Worst role ideas?

[Adele]

I'd considered something like "me too", which allowed only quoting, voting, and the standard emoticons.

[Adele]

It's hard to ban code though. I mean, let's say all a person can do is bark, then someone else is going to say "bark once for yes and twice for no." Then if the person barks once, do you modkill them?

You may not use numerous Voting actions to communicate via morse code or any other means.

You make it clear up front that you will not tolerate attempts to break or get around the coding ban. If I see somebody making an extended series of Votes/FoSes/IGMEOYs, I'll check it out to see if there's a hidden message in there. If I think there is, I'll apprehend the poster and take appropriate action.

I don't see why this is a problem. It's easy both to spot and to enforce.

Oh yeah. Again, this is something which I consider implied. PR codes just mess the game up, wheras forcing someone to walk people through their reasoning but not actually

say

it might be really fun. I thought once that I'd enjoy that challenge.

The players will help out too, don't forget. If one of them cracked a code, exactly how many seconds before they present their findings to the town?

Same with banning claims. If Glork's banned from claiming doc, then the second Turbo says "ok, Seol claimed vig, Fritz claimed SK, Glork clearly means he's the doc", the lightning bolt shoots down.

[Adele]

How about a cop... but he doesn't get to pick who he investigates, the mafia send the choice in. He gets an accurate result on that person, and they can't pick the same target more than once, though.

[Adele]

You are the

Insurance Salesman

. Each night, you may approach another player and ask them to take out medical insurance. If they say yes and are later killed, you will be told with 100% sanity the identities of all the scum at daybreak.

Hmm. off-topic, i know but...
I like the idea of an insurance salesman. What if the player, if they accepted, lost their voting rights the next day but would require more than a standard majority to be lynched?

[Adele]

Superdoc&vig&cop-miller, with "standard emoticons ONLY, no code" PR.

[Adele]

Stickistuff

: You can be voted, but you can't be unvoted. Once a vote's on you, it's there till the end of time.
Your alignment? Survivor.

[Adele]

ok, less bastardy adaptation.

Rubber

and

Glue

adapted masonry

Rubber: You can't be voted. Any time someone tries to vote you, the vote bounces onto Glue (this only happens until such time as Glue dies, at which point you become normally votable). You are therefore currently unlynchable, and you win with the town, as does Glue.

Glue: When people are mean to Rubber, it bounces off of him and sticks to you. Votes on you or on another player (rolename "Rubber") will both end up on you. They will remain there even if the players voting you attempt to unvote. This protection that you afford Rubber against getting lynched lasts only while you're alive. You win with the town. Rubber's alignment is not known to you.

[Adele]

how about this for an april fools setup: Everybody has the same role:

you are an impatient jester. you win if and only if you are lynched on day 1.

wonder how long the game would last.

Eh. It'd go nowhere; who'd drop the hammer?

[Adele]

I've run it in scumchat before. Multiple times. It's hella fun.

Fun for you or fun for the players? Seems like bastard modding to me...

ahem...

"oh no! CES was a bastardmod to me in scumchat! Bastard wasted ten minutes of my life!"

isn't that what scumchat's

for

?

[Adele]

I know this.

It varies among the players

[Adele]

You are Newbie Guy. You get the following abilities if you meet their required conditions.

Get the Town to No Lynch

- You get a Triple-Vote the next Day.

Start a massclaim

- All who claimed Vanilla Townie are Roleblocked forever.

Counterclaim a Power Role

- You become Nightkill-Immune.

Lurk until Prodded

- You get a Two-Shot Daykill.

Claim to be a Cop-Doc-Vig-Roleblocker

- You become a Cop-Doc-Vig-Roleblocker/Death Miller.

Get Modkilled

- You get to kill two people immediately.

Hammer a Pro-Town Role

- Mass Roleblock the next Night.

Quote a Role PM other than your own

- The Mod will Modkill a person of your choice once.

Say you hate a certain player

- They will be Replaced.

Switch your Vote 5 times in an hour

- The number needed to Lynch you is multiplied by 1.5 that Day.

Hell

yeah! I want that role.

[Adele]

You are

Adopted

. We felt this role PM was the best way to tell you.

sig'd

You are

Quagmire

. You don't read role PM's.

Since this is against the stated rules, you are hereby modkilled and banned from all my future games. mith has been notified of your rulebreaking and is considering a tempban on jathan.

(political!)

[Adele]

You are the

Paranoid Jester

. If anyone targets you at night, for any reason, they will die. You win, and the game ends, when you are lynched.

That's... unloseable. Oh, unless you're the last man standing.

Even still, every other role in the game's the worst role ever. Seems to me it's unwinnable for everyone else (I assume the town loses on the jester being lynched?)

[Adele]

How about a less lying version?

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

Holy Hell Yes

[Adele]

People who regularly get over eight hours sleep actually have shorter life expectancies than those who don't.

However, if I develop cancer (caused by a third factor) I will be sure to get lots of sleep for the same reason as my life expectancy may be truncated; correlation doesn't equal causation.

[Adele]

Psycological experiments show that sleep

is

necessary to operating effectively. Sufficient lack of sleep acts as a depressor of the immune system and pulls down the resilience of the sufferer. Mice (or rats? I don't recall) who were continually prevented from going to sleep eventually reached the point where being pushed into a pool of water (the method preventing them from sleeping) gave them a heart attack and they died (hello professional ethics). So the necessity of sleep is pretty uncontroversial.

The

amount

of sleep that's needed, though, is both a point of controversy and variable between people. So the "eight hours a day to stay well" may easily be a myth.

[Adele]

I'd call that I can't type after a night of not sleeping

Uh huh.

Yes, Glork. Sometimes a cigar is just a penis.

[Adele]

EBWOP:

I'd call that I can't type after a night of not sleeping

Uh huh.

Yes, Glork. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.