Greater Idea Mafia

Greater Idea Mafia is a semi-open setup, based on Great Idea Mafia, designed to be flexible while adding an extra layer of WIFOM and almost entirely removing the need for random votes.

In setup, each player is randomly assigned two roles from the deck. They must immediately choose one to keep and discard the other. Once every player has chosen a role - and there is at least one antitown role in the game (if all town, abandon or reshuffle) - any roles with partners are informed of their partners. At the start of Day 1, every player's discarded role is publicly revealed.

Setup

1. Vanilla Townie
2. Vanilla Townie
3. Vanilla Townie
4. Vanilla Townie
5. Vanilla Townie
6. Vanilla Townie
7. Vanilla Townie
8. Vanilla Townie
9. Vanilla Townie
10. Vanilla Townie
11. Vanilla Townie
12. Watcher
13. Tracker
14. Cop
15. Cop
16. Cop Lover
17. Seer
18. FBI Agent
19. Doctor
20. Doctor
21. Roleblocker
22. Jailkeeper
23. Bodyguard
24. Vigilante
25. One-shot Vigilante
26. One-shot Dayvig
27. One-shot Dayvig
28. Bulletproof Townie
29. Supersaint
30. One-shot Paranoid Gun Owner
31. Mason
32. Mason
33. Mason
34. Mason
35. Mason Doctor
36. Lover
37. Lover
38. Jack-of-all-trades (One Roleblock, One Cop, One Doctor)
39. Vengeful Townie
40. Retired Werewolf Hunter
41. Retired Marine (Immune to Serial Killer kills)
42. Miller
43. Hirsute Townie (Investigates as Werewolf)
44. Black Goo (Town; anyone who targets it with an action becomes Cult)
45. Ascetic Townie
46. Private Investigator (Gets result "Cult" or "Not Cult")
47. Gravedigger (Shows up as targeting all nightkilled players to Trackers and Watchers on night of said players' deaths)
48. Nymphomaniac (Compulsively chooses a Lover on Night 1)
49. One-shot Governor
50. One-shot Unlynchable Townie
51. One-shot Unlynchable Townie
52. Town Godfather
53. Innocent Child
54. Hider
55. Enabler
56. Treestump
57. Conspiracy Theorist (Gets result "Alien" or "Not Alien"; investigates as "Alien")
58. Conspiracy Theorist (Gets result "Alien" or "Not Alien"; investigates as "Alien")
59. Mafia Goon
60. Mafia Goon
61. Mafia Goon
62. Mafia Goon
63. Mafia Goon
64. Mafia Godfather
65. Mafia Tracker
66. Mafia Doctor
67. Mafia Roleblocker
68. Mafia Lover
69. Mafia Seer
70. Mafia One-shot Dayvig
71. Mafia One-shot Governor
72. Mafia Strongman
73. Mafia Reflexive Doctor (protects anyone who targets them)
74. Hirsute Goon
75. Werewolf
76. Werewolf
77. Werewolf
78. Werewolf
79. Alpha Werewolf
80. Werewolf Roleblocker
81. Werewolf One-shot Bulletproof
82. Werewolf Cop
83. Werewolf Mason
84. Werewolf Watcher
85. Werewolf FBI Agent
86. Ninja Werewolf
87. Werewolf One-shot PGO
88. Werewolf Miller (investigates as Mafia)
89. Alien One-shot Unlynchable
90. Alien Prober (targets one player; target is roleblocked and Prober gets investigation result of "Werewolf" or "Not werewolf")
91. Alien Vanillaiser
92. Alien Silencer
93. Survivor
94. Lyncher (target to the left)
95. Lyncher (target to the right)
96. Serial Killer (Two-shot Bulletproof)
97. Serial Killer (Immune to Mafia kills)
98. Serial Killer (Immune to Werewolf kills)
99. One-shot Cult Recruiter

Possibly Confusing Setup-Specific Things

• If only one Mason or Lover is chosen, then they are essentially a named Vanilla Townie.
• If more than 2 Masons or Lovers are chosen, then all the Masons form one Mason group, and all the Lovers form one Lover group (rather than separate pairs). The Nymphomaniac, however, creates a separate Lover group when it uses its action on Night 1. It is possible to unite the two groups if the Nymphomaniac targets an existing Lover, however.
• The One-Shot PGO will target only one player. If multiple players target him in a single night, he will target the one that arrives first, according to NAR. If there is still a tie, then the player which dies is randomized via Random.org.
• On the forum, it is strongly advised to only run setups that start with at least 50% Town roles. This should also be advertised to the players. Broken setups are no fun. On scumchat or Skype or a Marathon Day, go crazy. Crazy setups ARE fun.
• The Alien faction has only a one-shot factional nightkill for the whole game. The faction was designed to appear rarely but have powerful role actions.

Mechanics

• Roles are assigned to players via the Random.org List Randomizer.
• Balance is explicitly not guaranteed.

Setup Design

This setup was invented as a Face-to-Face game at the 2013 UK Scummers Meet, using a constantly expanded card deck. The setup is intentionally goofy and designed for slightly shorter, less serious games - at the meet, it was frequently played at night. The initial deck was designed by ChannelDelibird but was modified and then vastly expanded by all the other attendees of the UK meet.

See Also

• Xdaamno's ScumDeck