Board Thread:Role Ideas (Mafia)/@comment-38965982-20190403005615/@comment-38999535-20190407050913

RedDeathNick wrote: I don't really understand how this role is useful, for town the and  make sense how they help, but for mafia? eeehhhhhhh... It seems pretty bad. And even if there is a use amd i'm too dumb to think of, it shouldn't be that I assume that The Spectator is meant to act similarly to consigliere, in that it discovers roles for the Mafia Killing to kill.

A practical example of this would go like so:

D1:

Jailor: I'm jailor, tp/lo on me

N1: Spectator visits Jailor, sees that Guy1 and Guy2 visited Jailor. TI dies to mafia/sk

D2: Somehow an invest claim is put up onto the stand, Guy1 ccs TI spot but doesn't state his role. Spectator uses game sense to determine that Guy1 is Lookout

N2: Spectator informs mafia that Guy1 is most likely Lookout and that killing him would be a good idea. Watches Jailor again, and sees that Guy2 is still on him.

D3: Guy1 is killed, and turns out to be Lookout. Things proceed as normal.

N3: Spectator informs mafia that Guy2 is most likely a TP, and that killing him would be a good idea. Watches Jailor again, the only person to visit is Guy2.

D4: Guy2 is killed, and turns out to be BG. Things proceed as normal.

N4: Now that the mafia know that the coast is clear, they kill Jailor.

Now Jailor is dead night 4, making trades far harder for town.

Honestly though, I can't think of any situations where spectator would be useful outside of somebody asking for tp/lo,