Board Thread:Role Ideas (Town)/@comment-36558623-20190424013025/@comment-36558623-20190425023551

RubikJohn wrote: Doge's stats are pretty spot on. The ability is pretty creative and all that, but is still really strong. The RNG isn't the biggest deal imo, it's how much this role autoconfirms and just how much of the role list it can potentially expose. Sure, that latter ability would only unravel over time, and would have the usual utility curve of any TI role, but the fact that you have but a chance to reveal what mafia the game has, or narrow down which roles exist in each alignment only makes it more swingy in my eyes.

A proposal I can think of is keep the role at night/investigate at day mechanic, but instead of receiving a single role, perhaps an alignment would work better? Still unique enough, and no longer has the power to start revealing the entire role list.

Overall, still a really solid role, I would say :P I think that these are very fair points against this role, so I'll go through them one at a time.

I don't think this role is as powerful as people are stating, y'all are overemphasizing the high-rolling potentials. On the first few nights you have almost no chance to confirm towns or find evils. If you are given "Medium" with no claims of Medium, you could potentially be searching for 3-5 nights, and even then, if you switch leads you practically wasted your ability.

The Alignment solution is solid, but I thik that it actually doesn't really solve the problem you were going for, sorry. If someone claims Spy, and your Lead is TI, you can still check this person and confirm their role, as no Sheriff or Lookout would claim Spy. This goes both ways, Mafia and Townies.

I now realize I'm attacking my own role ._.

The best point against this role is it's swingy nature, which is absolutely true. This problem is more a minor convenience though, not a deal-breaker. If the roles you got for the town are auto-confirmable by nature, i. e. Mediums, Ret, Mayor, then your Mafia detector Reporter would be much better. If your role list is sketchy by nature and Mafia has good claims, i.e, Spies, Docs, Tame Vigs, then your role-confirming Reporter would be much better. Although I don't think many games would tilt so far to one side that it would bust the game or this role. If there are any solutions though, I'm all ears.