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
What is your favorite role mentioned in this thread?
If you do change the "x commits suicide" messesage, perhaps can it be changed to a bunch of things (similar to how there are a bunch of possible death messesages)? "x has left the game." imo doesn't work, because it should signify sudden death, as this person is quickly and suddenly going to the graveyard.
Perhaps use things such as: x spontaneously combusts, x is struck by lightning, x is suddenly hit by a bus, ect.
The rest of the system messesages fit a narrative, so I think "x has left the game" breaks that pattern.
actually, if we do the latter, it shouldn't be named ghost. ghosts should start off in the graveyard and do something there (win condition based on graveyard composition or mess with the living)
i like the ghost role the more i think about it. should it start in the graveyard and have the ability to roleblock one living player each night? or should it start off alive, and only if it dies it can roleblock?
Ya, I'm pretty sure there was intentionally a similarity between the way mafia is played and the Salem Witch Trials. It was just accusations and then lynchings. While lynching now does have racially charged meanings, it's not the only meaning, or even the intended one
I mean I get the "suicide" change since it doesn't make sense with the graveyard roles. (you die but you aren't available in the dead players pool). I honestly thought GodStephCurry was being ironical about the lynch though.
Also like, I really stand firm on this and all the people who have commented phus far about this change of the term "lynch" doesn't play competetive / ranked games where the term is actually used.
I really hope that is a joke about changing the term lynching to something else. Just because people in the past have lynched others based on racial reasons doesn't mean that's it's the major part / implication of it. Hell, we can even go on about how they used to lynch witches and say how lynching goes against religions believes or scientifict evidence. Historically speaking witch lynching was sometime in or before 1800, whilst the racial lynching thing only really started in 1900.
This is a bit far stretched on the racial thing imo. Not to mention all the terms we're going to have to renew. Rl, mylo, lylo...
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/lynch lynch verb [ T ] UK /lɪntʃ/ US /lɪntʃ/ If a crowd of people lynch someone who they believe is guilty of a crime, they kill them without a legal trial, usually by hanging (= killing using a rope round the neck).
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/lynching lynch [linch] ExamplesWord Origin See more synonyms for lynch on Thesaurus.com verb (used with object) to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority.
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