Board Thread:Role Ideas/@comment-27128035-20160701044611

Hello. For all role makers, I decided to make a guide to help you with your roles! This thread will include a templates and some tips to consider when making the role.

The TEMPLATE:

Role: The name of your role goes here, along with its alignment and faction in parentheses  (Town Support, Neutral Evil, etc.)

Abilities: What does the role do at day or at night?

Attributes: Things describing how many times an ability can be used, and other characteristics of the role goes here

Immunities: What is this role immune to (Roleblock/Night Immunity, etc.)

Special Attributes: Any other attributes such as being able to chat at night, read private conversations, attacking roleblockers, turning into Jester, etc.

 Investigation Results

Sheriff: Sheriff Results goes here (Not Suspicious, Mafia, etc.)

Investigator: Investigator Results goes here (Vet/Maf/Vig, Mayor/GF/VH, Doc/SK/Vamp)

Consigliere: Consigliere results goes here

Goal: What does the role need to accomplish in order to win the game?

Some Tips to Make a Good Role:

Before I state the tips, I would like to give all credit to Octometaknight. I went searching in the Roles Comment Section, and found a comment by Octo which I thought was pretty valid, and I added a bit to what he stated there. I will paste the link where Octo has written his comment. His advice consists of six different criterias.

Criteria 1:''' Your role must not be overpowered. '''This is needed to create balance in the game. (Unless cases apply to Criteria 6.)

Criteria 2: Your role must not overlap with any other existing role. (Abilities/Passives). This helps to make the game more unique with diverse roles instead of very similar ones.

Criteria 3: '''Your role must not deprive purpose of any other existing role. '''Roles are not meant to replace other roles or make them useless (eg. SuperDoctor cancels out Doctor)

Criteria 4: Your role must have a purpose/function that adds more gameplay value, or it is invalid. (Good examples of this can come from SCII Mafia: Judge, Beguiler, etc.)

Criteria 5: '''Your role must not add-on to another role. '''(Criteria 3) (You can change properties of a role, but not simply add-on to it or it may become overpowered.)

 Crtieria 6: '''Should your role be exclusively for a single alignment or overpoweredness, you must have a counterpart of the opposite or third party alignment that can counter it in a mild fashion to balance it. '''However, a role shouldn't be a direct counter to a certain role, as it becomes very dependent on certain roles to exist, therefore making it weak with a lack of that role.

''' Don't forget to give this a Kudo! '''

  