Hello everyone! I would like to ask the people who are interested in this event to participate and contribute as much as possible.
In order for 2 new roles to be added to em, the community has to work together to refine the ideas that are going to be mentioned below. We have to collectively select 2 of the best ideas and make sure their version is the best one possible. The next step would be to come up with some sort of artwork for the selected roles. Lucid mentioned something about rewarding the users behind the artwork that would get selected in the end for those 2 roles.
Jack the Ripper (originally Hypocrite)
Jack the Ripper hates anyone who kills.
Jack the Ripper only wins when the game ends and all murderers are dead.
If Jack the Ripper receives a gun or knife and kills someone with it, he will not consider himself a murderer.
To Jack the Ripper, murderers are killing roles or any other player that has successfully eliminated someone else (shot, stabbed, blown up, etc.)
If a player survives one of these actions, Jack the Ripper will not consider the attacker a murderer.
(~Jennings)
Cat Lady
Chooses one player every night. The player is instantly alerted that a cat is at their door. They have two options: Kill the cat, and let it go. If you kill the cat, you are roleblocked and the Cat Lady doesn't know who was visited. If you let it go, the Cat Lady learns your role.
Sided with the mafia. (~Her)
Robinhood
Visits two people, taking all items from the first and giving them to the second (cannot visit self either way)
Action fails if trying to steal from a mafia
Sided with the village (~Torreador)
Vice President
If the president dies, takes their place
All townies immediately receive a message of their new president
Attends mafia meetings, and makes them anonymous
Cannot win if they are the vice president (~Alyssa)
Gossiper
Chooses one person every night.
Will see some whispers this person receives/makes.
If lynched at the end of the game, the last mafia can guess who the Seer is for autowin.
If the Seer dies, they will appear as a random (non-mafia) role in the setup and their will will always be blank. If dead, the mafia can still attempt a guess to the Seer's identity at the end of the game.
If there are multiple Seers in a game, only one Seer will know the mafia at any given time.
If there are two mafias and multiple Seers, the knowledge of the mafias will be split between them.
Sided with the village. (~Shwartz99)
Whistleblower
Once per game can force someone to vote someone else. Vote cannot be OT'D if it is a hammer. Sided with maf
(Will create more tension in selfing/hammering based setups (~Moldyches)
Soldier
If they are the last man standing against a single mafia or third party, the village wins.
Sided with the village. (~XFire)
PowerTown
Each night chooses a power role from the options provided to him. (the mods should determine the list)
Night meeting goes accordingly
Sided with the village
PowerMafia
Each night chooses a mafia role from the list.
Night meeting goes accordingly
Sided with the mafia
Poll
What is your favorite role mentioned in this thread?
Also before implementing major/incredibly new changes you should poll the (small) forum community and talk to them about it. We're pretty much what you have and you should probably do your best to communicate with us
1.) Assuming you currently have not done so yet, sit down and join a Discord voice chat or text server with all administrators and moderators and discuss rule enforcement - how you want it, the punishments, etc. This website is in constant debate about rules and punishments and it would be great if you thoroughly discussed these. Your energy has been focused on role building and stuff so far that you haven't really put energy toward this. Maintaining that communication and trust is so vital to website development and we've all lacked that in the last few years.
2.) Improve moderator tools. From being a moderator a few times, the team relied on multiple third party services from Foxie, Arcbell, etc. If you were able to implement these, the mod team could potentially be more transparent, swift, and efficient. (Another thing you can sit down with the administrators and talk about).
3.) Please review all of the threads in the Bugs subforum. I know you have been coming back to work on these, but there have been a lot of bugs that have hurt EM's gameplay for years. Those should definitely come first.
4.) One of the biggest strengths of this game is its ability to create big social circles. Everyone has their own groups, friends, etc. around here that have developed over a long time. Finding a way to improve the PM system/profile usage/friend features would greatly increase the likability of the game. I do not have a very specific idea in mind but if you capitalize in the strengths then you will prosper again I am sure.
These things are definitely all related to the infrastructure rather than game play, but they're things that should be addressed ASAP.
Don't worry, It's my first time having fun with pixel art I don't mind the critique :P
Also not sure if Whistleblower is still a role that's being considered but If it is I'd suggest changing the name to Hypnotist or something so it has more "maf sided" potential.
New Roles
Poll
