[Special Event Idea] The Monster Mash!

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An ill wind sweeps over Castle Adiart this Autumn. Commoners found dead in their homes, their bodies mangled beyond recognition. Rumours of hulking monstrosities stalking the night and ancient curses mount as the days go by; the existence of something truly wicked, beyond the machinations of the Cult or the Unseen, becoming impossible for the King to deny.

The Prince is found dead in the castle hallways, bitten and exsanguinated. The King has no other choice but to summon the reclusive Monster Hunters to Castle Adiart, certain that supernatural evil has infiltrated their midst.

Will the Blue Dragon survive the monsters that prowl the night?

So I had an idea for a themed event ranging from October 1st to November 30th, based around the classic monsters of horror.

The Setup

1 Good King.
1 - 2 Monster Hunters.
7 - 8 Random Blue Dragon (Other than Prince, Sheriff or Paladin).
1 Scorned (Frame makes the target appear Neutral instead of Cult/Unseen).
1 Vampire.
1 Werewolf.
1 Mad Scientist.
1 Creature.
1 Mummy.

The Classes

The Vampire :shield:

Neutral Killer
Undead Will (Passive) - Immune to occupation and redirection.
Blood Master (Passive) - Will automatically attack any bleeding visitors. If successfully attacks a bleeding visitor or causes a target to bleed at night, will automatically self-heal that night. If successfully attacks or bleeds a player with Royal Blood, the Vampire will have Royal Blood the next day.
Vampiric Telepathy (Day) - Telepathically send a message to all Neutral players; they will not know who sent it. - 2 uses.
Mass Hypnosis (Day) - [Available Day 1] Tonight, all Neutral players will appear as Blue Dragon to investigative abilities. - 2 uses.
Dominating Gaze (Night) - You will lure target player to visit your room. If they are Blue Dragon, you will cause them to start bleeding. If they are Neutral, you will learn their class instead. - Infinite uses.
Blood Frenzy (Night) - [Unavailable Night 1] You will go on the hunt tonight, visiting 2 players and causing them to start bleeding. - 2 uses.
Defeat the Blue Dragon.

The Werewolf :shield:

Neutral Killer
Monstrous Vigour (Passive) - Immune to occupation, redirection, bleeding and poison. Immune to death at night while rampaging.
Keen Smell (Day) - [Available Day 1] You will know if target player is Neutral or not. - 5 uses.
Rampage (Night) - You will attack a player. If you kill them, they will show up as “slaughtered” instead of their class, and their logs will be wiped. Must wait a night between uses. - Infinite uses.
Remembrance (Night) - [Unavailable Night 1] As soon as you activate this, you will know the class and see the logs of the most recent player you slaughtered. - 5 uses.
Defeat the Blue Dragon.

The Mad Scientist :shield:

Neutral Offensive
Warped Mind (Passive) - Immune to occupation and redirection.
Extract of Borrowed Life (Day) - [Available Day 1] You will be immune to death tonight. - 3 uses.
Mind Control Serum (Night) - You will force one player to target another. If the first player is the Creature, they will attack the second target instead. - Infinite uses.
Harvest Organs (Night) - [Unavailable Until Night 4] You will attack a target. If they die, you will gain an additional use of Extract of Borrowed Life. - 3 uses.
Defeat the Blue Dragon.

The Creature :shield:

Neutral Killer
Reanimated Flesh (Passive) - Immune to death at night.
Unstable (Passive) - Can never gain immunity to occupation/redirection. Does not receive feedback of actions that happen at the end of the night (unless killed, bleeding or poisoned).
Hateful Retribution (Passive) - If you are publicly executed, you will fire an arrow of hatred at one of the people who accused you. If the Mad Scientist is one of them, it will go to them (and you will win). If the Mad Scientist is not one of the people who accused you, it will go to the first person who did.
Stand Guard (Night) - You will prevent all visits to a target. If they are Support or Social, you will attack any Killer or Offensive classes that visit them. - Infinite uses.
Survive to see the Mad Scientist dead.

The Mummy :shield:

Neutral Investigative
Undead Will (Passive) - Immune to occupation and redirection.
Canopic Jars (Passive) - Immune to death at night once.
Curse of Silence (Day) - Prevent a player from speaking, voting or using Day abilities. - 2 uses.
Curse of Slumber (Day) - Tonight, target player will be unable to use Night abilities. Cannot target the King. - 2 uses.
All-Seeing Eye (Night) - You will visit target player and learn their class. Tomorrow, whispers from you to them and from them to you will be hidden from the public. - Infinite uses.
Curse of the Mummy (Night) - [Unavailable Until Night 4] You will attack all who visit you tonight. If this attack kills them, their actions will be prevented. - 2 uses.
Defeat the Blue Dragon.

The Monster Hunter :crossed_swords:

Blue Dragon Investigative
Tools of the Trade (Passive) - If the Vampire attacks you or attempts to make you bleed, it will fail and the vampire will be poisoned. If the Werewolf or Mad Scientist attack you, you will start bleeding instead of dying. If you visit the Mummy while Curse of the Mummy is active, you will be poisoned instead of dying. If the Creature attacks you, you will occupy them instead.
Discover Allegiance (Night) - You will visit a target and discover if they are Neutral or not. - Infinite uses.
Silver and Fire (Night) - [Unavailable Until Night 4] You will attack a target, bypassing death immunity. If you kill a member of the Blue Dragon, you will die of grief. - 1 use.
Defeat the Unseen/Cult and any Neutrals that seek to do you harm.

Suggested Feedback Messages for the Monster Hunter:

A Vampire attempted to bite you but your garlic poisoned them instead!
A Werewolf attacked you but your silver dagger saved you! You are now bleeding.
A Mad Scientist attacked you but your potion saved you! You are now bleeding.
Your amulets saved you from the Curse of the Mummy! You are now poisoned.
A Creature attempted to attack you but your fire held them at bay!

Design Notes

The KPN should be roughly equal to Unseen/Cult + NK. The Vampire and Werewolf are the main killing roles and their abilities alternate, giving the Monsters roughly 1 KPN until Night 4, where it can be anywhere from 1 to 3 KPN depending on coordination/luck (this slow start is intended, as BD does not get Prince under this setup). The Mad Scientist and the Mummy are also designed to alternate with each other, with the Mad Scientist redirecting people into the Mummy when Curse of the Mummy is active, and Harvesting Organs in the off-days.

The Vampire is designed to put a lot of pressure on Physicians, who no longer have a clear Innoculation target, to avoid having a Physician always pocketing a valuable/confirmed target. While the Vampire stays alive, the Physicians should feel like they’re rushing to save people every single night and Self-Healing means letting someone die.

The Werewolf is designed as a very “loud” killer that creates claimspace for the rest of the Monsters. They’re a big priority for BD and can draw a lot of heat off the other Monsters.

The Mad Scientist and the Creature are designed to generate chaos and disruption, to prevent BD from easily and cleanly checking/killing sus claims systematically. The Creature can win with BD and their protective abilities make them a questionable asset, but their dangerous nature can end up backfiring on them.

The Mad Scientist is a lurking threat. They play somewhat similar to an Alchemist and can easily claim Drunk (though the lack of Royal Blood will give them away) and they work best when they can coordinate with other evils. Interesting to note is that, while the Creature wants to get the Mad Scientist killed asap, the Mad Scientist is tempted to keep the Creature around to increase the KPN. A dangerous gamble, of course, as it weakens their claim considerably, but such is the price to pay for extra kills.

The Mummy is designed as a coordinator type. The Vampire can broadcast something they found the previous night (for example, if they found a Monster Hunter) and the Werewolf can discern who to avoid, but it’s the Mummy that has the most potential to bring everyone together on the same page. Their powerful daytime abilities and accurate night-time results justify why they’re the Monster with the least protection.

Thanks for reading! Feedback appreciated!

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#2

Why make it a event.

WE WANT MORE GAME MODES!

RIOT!

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#3

Neuts out no support cuz neuts

#4

If you’re a Neuts Out player, this is the gamemode for you! :smiley:

#5

…Please use colors.

#6

Better? :stuck_out_tongue:

#7

Yeeeeeeesssssss.

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#8

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#9

SFoL 28 anyone?

I’ll even apply to co-host if you say yes

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#10

If people want to use this for a SFoL, go ahead! I just have zero experience hosting forum mafia games and I wouldn’t want to create an unsatisfactory experience with my inexperienced mistakes.

#11

Doesn’t matter.

JOIN US OR RIOT!

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#12

Well, if I get a co-host to walk me through it and help me out, and it gets approved, sure, I’d be willing to give it a try!

#13

Yeah!!!

That’s the sprit!

Just check ici guide out!

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#14

I like the idea, but a lot of the abilities are too complicated. Abilities should be simple. And it should be a separate mode instead of a special event.

This should be a passive instead of a night ability.

No. Hardcounters shouldn’t even exist. They’re not fun to play against.

#15

Unfortunately, the majority of classes with simple abilities either already exist in the game or have already been proposed by other people. To propose something original and interesting, some complexity must be allowed for.

It is a separate gamemode, available during the appropriate season. It wouldn’t replace Classic Mode.

It could be a passive, but since the Werewolf has nights where they can’t rampage, I felt it would be more satisfying to the player to let them activate an ability rather than simply giving them the results the following night. It’s a little thing, but players tend to enjoy active things more than passives.

I mean… Paladin and Sheriff are designed as investigative hardcounters to Cult/Unseen… this is a staple of the mafia game…

#16

Alright, but can you at least lower the amount of them? Or make them not as complex?

What I meant is that it shouldn’t be a timed event.

Maybe it could be given another night ability that allows them to learn their targets class. Also, rampage shouldn’t have a cooldown. It’s not that powerful.

Already existing != balanced. Sheriff and paladin need a few changes(they just need to be merged into a single class). Using that logic, the old priest was balanced just because it existed. And paladin and sheriff are soft counters, not hard counters(with the exception of smite, but smite needs a rework). Your monster hunter is more of a hardcounter.

#17

Which ones would you say are too complex? Werewolf, Mummy and Monster Hunter seem fairly straightforward to me. The only classes I’d personally call complex are Vampire, Mad Scientist and Creature, and even then their complexity comes more from the interactions they have (especially passively) rather than their active abilities.

I could try to trim some of the complexity, if you let me know where you think it’s excessive.

I would love for this to be a permanent game mode, but I’m being realistic. There’s probably not a big enough playerbase to sustain 2 ongoing game modes, or else they wouldn’t have retired Casual Mode to Custom Games only. A timed Special Event can draw more players to the game and sustain two healthy queues until the novelty fades.

In my original design, Rampage bypassed healing, but it felt a bit too strong, so I removed it before posting it here. Giving it a cooldown keeps the graveyard from filling up with unknown deaths that provide no logs info. I wouldn’t be opposed to giving Rampage a slight boost to make it more powerful, rather than removing the cooldown.

I also wouldn’t be opposed to giving Remembrance a slight utility buff, like letting the werewolf show up as the remembered class to investigations for that night?

I see where you’re coming from, but having some form of counter to the evils (whether soft or hard) is important for the game. For now, I’ll leave it as-is, but I wouldn’t be opposed to reworking the Monster Hunter if more people share that opinion. If the consensus is that it’s an unfun class that needs a rework, I’ll try to come up with something that fits the concept flavourfully and performs the necessary mechanics for the gamemode.

#18

Vampire and Creature. They need less conditional effects.
Mind Control Serum shouldn’t have an affect on only the Creature. Class-specific abilities/interactions are bad.

That could work, but I’d prefer it if it was changed into a passive. I dislike conditional/specific abilities.

I’d prefer soft counters. Hard counters aren’t fun to play against.

#19

Smite needs a nerf :frowning:

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#20

Rainbow mode?