No Known Aliases

No Special Powers

Required

You vote to kill the villagers. When you match their number you win.

This role is required

No Known Aliases

During the Night

Moderate

If an alpha wolf lives he may choose to override the (in)decision of the pack and direct them to a victim of his choice.

This is the role most commonly called alpha wolf other rule sets have a very different version of the Alpha Wolf. See (Berserker) below.

Alpha Wolf

At all times

Moderate to Significant

If the Berserker is slain by the assassin, vampire, or lynching the berserker takes their killer out with them.

This role is called the Alpha Wolf in some unusual rule sets. It is unclear why this would be so.

Infectious Lycan

During the Night

Significant

The breeder may choose once per game to use their ability to convert that nights victim into a Werewolf. The victim is treated as a Judas (See Judas Below)

Variants:

1. If playing with blind roles, and the majority victim is another wolf the breeder is killed in the victims stead.
2. There is a 50 percent chance that the Converted individual is a Turncoat (Reluctant Werewolf)

Cobbler

Nil

Nil

The Possessed is a villager who seeks to aid the wolves at winning and only will win if the wolves themselves win. Unfortunately the Possessed has no idea who the wolves are and must move to obstruct the villagers in other ways.

Consequently the Possessed will even sacrifice his/her own life to insure a team win. The seer cannot detect the Possesseds duplicity and sees only a Villager.

This role has been called the Monk numerous times for reasons which are odd and unclear.

During the Night

Significant

The family of the Loup Garou they bear the blood of the wolf which can become awakened in the right circumstances

Citizen

Nil

Nil

You vote to lynch the wolves.

Can you uncover them all before your demise.

This is a required role.

No Known Aliases

Night

Significant

Wolfsbane are immune to being killed by the wolves during the night.

No Known Aliases

Night

Moderate

Once per game the witness can catch a werewolf returning home just at dawn in wolf form. The witness will likewise be seen by the werewolf.

It may seem obvious to kill a witness but discrediting him may benefit the wolves more since they know his role is spent.

Hunter

Always in effect

Minimal - Moderate

When killed (day or night), the Vigilante gets to retaliate, killing one other player of their choice.

Unique role as it is the only one who can force a true draw.

If the game ends with one werewolf, and the vigilante, and no vampires in play. The werewolf kills the vigilante, and the vigilante retaliates to kill the werewolf and everyone is dead, so its a draw.

No Known Aliases

Night

Moderate - Significant

At any time during the game the Veterinarian can convert one of the Werewolves into a Turncoat.

Clearly the Veterinarian SHOULD not be used in a game that has less then 2 werewolves.

Variant: The Veterinarian dies when their power is used

Reluctant Werewolf, Double Agent

No Special Power

Significant

The turn coat is a Werewolf who maintains much of their human nature. As such the turncoat wins only when the Villagers do. As such the turncoat must act to obstruct the wolves or reveal their identities without being found out himself lest they turn on him.

If the Turncoat is the last remaining wolf the Villagers are considered the winners and the Turncoat is freed of his curse.

Whether by confession and death or being cured is up to the moderator.

Variant: If the turncoat is lynched they are converted to humans immediately. It appears as if the Archangel or the Pardoner saved them. (This variant is problematic for numerous reasons not the least of which that the Wolves would know the Turncoat is a traitor and act accordingly. Blind roles might alleviate this somewhat but the turncoat is not a very sensible role in a blind roles game) This variant is often referred to as a Saulus in comparison to the Judas role which it mirrors - This Variant effectively makes the Turncoat a Variable Win role but its so odd I have not placed it in that category.

No Known Aliases

Variable

Insignificant

The special prosecutor has 2 powers and works for the villagers

1. He can ask about the identity of angels archangesl and seers during the night.
2. He can interrupt proceedings at any point unless he is the immediate target, night or day, to tell malicious gossip.

A humorous role it could be disruptive or it could server general purpose filibuster if he knows who someone is and wishes to keep them alive.

Possessed

Night

Significant

The Fool believes himself to be the seer and acts with the seer however his information is random. The information give is random. It may be accurate or may be totally wrong.

The exception is The Seer. The Fool will always see the Seer as the Fool.

Variants:

1. The Fallen Angel if in play or else the wolves themselves choose what to tell the seer he/she sees.
2. The Fool is ALWAYS incorrect. The information given will never be correct. (Many assume this is the default variant it is NOT)

No Known Aliases

No Special Powers

Moderate

The tainted bears a mark of corruption that is unmerited. Consequently he appears falsely to be a werewolf to seer characters and is thus subject to lynchings and accusations even while innocent

None

No Known Aliases

Night

Moderate

The constitution of the Survivalist is spectacular. On one night the Survivalist may stay awake all night and if they are targeted by the wolves a random wolf is killed instead.

Variant: The Survivalist may use this power more then once but never on two consecutive nights.

No Known Aliases

Day

Moderate

A silver bullet can target one player at anytime during the day

If the player targets a werewolf, the werewolf dies; if they hit a villager, the villager is merely wounded and is sequestered for the rest of the day.

Variant: The silver bullet is instantly lynched if he wastes his ability on a villager. (This makes little sense to me unless we are playing with the possibility of an Evil Silver Bullet who would try to sway votes by taking out a human... but their death would harm the wolves so...)

No Known Aliases

Night

Severe

The Little Girl is allowed to peek during the Werewolf phase. If she is caught peeking, she dies of fright instead of the werewolves intended victim. If she is not caught (and then killed), knows who all of the werewolves are and exactly what they did during the day. To handle this On IRC There is a 25% chance per living werewolf that the Girl is caught. She should:

/msg rpgserv roll d% <Name of the Games Moderator>

I am divided about this and other roles such as the breeder variant that introduce random chance into a game thats otherwise logic and deduction game. However chaos is fun at times.

It should be noted that many consider the Little Girl a serious Villager advantage.

This role can be done with the Spy Module by staff (A fairly humorous and appropriate use of it actually) or else a cut and paste is an option.

No Known Aliases

Night

Significant

The Investigator can investigate one character during the night and observe their actions.

If the Investigator investigates the victim of the wolves however the investigator himself is slain in addition to the victim.

No Known Aliases

Setup

Moderate

At the beginning of the game the Cupid chooses any two players which are linked as a ýCoupleý, which may actually be an entirely non-romantic relationship. Such a couple cannot vote to lynch each other and if composed of 1 wolf and 1 villager will try to misdirect activity away from their partner.

Mixed couples are considered a winner if either of them survives the game.

The cupid creates a player initiated version of the Sibling optional rule

Variants:

1. Sole Survivor In this variant the couple works entirely for themselves and seek to create an end condition where they are the sole remaining players.

1. Lovers A more severe version but natural extension of Sole Survivor. In this variant the couple become lovers as per the lovers optional rule and if one dies the other immediately dies too.

No Known Aliases

Night

Significant

Once per night the cultist may elect to contact another player and induct them into a cult.

If the cult has multiple members one person per night is elected as the representative to bring new blood into the cult.

If a cultist contacts a werewolf he is slain.

No Known Aliases

Day

Significant

A Channeler is announced at the beginning of play but his identity is not revealed even to the anchor.

At an time later in the game the players may vote to contact the dead.

If the channeler is alive the séance succeeds the chosen dead player arises as a wraith and can speak with the players freely for a round but may not cast a vote

If the séance targets the vampire the effect fails but the players cannot tell why.

No Known Aliases

Nil

Moderate

The martyr may elect to protect one player per night with their own life. If the player is targeted by the wolves the Martyr is slain instead.

None

No Known Aliases

Day

Minimal

The Assessor can once per night either determine the number of Current Vampires or Current Werewolves.

I have often used this as an NPC role for creative effect because it is so minimal

No Known Aliases

Variable

Minimal

The Scharping is so sloooooow that he becomes aware of being killed at night only one night later. Effectively, the Scharping lives one extra day when killed by the wolves thus allowing the villagers another voter another voter in the day that follows.

The name refers to the former german Minister of Defence Rudolf Scharping known for his extremly slow way of speaking.

No Known Aliases

Variable

Unknown

The telepath is able to talk to players outside of the game window, ignoring the "no external contact" rule.

This role can be significant, though is most often not.

No Known Aliases

Special

Significant

The Freelancer is a third party. He wins when he is first "killed" by the werewolf at night (though he does not die) and later lynched by the civilians. In this case all other players lose the game.

If he is killed twice by the werewolf, or if he is lynched before he is killed by werewolf, he loses the game.

To give the Freelancer a chance to get lynched during the day the seer detects him as "werewolf".

One of the many roles suggested by Michael Hoffmann, of Germany. The role was originally created by both Albert Ziegler junior and senior.

No Known Aliases

Night

Minimal

The owl while he survives may decide to cause an instant nomination to occur at daybreak. It is announced only that the owl has nominated the other player for lynching and votes occur without discussion.

Variant: The owl is restricted to using his power every other day or just once per game.

Healer

Variable

Moderate

The witch has the power both to heal or to kill. During the Night the Witch is shown the identities of all who are killed in the night. She can use her single healing potion on the victim to stop him/her from dying.

She can also use the potion to save the lynching victim whom appears alive the next day as if never lynched. She can use the poison on any character to kill them.

A more powerful version of the Assassin (Single-shot).

No Known Aliases

Night

Serious

The Witch Doctor can raise from the dead (reincarnates) one immediately previously lynched character. The Raised character is reincarnated as a totally new random role of the moderators choosing.

A Vampire cannot be reincarnated by the witchdoctor and the effect fails.

A consequence of this is that Witch Doctor will detect a vampire by this failure.

Hand of Chaos

No Known Aliases

Night

Significant

The Village Idiot is a singular character in that he can cause Chaos and confusion without even trying. Once per game the Village Idiot may declare his power active.

When this happens the rest of the round is completed including the assignment of consequences at the morning toward any victims. Those that survive suffer the effects.

Wolves leave the wolves channel and all surviving individuals have their roles shuffled.

If a Village Idiot does not activate his power he is treated as an ordinary villager

No Known Aliases

Night

Significant

A vampire only comes into play if they are slain. In anger at their death they deny themselves passage into the #graveyard and instead begin hunting the night as #undead.

To the players the vampire appears to be dead and out of the game however the vampire begins choosing his own victims who once slain become vampires themselves.

Werewolves cannot win if a vampire remains in play and if in fact they get to a condition that would cause them to win the vampire wins instantly.

A vampire wins if the remaining players are converted into vampires or are all of the Villagers are slain while they survive.

The players can choose to disinter 1 grave and expose it to the sunlight instead of lynching on any given day.

This role could in fact be rather interesting but it complicates matters immensely.

This has been tried, it entirely defeats the doppleganger and thus is not advised when that role is in play.

No Known Aliases

Daylight

Moderate

The torchbearer can be of any other role. The torchbearer can prolong the advance of darkness by 1 ýhourý once per game by using their supply or torches and lighting a fire.

Useful primarily in timed games. But can buy the players time if they wish night to not occur quite so quickly in normal games as well.

Mythomaniac

Night

Variable

The Thief in the first Night Declares to the moderator the person whose role he wishes to ýstealý. He then assumes that role.

If a Wolves role is stolen this becomes very apparent to the wolves. Likewise the former wolf knows who the wolves are.. Generally this is fatal for the former wolf. (Unless wolf players are not allowed to join their comrades until the second night.)

Variant: The Thief can assume the role of one person at anytime later in the game. (This variant is generally refered to as a Mythomaniac)

No known Aliases

Night

Significant

a despotic regime has siezed power, usurping democracy. Each turn, there will be a King or Queen who has the sole power to decide who will be lynched. Open debate is allowed, but the day ends as soon as the King/Queen makes his/her choice.

The Kingmaker is a civilian, who, each night, names a King/Queen for the following round. The Kingmaker cannot choose himself, and he cannot choose the same person for two consecutive rounds. The Kingmaker must choose someone.

The werewolves may be King or Queen for a day and the Kingmaker may be corrupted but the werewolves can never be kingmaker and in games with a corrupted kingmakers they should NOT know who the wolves are or balance is ruined entirely.

When the Kingmaker dies, one of three things may happen:

1. People may offer themselves as candidates for President of the Republic. A democratic election is held each day to determine who is President. The President exercises the same powers as the monarchs did.
2. The reigning monarch at the time of the Kingmaker's death may continue to reign; however, the monarch may be removed by a simple majority vote, or by resignation.
3. The village reverts to direct democracy, and lynchings are carried out by majority vote.

The settlement will be determined among the three options above by the reigning monarch.

Variant: The Kingmaker is not a particular person but a postion held by one player and passed on at the point of his death. If the kingmaker passes his power to the wolves play immediately reverts to a direct democracy.

Demoniac

Lynching

Significant

The theory of this character is that it is a Citizen who is SO good and saintly that people are horrified if they are falsely accused and lynched, and will therefore immediately lynch the Super-saints accuser.

During the day, anyone can claim to be the Super- saint at any time (including the Super-saint themselves), but this might expose them to the werewolf, so they generally dont claim it except to save themselves from a lynching. If the Super-saint is accused, convicted and lynched, they reveal themselves with a beatific flash. Everyone is then horrified and the Accuser is immediately lynched. The Accuser could be another Citizen, or a werewolf. Of course, the Super-saint, like any Citizen, can be killed at night without reprocussion.

Created by Michael Shadbolt.

In practice this is an interesting character, because it make people more wary of being the Accuser. Theyd rather someone else accuse and join in seconding or convicting, in case theyre accusing the Super-saint. It gives people another defence (true or not) that they shouldnt be lynched because they are the Super-saint. And its another character that the werewolf have to be wary of (the Super-saint could end up getting them lynched) or exploit (hope that a Citizen accuses the Super-saint, getting rid of two citizens in one day).

The Super-saint always wins with the villagers however his power is a double edged sword and anyone including wolves can bluff this role before the vote is actually called. Consequently, this role is listed in the variable section.

Sorcerer

Night

Significant

Each night the Seer points to a player, and is told if the role of that player.

Some roles disguise themselves from the Seer.

The corrupted Seer is generally known as a sorcerer and actively works to aid the wolves. Whether he counts or a wolf or not is up to the Moderator.

Variant: The Seer may only see if a Villager is infected with Lycanthropy and may not determine anything else

Active Scharping

Variable

Significant

Can point every night at one person, who will become slower. Thus, if the victim is a Mafioso, all the victims of the werewolf will survive one day longer. If he points at the Angel, all his information will be delayed by one night. This is a problem for the Angel, as it sees only that it did not receive information one night (as if victim of the Thief.

However, the following night, it will get information about the person it pointed to the previous night!

Could prove a very interesting complicaton.

No Known Aliases

Day

Significant

The Rabble rouser can be either a Wolf or a human and he will win with whichever group he represents. The rabble rousers power of persuasion is such that he can extend the blood rage of the villagers once during the game. As such when the rabble rouser activates his power two lynchings MUST occur that day rather then one.

A rabble rousing wolf can cause substantial imbalance unless there is a relatively large game.

The role is useless if using the optional rule Multiple Lynchings Allowed.

No Known Aliases

Day

Moderate

The Pardoner delays the execution of a covincted person until the next morning allowing the players to sleep on it or consider the evidence of the day and immediately at daybreak to cast their vote to go through with or commute the sentence of the victim.

The Delayed vote does not count as the lynching during that day.

No Known Aliases

Night

Serious

The Necromancer can raise from the dead any player who has been dead at least 1 day. (Thus the roll is not called the first time until the second day). The resurrected character returns as the role the previously held.

A ressurected vampire immediately leaves #undead and comes back to life however he is aware who the vampires are and will have to way carefully what to say.

Strictly speaking a ressurected vampire can be played either as a traitor to the vampires or as a Spy working for them

Variant: The resurrected character must have died the day prior either at night or during the lynching

No Known Aliases

Night

Minimal

The medium can, during the night, look at the role of one player who is dead.

Obviously, you use this when playing that dead playerýs roles are not revealed.

The medium can do interesting things like confirm a werewolf death (and thus implicate those defending that person), or confirm that a dead person was a seer and was telling the truth in who he implicated (and was killed in retaliation by the other werewolf).

The medium is one of the few who can confirm definitively the identity of a vampire. Another being the Witch Doctor but only if he attempts reincarnation.

Sherrif, Captain

Day

Significant

The mayors vote counts as two during the game.

Variant: The Moderator calls for the nomination and election of a mayor from among the people on day one and the one with the most votes wins. In this variant the Mayor can name his/her successor who then becomes the new mayor.

No Known Aliases

Night

Significant

Once per game the Magistrate can declare that no Lynchings may occur the following day.

Cursed

No Special Power

Significant

The Judas bears a stain on themselves that burns within their blood waiting to be unleashed. If at anytime during the game the Judas is targeted to die via any method the judas is transformed into a werewolf.

If the Judas is lynched the lynching fails as if they were protected. If the Judas is killed during the night the wolves become aware of a new character but nothing is announced.

Variant: The Judas only switches sides if targeted by the wolves but will not during a lynching

No Known Aliases

Day

Moderate

The guardian may choose 1 player to place into protective custody at the beginning of the day. The protected individual is sequestered and can neither vote nor be lynched himself.

Judge

Day

Significant

Once per game, he may preempt a normal lynching and decide to execute any player he chooses.

This role is similar to the silver bullet in effect. However unlike the Silver Bullet the governor survives and may in fact be Corrupted sensibly.

Variant: The Governor announces whom they will kill during the Night phase and at daylight the Execution is held immediately and play then moves on to the next night unless a rabble rouser or multiple lynchings is in play.

No Known Aliases

Night

Minimal - Moderate

The exorcist can choose to block the ability of the Necromancer or Witch Doctor once per game.

It is up for interpretation if Exorcist hears who is being resurrected and decides to use their power based on who the victim is or must announce their use and if the necromancer or witch doctor fails to raise someone it is wasted.

No Known Aliases

Day

Drastic

The Doppelganger is only played in a game where it is the sole werewolf character.

A doppleganger may either slay a Character during the night as any other wolf would or instead to exchange their identity with that of another player.

When a doppleganger preforms this exchange the new player becomes the doppleganger and the old player is sequestered for the round as if taken into custody by the guardian while they recover and cannot vote or speak for a full day.

This is a fun role but it makes for a game quite radically different then the original

No Known Aliases

Night

Moderate

Once per game the assassin may during the night select to kill a player of his or her choice. The player dies in addition to the werewolves.

Variant: The Assassin can utilize his powers either more then once or an unlimited number of times per game.

No Known Aliases

Nil

Moderate-Extreme

This unfortunate fellow cannot be slain by the werewolves but dies if he is scanned by the seer.

Like the vampire if the wolves die and he lives he is the sole winner.

Note: In the variant The Cat has n lives this role proves interesting because the Seer scan will always kill the persons PRIMARY role and not the werehamster directly. This may seem to be a good reason to place werehamster last. Except if multiple seers are in play and scan the same werehamster he will die multiple times.

Fallen Angel (Villanous Form)

Day

Significant

The Archangel may once during the game activate their power by signaling so to the Moderator. When activated the Archangel cancels a lynching and immediately moves the day along to night.

The Fallen angel variant works on behalf of the Werewolves and wins in the event that they win. As such the Fallen angel is allowed to know who the wolves are. They are however unaware of his identity.

Angel, Guardian Angel,Guardian

Night

Significant

Protects one person per night from the Assassin if the Assassin chooses that target they are told that the see someone else there preventing their stealthy attempt.

If a bodyguard guards a werewolf he is slain.

None

Bodyguard, Guardian Angel, Guardian

Night

Significant

At night the angel secretly indicates one other player, who is safe if chosen by the werewolves. You cannot choose yourself or the previously protected player.

If the angel protects a Wolf the angel is slain for their efforts.

Variants:

1. You can protect yourself but the previous round rule still applies
2. You may only protect a given Player once in the game
3. The angel does not die if they use their power to protect a wolf but merely has no effect.