Board Thread:Role Ideas (Town)/@comment-32421214-20170713140009/@comment-28112409-20170713161953

The only place where this example could happen is custom or All Any.

Under normal circumstances, which would be Ranked. The Sheriff is always useful.

The only evil role the Sheriff is useless against is the Arso and that's it. On the other hand, the Preventer is even more useless because he can't do anything to Coven members except the Hex Master, mafia except the Framer, Serial Killers and Werewolves.

The Sheriff can find out evil roles, which include all Coven members who don't have the Necronomicon, all mafia except the GF, the SK and the WW on full moon nights. He can drag out threats and get them lynched which is miles more useful than the Preventer.

The Preventer prevents a Framer's framing for which lasts only for one night, so it becomes too much of a precise role and it's use is less. Plus, I've explained previously why even if a Framer is present, a Preventer can do almost nothing.

Furthermore, the Sheriff doesn't need to know exactly when to visit someone because his targets that he can detect are evil from start to finish of the game. The Preventer has to not only know who to visit, but when, which is even worse and more annoying because early game, the role would be useless against the Hex Master because you have no idea who he would visit. Even more, there may be no investigatives in the game to check, which makes the Preventer literally do nothing even if the Hex Master was present.

This role is just a reverse Framer, and should be scrapped, it has no hopes at all of being accepted.