Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33007077-20170123032847

If you're reading this, you're probably making firefighter roles or yandere roles or SOMETHING! Anyway here are some good tips (in my opinion).

1. Keep in mind of the restricted things: 2. Don't make it too overpowered or underpowered. Not much people like roles that are either useless or can completely break another faction.
 * Role Dependency  - Any role that requires another role to be in the game.
 * Hardcounters  - Any role that exists purely to counter or nerf another role.
 * Re-hashes  - Mafia/Neutral versions of Town roles or vice-versa.
 * Night Chat Town  - Any Town roles that allow multiple town roles to chat at night.
 * Slightly Changed Role  - Any role that is extremely similar to an existing one.
 * Independent Mafia Killing  - Any Mafia killing role that kills on its own, giving Mafia two kills.
 * Buddy Role  - Any role that requires another specific person to survive to win.
 * Conversion Role  - Any role that converts other people into its own role.
 * Night Immune Town  - Any Town role that is night immune.
 * Combination Role  - Any role that is a combination of other roles.
 * Self-Confirming Town  - Any role that can confirm itself as innocent easily.
 * Evil Retributionist  - Any role that can revive Neutral or Mafia roles.
 * Neutral Chaos  - Roles that are part of the Neutral Chaos alignment.
 * Anything Chaos  - Actually, just don't make  any  chaos roles.
 * Roleswapper  - Any role that swaps/changes others' roles.
 * RNG Role  - Any role that depends on random chance.
 * Visitor  - Any role that has a win condition involving visiting other people.
 * Copycat  - Any role that uses other role's night abilities.
 * Survivor Rehash  - Any Neutral Benign role whose only goal is to survive to the end of the game.
 * Neutral Investigative  - Any Neutral role that investigates people.
 * Non-Evil Neutral Evil  - Any Neutral Evil or Killing role that cannot win with the Mafia or (other) Neutral Killings, or can win with the Town.
 * Omniscient Town Killing  - Any Town Killing role that can only kill evil roles. (it can't mess up)
 * Limited Neutral Killing  - Any Neutral Killing role that has a limited number of kills or commits suicide.
 * Negative Utility  - Any role that hurts its faction more than it helps it.
 * New Alignments - Do not make new alignments or factions to the game. Your role idea should have an alignment that exists in ToS, not a custom-made one by you.
 * Tracker roles - Roles that know who their target visit.
 * Breaking the Trial System - Any role that can mess with the process of reporting players (See the Pre-1.5 Disguiser)
 * Town Plus - Any role that actively buffs the town or nerfs non-town roles. Remember to differentiate between a town role idea and a town role idea that actively buffs town.
 * Day Controller - Any role that controls what another role does at day, E.G. speaking, voting, etc.

3. Make sure the name, concept, and gameplay elements are fun. If I were to explain why, it would take up a lot more of this post.

4. Try not to make the role too complicated or too simple. You want a mix of both, to be simple.

5. Don't steal from other people. Plagerizers never prosper.

6. Making a role that matches around in the 18th Century is even better. After all, it is the town of Salem.

If you have suggestions, feel free to comment.  