Some that aren't that bad, but can be confusing:
And one that isn't bad or confusing, but has an amusing tendency to backfire if claimed:
I'm nowhere near being able to mod here.xyzzy wrote:Xyl, you should mod a large game. And by large, I mean, like, 50 roles.
Chainsaw, anyone? [/ircjoke]
You areSeol wrote:That's one for the philosophers, and as such belongs in General Discussion.Quagmire wrote:isn't it, though?Seol wrote:You arethe Chip on Quagmire's Shoulder
You believe you've won, and really, that's all that matters.
You're misremembering. The actual setup was:PokerFace wrote:Two more things should be noted about this game. The man referred to as XXXX wasone of twocult recruiters in that game. The game also featured a night start which meant both of us were dead when day1 came. Every townie assumed I had taken the cult with me when there was another recruiter still around.
But thereAnd this was in irc so it was not a real perspon going bastard mod on us. The bot had something against the players big time in that multirole.
Basically serial killer plus one-shot daykill plus suicide-recruit.Possesser Serial Killer Nightmare (unknown): Once during the game at any time, you can kill another player. This kill negates all forms of protection, and the target won't revive. You can't be detected by trackers or watchmen. You kill other players. At night, you can possess another player. You will die, but your target will join your team and gain this ability. Actions: (x)eradicate (1 use) kill possess
Resisting temptation...Tarhalindur wrote:Okay, I can't resist chiming in. Role submitted in the style of my typical role PM:
For extra fun, add in a role or two that is secretly immune to roleblocks.Welcome to Hypothetical Bastard Role Mafia,PLAYERNAME. You areQ (from Star Trek: The Next Generation). You just love screwing around with other peoples' fun, and you're not above using your powers to do so.
You are aNeutral Omnipotent Bastard. You have the following special ability:
Deja Q- As long as you are in the game, all night actions will be roleblocked.
You win if you survive to the end of the game, or nothing can prevent the same.
There are few lines of bastard modding I will not cross. Lying to a player about their own win condition is one of them.Tarhalindur wrote:How to balance a Jester:
Welcome to Hypothetical Bastard Role Mafia,PLAYERNAME. You are aNeutral Jester. You have no special abilities.
You win if you are lynched, or nothing can prevent the same.MOD NOTE: Actually aNeutral Survivor.
Bastard enough for you?
You might as well just write it like this...Mafiaplayer wrote:How about a less lying version?
You are a jester or a survivor. You do not know which.
You lose if you are nightkilled. You have a 50% chance of losing even if you aren't nightkilled. Otherwise, you win.
You areundo wrote:What about aParanoid Bus Driver? He would have to switch the 'seats' of all players in the game.
Fortunatly, thr's no rstriction on whn it can post anything ls...Mafiaplayer wrote:You are the uber-investigator. You know the role of everyone in the entire game. You have two post restrictions:
You may only post "Hello! This game looks fun!" as your first post.
You will die immeadiately after posting the letter e.
The #mafia bot actually has a similar role, which can be a lot of fun. It's hard to use the results effectively, but occasionally you can pull out a terrific fake claim...Seol wrote:You are theOmniscient Mafioso.
The setup of the game is: <attach game setup, obviusly without role allocations>
You are scum with X and Y. You can talk with them at night, and between you submit a kill on any one player. You win when all players who are not scum are dead.
The idea being that the worst role here is anyone who's town. 8)
That said, I'm working on a game where that role both fits and is nicely balanced...
I'm so stealing that for the mafiabot. It's got a lot of strategic depth.hasdgfas wrote:How about this:Gamma wrote:You are aPoser.
You're townie, but if a cop investigates you, the cop will get the result of another player instead of your alignment.
In otherwords, you areMILLER EXTREME!!!!!
You are aPoser
Choose one player each night and you'll pretend to be them. All night actions that would target them target you instead, and all night actions that would target you get no result.
I would play this role in a heartbeat.Vi wrote:But don't worry - as long as you're not at all suspicious and not worth protecting at night, you won't massacre multiple pro-Town roles at once if you don't make your extremely public NKs. Not to put you on the spot or anythingYou are aCrazed Psychopathic Mass Murderer That Eats Small Children. But you're not a serial killer; you're just a constantly dazed and semipermanently irrational Townie. You win with the Town, contrary to all appearances.
During each night, you are permitted one (1) Night Kill of the target of your choice. However, each time you use this night kill, the moderator will announce in the thread that the death of the person you killed wasclearlythe work of a Crazed Psychopathic Mass Murderer That Eats Small Children. If you do not use your Night Kill, every person who targets you that night dies, and the death/killing spree (whichever is applicable) is announced as having been committed by a Crazed Psychopathic Mass Murderer That Eats Small Children. You cannot be roleblocked.
There are two exceptions to the above Night Action rules:
*If you are targeted by two (2) killing roles and are not using your NK, you are killed and so is the killer who "arrived" first (made the first PM to the mod).
*If you NK the Innocent Child, you are granted one (1) nightkill immunity (for when you are eligible to be nightkilled in the first place). Innocent Children taste like chicken. Trust me.
Not true. Try sending a test message to yourself. It will stay in your outbox until you actually read it in your inbox.Mr. Flay wrote:Hah, that would be a good small fast game, iam. How as Mod would you know if they open them or not? I guess you could have them quote the ability back to you via PM, but there's no incentive (except honor) to quote a negative one. PMs move from Outbox to Sentbox as soon as you open your Inbox, not when you read them. Maybe it'll be different under phpBB3...
This is supposed to be amolestargazer wrote:You are aCompulsive Martyr. Every night, you must submit a name to the mod to protect. You will die if that person is targeted for death, but they will be protected.
If you fail to submit an action, you will automatically assumed to have protected the mafia's target, and die.
You win with the town.
Without lose=die it's actually an okay role, better than vanilla townie. The change makes it bad yes.molestargazer wrote:For the guy who gets it, yeah. Perhaps I should add he loses if he dies to make it more recognisable.
See Tarhalindur's games, where every scum gets this for free as an unlimited ability.Shanba wrote:You are a mafia counterfeiter.
Normally, your job would be to sit behind the scenes and make money (sometimes literally). However, it seems you've been sent out to the front lines this time, because the town has taken to checking people's identities before stringing them up and lynching them (the nerve!). As such, role PM quoting is allowed in this game. Your job is to submit, on night 0, 3 fakeclaims (with as much or as little detail as you like) and I will write three role PMs for you. On subsequent nights you may create more fakeclaims at a rate of a fakeclaim per night.
You win when the mafia wins yadda yadda.
No, logical quotation is definitely getting adopted faster than the metric system. Case in point: I am American and I use it.GIEFF wrote:You have to convince us to use the more-logical metric system first.Xylthixlm wrote:Logical quotation is the style of the future.GIEFF wrote:Not in America, buddy. Not in America.
Not gonna happen.