Board Thread:Role Ideas (Town)/@comment-30757827-20190424220210/@comment-36558623-20190425025010

RedDeathNick wrote: Alignment: Summary: An aura expert who can feel the presence of certain types of people.

Abilities: Focus on one alignment each night.

Attributes: -Focusing on an alignment will let you know what role is assigned to that alignment.

Goal: Lynch every criminal and evildoer.

Immunities: None.

Priority: 4

Investigator result:, , , , , or  Aura Senser.

Mechanics: Instead of 15 players to choose from, you get 15 alignments from the rolelist. If it is a specific role, you may not select it. (,, , and other roles you won't be able to select, but , , and even Any you are allowed to select.) When you select an alignment, you will then get a message telling you what role was assigned to it (like to .)

What about random town, if there's a Medium and a Retributionist how do you decide which is TS and which is RT.

On top of that, if you choose a role like Town Investigative, how do you know which one you're getting, because there are automatically two in every game.

The point: The role is meant to weed out some role claims, as well as seeing what the mafia roles are.

The first is a problem

The second is not. A role that can confirm or deny if a claim is bs would be nice to have in the game, but I think this is the wrong way to do it. To put it bluntly, when all random towns are confirmed, it takes 1-2 days for everyone to know everyones roles. This leaves mafia with two options, cc and die, or stay silent and die. Either way they lose. Pointing fingers only gets mafia so far, and a good mafia can get away with it, but a bad mafia loses almost immediatly.

In this case, however, on day 3 ​​​​​​​​​​​​you would be able to confirm every random town. That destroys evils claiming, not just destroys, obliterates, and it pushes VFR to become an even better strategy and forces mafia to blend into town seemlessly without fault.

That, in and of itself, is enough of a turnoff for this role.

Also, your second issue, for me, should stay an everlasting problem for town. There are two reasons for this. If an investigator gets the result, Escort/Consort/Transporter or Invest/Consigliere/Mayor, and you know that the RM's are Disguiser and Blackmailer, you know these two roles are safe, without doubt.

Also, the random mafias being secret gives a leg up that mafia does not get frequently, which I think shouldn't be taken away.