Due to the sheer amount of roles being made that are balance-breaking, make no sense, useless or just not good in general, and the fact that repeating over and over why the role is bad is getting tedious... I'm making this page with all the bad concepts that you must NOT add to your role.
The only exception is if you add the concept and make the role balanced in a way it equalizes this poisonous element for roles, got it?
This list was copied and pasted from the BMG forums. If you object on one of these being a bad concept, don't squeal around this post, go to the forums and make your complain there.
- Role Dependency - Any role that requires another role to be in the game.
- Hardcounters - Any role that exists purely to counter or nerf another role.
- Re-hashes - Mafia/Neutral versions of Town roles or vice-versa.
- Night Chat Town - Any Town roles that allow multiple town roles to chat at night.
- Slightly Changed Role - Any role that is extremely similar to an existing one.
- Independent Mafia Killing - Any Mafia killing role that kills on its own, giving Mafia two kills.
- Buddy Role - Any role that requires another specific person to survive to win.
- Conversion Role - Any role that converts other people into its own role.
- Night Immune Town - Any Town role that is night immune.
- Combination Role - Any role that is a combination of other roles.
- Self-Confirming Town - Any role that can confirm itself as innocent easily.
- Evil Retributionist - Any role that can revive Neutral or Mafia roles.
- Neutral Chaos - Roles that are part of the Neutral Chaos alignment.
- Anything Chaos - Actually, just don't make any chaos roles.
- Roleswapper - Any role that swaps/changes others' roles.
- RNG Role - Any role that depends on random chance.
- Visitor - Any role that has a win condition involving visiting other people.
- Copycat - Any role that uses other role's night abilities.
- Survivor Rehash - Any Neutral Benign role whose only goal is to survive to the end of the game.
- Neutral Investigative - Any Neutral role that investigates people.
- Non-Evil Neutral Evil - Any Neutral Evil or Killing role that cannot win with the Mafia or (other) Neutral Killings, or can win with the Town.
- Omniscient Town Killing - Any Town Killing role that can only kill evil roles. (it can't mess up)
- Limited Neutral Killing - Any Neutral Killing role that has a limited number of kills or commits suicide.
- Negative Utility - Any role that hurts its faction more than it helps it.
- New Alignments - Do not make new alignments or factions to the game. Your role idea should have an alignment that exists in ToS, not a custom-made one by you.
- Tracker roles - Roles that know who their target visit.
- Breaking the Trial System - Any role that can mess with the process of reporting players (See the Pre-1.5 Disguiser)
- Town Plus - Any role that actively buffs the town or nerfs non-town roles. Remember to differentiate between a town role idea and a town role idea that actively buffs town.
- Day Controller - Any role that controls what another role does at day, E.G. speaking, voting, etc.
- Reverse Escort - A role that roleblocks visiting roles from someone, causes an infinite loop which will then cause the game to crash. This can be negated by BMG creating a proxy system.
- Town Power - The point of the Town Power suggestion is to reduce excessively powerful roles, not make more of them.
- Overly Complex Role - If it would take way too long to program, it's probably not worth suggesting. (If the role is complicated , this doesn't count. the rule applies only to the programming process of the role.)
- Postmortem Lookout - Seeing who visited a dead player, or worse, who killed them, is a bad idea
Make sure to spread this among other wiki users who make role ideas using a link to this page. So people don't continue to make the same mistakes.
Link to the original page is right here: http://www.blankmediagames.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=34219
Don't complain about in-game roles breaking the rules, these rules go specifically towards Role Ideas.
Have a nice day!