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Exploder
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Alias: none
Alignment:
Role type:
  • Killing
Choice:
  • Day
Status: Known

The Exploder is a role that can kill another player during the Day in exchange for killing themselves at the same time. There is nothing that can stop the Exploder's death when using this ability.

Exploder is not necessarily anti-Town, but it has been Mafia-aligned in practice.

Standard version

The Exploder can kill a player during the Day. When they do so, the Exploder will unavoidably die.

Variations

Exploder's ability has been seen as a Night action. However, this may impact its power considerably.

It is not unheard of for a Mafia Exploder to also be a Mafia Traitor.

Use & Balance

A Town-aligned Exploder's effect is not dissimilar to replacing a Day/Night cycle in a single-scumgroup game, as both the Exploder and the cycle cause two players (one of which is more likely to be Townie) to die. The difference is that no other power roles get results in the Exploder's case.

Mafia-aligned Exploders are best off not looking for reasons to use their power, as one-for-one trades with the Town are usually slanted in the Town's favor. The major instances a Mafia Exploder would want to detonate are the events where the Exploder is about to get eliminated anyway, or where the Mafia wants to kill a Town power role that is securely protected from the factional kill at Night (due to the interference of a Doctor, for instance).

In both cases, the value of Exploder is somewhere between low and moderate at best.

The Exploder that kills at Night is even weaker due to the potential for a protective role to stop the Exploder's victim from dying. The Exploder will still necessarily die, though, causing an utter failure that will be talked about for months to come.


Sample Role PMs

The standardized Role PM for "Exploder" describes the action as follows:

  • As a targeted day action: that player will die, and you will also unavoidably die. (edit)

Example (simplest form)

Welcome to game! You are a Mafia Exploder.

Your team-mates are names. You may talk to them here during night phases and confirmations only.

You have the following active abilities, but may use only one per Night:

  • Each Night, if no other member of your faction is performing this action, you may target a player. Assuming no interference with your action, that player will die.
  • Each Day, you may target a player. Assuming no interference with your action, that player will die, and you will also unavoidably die.

You win if at least one mafia member is alive and all other players are dead (or if nothing can prevent the same).

Confirm by replying to this PM with a summary of your role.

Example (with modifiers)

Welcome to game! You are a Mafia Simple Loud Exploder.

Your team-mates are names. You may talk to them here during night phases and confirmations only.

You have the following active abilities, but may use only one per Night:

  • Each Night, if no other member of your faction is performing this action, you may target a player. Assuming no interference with your action, that player will die.
  • Each Day, you may target a player. Assuming no interference with your action, that player will die, and you will also unavoidably die. This action will be blocked if used on a player who is not vanilla. Your target will learn that you targeted them (but not what action you targeted them with).

You win if at least one mafia member is alive and all other players are dead (or if nothing can prevent the same).

Confirm by replying to this PM with a summary of your role.