Worst role ideas?

[Faraday]

The cult recruiter could choose to NK instead, and scum were unrecruitable (to ensure they wouldn't turn against their scumbuddies once recruited). There were a few other cult trinkets.

the cult recruiter was fucking inept. + could dayvig or nightvig, actually. then shot me over the claimed scum when scum needed to die, but that ties in with inept

[callforjudgement]

You are a

Designated Replacement

. You have a voice and a vote, but you're just biding your time until someone else flakes out and there's nobody else easily available to replace them, at which point the mod will make you replace them (you gain knowledge of their past game actions, and their role and alignment, as usual when replacing someone). If you die, you lose the ability to post in the thread and to vote until you replace someone, but you can still be called on as a replacement. If the game somehow ends without you being needed to replace someone (let's face it, it isn't going to happen), you neither win nor lose.

The wording could be better, but I hope the concept is clear. Could also work with a town or third party default win condition, although I don't think that would work as well. (Cannot be groupscum for obvious reasons.)

You are a

Constant Vigilante

. Each night, if you are alive and, during the previous game day, someone (not necessarily you, and not necessarily the same person each time) posted "CONSTANT VIGILANCE" in the game thread at least every four hours, all night actions by Tigers that night will fail and you may kill one player that night by PMing the mod.

You win with the (

could put any wincon here, really

)

Works even if there aren't any Tigers in the game, of course. Works better if they are. (Also, we need more roles relying on mass town coordination. Probably not more roles forcing people to be online at weird times of day, but meh.)

[mafia-n00b]

You are a

Carpenter

. Any time there is an L-1 situation, you must cast the hammer vote if you are able to (are not currently already voting for the player at L-1). If there are two players at L-1, you must vote for the first player that reached L-1.

I can't figure out a way to deal with the fact that a player could "fake" lurking to avoid hammering... or genuinely be not following the thread for that matter.

[izakthegoomba]

I think that's been suggested at least three times already. And yes, it's practically unenforcable.

[Ythan]

Compulsive actor?

[izakthegoomba]

Hammah Slammah.

[mafia-n00b]

Ah, yeah.. I see that now. This is a BIG thread.

How about:

You are

Patient Zero

. Every night your contagion spreads. Target one non-infected player to infect them with your disease. Infected players are not informed of their status, nor will any other role or action reveal this status. Any infected player infects anyone that they target with a night action. You win when every living player is infected with your disease.

I'm not sure if this deserves some other limiter like: "You immediately die if a doctor of any sanity targets you". Thoughts?

[The Mini-Librarian]

That was literally just in gay mafia.

:p

[Kublai Khan]

Ah, yeah.. I see that now. This is a BIG thread.

How about:

You are

Patient Zero

. Every night your contagion spreads. Target one non-infected player to infect them with your disease. Infected players are not informed of their status, nor will any other role or action reveal this status. Any infected player infects anyone that they target with a night action. You win when every living player is infected with your disease.

I'm not sure if this deserves some other limiter like: "You immediately die if a doctor of any sanity targets you". Thoughts?

It's been in a few games. It's a great alternative to the traditional Cult Leader role..

[mafia-n00b]

It's all been done before, huh?

[Kublai Khan]

Not all, but a lot. Don't worry about it though. This is pretty much the spitballin' thread.

[mafia-n00b]

You are a

Ceti eel

. You have a 1-shot ability to take control of any one player by wrapping yourself around their cerebral cortex (through their ear). Once you have established yourself in your host, you may PM the mod with any text you wish the victim to say, and they will post it via copy-paste. The victim will be totally unable to communicate other than via your posts. Unfortunately, your control of the victim goes only so far... if an attempt is made to force the victim to vote for a member of a faction to which he/she belongs, the victim will shake off control, return to normal, and you will die. You win if either you or your host survives to end game.

OK, how about this one?

[Psyche]

It's actually a rather amazing role.

[Neruz]

That sounds hilarious.

[inspiratieloos]

Make a Mafia game where you give everyone a new account (and don't allow them to change the password), give cult recruiter the password of every account he recruits. Send the scum their role PM with buddies to the original account and use code names in the QT. The 'recruited player' is dead (keeps wincon).

You are

The Spymaster

, for this game you will use the avatar [accountname] with password [password]. You want to take control of [setting] by replacing all the major players by your own people.

Win condition: You win when all players alive have this wincon.

You have the following abilities:
Active: Every night you may send me the name of another avatar to hack and replace with one of your own people. That player will be notified that they are dead and you will receive their account password. The avatar will retain all powers, but their win condition will change to yours.
Passive: During the game you may post from avatars that you have hacked.
Active: At any time you may send me the name of a player outside the game, I will contact them and ask whether they would be willing to join the game and inform you of their response.
Active: If you have a hacked avatar you may send me the name of a player that is willing to join the game and one of your hacked avatars. If you do this you are not allowed to post from that account any more. They will join the game with the following role:

You are a

Infiltarator

, for this game you will use the avatar [accountname] with password [password]. You are part of a network of spies trying to infiltrate [setting].

Win condition: You win when all players alive have this wincon.

Passive: You have access to [QT] where you can converse with the other infiltrators and the Spymaster
In addition you have all the powers of this avatar's original role.

Passive: You have access to [QT] where you can converse with any recruited infiltrators.

[gorckat]

That is awesome.

[inspiratieloos]

Winning with that role without using the recruit action (playing all hacked accounts yourself): Auto Most Cunning Manipulator scummie.

[quadz08]

That role is nuts. It could work, but it would be hilariously bastard.

[izakthegoomba]

Hmm...

[Amrun]

So funny.

[gorckat]

Actually, it's not yet a worst role.

It needs to be done in a game that requires YouTube videos with faces.

[izakthegoomba]

DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT

SERIOUSLY

[inspiratieloos]

I didn't really make it as a worst role, just an idea in response to the last two suggestions.

It's probably less bastard than a normal cult recruiter.

[quadz08]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha no you're wrong.

Removing players from a game and replacing them with yourself and/or your friends

is SIGNIFICANTLY more bastard than changing a player's wincon.

[Lost Butterfly]

Well it's more bastard because that's what we're used to. In terms of the actual effect on the game well a cult is probably worse as you force people to change their win conditions. If that makes sense. I've played on sites where an 'alt stealing' role was not impossible and they're on about the same level as cults there.