Best Role Ideas?

Seacore · Post Post #752 (isolation #0) » Sun Apr 10, 2011 5:58 pm

You are a Retaliator

Each Night, if you have been the target of a lynch VOTE, you must target to kill a player who voted to lynch you.

Essentially a slightly complicated compulsive vig

Seacore · Post Post #760 (isolation #1) » Mon Apr 11, 2011 12:11 pm

Well it might work, but the game wouldn't be mafia.

Seacore · Post Post #780 (isolation #2) » Tue Apr 12, 2011 2:24 pm

Meransiel wrote: You are a
Mafia Briber
. Once per night, you can target 1 other player. Your role will be revealed to that player. Also, that player is not allowed to vote you for 2 days, and the Mafia is not allowed to kill that player next night. You win with the mafia.

SCUM A visits TOWN B during N1

TOWN B now knows SCUM A is scum

D2

TOWN B: "Hey everybody, I can't vote for him, but SCUM A is scum, mod told me last night"

EVERYBODY ELSE : "Awesome!" *lynch*

TOWN B is now more or less confirmed and kill immune for one night.

Seacore · Post Post #814 (isolation #3) » Sun May 01, 2011 2:23 pm

Heh, I just came here to post one called Stalker... a new name is possible I guess, but:

You are a

Stalker

At the start of the game you must nominate X (2?) players. Each night you may choose one of those players to stalk. If you are successful you will be informed of any players that they target or that target them. If one of your targets die, you may nominate another.

The role can be of any alignment.
Basically it's a limited Tracker and Watcher

Seacore · Post Post #816 (isolation #4) » Wed May 04, 2011 5:25 pm

Ythan wrote:That's more of a descriptor.

Wut?

Seacore · Post Post #836 (isolation #5) » Wed Aug 10, 2011 3:41 pm

That's a terrible role.

D1
Bob: Guys, I can't vote, you should totally vote for A, B, C and D. Trust me
Other players: Bullshit, let's kill him for lying! Yeah!
Bob dies
Bob flips "the all knowing impotent"

D2
Somebody : "Crap he was right! lets kill all those people he said to kill"
Town wins

Seacore · Post Post #839 (isolation #6) » Wed Aug 10, 2011 6:50 pm

Yay. So instead we have a useless role that accomplishes nothing. Which I suppose is a step up from a role that breaks the game.

Or we could make him a townie. With no PR.

Seacore · Post Post #888 (isolation #7) » Sun Nov 27, 2011 11:58 am

Noisy Bodyguard

- Each night you may target one player. If that player is the target of a kill, they are saved and you die in their place. If you successfully block a kill, and die, the mod will post your target's name in the thread the next morning.

Seacore · Post Post #912 (isolation #8) » Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:41 pm

That is a weird role. Maybe it should have the survivor win condition instead?

Seacore · Post Post #914 (isolation #9) » Thu Apr 19, 2012 2:38 pm

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

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

It also doesn't quite match the extensive flavour that goes along with the role.