Worst role ideas?

[Tarhalindur]

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Sie sind

Goethe

. Nur Deustch bitte. Sie sprechen Duesch nichts? Das ist aber schade. Sie erlangen mit dem Stadt.

Das ist nicht genug. Nur deutsche Lyrik. Um Leibe und Geister und vielleicht den Teufel. Und die musst natuerlich reimen.

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Ausgezeichnet!

[Tarhalindur]

Okay, I can't resist chiming in. Role submitted in the style of my typical role PM:

Welcome to Hypothetical Bastard Role Mafia,

PLAYERNAME

. You are

Q (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 a

Neutral 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.

For extra fun, add in a role or two that is secretly immune to roleblocks.

[Tarhalindur]

How to balance a Jester:

Welcome to Hypothetical Bastard Role Mafia,

PLAYERNAME

. You are a

Neutral Jester

. You have no special abilities.

You win if you are lynched, or nothing can prevent the same.

MOD NOTE: Actually a

Neutral Survivor

.

Bastard enough for you?

[Tarhalindur]

You are the

Jester!

Mod note: actually a survivor

You asked for it...

Welcome to Hypothetical Bastard Role Mafia,

PLAYERNAME

. You are

Xyzzy

. You wanted to bring your new, awesome role and show it to the world, but apparently somebody else got to it first.

You are a

Vanilla Townie

. Since you "invented" a bastard role that had been posted on the previous page of the Worst Role thread, you have no special abilities.

You win when all other factions are dead, or nothing can prevent the same.

Mod Note: This is a Space Monkey-type setup. He's really the only anti-town role in the game. Too bad, really, since he doesn't have any special abilities...

[Tarhalindur]

Welcome to Worst Roles Mafia,

PLAYERNAME

. You are

The Mod's Worst Nightmare

. You have the following special abilities:

Unmodkillable

- You cannot be modkilled for any reason

Unreplacable

- You cannot be replaced for any reason

iPick

- You decide the targets for all votes and all targeted abilities

(whenever a player votes, you will be informed and you may decide who that player votes for. Whenever a player uses a targeted ability, you will be informed exactly what that ability does - mod notes included - and you may decide who that player targets with that ability. If you fail to submit a choice within 24 hours of the vote or ability being used, the player's original target will be used by default.)

You win the game if you have not lost the game when everybody stops playing out of sheer frustration. You lose the game if any other player figures out your role name or any of your abilities.

(You lost the Game when you read this sentence. So did I.)

Please confirm via return PM (but nothing will happen to you should you fail to confirm).

[Tarhalindur]

Remind me to post here when a certain ongoing game is done.

[Tarhalindur]

You are a COP WITH ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA. You have the ability to investigate one other player per night to determine their allegiance (town, SK, Mafia, Cult, whatever), but there's a problem. See, you have this condition. You can't form new memories. You just forget everything that happens to you. So instead of trying to remember your night results, you write them down on little slips of paper.

There's only one problem, though: you keep forgetting where you put the little slips of paper. See, you have this condition. You can't form new memories. So you keep forgetting where you put the papers.

You may investigate one other player per night to determine their allegiance, but you don't get the results. Upon your death, however, the results will be revealed to the rest of the town.

You don't get the results yourself because of this condition that you have. See, you can't form new memories. So you just keep forgetting the results.

You win when all threats to the town have been eliminated.

...have I told you about your condition yet?

Memento is an utterly, utterly awesome mindfrak of a movie, and I have a sudden urge to steal this role idea and modify it to suit my needs.

[Tarhalindur]

Remind me to post here when a certain ongoing game is done.

Now that it's no longer ongoing, some roles, courtesy of Mind Screw Mafia...

<Just when you think that life can't get any worse, it does.

It wasn't enough to give you a dead mother and a sociopathic father (plus a bunch of teammates who are nearly as screwed up as you are, if not more so). It wasn't enough to have to fight beings they call Angels in something resembling but entirely different from a giant robot. It wasn't enough to see everything you cared for get ruined in a horrific manner. Now you're having to live through this?

"Congratulations! Congratulations! Congratulations! For all the children, congratulations!"

Screw these games, screw all these wheels-within-wheels conspiracies, screw all this freaky mind stuff. You don't care who you are or what role you're supposed to play. You just want to get out of the game.>

Welcome to Tarhalindur Mostly Mountainous,

PLAYERNAME

. You are S

hinji Ikari (from Neon Genesis Evangelion)

. Congratulations!

You win when all other factions are dead, or nothing can prevent the same.

Please confirm via return PM.

You finally did it. After so many years, you managed to free yourself from that weird penal colony. You are a free man.

Then again, if you'd known that this was what freedom was like, you might have chosen not to escape in the first place. You remember a world of order and freedom... there may be freedom here, but there's not order. During one moment, the waves are crashing against the shore - the next moment, the shore is crashing against the waves. The only thing that seems to be constant is that speaker that keeps blasting out "All Along the Watchtower". Why? Good question.

Eh, it's not worth worrying about at the moment. You may not understand what's going on here, but at least you're free. That's got to count for something.

Welcome to Mind Screw Mafia,

PLAYERNAME

. You are

Number 6 (from The Prisoner)

. You spent the last few years in some strange penal colony, and now that you're free you're not going to give up that freedom easily. Even this mindscrew of a reality is better than where you were.

You are a

1-Shot Pro-Town Self-Reviver

. You have the following special ability:

Cheat Death

- the first time you would be killed (by any means), all of the events leading up to your death will be revealed as an elaborate ruse on the part of the other Prisoners and you will escape with your life.

You win when all other factions are dead, or nothing can prevent the same.

Please confirm via return PM.

Mod Notes:
- Actually

Number 6 (from Battlestar Galactica), Townie Sleeper Agent

(the more common name for the role is Judas). When killed, resurrects (via Cheat Death) as Mafia Goon.
- Hidden Ability -

Dead Man' Switch

: If both Mafia are dead at or before the beginning of Day 2, Sleeper Agent will be secretly modkilled and resurrected as a 1-Shot Mafia Self-Reviver. If both Mafia are dead and the last Mafioso died between the beginning of Day 2 and the beginning of Day 3, Sleeper Agent will be secretly modkilled and resurrected as a Mafia Goon.

[Tarhalindur]

You are

GONZO Digimation

.

If you post in the game, the mod will edit it to contain graphic hentai, which will cause everyone else to

die

have a love affair with their hand.

You win when you produce a new anime that is a) not 100% fanservice and b) not horrible.

(Full Metal Panic!, Get Backers, Get Backers 21, and Vandread aren't new, so they don't count.)

Fixed for great justice.

[Tarhalindur]

You are The

Mod's Sick Joke.

Frankly, it takes a sadistic bastard mod to run a game featuring roles from the worst ideas thread. Unfortunately for you, the mod of this game is a sadistic bastard. Unlike The Mod's Worst Enemy, it's not enough to point you out to every townie in existence. Nor is the mod going for an outright modkill. The mod has decided to torture you for amusement.

Your role will change at the beginning of each day, including the first day. You will adopt all aspects of the new role, yet you will retain a post restriction mentioned below and your Mod's Sick Joke winning condition. The mod will choose the role for you. Since the mod has omniscience, the mod will make the best attempt to screw you over. Your mission is to thwart the mod's intentions and survive until the end of the game.

You are restricted from claiming (or suggesting) the existance of this role, and you cannot confirm someone else's theory on this role. You must also abide by the post restrictions of whatever your current role is for the day (and night should it become necessary).

I have some good news. Some of us feel this mod needs to be put back in line, so we've changed the role a bit if the mod wanted to use it. First, you also have your current role's win condition, and if you die that win condition will still be applicable. Second, if you manage to fulfill your original win condition by surviving to the endgame, you get to write the final death scene and avenge yourself on the mod. Good luck.

I was thinking about Jesters and then I thought of this.

Wrong thread.

[Tarhalindur]

You are India. For each 100 posts in the day, you get an additional vote. (town)

You are China. Every time you make a post whose number in the thread is a multiple of 40, you get an additional vote for the current game day.

Both in the same game.... SPAMALICIOUS.

Been rereading World Domination 2 on MTGS, I see?

[Tarhalindur]

You are the Replacer. You are not playing, but you would play... if only someone wouldn't had joined one milisecond before you...

Your goal on the game is to make (personX) get replaced by you.

You win if you replace (personX) and fullfill his winning condition.

I've actually seen a similar role before (in Fiasco Corporation on MTGS). It looked interesting.

[Tarhalindur]

You are a

Vanilla Mafiate

. Your powers are your vote and your word. Figure out who the scum are and stop them being killed. You win when no threats to the scum remain.

Modnote: The scum don't know he exists.

You are a

Scorched Earth Aspirant

, and have figured out the ultimate loophole to victory in Mafia. When the win conditions read "You win when all threats to your faction/the town are eliminated" or "You win when everyone other than you is dead", when

everybody

dies, everybody wins. Being as benevolent as you are, this is your objective. If you post

Daykill: X and Y

, they will both die, as well as you. You win when all threats to anyone are eliminated.

We've had the Vanilla Mafiate for ages. We usually call him the Mafia Traitor.

It still belongs in the Worst Role Ideas thread, though.

[Tarhalindur]

You are a

truther.

You believe that this game is actually a bizarre conspiracy by the mod to murder a bunch of innocents for financial and power gains. Your job to fight the NMO (New Mafiascum Order).

You win when you convince the town to majority vote the mod. This winning condition persists beyond the grave.

Tar would have a field day with this role. Hell, I'd have a field day using this role. Alternatively playing it would be fun as hell too.

(I've been lynched in 2 out of the 5 or 6 games I've run )

Funny thing is, Mod Lyncher has been in my notes for a while. It took me a second when I saw this thread to remember that I haven't gotten to use it yet (Mind Screw 3.5 used Jestermod instead)... the one time I tentatively put it in a setup, it got shot down by everyone else working on the setup.

(The setup in question is either completed or hasn't been run yet.)

[Tarhalindur]

You are the

Time Traveling Lyncher

. You win the game if and when

PLAYERNAME 2

is lynched... during your NEXT game with that player. In order to help you fulfill your win condition, your role and alignment will not be revealed in this game until your win condition is fulfilled or can no longer be fulfilled... even when roles are revealed postgame.

(PM me when you next enter a game with PLAYERNAME 2 and with a link to the lynch of PLAYERNAME 2 if and when you succeed in fulfilling this win condition.)

[Tarhalindur]

You are the

Bastard Mod

. You tell lies to everybody and you cannot tell the truth. Telling the truth involves an immediate mod-kill. During the Night, you may swap actions against 3 players to another 3 players whom you choose, which one of them must consist yourself as a target. You are immune to Investigations. You PGO anyone who uses non-killing abilities on you, and they will flip as the opposite faction. How bastardly. You win with the town.

Mod Note: Actually mafia aligned