Strangly enough, Xylthixlm, I've actually seen the "green goo" role before.

[Yosarian2]

This thread went to shit way too fast.

You are the

forum police

. As such, at any given point, you have the power to decide that any thread, including this game thread has, in fact, gone to shit. If it has, simply post, in bold in the thread

This thread has officially gone to shit

and the Mod promises to make sure the thread will be made more entertaining for all. You probably win with the town.

Mod note: If the forum police character ever actually says that, he is instantly modkilled.

[Yosarian2]

You are

the guy with the Big Red Button

. You have a Big Red Button which you can press once during the game. You have no idea what it does.

(Can you think of

anything

for the button to do which wouldn't be bastard modding?)

Mod Note: When the Big Red Button is pressed, the Mod says in thread "Suddenly, in the background, everyone hears the music from an ice cream truck begin to play".

[Yosarian2]

Heh...the bully would end up being screwed over by simulposts all the time, so I hope the penelty for accidently breaking his restriction isn't TOO harsh. Other then that, it's pretty neat.

[Yosarian2]

You are a Zombie with a rotting brain.

You may not _______. You may only ______ when ______. Each night, you can either choose to target someone in order to eat their brain, which will help your brain regenerate, or else you may ______. You may also ______, but only if _____.

You win if ______.

Mod note: the holes in the Zombie's memory (the blanks in the role PM) will be filled in based on who he eats. The first person he eats, he will gain their win condition, and the mod will send his new, modified, role PM to him that night. After that, he will gain role restrictions and other abilities from other people he eats, filling in the rest blanks in his role PM. If the Zombie dies without getting a win condition, he loses.

[Yosarian2]

That's be a fun role, but less blanks me thinks.

Well, some of them will end up being blanked out as the zombie kills off vanillia tonwies.

[Yosarian2]

No, I meant if the Zombie has a chance of winning. Not many games have seven nights.

Ah. Well, the first time he kills someone, he gets their win condidition. Other blanks get filled in later, and if they don't all get filled in, that dosn't hurt him.

Although it'd be pretty funny if he ate the brain of someone with a post restriction and aquired their post restriction, heh heh.

[Yosarian2]

You are a spastic daykiller.

You have a post restriction where in every single one of your posts, you must attempt to daykill another player in the game, by bolding the statement

kill:player

. This will usually not have any effect, but one in a great while (on average, once per game day, although it might be more or less often then that), the person you name there will instantly die. If you ever forget your post restriction, or if you ever lurk for more then 48 hours, a random pro-town player may be daykilled instead. You may not attempt to daykill yourself.

You win with the town.

[Yosarian2]

You are a

mafia cheater

.

You are scum with XXX. You will be given modding privlages in the game, and during this game, you will be allowed to edit, modify, or deleate posts made by anyone, including other players, so long as they do not contain a vote. You may not edit, modify, or delete posts that include a vote as part of them, and you can not edit a vote INTO anyone else's post, but any posts that don't include a vote in them are fair game. However, you may not edit mod posts.

You win when you and XXX have destroyed all other factions.

[Yosarian2]

Well, you have a 50/50 chance as long as you don't get NKed.

You are a

Russian Roulette Player

. You start off with a revolver and a box of bullets. On Night one, you put one bullet in a chamber then pull the trigger twice, once for yourself, and once for another player. Each night another bullet gets added and another player gets added to the list. You win if you survive to the end of the game.

(No doc in game, 24 players).

Better as a pro-town role...otherwise he dosn't care who he's shooting. As a pro-town role, who has to pick people to shoot and who knows he's almost certanly eventually going to shoot himself, it'd be pretty cool I think.

[Yosarian2]

Best case scenario the roulettist kills 20 people before he kills himself. Worst case he pops himself in the face Night 0/1. It's suppose to be a bad role idea though... >.> stop trying to make it useful.

Oh, it's still a bad role the way I changed it; it's just a bad role that some sadistic basterd might actually want to put into a game.

[Yosarian2]

You are a

backstabber

. You can daykill someone if in their very last post have specifically said that they trust you. You win with the town.

[Yosarian2]

This is a beautiful role. I'd like to see it in games.

Strangely, I think I would use most of the roles I posted in this thread in games.

Hmmm...in fact, I've actually posted more then enough roles in this thread to make a large game out of those roles alone...

[Yosarian2]

I just got rickrolled today, heh.

[Yosarian2]

You are the Doctor. You protect one player each night. You win with the town. Unfortunately, using your power will randomly kill a townie.

I'd use that role on occasion.

It'd be an even better role if the doc can self protect.

[Yosarian2]

Heh...not to mention how broken it gets once the town figured it out.

"Hmmm...ok, we lynched Glork but he wasn't scum...alright, cop, wack the reset button again. We're going to figure this out sooner or later..."

[Yosarian2]

Heh...not to mention how broken it gets once the town figured it out.

"Hmmm...ok, we lynched Glork but he wasn't scum...alright, cop, wack the reset button again. We're going to figure this out sooner or later..."

That wouldn't even work, as scum could also hit the reset button once everyone knew all the roles. It would be a never-ending game!

Well, once everyone knew all the roles and town knew who all the scum were, town would just lynch the reset button on day 1 and then lynch all the scum. Inevitable, albiet incredibly slow and boring, town victory.

Edit: Ah, pokerface already said that.

[Yosarian2]

You are

telepathic paranoid former high school lovers with (person X)

You and X were high school sweethearts, and you deeply loved that person at one time, but time has passed and you worry they might have changed. Oh, and you are both telepaths.

Using your telepethy, you can daytalk with your lover outside the thread at any time day or night, unless you are told by the mod that you have a heachace, in which case you can recieve messages but you can't send them. You think your lover is probably pro-town, but you could be wrong (15% chance). Once per night, you can attempt a deep telepathic probe of your lover, which might reveal their alignment to you, but might also kill them or might accidently imprint a section of their mind over yours and thus change your alighnment to match theirs, or if they are pro-town you might drive them insane and make them into a SK.

If your lover is pro-town, then if they die you die the next night out of sorrow and guilty feelings. If you were not responsible for their death, then you remain pro-town; if you were responsible for their death but they were pro-town, then you automatically lose. If your lover is scum, then they were just playing you anyway and you don't die if they die. If your lover is a neutral role, then if they die your alignmnt might change.

Oh, also, your shirt is blue. This is an important clue that might or might not useful later, probably, unless this line was actually supposed to be in a different PM.

You win with the town, unless your win condition changes or unless your lover also wins with the town and you cause their untimely demise.

Edit: And the partner would get this role PM:

You are a paranoid telepathic former high school lovers of (person X)

You and X were romantically involved in high school, and you really cared about that person at one time, but last time you saw that person, he looked a lot less trustworthy then you remember.

Also, you and he are both telepathic

Using your telepethy, you can daytalk with your lover outside the thread at any time day or night, unless you are told by the mod that you have a heachace, in which case you can recieve messages but you can't send them. You think your lover is more likely then not pro-town, but he could have become scum (20% chance).

Once per night, you can attempt a deep telepathic probe of your former lover, which might tell him your alignment, but might also kill them. Worse, it might accidently download their mind and their mental state into your own mind, and thus change your alighnment to match theirs. And worst of all, or if they are pro-town, there's a small but very real chance you might drive them insane and make them into a SK.

If your lover is pro-town, then if they die you die the next night out of sorrow and guilty feelings. If you were did not in any way cause their death (in other words, if you were not on their bandwagon), then you remain pro-town; if you were on their bandwagon but they were pro-town, then you automatically lose. If your lover is anti-town at the time he dies, then he was were just taking advantage of you anyway, and so you don't really care and sufffer no ill effects from his death. If your lover is a neutral role, then if they die your alignmnt might change.

You're wearing a red skirt. It's pretty.

You win with the town, unless your win condition changes or unless your lover also wins with the town and you cause their untimely demise.

[Yosarian2]

You are a

ware-muffin

(Pro-town lycanthrope)

After being bitten by radioactive glutan products, you have become a bizzare half-man, half muffin. Luckely, though much practice, you have gained a measure of control over your shapechanges.

Each night, you may EITHER remain in the form of a man, OR shapechange into the form of a MUFFFIN. If you are in Muffin form, then anyone trying to kill you will not be able to find you and the kill will fail; HOWEVER, while in Muffin form, you will be the biggest, most tasty-looking muffin ever, so anyone trying to taget you for ANY OTHER reason (cops, docs, roleblockers, ect) will eat and therefore kill you.

You win with the town.

[Yosarian2]

You are a Fairy Godmother. You win if the game end in a happily ever after scenario.

Heh...I actually came up with a role with a win condition like that in this thread a while ago...let me find it...

Hippy Pacifist Cult Recuriter:

Each night, you may recruit another member to the Hippy Pacifist Cult, and you may also role-block one person by giving them pot. Your cult dosn't believe in violence, so neither you nor any of the members of your cult are allowed to vote for anyone, although you are allowed to vote no-lynch.

If your cult wins, you win. Also, if there are two days with no lynches and no nightkills, a "happily every after" ending, you win. And so does everyone else. Puff the magic dragon lives by the sea.

[Yosarian2]

The point is to make it ridiculously hard to win

You are a Serial Killer Killer

For years now, you have been obsessed with the local serial killer. You have read every newspaper article about him, have the pictures of all of his victems glued to your wall, and have basically been in total hero worship of him. It has gotten to the point where you have decided that you really ARE the serial killer, that YOU have done all the kills. Until last night, when the serial killer struck again...and it wasn't you. Damnit. Only one thing for it; you must find the serial killer, kill him, and take his place.

You have a gun with one bullet in it. Once per game, you can kill someone. If that person is the serial killer, you take his set of knives and become the new serial killer. If that person is not the serial killer, you lose. If the serial killer dies in any other way, or if you die, you lose.

You win when you personally kill the serial killer, take his knives, kill everyone else in town with those knives, and survive.

[Yosarian2]

Your role is Mr Switcher.

You have no special powers, and begin the game as a townie. However, every time you vote for someone, your win condition changes to the win condition of the player for whom you voted. You will not be told their win condition.

it is technically impossible to win with this role, if you are town and u lynch a scum, then you will lose becuz u have the win condition of a scum. if you are scum and u lynch town, u have the win condition of town and u just lynched a town, so it won't work.

Actually, the key is probably to try and get nightkilled early, so you could win with whichever side you happened to be on when you died.

[Yosarian2]

From the very short-lived "Graceland" edition of Assasins in the Palace...

You are...The King.



In each one of your posts, you must include a quote from an Elvis Presley song, or you will be modkilled. You must post at least once every 48 hours, or you will be modkilled.

If the assasins figure out that you are The King, they will daykill you.

If you die for any reason, the town loses.

You win with the town.

[Yosarian2]

Except that when someone claims jester day 1 you pretty much always want to lynch him right away, unless it's one of those games where if you lynch the jester everyone else loses.

[Yosarian2]

Well, no; if there's more then one, it's a bad role.

If there's only one, though, it's more interesting, since the Lemon guy clearly can't claim before getting nightkilled (if he claims, he obv won't get nightkilled), and without that, the town might go after the guy for lurking, or if they figure out he really can't say anything else, they might think he got post resticted by some other role.

[Yosarian2]

You win when the town has a majority.

Lol..so, he wins post 1 of day 1? Or is this in a game with lots of scum groups where the town starts out in the minority?

[Yosarian2]

Hahaha...awesome role, Vi.

Although, the way the meta is about improbable roles these days, you could probably just claim that role and people would believe you.

[Yosarian2]

Soft-claim? I'd probably hard claim about half my role day 1. "Hey. I'm just going to claim this now, so nothing bad happens; I'm Mentos, a pro-town player with a big disadvantage; apparently, there is apparenlty another pro-town role the game names Coke, and if he targets me, I die. Just figured I'd claim that, since I'm otherwise a pretty useless role and I there's no sense in randomally dying for no reason. Also, Coke shouldn't claim now; if he claims later, after I'm dead, then you'll know he's confirmed." Scum might or might not bother to kill Mentos; probably not; in any case, at least Coke won't kill him, and Coke will be confirmed later even without the mod needing to do it.

[Yosarian2]

Neither of those looks like a "worst" type role, since in both cases, winning is pretty much inevitable.

That makes them pretty bad roles, heh. "Worst" in the sense of "terrible role design", I think is the idea of this thread.

[Yosarian2]

*Interesting Version*

Written Day Cult Recruiter

: You are a cult recruiter, but you do not recruit players at night via PMing me with a choice. Instead you can only recruit one player durring each day by typeing "recruit: playername" in thread. You don't have to bold it, you just must type those words together so pretty much when you die and turn up cult, all your recruits can be found pretty easily. If you try to recruit an anti-town player, the recruitment will fail. You can not be killed at Night (Mafia Kills fail on you). You can talk to your recruits at any time. You win when you control a majority of the town or nothing can be done to prevent this.

I think that can actually be done.

Would this count?

I wonder if the mafia can recruit. Caboose's name appears at the top of the list of players, so

Vote: Caboose

.

Yep that would count. That is why that one was called the interesting version. It would be interesting to actually see it in a setup playing out. How creative will the recruiter be? Should breadcrumbing the action be a legit recuritment procedure? Will Town catch on?

:rolls eyes: Oh, you think I'm the cult recruiter, and that I'm linked to PJ? That makes no sense. You have no case, at all. For that matter, if I was a cult recruiter, I would never be THAT much of an asshole to just go and recruit petroleumjelly.

[Yosarian2]

You are the

selfish cop.

You can investigate someone and find out if they attempted to kill you last night. Note that you are vulnerable to nightkills.

You win with the town.

(Actually, it'd be a pretty funny role, trying to make sure you get both targeted for a night kill and doc protected...)

[Yosarian2]

You are the

Message Sender

. You know the roles and alignments of all players. Any post you make may only contain spaces, and up to twenty periods (.). You may not vote or quote anyone. Good luck!

... . . . ...

... . . . ...


(2 to 1, all I have to do is say that, and someone'll figure out it's moorse code. Once town gets that, th rest is easy. Town wins, day 1.)

[Yosarian2]

You are a

Cop/Cop/Cop

You are a cop/cop/cop with 3 different personalities, each of which may or may not have a different sanity. Each night, pick both which of your three cop roles you want to use and pick who you want to target, and you may or may not get some kind of result.

You win with the town.

[Yosarian2]

You are the Neutralizer, aka Game-Killer. Every night you must target a living player. If the action succeeds, the targeted player will become a Neutral Survivor. You win with the town. Good luck; you'll need it.

YOU CANNOT SELECT THE SAME PERSON TWICE YOUR ACTIONS NEVER FAIL

Day 1, post 1, of Worst Role Mafia XL:

Vote:Yosarian

Guys, my worst role is so bad, I think we need to lynch me today or the town loses.

[Yosarian2]

Crap

[size=0]there's a funny story behind this one[/size]

[Yosarian2]

You are

Completly soaked in gasoline and strapped with explosives

If any kind of fire happens, anywhere in the game, at any point, you will catch fire, explode, and die. At any time, you may type, in bold, "

Hug:player

" in thread; you will continue to hug that player from that point until the end of the game until you either type

unhug

or until you hug someone else; if you catch fire, then whoever you are hugging will die along with you.

You win with the town.

----

You are

A pyromaniac

At any point, you may, in thread during the day, say you want to

Light a match

,

Light a candle

, or

Start a fire

. If you use one of these abilities, something really cool might happen.

You win with the town.

[Yosarian2]

Mole: Nothing wrong with posting a good role in this thread. I've posted quite a few roles here I would actually use.

Mafiaplayer: That's actually a real role. Well, normally it's an "insane doctor" who kills everyone he targets; insane faith healer is even more evil, for obvious reasons.

[Yosarian2]

You are a

glass vase

. If anyone targets you, you die.

I've actually had this role before.

[Yosarian2]

You are

Lassie

. Here are the alignments of all of the players. However, you can only communicate to the town through posting "Bark!" Additionally, groupings of barkings are not allowed - all barks must have the same number of spaces between them. Double posting is also not allowed.

"Ok, Lassie, here is what you do. If PJ is scum, make your next post at a time that ends with 1, like "3:21" or "5:01". If Pooky is scum, make your next post at a time that ends with a 2..."

[Yosarian2]

In a closed set-up with no quoting, I don't think anyone would figure it out.

(shrug) There are ways to communicate any kind of information at all with any kind of post restruction, so long as the rest of the town is willing to take the time to figure something out.

[Yosarian2]

You are the

Town Sycophant

. You have a post restriction that forces you to agree with whatever InsertPlayerHere posts.

I've had almost that exact role before. I had a post restriction that I had to always agree with two people, and never disagree with them. Turns out, they were both scum.

It was incredibly surreal, but I actually managed to attack someone, debate them, and get them lynched, while agreeing with everything they said and not disagreeing with anything they said. At least technically.

[Yosarian2]

You

have a terminal disease

Each night, you need to be targeted by a doctor, or else you die.

You win with the town.

[Yosarian2]

You are a member of the

chess mafia

, along with X and Y. You may talk to them at night. Your group does not have a night kill.

Your scum group wins if this game takes more then 18 months to complete.

[Yosarian2]

Heh. I actually posted a zombie role in this thread, ages ago. Let me find it:

You are a Zombie with a rotting brain.

You may not _______. You may only ______ when ______. Each night, you can either choose to target someone in order to eat their brain, which will help your brain regenerate, or else you may ______. You may also ______, but only if _____.

You win if ______.

Mod note: the holes in the Zombie's memory (the blanks in the role PM) will be filled in based on who he eats. The first person he eats, he will gain their win condition, and the mod will send his new, modified, role PM to him that night. After that, he will gain role restrictions and other abilities from other people he eats, filling in the rest blanks in his role PM. If the Zombie dies without getting a win condition, he loses.

[Yosarian2]

That could be a really good role for a bastard game.

I think it's kind of cool the way it actually reduces swing, since if he kills a townie on night 1, he ends up pro-town, and if he kills a scum night 1, he ends up scum, so the random kill doesn't end up weakening that side in the long run.

[Yosarian2]

You are a

Mafia Vanilla Townie

.

You have no power except your voice and your vote.

You win when all living players are mafia, or nothing can prevent the same.

I think that role already exists; it's exactly the same as one variant of the traitor.

[Yosarian2]

Yeah, as Ythan commented, one variant of the traitor is exactly that role you just described; it doesn't get recruited, and isn't investigative immune.

Also, if you're talking about a roleclop, it doesn't screw with it that much since mafia goons usually show up as vanilla town to rolecops.

[Yosarian2]

You are a

Desert Bus

Each 15 seconds, you have to post in thread "Go left". If at any point you fail to do this, you crash.

Every 8 hours you manage to live, you earn one point.

[Yosarian2]

No, it's just bad.

Eh, it's not that bad. In theory, it's more pro-town then a straight suicide-bomber role, and even that role isn't terrible.

If you wanted to actually make the weak vig a bad role, make it compulsive.

[Yosarian2]

A mod would get a lot of hate for putting one in a non-bastard game.

No, not at all.

Now, it's a *bad* role, but that doesn't make it a bastard role.

In fact, it would probably be an even worse role in a bastard-mod game.

[Yosarian2]

You

are getting your games confused.

You may only talk about and vote mafia players who are not in this game. That is, if Glork is in this game, you can not make a case against him; you must make a case against PJ instead, and then vote for him, even though he is not actually a player in this game. You may not reference any actual events that happen in this game. When you cast a vote, you may PM the mod to tell him who you would actually like to vote for.

You win with the town.

[Yosarian2]

You are a

Girl Cop

. At night, you can investigate a player with "Female" in the gender field of their profile, to determine whether they are town or not.

You win with the (

town or third party, probably more interesting as town

).

This one's pretty awful in a number of ways, although it needs a better name. (Especially as if it's claimed, the pro-town reaction is to start persuading all the males in the game to lie about their gender across the site so that they are viable scan targets. And the blatant gender discrimination before that.)

Optional modnote: Has a 50/50 chance of working on Vi.

Well, you could easily just have it be based on the gender people had listed at the start of the mafia game. That would be easy enough for the mod to keep track of.

[Yosarian2]

You have a Cursed Necklace of Doom.

If the game ends and you still have the cursed necklace, you lose, no matter what else happens.

During the day, you can try to give the necklace to someone else. The other person must say, in thread,

I accept the necklace

. You can claim whatever you want in order to get them to agree to do this. If they do, then they will lose whatever role they had before and will have now this role; they will be told of their new role that night.

If you do give away the necklace, then you become a survivor. You win if you give away the necklace and then live until the end of the game. Alternately, if more then half the people in the game are turned into survivors by being given the necklace and then successfully giving it away, the game is over and all the survivors win, and everyone else loses (of course, whoever ends up with the cursed necklace at the end of the game still loses).