Worst role ideas?

[PokerFace]

Here is the link to the role list in my Marathon Weekend running of Bastard Face Mafia:
http://www.mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopi ... 46#1585946
There are some cruel worst roles and some strong best roles that were put into this game

[Cirdua]

you are

A guy who has no idea at all about what's going on

:you may post but you may not: 1) Say the word maffia, goon, innocent, guilty, cult, or any other word which points to criminal activities of some sort. 2) quote anything with any of those words in it. 3) Vote for anybody since you don't know that there are maffia in your town. 4) tell the other players that you have no idea what's going on, because you don't know anything's going on. 5)PM
You win when any side wins, since you don't know something is going on.
You will show up as a normal townie on all investigations. Since you have no idea what's going on you can't do anything special, not even in a game where everyone can do something special at night. You are not allowed to protect yourself from charges put against you during a game since that would mean you talk about 'being innocent' which is a violation of rule nr.1

[mole]

You are...

oh dear.

Actually, you

really

don't want to know.

[Yosarian2]

Crap

[size=0]there's a funny story behind this one[/size]

[animorpherv1]

You are

animorpherv1

. You win when everyone in the game has yelled at you for doing something wrong. Good luck, you'll need it.

[magnus_orion]

You just lost the game.
You win only if both of the following conditions are met:
1. Town Wins
2. You haven't read your role pm.
If either of these conditions become impossible to meet, you lose. Please confirm via pm.
Good luck.

Mod notes: muhahahahahahaha

I don't know if anybody came up with smiliar one already, but if they did, they clearly retroactively stole it from me.

[Herodotus]

You are a

Martyr

You win if you are targeted for more than one non-lynch kill during the game (regardless of the success of those kills.)

Mod note: should be fairly balanced with 2 scum groups, a doc, and a vig. Excellent play or luck could let them win on N1. Pure bastard moddery if there is one scum group and no doc. The player's victory should not be announced until end-of-game, and they should probably only be told they've won after they die.

[PokerFace]

You are a

Martyr

You win if you are targeted for more than one non-lynch kill during the game (regardless of the success of those kills.)

Mod note: should be fairly balanced with 2 scum groups, a doc, and a vig. Excellent play or luck could let them win on N1. Pure bastard moddery if there is one scum group and no doc. The player's victory should not be announced until end-of-game, and they should probably only be told they've won after they die.

sirdanilot was something like that in my recent bastard game
http://www.mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11067

Killing parties in the game included: one scum group, 1 SK, 1 insane killer cop, 1 Town GF
Action stoping or moving parties in the game included: A sanity changing doc, I redirecting variant, a role blocker, and a modified Body guard that didn't know his win condition.

sirdanilot got killed by luck while doing very little in the game thanks to the insane killer cop. Charter wanted to investigate him but thanx to sanity issues he killed sirdanilot so danny fufilled his win condition night 1. The game lasted 4 days and only 2 nights due to wierd swinginess of my bastard setup though

[DraketheFake]

Mod notes: muhahahahahahaha

I think that this would be fun if the subject of the role PM was "Don't open this." At least give the poor shmuck a chance.

[Yosarian2]

You are

Completly soaked in gasoline and strapped with explosives

If any kind of fire happens, anywhere in the game, at any point, you will catch fire, explode, and die. At any time, you may type, in bold, "

Hug:player

" in thread; you will continue to hug that player from that point until the end of the game until you either type

unhug

or until you hug someone else; if you catch fire, then whoever you are hugging will die along with you.

You win with the town.

----

You are

A pyromaniac

At any point, you may, in thread during the day, say you want to

Light a match

,

Light a candle

, or

Start a fire

. If you use one of these abilities, something really cool might happen.

You win with the town.

[magnus_orion]

Mod notes: muhahahahahahaha

I think that this would be fun if the subject of the role PM was "Don't open this." At least give the poor shmuck a chance.

How about an open setup with three of these and six town and three scum.
The best play would be to not open your role pm and assume you got vanilla.

[millar13]

You are

A Yeti

You cant post
And you can vote but only to the Mod
You can not be prodded
If you are lynched, the last two people to vote you are killed by Ewoks.

[rolandofthewhite]

I kind of like the gasoline/pyromaniac roles.

[Boxman]

You are the

Spontaneously Combusting Fast Learner.

You gain any abilities that are used on you, but you will die if you are targeted by any abilities.

[DraketheFake]

How about an open setup with three of these and six town and three scum.
The best play would be to not open your role pm and assume you got vanilla.

Better: Add a power role or two to the mix.

I think the role should be called the Nosy Nelly, incidentally.

Maybe:

3 Scum
2 Nosy Nellies
6 Townies
1 Role Cop (receives player's role PM)

And then - since we wouldn't want some motivated losing-cause Nosy Nellies spoiling the fun - perhaps they die as soon as the role PM is opened? Or should their votes just not count? It's a pro-town role, obviously, but it shouldn't really be played like a vanilla townie once it's been spoiled.

[iamausername]

You just lost the game.
You win only if both of the following conditions are met:
1. Town Wins
2. You haven't read your role pm.
If either of these conditions become impossible to meet, you lose. Please confirm via pm.
Good luck.

Mod notes: muhahahahahahaha

I don't know if anybody came up with smiliar one already, but if they did, they clearly retroactively stole it from me.

This is very obviously not viable in a real game (hence why it's in this thread), but it's sparked off a cool idea for a theme game in my head.

I don't think you could do it with role PMs; people can't very well play if they don't know what they're playing for. But role PMs don't have to be the only PMs. I'm thinking either at pre-determined intervals, or triggered by events in the game, players will receive (via PM) MYSTERY BOXES that they can either choose to open or not. They might do something useful, like give them a one-shot cop investigation or protection from night kills, they might do something less useful, like take away their vote for the day or give them an annoying post restriction; they won't know until they open them. And if they can withstand the curiosity and refrain from opening it, then it won't do anything at all.

I dub this theoretical game "Schrödinger's Mafia". It might be coming soon to a theme queue near you, but then again, it might not.

[Mr. Flay]

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...

[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.

[alexhans]

right. That's how mod's know if someone picked up their prods.

[The Fonz]

You

disagree with Yosarian2.

Oh, shit.

[xelada]

You are a

Chocolate Townie

.

You are like a vanilla townie but black.

[X]

You are a

Chocolate Townie

.

You are like a vanilla townie but black.

When I first came to this site, I thought up a Mini Theme that was politically based. Needless to say, I made Obama a Chocolate Townie (Vanilla Townie w/Post Restriction).

No, I am not racist.

[PokerFace]

where's killa nine when you need the 'true' chocolatte townie

[kirroha]

You are a Chocolate Townie.

You are like a vanilla townie but black.

Racist! XD

You are a slab of

White Bread

.

[xelada]

actually I'm the opposite of racist as I am making a black version of vanilla townie (vanilla ice cream is white, chocolate is brown).