Variants of Mafia RulesSuper-SaintAnother of Michael Shadbolt's variants which looks interesting: * Super-saint character: - I love this character, because it can work against both the Mafia and the Citizens, gives the Citizens another interesting character, and gives another character that people can claim to be during the day. (You can't kill me, I'm the super-saint!) 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-saint's accuser. This is how it works: 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 Mafia, so they generally don't claim it except to save themselves from a lynching. If the Super-saint is accused, convicted and lynched, they reveal themselves when they turn over their card (to reveal the Super-saint card). Everyone is then horrified and the Accuser is immediately lynched. The Accuser could be another Citizen, or a Mafia. Of course, the Super-saint, like any Citizen, can be killed at night without reprocussion. In practice this is an interesting character, because it make people more wary of being the 'Accuser'. They'd rather someone else accuse and join in seconding or convicting, in case they're accusing the Super-saint. It gives people another defence (true or not) that they shouldn't be lynched because they are the Super-saint. And it's another character that the Mafia 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).
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