Well, here's some ideas:

Therapist (might need a better name): The therapist can choose to have a therapy session with 1 person every night. If the person is town-aligned, nothing happens. If the person is mafia-aligned, moose sends a pm to that person, asking him if he wants to change sides. The mafia member can either decline the offer, which means nothing happens and doesn't necessarily give away the mafia member's or therapist's identity, or the mafia member can accept the offer and become a regular townsperson. Moose's description for the night will mention a mafia member changing sides, but it will not mention who. After a person changes sides, the Therapist becomes a regular townsperson.
The ex-mafia member can try to tell everyone who the mafia are, if people actually believe that person to be ex-mafia. Expect mafia members posing as the ex-mafia member or therapist to try to mislead the town. Depending on what the ex-mafia member says, the mafia may or may not choose to kill him as soon as possible.

Recruiter: Basically the opposite of the Therapist. The Recruiter can choose a non-mafia person to recruit. If that person does not have a special role, then Moose sends a pm to that person, asking him if he wants to change sides. If the person declines, nothing happens. If the person accepts, that person becomes one of the mafia. Moose's description for the night will mention a town member changing sides, but it will not mention who. After a person changes sides, the Recruiter becomes a regular mafia member.

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Sep 23 2008, 2:57 am by Oyen.

What about townies with special roles?

Oh right, forgot about those. I edited the above post so that Recruiter can only recruit townspeople without abilities. Either that, or the townsperson can just lose his ability after changing sides.

Thread/concept roles need MOAR feedback.

Edit for MOAR concepts:

Oracle*: Once per game, by PMing the game host, the Oracle may instantly reveal the role of one player. Since it's a public announcment, the Oracle's role is revealed, and he acts as a townsperson thereafter.

Analyst: Once per day, the Analyst may PM the game host with a single clue in order to get a yes-or-no answer as to whether that clue is valid (not a red herring/flavor text; targetting a Mafia member).

*I don't remember, but I think may have actually seen this on maplantis mafia at some point.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Sep 23 2008, 3:21 am by HailFire.

The Rat - A player with this title is considered townie but secretly works for the mafia, however he is considered a townsperson and placed in the counter for them. However, if he is the last 'mafia' role alive, he receives 50 minerals and is given a chance to kill the rest of the town by himself. However, ONE clue for him is given every 3 nights.

Witness Protection Inductee -- A Mafia member that isn't truely Mafia for the first two or three days (or even four for fairness), then afterward, they want out of the game. They are considered Mafia, and if they're killed on the first day (or second/third) their transition is lost. When the WPI converts, he can try to give out the identity of the remaining Mafia members, and if he succeeds, he can turn the tides of the battle. The Mafia do NOT know when the WPI converts, or who he is until Day 6, and his role is automatically revealed to them.

Jevovah's Witness - This role knocks on your door. If you get the door slammed infront of your face, you get to smite one townie. If they welcome you, you can pick a player and reveal their role.

Doppelgänger - IF this player dies, and if the person who dies next is killed an ability or mafia, he takes on the role of the victim, and becomes alive once again. If the victim is mafia, he remains dead.

>:V

n00b : Gains 10 minerals (if minerals are disabled then its for the lulz) for every townie that gets lynched and this player voted for them. [For the lulz?] After 3 townie lynches this townie aligned player dies. [lulz^2] If the "n00b" death is not said in a funny way in the night post(or day...w/e it would be in), the Second clue helper is switched!

lulerlulzylul.

Some of these roles are like straight up stolen or just copies of previous roles and they don't even realize it (or maybe they do). Like, the escape artist was used in multiple games at maplantis by me (both townie and mafia version).

Keep it at this, and its "lulzy"

Sigh... tbh i was trying to be serious with the first sentence, everything after was supposed to be lulzy ;_;



How did rapist make serious and mine did not?wudafuxup? :C

Edit:

MindFuck(er?) - All roles are redistributed. Meaning the same amount of townies, mafias, and special roles are kept. The player is a townie after use.

Kurt Cobain (idk) - Activates ability and ... Kills self... AND THATS IT! then leaves a 'suicide note' giving obvious clues to one mafia member that is added (and written by the moose) to the next day or night post.

Edit2:

Targeteer - Chooses one player off of the sing up list and kills that player and the player before and after him/her, Once a day.

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Sep 24 2008, 1:17 am by MadZombie.

I don't know how anyone dared try to mar the description of the Mafia Don, but here's the original concept, in companion with the Mole. I've been leaning on Moose to have a game like this..

Mafia Don: The Mafia Don is a public role like the Mayor, but is chosen at random like all other roles. The Mafia Don knows the identity of all of his mafia, including a mole, but does not know which one the mole is. Each mafia (and the mole) know only who the Mafia Don is, so the Don must work with his mafia to avoid mafia hitting each other. The Mafia Don has one hit of his own, just like any other mafia.

While there is at least one other mafia still alive, including the mole:

• the Don may not be lynched by a vote of the town, or otherwise killed during the day.
  
• the Don may not be killed at night.
  
• Exception: if the mole is the only other mafia remaining, he may kill the Don at night.
  
• The Don can still be affected by all other roles, such as Psycho wounding.
  

Mole: The mole is a town-aligned member of the mafia. The Detective and the Mole know who each other are. At night, the Mole has a night hit he must use like any other mafia. When he dies, the Mole is not revealed to be anything other than a normal mafia, and when the Detective dies, the Mole is not revealed.

Dude. Don't just steal roles from the maplantis topic I posted. Tuxlar came up with that role. Don't be retarded.

I never bothered going to that page. The idea was for new ideas, so I'm guessing we (those who didn't bother going, and decided to take upon our own creative ways) all decided to post what we thought up. Now if it was a direct steal, I can imagine why you guys would say what you did, but if theres a problem with us who haven't looked and just felt like being creative, then great minds must think alike, huh.

What I'm also trying to say is that; If the roles aren't on the Mafia 8 page, they must not have become solid, and if a role isn't solid, its fair grounds for anyone, past feeling aside.

Anything I stated was straight off the top of my head. I'm sorry if I restated anything, but there isn't a damn patent on any of it.

What do you think the chances are that two different people came up with the name 'doppelganger'. And I said that you might not know what you are doing in my post.

Like I just said, if it WAS a direct steal, then yeah, I can't blame you for jumping at him like that. Thats Plagerism.

But I must say, if someone comes up with something and gives it a same name, thats not at all stealing. Thats dwelling on the past, with things that must not have made it this far. New ideas are good.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Sep 24 2008, 2:25 am by Darkling.

Stealing a mafia role isn't necessarily plagiarism. It's just stupid. And people should be able to come up with their own names. That's all I'm saying. There's really no argument here. We agree.

Whoops, really? sorry. I was only on maplantis for about half a year, and never played mafia there. I actually just made that up.
no joke.

Based on the definition of the word it makes sense that two people could come up with the same role and name, however unlikely.