Worst role ideas?

[AurorusVox]

You are

The Worst Role in this Game

.

Sorry.

[Leafsnail]

You are

Easily Influenced.

Whenever a player votes for you your win condition changes to match theirs.

[Lord Mhork]

Isn't that role super broken?

[Kagami]

Not if you very strictly enforce that players must play to their win condition at all times.

[Who]

You are a

Paranoid Serial Killer

You are a serial killer. That is, each night, you may kill someone. You win when everyone else is dead.
You are also paranoid. That is, everyone else knows who you are and what you are, and they all want you dead. At the start of d1 (Daystart), the mod will announce that you are a serial killer.
You are the only killing role in the game.

Modnote: Unbeknownst to anyone else, there's also a lynchproof kill-less mafia in the game.

[xtopherusD]

It's like, it brings a whole new meaning to "

Worst

role ideas" . . .

EDIT: Not @Who

[saulres]

Not if you very strictly enforce that players must play to their win condition at all times.

That's what breaks it. Every time scum votes for him, he knows who the scum is, so as soon as a townie votes for him he announces all the scum he knows.

[Who]

Not if you very strictly enforce that players must play to their win condition at all times.

That's what breaks it. Every time scum votes for him, he knows who the scum is, so as soon as a townie votes for him he announces all the scum he knows.

That's assuming you tell him his wincon. You could just let them guess.

[Leafsnail]

Not if you very strictly enforce that players must play to their win condition at all times.

I think it should probably be "You must play to win at the end of the game", because that would make it a bad role on more levels

e: Not being told your win condition at any given time would also work.

[vezokpiraka]

Not if you very strictly enforce that players must play to their win condition at all times.

I think it should probably be "You must play to win at the end of the game", because that would make it a bad role on more levels

e: Not being told your win condition at any given time would also work.

It could work just the way you wrote it at first.
When scum votes for him he won't accuse scum.
The moment he becomes town he tells everyone X is scum.
Then when scum votes him again he says X is not scum and he was just mistaken.

Would make for a very weird game seeing someone go from : "X is confirmed scum. My role guarantees it." to "X isn't scum. I mis-read something." a few times a day.

Also : Give him a fakeclaim and tell him he can't claim his real role. (this would work only in a bastard game, but the role itself is very bastard)

[Alduskkel]

I was thinking about that, but who rolecops an Innocent Child? That's arguably even more pointless than copping them.

How 'bout an Innocent Child Miller?

I'd be interested to see how this played out. Especially if you told the Cop there was a Miller in the game. And then what about Miller Masons...?

[Egg]

NK Immune SK/Jester

[Tony PF]

You are a

Neutral Planeteer.

Your job is to summon Captain Planet with 4 other players. When this is successful, you will jointly win with those other players, ending the game.

(Mod note: There's only one of this role in the game.)

[Eden]

https://epicmafia.com/role

See that list? 80% of the roles there are fuckin' awful.

(disclaimer, I have a pretty strict understanding of what constitutes a bastard role, YMMV on the percentage but I'd say the average player should recognize about half of them as trash)

[Yiley]

See that list? 80% of the roles are almost never used.

[Eden]

Sure, but the thread's about worst role ideas. I'd imagine most of the worst aren't used, for good reason....

[talah]

You are

Ego-Mod

You are highly sensitive about your game's setup and your role is to ensure that your own satisfaction is greater than that of the players in your game.

You may not produce flips or results unless you are PM'd at least twice for each potential action.

Public mechanic:

unlimited lynches may be achieved without your intervention during any phase so long as majority is reached. Night phases must not be locked unless you are angry for reasons outside the game, in which case the thread must be locked and may not be unlocked without every living player PMing you within a ten minute period. For every six hours that both of these conditions hold true, the second-largest wagon is lynched and the current phase continues as usual.

[vezokpiraka]

You are a

Neutral Planeteer.

Your job is to summon Captain Planet with 4 other players. When this is successful, you will jointly win with those other players, ending the game.

(Mod note: There's only one of this role in the game.)

I actually had that role. Let me dig it up.
You are Captain Planet, leader of the Planeteers. By combining their five powers, you are summoned to save the world! If you can get five people to each say a different word on this list ("Earth", "Fire", "Wind", "Water", "Heart"), you will become a tree stump upon death, able to continue posting for the entirety of the game, regardless of anything the mod says publicly. However, if the five people who summoned you die, you will lose your powers and give the mafia an extra kill the next night.

Wow, that took a while. It's from Bastard mind of sin.

[vonflare]

Hello player! you are the

Town Jack-of-all-trades

!

Your abilities are:
1-shot vigilante
1-shot commuter
1-shot cop
1-shot bus driver

You win with the town.

---

MODNOTE: none of the abilities work except bus drive. He actually wins with the Mafia, and will be told that at LYLO.

[Who]

Hello player! you are the

Town Jack-of-all-trades

!

Your abilities are:
1-shot vigilante
1-shot commuter
1-shot cop
1-shot bus driver

You win with the town.

---

MODNOTE: none of the abilities work except bus drive. He actually wins with the Mafia, and will be told that at LYLO.

I once suspected myself of being something similar to this.

A better version:
Hello Player! You are a

*insert flavorname here*

*Insert flavor here which would fit very well with you secretly being scum/turning scum when X happens*
*Insert extremely OP-seeming townrole here*
You win with the town!

Modnote: Actually is scum/turns scum when X happens.

I even went so far as to ask the mod "No bastard alignment changes/hidden wincons, right?" to which the mod replied "There might be".
I was town though.

[vonflare]

Welcome PLAYER, you are a

Mafia Winconman

Once every night, you may target any player. They become a serial killer.

You win with the mafia.

MODNOTE: everyone is bulletproof.

[callforjudgement]

That's interesting without the modnote. Using the ability will mean that you get townies dying faster, but runs the risk of dying yourself. You can always get an SK you created yourself lynched if necessary (you might have to fake a guilty, such as via "tracking them to a kill"), so you can get rid of them again when the ability's run out. I wouldn't suggest using that night action often, but once or (at a stretch) twice might make sense.

[saulres]

If your target gets a kill they night they convert, target someone N1 so there are multiple deaths right off the bat, and that opens the possibilities for multiple fakeclaims.

If they don't, I'd still consider targeting someone the first night and not submitting a Mafia kill, depending on the size of the game. to create more confusion.

[Bicephalous Bob]

Welcome to Top Secret Mafia! You are a [REDACTED]. You win when [REDACTED]. PM me your role name to confirm.

[callforjudgement]

If your target gets a kill they night they convert, target someone N1 so there are multiple deaths right off the bat, and that opens the possibilities for multiple fakeclaims.

If they don't, I'd still consider targeting someone the first night and not submitting a Mafia kill, depending on the size of the game. to create more confusion.

Oh, I was assuming that your scumteam didn't have a kill of its own, and could only kill via recruiting SKs for the purpose. Not sure why I was assuming that, but it probably makes the role more interesting.

Would only work in a closed game, though.