Mafia Role Creation Thread (Topic)

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Townie � Town-aligned; and is a normal Townsperson, has the power of deduction through clues given by posts.
Special ability:
Dodge � Allows player to dodge a night hit that has been placed on them; may be used once per game.

Doctor � Town-aligned; and is a doctor who can protect a person he thinks is going to get hit.
Special ability:
Protect � Protects a player from a night hit; may be used once per night.

Optimal Number 2

Detective � Town-aligned; and the detective can investigate people and has the job of persuading people to vote for the right person.
Special ability:
Investigate Reveals a player�s alignment; may be used once per night.

Optimal Number 2

Boondock Saint � Town-aligned; and the vigilante has the power to kill someone based on his personal assumptions.
Special ability:
Hit � Kills one person at night; may be used once per night

Optimal Number 1

Mason - Town-aligned; A mason knows other masons and has the power of recruiting people into their circle.
Special ability:
Cult- A mason may select a player at night; if this person is a townie than the mason and the selected person now will know each other. If the mason selects a mafia member than the mason dies. The mason may not tell who he is targeting but me. Only original masons can convert people into their circle.

Optimal Number 2-3

Bulletproof - Town-aligned; The bulletproof is so paranoid that he carry's protection around with himself.
Special ability:
Kevlar Vest- Has 2 non regenerative night lives

Optimal Number 2

Hunter - The hunter has a thirst for killing; he uses a powerful Beretta .50 Cal sniper rifle.
Special ability:
Snipe- Kills one person at night, requires you to load bullet; may be used once per night.
Load- Loading bullet; required for snipe ability; may be used once per night.

Optimal Number 1

Banshee - The Banshee wails for its victim, the victim than has a death clock on them.
Special ability:
Scream- Targets 1 player; this person dies the 3 nights later,if said ;May be used 1 per game.
Screech- Targets 1 player; this person cannot use power; May be 1 per night, cannot be used conjunction with scream.

Optimal Number 1

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Optimal Number 1

Post has been edited 12 time(s), last time on Apr 16 2011, 11:00 pm by Tempz.

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Spirit - The spirit is already dead and thus cannot be killed by night hit or lynch
Special ability:
Immortality- When killed by a lynch or night hit, the spirit can still discuss on the topic. However, he cannot vote or use abilities. He cannot be targeted after he is killed and his name is marked out.

This role is useless. If a player wants to keep playing after they've been killed, they just send PMs to other players or shout in the shoutbox. This happens all the time.

Banshee - The Banshee wails for its victim, and the victim then has a death clock on them.
Special ability:
Scream- Targets 1 player. This person dies the next night~~;May be used 1 per night.~~ May be used once per game.
Screech- Targets 1 player. This person cannot use their power for the night; May be used ~~3 times a game~~ once each night. Cannot be used in conjunction with scream.

If you give the Banshee an ability to kill each night, it's no different than the Boondock. The general rule is that the town shouldn't kill at night; that's the mafia's job.

Witch Doctor - A corrupted witch doctor only serves to curse and destroy.
Special ability:
Curse: Curses someone. The cursed person may not use abilities. May be used once per night.
Time Bomb: Turns someone into a bomb. Anyone targeting the targeted person dies. May be used once per game.
Blood Pact: If lynched, then the first person to lynch him will also die.

Does Time Bomb also kill the targeted person? If so, this role is too powerful. You could put the Blood Pact ability into a new mafia role to balance this.

Deceiver- The deceiver has the tendency to do underhanded things to achieve his goals.
Special ability:
Black Mail: The deceiver may visit one person and order them to do any of their abilities. This power may only be used once per game.
Rig Vote: Before the day ends, if the deceiver sends me a pm to rig the votes against 1 person this person will be lynched instead. May be used once per game.

Rig vote seems way powerful, because the town's main way of fighting mafia is through voting. It should come with a consequence, like revealing who the Deceiver is.

Therapist - The therapist explores deep into someone's inner mind and finds out their role.
Special ability:
Therapy - A person's role will be revealed to the therapist. May be used ~~3 times a game~~ once per game.
Claim Insanity - A player will be locked up for a night. During this time, he cannot use his ability, and his alignment will be revealed to the town. May be used once per game.
Medicate- Targeted player cannot use his power. May be used once per night.

I don't like Medicate; it's just the Banshee's ability. What's the point of having this as a third-party role? How does the therapist win?

Also, I don't mean to sound rude, but you really need to improve your grammar if you intend to host mafia. I did several grammatical corrections to the roles I thought needed balancing (I probably missed some errors). You also have inconsistencies, such as having colons after some abilities and hyphens after others. Since mafia here is a game of storytelling, you need to be able to write well to be a successful host.

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Hmm i guess your right...

Time bomb does not affect targeted person
Taking out therapist and spirit
Balanced out.

I have poor grammar and writing skills because when i was younger i use to skip a lot of classes to play video games, i caught up in most subjects except for English since grammar is taught at lower grades. Plus Canadian and USA English is slightly different which account for some of my errors.

Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on Apr 15 2011, 9:05 am by Tempz.

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How is Canadian and US english different? I've never heard that before.

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Add "eh" to every sentence for Canadian. For American English, add a double helping of ignorance.

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Hmm, I guess you're right...

Yes, yes I am.

As far as I know, Canadians only have different informal/slang terms; you should abide by either American English or British English (i.e. color or colour). If you have difficulties with this, you can always find someone to proof-read your game posts before submitting them.

Those roles look more balanced now. I ignored the optimal numbers because that's always dependent on the number of players.

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REDUNDANT MAFIA - Has one non-regenerating night life that doesn't regenerate. At night, can send in one kill to a player of his choosing to kill the player of his choosing at night.

This role is currently being used in Fallout Mafia.

Ghoul-- An "undead" townsperson.
Ability = Undead Hit: The Ghoul fights after being "killed".
[Undead Hit]: Target loses one night life.
*The Ghoul can use Undead Hit only after he has lost his night life.

Is this role OP?

Win by luck, lose by skill.

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If the Ghoul cannot be killed, then yes, it is OP. He basically becomes an invincible vigilante for the town.

Norm had a Zombie role that allowed the player to choose one person to kill when he dies, and then he's officially dead. That sounds a lot more balanced than what you suggested.

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Strangely i actually thought of asking someone to check my grammer...

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Townie � Town-aligned; and is a normal Townsperson, has the power of deduction through clues given by posts.
Special ability:
Dodge � Allows player to dodge a night hit that has been placed on them; may be used once per game.

Doctor � Town-aligned; and is a doctor who can protect a person he thinks is going to get hit.
Special ability:
Protect � Protects a player from a night hit; may be used once per night.

Detective � Town-aligned; and the detective can investigate people and has the job of persuading people to vote for the right person.
Special ability:
Investigate Reveals a player�s alignment; may be used once per night.

Boondock Saint � Town-aligned; and the vigilante has the power to kill someone based on his personal assumptions.
Special ability:
Hit � Kills one person at night; may be used once per night

Mason - Town-aligned; A mason knows other masons and has the power of recruiting people into their circle.
Special ability:
Cult- A mason may select a player at night; if this person is a townie than the mason and the selected person now will know each other. If the mason selects a mafia member than the mason dies. The mason may not tell who he is targeting but me. Only original masons can convert people into their circle.

Bulletproof - Town-aligned; The bulletproof is so paranoid that he carry's protection around with himself.
Special ability:
Kevlar Vest- Has 2 non regenerative night lives

Hunter - The hunter has a thirst for killing; he uses a powerful Beretta .50 Cal sniper rifle.
Special ability:
Snipe- Kills one person at night, requires you to load bullet; may be used once per game (anyone visiting victim will be not be able to use powers for the next night
Load- Loading bullet; required for snipe ability; may be used once per game
Bear Trap(Passive- Anyone visiting the hunter will not use their power this night and the next night (only applies to 1 person)

Banshee - The Banshee wails for its victim, the victim than has a death clock on them.
Special ability:
Scream- Targets 1 player; this person dies the 3 nights later,if said ;May be used 1 per game.
Screech- Targets 1 player; this person cannot use power; May be 1 per night, cannot be used conjunction with scream.

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Is that just a repost of what you had at the top of the page? And you edited your previous post to request it gets deleted so you could bump the topic while trying to make it look like you weren't double-posting?

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I like the idea of third party roles, but most of them just seem like they could take the side of the town or mafia rather than being independent.

I think an interesting mafia game would be to have two mafia families that are essentially against each other but are also against the town as well. Basically three factions. It'd have to be a large game though.

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Is that just a repost of what you had at the top of the page? And you edited your previous post to request it gets deleted so you could bump the topic while trying to make it look like you weren't double-posting?

The post he edited had nothing to do with roles.

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Here's mine, took me a great deal of time to get it:

Town roles

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Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Apr 28 2011, 4:06 am by poison_us.

Responsible for my own happiness? I can't even be responsible for my own breakfast

Stop adding such complicated roles.

I edited a role...

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Doctor: Townie that can heal a person of his choosing and prevent a single mafia hit.
- Ability: [Heal]: [Target]
- Description: Adds one night life to [Target]
- Notes: +100% max HP.

Overpowered. The doctor can target himself and give himself or someone else 5 lives over the course of four nights. You should restrict the doctor from targeting himself and make the additional night life temporary.

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Sorry, my satire was a little rushed. Fix't.