Grand Idea Thread - Moderated

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Arizona Ranger

Town Killer

Big Iron (Day) - Each Day on Day 2 onwards, you may choose to gladiate a player. If they have an ability that can kill during the day (by any means), you will kill them instantly and the day will resume. If your target is executed, you will lose this ability and have it replaced by a one use dayvig.

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Very Cryptic Role

Mafia Special

Issue Command (Night) - Choose two of the following verdicts to dictate. 1 use

  • Choose a player. They will be announced as an Innocent Child tomorrow.
  • No player may be executed tommorrow.
  • No player may talk tommorrow.
  • Choose a player. They will be gladiated with a no execution tommorrow.

Mafia wincon

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The Gatewatch

Town Investigative

Posted (Passive) - You know how many players take a targeted action each night.

Careful Identification (Night) - Tonight, you will learn who has used a targeted action. 2 uses

Defeat all members of the Informed Minority and any neutrals that directly oppose your win condition.

Converts into…

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The Gatecrash

Mafia Investigative

Posted (Passive) - You know how many players take a targeted action each night.

Gate Closure (Night) - Tonight, all targeted actions fail. 1 use

Gain parity with the Uninformed Majority and defeat any neutrals that directly oppose your win condition.

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Correlation: Not Causation in Hong Kong


Town Social

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Night) - Choose two players: the first learns how correct the reads on the second are. - Infinite uses

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Subjugation: Christopher Colombus in Hong Kong


Mafia Special

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Night) - Convert target player. They will not be added to wolfchat, nor will they be informed of who their teammates are, but they are informed that if you die, they will become town again, which is true. - 1 use

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Reception: Hotels in Hong Kong


Town Offensive

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Night) - Roleblock target player. - Infinite uses

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Objection: Ace Attorney in Hong Kong


Town Social

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Day) - If target player is executed today, they survive. - 1 use

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Reflection: Mirrors in Hong Kong


Town Offensive

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Night) - Tonight, any and all actions targeted at you are roleblocked. - 1 use

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Dissection: Frogs in Hong Kong


Town Killer

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Night) - Kill target player. - 1 use

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Rejection: Breakup in Hong Kong


Town Investigative

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Night) - Learn of any lover pairs in the game and who they are, until you learn at least one. The next time you use this, any lover pairs are disbanded - Infinite uses

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Natural Selection: Survival of the Fittest in Hong Kong


Town Killer

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Night) - Target a player. If their role is deemed to have “gone wrong” by the host, whatever this may mean, they die. - Infinite uses

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Defection: Switching Sides in Hong Kong


Town Social

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Passive) - The first time you would die, except to the execution, you survive & become Mafia-aligned instead.

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Ejection: Among Us in Hong Kong


Town Social

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Passive) - Your vote silently counts as two.

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Confession: Torture in Hong Kong


Mafia Investigative

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Passive) - You automatically learn the alignment of the player who received the secondmost votes yesterday.

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Eviction: Landlords in Hong Kong


Town Killer

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Night) - Exile target player. If you are executed, they take your money and return. - 1 use

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Ressurection: The Messiah in Hong Kong


Town Special

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Passive) - If you are executed while dead, you return to life.

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Injection: Hospitalization in Hong Kong


Town Support

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Night) - Heal (prevent kills on) target player tonight. They will die tomorrow night should you not heal them. - Infinite uses

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Recollection: Amnesia in Hong Kong


Neutral Social

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Night) - Choose a dead player. You inherit their role. Everyone will be told “An Amnesiac has remembered they were like [target]!” - Infinite uses

Complete your new role’s win condition.

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Section: Gerrymandering in Hong Kong


Mafia Social

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (night) - Block everyone into 5 “voting districts” for the following day. Each voting district collectively votes on a player tommorow; whoever comes out with a 50% majority in each district gets 1 vote placed on them at end of day. This counts as a visit on everyone. - 1 use

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Convention: Furries in Hong Kong


Town Social

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Passive) - You are aware of every furry in the game & you all share a neighborhood until your death.

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Reflexion: Bullet Dodge in Hong Kong


Town Support

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Passive) - You survive the first kill on you.

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Inspection: Border Guards in Hong Kong


Town Investigative

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Night) - Learn if target player has a proper passport. Half of all starting town players have proper passports, marked randomly. - 3 uses

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Direction: Road Signs in Hong Kong


Town Offensive

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Night) - Redirect target player to themselves. - 1 use

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Connection: Friendship in Hong Kong


Town Social

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Night) - Neighborize target player. - Infinite uses

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Dissertation: PhD in Hong Kong


Town Special

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (night) - Write an article of at least 400 words. An action will be performed in accordance with what you wrote. - 3 uses

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Eqution: Horses in Hong Kong


Town Support

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Passive) - Anything is possible when your man smells like Old Spice I’m on horse.(You dodge the first harmful action towards you, it hits your horse instead.)

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Acquisition: Capitalism in Hong Kong


Town Special

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Night) - Buy an item from a selection offered by the host. - 1 use

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Collection: Rocks in Hong Kong


Town Social

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Passive) - You are a rock. You have no abilities.

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Vatican: Pope in Hong Kong


Town Social

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Night) - Announce something from On High (send a message through the host to be displayed to the whole game). - Infinite uses

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Unionization: Labor in Hong Kong


Town Support

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Night) - Unionize your workforce. Pick a player: if they are town, they survive their next death from the mafia. - 1 use

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Justification: Excuses in Hong Kong


Town Support

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Passive) - The first time you are executed, you live.

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Ratification: United Nations in Hong Kong


Neutral Special

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Passive) - Every player knows who you are. If every living player votes to ratify you (in a special vote), you run voting from now on & may change the voting rules (so long as they are enforceable by you), except on yourself. You may be executed at any time during the day with a 50% vote, and this does not end the day, nor does it consume an execution.

The host decides your wincon at the start of the game: either it is town, or it is mafia.

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Vacation: 104 days in Hong Kong


Town Special

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Passive) - Submit an ability to the host: if it is deemed balanced, you gain it. - 1 use

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Oppression: The Natives in Hong Kong


Town Killer

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Night) - Vig yourself. - 1 use

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Positron Emission: Radiation in Hong Kong


Town Social

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Day) - Announce that you are Town to the game thread. - 2 uses

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Eruption: Pompeii in Hong Kong


Mafia Killer

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Day) - Kill target player. It will be announced that you killed them. - Infinite uses

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Tension: Suspense in Hong Kong in Hong Kong


Town Social

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Passive) - The host will take at least 20 minutes to post the flip in the main thread.

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Relaxation: Spa in Hong Kong


Town Social

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Night) - Roleblock target player. - 2 uses

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Ad Hominem: Insults in Hong Kong


Town Special

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Day) - Publicly insult target player. They have a 15% chance of dying on the spot. - Infinite uses

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Inception: Inception in Hong Kong

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Neutral Special

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Night) - The living players play a sub-game of the current game, rerolling their roles but keeping their faction. You keep your original role, and predict which faction will win that game. - inf use

Correctly predict which faction will win at least 4 sub-games of Mafia.

You want random bullshit? Here’s something that’s both random and bullshit!

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Novelist

Town Investigative

Opening Chapter (Day) - Select a player. At the end of the day, the Host will send that player a predetermined message containing setup information.
Final Chapter (Night) - Select a player and learn on which phases that player is capable of taking actions (regardless of whether or not they actually took an action).

Defeat all members of the Informed Minority and any neutrals that directly oppose your win condition.

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Zalith, the Last Occultist

Neutral Killing

Social Ward (Passive) - You passively look non-susupicious to investigative checks.
Death Ward (Passive) - The first time you would die by any means, instead choose a player. That player will die the way you would have died instead.

Flesh Tainting (Day) - Cause Target player to bleed. They will die in 2 days unless they are healed. - 0 uses
Social Preperation (Day) - Target player’s action will passively fail tonight if targeted with Sacrifice. - 1 use

Sacrifice (Night) - Kill target player. Tonight you will appear suspicious to all investigative checks. - inf use, 1 day cooldown
Burial Rites (Night) - Tonight, if you successfuly sacrifice a player, gain 1 use of all limited use abilities. You may use Sacrifice in addition to this ability. 2 uses

Sacrifice at least 5 players to your Demonic God, and give 2 of them Burial Rites.

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A Rock

Town Offensive

Throw (Night) - Each night but only twice per game, throw yourself at another person’s house. If that player attempts to visit someone and is not visited by anyone, they will be roleblocked due to blunt force trauma. If that player is visited by some number of people, you will roleblock all players on the last rung of Natural Action Resolution visiting them.

Town wincon.

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Chef

Town Investigative
Cook (Passive): On Night 0, you are informed of how many “pairs” of evil players there are on the list. A “pair” of evil players is two evil players with adjacent numbers on the playerlist. The players on the top and bottom of the playerlist are also considered adjacent. This does not bypass effects that alter the results of investigations.
Town wincon

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Undertaker

Town Investigative
Take Under (Passive): Every night, you learn the role of all players who were executed the previous day.
Town wincon

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Monk

Town Support
monk (Night): Target a player. Tonight, they are safe from the factional kill, and from all abilities used by the player who is carrying the factional kill. (infinite uses)
Town wincon

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Slayer

Town Killer
I’M THE SLAYER AND I SHOOT (Day): Post “I’M THE SLAYER AND I SHOOT [NAME], WHO IS [ROLE].” The role you name must be a non-Town role from a Grand Idea Thread (identify the thread, and the number of the role). If you are correct, that player dies. (1 use)
Town wincon

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Mayor

Town Social
guys we all pay taxes right :pleading_face: (Passive): If you are alive in final 3, and there is no execution, your alignment wins the game.
Town wincon

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Washerwoman

Town Investigative
Wash (Passive): On Night 0, you are informed that one of two players is a specific Town role. This does not bypass effects that alter the result of investigations, and the role cannot be negative-utility.
Town wincon

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Poisoner

Mafia Offensive
idk it’s poison it’s not that complicated (Night, including Night 0): Target a player. Any NON-INVESTIGATIVE abilities that they use tonight or tomorrow day will be silently roleblocked, and passives that do not provide information will fail. Any INVESTIGATIVE abilities or passives that they use or passively activate tonight or tomorrow day provide arbitrary information. (infinite uses)
Mafia wincon

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Imp

Mafia Killing
i’m sure giving a mafia fullvig is a well thought-through idea (Night): Kill a player. You may self-target. If you successfully target yourself with this ability, another player will inherit your role. (infinite uses)
mafia wincon

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Halloween

Town Social
Costume (Night): Disguise yourself as a class of your choice (you provide the number). You will appear as that class to all investigations tonight. (infinite uses)
Town wincon

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Halloween

Mafia Social
Costume (Night): Disguise yourself as a class of your choice (you provide the number). You will appear as that class to all investigations tonight. (infinite uses)
Mafia wincon

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when you say “because otherwise this is not balanced” it implies it’s balanced now

Town Support
conversion sucks :joy_cat: (Night): Target a player. If their alignment would change tonight, it doesn’t, and the player whose ability caused this change to occur is roleblocked, bypassing any form of roleblock immunity. (infinite uses)
Town wincon

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Nicholas Cage (steals the Declaration of Independence)

Mafia Killer

Nicholas Cage (Passive) - On Night 0, you will be informed of an in-play Town role.

steals the (Night) - Each night, target a player. If you target the Town role you know twice, you gain 1 use of Declaration of Independence. - Infinite uses, disabled upon gaining a use of Declaration of Independence.

Decleration of Independence (Night) - Declare your independence from Britian & start a war. Choose a player: they die, and if they do, you are immune to death tonight. - 1 use

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Mafia Compulsive Role Oracle

Mafia Investigative
oracle (day/night): Target a player. When you die, the role name (but not the alignment) of the last player you chose is revealed to the thread. If your last choice was not a living player, the role name of a random living player will be revealed to the thread instead. (infinite uses, can be used multiple times per cycle)
Mafia wincon

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Last Will

Town Special

Last Will (Passive) - If a Vanilla role dies by any means, they may place a “bonus vote” on a player before entering dead chat. Their vote is henceforth treated as being permanently on this player. You count as a Vanilla role for the purposes of this.