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Jester [Role Idea]

over 7 years

Jester/Joker (Name undecided)

Jester functions like a miller in the sense that he appears mafia to all those that visit and villager to himself. However the one defining characteristic of the Jester is that he (like Cthulu) has his speech altered after typing. His comments are replaced with a random joke, and the subsequent line is the answer regardless of what he types in.

So you might be wondering, well doesn't that make the Jester easy to discover? Think about this. Mafia could try to act like Jester by speaking in jokes all day. If you make him a variable character that also responds to madness from Cthulu for example, his light hearted humour could then be translated to dark humor only. In this scenario it would be difficult to match the Jester's ability to switch things up depending on the different insane characters present. While perhaps not a role that would become ranked per say, he is a very fun addition I think EpicMafia needs.

Given the complexity of his role and the fact that jokes and potentially dark variants would need to written and coded into to be pulled out of a mystery hat, I would need the moderators' intervention.

Another suggestion is taking the already viable Trickster role and somewhat turning him insane-thus the jester dark variant aspect- when cthulu is in the setup.

Thoughts?

over 7 years

Ambien says


Heck says

no


Die in a hole and don't climb back up.


how did you know i was able to climb things while i'm dead

who told you this
over 7 years

Freakzor9 says

Interesting, but it probably won't work well. People will just learn all the jokes in the pool and just spam them all day. It will make games turn into massive circlejerks which might be ok in some cases.


There would be more jokes and could be variable. Perhaps add a functionality where people could have different sets like we have different disguise packs made by players.
over 7 years

Heck says

no


Die in a hole and don't climb back up.
over 7 years

luis4rod says

But they can't contribute to anything and basically be a bot.

Also if they're villager how are they supposed to visit thulhu :^ )


They don't visit Cthulu, cthulu's presence makes them insane. Although, the Jester could have a worthless visit like Fool.
over 7 years
But they can't contribute to anything and basically be a bot.

Also if they're villager how are they supposed to visit thulhu :^ )
over 7 years
no
over 7 years
It could be a massive pool though such as top 100 jokes from a website.
over 7 years
Interesting, but it probably won't work well. People will just learn all the jokes in the pool and just spam them all day. It will make games turn into massive circlejerks which might be ok in some cases.