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The condition which causes a win, almost always based on a player's [[Faction]] affiliation(s). Sometimes it's explicitly stated in a [[Role PM]], other times it's assumed to be something standard. Games where the town's Win Condition was explicitly stated in the PMs of the [[Pro-Town]] players have sometimes led to non-[[Town]] players people being [[eliminated]] on account of not knowing how the [[Game Moderator]] chose to word the town's Win Condition. (Moderators will frequently counter this effect by making a sample [[Vanilla Townie]] Role PM available in the game's opening posts, with names redacted.)

'''''Note:''''' It has been noted that the win condition sometimes used for [[Scum]] groups, ''"You win when you match or outnumber the Pro-Town players"'', is not necessarily true when a [[Vigilante]] exists on the town's side. If the [[Mafia]]'s night kill is somehow stopped (by a [[Doctor]] or a [[Role Blocker]], for example), and the [[Vigilante]] kills one of them, then a 3-3 game that appears to be won for the [[Scum]] at [[Twilight]] could become a 3-2 ProTown advantage at [[Daybreak]]. Because of this, it is important as a [[Game Moderator]] to word your [[Win Condition]]s in such a way that all possibilities are accounted for, without including possibly-spurious situations you didn't intend to trigger a win. 

One possibility that is fairly fool-proof is ''"You win when all other [[Faction]]s are dead."'' This puts the decision of when the players have reached [[Endgame]] back in the hands of the [[Game Moderator]], and lets the players worry about the actual play of the game. If it reaches a foregone conclusion with no possibility of alternate outcomes, then it can be ended early.

== Unusual possibilities ==

When designing the game, the Moderator should always consider what will happen there is no obvious winner.  For example if:
* A position is reached where nobody can kill anybody else (for example, if the last two players alive are a [[Bulletproof]]  [[Townie]] and a [[Mafia Goon]]).
* Everyone is dead (this can happen in a game with multiple killing roles).
There is no "right" answer as to what happens in such situations - it is up to the Mod.   These situations may result in a draw, or a win for a particular [[faction]].  But the Mod should anticipate such possibilities and define the player's win conditions accordingly. [For example, it is quite common for a [[Serial Killer]] to have the following win condition: "You win if everyone else is dead, even if you are not yourself alive."]

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