Board Thread:Role Ideas (Mafia)/@comment-37322933-20191218221207

Benefactor (Mafia Support)

None/None, Unique

Each night, choose a non-Mafia player to benefit. They, and all their visitors except for you, will gain Powerful defense for that night. The next day, it will be revealed that they were benefitted, with no distinction being made between the original target and their visitors, and one more vote will be required to lynch them.

Explanation:

This is a powerful MS role that has a multitude of functions, each coming with drawbacks.

Its most basic ability is to protect Mafia members from Veteran, Vigi, SK, and WW, however, the most strategic visits may have to be rearranged in order to protect multiple allies. Additionally, you are also potentially protecting Town members from NK threats and even the Mafia kill.

Secondly, it can make it more difficult to lynch your allies, but, in exchange, you might become unable to get the votes required to vote up an innocent under false claims, and a deductive Town may be able to find Mafia members through your announcements.

A more advanced use: Your ability functions as an indirect tracker, as you know that all the people announced in the day visited your target. However, this also announces these visits to the Town, although they'll have to think to figure out the original target.

Finally, the Benefactor can use its abilities misleadingly, or without having Mafia members visit its targets, in order to mislead the Town. However, this may backfire and help people you meant to kill. 