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Role Mechanics

over 6 years

This is meant to be a sort of master thread for all role mechanics and interactions.

If you have things to add or corrections or questions, post them down below

This thread contains only Village-sided roles

Mafia mechanics: https://epicmafia.com/topic/86420

Third Party mechanics: https://epicmafia.com/topic/86447

Note: This is not some strategy guide for each role but simply states role interactions and such that may not be obvious which in turn can be used to strategize things.

Mechanics will be either be placed on the role which performs the action or affected by it. Sometimes both. IDK.

I'm following the order of the role list, too lazy to alphabetize them, just use the search function.

Red Text are things i'm not sure of or want to test/confirm. please post games/screenshots for reference

Surgeon

  • Will stop mimic from converting to stolen role

Insane Cop/Non-sane Cops

  • Will have a suit
  • If role is stolen, the stealer will see which cop they are

Sherriff

  • If mimic'd etc., gun will have a 50% chance of revealing like a normal gun
  • fabbed guns will always take priority over any gun

Deputy

  • If mimic'd etc., gun will have a 50% chance of revealing like a normal gun
  • fabbed guns will always take priority over any gun

Drunk

  • Will roleblock the hooker (takes priority)

Bulletproof

  • Receiving a vest will stack with its vest like normal

Bleeder

  • While bleeding, can take any number of gun shots, bomb explosions, and voodoo (will continually get chills) but won't die until the end of the day
  • Can survive famine even without bread (will bleed instead as usual)

Bomb

  • A vested bomb will still kill the killer but bomb will not die

Granny

  • Will not die from stab wounds (will never bleed to death)
  • Visits the person they kill

Hunter

  • Still activates if gov/don OTs to them

Agent

  • If a role is missing, that role has been converted

Celebrity

  • Will always appear as celebrity despite being converted/stolen unless oracle or crystal reveals them again
  • If celeb is janned and guised, celeb will be guised without any trace except for the usual (reports, patho meeting, etc.)

Loudmouth - Using a key will make loudmouth visit themself

Mason

  • Can kill Cult, Cthulhu, and Killer (though the killer one shouldn't be but w/e)
  • Will mason mafia if driven to mafia with masoning
  • Will mason mafia if monkey'd to mafia without mismasoning
  • masons in the first conversion to happen, then all other roles (cult/borg/etc.), yak is last to convert
  • Masoning a person who is being mimicked on the same night will cause the mason not to go through (mimic will take original role and the masoned person will see themselves as mason they are actually blue)
  • Cures Cthulhu insanity
  • Not affect by Cthulhu

Jailer

  • If gator and jailer jail/gator each other, they will appear in the other's cell alone
  • Takes priority over chef meetings (aka if chef also targets A, A will appear in jail still but should get the chef report anyway)
  • Jailers share a meeting and will be in the jail room together
  • Visits "undefined" if they are alone
  • Cannot jail-kill if snowballed (still has meeting)

Chef

  • Chef will still go through when lynched
  • Meetings goes through suits or acted selves (aka actress will appear as actress)
  • apparently this is prioritized over jail meetings
  • Chefs share a meeting

Turncoat

  • If they are shrinked, will they be immortal to maf kills?

Enchantress

  • Crystalling an oracle is useless, they will only show their orc target not the crystal's

Priest

  • Only kills werewolf if they are eaten by the werewolf, werewolf failing will not be killed
  • Does not detect zombies visiting them
  • Self-vists
  • Will be auto-killed by trapper and interceptor

Trapper

  • Will be revealed like Interceptor does
  • Can auto-kill the priest

Baker

  • Famine also happens when they veg or sui
  • Amn on baker will stop famine

Ghoul

  • Will not redirect jail/gator kills
  • Self-visits but will visit their target if they are redirecting a kill

Penguin

  • Noot not
  • Can give reports of who ninja visited

Justice

  • Puts non-hostile third as town alignment (aka town and vivor are same)
  • Will report miller and villager as same alignment (compared to sane/insane cop which gets them different)

Treestump

  • Can be converted into cyborg (Ty LekkuLover)
  • Can be maided
  • Can die via voodoo (as well as arson and strongman)

Bride

  • Proposal cannot be accepted if the player is already in love (via lover, cupid, heartbreaker etc.) cannot accept if that person is lover or heartbreaker
  • If bride brides disguised person, the proposal will go to the person in the graveyard, however the person in the graveyard can't accept it, leading the guiser to veg

Monkey

  • Umm, probably too many to list
  • See lover Do to X. will cause X to see lover message but won't actually be in love and lover will still have lover meeting until not monkey'd
  • If monkey chooses amn as first target, monkey's role will turn into second target's role. Amn will stay amn, second target's role will stay same. (ty xfire1994)

Virgin

  • its death message "virgin has been sacrificed!" will always appear when they die
  • gov OT counts as being lynched (ty FilthyLawn)

Blacksmith

  • Vests infinitely stack

Oracle

  • If vested and hit, will reveal orc target. Allows for multiple orcing in a game
  • Can update already revealed roles (aka orcing culted celeb will show them as cult)

Dreamer

  • Includes hostile thirds if maf is dead
  • If there's a gambler alive, will receive a dream in the middle of the night regardless if visited. This allows for dreamer to have 2 dreams in 1 day (1 at night 1 at day)

Lightkeeper

  • Does not turn off the lights if vested and hit thank goodness

Keymaker

  • Keys cause a role to self visit. This can make loudmouth message say they visited themselves and can make Cthulhu insane (ty riskitforthebiscuit)
  • You will still be sent to jail if you key yourself in but cannot be killed

Gunsmith

  • Their guns will be overridden by fab guns

Tinkerer

  • If there's a gambler alive, will receive a gun at night even if visited
  • Will not receive a gun if there are no night meetings

Mimic

  • If surgeon'd/shrinked, will steal role of person (they turn blue) but mimic will remain as mimic and can mimic again
  • Can steal roles of non-hostile thirds
  • Stealing cop reveals their sanity
  • If it steal lm/gallis/etc., will still appear as blue to themselves
  • mimicking someone who is masoned on the same night will take their original role but the one who is masoned will appear masoned to himself but is actually blue
  • mimics can mimic lover, rival, prophet, alien, sidekick, survivor, and angel (otherwise they turn amn)

Butterfly

  • Changes lyncher and angel targets

Trickster

  • Holding its own bomb will reveal self like anarchist
  • Gives out fabbed items including bombs which will not detonate and will cause the holder to veg (ty riskitforthebiscuit)
Mythbusters EM Edition
15 signed
I am willing to participate and cooperate in any role mechanic testing if needed, just hmu
over 6 years
also, if a guiser guises out while the mm is still alive, their game will glitch and their text box will disappear completely as if they had vegged
over 6 years
a guiser guising another guiser will become naked
If you keyed yourself in you can still be sent to jail but you won't die
over 6 years

riskitforthebiscuit says

why didnt angel die when they saved me from the gunshot?


ask lucid hehehe, but yeah I think they die at end of day...can we test pls
why didnt angel die when they saved me from the gunshot?
over 6 years

riskitforthebiscuit says

https://epicmafia.com/game/6192668

>angel on hunter

>angel uses protection

>hunter gets lynched

>they both die


I'm pretty sure this is because angel saved u from gunshot so he couldn't save u from lynching. Also I'm still not convinced angel saves on lynches
https://epicmafia.com/game/6192668

>angel on hunter

>angel uses protection

>hunter gets lynched

>they both die
over 6 years
https://epicmafia.com/game/6189612

proof that monkey can mason mafia
over 6 years
https://epicmafia.com/game/6187645

Secretary day let's jailer and interrogator jail people
https://epicmafia.com/game/6178663

I got culted the same day Janitor janned butterfly. My role appeared as cult to me but I was actually my old role.
deletedover 6 years
If bride brides disguised person, the proposal will go to the person in the graveyard, however the person in the graveyard can't accept it, leading the guiser to veg (not sure if this qualifies as bride or guiser but i'll just leave this here)
You cant accept bride's proposal if you are in love already (I think heartbreaker/cupid/lover all count)
Ghoul self visits and will visit their target only if they kill them.


Priest self visits (not sure if it visits to turn traitors)

Granny will visit the people she kills

Gramps self visits


Jailer and Gator visit undefined if they don't have a meeting (Amn too?)
tree can be maided

tree can die from voodoo

luis4rod says


riskitforthebiscuit says

Bleeder can survive famine


No waaay, for how long tho


1 day or night, until they bleed out
over 6 years

riskitforthebiscuit says

Bleeder can survive famine


No waaay, for how long tho
Bleeder can survive famine
over 6 years

Segalow says

it's happened a few times, but if you can bypass 0 charges to -1 as a cyborg by both converting and getting hit, you get sometimes complete immunity to death. i think you can still die if you're hit twice after -1, however


Yeha this one is a little too inconsistent for me to put I think. Lucid pls fix
over 6 years

bitsy says

there can be multiple admirers.
when killer dies, admirer becomes a copycat randomly. this means an admirer can go a whole game without becoming a killer even if killer dies n1. and if you're a really unlucky admirer that just turned, a butterfly can reset you.

TAKE THIS AS AN EXAMPLE:(or you can read it on the learn page)
•killer dies n1
•admirer turns into copycat
•copycat dies n2
•admirer 2 turns into real killer.

this was poorly organized. nobody cares because nobody gives a bloop about admirer.


This is already in the role description..
over 6 years
Okay so I'm also going to need to make a separate thread for the Third Party roles :^ )

Third Party thread: https://epicmafia.com/topic/86447
over 6 years
it's happened a few times, but if you can bypass 0 charges to -1 as a cyborg by both converting and getting hit, you get sometimes complete immunity to death. i think you can still die if you're hit twice after -1, however
over 6 years
i think butterfly resets angel target and their guardian protection.
over 6 years
bleeder is immune to poison
over 6 years
btw if maid maids granny, they both die
over 6 years