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[mikeburnfire]

I was considering setups for a 'promotional mafia', in which all pro-town roles start as townies but can upgrade up the ranks to nurses and rookie cops, and onward to even better roles based on the amount of posting or saying keywords that trigger a promotion. The more active the townies are, the better their chances of recieving a promotion.

That sound good? Been done before?

[mikeburnfire]

I'd be up for a Ranma game. That show was a staple of my childhood.

[mikeburnfire]

Once Nightmare mini is done, I plan to run a game with 3 goons and 9 townies. The twist is that each townie has an ability that activates if they are lynched (but not night killed). These abilities may drastically alter how the game is played. Examples of such abilities are:

xxx, you are the Townie of Reward
If you are lynched then your ability will activate, and for the rest of the game everybody gets two votes.

xxx, you are the Townie of Attention
If you are lynched then your ability will activate, and for the next day everybody who was on your lynch loses their vote.

xxx, you are the Townie of Luck
If you are lynched then your ability will activate, and the next two night phases will be skipped.

These are roles that were rejected for being too powerful, but you get the idea.

The town will find themselves in situations where they do not want to lynch a player because he has an ability that will hurt the town. They will also find themselves persuaded to lynch players who have roles that would benefit the town. The scum, having no abilities themselves, would need to feign an ability that seems plausible. Also, they must choose who they want to kill carefully. For example, if the above roles were actually in the game, they would want to nightkill the Townie of Luck so his ability does not activate, but might would want to lynch the Townie of Reward and abuse the doublevote ability.

I plan on calling it "Persuasion and Punishment Mafia".

Interested?