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Golbolco
over 8 years

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This is a dedicated thread for users to bounce around and brainstorm on ideas for new roles, items, game mechanics or anything else to improve and build upon our beloved Mafia game.

Back in 2015 Sims made a thread asking if anyone had any ideas for roles since Lucid was looking to make some new ones (found here: https://epicmafia.com/topic/71173?page=1) That thread's dead now, but it's always good to try to bring the community together and come up with new stuff for the game.

Some of you might know my reputation for designing new roles and my passion for Mafia. EpicMafia is a pretty cool website and can always use some new stuff to spice up and remix the usual game formula, and I know a few of you have ideas of your own.

NOTE: If you're here to complain about Sandbox moderation or the site mods, please don't.

Bebop
over 8 years
i don't think it should be able to be converted, and setups including a president wouldn't really go for multiple presidents i think
admin
over 8 years
What if president is converted? Lose for village or no? And what if there are multiple presidents?
Golbolco
over 8 years
Okay, this is the VERY LAST role for this round (for now lol)!

The alert message should be something like "The President is visiting your village! Protect his life at all costs!" and then a message to the townsfolk like "admin is the President. Defend him from the Mafia!"

He should have an automatic vest on too.
admin
over 8 years

Golbolco says


Golbolco says

Revisiting the idea of the President role: What if only the town knows who it is but thirds and mafia don't? That way it's more viable than a simple celebrity-civilian combination. The President also wouldn't know any of the town vice-versa, which could create some interesting scenarios. There should be an alert for if there's a President in play of course (for closed roles setups), so the Mafia knows to go looking for them.


I did some research and found that there's a variant of Mafia called King Mafia that's very similar to this concept. Maybe we could recreate the idea with the President?


sure, let's make it the last last role :)
Golbolco
over 8 years

Golbolco says

Revisiting the idea of the President role: What if only the town knows who it is but thirds and mafia don't? That way it's more viable than a simple celebrity-civilian combination. The President also wouldn't know any of the town vice-versa, which could create some interesting scenarios. There should be an alert for if there's a President in play of course (for closed roles setups), so the Mafia knows to go looking for them.


I did some research and found that there's a variant of Mafia called King Mafia that's very similar to this concept. Maybe we could recreate the idea with the President?
UltraAug
over 8 years

Ben says


UltraAug says

maybe mafia could destroy flowers rather than giving them if they are given a flower?


I disagree, mafia keeping the flower lets them benefit by being able to hoard it among themselves. However, this is also risky because the town will notice that the flower has stopped being passed a round and will suspect the mafia.

I think that adds interesting counterplay


somehow didn't think about them passing to eachother lol
Golbolco
over 8 years
Oh, I think he means that the radio isn't actually a player role but more like an NPC.
deletedover 8 years
In Sl0nd's role
Golbolco
over 8 years

Ohdearmycatisgone says

What does it mean not assigned to a player?


What context are you referring to?
deletedover 8 years
What does it mean not assigned to a player?
sl0nderman
over 8 years
https://epicmafia.com/role/15723

BEHOLD THE GREATEST EM ROLE EVER ;^)
tigermom
over 8 years
Twink

-nobody can hear them speak cuz their opinion dont matter!!!!11
-underage so can't vote!
-so vanilla they die when given a gun
Ben
over 8 years

UltraAug says

maybe mafia could destroy flowers rather than giving them if they are given a flower?


I disagree, mafia keeping the flower lets them benefit by being able to hoard it among themselves. However, this is also risky because the town will notice that the flower has stopped being passed a round and will suspect the mafia.

I think that adds interesting counterplay
Golbolco
over 8 years
A bunch of us users had a suggestion that was way too big to fit here, so go read about it in this offshoot containment thread!
moonlightseal
over 8 years
I think the slashing roles are bad.
UltraAug
over 8 years
maybe mafia could destroy flowers rather than giving them if they are given a flower?
Sportsfan666
over 8 years

Ben says

https://epicmafia.com/role/3415

         Flower Girl
           

•Chooses one player during the night per game

•That player will receive a flower

•The flower protects them from dying for one whole day

•Once the day is over, they must give the flower to someone else

•Sided with the village


Interesting role. I suggested a paramedic role before and it basically protected people but only during the day. The flower is pretty interesting, but I'd suggest that a new one would be generated if a player vegges. Or the flower could "wilt away" at the end of the day and flower girl gives a new one.


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I think a sort of fisherman role could be interesting. Works a bit like a townsided thief. He "hooks" the items and gets them for himself. He could also disrobe mason/cult and turn them back to their original role. Head mason/cult could be turned to something else. Maybe make him be able to turn lazy/insane/etc cops to purely sane cops when he steals their suit. I think this role could be fun, especially to quell the cult uprising.
Golbolco
over 8 years
Revisiting the idea of the President role: What if only the town knows who it is but thirds and mafia don't? That way it's more viable than a simple celebrity-civilian combination. The President also wouldn't know any of the town vice-versa, which could create some interesting scenarios. There should be an alert for if there's a President in play of course (for closed roles setups), so the Mafia knows to go looking for them.
deletedover 8 years
In Battle Snakes, could there be a sheet that appears after game ends that states what order everyone died in and perhaps how they died?

For how they died it could say what color panel they ran into so the color of the snake for if someone else kills them and then grey if they hit a dead person or wall.
Jacobjohn2
over 8 years

Jacobjohn2 says

Birthday Cake Item:

Held item. If the person holding it is lynched, they may choose a person to receive a random item. The lynched player's role will be hidden.



Given out by Cake Maker:

Has a meeting where the cake maker chooses one player. Once per game, during the day, the cake maker throws a party where he/she gives out a cake to the chosen player. During this day, day actions cannot be taken.
Cake maker is immune to starvation.



Ok so I considered this, but I realize it's way too overpowered if the cake gives out items. So instead, the cake hides the role and will of whoever has it when they die. The stopping day actions thus allows thief time to steal it, for it to be sabbed, etc., before the person gets killed.

But I'm not sure this is unique enough. It's basically a cake janitor, so I think I need work on this. Perhaps, the cake maker gives out a cake to the first visitor. They'll know when they hand it out, but not who. The following day day actions are stopped? I don't know.

Suggestions?
Jacobjohn2
over 8 years

Golbolco says

Is it possible for a role to be programmed so that their vote only equals half a vote?


I don't see why it wouldn't be.

However, that is less of an issue. Because as it currently stands, half a vote is equivalently a full vote when votes are tied, or worth 0 otherwise. That's basically like saying the vote only counts when the votes are otherwise tied--which, just from my understanding of coding, is a lot easier to code for.
Golbolco
over 8 years
Is it possible for a role to be programmed so that their vote only equals half a vote?
Ben
over 8 years
https://epicmafia.com/role/3415

         Flower Girl
           

•Chooses one player during the night per game

•That player will receive a flower

•The flower protects them from dying for one whole day

•Once the day is over, they must give the flower to someone else

•Sided with the village
deletedover 8 years
The
over 8 years
I think it's a structurally fine mafia-sided role as it is currently written on the role page. What do you see that needs to be reworked?