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Post Post #2925 (ISO) » Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:33 am

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A player whose role is designed to restrict the way in which they can post should abide by that restriction, just as a Vanilla Townie doesn't use private communication. That's not playing like scum, that's playing by the rules.
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Post Post #2926 (ISO) » Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:35 am

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You are a
person who cares more about their meta than winning
. You must attempt to play like scum; if you do not, you will be modkilled. You win with the town.
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Post Post #2927 (ISO) » Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:49 am

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You are
Descending Into Madness
each real world day you lose one letter from the alphabet or must replace a letter with a symbol. You will receive a PM each real morning between 6:00 and 9:00 am (my time- the Elder Gods are fickle. Figure it out) with details. You may not post after 6:00 am until you receive the message. If you haven't received it by 9:00, you may post as the day before but only in caps and italics until you receive the update. You must end each post with either "Praise" or "Fear" follwed by a random name from here.

Beware- Motha-zhana will eat your soul and modkill you if you can't keep this straight.

You win when you prevent the
Elder God
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The Virgin
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Post Post #2928 (ISO) » Mon Apr 16, 2012 7:17 am

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In post 2926, callforjudgement wrote:You are a
person who cares more about their meta than winning
. You must attempt to play like scum; if you do not, you will be modkilled. You win with the town.

Reductio ad absurdum?
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Post Post #2929 (ISO) » Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:27 pm

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In post 2927, gorckat wrote:You are
Descending Into Madness
each real world day you lose one letter from the alphabet or must replace a letter with a symbol. You will receive a PM each real morning between 6:00 and 9:00 am (my time- the Elder Gods are fickle. Figure it out) with details. You may not post after 6:00 am until you receive the message. If you haven't received it by 9:00, you may post as the day before but only in caps and italics until you receive the update. You must end each post with either "Praise" or "Fear" follwed by a random name from here.

Beware- Motha-zhana will eat your soul and modkill you if you can't keep this straight.

You win when you prevent the
Elder God
from awakening.
The Virgin
must not die.


This is actually really hilarious.
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Post Post #2930 (ISO) » Mon Apr 16, 2012 1:00 pm

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There was an alphabet game, feel like Dramonic modded it, where a letter would disappear from mod posts when that role had been killed.
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Post Post #2931 (ISO) » Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:26 pm

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In post 2930, Ythan wrote:There was an alphabet game, feel like Dramonic modded it, where a letter would disappear from mod posts when that role had been killed.


He did.

I tried to read it after the fact. Bitch of a read.
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Post Post #2932 (ISO) » Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:07 pm

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In post 2926, callforjudgement wrote:You are a
person who cares more about their meta than winning
. You must attempt to play like scum; if you do not, you will be modkilled. You win with the town.


You are a
person who has been given a free pass to manipulate their meta
. You win regardless of the outcome of the game, or whether or not you are alive. When you die, your role will be announced as Vanilla Townie.
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Post Post #2933 (ISO) » Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:48 pm

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You are the
Undercover FBI Agent
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You know there to be a Cult in this game, and it's your job to infiltrate it. If you are recruited into the Cult, you will gain access to the Cult QT, but keep your current win condition.

You win when the Cult is eliminated.
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Post Post #2934 (ISO) » Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:57 pm

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Neat, bad on two levels that contradict each other.


You are the
player left over when I realised I had no idea how this game is balanced
. I'll give you your win condition some time later, when I've figured out whether this game is townsided or scumsided, in order to help drag it back towards the middle. Until then, just try to stay alive, I guess?
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Post Post #2935 (ISO) » Tue Apr 17, 2012 4:32 pm

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You are the voodooist. Every night, you can target a player. When you die, everyone you targeted dies with you.
You win when you die before the endgame, and kill half of the remaining players with you
Its just whatever
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Post Post #2936 (ISO) » Tue Apr 17, 2012 4:57 pm

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Death Arsonist (sk, survivor; super-rare; 4+ players): You can prime a player at night by dousing them in gasoline. During the day, you may set a fire which kills all primed players. If you die, your fire goes off automatically. Actions: prime (day)ignite
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Post Post #2937 (ISO) » Wed Apr 18, 2012 4:40 am

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In post 2934, callforjudgement wrote:Neat, bad on two levels that contradict each other.


You are the
player left over when I realised I had no idea how this game is balanced
. I'll give you your win condition some time later, when I've figured out whether this game is townsided or scumsided, in order to help drag it back towards the middle. Until then, just try to stay alive, I guess?


This is actually kind of hilarious, and could be pretty fun in certain theme / bastard games.
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Post Post #2938 (ISO) » Wed Apr 18, 2012 9:11 am

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Town RecruiterYou are a
Town Recruiter
. You may recruit players as Town, similar to a Cult Leader.

Mafia RecruiterYou are a
Mafia Recruiter
. You may recruit players as Mafia, similar to a Cult Leader.
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Post Post #2939 (ISO) » Wed Apr 18, 2012 9:43 am

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Town Recruiter is mindblowingly broken; if you recruit any Mafia members, their optimal play is to tell everyone who their former teammates were.

Mafia Recruiter is basically equivalent to a cult with an NK.
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Post Post #2940 (ISO) » Wed Apr 18, 2012 10:53 am

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That's why they are in the Worst Roles thread.
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Post Post #2941 (ISO) » Wed Apr 18, 2012 11:13 am

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One thing I've noticed about this thread is that the vast majority of the roles are completely unusable. It makes me sad.
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Post Post #2942 (ISO) » Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:53 pm

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Given that this is the Worst Roles thread, anything remotely usable would mean they did it wrong
Its just whatever
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Post Post #2943 (ISO) » Wed Apr 18, 2012 8:10 pm

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I don't think so. You can have roles that are entirely usable, but still bad. (Especially if you're planning to run a game with them.)

Here are some power roles that are mostly, but not entirely, useless, for instance:

You are a
Reflexive Day Vigilante
. You may kill a player during the day by posting
Daykill:
player
in thread; this will reset the vote count. You may only target yourself.

You win with the town.

You are an
Inept Day Vigilante
. You may attempt to kill a player once each the day by posting
Daykill:
player
in thread; the attempt will always fail, but this will nonetheless reset the vote count.

(works as either alignment)
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Post Post #2944 (ISO) » Wed Apr 18, 2012 9:09 pm

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Hm. The Reflexive could be used if the player gets run up to give town an extra lynch. The inept would be stupid to use as town, and scum would have a hard time wriggling out of it if they used it more than once.
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Post Post #2945 (ISO) » Wed Apr 18, 2012 10:28 pm

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In post 2944, izakthegoomba wrote:The inept would be stupid to use as town, and
scum would have a hard time wriggling out of it if they used it more than once
.

A scumbag could survive a day by using it constantly till deadline if the day was nearly over :lol:
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Post Post #2946 (ISO) » Wed Apr 18, 2012 10:30 pm

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In post 2945, Captain Haddock wrote:
In post 2944, izakthegoomba wrote:The inept would be stupid to use as town, and
scum would have a hard time wriggling out of it if they used it more than once
.

A scumbag could survive a day by using it constantly till deadline if the day was nearly over :lol:

Yes. If it's unlimited-shot, it's game breaking. I was kind of assuming no sane mod would put that in a game.
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Post Post #2947 (ISO) » Wed Apr 18, 2012 11:48 pm

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In post 2946, izakthegoomba wrote:I was kind of assuming no sane mod would put that in a game.

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Post Post #2948 (ISO) » Wed Apr 18, 2012 11:50 pm

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In post 2946, izakthegoomba wrote:
In post 2945, Captain Haddock wrote:
In post 2944, izakthegoomba wrote:The inept would be stupid to use as town, and
scum would have a hard time wriggling out of it if they used it more than once
.

A scumbag could survive a day by using it constantly till deadline if the day was nearly over :lol:

Yes. If it's unlimited-shot, it's game breaking. I was kind of assuming no sane mod would put that in a game.


Add a
0-vote vig
that can only daykill if no votes are in place, maybe with a second role that resets votes.
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Post Post #2949 (ISO) » Thu Apr 19, 2012 1:33 am

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In post 2943, callforjudgement wrote:Reflexive


I do not think this means what you think it means.
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