Town of Salem Game Forums

by **Nellyfox** » Sun Aug 17, 2014 10:53 pm

To prevent unwanted clutter in this board, I decided to compile a list of roles that have been suggested. Please make a quick glance at this thread to see if your role idea already has an existing topic. If I missed a role that has been suggested, please PM me.
Note: Links to role ideas will be to the FIRST thread created in the proper role format. Roles that rely on other roles to be in the game will not appear.
To find roles quickly, use F3 or Ctrl+F.

Town

Protection

Architect - Set traps on people's houses.
Apothecary - Makes someone immune for 2 nights.
Blacksmith - Makes a weapon or armor for people.
Construction Worker - Build walls around people.
Fireman - Undouse someone.
Guardian - Give another player temporary night immunity.
Marshal - Follow someone at night to scare off a visitor.
Protection Expert - Build something for someone each night.
Sniper - Watch someone and shoot any movement.
Tailor - Give someone a vest to protect themselves.
Transcendent - Add people to your network.
Treant - Plant saplings and grow them to protect others.

Investigative

Believer - Convert NB/NE roles to Believer roles.
Confessor - Choose someone at night to hear their confessions.
Confidante - Choose a role/category from the role list and see if target matches.
Coroner - Check dead bodies to see how many of each alignment voted for their lynch.
Detective - Search houses at night for traces of blood.
Detective - Search dead bodies for clues of the killer.
Eavesdropper - Select a person to see who they spoke with at night.
Fearful - Watch others and determine if they're scary.
Forensic Scientist - Lookout that sees roles over names.
Geezer - Get a clue about your visitors' roles.
Genealogist - Compare two players.
Guesser - Guess someone's role to gain night immunity.
Historian - Find out who visited someone dead.
Hobbyist - Find out someone's faction.
Hypnotist - Detain targets and make them confess their deeds.
Inquisitor - Roleblock someone and see what action you blocked.
Insomniac - Wander the streets at night, seeing people's actions.
Inspector - Forensic expert who studies crime scenes.
Inspector - Select a dead and living person to see if the living person visited the dead at any point.
Journalist - Knows what people did at night.
Journalist - Talk anonymously with someone at night.
Marshal - Patrol near someone's house, seeing their view of law.
Night Watcher - See who visits who at night.
Painter - Paint someone at night.
Postman - Mail carrier who delivers important messages.
Receptionist - Invite someone and give them information.
Report - Give the town a unique way to learn about the night's events.
Salvager - Visit a dead person's house at night to look for clues about their death.
Seer - Sleep at night to get visions.
Watcher - Follow someone at night to see who they visit.

Killing

Alchemist - Like a trapper.
Avenger - Select someone who dies with you if you die at night.
Blacksmith - Make someone a sword.
Boxer - Box with someone each night.
Captain - Kidnapper.
Cowboy - Disable people...and be cool.
Duelist - Challenge someone to a duel.
Equalizer - Choose someone at night to equalize them.
Good Assassin - Kill anyone who is a threat.
Hypnotist - Use hypnosis to help the town.
Marskman - Kill a night immune after two nights.
Robotics Engineer - Build robots that can guard or kill.
Scientist - Conduct experiments on people.
The Tamer - Have a loyal dog that protects you.

Support

Actor - Disguiser for the town.
Advocate - Has a town target, tries to protect them.
Alarm-Man - Set up alarms in people's houses.
Artist - Select someone, and if killed, produce a sketch of their killer.
Assistant - Assist someone each night, temporarily become their role.
Attorney - Consult someone at night and see their will.
Baptist - Baptize another player.
Bartender - Visit someone and serve them a drink.
Cassandra - Perfect foresight...but no one listens.
Chef - Feast with someone, making them empowered.
Clairvoyant - See if an evil role voted in majority vote on a trial.
Confidant - Invite people to your house at night, forming a group chat.
Cryogenist - Arsonist that freezes.
Communicator - Add players to the secret circle.
Deputy - Force a town member to use their night action on another player.
Detonator - Use bombs to roleblock people.
Elder - Check a player to see if you recognize them.
Engineer - Build fences for people, roleblocking visitors.
Escape Artist - Select yourself to avoid all consequences.
Fall Guy - Save town members at the expense of your life.
Gravedigger - See a dead person's last action.
Grocer - Give food to people at night.
Hermit - Speak solely to the town once a day.
Host - Invite 2 people to your house at night.
Judge - Force someone to be voted guilty.
Lawyer - Reveal yourself and have your vote count as -1.
Lawyer - Roleblock everyone who visits your target.
Lawyer - Reverse executioner.
Lover - Protect a town member.
Martyr - If killed, may roleblock from the grave.
Messanger - Choose two people to communicate at night.
Mirror - Copy a town member's ability at night.
Notary - Choose someone during the day to see their will at night.
Nurse - Buff roles.
Postman - Deliver mail to people, giving role information.
Priest - Can make 3 dead people communicate with the living.
Priest - Absolve the town of their sins.
Prosecutor - Legal official who petitions public votes against those who are not town.
Reporter - Broadcast your findings during the night.
Reporter - Let someone make an anonymous announcement each day.
Resurrector - Mini retributionist.
Savior - Halt a lynching.
Supervisor - Prevents mafia support and deception roles from working if same target is visited.
Town Crier - Publish someone's findings, revealing it to the town.
Wishy Washy - Auto-Revive as an Amnesiac when killed at night.
Voodoo Priestess - Redirect attacks.

Power

Caretaker - See who visits you.
Judge - A Judicial role that supports the Jailor and has powers during Judgement.
Pastor - elephants
Priest - Hears all night chat, may only whisper.
Psychotherapist - Have sessions with people, causing them to align with town.
Revivalist - Revive yourself once.
Warden - Cause a lockdown or curfew.

Chaos

Fighter of Fire - Douse someone in liquid, undousing them.

Mafia

Killing

Caporegime - Kill goes through night immunity.
Contract Killer - Kill someone independently from the Godfather.
Dragon - Independently destroy an enemy of the mafia.
Gunman - A gun dealer with connections.
Interrogator - Jailor for the mafia.
Maniac - Kill independently from Godfather.
Rebel - Kill someone at night.
Rookie - Kill someone at night.
Sniper - Shoot someone each night on non-full moon nights.

Support

Acolyte - Make Mafia visits more devastating.
Assassin - Select the mafia's victim to ignore all night immunity when killed.
Baker - Deliver cakes to players.
Black Market Salesman - Resupply a member of the mafia.
Bootlegger - Transporter for the mafia.
Briber - Force someone to use their action on someone else.
Burglar - Steal from a player each night.
Debater - Can persuade people to not have a trial that day.
Decoy Maker - Use your decoys to fool people.
Double - Use a dead person's action once.
Eavesdropper - Mafia spy.
Filer - Choose any three days to get an extra vote.
Getaway Driver - Protect other mafia members.
Goon - Kill the godfather's attacker or roleblocker while on alert.
Hacker - Makes a mafia member appear as innocent to sheriff.
Harbinger - Place caution signs on players.
Intern - Shadow a mafia member at night.
Kidnapper - Kidnap someone, making them a permanent member of the mafia.
Mogul - Copy town roles and use them for the good of the mafia.
Mole - Hear all night chat.
Mole - Spy for the mafia.
Pathfinder - Watch the godfather's target, seeing if they're safe to attack.
Perceiver - Eavesdrop on a person each night for a clue on who they were visited by.
Recruiter - Kill a member of the mafia and replace them.
Renovator - Renovate a player, roleblocking all who visit them.
Sycophant - Lookout for the mafia.
Thief - Steal someone's role from them.
Wiretapper - Plant bugs on people to hear their whispers and night target.

Deception

Conman - Falsely show a person's role upon death.
Deafener - Prevent people from seeing day chat.
Forger - Forge someone's will.
Fraudster - Tamper with your target's voting.
Hoaxer - Select the mafia's kill victim and have their murder type be changed.
Impersonator - Choose someone's role to appear as.
Magician - Cause someone to disappear for the rest of the game.
Maid 'Fixes' a body, making them appear as if alive.
Matchmaker - Restrain two people to each other.
Optokinetic - Creates illusions to trick town members.
Organizer - Organize the mafia's actions at night.
Purjurer - Select a mafia member and a town member and have their info switched.
Scapegoat - Select a member of the mafia to be their fall guy.
Scrutineer - Twice a game, flip the votes.
Silencer - Opposite of a Blackmailer.
Singer - Trick the town into thinking differently about the mafia.
Switcher - Switch the names of people in chat for a day.
Vandal - Choose a player at night to display your will if they die.
Ventriloquist - Take someone's name and speak as them for a day.
Yellow Journalist - Give the town a unique way to learn about night actions.

Neutral

Benign

Alchemist - Brew potions and give them to people
Anarchist - Add people to your pool and randomize their roles upon lynch.
Baker - Leaving baskets of bread by player's doorsteps.
Banshee - Tell someone their killer's name.
Bishop - Choose a person to forgive their sins.
Cooperator - "Cut a deal" with another player.
Corrupt Banker - All about negotiation.
Cronie - Select someone at night and share their fate.
Cupid - Shoot people with arrows, adding them to the Love Triangle.
Cypher - Live four days and be assigned a role.
Disciple - Choose to kill for the mafia or an NK.
Fan - Become someone's fan and help them achieve their goal.
Farmer - Harvest crop and become someone's friend.
Gambler - Bet on which faction will win.
Ghoul - Possess your killer or one of your lynchers.
Grazer - Give someone one of your two crops.
Hermit - Roleblock all targets visiting you, except murder.
House Guest - Seek shelter in others' homes.
Idiot - Play as a role you really aren't.
Illusionist - Illusionises one person each night, making them to appear dead.
Immitater - Imitate a player, choosing their target.
Insomniac - Sees who visits you and your visitors at night.
Kid - A child growing up in Salem.
Maiden - Find a potential lover and win with them.
Mercenary - Take side with a faction and injure whoever opposes them.
Merchant - Gives a buff to someone's role.
Merchant - Sell items to players.
Merchant - Sell items to players.
Miner - Mine under houses.
Missionary - Host ceremonies in your temple.
Monk - Bless someone each night for 4 nights, granting them night immunity.
Neucord - Neutral roleblocker.
Orphan - Become the role of the first role to attack you.
Paranoid - Reveal who visited everyone that night.
Peasant - Serve someone and help them win.
Phantom - Become someone's servant after you die.
Polymath - Target someone at night to get their alignment and clues of their highest priority peer.
Prelate - Offer other players sanctuary.
Prophet - Help your faction win.
Reaper - Be involved with the death of two town members.
Salesman - Sell people night actions.
Servant - Earn your freedom.
Singer - Get assigned a target and make sure they survive the game.
Skyper - Get a new best friend and help them win the game.
Stranger - Kill someone, stealing their role.
Switchblade - Switch alignments/abilities/goals based on visitors.
The Thorpe - Steal someone's role and make them citizen.
Thief - Steal limited use abilities from roles.
Treasure Hunter - Complete a treasure and survive.
Undertaker - Bury people.
Warrior - Kill a night immune.
Widow - Choose someone to marry and talk to them at night.

Evil

Alien - Visit everyone living.
Anarchist - ANARCHY!!
Anarchist - Make sure a third party faction wins.
Autocrat - Make sure the godfather and mayor are both dead by the end of the game.
Bogeyman - Select someone to receive your targets.
Bogeyman - Inflict a lurgy onto the town.
Cat Burglar - Steal an action from someone.
Con Man - Trick the town in believing you are one of them.
Criminal - Go on a heist at someone's house.
Duelist - Nightkilling executioner.
Earthquaker - Create earthquakes for fun.
Fanatic - Watch 3 people get executed.
Freak - Choose a dead and living player, making one use their action on the other.
Gossip - Receive two town targets and get them to kill one another.
Gravedigger - Use roles from the graveyard.
Herbalist - Knock someone out to see their role and will.
Idealist - Make sure your target lives to day 5.
Juggler - Swap the abilities of 2 people for 1 night.
Locker - Lock someone's door during the day.
Mad Scientist - Resurrect a monster.
Mastermind - Survive with other evil roles.
Mermaid - Roleblock someone, forcing them to be your bodyguard.
Necromancer - Sacrifice someone to bring back a neutral killer.
Negotiator - Win with the alignment you were assigned to.
Occultist - Causes a player to be possessed by a vengeful ghost.
Occultist - Make someone a zombie.
Parasite - Spreads a disease to other players.
Pirate - Kidnap someone, making them not able to attend the day phase.
Politician - Get the mayor and godfather killed.
Puppetmaster - Revive a dead and make him your puppet.
Saboteur - Choose someone and have their targets randomized.
Scapegoat - Control someone's vote during the day.
Scavenger - Scavenge a dead player to use their role's ability for one day.
Scoundrel - Rob unsuspecting people of their possessions.
Shaman - Place totems on people and control their votes.
Soulkeeper - Steal the soul of someone who dies that night.
Soul Merger - Link people together.
Spider - Attach people to your web.
Spoiler - Retributionist for the non-town.
Streaker - Get a night immune role killed.
Succubus - Choose someone at night, cursing them.
Terrorist - Attach fuses and live to Day 6.
Tormentor - Roleblock someone and have them think they were attacked.
Traitor - Trick the mafia into thinking you're mafioso.
Traveler - Swap places with someone at night.
Trickster - Disguise as someone and get them lynched.
Voodoo Master - Pass your doll to another player.
Widow - An executioner that chooses their target.
Wretch - If killed by being lynched, convert someone into a zombie.
Zombie - Bite someone at night and convert them into a zombie.

Killing

Assassin - Be hired by someone and kill who they tell you to.
Assassin - Kill someone each night.
Auspex - Link two souls together.
Beastmaster - Using a beast to kill others in the town.
Beekeeper - Breed your swarm to attack more people.
Bomber - Uses a one time bomb that kills 2 or 3 players.
Bomber - Rig someone's house with a bomb.
Bounty Hunter - Kill someone on even numbered nights.
Bounty Hunter - Kill a role assigned to you.
Cannibal - Kill people and use their ability.
Captor - Take an innocent hostage.
Clockmaker - Kill someone to add time to your clock.
Cook - Create the perfect dish.
Cryomaniac - Arsonist that freezes.
Demolitionist - Give a bomb with a fuse to someone.
Drifter - Kill three people and leave town.
Electrician - Electrocute someone at night.
Electrician - Live to see everyone electrocuted.
Electro - Shock everyone who opposes you.
Gambler - Gamble each night, shooting someone at random.
Geneticist - Collect someone's genetics each night.
Ghost - Spook someone each night.
Ghoul - Kill someone for each town lynch.
Infecter - Infect someone at night and watch them die.
Harbinger - Carry out Auspex's orders.
Hunter - Set traps on people's houses.
Kamikaze - Survive to make someone explode.
Kidnapper - Hold people hostage and kill each night.
Monster - Kill everyone in your master's way.
Parasite - Infect all who visit you.
Patient Zero - Contaminate a house.
Plague Doctor - Give the town the plague.
Plastic Surgeon - Kill someone each might, disguising as them and hiding their will temporarily.
Poisoner - Poison a person.
Proteus - Heal and kill someone at night.
Psycho - Kill and roleblock to find your lost item.
Restless Spirit - Haunt other houses.
Shadowalker - Choose to walk in someone's shadow each night.
Snake Charmer - Have your snake infect someone at night.
Spree Killer - Add four people to your hit list.
Stormcaller - Use the power of lightning to electrocute, paralyze, and roleblock your foes.
Strangler - Strangle someone.
Tempest - Call forth lightning and storms to vanquish enemies.
Torcher - Neutral vigilante...junior arsonist. Of sorts.
Trapper - Set a permanent trap at someone's house at night.
Villain - A neutral either working with town or mafia.
Werewolf - 'Change' and randomly kill someone.
Witch Doctor - Curse someone at night.

Buffs

Bodyguard - Automatic vests. Can guard self. Kill all attackers. Attackers can't be healed by doctor. Death note.
Consort - Speak to your target at night. Choose who to roleblock during the day.
Escort - Speak to your target at night. Choose who to roleblock during the day.
Escort - Save a vigilante from suiciding.
Executioner - Frame your target. Make them night immune one night.
Framer - Sheriff cannot detect if framer is in the mafia. Swaps invest roles with framed.
Jester - A deathnote. Force someone to vote him.
Jester - Play pranks to the town at night.
Jester - A hauntnote that overrides last will.
Jester - Visit at night and give non-effecting flavour text.
Jester - Hide in the jack-in-the-box for one night, granting night immunity like a vest.
Lookout - Visit 2 houses at night. Is not killed by veteran.
Lookout - Look at self at night.
Medium - Unlimited seances.
Retributionist - Use ability even after you die. Can revive self.
Retributionist - Cannot die until someone else has.
Sheriff - Gets one bullet (Follows vigilante rules).
Sheriff - Sees what alignment target sides with.
Sheriff - Can find other sheriffs and Jailor. Can tell if target is roleblocked.
Sheriff - Can confirm some town members.
Survivor - Ability to undouse self.
Transporter - Targets know their original target was transported.
Vigilante - Shoot a night immune role two nights in a row to kill them.
Vigilante - Gets 3 bulletproof vests.
Vigilante - Can shoot during the day.
Werewolf - Not killed by BG with indirect attack.
Witch - Can win, even if dead.
Witch - Gets a clue at the role of whom they control.

New Alignments

Athlete (Neutral Chaos) - Buff someone up, letting them pick two targets.
Burglar (Neutral Deception) - Steal something from someone.
Catfolk (Neutral Chaos) - Find who you can and cannot trust.
Charmer (Neutral Mischief) - Lynch all the evil roles.
Chef (Neutral Chaos) - Cook people, gaining their abilities.
Cultist (Neutral Chaos) - Insane leader of a shadowy cult.
Demon - Collect three souls.
Enchantress (Witch Support) - Change the votes in favour of the witch coven once.
Hostage Taker (Neutral Chaos) - Take people hostage.
Necromancer (Neutral Chaos) - Six abilities.
Possessed - Visit a target and scare them + any visitors.
Priest (Neutral Support) - Eliminate the unholy ones.
Projectionist (Witch Support) - Powerful sorcerer skilled in creating astral projections.
Randomizer (Neutral Mischief) - Change the cause of death of someone who died that night.
Thespian (Neutral Chaos) - Act as a different role each night.
The Cartel
The Circus
The Cult
Evangelists
Mafia Head
Masons
The Outcasts
Town Power
Neutral Joker

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