Roles - Ideas?

[Judge Sam]

I'm currently thinking up special Roles for players, and I'd like your advice. Do you have any ideas for roles? Maybe you've been a role before and found that it provided an interesting tension in the game? Or seen/heard of cool roles?


Since before Spies 1 I've been reading up any mafia website I can to see what other roles other people have done (and there's a ton of them!) Do you know any websites that have good lists of roles? I know there's a thread on mafiascum discussing things like this, but I think that forum is down at the moment plus that thread is like... 3000 posts long lol. So if you saw any good ones from that that'd be cool.


You know how IRL mafia games and online mafia games are different and some roles work better in different situations? I think Spies is a third category of it's own... just because it takes place over a much longer time and players are 1,000 times more dedicated. Whereas if people play once in one thread on a forum there tends to be less communication and there's lots of previous relationships.


So if you know any cool ideas - spill! You just might find it used in a future Spies game!

[TYSON]

I think you should definitely have a "Wheel of Fortune" this time, to replace the psychic. (And NO PSYCHIC - no single citizen, or spy come to that, should have that much power!)

But how about a citizen who has either an investigate power that's conditional on something like predictions (ie gambler), is limited to three investigations the entire game, or can only investigate on alternate rounds? That way you don't have the huge advantage of a counteragent but you do have another way for the citizens to win if they're smart enough.

[Lena]

Hiiiii! Lena from "Survivor" here. This looks like its going to be awesome!!

What about giving ordinary citizens a one-use role like a "dream" that at least one of five or six other players is a spy? How about not having roles at all, but just occasional powers like that?