# Shakespeare Mafia-- Act I

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> [@storyteller0910](#):
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> (I played a game here once where the rules gave a list of potential power roles and then the game itself turned out to be all vanilla)!

I remember another game where town had no power roles, but scum were given a Godfather just to make them paranoid!

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