Grand Idea Mafia

[Sméagol]

Vanilla enabler

When you die, all vanillas turn into vanilla cops.

[Sméagol]

Vanilla enabler

When you die, all vanillas turn into vanilla cops.

Vanilla Townie

I love how beautifully useless that role is (the cops won't be able to find anything, because there will be no vanillas left).

Vanilla Townie

It potentially gives trackers (and the like) more to do though.

[Sméagol]

Hated townie with potential

Fuck them haters. They're just jelly because YOU, are bound for GREATNESS.

This

game, you are a

hated townie

.
You have no special abilities. You require one less vote to lynch.

The

next

*

game however, you are a

multi-tasking jack-of-all-trades

(1-shot cop; 1-shot rolecop; 1-shot vigilante)
Each night, you can do any combination of the following abilites, provided you have shots left:
- Investigate the alignment of a player;
- Investigate the role of a player;
- Kill a player.

*

The next Grand Idea mafia you will play. This will override the role you'd be normally given (just show the mod this role). You cannot take a rain check, if you choose to take your normally given role anyway, you will forfeit your option to use the

multi-tasking jack-of-all-trades

.

[Sméagol]

Pure vanilla townie

For all intents and purposes, you are a vanilla townie, except you have protection from abilities which will permanently alter your role in any way.
This includes (but is not limited to):
- You can not gain any permanent abilities through any means.
- You can not gain any modifiers through any means.
- You can not (further) be vanillaised (i.e. you can not lose this protection).
- You can not be recruited.
- You can not be turned into a treestump.
- You can not re-roll your role through any means.
In short, any abilities that would make you anything else than a

pure vanilla townie

, will fail to work. You can however, be the receiver of temporary effects.

[Sméagol]

Flying townie

You have

flying

(you can only be targeted by other players with

flying

).

[Sméagol]

Platinum townie

As long as your alive, your faction can't lose the game, and other factions can't win the game.

Comment

This won't result in an draw, instead, when normally the game would end (like when mafia matches or outnumbers town), the game continues, until the

platinum townie

is dead, or town wins. This will be fun for jesters.

[Sméagol]

Flying mafia goon

You have

flying

(you can only be targeted by other players with

flying

).

[Sméagol]

Eternal vendetta

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
Choose your archnemesis (or don't, if you'd rather be vanilla).
In this game, and

every

future grand idea mafia game you play together, both you and your chosen archnemesis will get a 1-shot gladiator ability, which can only involve you two. This is in addition to the actual role both of you get in future games.

Edit:

your chosen archnemesis must accept you as his or her archnemesis as well. If he or she doesn't, you can choose someone else.

[Sméagol]

Town rolecop

[Sméagol]

Town ticking timebomb

Choose a player to attach yourself to. You can change your target at any time and as often as you like. You may choose to unattach yourself and target no one.
On night 3, you die along with your target.

Comment

Nothing (special) happens when you or your target are killed or lynched before night 3. If your target dies, you may choose another.

[Sméagol]

Mafia goon

[Sméagol]

Mafia 2-shot mimic

Target a player to mimic: you will take over the characteristics of this player for the purpose of investigation reports. This includes your target's alignment and action. The action will have no real effect, but will also share the same characteristics as your target's action.

Comment

For example, you mimic a town cop targeting Sméagol. A tracker who targets you will get a report you targeted Sméagol (not the town cop). A rolecop targeting you will get a report that you are a cop (not a mimic). Another cop targeting you will get a report that you are town. A follower targeting you will get a report that you performed an investigative ability (instead of miscellaneous). You will not get a report, however.

[Sméagol]

Neutral vampire

Target a player to suck their blood. If you target a player twice on successive nights, they die.
You need blood to survive. If you miss more than 1 succesful action, you die.

Your wincondition is to survive until endgame.

Comment

Can miss an action, or be roleblocked, once. If roleblocked twice, or failing to send in an action twice, the player will die.

Really want to give it flying though.

[Sméagol]

Mafia 2-shot motivator

[Sméagol]

Mafia werewolf

You are mafia, but have different kill flavour, and can kill anyone who is bulletproof.

Edit:

counts as both mafia and werewolf for investigation purposes.

[Sméagol]

Town traumatized doctor

Because of some.. incident (

edit:

inserting flavour about the "incident" is up to mod's discretion

), you have a strong hate for all cops.
If you target a cop, you will kill that player.
If you target anyone else, you will prevent one murder attempt.

[Sméagol]

Town disorganized cop

You keep misplacing your paperwork.
If you use your ability, you must send in two targets. You will get the alignment of one of them, but you don't know which one.

Comment

Which one is decided randomly.

[Sméagol]

Mafia role salvager

Every time someone dies, you get a 1-shot version of their role (if applicable). Does not apply to faction abilities.

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

[Sméagol]

Town forensic detective

You will get a report detailing whether your target has killed before.

[Sméagol]

Mafia gravity manipulator

As long as your alive, players without

flying

can target players with

flying

.

[Sméagol]

Mafia 3-shot smokebomb thrower

You give your target the

ninja

modifier for that night.

[Sméagol]

Town surgeon

Prevent one murder attempt at your target, including strongman kills.

Edit:

counts as a

doctor

for relevant gameplay purposes.

[Sméagol]

Mafia distractor

Your target's action (if applicable) will resolve last (i.e. it has the lowest priority in the action resolution).

[Sméagol]

Mafia infected goon

You are sick, and will not be able to perform active abilities, including the factional kill, until you are cured by a

doctor

.

Whenever a player targets you, they get sick as well, which means they will not be able to perform any active abilities, until they are cured by a

doctor

.

Comment

The action performed on this player will still succeed. Players who intended to target this player, but fail to do so because of roleblocking or redirection for example, will not be infected.

[Sméagol]

You've won the jackpot!

You may pick your role from this thread.

[Sméagol]

Town mad scientist

Perform experiments on target player, which may have positive effects.. or disastrous effects.

Effects and their probabilities:

[1] 5%: your target dies.
[2] 10%: your target turns vanilla. If your target already is vanilla, nothing happens.
[3] 20%: your target turns into a 1-shot version of his role. If your target is vanilla, nothing happens.
[4] 50%: your target gets a random 1-shot ability that is

normal

.
[5] 5%: your target permanently gains a

normal

role in addition to his current role.
[6] 5%: your target gains

flying

(he can't be targeted by players without

flying

).
[7] 5%: your target turns into a role from this thread.

Comment

@mod: Use a 1d100 dice roll.

1-5

: target dies.

6-15

: target turns vanilla.

16-35

: target turns into a 1-shot version of his role.

36-85

: randomly choose a role from the "Roles which are explicitly Normal for any alignment" list at the following link: link. Exclude jack-of-all-trades. Target gets a 1-shot version of that role.

86-90

: same as above, but target permanently gets the role in addition to his own role instead.

91-95

: target gains

flying

.

96-100

: randomly choose a role from this thread. Target turns into that role.

[Sméagol]

Mafia lingering spirit

When you die, you may continue to talk to your teammates in the private mafia thread.

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

[Sméagol]

Mafia roleblocker

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

[Sméagol]

Town sleepwalker

You visit a random player at night. Has no effect.

[Sméagol]

Accusing cop

You will get the alignment of the last player you voted for at the end of the previous day.

[Sméagol]

Town depressed

When an absolute majority has been reached for your lynch, instead you will suicide (and flip), but the day continues as normal, with the vote count reset (and deadline extended at mod's discretion).

Edit:

I see there's already a role in this thread with that name, but I can't be arsed to think of another.

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

[Sméagol]

Town 2-shot akimbo vigilante

May use both shots at the same time.

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

[Sméagol]

Town death tunneler

Once placed, you may never change your vote, until that player is dead. On following days, you will automatically place a vote on the player you voted for the previous day, unless that player is dead.

[Sméagol]

Town delicious sandwich

Anyone who targets you, can't resist a bite. After 5 bites, you die. You will be informed at the start of each day of the number of bites remaining.

[Sméagol]

You are a

Werewolf

, not a

Swearwolf

.
Postrestriction: may not use profanity.

Reference

:

IMDB

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

[Sméagol]

Informed townie

At the start of the game, you're informed about the number of non-town players.

[Sméagol]

Informed goon

At the start of the game, you're informed about the number of non-mafia, non-town players.

[Sméagol]

Town [rolename TBA]

You may customise your rolename, but you're otherwise vanilla. If you don't customise your rolename, you'll simply show up as

vanilla townie

to rolecops and in flips.

[Sméagol]

Bounty hunter

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
You're a 1-shot vigilante, but in addition you may have the mod publicly announce that players can vote to put a bounty on someone's head (this doesn't reveal that you're the bounty hunter).
If you choose to kill the player with the most votes, you will get your shot refilled.

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

[Sméagol]

Flying townie / Flying goon

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
You have

Flying

(you can only be targeted by other players with

flying

).

[Sméagol]

Direct motivator

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
Your target will be able to use his ability twice in the same night. You'll have to provide the 2nd target. Does not apply to factional abilties.

[Sméagol]

1-shot Duck hunter

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
You're a 1-shot vigilante.
You may target players with

flying

.

[Sméagol]

Easy lynch

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
Votes for your lynch are accumulative, which means they won't stop counting even after the voter has changed his vote. When an absolute majority of players have voted for your lynch at any point during the day, you will be lynched, regardless who those players are currently voting for.

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

[Sméagol]

Haunting ghost

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
When you die, you will get access to a private topic with your killer or hammerer.

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

Yes... My work here is done.
<maniacal laughter>
Next up:

banding

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

I was actually thinking of modifying it to make more sense in a mafia context.. I had 1.5 ideas for it.

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

And on a sidenote, I think this may actually be a great theme for a mafia game.

[Sméagol]

Flying townie / Flying goon / Flying werewolf

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

Yeah, I'll go work on that tonight. Expect it in a queue next year.

[Sméagol]

1-shot deadly musical chairs

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
At any point during the day, you may post the command

Start the music

. The mod will publicly post the instructions below. At any point after 12 hours have past (to give everyone a chance to get the heads-up), you may post the command

Stop the music

. All other players can post the command

Sit down

. The last one to be seated dies a horrible death.

This is a game of musical chairs! When the music stops, you have to find a chair and sit down! The music stops after at least 12 hours (

countdown

), not before. You can sit down after

Player

posts

Stop the music

. To sit down, post

Sit down

(in bold) in the thread. Posting

Sit down

before the music has stopped doesn't count. The last one to do so, dies. Have fun!

Comment

Excellent for the mafia.

Spoiler: copy

Code: Select all

This is a game of musical chairs! When the music stops, you have to find a chair and sit down! The music stops after at least 12 hours ([countdown]201x-mm-dd hh+12:mm:ss[/countdown]), not before. You can sit down after [i]Player[/i] posts [b]Stop the music[/b]. To sit down, post [b]Sit down[/b] (in bold) in the thread. Posting [b]Sit down[/b] before the music has stopped doesn't count. The last one to do so, dies. Have fun!

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

No I did not. I don't think that gets explained somewhere.

[Sméagol]

Vote normalizer

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
Every multi-vote against you will be converted to a single vote.

[Sméagol]

Helicopter transport

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
You are a jailkeeper with

flying

(you can only be targeted by other players with

flying

).

[Sméagol]

Jail

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
You are a 1-shot jailkeeper, except the effect is permanent. Once you've used your ability, your target is roleblocked and protected until you die, or your target is lynched.

[Sméagol]

1-shot role re-distributor

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
When you use your ability, all players keep their alignment, but their roles (except yours) will be randomly re-distributed. This action resolves last (all other actions still take place).

[Sméagol]

Déjà vu

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
You will have the same role as the one you had in your last finished game.

[Sméagol]

Plus one

(neutral survivor until ability is succesfully used)
You may have the mod PM a person from outside the game to invite into the game. If that person accepts, the mod will roll 2 roles for both of you. You will be neighbours in addition.
No one accepts your invite? Well that's a shame.

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

I was hoping the disclaimer would get around that. Oh well.

[Sméagol]

Someone asked for more swing I believe?

Swing

You are town on odd day- and night cycles, and mafia on even day- and night cycles.
If more factions exist in the game, add those to the rotation. Single player factions don't count for this purpose. You don't inherit factional abilities, and you don't get to know your teammates.

[Sméagol]

Riddle-master

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
Each day you may post a riddle in the thread. Those who wish to target you must send the correct anwser in a PM to the mod. If you don't post a riddle, you're available for targeting as usual. Must be a riddle people could logically find the anwser to (..or Google it). So no "What have I got in my pocket?" riddles.

[Sméagol]

Chocolate cop

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
Checks whether target is chocolate or not. 24 hits so far.

[Sméagol]

Town role cop

[Sméagol]

Pagetop voter

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
Your vote only counts when it's the pagetop.

[Sméagol]

Fractionalizer

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
The mod will remove parts of the description of target player's role. If this can't be done without ending up with a still functioning role, nothing will happen.

Idea brought to you by:

Serial Killer Mixer

All descriptions of roles in the game are shuffled and redistributed into different role PMs. Fractional information is not included in the switch up.
Everyone is still the title of the role they received.
[..]

[Sméagol]

KAIN TEPES

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
Post restriction: every sentence you post MUST INCLUDE at least several words IN CAPS!!

Comment

SORRY COULDN'T RESIST

[Sméagol]

Tailored role

Ha! The mod thought he could get away with not creating roles by modding a Grand Idea mafia! Well he or she was wrong!
Here's a custom role tailored for you and this set-up:

Actual role

If you end up being vanilla, you know who to blame.

[Sméagol]

Pure tracker

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
In addition to being a tracker, you have protection from abilities which will permanently alter your role in any way.

Comment

This includes (but is not limited to):
- You can not gain any permanent abilities through any means.
- You can not gain any modifiers through any means.
- You can not be vanillaised.
- You can not be recruited.
- You can not be turned into a treestump.
- You can not re-roll your role through any means.
In short, any abilities that would make you anything else than a

pure tracker

, will fail to work. You can however, be the receiver of temporary effects.

[Sméagol]

Pure vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
You have protection from abilities which will permanently alter your role in any way.

Comment

This includes (but is not limited to):
- You can not gain any permanent abilities through any means.
- You can not gain any modifiers through any means.
- You can not (further) be vanillaised (i.e. you can not lose this protection).
- You can not be recruited.
- You can not be turned into a treestump.
- You can not re-roll your role through any means.
In short, any abilities that would make you anything else than a

pure vanilla

, will fail to work. You can however, be the receiver of temporary effects.

[Sméagol]

Banana lover

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
There's a 1 in 3 chance that players targeting you will be roleblocked. When this happens, the following will be added to the write-up:

Player

slipped over a banana peel!

[Sméagol]

Town expediter

Your target's action (if applicable) will resolve first (i.e. it has the highest priority in the action resolution).

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

[..]
4. Must change display picture to a Milltank.

I'd already be tempted to do that if my own avatar wasn't so damn hot.

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

"Macho maker but then becomes bulletproof.. guy".
"Super Soldier serum injector".

[Sméagol]

Town Bob

You may target someone. He will be Macho for this night, but will become bulletproof for the rest of the game.

Town bad Doctor

Someone help me think of a better name

You may target someone. He will be Macho for this night, but will become bulletproof for the rest of the game.

[..]
How about Bob?

[Sméagol]

Town weak compulsive non-consecutive traveler

[Sméagol]

Fruit thrower

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
Target player will receive the following message:

Someone threw a

fruit

in your face!

Fruit is customizable by player.

[Sméagol]

Mountainous lylo enabler

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
If you're alive, and 4 players or less remain, all non-factional abilities will be disabled.

[Sméagol]

Mafia tailor

(wiki)

[Sméagol]

Charismatic townie

You will appear as townie under all circumstances.

Comment

Tailors don't work, janitors don't work, cop sanities are disregarded, etc.

[Sméagol]

Choice of the players

All players (including you), are asked to send in a (non-vanilla) role from this thread pre-game.
If a role happens to have the most votes, that's the role you're getting. Otherwise you're getting a random role from the ones that are tied.

[Sméagol]

Flying townie / Flying goon / Flying werewolf

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
You have

flying

(you can only be targeted by other players with

flying

).

[Sméagol]

Cat with 9 lives

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
You are a 9-shot deathproof variant, however, since you're a cat you're also fragile.
You require only 1 vote to be lynched. If you have deathproof shots left, your lynch won't end the day.
If you're targeted by

any

ability, you die, unless you have deathproof shots left.

[Sméagol]

1-shot vote restriction

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
The next dayphase after you use your ability, players may not change their vote.

[Sméagol]

Flying 2-shot cop

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
You are a 2-shot cop with

flying

(you can only be targeted by other players with

flying

).

[Sméagol]

Unfriendly neighbour traitor

(alignment is the smallest non-town faction)

Player(s)

are the

alignment

. They are aware of an existing traitor, but don't know who. You're not recruitable. You win with them, but you don't officially count towards your win condition.

Every night, you may PM the mod to have him or her send a message to another player, with the message that you are

alignment

.

[Sméagol]

Modern age

All roles, including this one, are re-rolled. Only the last 100 roles are eligible.

[Sméagol]

Years of yonder

All roles, including this one, are re-rolled. Only the first 100 roles are eligible.

[Sméagol]

Re-roll announcer

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
As long as your alive, the mod will publicly announce when someone has his or her role re-rolled (not what the role is, what the old role was, or what caused it).
This includes pre-game re-rolls, the day 1 write-up will include the total number of re-rolls for all players.

[Sméagol]

Bouncing ball

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
You have

flying

on even nights. You can only be targeted by other players with

flying

on even nights.

[Sméagol]

Dart thrower

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
Each night, you may throw 2 darts to 2 target players.
Players require 3 darts to die.

[Sméagol]

Ah, here's my invitation!

If you have posted a non-vanilla role in the Grand idea mafia thread before, re-roll for your actual role.
If you

haven't

posted a non-vanilla role in the Grand idea mafia thread before, you will have no actual role and win condition until you do so.

[Sméagol]

Multi-baller

If there already are multiple non-town factions, you join the smallest one. If there's already a player in that faction with a non-vanilla role, you are vanilla. If all players in that faction are vanilla, roll a new role appropriate for that alignment.
If there are no multiple factions, you and a random non-town player will form a new mafia team. If that player is non-vanilla, you are vanilla. If that player is vanilla, roll a mafia role.

[Sméagol]

Slo-mo 1-shot day vigilante

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
You are a delayed 1-shot day vigilante. Your target will die 5 real days later.

Any protective roles that may exist in the game will be told they can use their ability during the day as well, by publicly posting their action in the gamethread. If there happens to be a nightphase before (or when) the effect takes place, night actions may be used as well.

[Sméagol]

Slo-mo 1-shot day vigilante

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
You are a delayed 1-shot day vigilante. Your target will die 5 real days later.

Comment

Variant on the role above.

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

^ idk who you are but you're totally wasting that username without a gollum avatar

I find her more pleasing to look at.

I don't think I actually ever used a Gollum avatar in the decade+ that I've used this username.

[Sméagol]

That does get me thinking though.. Avatar manipulation.

We are legion

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
Every player is required to use an avatar of your choice, for as long as they're alive in this game, or for as long as you are alive in this game. If they refuse, their votes won't count and their abilities (whether passive or active) won't work. This will be announced at the start of the game.

[Sméagol]

Senior citizen

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
You die after x real days of old age, where x = 20 for a micro, x = 30 for a mini, and x = 40 for a large.

Comment

Feel free to suggest better numbers for x.

[Sméagol]

Circle redirector

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
Each night you may specify two targets. Target 1 will be redirected to target 2, and target 2 will be redirected to you.

[Sméagol]

Resurrected spirit

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
You start the game dead. You will have access to the dead thread from the beginning.
Every day, the living players may vote to resurrect you. At any point after an absolute majority has been reached, you may enter the gamethread. You don't have to enter the gamethread right away. You will lose assess to the dead thread when you do. You may only be resurrected once during the game.

Forced resurrection

: if you're not confident you're getting resurrected, or if you are impatient, you may resurrect yourself. The cost of this is that you'll automatically die again after one complete day- and night cycle (day + night or night + day).

Comment

Obviously, don't allow spoilers in the dead thread, and make it clear to other dead players the resurrected spirit has access.

[Sméagol]

Spirit voter

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
After your death, you're allowed to make 1 vote each dayphase. This must be done privately by PM. You don't have access to the dead thread. Absolute majority takes you into account.

Players may use a kill ability in order to stop you from voting for good, at which point you will gain access to the dead thread.

[Sméagol]

Flavour cop

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

[Sméagol]

Infectious vanillaizer

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
Your target will lose all abilities, but gain this ability.

[Sméagol]

Replacement killer

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
Each night, you may kill someone who has replaced someone else.

[Sméagol]

PM count investigator

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
Each night, you may learn how many PMs target player has sent to the mod during the previous day and current night.

[Sméagol]

The chosen one

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
You have protection from abilities which affect everyone at once.

[Sméagol]

Town ascetic

[Sméagol]

Mafia bulletproof

[Sméagol]

Town conditional bulletproof

You are bulletproof as long as there is more than 1 non-town faction in the game.

[Sméagol]

Townie with that super secret awesome mysterious role

[Sméagol]

Townie with that super secret awesome mysterious role

1-shot cop
1-shot vigilante
1-shot rolecop

[Sméagol]

Townie with that super secret awesome mysterious role

1-shot roleblocker
1-shot watcher

[Sméagol]

Townie with that super secret awesome mysterious role

1-shot motion detecter
1-shot vanilla cop

[Sméagol]

Townie with that super secret awesome mysterious role

[Sméagol]

Mafia scum with that super secret awesome mysterious role

You will appear as townie under investigations, and to role cops you will appear as "Townie with that super secret awesome mysterious role".

[Sméagol]

Town neapolitan

[Sméagol]

Functional vanilla cop

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
You may investigate each night whether your target is

functionally

vanilla, in other words you will investigate if it has any actual abilities regardless of its role name.

[Sméagol]

Town role cop

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

Are you giving out inventor inventions? Invention Inception.

[Sméagol]

Action detector

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
Find out if your target has sent in an action (this includes untargeted abilities).

[Sméagol]

Global action detector

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
Find out how many players have sent in actions (this includes untargeted abilities).

[Sméagol]

Town schizofrenic

You have access to a private topic. You may have the mod invite any number of people from outside the game (they will only be able to talk in this private topic).

[Sméagol]

Town trace detector

You will find out if your target has ever targeted you before (including the current night).

Comment

Player doesn't find out which night.

[Sméagol]

Town 2-shot shotgun-wielding vigilante

There's 75% chance you will kill your target.
For each player involved with your target besides you (the players who are targeted by your target, or the players who are targeting your target) there's 100% / (x+1) chance you will kill that player. x = the total number of players involved with your target besides you.

Comment

For example, your target is targeting another player, but isn't targeted himself except by you. There's a 100 / (1+1) = 50% chance you will kill that other player, and 75% chance you will kill your target.

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

Wasted opportunity, should've been a millenium themed role .

[Sméagol]

Town's laughing stock

Randomly roll a role from the Worst role ideas thread.

Comment

Har har!

[Sméagol]

Town 1-shot baker

Your target will receive the message "You have received bread!", but only if there is a miller in the game.

[Sméagol]

Role switcher

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
You will gain your target's role (minus alignment), and your target will gain this role.

[Sméagol]

Town night 5 motion detector

[Sméagol]

Surprise jack-of-all-trades (1-shot surprise 1; 1-shot surprise 2; 1-shot surprise 3)

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
Pre-game, you must PM me 3 other players. They will determine what 1-shot ability you will get, but you will not be informed of their choice. They have until the end of day 1 to make a choice, if they fail to decide, the mod will choose one for you.

[Sméagol]

E detector

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
You can find out if target player's role name contains the letter

e

.

[Sméagol]

Alien visitor

Each night you can visit another player.

[Sméagol]

Town Back-up 1-shot vigilante

When every town player with some form of vigilante ability has died, you will become a 1-shot vigilante.

[Sméagol]

Vigilante enabler

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
When you die, all players (regardless of alignment) lose all forms of vigilante abilities.

[Sméagol]

Town custom miller

You may choose what cop results on you will be, other than town.

[Sméagol]

Mafia record falsifier

Twice each dayphase, you may have the mod edit one of your own posts to anything you like.

[Sméagol]

Mafia redirector

[Sméagol]

Cursed troll

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
When you die, you don't flip, instead, you petrify.
You can't post or do anything like expected, but you are still available for targeting.

[Sméagol]

Town 2-shot jetpack inventor

On 2 nights, you may give a target player the

flying

ability (they can only be targeted by other players with

flying

).

Comment

You yourself don't have flying, though you may use one of your shots to gain flying.

[Sméagol]

Flying vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
You have

flying

(you can only be targeted by other players with

flying

).

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

I should probably save some of these for my own themes..

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

Town Extremely Specific Role-Specific Cop

Along with your role, the mod has generated a random number from 0 to the number of posts in the Grand Idea thread (at the cutoff being used for this game), and informed you of that number. Each night, you may scan a player to see whether or not they have the role described in the corresponding post. There is no guarantee that the role in question actually exists in the setup.

If it hits Vanilla Townie, might actually be potentially useful. Otherwise, the odds of it being anything other than a Visitor are pretty low.

You could bump up the usefulness by randomly choose one the actual existing roles.

[Sméagol]

Chocolate townie

Vanilla Townie

E detector

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
You can find out if target player's role name contains the letter

e

.

Does "Sméagol" contain the letter

e

?

It's a moot point, as I have not named a role after myself (..yet).

It depends on the encoding. To me it's an e with an accent, so yes, I consider my name to contain an

e

.

[Sméagol]

Judged by the dead

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
You can't be voted for by living players. Instead, the dead players may vote in the deadthread in order to lynch you. This is announced at the start of the game. This requires an absolute majority of all the dead players (so with 3 players dead, two need to vote for you to lynch you). There needs to be at least 3 dead players before you can be lynched.

The votes from the dead show up in the vote count as usual (perhaps with a different colour to distinguish them). Apart from the dead voting, lynches happen as usual, so if there's an absolute majority for your lynch before anyone else, you'll be lynched and the day ends.

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

Made a quick little script to generate a 9p set-up.. I have not looked at the following result yet.

561
1486
1293
11
1259
1099
370
1727
966

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

One more.

1843
418
1491
27
1428
1883
86
233
1649

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up top mod's discretion)

Yeah it didn't look good. The other one's not great either. Last one:

2023
549
568
918
1405
109
352
1187
1168

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

The last one

does

sound like fun though )

Spoiler: Alright, 5 more, then I'm off to bed

[1]

1806
73
1382
212
644
1585
1000
1890
38

[2]

687
2001
236
1193
1868
520
1343
802
914

[3]

764
789
1508
536
1716
1322
431
981
929

[4]

527
1753
1285
1339
846
1776
268
1584
123

[5]

375
21
958
1039
1637
1374
2023
347
140

[Sméagol]

Mafia neapolitan

Town Roleblocker

Whether the win condition reversal would be claimed rather depends on the Survivor Reverser's win condition, which isn't stated.

According to the OP, it's town.

Anyway, I'd appreciate it if people took the time to post explanations in every post.. Or at least a link. I had to look up some stuff, but if I really were to mod a game, Id probably reroll, or treat it as a named townie.

By the way..

Day Numbering Reverser

What happens when you reach zero? Negative values? Game ends?

Now I'm really off to bed.

[Sméagol]

2-shot rioter

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
You can ask the mod to do anything you want. If he allows it, you use a shot for that action. If he doesn't, request some thing else (you don't use a shot).

[Sméagol]

1-shot Excorcist

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
If any player has any inherent abilities that work while the player is dead, you can target that player to disable those abilities. You may do this while the player is alive, or when the player is dead. However, if you target a living player without any inherent dead abilities, your ability will fail, but you will use your shot.

[Sméagol]

Town recruiter

If the set-up has any roles with undetermined alignment, those roles will be town.

[Sméagol]

Town Guaranteed 7-2

All roles that are mafia beyond the 2 alotted ones, or third party, are re-rolled until you roll a town role for that slot pre-game. In case there's only one mafia member rolled, re-roll another random town slot to a mafia role.
As such, if you have this role, you know that there are 2 mafia members, and no 3rd parties.

Comment

Make it 10-3 for a mini, and whatever's usual for a large.

[Sméagol]

Spaceman

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
You are a permanent commuter (you can't be targeted by anything, with one exception, see below).
You can not talk or vote directly in the game thread (or any PTs), instead, mission command (a.k.a. the mod) must relay messages (and votes) for you.
When you're lynched, you will be killed at the end of the night as opposed at the end of the day, as town needs to send a missile to take out your rocketship, and this takes a while.
You'll never be able to use any active targeted abilities.
Exceptions to the commuter protection are abilities that enable communication (for example, a neighbourizer). You will be able gain access to PTs, but the same restriction applies: you can not talk in them directly, only through the mod.

[Sméagol]

Mafia 1-shot innocent child.. disabler

At any point during the game, you may target a player.
If that player is an unannounced innocent child, that player turns into a vanilla townie.
If the player isn't an innocent child, or is already announced as such, this ability will do nothing.
If the player has a role with multiple abilties, with one of those being an innocent child-like ability, and that player has not been announced as town yet, you prevent the announcement from being activated or triggered. It won't affect the other abilities or the role in itself.

[Sméagol]

Town 3-shot cowbell salesman

Sell a cowbell to target player. That player becomes loud (if it targets another player, that player will be informed of being targeted by that player).

[Sméagol]

Vote saver

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
If you don't use your vote in a dayphase, you may add it's worth to your vote the next dayphase.

Comment

You may not vote at all if you want to add its worth to your vote the next day. Voting and then unvoting doesn't count.
It's accumulative: if you don't use your vote for 2 days, the next day you will have a triple vote.

[Sméagol]

1-shot Vote re-arranger

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
Once during the game, at any point during the day, you may decide the votes for all players (previous votes will be dismissed). You can't have an absolute majority vote for a player this way.
You, and anyone who you share a private topic with (..or any other form of communication besides the gamethread), can't vote for 2 hours. Any vote in the post directly after the resulting vote count, won't count, but unvotes are ok.

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

Mafia Goon

What happens if the game has more than 9 players? I know that Grand Idea Mafia is normally played as a Micro, but IMO it would work better as a Large (with some aggressive filtering of unbalanced setups and unusable roles).

I forgot to take into account other formats like I did with another role.. I added a comment.

Mafia Rolecop

You can, however, put a player at L-1 and then hammer them. So this is basically a day-ending dayvig, which would be very powerful in scum hands. (You could even make it look like an accident, I imagine.)

Yeah, I wasn't thinking about the mafia using it pro-actively, I was thinking about actual accidents. Regardless, if someone uses this to quickhammer, it's going to look suspicious. But I'll edit it later to prevent mafia from quickhammering immediately.

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

Generating set-ups has the same excitement as opening a Kinder Surprise egg.
This one looks good!

1471
902
757
873
1333
620
468
101
1411

[Sméagol]

Town 1-shot twilight cop

You may investigate someone during twilight.

[Sméagol]

Town day 1 vengeful

If you're lynched, you may kill someone along with you, but only on day 1.

[Sméagol]

Town night shortener

While you're alive, players only have 12 hours to send in actions after the night has started, regardless of the actual deadline. This will be publicly announced.
At any point during the game you may turn this passive ability on or off.

[Sméagol]

Flying vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
You have

flying

(you can only be targeted by other players with

flying

).

Mafia Day Godfather

[..]
At the very least, make it the last 6 hours of the night, so that people have a chance to plan their sleep schedules around it.

I actually thought about that, but the whole point of it is for people to potentially miss the deadline. I don't want them planning around it (and I certainly don't want them to actually lose sleep over it).

But I'll compromise by making it 12, and making it optional.

[Sméagol]

Executioner

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
Every time an ability would affect the hammerer, it will affect you instead.

[Sméagol]

Lynch bomb

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
AKA super saint. If you're lynched, you automatically kill your hammerer.

[Sméagol]

Town voodoo priest

At the cost of your own life, you may do one of the following at night:
1] Revive someone (self-aligned players will be converted to town in the process)
2] Kill someone (this ignores all kinds of protection, including commuter)
You can be roleblocked, this doesn't prevent your death however.

[Sméagol]

Bartender

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
Target someone:
33% chance they're roleblocked.
33% chance they're randomly redirected to another target.
34% chance nothing happens.

[Sméagol]

Self-watcher

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
You will be notified of who targeted you.

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

[Sméagol]

Classified

Roll for your actual role.
In addition to your role, role-type investigations will all return "classified". Your role won't flip (your alignment will though), it will also just say "classified".

[Sméagol]

Town hated bulletproof role cop miller self-vanillaizer

You require 1 less vote to be lynched.
You return mafia (or similar, up to the mod) to cop investigations.
You are safe from 1 murder attempt each night.
Each night, you can find out someone's role.
In addition, you may choose to vanilla-ize yourself at any point during the game. This is permanent.

[Sméagol]

Mafia role cop

[Sméagol]

Role constructor

Choose any of the following "blocks" to construct your role. If you don't choose the [mafia] block, you're town. If you don't choose anything, you're town vanilla. The 1-shot in the [bulletproof - 1-shot] block, doesn't apply to bulletproof, but rather to potential other blocks.
Any parts in the end result (or all of it) that don't make sense, are disregarded.

[mafia]
[bulletproof - 1-shot]
[role]
[cop]
[blocker]

Comment

Functional examples:
(town) cop
(town) bulletproof
mafia role cop
mafia bulletproof 1-shot cop blocker (can roleblock a cop specifally, one time, won't affect other roles)

[Sméagol]

(1-shot) Paparazzi

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
Your target's name and action (ability + target if applicable) will be revealed in the write-up. If no action performed, the player is revealed to have done nothing.

[Sméagol]

Mafia voters roleblocker

While you're alive, you will automatically roleblock everyone who has a vote active at the end of the day, with the exception of factional abilities. This ability will not trigger if you yourself have cast a vote.

[Sméagol]

Town RGB cop

Investigate someone to find out their alignment. Your results will be in one of the following formats (which one is predetermined pre-game):

Format 1

red

// for town results.

green

// for non-town results.

Format 2

green

// for town results.

blue

// for non-town results.

Format 3

blue

// for town results.

red

// for non-town results.

[Sméagol]

Neutral paradox hunter

You have the same win condition as town, but in addition, you have the following alternative win condition:
If an ability interaction causes a paradox, you win, and leave the game. You may also decide how the paradox should be resolved.

If this guy's voting at the end of a day, he causes a paradox.

I originally had in mind for the player's own vote to be ignored for the purpose of its ability, but decided it would be a nice additional drawback, and added a clause. Too bad, because I like paradoxes.

[Sméagol]

Town vector tracker

Investigate the smallest number of player slots the target is removed from its own target in the playerlist.

Comment

4 examples, assuming a total of 9 players:
1] The target player is number 3, and the target player's target is number 7, the returned result is

4

.
2] The target player is number 1, and the target player's target is number 8, the returned result is

2

.
3] If the target player targets itself, the returned result is

0

4] If the target player has no target, the returned result is

NULL

.

[Sméagol]

Town weak night 0 cop

[Sméagol]

Role constructor

Your role name is

Role constructor

. Get your functional role by choosing one block of each of the following lines:

1] [town] [mafia] [neutral survivor]
2] [ascetic 1-shot] [2-shot] [hated 3-shot]
3] [role cop] [role blocker] [commuter]

[Sméagol]

Mafia night 0 role cop

[Sméagol]

Mafia modifier cloaker

Modifiers aren't revealed in flips and role cop investigations.

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion)

[Sméagol]

Vanilla

(alignment up to mod's discretion, unless it's a "modless" game, then it's pirates)

How the fuck does "modless" even work on a forum like this?

And however it works, geez, improvise man! :p

Edit:

I made most roles "up to mod's discretion" to help out with balance problems, obviously, plus claiming problems. Mods can decide which faction they need more of, instead of re-rolling immediately.

[Sméagol]

Town 1-shot indiscriminate cop

Choose x targets. You find out if there are mafia (or non-town, up to the mod) members among them, but not who or how many.
x = 2 for micro or mini
x = 3 for large

[Sméagol]

Town odd-night factional abilities enabler

As long as you're alive, factional abilities can only be used on odd nights.

[Sméagol]

Mafia vengeful vanillaizer

On death, turn target player vanilla.

[Sméagol]

Town vengeful winner announcer

On death, you may (optionally) declare target player a winner, who will leave the game. That player will count as a winner of the game, regardless of the actual outcome.

[Sméagol]

Flying pirate

(your alignment is pirate)
You have

flying

(you can only be targeted by other players with

flying

).

@Smeagol: I call that role "Briber", and IMO it's far more interesting as scum-aligned (although obviously a lot more powerful). It's a bit like a vig, but more interesting because it makes it possible to make deals, screw up 1:1:1 endings, etc..

Ah, I remember seeing that role. Looked it up again, and it's not exactly the same.. Anyway, as long as the functionality gets across.

[Sméagol]

Precog tracker

(alignment up to mod's discretion)
You find out the target of target player. Instead of at the end of the night, you find as soon as possible. You will also be informed of any changes made.

In addition, you may send a message to another player through the mod (limited to one each night). This will also be delivered as soon as possible, instead of at the end of the night.