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[webadict]

You know, if we have open setups, we don't even need a moderator to run the game. All that needs to be done is to reveal your role when you die and continue the game.

[FallacyofUrist]

I've been thinking that if people enjoy this game mode enough, we should have an unofficial version during the "off-season", which would run endlessly.

That is, once the thread starts it would run over and over as players try to get as many King Mafia wins as possible. It would be fun to have a high score list in the OP or something.

And! It would be good practice for when next year's KotM actually happens, whenever Toaster plans on hosting, that is.

Endless KOTM?

(I read Toony's reference and it was hilarious. Makes me want to do a hyper-daykill setup even more.)

FoU, I like that nested idea of an SK hidden within the mafia team but you'd need to create some incentive or mechanic so the SK can't just reveal the scum team (say, when things are going badly for them).

Revealing the scum team makes it obvious that he's the SK, doesn't it? If the scum assign their mafiakill by vote, they can just shoot him. Or town vig kill.

[notquitethere]

I'm thinking of cases where the SK is about to be lynched, squeals to the town that xyz are scum (maybe out of spite). Well, maybe that's a feature not a bug, gives an incentive for the scum team to not get themselves lynched. You're right, having the the mafia infiltrator also be anti town makes it still work.

You know, if we have open setups, we don't even need a moderator to run the game. All that needs to be done is to reveal your role when you die and continue the game.

Can the bot automate role PM sending?

[ToonyMan]

How would actions work at night?

"Hey I'm a cop and I'm inspecting you, what's your alignment?" What if a roleblocker sends a PM to the cop that they're blocking them right after? This would also reveal the cop's identity to who they're checking.

It would be really funny for mafia to just PM someone and be like "hey we're killing you tonight so post your role PM tomorrow".

[webadict]

You know, if we have open setups, we don't even need a moderator to run the game. All that needs to be done is to reveal your role when you die and continue the game.

Can the bot automate role PM sending?

Uh, yes, I'm about 99% sure it could, and in a relatively short time. It just needs real testing before it does. The real issue is that I can't send by username at the moment. I need to get the user ID, since that's how the PM page reads it (Without having the decoding that's done through the site. I could potentially set something up that gets the ID in the future.)

Short answer is yes. Long answer is yes, but in like a couple days or so.

Should we attempt a non-moderated version of Mafia?

How would actions work at night?

"Hey I'm a cop and I'm inspecting you, what's your alignment?" What if a roleblocker sends a PM to the cop that they're blocking them right after? This would also reveal the cop's identity to who they're checking.

It would be really funny for mafia to just PM someone and be like "hey we're killing you tonight so post your role PM tomorrow".

This wouldn't currently work with the no-mod version. But, no-mod Mafia would be small setups that don't have a Cop or Roleblocker in them. However, essentially, yes, that's how the Mafiakill would work.

[4maskwolf]

Daykill BYOR: everyone submits a role name and receives back a role. The twist? There's only one Day. Everyone has a one-shot daykill ability of some kind and one other ability. Anyone can shoot anyone, and the mafia have a spare one-shot factional daykill too. Will get violent very quickly, and probably require multiple mods so the actions can be resolved quickly, along with potentially something like a 'no day killing for two hours after a day kill occurs and game start' moratorium. If all daykills are expended and no team has won, everyone gets their daykill shots expended at once.

Some larger communities run games known as "Mashes" which use a similar mechanic (everyone has a certain number of in-thread attacks every day, which are basically public daykills with a low % chance of success) and they are generally pretty popular.  They wouldn't work here, though, because a) for the sake of mod sanity they basically require dedicated automation software which we don't have and b) they're designed around having an enormous number of players (the smallest I've seen is in the mid 30s).

[notquitethere]

To twist my CYOM Redux setup a little more, I've decided to add flaws back in. In order to get access to more powerful (and deadly) abilities, or start with more abilities, players take flaws. Flaws can never be ameliorated or detected, are random, permanent and usually pretty bad. The aim here is to aid also in fakeclaims (e.g. someone who takes a public action might fakeclaim to have the Usual Suspect flaw).

Some players won't want to risk the RNG and so will expand outwards instead of downwards.

Spoiler: CYOM Redux v.3 (click to show/hide)

Pick a species before the game begins. You will be assigned a random profession.

Species gives you unique protections. The Profession gives you Abilities. Each Profession has several abilities in it, forming a tree. To get later abilities, you have to have earlier ones. At the end of every day that you survive, you gain a new level in any one Profession. Specialise in one Profession, or branch out into several. Remember, you can only perform one action per phase.

Mafia gain this ability: Mafiakill [DEADLY][KILL] - Once per night, one mafia member can use their ability to perform the mafia kill
(this ability is immune to [WARPING] powers and cannot be sold by a merchant).)

Species
Stoneman - Cannot die from poison or infection, though you can still spread infection. [CORPSE] actions don't work on your corpse.
Llama - You don't show up up in the action reports of [ENLIGHTENING] abilities.
Ent - [TWISTY] powers can never redirect your actions.
Letterbeast - [WARPING] powers don't work on you.
Djinn - You cannot be blocked or protected against.
Pixie - You cannot be killed by [TRAP] abilities.
Golden - [VILE] powers don't work on you.

Player may optionally choose to start the game with two random professions or two levels in one random profession. If they do, they will gain a random flaw.

Professions
==Duelist==
1 - Challenge (redirect the target's target to you- if your target is using an ability with two  targets, you become the second target)
2 - Block (the targets action will fail, but they won't know why)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Duel [DEADLY] [KILL](the target will be killed; if they have a [KILL] action, if possible they will target you with that instead of their original target.)
5 - Riposte [TRAP] [TWISTY] (any action (other than a riposte) that would successfully target your target, is reflected back on the targeter instead)

==Priest==
1 - Atone (remove Curse)
2 - Delay [WARPING](Target's action happens in the next cycle, regardless of whether it could normally happen)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Sanctify [DAY][TRAP][DEADLY] (the last player to vote for your target will die if the target is lynched).
5 - Resurrect [CORPSE] (bring a player back from the dead)

==Doctor==
1 - Cleanse (remove poison & infection)
2 - Protect (prevent blocks and [KILL] actions from affecting your target)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Infect [DEADLY] (player becomes Infected. They will die in two days time. Everyone an Infected person successfully targets also becomes infected. An Infected person knows that they are infected. While a person is infected, all their abilities that can target someone have the DEADLY tag.).
5 - Triage [UNTARGETED][DAY] (everyone is cured of infection and poison.)

==Spy==
1 - Coverup [VILE] (target doesn't appear on [ENLIGHTENING] action reports.)
2 - Track [ENLIGHTENING](see who your target targets)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Blackmail [VILE] (your target has no vote in the following phase)
5 - Boobytrap [PUBLIC][DAY][TRAP] (the next person who targets your target this cycle will be targeted by a free [KILL] action from your target.)

==Surveyor==
1 - Check Papers (Learn the species of your target)
2 - Poll [UNTARGETED] (Receive a random list of half of all Profession names in play)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Watch [ENLIGHTENING] (See everyone who targets your target)
5 - Spotlight [ENLIGHTENING][UNTARGETED] (Every ability has a 50% chance of being public this night)

==Merchant==
1 - Sell Shield (target gains a shield: the next [KILL] action on them fails. Shields don't stack. Gain +1 Gold.)
2 - Sell Sword (target gains a one-shot Duel ability; this appears in Read Palm results. Gain +2 Gold.)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Sell Ability (give a random ability as a one shot. Gain +X Gold, where X is twice the level of the ability given. You don't learn what ability was gifted, though you do learn its level.)
5 - Investment [DAY][UNTARGETED] (if you spend 5 gold, your next night action can be self-targeted.)

==Flowermaiden==
1 - Buttercup (learn whether your target has any [VILE], [TWISTY] or [WARPING] abilities; though you don't learn which or how many.)
2 - Poppy [DEADLY] (target is Doped: they cannot take more than one action in the next cycle. If someone is doped twice in a row they die.)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Lily (learn whether your target has any [DEADLY] abilities (including one-shots), though you don't learn which ones or how many).
5 - Belladonna [DEADLY] (target dies; note this doesn't count as a [KILL] action.)

==Witch==
1 - Read Palm (learn one random tag of one random ability of your target)
2 - Read Entrails [CORPSE][ENLIGHTENING] (learn one of the professions of one random person who targeted a dead player)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Curse [VILE] (the target can never gain new abilities or items)
5 - Hypnotise [WARPING](target uses one of their powers on a second target of your choice; either name a power you think they have or use a random power. This doesn't use up the target's action for the phase).

==Fool==
1 - Randomise [TWISTY] (Randomises the target of actions the target takes)
2 - Ability Swap [WARPING] (swap any power you have, including Ability Swap, with a random ability your target has)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Redirect [TWISTY](redirect one target onto another)
5 - Bodyswap [WARPING](you gain your target's species, flaws and status conditions and they gain yours.)

==Assassin==
1 - Frame [VILE] [UNTARGETED] (name an actor and a victim: at the end of the next day a fake [PUBLIC] action report will appear saying the actor acted against the target)
2 - Poison [DEADLY] (the target will die in two days time, they know they're poisoned)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Hide [UNTARGETED] (you cannot be targeted until the end of the next day; you cannot perform any other actions of any kind until the end of the next day.)
5 - Murder [KILL][PUBLIC][DAY][DEADLY] (kill the target at the end of the day.)

==Necromancer==
1 - Medium [CORPSE] (open a chat with one dead player)
2 - Channel [CORPSE] (Use the ability of one dead player)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Consume [VILE][CORPSE](destroy target dead player, they cannot be graverobbed, resurrected, raised or have their entrails read, gain an additional action use next cycle)
5 - Raise Zombie [VILE][CORPSE][WARPING](target dead player kills a target of your choice)

==Doge==
1 - Empower (target may use an additional action (without duplicating) in the next cycle)
2 - Buy Vote [VILE]  (gain your target's vote for the next phase)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Ban [UNTARGETED] (name an ability: all uses of this ability will fail until the end of the next day)
5 - Pardon [PUBLIC][DAY](the target cannot be lynched at the end of the day)

==Thief==
1. False Documents [UNTARGETED] (Name an ability: your False Documents now appear as that ability, with its tags, in all inspection results.)
2. Stakeout [ILLUMINATING][UNTARGETED] (name a profession: you will gain a list of all people targeted by members of this profession, though you won't know who targeted whom.)
3. Gain a random flaw.
4. Plunder (name a non-mafiakill ability you think your target has. If you're right, for the next cycle, gain that ability as a one-shot; they cannot use this ability for this cycle.)
5. Bait & Switch [TWISTY][DAY] (Name two targets: in the following night phase, everything targeting one player will target the other and vice-versa)

Tags
[PUBLIC]: If an ability is public, there will be an action report declaring who targetted whom, though it won't say what the action was.

[DAY] powers mean you can use them during the day.

[UNTARGETED] abilities don't have a target and don't trigger abilities which change targets or trigger on being targeted.

[CORPSE] abilities can only target the dead.

[VILE] abilities are non-fatal powers that nevertheless show unpleasantness or corruption.

[DEADLY] abilities can kill.

[TWISTY] abilities redirect someone.

[WARPING] make you act when you didn't choose to act.

[ENLIGHTENING] powers seek to investigate the movements of a target.

[KILL] actions are targeted kills that can be protected and shielded against.


Flaws
1. Hardcore (all protects on you fail)
2. Blatant (all your actions become Public)
3. Minimalist (If you ever receive an item from a Merchant it is randomly given away to a non-minimalist player if there are any non-minimalist players alive.)
4. Hazy (Each cycle you will be incapable of targeting one player, chosen randomly.)
5. Blinkered (You can only target one player each cycle.)
6. Lender (each cycle, one of your non-mafiakill abilities is gifted as a one-shot to a random player, disabling its use for you.)
7. Pariah (you have no vote)
8. Magnetic (your powers have 50% chance of targeting yourself.)
9. Lover (a random living player is picked, if they die, so do you)
10. Intermittent (your abilities only work on even cycles.)
11. Fragile (If you are targeted by a level 5 ability, it will kill you.)
12. Guilty Conscience (You die if your vote is on a town player and they get mislynched.)
13. Wasteful (all your non-mafiakill abilities become one-shot)
14. Afflicted (at the end of each cycle, you gain 1 additional unique flaw)
15. Squeamish (all your [DEADLY] powers fail)
16. Unreliable (your abilities have a 50% chance of failure.)
17. Mutation (your Species no longer has any effect.)
18. Corrupt (you may only use [VILE] and [DEADLY] abilities; if you choose not to act in a phase in which you could have used a one such ability, you will randomly target someone with a random [VILE] or [DEADLY] ability that you have.)
19. Tricksome (you may only use [TWISTY] and [WARPING] abilities; if you choose not to act in a phase in which you could have used a one of these abilities, you will randomly target someone with a random [TWISTY] or [WARPING] ability that you have.)
20. Usual Suspect (at the end of every day phase, a fake action report will appear saying that you targeted another random living player.)

Items and Conditions

Players may be gifted shields, and one-shot abilities. They learn at the end of the night phase any shields or one-shots they have been given, and any shields they have lost.

Merchants may accumulate gold. The only use for gold is the Cash Out ability. If a player has gold they will be told the amount at the end of each night phase.

Players may be Poisoned, Infected, and Doped. They are informed whether they (still) have any of these statuses and what they have at the end of each night phase. If a player isn't told they have a condition at the end of a night phase then they don't have it. A player is informed if they have been Plundered.

Action Sequence

All actions in a phase happen simultaneously. If the order matters, [TWISTY] powers happen first, then [WARPING]. [KILL] actions happen last. Otherwise, where there would be ambiguity, the order is chosen randomly. Hide triggers before any other action.

Game Sequence:
Signups: Everyone sends me a species they would like to be.
N0: Everyone is randomly assigned one profession and is given their alignment; then they can send in a non-[KILL] action if they wish and are able.
D1: Day begins. At the end of the day, all survivors gain an additional level in any profession of their choice.
N1: Players use any night actions
D2-N2+: the game continues in this fashion, with new profession levels gained at the end of each day survived..

[ToonyMan]

We've been recently doing quick games of Blood on Clocktower on discord! Great fun but it only really shines at 7+ players, which we have trouble hitting consistently. Usually we play saturdays around 2-3 pm EST if I recall my timezones correctly, but stoirtap, the storyteller, seems willing to run more if more players were available at other times.

https://discord.gg/B7ANhME
channel name:
#clockwork-blood-oranges

This setup looks really cool. Not only do you need to find the demon, but also figure out what kind of demon it is.

I wonder how I could make it work as a forum mafia...

[Skynet]

Too Many Mafias: 9 players, 2 mafia teams of 3 players each (who need to eliminate the other mafia team to win), except there's a serial killer player who gets a false mafia role and is inserted into both scum teams. Mafia teams vote on who gets to fire the mafiakill that belongs to their team. 4 town players, who would have a rough time being caught in the middle, but the serial killer needs to work to eliminate the mafia, and the town's role powers are on average stronger than the scum and serial killer players. Alternatively, 3 mafia teams of 2 players each, and the SK is inserted into only 2 of those mafia teams, and there's some sort of restriction on the mafiakill.

I like this idea a lot (I've been interested in three-way Mafia wars). I wonder if we can use the fluff in Religion Mafia (both game #1 and game #2) as inspiration for this setup, since it was designed for conflict between two scum teams.

[Skynet]

Here's my initial draft, probably not balanced, but it's better to have a rough draft out there for people to comment (and to get this idea out of my head).

Day start.

Vanilla Mafia
Vanilla Mafia
Vanilla Werewolf
Vanilla Werewolf
Town Police (determines if someone is a Mafia)
Town Police (determines if someone is a Mafia)
Town Seeer (determines if someone is a Werewolf)
Town Seeer (determines if someone is a Werewolf)
Godfather Serial Killer (is part of both the Mafia and Werewolf scumteams, but wins individually - shows as Non-Mafia on Police inspects and Non-Werewolf on Seerer inspects)

All scum-kills are identified (so you know who the Mafia killed and who the Werewolf killed).

Victory Conditions

- Mafia wins when the Mafia team controls the daygame vote (50% + 1) and the Serial Killer is dead.

- Werewolf wins when the Werewolf team controls the daygame vote (50% + 1) and the Serial Killer is dead.

- Town wins when all scum roles (Mafia, Werewolf, and Serial Killer) are dead.

- Serial Killer wins when they are one of the last two surviving players or if all other players are dead. (Serial Killer does not need to be alive to win.)

If the last two surviving players are Vanilla Mafia and Vanilla Werewolf, then they cross-kill each other, so the Serial Killer wins.

If the last two surviving players is non-SK scum (Vanilla Mafia or Vanilla Werewolf) and a Townie (Police or Seerer), then the non-SK scum team kills the Townie player and wins.

Other Notes

The Godfather Serial Killer shows up Non-Mafia and Non-Werewolf on inspects...meaning they are indistinguishable from a Townie. This is a double-edged sword...it means the SK gets the trust of the Town Power-Roles, but it may also mean that both scumteams can easily see through the SK's facade.

Scumkills are determined by majority vote (50% + 1) within each of the scum team. If there is a tie, no mafia-kill takes place. A scum-team needs to lose one person for the other two people to know who's the SK and who's normal scum...and it also means that the SK is able to block scumkills from taking place, meaning the normal scum need to cooperate with the SK team temporarily at night, while manipulating the daygame to get rid of the traitor (which might be challenging: everyone hates the SK...but exposing your scum-affiliation in the process would hurt your chances of winning).

Power-Roles are indeed pretty powerful, at least when compared to the Vanilla Mafia/Werewolf, but since they're all inspection roles, it's possible for the scum to do a believable fake-claim and avoid suspicion. Also, the scum, as a whole, controls the daygame, so the Town is highly dependent on cross-kills and cross-lynches to help them gain ownership of the daygame vote.

EDIT: If scum kills off each other, there's a possibility that the Serial Killer could gain control over both scumkills. To prevent the SK from  being overpowered though...the SK can only use one of those scumkills per night. They cannot use both.

EDIT 2: It seems that the "all other players are dead" wincon for the SK would mean they would win in a scenario where you have one Vanilla Mafia, one Vanilla Werewolf, and one SK. The SK won't vote for their own lynch, and even if Mafia and Werewolf votes to take out the third role, then they'll just crosskill each other later on...so the SK would still win.

If you had one Vanilla Mafia, one Vanilla Werewolf, and one Townie, then it's likely either the Townie or the SK would win (unless one scum-team agrees to get themselves lynched/killed so the other scum-team wins). If the scum agree to lynch the Townie, then they'll cross-kill in the night, letting the SK win... and if the scum does a No-Lynch, they will probably still cross-kill each other, but the Townie would win because he's the last surviving player (and the SK wins only if all players die).

I don't know how best to handle that - is it a feature the SK could be able to win this way? I also wonder if I should move the "all other players are dead" wincon over to the Town side, to help give them a boost of sorts (they're already reliant on cross-kills anyway to help them win).

[notquitethere]

I think this setup is promising but you're right it does allow a few odd scenarios where players cannot pursue their wincon late in the game but I think that just means you call the game end early if there's a mafia and werewolf and an sk left alive. The mafia and werewolf teams have an incentive to get rid of the SK before they kill all the town players, especially as they need the town players to cooperate in cross killing the other team.

[ToonyMan]

To twist my CYOM Redux setup a little more, I've decided to add flaws back in. In order to get access to more powerful (and deadly) abilities, or start with more abilities, players take flaws. Flaws can never be ameliorated or detected, are random, permanent and usually pretty bad. The aim here is to aid also in fakeclaims (e.g. someone who takes a public action might fakeclaim to have the Usual Suspect flaw).

Some players won't want to risk the RNG and so will expand outwards instead of downwards.

Spoiler: CYOM Redux v.3 (click to show/hide)

Pick a species before the game begins. You will be assigned a random profession.

Species gives you unique protections. The Profession gives you Abilities. Each Profession has several abilities in it, forming a tree. To get later abilities, you have to have earlier ones. At the end of every day that you survive, you gain a new level in any one Profession. Specialise in one Profession, or branch out into several. Remember, you can only perform one action per phase.

Mafia gain this ability: Mafiakill [DEADLY][KILL] - Once per night, one mafia member can use their ability to perform the mafia kill
(this ability is immune to [WARPING] powers and cannot be sold by a merchant).)

Species
Stoneman - Cannot die from poison or infection, though you can still spread infection. [CORPSE] actions don't work on your corpse.
Llama - You don't show up up in the action reports of [ENLIGHTENING] abilities.
Ent - [TWISTY] powers can never redirect your actions.
Letterbeast - [WARPING] powers don't work on you.
Djinn - You cannot be blocked or protected against.
Pixie - You cannot be killed by [TRAP] abilities.
Golden - [VILE] powers don't work on you.

Player may optionally choose to start the game with two random professions or two levels in one random profession. If they do, they will gain a random flaw.

Professions
==Duelist==
1 - Challenge (redirect the target's target to you- if your target is using an ability with two  targets, you become the second target)
2 - Block (the targets action will fail, but they won't know why)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Duel [DEADLY] [KILL](the target will be killed; if they have a [KILL] action, if possible they will target you with that instead of their original target.)
5 - Riposte [TRAP] [TWISTY] (any action (other than a riposte) that would successfully target your target, is reflected back on the targeter instead)

==Priest==
1 - Atone (remove Curse)
2 - Delay [WARPING](Target's action happens in the next cycle, regardless of whether it could normally happen)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Sanctify [DAY][TRAP][DEADLY] (the last player to vote for your target will die if the target is lynched).
5 - Resurrect [CORPSE] (bring a player back from the dead)

==Doctor==
1 - Cleanse (remove poison & infection)
2 - Protect (prevent blocks and [KILL] actions from affecting your target)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Infect [DEADLY] (player becomes Infected. They will die in two days time. Everyone an Infected person successfully targets also becomes infected. An Infected person knows that they are infected. While a person is infected, all their abilities that can target someone have the DEADLY tag.).
5 - Triage [UNTARGETED][DAY] (everyone is cured of infection and poison.)

==Spy==
1 - Coverup [VILE] (target doesn't appear on [ENLIGHTENING] action reports.)
2 - Track [ENLIGHTENING](see who your target targets)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Blackmail [VILE] (your target has no vote in the following phase)
5 - Boobytrap [PUBLIC][DAY][TRAP] (the next person who targets your target this cycle will be targeted by a free [KILL] action from your target.)

==Surveyor==
1 - Check Papers (Learn the species of your target)
2 - Poll [UNTARGETED] (Receive a random list of half of all Profession names in play)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Watch [ENLIGHTENING] (See everyone who targets your target)
5 - Spotlight [ENLIGHTENING][UNTARGETED] (Every ability has a 50% chance of being public this night)

==Merchant==
1 - Sell Shield (target gains a shield: the next [KILL] action on them fails. Shields don't stack. Gain +1 Gold.)
2 - Sell Sword (target gains a one-shot Duel ability; this appears in Read Palm results. Gain +2 Gold.)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Sell Ability (give a random ability as a one shot. Gain +X Gold, where X is twice the level of the ability given. You don't learn what ability was gifted, though you do learn its level.)
5 - Investment [DAY][UNTARGETED] (if you spend 5 gold, your next night action can be self-targeted.)

==Flowermaiden==
1 - Buttercup (learn whether your target has any [VILE], [TWISTY] or [WARPING] abilities; though you don't learn which or how many.)
2 - Poppy [DEADLY] (target is Doped: they cannot take more than one action in the next cycle. If someone is doped twice in a row they die.)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Lily (learn whether your target has any [DEADLY] abilities (including one-shots), though you don't learn which ones or how many).
5 - Belladonna [DEADLY] (target dies; note this doesn't count as a [KILL] action.)

==Witch==
1 - Read Palm (learn one random tag of one random ability of your target)
2 - Read Entrails [CORPSE][ENLIGHTENING] (learn one of the professions of one random person who targeted a dead player)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Curse [VILE] (the target can never gain new abilities or items)
5 - Hypnotise [WARPING](target uses one of their powers on a second target of your choice; either name a power you think they have or use a random power. This doesn't use up the target's action for the phase).

==Fool==
1 - Randomise [TWISTY] (Randomises the target of actions the target takes)
2 - Ability Swap [WARPING] (swap any power you have, including Ability Swap, with a random ability your target has)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Redirect [TWISTY](redirect one target onto another)
5 - Bodyswap [WARPING](you gain your target's species, flaws and status conditions and they gain yours.)

==Assassin==
1 - Frame [VILE] [UNTARGETED] (name an actor and a victim: at the end of the next day a fake [PUBLIC] action report will appear saying the actor acted against the target)
2 - Poison [DEADLY] (the target will die in two days time, they know they're poisoned)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Hide [UNTARGETED] (you cannot be targeted until the end of the next day; you cannot perform any other actions of any kind until the end of the next day.)
5 - Murder [KILL][PUBLIC][DAY][DEADLY] (kill the target at the end of the day.)

==Necromancer==
1 - Medium [CORPSE] (open a chat with one dead player)
2 - Channel [CORPSE] (Use the ability of one dead player)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Consume [VILE][CORPSE](destroy target dead player, they cannot be graverobbed, resurrected, raised or have their entrails read, gain an additional action use next cycle)
5 - Raise Zombie [VILE][CORPSE][WARPING](target dead player kills a target of your choice)

==Doge==
1 - Empower (target may use an additional action (without duplicating) in the next cycle)
2 - Buy Vote [VILE]  (gain your target's vote for the next phase)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Ban [UNTARGETED] (name an ability: all uses of this ability will fail until the end of the next day)
5 - Pardon [PUBLIC][DAY](the target cannot be lynched at the end of the day)

==Thief==
1. False Documents [UNTARGETED] (Name an ability: your False Documents now appear as that ability, with its tags, in all inspection results.)
2. Stakeout [ILLUMINATING][UNTARGETED] (name a profession: you will gain a list of all people targeted by members of this profession, though you won't know who targeted whom.)
3. Gain a random flaw.
4. Plunder (name a non-mafiakill ability you think your target has. If you're right, for the next cycle, gain that ability as a one-shot; they cannot use this ability for this cycle.)
5. Bait & Switch [TWISTY][DAY] (Name two targets: in the following night phase, everything targeting one player will target the other and vice-versa)

Tags
[PUBLIC]: If an ability is public, there will be an action report declaring who targetted whom, though it won't say what the action was.

[DAY] powers mean you can use them during the day.

[UNTARGETED] abilities don't have a target and don't trigger abilities which change targets or trigger on being targeted.

[CORPSE] abilities can only target the dead.

[VILE] abilities are non-fatal powers that nevertheless show unpleasantness or corruption.

[DEADLY] abilities can kill.

[TWISTY] abilities redirect someone.

[WARPING] make you act when you didn't choose to act.

[ENLIGHTENING] powers seek to investigate the movements of a target.

[KILL] actions are targeted kills that can be protected and shielded against.


Flaws
1. Hardcore (all protects on you fail)
2. Blatant (all your actions become Public)
3. Minimalist (If you ever receive an item from a Merchant it is randomly given away to a non-minimalist player if there are any non-minimalist players alive.)
4. Hazy (Each cycle you will be incapable of targeting one player, chosen randomly.)
5. Blinkered (You can only target one player each cycle.)
6. Lender (each cycle, one of your non-mafiakill abilities is gifted as a one-shot to a random player, disabling its use for you.)
7. Pariah (you have no vote)
8. Magnetic (your powers have 50% chance of targeting yourself.)
9. Lover (a random living player is picked, if they die, so do you)
10. Intermittent (your abilities only work on even cycles.)
11. Fragile (If you are targeted by a level 5 ability, it will kill you.)
12. Guilty Conscience (You die if your vote is on a town player and they get mislynched.)
13. Wasteful (all your non-mafiakill abilities become one-shot)
14. Afflicted (at the end of each cycle, you gain 1 additional unique flaw)
15. Squeamish (all your [DEADLY] powers fail)
16. Unreliable (your abilities have a 50% chance of failure.)
17. Mutation (your Species no longer has any effect.)
18. Corrupt (you may only use [VILE] and [DEADLY] abilities; if you choose not to act in a phase in which you could have used a one such ability, you will randomly target someone with a random [VILE] or [DEADLY] ability that you have.)
19. Tricksome (you may only use [TWISTY] and [WARPING] abilities; if you choose not to act in a phase in which you could have used a one of these abilities, you will randomly target someone with a random [TWISTY] or [WARPING] ability that you have.)
20. Usual Suspect (at the end of every day phase, a fake action report will appear saying that you targeted another random living player.)

Items and Conditions

Players may be gifted shields, and one-shot abilities. They learn at the end of the night phase any shields or one-shots they have been given, and any shields they have lost.

Merchants may accumulate gold. The only use for gold is the Cash Out ability. If a player has gold they will be told the amount at the end of each night phase.

Players may be Poisoned, Infected, and Doped. They are informed whether they (still) have any of these statuses and what they have at the end of each night phase. If a player isn't told they have a condition at the end of a night phase then they don't have it. A player is informed if they have been Plundered.

Action Sequence

All actions in a phase happen simultaneously. If the order matters, [TWISTY] powers happen first, then [WARPING]. [KILL] actions happen last. Otherwise, where there would be ambiguity, the order is chosen randomly. Hide triggers before any other action.

Game Sequence:
Signups: Everyone sends me a species they would like to be.
N0: Everyone is randomly assigned one profession and is given their alignment; then they can send in a non-[KILL] action if they wish and are able.
D1: Day begins. At the end of the day, all survivors gain an additional level in any profession of their choice.
N1: Players use any night actions
D2-N2+: the game continues in this fashion, with new profession levels gained at the end of each day survived..

This looks good.

EDIT: If scum kills off each other, there's a possibility that the Serial Killer could gain control over both scumkills. To prevent the SK from  being overpowered though...the SK can only use one of those scumkills per night. They cannot use both.

What happens if the SK needs to perform both nightkills for the mafia and the werewolf team on the same night? I guess it doesn't really matter since the only town powers are investigators.

The SK seems OP in this but it does look crazy and chaotic.

[4maskwolf]

My biggest concern looking at that setup is that the town has very little control over their own fate.  They're basically relying on the scumteams to cross-kill each other enough that town can establish a majority, and their inspection roles are largely useless because they lack a majority to actually push through a lynch.

[Leafsnail]

Yeah I think the numbers may need tweaking. That said it is funny how one of the investigators giving a clear result on the SK actually outs them to one of the scumteams.

[notquitethere]

You could easily pad the game out with a whole load of vanilla townies. I think there should probably be at least two more town players so they have a strict majority over all scum at the game start.