Here's a basic outline of the roles in my upcoming theme based on the Amazon rainforest. I thought I'd just post these here so people can look over them and comment, so I can change errors before I start coding. Keep in mind this is in no way finalized and I haven't even started coding. Premise: An alliance of animals in the Amazon Rainforest have decided to drive out the more aggressive animals and create a safer ecosystem. The mafias are: Snakes, Tarantulas, and Apex Predators. What makes this theme unique? The village system. The village is split into 5 groups (birds, river-dwellers, tree-dwellers, ground-dwellers, jungle cats and insects). Each group (except insects) knows every other member of their group. So for example, the Scarlet Macaw, Harpy Eagle, Hummingbird and Toucan all know each other (although they will only all appear in very large games). You might think that connection would be too easy, but quite to the contrary. This theme is fairly PR heavy even though it only has no BG so claim at your own risk. Also, Mafia could easily get connected by fakeclaiming. Another thing that makes this theme (relatively) unique is the emphasis on poison. There are a lot of poisoners. There were even more before I took some out and nerfed others. Most themes have few or no poisoners (exceptions include Elements). I believe with the group-based village and PR-rich BG-poor nature of this theme, it has a lot of potential for strategy. TL;DR: Village is split into groups which know the other members of their group. Lots of poisoners. Lots of PRs, no BG. So here's a preemptive list of sides, groups and roles. I haven't even started coding this so changing things literally takes 10 seconds. Spoiler ------| Village| ------| -----| Birds| -----| Scarlet Macaw Distract Expose once per game Immune to poison Harpy Eagle Daykill (nonrevealing) Inspect once per game Hummingbird Vote of 0.5 Change to 1? Toucan Reveals as Scarlet Macaw -------------| River Dwellers| -------------| Turtle Evades nightkills Giant Otter This is an identical role to Jaguar later down the list, except it's in a different group. Only one can spawn, and it's a 50-50 chance. Nightkill Protect once per game Tetra No special actions -----------| Jungle Cats| -----------| Ocelot Stalk Reveals as Jaguar Jaguar Kill Protect once per game Cub No special actions ---------------| Ground-dwellers| ---------------| Tapir Charge (kill) once per game Deer Distract I may change it so that it dies if it distracts a killer. Armadillo Immune to poison Capybara No special actions -------| Insects| -------| Grasshopper Doesn't know anyone, no one knows it. There are lots of these! They basically exist so that Mafia has someone to fakeclaim behind. -------------| Tree-dwellers| -------------| Squirrel Monkey Vote of 3 Reveals as Squirrel Porcupine Poison attackers Squirrel No special actions ------------------| Mafia One (Snakes)| This is the original mafia from Amazon, back when it was just a lightbulb. ------------------| Boa Constrictor Constrict (poison) 1 cooldown Vote of -1 Python Kill-shared with team Anaconda Kill-shared with team Vote of -1 Viper Poison-shared with role Vote of -2 ----------------------| Mafia Two (Tarantulas)| ----------------------| Pink-Toe Tarantula Poison once per game Change to twice? Stalk Black Tarantula Protect Red Tarantula Kill-shared with role ----------------------------| Mafia Three (Apex Predators)| ----------------------------| Black Caiman Kill-shared Inspects as Giant Otter Vote of 2 Change to 3? Evades daykills Immune to Poison Bull Shark Kill-shared Revealing Daykill Should I change to unrevealing? Cougar Should it get an extra power, like revealing as Jaguar? Kill-shared PLEASE COMMENT! I need suggestions and thoughts!
I Think you're trying to make lots of themes. you know, Stick to one. EDIT : Hint, try focusing on one theme, and when you have done making it, post it in the Maf Review, Since you have a 50% chance of getting your themes accepted anyway. In short, effort is wasted. Seeing all this Mario Kart, Mafia Theme(No Name yet), Hoenn wars and Amazon Rainforest just makes me wonder if it will all get accepted. @Below: Um.. Like I said focus on one theme and when it's done and ready to go, post it in the Maf Review and when declined/accepted, Go try to make another theme.
It won't. The No Name and Mario Kart were ideas which I was throwing here, because why not? That's what this forum is for. And Hoenn Wars I had high hopes for, put 30+ hours into and no one likes it. This is different. I checked with multiple people (namely Roild, thanks so much!) for this, it has unique and creative ideas, and I actually intend to send it to mafia review. Note that they're all in TC&I, not Mafia Review.