Grand Idea Thread - Moderated

ImaginaryNeon · November 4, 2025, 1:00pm

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Theorist

Town Special

HELLO, INTERNET! (Night, 1-shot, Unblockable): During Night 0, you must choose a word with fewer than 8 letters. Every member of the Town is informed of the word at the start of Day 1, and the Mafia is informed that this role exists at the same time. (If there is no Night 0 cycle, you instead choose a word during Day 1, which every living member of the Town is told at the start of the next Day cycle.)

Welcome to Game Theory! (Passive): If any non-converted member of the Mafia says the word chosen for HELLO, INTERNET! in the thread during any Day cycle, you will unstoppably die at the end of that Day cycle.

But hey, that’s just a theory… (Night): Choose a Player. Learn the name of one of their Night actions (if any exist) at random. You gain a 1-shot version of that action.

A GAME THEORY! (Passive): Upon dying through any means EXCEPT for the effects of Welcome to Game Theory!, the name of each ability found with But hey, that’s just a theory… is revealed alongside your rolecard.

Town wincon.

ImaginaryNeon · November 13, 2025, 3:44am

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I hope your dog gets Measles
Steam Community :: I hope your dog gets Measles
I am an escaped mental ward patiant that found a computer in the dump and makes unfunny comedy.Please call the mental ward.
Neutral Offensive

I hope your dog gets Measles’s inventory is currently private. (Passive) - When flipped or inspected, this role is treated as a nondescript Neutral Offensive role. If your flip is concealed this way, the full flip will instead be posted at the end of the game. Additionally, you are immune to the first killing action that you are targeted with.

Give Measles (Night) - Give a player Measles. Players with Measles cannot carry the factional kill (unless they are the only living member of their faction), and cannot be protected from killing actions by external sources. Up to 3 living players may be inflicted with Measles at a time. Additionally, players with Measles may be cured as if it were a poison.

You win when at least 3 players inflicted with Measles have died, or when fewer than 3 players remain.

ImaginaryNeon · December 3, 2025, 5:10am

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Sir Presidente Obama of Hawaii
Steam Community :: Sir Presidente Obama of Hawaii
He may be long out of office now, but i’ll still rep the name.
I also really like TF2, if you couldn’t tell.
Town Special

Ask yourself this, why would I risk an VAC ban on a 18 year old account? Spoiler: I wouldn’t. (Passive): Any investigative actions performed on you by players not aligned with the Town are guaranteed to fail.

12/xx/25 The Day Half-Life 3 is Revealed??? (Day, 1-Shot): Before the end of Day 1, you may guess a number greater than 1. If you would otherwise die on the Day/Night that lines up with the number that you guessed, you are instead protected for that cycle. If this ability is activated by a vote during a Day cycle, the player with the next most votes is eliminated instead. If this ability is activated by a killing action, the player who submitted it will be roleblocked on the following Night.

Town wincon.

Ash · December 3, 2025, 5:17am

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Too Many Real People in Mafia

Mafia Killing

Draw the Boundary (Night, 2-Shot): Target a player. If their role references a person from real-life (alive or dead), you will attack them.

Mafia win condition

ImaginaryNeon · December 3, 2025, 2:11pm

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OSHA VIOLATION INSPECTOR
Steam Community :: OSHA VIOLATION INSPECTOR
Duck
Neutral Investigative

Recent reviews by OSHA VIOLATION INSPECTOR (Passive) - At the start of the game, you are given an Inspection List containing half of the players in the game, rounded down. If a player on the list dies during the Night, another random player will take their spot on the list.

OSHA Violation Inspection (Night) - Target a player. You will learn if they target a player on your Inspection List with an action this Night Cycle, and whether or not said action failed.
Additionally, you will learn if they have ever targetted a player that has been or is currently on your Inspection List with a killing action.

Sadist Certification (Night) - Each Night, you may choose to guess the alignments of every living player on your Inspection List. You will be informed of how many players’ alignments were correctly guessed this way.

You win when you get a perfect score with Sadist Certification.

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Chomps · December 3, 2025, 2:35pm

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do these people know they’re being made into mafia roles in a very niche community?

Town Support

@ImaginaryNeon genuinely just curious (Night) - Target a player, if they die by any means tonight, they are publicly revived the next day.

also we’re close to 666 this post helps it (Passive) - Players revived by you can’t be targeted or affected by town roles, they also don’t count for the purposes of mafia majority if they were town.

Town wincon.

ImaginaryNeon · December 3, 2025, 5:09pm

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ImaginaryNeon · December 3, 2025, 7:35pm

Anyways, I feel like this is incorrectly worded, given that it implies that the game just stops functioning in any capacity. As written, the wording implies that the factional kill stops existing and that noone is allowed to use any targeted abilities on anyone but the exiled player(s), which would leave the elimination vote as the only functional part of the game.
It should probably be closer to

Amelia · January 17, 2026, 7:47pm

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Town Support

The Endless Performance (Passive) - After you got reincarnated, you became a Samsaran, and will maintain this form throughout future reincarnations. Your role cannot change. If you would be converted to a different role & alignment at the same time, only your alignment changes.

Largo (Night) - Enter Movement 1, as described below. If you’re in a Movement, increase the Movement stage by 1. If this ability fails or is not used in a night, lose all Movement progress. Infinite uses

Movement 1: The target player’s kills bypass healing.

Movement 2: The target player is immune to 1 attack tonight.

Movement 3: All Town players are immune to roleblocking and redirection tonight.

Movement 4: The targeted player may take a second night action the next night.

Movement 5 (Grand Finale): Kill 2 players.

Town wincon

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Amelia · January 17, 2026, 10:10pm

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ImaginaryNeon · February 11, 2026, 4:20pm

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ElizaThePsycho · February 11, 2026, 4:29pm

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add uses to your roles descriptions

also your first role is killer type and your second is social type
mafia offensive
how the hell do i use an ability (night) - roleblock target player. they will be notified that their action failedeven if they aren’t an investigative. - infinite uses

ImaginaryNeon · February 11, 2026, 5:08pm

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It should be pretty common sense that, unless otherwise specified, actions have infinite uses.

Thanks for that second part though
Mafia Special

Unless you’re a fan of blatant misinterpretation (Night): Target a player to learn of any specifications within their roles. (For instance, if you were to target #672, you would receive the result of “Ability 1: This modified vote weight is hidden, and will only be shown at the end of the day.”)

Requiring more effort out of what is effectively nothing (Night): Target a player previously targetted by Unless you’re a fan of blatant misinterpretation and suggest an edit to one of the excerpts given, within some level of reason.

Or making mountains out of molehills (Night): Make target player’s actions that do not have a limited number of uses into limited use actions with X uses remaining, where X is equal to however many members of the Mafia are currently alive. 1 use.

Icibalus · February 12, 2026, 2:10am

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Lieutenant (Double-Yfreitor) Harrier Du Bois

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“The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address.
Even the clearest water, if deep enogh can drown.”

Town Investigative

Passive: Cleaning Out The Rooms
I’ll wake up in a new life, down by the seaside.

At the start of the game, you will recieve up to 5 charges in each of 4 categories: Intellect, Psyche, Physique, and Motorics. You must recieve at least 1 in each category. The hosts decide exactly how much of each you recieve.

Day: Cop of the Apocalypse
A throat into which the world will vanish.

You may spend all but 1 Psyche charge and all but 1 Physique charge to activate this ability. If you do, gain charges in Intellect and Motorics equal to the amount of charges expended this way, divided between them as you wish.

Night: The Precarious World
The only way to load the dice is to keep on fighting.

Spend any number of charges in 1 of Intellect, Psyche, Physique, or Motorics, in order to ask a question of one of the following spectators/hosts, decided during the game’s setup:

Intellect will be played by @[placeholder], and will be cold and arrogant.

Psyche will be played by @[placeholder], and will be bizarre and reassuring.

Physique will be played by @[placeholder], and will be direct and aggressive.

Motorics will be played by @[placeholder], and will be cunning and brief.

Each charge you spend adds a 20% chance that person will give a Sincere answer, which must reflect their honest answer (it may still be incomplete!); otherwise, they give an Insincere answer and may be honest or dishonest at their liberty. Hosts will always be insincere when directly asked about a player’s alignment.

FIND OUT WHAT KIND OF COP YOU REALLY ARE! A good step in that direction would be fulfilling the Town Win Condition.

this is the standard level of effort for a gim post right

ImaginaryNeon · February 14, 2026, 12:03am

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¿WAC? John Wilkes Booth
Steam Community :: ¿WAC? John Wilkes Booth
You honest abes out there beware
Mafia Special

¿WAC? John Wilkes Booth : John Wilkes Booth Strikes Again (Triggered): You will be informed if any members of the Mafia are targeted by an action, as well as who submitted said actions. For each action revealed in this way, you receive 1 John Wilkes Booth Charge.

Wait, what does the Western Athletic Conference have to do with anything? (Night): By expending the number of John Wilkes Booth Charges listed, you may use the following abilities:

1 JWB Charge:

John’s Acting: Using the audience’s jeers as a sensor, you may use this action to detect any failed actions performed this Night Cycle, as well as which players each one had tried to target.

Booth’s Booth: By using an actual booth, you may use this action to prevent the effects of any actions that target you this cycle. However, while this action is in use, you may not carry the factional kill or use any other actions, and John Wilkes Booth Strikes Again will only activate on abilities that attempt to target you.

2 JWB Charges:

John Wilkes’ Honesty Detector: To help weed out any Honest Abes that may need killing to further your agenda, you may choose a post wherein another player claims an aspect of their role to learn whether or not said claim was true. If the claim presented was false, 1 John Wilkes Booth Charge will be refunded.

3+ JWB Charges:

*DEAD* ¿WAC? John Wilkes Booth : Died in real life too: Kill target player. If the target has not fulfilled any of the conditions listed below, then the chances of the kill succeeding are X/(Y+1), where X is the number of John Wilkes Booth Charges spent on this action, and Y is the number of John Wilkes Booth Charges that have been granted over the course of the game.

Having an action revealed by John Wilkes Booth Strikes Again or John’s Acting.

Having a claim revealed as truthful by John Wilkes’ Honesty Detector.

Attempting to target a player under the effects of Booth’s Booth.

Mafia wincon.

I did attempt to reach out for this one, but they’ve yet to respond, so…

ImaginaryNeon · February 14, 2026, 12:58am

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The role where I try to turn the game into a rougelike just because I can.
Town Special
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRPrh5C8pdo

Game Mechanics (Passive): ITAs are enabled on days 2 and beyond. By default, every player has 1 ITA with 5% accuracy.

Payout (Triggered): Whenever a player is voted out, every player will recieve $100 (100 Credits), plus $15 for each player on the leading wagon. However, if the player does not share an alignment with the player voted out, they will instead recieve $150, plus $20 for each player on the wagon. If no players were voted out, a flat $100 is paid out to all players. Additionally, players with this role or role #678 are paid out twice as many Credits as their peers.

Shop (Passive):
At Night, each player may spend their money to purchase various upgrades and items from the list below. This shop will persist beyond death, and members of the Mafia or any other non-Town alignment may pool together their Credits. Additionally, members of any non-Town alignment may purchase items and upgrades within the shop’s exclusive Black Market.

General Upgrades:
+0.5 Vote Weight Modifier - $200, stacks infinitely.
+5% ITA Hit Rate - $250, stacks up to 9 times, for a maximum of a 50% hit rate.

General Items:
+1 ITA Shot - $200, stacks up to 2 times, for a maximum of 3 ITAs. Gain additional ITAs during the next Day Cycle.
+1 ITA Vest - $500, maximum of 2 active at a time. Protects against an ITA that would otherwise hit.
Last Will - $100, costs $25 to edit. Allows the user to prepare a message to be sent upon their death.
Commute - $200, may be purchased indefinitely. Protects against all actions on the Night that the item is purchased, at the cost of not receiving any bonus Credits for the winning wagon’s size at the end of the next Day cycle and being unable to use any other actions that Night.

Black Market:
Suppressor - $250, 1 use per purchase. Allows a player to prevent one of their actions from appearing in any player’s results. May be used on assigned factional abilities.
Piercing Rounds - $400, 1 use per purchase. Allows a player to prevent one of their actions this Night from being blocked by any means. May be used on assigned factional abilities, at the cost of an additional $50.

Shop Rotation (Passive) Each Night cycle, regardless of whether or not you are alive, a 1-Shot version of a random non-Passive ability will be available for sale (for that Night only) under General Items, with its price in Credits being equal to the number of the role that it originates from. If the role that the action originates from has a Passive ability named Item Price, then its price uses the value listed there instead.

Taking Inventory (Night, $75): See how many copies of each item (including those within the Black Market) have been purchased. Sales of 1-shot Night actions that have been cycled through the shop will be lumped together.

Price Change (Night, $100): You may increase or decrease the price of any one item or upgrade by up to $75 for the next Night cycle. However, if the price was decreased, then, on the Night after the price decrease takes effect, the item’s price will permanently increase by one third of the discount, rounded to the nearest multiple of 5.

Town wincon.

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The role where I try to turn the game into a rougelike just because I can.
Mafia Special
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-3QJxcurlY

Game Mechanics (Passive): ITAs are enabled on days 2 and beyond. By default, every player has 1 ITA with 5% accuracy.

Payout (Triggered): Whenever a player is voted out, every player will recieve $100 (100 Credits), plus $15 for each player on the leading wagon. However, if the player does not share an alignment with the player voted out, they will instead recieve $150, plus $20 for each player on the wagon. If no players were voted out, a flat $100 is paid out to all players. Additionally, players with this role or role #677 are paid out twice as many Credits as their peers.

Shop (Passive):
At Night, each player may spend their money to purchase various upgrades and items from the list below. This shop will persist beyond death, and members of the Mafia or any other non-Town alignment may pool together their Credits. Additionally, members of any non-Town alignment may purchase items and upgrades within the shop’s exclusive Black Market.

General Upgrades:
+0.5 Vote Weight Modifier - $200, stacks infinitely.
+5% ITA Hit Rate - $250, stacks up to 9 times, for a maximum of a 50% hit rate.

General Items:
+1 ITA Shot - $200, stacks up to 2 times, for a maximum of 3 ITAs. Gain additional ITAs during the next Day Cycle.
+1 ITA Vest - $500, maximum of 2 active at a time. Protects against an ITA that would otherwise hit.
Last Will - $100, costs $25 to edit. Allows the user to prepare a message to be sent upon their death.
Commute - $200, may be purchased indefinitely. Protects against all actions on the Night that the item is purchased, at the cost of not receiving any bonus Credits for the winning wagon’s size at the end of the next Day cycle and being unable to use any other actions that Night.

Black Market:
Suppressor - $250, 1 use per purchase. Allows a player to prevent one of their actions from appearing in any player’s results. May be used on assigned factional abilities.
Piercing Rounds - $400, 1 use per purchase. Allows a player to prevent one of their actions this Night from being blocked by any means. May be used on assigned factional abilities, at the cost of an additional $50.

Shop Rotation (Passive) Each Night cycle, regardless of whether or not you are alive, a 1-Shot version of a random non-Passive ability will be available for sale (for that Night only) under General Items, with its price in Credits being equal to the number of the role that it originates from. If the role that the action originates from has a Passive ability named Item Price, then its price uses the value listed there instead.

Taking Inventory (Night, $50): See how many copies of each item (including those within the Black Market) have been purchased over the course of the game. Sales of 1-shot Night actions that have been cycled through the shop will be lumped together.

Price Change (Night, $75): You may increase or decrease the price of any one item or upgrade by up to $75 for the next Night cycle. However, if the price was decreased, then, on the Night after the price decrease takes effect, the item’s price will permanently increase by one third of the discount, rounded to the nearest multiple of 5.

Mafia wincon.

ImaginaryNeon · February 15, 2026, 1:14am

neat

Amelia · February 16, 2026, 3:39pm

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Nine Fucking Coins

Town Special

Holy Shit This is so Ideal (Passive) - Each night you will receive a Prescript telling you who to use a Night action on, and what Night action. Following it successfully gives you Grace, whereas not attempting to follow it at all gives you Karmic Consequence. At 2 Karmic Consequence, disable Furioso-Replica.

A Certain Someone’s Scythe (Night) - Conduct a song about target player - if they die tonight the Mafia learn this, and must choose 2 players with their next factional kill, only 1 of which will die. Infinite uses
Stiletto (Night) - Tomorrow, the targeted player begins bleeding and dies 2 nights later. 1 use
Whip (Night) - Roleblock target player. Infinite uses
Fpoon (Night) - Heal target player, hide their visits & make them appear as Town to investigations tonight. Infinite uses
Furioso-Replica (Night, Requires 4 Grace) - Kill 9 players. Yes you heard me right. 1 use

Town wincon

benguinedparbecue · February 16, 2026, 5:31pm

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Ideal
Town Killing
“No, this is ideal.”

Holy Shit This is a Mathematical Structure (Passive) - During Night 0, you must choose to be Prime, Maximal, or neither. If you are Maximal, you must also be Prime.

Why is This What Prime Means (Passive, Prime) - If you contain any product ab, you must contain either a or b. Since you are “Not Mafia,” you must be Not. Accordingly, any attempts to investigate you will fail, but anyone who tries will still be absorbed into you. Also this is what prime means because this is an important property of prime numbers that’s also important when generalized.

Well Obviously This is What Maximal Means (Passive, Maximal) - You cannot be a subset of any other proper ideal. Accordingly, attempts to add you to a neighborhood fail, but anyone who tries will still be absorbed into you. If you are successfully added to a neighborhood in spite of this passive, all other alive players join the neighborhood as well, bypassing everything.

So What is an Ideal Anyway (Passive) - You are a subset of a ring that is closed under addition (by elements of you) and multiplication by any element of the ring; you’re often said to “absorb” the rest of the ring through multiplication. If anyone visits you, they “become” part of you; the only immediate effect of this is that you learn who they are.

Quotient Ring (Night, 1-Shot) - One reason ideals are important is that you can quotient them out to form a new ring called a quotient ring; this is done by identifying all elements of the ring that are the same modulo any element of the ideal under addition. The ideal itself collapses to the zero element of the quotient ring in the process; obviously, you are going to be the representative of yourself here. Once per game at night, you may choose to form a quotient ring; all of your other members (from So What is an Ideal Anyway) are “quotiented out” and die.

If you are Prime, the quotient ring is an integral domain, which means it has no zero divisors. This means other players can’t be “zeroed out,” (unfortunately, you are the zero element here), so any actions taken by players other than you cannot fail after you use this ability.

If you are Maximal, the quotient ring is a field, which means every nonzero element has a multiplicative inverse. Each night after using this ability, you may choose a player to “invert” their action, causing it to have the opposite effect it otherwise would (up to host interpretation).

Town wincon

ImaginaryNeon · February 16, 2026, 10:02pm

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