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I got the ok from MeLikeFood so I started this thread for the beginners in Mafia or those who wish to check on certain details. This is a work in progress so if theres something you want immediately please tell me.

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Roles

This will end up being a large section that will be added to a lot so the basic roles will be listed below. All characters have the right to vote who to lynch so this ability will rarely be mentioned. Roles can almost always be changed from town to mafia easily so if you want a mafia doctor go ahead.

Basic Roles

On no ones side:
GM: Game Master; This person organizes and runs the mafia game
-Cults: These are essentially neutral mafias. They can kill one person per night but they can also ask a person to join the cult each night. They want neither the town nor mafia to win.
Cult Leader: Operates the same as a Godfather but takes votes for kill and cult invite.
Cult Member: Same as mafia goons they just work for the cult and vote for two things.
-Others
Serial Killer/Psycho Path: This persons job is kill everyone else. They make a kill at night and is on a team with no-one officially.
Hobo: This person stays with one person per night and if this person is targeted by someone then all effects travel to the hobo.

On the towns side:
Townie: Has voting rights but not much else. Can talk during day time.
Doctor: Chooses a character to protect each night by messaging the GM their username; If the character is attacked by the mafia that night then they are saved from harm.
Cop: Chooses a character to investigate each night by messaging the GM their username; The characters alignment is reviled to the cop and the cop may decide to publicly state this but it may put them under scope of the mafia. NOTE ON COPS: Some cops can be insane, naive, or paranoid witch means that their information is changed in some way. These are...
Insane Cop: Thinks everyone is opposite of what they are
Naive cop: Thinks everyone is innocent (on town side)
Paranoid Cop: Thinks everyone is guilty (on mafia side)
Cops with mental problems are usually not informed of their condition.
Invincible Townie: This person is invulnerable to being killed by the Mafia or other night killer but can be killed by lynching. Otherwise their normal townies.
Reporter: This role changes from GM to GM but essentially every day they message the GM with several peoples names to be interviewed. The GM then writes something that may lead to the discovery of their role. The GM posts this info publicly in the game thread.
Mason: This is a group of townies that know each other to be innocent. There are times when masons can recruit other players but this is not usually used.

On Mafia side:
Goon: Basic Mafia member, can have different names but they can vote both in the town and mafia kills.
Godfather: Mafia leader; collects votes of the mafia and sends a decision on who to kill to the GM.
Roleblocker: This is a person who can block a persons night abilities by sending a persons username to the GM. If the character does not have a night ability then nothing abnormal happens.
Traitor: This person works for the mafia by voting, they try to vote townies dead without voting in the mafia kill. They appear innocent to everyone but the mafia can choose to adopt their traitor to become a normal mafia and the traitor becomes a normal mafia thereon. The traitor usually knows who the mafia is but the mafia don't know who the traitor is.

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Springboards

This is a segment about setup variations and there extra rules and roles. I will post if you can use it or not in your games.

Melikefood's Deathnote theme:
Kira
-Sends one Kill everyday (Takes a whole day to investigate a criminal to kill)
-Can recruit 1 player once a day
-Kira followers are investigated as evil, one of them can become Kira if Kira dies
-Kira or any of Kira's followers can take up Shinigami eyes (Seer abilities) but will die after two days
-Kira can drop the notebook instead of killing, this will result in all members being disbanded and the Death Note going to a random person

Investigators
-Expert investigator (L)
Acts like a regular cop role has a day investigation and night investigation
-Backup investigator (Near)
All investigations results are sent to this person after the Expert investigator's death, cannot be killed by Kira

Town Roles
-Beautiful Girl/Handsome Man (Misa)
This person has been saved by the Shinigami and been given extra life, they have 4 days to live when selecting the Shinigami eyes instead of the regular 2 days
-Sakura TV reporter
Fearmongerer/Reaper Creeper type role: three questions answered, one lie
-Identity Thief
Hobo type role: hides behind other people if targeted, that person dies, if the person he hides behind is targeted they die

Nerdyninja's Medieval Fantasy theme:

Please note that the cult in this game acts as the mafia and that they will be presumed evil upon investigation unless stated otherwise.

Roles:

Town Side:
Hero
This person has the abilities of the medic and the vigilante. At night the Hero decides to either attack someone they think is cult or protect someone they think is townie. They have a 1/3 chance of taking out a mafia member if attacked by the mafia.
Wizard
This person gets a random ability every night in the form of a spell. They do not know what the spell does but they can choose to use it on someone or give it up for the evening. Abilities the Wizard can glean are protection, investigation, killing, or role-blocking. Not all spells work perfectly and some spells can back-fire on the wizard so choose wisely the spells you use.
Gnome
This player is thought to be guilty if investigated by another character. They are on the towns side though.
Inn-keeper
This player has a chance of finding out randomly what a person role is. They do not choose the player found-out about and will not always find out a players role.
Priest
This person selects one person at night to be protected from all effects directed at the person.
Townie
A normal townie, one vote, no night talking, yadda yadda

On Cult Side:
Cult Head:
This person acts as the Godfather, he sends a kill decision to the GM but appears innocent to investigation.
Cult member (cultie)
This person is a townie on the cult's side that votes in the lynch and in the cult killing
Necromancer
This person can raise a dead body to protect themselves or others. At night if a person is dead than the Necromancer can choose to raise them as their subject. If attacked by the hero, wizard, etc. then the necromancer can summon the zombie subject to protect himself or another, the zombie will be destroyed instead. If the necromancer is voted for the lynching then the necromancer can call the zombie subject and the zombie will be lynched instead. A zombie will desintigrate after a day and the person used for the zombie cannot be used again.
Witch
This is an evil wizard in a sense. This person will not get investigation spells and the spells have more of a chance of back firing.

No-ones Side:
Dragon-morph
This person wants everyone else dead, they cannot be killed in a lynch and will simply fly off if they are attempted to be hung. They can be killed through the cult kill, a wizard kill, a witch kill, or a hero kill. But if none of these things exist than then the town's only choice is to form a "mob". Two people must still be alive to do so and their is only a 50% chance you will succeed.

More setups to come:
Nerdyninja's Medieval Fanasty theme
LPS's WEWY theme

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Fishy is not an offical role

Cop to come. It seems I have written quite a bit so far.

This is going to be slow to update as I can only post on weekends now :C

Grades but school will be out soon. I also sneak on during the week.