Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30757827-20190830050010

So there you are, tippity typing up your role review, something about how the entire game would revolve around the role, when suddenly, you think: "Is that even a bad thing?"

Many of us, (me,) have struggled with answering the question: teeehhhhhhhheeeccc wha mak bad r god roll?

Well, it's quite simple. A good role is a role BMG would accept. BMG accepts roles that make them money. Even if they have good intentions, face it, they're a company, they need money. Ok that pretty much sums it up,

Thanks for coming to my Ted Ta-

Ok, but maybe that still didn't help you, maybe you need more categories to split it up into. Here, i present: "The Big Four Role Reviewing Things That I Use Because They Are Good Categories And Basically Split Up Everything That Should Be Taken Into Consideration When Reviewing." Catchy name, I know. Let's start this off with: Enjoyment: How much people enjoy playing this role or against this role. If it's no fun to play/play against, people stop playing due to the boring role and don't buy anything. Balance: People need things to feel fair, if the community feels the game hardly relies on what you do, and more on what roles are in the game, similar to enjoyment, they stop playing and don't buy anything. Simplicity: If you're playing the game, trying to learn, you're like "oh sheriff finds out if their target is good or bad" and "oh doctor prevents their target from dying," that makes sense, easy to learn, but if you get "Thanos" and you're like "oh so uhm if he uses the time gauntlet thing as they call it and he can rewind it a day and then the second out of 6 stones does this and the alignment goal is just to kill half of everyone, and-" even if it's perfectly balanced and fun, it's going to take forever for new players to learn even the basics of the role, because of this they might leave, meaning they won't buy anything the game has to offer. Originality: Different from everything else, basically, why would you add a role that adds nothing new to the game and is extremely similar to this other role? It's just extra programming for no real added value to the game, losing money on something that has diminishing- if any- returns.

and finally,

Verdict: I call it verdict for m   e   m   e   s but basically, it's telling you what to do with your role from now on, what to change, how much to change, if the role has potential and should not be discarded, if the role is ready to be submitted to the official forums, that kinda stuff.

Thanks for coming to my Red Talk. 