List of roles

This is a list of roles.

• Absorber - passively and reflexively copies all active abilities that target it.
• Actor - can only vote if the vote is a hammer.
• Alarmist - targets a player at Night; if someone else attempts to recruit that player that Night, the recruitment will fail.
• Arsonist - a Serial Killer with a unique kill method: fire.
• Ascetic - immune to all actions at Night except kills.
• Babysitter - can target a player at Night to protect them; however, if Babysitter is killed that night, both the Babysitter and its target will die.
• Banker - may choose to bribe a player each night.
• Beholder - sees whatever their target saw during the night, and gets a report in the morning.
• Beloved Princess - upon death, causes the next Day phase to be skipped.
• Bodyguard - can target a player at Night to protect them.
• Bomb - kills their killer when killed at Night.
• Bookie - aims to guess the following day's elimination.
• Bulletproof - a passive role that allows a player to avoid being killed at Night.
• Bus Driver - can choose to switch two players each night; thus, any night action performed on a switched player will affect the other player targeted by the Bus Driver.
• Captain - can choose what other roles in the game will do during the night, but those roles have an option to 'obey or disobey' his orders.
• Commuter - "leaves Town" each Night, thus making them ineligible to be targeted by Night actions.
• Condemnee - is the target of a Condemner, who wins if the Condemnee is eliminated.
• Condemner - a third-party role whose win condition is to get a specific person (the Condemnee) eliminated.
• Cop - has the ability to investigate players at Night to discern their alignment.
• Coroner - can target a dead player to discern information about them, typically serving as a counter to No Reveal mechanics.
• CPR Doctor - protects its target from a single kill at Night, but if the patient is not actually saved from a kill by this protection, the CPR Doctor will kill its patient.
• Cultist - a player that has been recruited into a Cult by a Cult Leader.
• Deathproof - cannot be killed or eliminated.
• Deprogrammer - can revert Cultists to their original alignment.
• Deputy - become an ordinary Cop after the Cop has died.
• Detective - determines whether a player has killed another player, either on the night it is used or on a previous night.
• Developer - gains a new passive role with every Night.
• Direwolf - combination godfather and roleblocker.
• Doctor - targets a player at Night to protect that player from a single kill made during that Night.
• Doomed
• Doublevoter - allows the player to cast the equivalent of two votes.
• Dreaming God - possesses a list of many flavor names for one-shot abilities, and must compulsively choose one ability to use.
• Enabler - must stay alive to allow another player to use their abilities.
• Encryptor - allows people who can converse with it to talk during the Day phase.
• Exploder
• Faith Healer - a Doctor with a 50% chance of success.
• Firefighter - protects against fire-based kills.
• Fisherman - every night may "fish" for a particular item.
• Flagbearer - causes its faction to automatically lose the game when eliminated.
• Follower - can target a player at Night and learn what form of action they took that Night (investigation, protection, killing, etc), but not who they targeted.
• Forensic Investigator - can target a dead player to learn the names of everyone who targeted that dead player since the beginning of the game.
• Framer - may choose to frame a player during the night, causing that target to investigate as Guilty (or whichever result is unfavorable) to Cops.
• Friendly Neighbor - can target a player at Night to tell them that they are Town.
• Fruit Vendor - may hand out fruit to a player at night.
• Gladiator - can challenge a player to a two-player elimination choice.
• Godfather - investigates as Innocent (or some other favorable result) to Cops, regardless of their actual alignment.
• Goo - selectively remove the powers, alignment, and lives of any role that targets it.
• Governor - can stop an elimination.
• Grand Vizier - has a random power each night.
• Guard - knows who their King is, but otherwise has no other powers or information.
• Gunsmith - can target a player at Night to learn if they have a gun in flavor.
• Hated - requires one less vote than normal to eliminate.
• Hero - passively kills any player who overrides the normal elimination mechanics to eliminate the Hero
• Hider - flavourfully "hides behind" the target of their night choice
• Hooker - chooses one player per Night to block from performing his or her night action.
• Huntsman - guards a player, and then dies along with an attacker who tries to kill that player in the night.
• Informed- a player who is given additional information about the setup at the start of the game (in the Role PM), most commonly the identity of another townie or the existence of a particular power role.
• Innocent Child - a player who can be mod-confirmed as Town-aligned.
• Inquisitor - a self-aligned role with aspects of both the Serial Killer and the Cult Leader.
• Inventor - can give out various gadgets to other players.
• Jack-of-all-trades - a role with several one-shot night abilities - typically abilities centered around investigating, protecting and killing.
• Jailkeeper - protects its target from kills, but also Roleblocks its target.
• Janitor - "cleans up the body" after its kill, thus preventing players from learning anything about the player when they flip.
• Jester - wins when they are eliminated.
• Judas - when it should die (either by elimination or other kill) it stays alive and converts to the Mafia's side.
• King - plays a central role in Royal Mafia.
• Lawyer - may choose to protect a player from investigations during the night, causing that target to investigate as Innocent (or whichever result is most favorable) to Cops.
• Lie Detector - each Night sends the Moderator a post or statement made by another player, and receives a response as to whether that other player was telling the truth when they made that post.
• Loved - is harder to eliminate, requiring one additional vote.
• Lover - is linked to another player, and dies if that player dies.
• Mafia - the informed minority from which the game is named.
• Mailman - can send a message to other players at Night, via the moderator.
• Mason - a group of players who can speak to each other privately and know that everyone in their group is not a member of the Mafia.
• Miller - passively returns an unfavorable result (i.e. Guilty) if investigated by a Cop.
• Motion Detector - can target a player at Night and learn if any actions were performed by or on that player, but not what the actions were or who else they involved.
• Motivator - can target a player at Night to allow them to use an extra action during the following Night.
• Multiple User Personality - can target a player at night and randomly do a one-shot night abilities to its target.
• Named Townie - has no real abilities, but differs from a normal Vanilla Townie in the sense it has a different name from an actual Vanilla Townie.
• Neapolitan - can check one player per night to see whether or not they are a Vanilla Townie.
• Neighbor - players that can speak to each other (with no guarantee made of any Neighbor's alignment.)
• Neighborizer - can target other players at Night to recruit them into a Neighborhood.
• Nexus (Role) - passively redirects players who target it to a random other player.
• Normaliser - can target another player at night to change their power, turning them into the nearest Normal role equivalent.
• Nurse - a Backup Doctor.
• Oracle - can ask the moderator about general information regarding the setup.
• Paranoid Gun Owner - passively (and involuntarily) kills anyone who targets it during the Night.
• Parity Cop - can investigate other players at night to determine which faction they belong to.
• Phantom Queen - while alive all other power-roles become haunting.
• Poison Doctor - prevents players from being affected by poison.
• Poisoner - can target a player to kill them.
• Priest - cannot cast a hammer vote.
• Priest (Werewolf Online) - can throw holy water on another player.
• Prince - cannot be eliminated.
• Psychologist - determines a player's ability to kill.
• Quitter
• Redirector
• Reloader
• Reporter
• Restless Spirit
• Reviver
• Role Cop
• Roleblocker
• Rolestopper
• Saulus
• Savior
• Semi-Priest
• Sensor
• Seraph Knight
• Serial Killer
• Shapeshifter
• Sidekick
• Silencer
• Singer
• Strengthener
• Strongman
• Strongman (Online Werewolf)
• Succubus
• Survivor (role)
• Switch
• The Flying Pumpkin That Shoots Laser Beams Out Of Its Ass
• The Oracle
• Thief
• Townie
• Tracker
• Traffic Analyst
• Traitor
• Tree Stump
• Triggered
• Universal Backup
• Usurper
• Vampire
• Vanilla Cop
• Vanillaiser
• Venge
• Vengeful (role)
• Vigilante
• Virgin
• Visitor
• Vote Thief
• Voteless
• Voyeur
• Watcher
• Weak Doctor
• Werewolf (Role)
• Zombie Lord