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I've set this up as a place for you clever people to discuss and create new roles for future games. Hopefully, this will become a list of well balanced roles that GMs can use in future games. If you post a role here, it is free game for anyone to use in their games, unless you specifically state otherwise. Be forewarned, creating balanced roles is incredibly difficult. You need to take into account how they will play with other roles and how they will effect the balance of the game. Creating roles requires running them through scenarios time and again, just to make sure that they don't break the game. No role should be so strong that the opposing faction can't stand against it. I'll let you get to it, but here are a few reference materials to give you some baseline ideas to work from. The Wiki actually has a pretty decent breakdown for the game in general. While this game specific Wiki has a ton of roles already in use and also gives some ideas of their playability. One final note, feel free to create roles and games for any of Sanderson's worlds. Eventually, we'll hopefully have enough roles to easily play anywhere in the Cosmere! Update: The reworked rules and Formats are up! Please keep these in mind while designing your games. The better you know which format you're planning for, the better other people's feedback can be! Long Game Elimination Format Rules With plenty of time and a lot of complexity, the Long Games typically have time for in-depth analysis and plenty of roleplaying opportunities. The drawback being that they typically take a lot longer to play out. Players: 18+ Game Duration: 3+ weeks Game Cycle Duration: 96 hours max. Turns: days and nights, each 48 hours max. Rollover Time: TBD by the GM What to Expect: lots of roleplay more chances for in-depth manipulation lots of complexity high levels of analysis Mid-Range Game Elimination Format Rules A middle ground style of game. The Mid-Range games run fairly quickly, but not nearly as fast as a Quick Fix. This allows for more roleplaying and analysis than a Quick Fix, but less than a Long Game. Players: 15-30 Game Duration: 2-3 weeks Game Cycle Duration: 48 hours Turns: days and nights can be combined into one full cycle 48 hours in length or separated for each to be 24 hours long Rollover Time: TBD by the GM What to Expect: fairly fast pace some complexity a bit of roleplay moderate analysis inactive player warnings/deaths Quick Fix Elimination Format Rules The Quick Fix games follow a faster paced schedule than the other elimination games. This format will have fewer roles than the other games, and be less heavily invested in role playing. Players: 8-16 Game Duration: 1-2 weeks Game Cycle Duration: 24 hours Turns: days and nights combined into one full cycle Rollover Time: TBD by the GM What to Expect: very fast pace basic roleplay simple structure basic analysis one post/PM per cycle inactive player warnings/deaths Game Creation: Table of Contents First of the Sun/Sixth of the Dusk Twei/Eol/Piff - Trappers v. Traders Nalthis lord Claincy Ffnord - Idrians v. Hallandren v. Pahn Kahl - Run as Long Game 4: Colours of War Gamma - Returned v. Traitors w/ sacrifices - Run as Quick Fix 9: The Court of the Gods Wyrmhero - Explorers v. Traitors w/ items, events, and omens Twei - Merchants v. Saboteurs w/ roles and Awakening Roshar Mailliw - Items-based w/ Nobles v. Ghostbloods - Run as Long Game 5: Noble Secrets Rubix - Darkeyes v. Merchants v. Nobles w/ boons and curses - Run as Mid-Range 1: Riots of Kholinar Renegade - Windrunners and Truthwatchers v. Skybreakers - Run as Mid-Range 2: Servants of Honor Wyrmhero - Blackthorn's Army v. Alethi spies w/ roles and events - Run as Mid-Range 4: Alethi War of Unification Aonar - Refugees v. Diagramists w/ roles and squiring - Run as Long Game 13: Traitors on the Plains Aspren - Items-based w/ boons and curses Mailliw - KR v. Skybreakers and Voidbringers Only Joe - Alethi v. The Diagram Kasimir - KR v. Voidbringers Renegade - Bridgemen v. Lighteyes w/ roles, items, and highstorms Winter Cloud - KR v. Parshendi w/ roles, events, and items Winter Cloud - Odium/Voidbringers v. Honor/Cultivation/KR/Shardbearers Wilson - Sons of Honor and Ghostbloods v. Diagrammists Mckeedee - Ghostblood Members v. Moles w/ roles and items Renegade - Alethi Nobles v. Sadeas' Consipirators w/ roles and corruption Araris - Odius Scholars and Voidform v. Regular Forms Wyrmhero - Ghostbloods v. Sons of Honour w/ roles and pairings (two-headed elimination) Scadrial Metacognition - Spiked v. Villagers w/ Allomancers - Run as Long Game 1: In the Wake of Koloss and The Anniversary Game: In the Re-Wake of the Koloss Metacognition - Inquisitor and Spiked v. Allomancers w/ Unsnapped - Run as Long Game 2: The Devil's Den jasonpenguin - Spiked v. Villagers w/ Allomancers - Run as Long Game 3: Blackwater Village Wyrmhero - Noble House War w/ Nobles v. Skaa - Run as Long Game 7 - The Annealing of Luthadel Bartbug - Koloss-blooded vs. Kandra - Run as Long Game 8 - Elendel Gang War Newan - Twinborn v. Spiked w/ kandra, mistwraith, items and a map - Run as Long Game 11: Twinborn Village Renegade - Passengers v. Coinshot Clan w/ coins and locations - Run as Quick Fix 8: The Steelway Express Swimmingly - Koloss and Allomancy 18th Shard - Agents of Ruin v. Islanders w/ allomancy, feruchemy, and hemalurgy Gamma - Flaring Metals Only Joe - Items-based and Allomancy Newan - Pits of Hathsin Prisoners v. Snitches w/ roles and snapping Renegade - Pits of Hathsin w/ Atium and Allomancy Wyrmhero - The Roughs, Thieves v. Lawmen w/ money and roles Kasimir - The Roughs, roles w/ economy, broadsheet, and cosmetic roles Winter Cloud - Skaa and Mistings v. Mistborn assassin w/ roles Wyrmhero - Heron Industries, Loyalists v. Mistrunners w/ roles and employment Seonid - House Conrad v. Venture Agents w/ roles Wyrmhero - Crew v. Traitors w/ roles, missions, and a planning Turn Winter - Venture allies v. Great House Spies w/ roles, items, kandra, contracts, skaa, Inquisitor Kasimir - Workers v. Informants w/ currency, roles, and broadsheet Sel Tempus - Traders v. Followers of the Jeskeri Mysteries - Run as Quick Fix 1: Jeskeri Mysteries Metacognition - Pirates v. Mutineers - Run as Quick Fix 2: Crushthroat's Beginnings Herowannabe - Jeskeri v. Shu-Dereth v. Arelon w/ roles, vote manipulation, Elantris exploration and secrets - Run as Long Game 12: Shadows of Elantris Kasimir - Heritage v. Glory v. Moderation v. Discovery w/ roles and bribery - Run as Mid-Range 7: Eighty Splendid Suns Serendipity - Dakhor v. Forgers and Elantrians Renegade - Forger v. Arbiter and Bloodsealers Panda - Elantris Gang v. Gang w/ roles, items, and Hoed Mckeedee - Derethi Converts v. Jeskeri Cult v. Dulas w/ conversion, elections, and religions Threnody/Shadows for Silence Gamma - Hell's Shadows - Run as Quick Fix 3: Shadowed Secrets Kasimir - Travellers v. Criminals (w/ Shades) Unknown Location/Shadesmar/World-hopping Only Joe - Seventeenth Shard v. Hoid - Run as Quick Fix 4: Conversion Alvron - Epics v. Rithmatists v. Librarians v. Cosmere w/ Hoid and Serial Killer - Run as Mid-Range 5: Competing Realities Quiver - Shards and Seventeenth Shard v. Odium and Voidbringers - Run as Long Game 10: A Game of Shards | Only Joe's reworked version - Run as Long Game 14: To Shatter a Shard Wyrmhero - Space Crew v. Traitors Winter Cloud - Scadrial v. Nalthis v. Roshar w/ roles, items, NPC's, and kandra Earth/Alcatraz Only Joe - Free World v. Evil Librarians w/ Talents and items JasonPenguin - Smedry's v. Librarians w/ Talents and post-censoring Earth/Legion Herowannabe - Legion's aspects v. Nightmare aspects w/ specialties, cupid, and rooms - Run as Quick Fix 6: A Time of Nightmares Earth/Reckoners Alvron - Civilians v. Epics v. Epics - Run as Long Game 9: The Empty Throne, Part 1 Renegade - Researchers (w/ Black Market) Kasimir - Civilians v. Traitors w/ roles and riddles Earth/Rithmatist a smart guy - Nebrask w/ Rithmatists v. Forgotten - Run as Mid-Range 3: When Chalklings Attack Defending Elysium & Firstborn Smart Guy - Humans v. Aliens w/ cryotonics and roles Randland/Wheel of Time Gamma - Forsaken and Darkfriends v. Channelers and Villagers (Wisdom, Wolfbrother, etc) - Run as Long Game 6: Daes Dae'Mar Kasimir - Logain v. Mazrim Taim w/ conversions Meta Games (17S Site) Adamir - Sharders v. Spammers w/ roles, items, locations, rep Role Ideas/Partial Games Terox - Feruchemy Gamma - Kandra Alvron - Items-based (Lerasium beads, etc.) Gamma - Terris Synod and Kandra Alvron - Alloy of Law w/ world-hoppers Macen - Seventeenth Shard v. Hoid Gamma - Shadesmar's ruling spren v. hatespren Clanky - Debtor and Debtholders Only Joe - Omnicide Non-Sanderson Ideas Jasonpenguin - Hunger Games - Run as Quick Fix 5: Hunger Games Aonar - The Old Kingdom Wyrmhero - Magic: the Gathering - Ravnica Wyrmhero - Discworld Wilson - Kingkiller Chronicle - The University, aka "The Most Complex Game Ever" Wyrmhero - Sandman - Dream Aspects Herowannabe - Star Wars Wyrmhero - Chronicales of Amber Kasimir - Doctor Who Kasimir - Assassin's Creed Adamir - Dishonored Wyrmhero - Sandman - Cereal Convention Adamir - Middle Earth