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I sort of needed a place to discuss and comment on several game archetypes I've created. My goal is to place design thoughts on games I've made previously, as well as create a repository for roles and gametypes that might be useful to fledgling game moderators. However, please note that this thread can be a place to ask for thoughts and feelings beyond my own games.

As such, this post will contain a link to the corresponding game types:
Bring Your Own Role Mafia
Don't Outguess The Mod Mafia
Dwarf Fortress Mafia
One Night Ultimate Webwolf
Third Party Mafia
Vote Mafia

For BYOR discussion, singular games or roles may be linked, along with action ideas and their design philosophies, and if you encountered an idea you liked or disliked in a BYOR game, feel free to discuss it here!

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Game Type:
Vote Mafia

Description:
Vote Mafia is a game with roles built around the aspect of voting or with a Day game focus.

Design Philosophy:
This game type has a low power curve, since actions themselves revolve around the elimination aspects. The idea is to give valuable Day game experience to players that might otherwise be focusing entirely on the Night game.

Rules:

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1. At the beginning of the game, all roles in the game will be visible to all participants.
2. Players may always vote, even if they have no vote or their vote counts for 0.
3. At the end of the Day, a Vote Count will show the true count for all players and all visible votes. Eliminations will occur based on this count.
4. In the event of a tie at Day end, multiple players will be eliminated as long as they have more than 2 votes.
5. Hammers are always in effect. Hammers are based off of visible votes only.

Vote Tally - Vote Tallies are displayed throughout the Day. These track all visible votes and display a count based on those numbers. Hammers are calculated based on these displayed votes.
Vote Count - Vote Counts are displayed at the end of the Day. These count all votes as they should be calculated, but display votes as they are visible. Eliminations are calculated based on these displayed counts.
Vote Review - Vote Reviews are only displayed as a result of role actions. There count and display votes as they actually exist.

Current Role List:

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Modifiers:
Modifiers are role additions that can exist on their own or in combination with a Role. Listed below is the Vanilla version.

Copycat Voter
At the end of the Day, you become a copy of the player for whom you are voting until the start of the following Day.


Doctor Voter
At the end of the Day, the player for whom you are voting cannot be killed during the following Night.


Double Voter
You have two votes.


Heavy Voter
Your votes count as two.


Incremental Voter
You gain one additional vote each Day.


Infinity Voter
Once per game, your vote is worth infinite votes.


Lovestruck Voter
Your vote always goes on to the person for whom { player_name } votes. If { player_name } dies, you may vote freely. You may appear to vote for someone else. Your vote is shifted at the end of the day.


Motivational Voter
Players you vote have an additional vote the following Day.


Multivoter
When you vote multiple times, you cannot vote for the same person.


Negative Voter
Your vote(s) take away from the votee. Your vote(s) is not affected by inate powers.


Neighborly Voter
At the end of the Day, the person for whom you voted is given a message about your alignment.


Nonvoter
You have no votes.


Random Voter
At the end of the Day, your vote is shifted to a random person.


Super Voter
Your vote has no weaknesses. Your vote is not affected by abilities.


Swing Voter
Your vote(s) is not taken into consideration unless it is a tie-breaker. If your vote(s) would break a tie, you gain another permanent vote.


Triple Voter
You have three votes.


Twin Voter
You are twins with { player_name }. If someone votes for you, that vote secretly shifts to { player_name } and vice versa.


Vanilla Voter
You may only have one vote. Votes only count as one against you.



Roles:
These roles exist independently. They cannot be added as a Modifier to another Role.

Elimination Delayer
You may choose to force a delay on any eliminations besides yours to the end of the next Day.


Exchange Voter
The person your vote lies on at the end of the Day exchanges their role with yours the following Day.


Fibonacci Voter
You start with one vote on Day 1. You gain an additional vote on Day 3, and another on Day 4. On Day 5, you will have 5 votes.


Forceful Voter
The person for whom you vote is eliminated. If that person does not hold the majority of votes, you are killed. If you do not vote, you are killed. Your vote is not affected by active powers.


Mirror Voter
Abilities used on your vote are reflected back to the user as well.


Secret Voter
During the Day, you may vote secretly by PM. Your vote is secretly shifted.


Vengeful Voter
Any player voting for you at the end of the Day is killed by you during the following Night. This power only works if you are alive.


Vote Amplifier
During the Night, you can choose to amplify someone's vote. If that person does not have 1 vote, they now have an additional vote.


Vote Blocker
During the Night, you can stop a player from voting the next Day.


Vote Counter
During the Day, you may call for a public Vote Count.


Vote Doubler
Votes against you count twice as much as normal.


Vote Locker
During the Day, you may lock a player's vote, stopping them from unvoting or changing their vote.


Vote Motivator
During the Night, you may give a player an additional vote until the end of the following Day.


Vote Redirecter
During the Day, you may secretly shift a player's vote to another player.


Vote Reporter
During the Night, you may select a player. Whenever that player secretly shifts their vote, it is announced.


Vote Reviewer
At the end of each Day, you will be given a Vote Review.


Vote Stealer
During the Night, you may steal all votes from a player. Those votes are returned at the end of the following Day.

Changelog:

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Change: 2021-02-20
Rewrote most roles.
Split roles into Modifiers and Roles. Modifiers may be applied to any base Role.
Removed Shielded Voter, as it overlapped too much with Super Voter.
Removed Unknown Voter. Player agency was at stake, and having a shifting amount of votes is hard to balance around.
Removed Unlimited Voter. Unlike Infinity Voter, which simply adjusts the vote weight of the voter, Unlimited Voter allowed for broken strategies where all players are eliminated.
Removed Undecided Voter, as it was a mash-up of Super and Random Voter.
Removed Sticky Voter. It has a terrible detection method, and it really just devolves into players using FoS instead of just voting.
Changed Vote Seer to Vote Reviewer for consistency.
Added Heavy Voter, in a method to separate out Double Voter.
Changed rules for known roles. All roles will now be displayed in the first Day post. This change is meant to give players knowledge without having to specifically have them claim it, as well as account for players that may leave the game before this information is divulged.
Changes rules for Vote Counts. Vote Counts are now divided into three sections: Vote Tally, Vote Count, and Vote Reviews.
- Vote Tallies consist of those Votes that are currently visible in thread. They will display a count that is based only on the number of players voting for a player. Vote Tallies are displayed throughout the Day whenever requested by any player.
- Vote Counts consist of an accurate count, but have an inaccurate display of voters. Votes that have been secretly shifted will appear as if they had not been shifted, but the current Vote Count will be displayed. At the end of each Day, a Vote Count will be displayed and any eliminations will occur based on that Vote Count.
- Vote Reviews consist of both an accurate count and an accurate display of voters. Votes that have been secretly shifted will appear correctly.
Changed rules for Secretly Shifted. Votes that are secretly shifted do not move automatically during Vote Counts.
Changed rules for Multiple Voters. Roles with additional votes no longer gain additional vote weight if they voted less than the number of votes they have. This change allows for Multiple Voters to hide their roles if necessary.

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Game Type:
One Night Ultimate Webwolf (ONUW)

Description:
A soon-to-be-customized version of One Night Ultimate Werewolf. One Night, One Day. Eliminate a Werewolf and the Villagers win, otherwise the Werewolves win.

Design Philosophy:
The idea behind this game type is quick and incredibly silly games. These games are typically unbalanced in favor of one side, but quick-thinking can turn a surefire win into a major loss.

Roles:

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Role: Werewolf
Alignment: Werewolf
Ability: Knows other Werewolves in game
Requirement: There are always two Werewolf roles

Role: Alpha Werewolf
Alignment: Werewolf
Ability: Knows other Werewolves in game
Ability: Swap card with "Werewolf" card
Requirement: There are always two Werewolf roles
Requirement: Adds an additional Middle Role that is always a Werewolf role

Role: Mystic Werewolf
Alignment: Werewolf
Ability: Knows other Werewolves in game
Ability: Views the role of another non-Werewolf player
Requirement: There are always two Werewolf roles

Role: Minion
Alignment: Villager
Ability: Knows other Werewolves in game
Ability: Wins with the Werewolves unless there are no Werewolves

Role: Mason
Alignment: Villager
Ability: Knows other Masons in game
Requirement: There are always two Masons in a game with Masons

Role: Seer
Alignment: Villager
Ability: Views the role of another player

Role: Apprentice Seer
Alignment: Villager
Ability: Views one of the Middle Roles

Role: Paranormal Investigator
Alignment: Villager
Ability: Views the role of up to two players. If the Paranormal Investigator views a Werewolf or Tanner role, they become a Werewolf or Tanner and can no longer view any remaining roles.
Ability: Wins with the villagers unless they become a Werewolf or Tanner.

Role: Robber
Alignment: Villager
Ability: Views the role of another player and then swaps their role with that player.

Role: Troublemaker
Alignment: Villager
Ability: Swaps the roles of two other players.

Role: Village Idiot
Alignment: Villager
Ability: Swaps all roles but theirs to the left or right.

Role: Drunk
Alignment: Villager
Ability: Swaps their role with another player.

Role: Insomniac
Alignment: Villager
Ability: Views their own role.
Requirement: That a role that swaps roles with other players exists in the game.

Role: Revealer
Alignment: Villager
Ability: Views the role of another player. If that player is not a Tanner or Werewolf, it stays revealed.

Role: Tanner
Alignment: Tanner
Ability: Wins if killed.
Ability: Werewolves automatically lose if lynched.

Role: Hunter
Alignment: Villager
Ability: If killed, kills the player they are voting for as well.

Role: Prince
Alignment: Villager
Ability: Cannot be killed.
Ability: If they have the most votes, the players with the next highest amount (greater than 1) are lynched instead.

Role: Bodyguard
Alignment: Villager
Ability: Their vote protects the player instead. If that player has the most votes, the players with the next highest amount are lynched instead.

Role: Dream Wolf
Alignment: Werewolf
Ability: None
Requirement: There are always two Werewolf roles

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Game Type:
Bring Your Own Role Mafia (BYOR)

Description:
You bring any possible idea and the moderator turns it into a playable role for you. Typically, these games are high-powered and wacky antics ensue.

Design Philosophy:
At first, these games started out a very low-powered, but as this series has iterated forward, roles have become absurdly power-heavy. Giving players access to game-breaking abilities can lead to fun scenarios where you have to attempt to outguess which role was specifically tailored to ruin your life.

This post will eventually contain links that may help in understanding the concept or pointing out some of my favorite roles or games to design.

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Game Type:
Dwarf Fortress Mafia

Description:
An open setup game based on the forum's chief export. Dwarf Fortress Mafia puts a group of Dwarves against Elven agents that have infiltrated the fort.

Design Philosophy:
Creating an open setup leads to fairly balanced roles... Or they should. Unfortunately, this game mode is incredibly out of date, and would likely need to have a complete rewrite of all the roles to make it functional today. It was one of my first game types to have a sequel.

While a list of roles could be added to this post, the roles are out of date. If anyone was interested in this game type being ran again, I'd be happy to try again.

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Game Type:
Third Party Mafia

Description:
An open setup game where all roles are their own alignment.

Design Philosophy:
Ironically, this was a game mode meant to be all about NOT claiming Town. Players would be willing to lie, and there would be tons of reasons to claim or fakeclaim various alignments. Overall, this game mode suffers from a couple of issues with some third party alignments, but it's not too bad.

Roles:

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Town - You win if there is someone alive from your team and all scum factions have been eliminated (Mafia, SK, Cult, and Executioner).
Mafia - You win if there are no other killers alive and your team equals or outnumbers the number of remaining players. You mafiakill a player each Night.
Survivor - You win if you are alive and another faction wins or if you are the last player alive.
SK - You win when all other players are dead. You may kill a player each Night.
Cult - You win if there are no killers alive and your teams equals or outnumbers the remaining players. You recruit a player each Night.
Jester - You win if you are lynched.
Executioner - You win if [Town PLAYER] is eliminated by vote and you are alive. You turn Town if your target is eliminated by night kill.
Martyr - You win if you are killed.
Assassin - You win if [Town PLAYER] is eliminated by night kill and you are alive. You turn Town if your target is eliminated by vote.
Ally - You win if [SK] wins.
Brother - You win if [Mafia PLAYER] wins.
Watcher - You win if Day 6 is reached through normal gameplay.

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Game Type:
Don't Outguess The Mod Mafia

Description:
These are closed setup puzzle games, influenced by mafia mechanics. Each game is unique in how it runs and works.

Design Philosophy:
These games are setup to solve a puzzle. These could potentially be thought of as a Bastard Mod game, where the goal is to simply figure out what the heck is going on before someone else does. Overall, I feel like this game type could continue with more life in the forum, and a bit of time to make a new puzzle, but that's outside my purview at the moment.