Worst role ideas?

[Xylthixlm]

Some roles I've made that are simply

bad

:

Psychotic Doctor

: Like a normal Doctor... but unknowingly kills a random player each night, and shows up as a Serial Killer to all inspections.

Skulker

: Dies if targeted by any night action.

Killer Cop

: Gets sane results... and unknowingly kills the target.

Azwolg

: Kills a specific player night 1.

Suicider

: Kills

itself

night 1.

Unstable Mutant

: Gets a new role, possibly with a new win condition, every morning. (The more weird options there are, the better.)

Some that aren't that bad, but can be confusing:

Green Goo

: Any player who targets the Green Goo with a night action becomes Green Goo themselves. The first Goo is a survivor (neutral); players infected by the goo may or may not become survivors.

Myopic Tracker

: Tracks the same player each night... but doesn't know which player it is.

Retired Werewolf Hunter

: Becomes a Werewolf Hunter when the first werewolf shows up dead. (May or may not be used in a game with werewolves.)

Reincarnator

: The first time the Reincarnator dies, it comes back to life... but gets a new role, possibly with a different win condition.

And one that isn't bad or confusing, but has an amusing tendency to backfire if claimed:

Police Chief

: Starts the game knowing how many cops there are and what their sanities are, but not which players are cops.

[Xylthixlm]

Xyl, you should mod a large game. And by large, I mean, like, 50 roles.

Chainsaw, anyone? [/ircjoke]

I'm nowhere near being able to mod here.

But I am available for consultations.

[Xylthixlm]

Strangly enough, Xylthixlm, I've actually seen the "green goo" role before.

My twisted creations have escaped IRC and are showing up in other games?

Awesome

.

[Xylthixlm]

Ah, that game. The list was taken from the IRC bot, so most of the weirder roles in it are my creations.

[Xylthixlm]

You are

the Chip on Quagmire's Shoulder

You believe you've won, and really, that's all that matters.

isn't it, though?

That's one for the philosophers, and as such belongs in General Discussion.

You are

a Philosopher

. You win if you can convince the Moderator that you believe you've won.

[Xylthixlm]

You are

the guy with the Big Red Button

. You have a Big Red Button which you can press once during the game. You have no idea what it does.

(Can you think of

anything

for the button to do which wouldn't be bastard modding?)

[Xylthixlm]

You are

a Madlib

. Choose words or phrases that fit the following, and I'll send you a new role based on your selections.
(1) Noun
(2) Time of day
(3) Noun
(4) Verb
(5) Noun
(6) Verb phrase
(7) Adjective
(8) Verb
(9) Verb
(10) Noun

Thread readers: Choose words as above, then fill in the madlib below to get your

very own

worst role ever. And then post it so we can see what you got.

You are

a

(noun)

. Each

(time of day)

you can choose a

(noun)

to

(verb)

. If your choice is a

(noun)

you will

(verb phrase)

. However, if it is

(adjective)

, you will

(verb)

instead. You

(verb)

with the

(noun)

.

[Xylthixlm]

Two more things should be noted about this game. The man referred to as XXXX was

one of two

cult 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.

You're misremembering. The actual setup was:

Possesser Serial Killer Nightmare (sk)
Arsonist (sk)
Pinata Census Taker
Census Taker
Ascetic
Lovestruck Dedicated One-Shot Mad Monk
Cowardly Roleblocker

You took out the arsonist, so it wasn't that bad for the town. (Pretty bad for the arsonist, though.)

And 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.

But there

is

a real person programming the bot to go bastard mod on you.

[Xylthixlm]

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

Basically serial killer plus one-shot daykill plus suicide-recruit.

[Xylthixlm]

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.

Resisting temptation...

Resisting temptation...

Resisting temptation...

Temptation resisted.

As far as you know.

[Xylthixlm]

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?

There are few lines of bastard modding I will not cross. Lying to a player about their own win condition is one of them.

That said, it's definitely one of the Worst Roles Ever.

[Xylthixlm]

... and "You win with town." and "You know that exactly 3 statements in this role PM are true." are not necessarily two of them.

[Xylthixlm]

Reset the votes on a daykill.

[Xylthixlm]

You are the

Jester!

Mod note: actually a survivor

Right, we've got it, you can really screw someone over by lying about their win condition.

[Xylthixlm]

How about a less lying version?

You are a jester or a survivor. You do not know which.

You might as well just write it like this...

You lose if you are nightkilled. You have a 50% chance of losing even if you aren't nightkilled. Otherwise, you win.

[Xylthixlm]

What about a

Paranoid Bus Driver

? He would have to switch the 'seats' of all players in the game.

You are

a giant headache for the moderator

. All players' night actions will affect a random player who used a night action, except they won't affect a player who used a night action targeting the player who used the night action unless that player was the night action's original target.

[Xylthixlm]

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.

Fortunatly, thr's no rstriction on whn it can post anything ls...

[Xylthixlm]

You are the

Omniscient 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...

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...

Cheater

: Each night you learn the role PM of a random role in the setup, but not who has it.

[Xylthixlm]

You are a

Poser

.
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 are

MILLER EXTREME!!!!!

How about this:

You are a

Poser

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'm so stealing that for the mafiabot. It's got a lot of strategic depth.

[Xylthixlm]

You are a

Crazed 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 was

clearly

the 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.

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 anything

I would play this role in a heartbeat.

What?

[Xylthixlm]

Reflex Roleblocker? You must have gotten that on IRC. It can appear randomly if the bot takes a normal roleblocker and adds the "reflex" template.

[Xylthixlm]

Why doesn't "I agree with Yosarian2" count?

[Xylthixlm]

I hate post restrictions, and will never give one, even in a bastard modded game.

And if I do give one, I will expect the player who has it to be lynched.

[Xylthixlm]

I recall seeing some theme game where one player had a ridiculously powerful super-cop role, but was a death miller. Sadly, I can't remember which game it was.

[Xylthixlm]

This is why 3-player IRC games include both a mafia-townie-supersaint setup and a mafia-townie-judas setup.

[Xylthixlm]

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...

Not true. Try sending a test message to yourself. It will stay in your outbox until you actually read it in your inbox.

[Xylthixlm]

You are

mafia

with X and Y.
Mod note: X and Y are actually protown masons.

[Xylthixlm]

You are a

Compulsive 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.

This is supposed to be a

bad

role?

[Xylthixlm]

For the guy who gets it, yeah. Perhaps I should add he loses if he dies to make it more recognisable.

Without lose=die it's actually an okay role, better than vanilla townie. The change makes it bad yes.

[Xylthixlm]

You are

Xylthixlm with a daykill

. You must use your daykill within 72 hours of the start of the game. You win if you kill scum.

[Xylthixlm]

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.

See Tarhalindur's games, where every scum gets this for free as an unlimited ability.

[Xylthixlm]

You Are A

Townie With A Post Restriction

. You Have A Post Restriction, But You Don't Know What It Is, Except That This Role PM Obeys It. If You Violate Your Post Restriction You Will Be Modkilled. You Win With The Town.

Mod note: May not use the letter "q".

[Xylthixlm]

Cult roles? I have cult roles.

You are an

Evil Priest

. Each night you can bring a protown player back from the dead as a Skeleton Warrior loyal to your cult. Skeleton Warriors are immune to nightkills.

You are

Black Goo

. Whenever a player targets you with an action, they will join your cult as another black goo.

You are a

Terrorist Mastermind

. You can recruit townie players into your terror cell, which can communicate at night. Your terrorists can suicide-bomb other players during the day. If you die, all cultists will die.

You are an

Alien Mind Controller

. Each night you can abduct a player to implant a dormant mind control device. Their night action, if any, is blocked, and all other actions targeting them fail. When you die, each player implanted with a mind control device becomes a Cultist and part of the cult.

[Xylthixlm]

You are an

arrogant cop

. Each night you may investigate another player to learn their alignment. If you target an innocent player, you'll also throw them in jail for giving you lip, both roleblocking them and protecting them. You win if you get on national television.

[Xylthixlm]

You are.

You

are not

. You win when all players who "are" are no longer in the game.

You

might be

. You win when you know if you are or not.

[Xylthixlm]

Y r

srl kllr

. ch nght, y my kll nthr plyr nd tk thr vwls. Y wn whn y hv ngh vwls fr ths rl PM.

[Xylthixlm]

Not in America, buddy. Not in America.

Logical quotation is the style of the future.

[Xylthixlm]

Not in America, buddy. Not in America.

Logical quotation is the style of the future.

You have to convince us to use the more-logical metric system first.

Not gonna happen.

No, logical quotation is definitely getting adopted faster than the metric system. Case in point: I am American and I use it.