Board Thread:Role Ideas (Mafia)/@comment-33254000-20181214130929/@comment-28112409-20181216042306

Awesomeness1024 wrote: Swift as the wind, the ex-ninja ran through the streets of Salem, entering a black forest. He dashed through the woods, graceful as a cheetah, until he saw a light ahead. He slowed down and expertly hid in a tree, silent as a thought. With the aid of his acute sense of hearing, he listened to the Mafia members discussing their future plans of terror and murder. The Spy clenched his hands, knowing that he could kill a man in thirty five different ways... but he couldn't. This was a group of armed men, and he was merely a weaponless man with some knowledge on killing. No - it would be better to let the town know who the perpetrators are, so that they could dispose of them instead.

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Checkmate That's not a description, that's a backstory that isn't even canon. I'm talking about in-game descriptions, like the Mafioso being ordered to kill the GF's target.

Backstories are just content to flesh out the role and acts for show, but they are not the official lore of said roles. Bear in mind that writing events were made by the community, not the developers. The community gets to write stories about these roles and they get shown on the wiki page, all decided via a writing event and a competition between entries. I should know, I was a judge for the Coven role stories when those happened. These stories were made based on the roles, not the other way around. Connect the dots and you'll find that the role's backstory was made all the way back when Spy could still read mafia chat.

Using role backstories as reference to official lore is stupid since none of said backstories are canon and all of them are community made.

Go back to the drawing board and reread the rules for Chess.