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[fillipk]

The jester will probably make something bad happen if he's lynched, I don't want it to be an insta lose because that is no fun but maybe something about loosing your vote or jester gets to kill someone who voted for him or something like that.

[FallacyofUrist]

If the jester got to kill someone who voted for him, that would be pointless for the jester as an ability because the jester's already one.

But yeah, if the last person to vote him/her lost his/her vote or died that could work.

[TheDarkStar]

You could try a town or SK-aligned jester - instead of killing someone who votes for him, he could have some other thing, like a one-shot invest (that everyone knows the results of) or a roleblock or mass-roleblock, that only works on the night after he dies.

[Megggas]

Perhaps you could have a team of 2 jesters that only win if both of them die.

[FallacyofUrist]

Interesting possibility- would they get a quick topic?

[TolyK]

Perhaps you could have a team of 2 jesters that only win if both of them die.

Oooooooh.

[fillipk]

No, especially if I give them the power to make the other person night immune, unless both of them try this trick.  Also I could give them a roleblock/1 day vote loss after they are lynched.  This is in addition to the power to visit people.

[hops]

I have this idea of a mafia variant where everyone is allowed only 4 posts per day, and each Mafia is allowed 4 posts in scumchat. I'm not sure how much this will affect the dynamic of play but I assume it will do so greatly, so does anyone have any ideas on any balancing I might need?

[TheDarkStar]

I don't have any specific ideas, but you might want to have shorten the days since people will have much less to say.

[hops]

From looking at Mafia Wiki I discovered this is already a common gimmick. Which people don't like. Oh well.

[TolyK]

Twitter Mafia had an interesting restriction, though it was a pain in the rear end usually. Was a fun game, but I'm likely biased...

[FallacyofUrist]

I have an interesting(in my opinion) idea for a mafia game.

In the game, themed around a school of battle magic:
There are 3 town power roles, 2 scum with shotted powers, and 4 basically vanilla townies.

What sets this game aside from the others is Elements:
Each player is assigned a single element(pyromancy, geomancy, electromancy).

When a kill is made, it has a specific way it shows up once the day comes(as in, the corpse has been burned/appears to have received electrical burn marks/looks bashed beyond belief).
The scum receive Elements also.

In addition to the lynch, the town gets a public element inspection decided via a secondary vote.

This can lead to interesting ways of confirming people as town(no kill has come as electricity, Toonyguy is electric element, he must not be scum).

Power roles:

Spoiler: Like So (click to show/hide)

Town:

Inquisitor:
Each night you may visit a player, while wearing a mask, and torture the knowledge of what their element is out of them, to learn for yourself what it is(and block them in the process).

Guardian:
Each night you may protect a player, causing any kill action that would kill them to hit you instead. You may survive one kill in the game, but not more.

Thaumaturge:
You have 3 single-use abilities:
Power Word: You may use this in the day to make your vote count double(it doesn't show up as that though).
Oracle: You learn what target player's element is, used during the night.
Elemental Blast: You kill your target using your element, used during the night.

Dark Mages:

Fell Inquisitor:
Twice in the game you may use your fell magics during the night to rip at a target player's soul, learning for yourself if they are a town power role and if so, what it is. If they are not a power role, you automatically learn their element also.

Dark Elementalist:
Once in the game you may make a night kill with an element of your choice rather than your own element.

Thoughts?

[origamiscienceguy]

Hmm, how will the scum be able to use the element shenanigans to their advantage?

[FallacyofUrist]

To start with, they have a shot at inferring the identity of the Thaumaturge based on whether or not he used his kill.

The Dark Elementalist can preform a kill without using his own element, and thus blame it on a townie that had that element publicly revealed or inspected by the Fell Inquisitor.

And- "Okay guys, we know that a fire user is scum!" That narrows down the scum, unless of course the Dark Elementalist used his power...
Or if the Thaumaturge was the one who did it...

The elements system may be of more benefit to the townies, but there are deceptions available by using it.

However, I see your point. Slight revision to the Dark Elementalist:

Dark Elementalist:
Once in the game you may make a night kill with an element of your choice rather than your own one.
Also once in the game, day or night, you may mark a player with an element of your choice. If they are element scanned in any way, the result will be the element you chose. Their role flip is not effected.

[origamiscienceguy]

So i think I've got a great idea for a bastard game. Is there anybody who I could PM it to in order to critique it?