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Post Post #5025 (ISO) » Mon Mar 14, 2016 12:29 pm

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You are a
Sticky Bomb
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At the end of Night 1, you die and kill whoever was the last person who mentioned you in the main thread, whether they're town or scum. If you tell or hint at this role to anyone (including your mafia partners if you're scum), you will be modkilled.
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Post Post #5026 (ISO) » Mon Mar 14, 2016 1:03 pm

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Town win condition enabler

When you die, every player loses his or her win condition.
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Post Post #5027 (ISO) » Thu Mar 17, 2016 12:00 am

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Mafia Wolf


You're a member of mafia faction and werewolf faction. You can reveal the names of your mafia partners to your werewolf partners and vice versa.
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Post Post #5028 (ISO) » Fri Mar 18, 2016 4:00 pm

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You are a
Rule Stabilizer
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If you die, the setup will gradually change in minor but noticeable ways (factions gaining or losing daytalk, the number of shots on roles changing, Jailkeepers changing to Aliens and back, that sort of thing).
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Post Post #5029 (ISO) » Fri Mar 18, 2016 5:41 pm

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You are
a Knower
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You know every member of every scumteam: A, B, and C are Mafia, and D, E, and F are Werewolves. Your faction has a factional Doctor ability, which can self-target.

You lose if any member of your faction dies. You win if your faction makes up half the playerlist.

Based on a role from Metropolis: Revisited, but modified a bit to make it Worst-er.
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Post Post #5030 (ISO) » Fri Mar 18, 2016 5:50 pm

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You are a
Fertile King
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Every night, a random Town player becomes a Beloved Princess.

You win with the town.
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Post Post #5031 (ISO) » Fri Mar 18, 2016 8:13 pm

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You are a .
As far as I can tell, that's a test page named after its author. But it appears in a bunch of lists of roles, and I sort-of want to give the role to someone in a bastard mod, with nothing but the wiki page as explanation, to see what their reaction is.
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Post Post #5032 (ISO) » Sat Mar 19, 2016 1:34 pm

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You are a
Hibernator
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You can only post once every 200 posts in the game thread (i.e. of your posts, no more than one can be numbered #0 to #199, no more than one can be numbered #200 to #399, no more than one can be numbered #400 to #599, and so on.)

(insert win condition here)
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Post Post #5033 (ISO) » Fri Mar 25, 2016 11:33 am

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The Last Chance To Stop The Madness


You can activate this role pregame, causing the game to immediately end in a draw between every faction. This does not count as failing to play to your win condition.
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Post Post #5034 (ISO) » Fri Mar 25, 2016 12:05 pm

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Killjoy


Every player must refer to you as "callforjudgement", or they will die.
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Post Post #5035 (ISO) » Fri Mar 25, 2016 12:14 pm

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Davsto


You can modify the game so it ends in one day cycle.
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"You are the Joker of mafia players" - Oversoul
"last time I was scum with Firebringer
his first post in the scum PT was "yes I rolled scum!"
I decided to post "haha just don't post that in the main thread", but to get up to date on the main thread first.

His first post in the main thread was "yes I rolled scum!" -popsofctown
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Post Post #5036 (ISO) » Fri Mar 25, 2016 12:24 pm

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Quantum anomaly
(alignment up to mod's discretion)

Whenever you die, or an ability is performed on you, the mod will open a new gamethread, with other people filling in for the existing slots.
The original gamethread will act as if the event that triggered the split, did happen, the new gamethread will act as if the event didn't happen.

The first gamethread to end, will be considered the actual reality, and all other gamethreads will converge into that one. Every player that filled the same slot as the one that has won in the game-ending gamethread, will have won as well.

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I wish I could make this work.
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Post Post #5037 (ISO) » Fri Mar 25, 2016 2:01 pm

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We need another Quantum Mafia, really. I suspect it didn't work because a) players didn't understand what was going on and b) players didn't have enough information to make the best possible decisions.

The basic idea is that the players played in a superposition of all possible assignments of roles to players, and were told limited information about the probability of events. Each night the player performed a night action for each possible role they could have. Then the mods would calculate the probabilities for each possible set of night results, pick one at random, and eliminate all the setups in which it wouldn't have happened.

The big problem is that you really want to give people information of the form "if you're scum, there's a 56% chance that Sméagol is your buddy" so that they can be scumhunted properly. This is a problem because someone who is highly likely scum (e.g. because they were the only person to try to nightkill the person who actually died) will show up as being 100%-your-buddy to everyone and thus get insta-lynched by people who are going for the town win. As a result, the setup's normally run in such a way that scum don't know each other, which basically makes it not-Mafia and impossible to scumhunt.

If some method to fix this can be found, it might be worth running the setup.
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Post Post #5038 (ISO) » Sat Mar 26, 2016 2:59 am

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Simply fix the alignments, and have a chance of having a role, then calculate chances and choose what action will happen?
You could play with a traitor actually, having a chance of being well, a traitor, or a vanilla townie (and/or something else).
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Post Post #5039 (ISO) » Tue Mar 29, 2016 1:36 pm

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you are
KAIN TEPES

you win with town
I AM KAIN TEPES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Post Post #5040 (ISO) » Wed Mar 30, 2016 3:06 am

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You are an
Interdimensional Town Vigilante


Each Night you can target a player in another game (you're not in) who dies instantly.
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Post Post #5041 (ISO) » Mon Apr 04, 2016 1:03 pm

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In post 55, AndrewS wrote:Alarmist - When posting, you may only vote for a player mentioned in the above post!!! Also, all your sentences must end with 3 exclamation marks and at least ONE CAPITAL WORD!!!


KainTepes, is that you?
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Post Post #5042 (ISO) » Wed Apr 06, 2016 4:55 am

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You are a
Paranoid Cop


Modnote: Actually naive
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Post Post #5043 (ISO) » Wed Apr 06, 2016 5:04 am

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You are a
Win Condition Reverser
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Each night, you may target a player other than yourself. If they would win (at any subsequent point in the game), they lose instead. If they would lose, they win instead. They will not be informed of this.

This is even worse than it looks at first sight (and it looked terrible enough then)), especially if the existence of the role gets confirmed by a Rolecop or similar.
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Post Post #5044 (ISO) » Thu Apr 07, 2016 1:56 am

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In post 5042, callforjudgement wrote:You are a
Paranoid Cop


Modnote: Actually naive


haha becuase they owuld think they are sane
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Post Post #5045 (ISO) » Thu Apr 07, 2016 2:08 pm

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You are
experimenting with PM formatting
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In each of your posts, you must post something resembling a Vanilla Townie role PM. Each post must have the PM formatted or worded differently from all previous posts. You will not be modkilled for quoting or pretending to quote your role PM (although you may be modkilled for failing the post restriction, in which case the moderator is encouraged to disguise the modkill as being for pretending to quote a role PM and flipping you as Neutral Survivor without listing the prevous role).
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Post Post #5046 (ISO) » Fri Apr 08, 2016 5:54 am

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You are a
Overcomplicated, Pointless, 3P Role


It takes 9 paragraphs to explain your night actions and win condition.

You win by making the game unpleasant for other people as a cost of your own enjoyment.
2019 stats: Town WR 76.7%, overall WR 81.667%, 1 scum defeat involving a major mod error in lylo vs 8 scum wins.
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Post Post #5047 (ISO) » Fri Apr 08, 2016 5:56 am

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In post 5046, RadiantCowbells wrote:You are a
Overcomplicated, Pointless, 3P Role


It takes 9 paragraphs to explain your night actions and win condition.

You win by making the game unpleasant for other people as a cost of your own enjoyment.

Alongside with some post restriction and at least one complusive and obviously scummy Day Action.
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Post Post #5048 (ISO) » Fri Apr 08, 2016 6:15 am

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You are an
Overpowered, Imbalanced, 3P Role
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If you meet some incredibly easy condition, then you start converting the entire game to your faction and eventually everyone wins. This fact is obscured in several paragraphs of explanation that make the game look vaguely balanced. You have a post restriction that prevents you claiming in a futile attempt to make the role more balanced but it's trivial to work around.
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Post Post #5049 (ISO) » Fri Apr 08, 2016 6:23 am

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You are
Aneninen aka Birdman


You have a post restriction which forces you to always speak in bird language. You win if you follow this post restriction till the end of the game.
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