Board Thread:Role Ideas (Town)/@comment-29649954-20170317231838/@comment-29253708-20170317234044

Bismuth Queen wrote: This is probably a bad town idea, but I thought I'd give this a go, since I think it may bring something interesting to the Town Investigative roles.

We shall see

Role Name - Detective

Role Type - Town Investigative

You are a private eye that compares his results.

Attributes - None.

Abilities -

+Every Night, chooses 2 people.

+Each person will either have the result of Town, Mafia, or Neutral. You will not know which one they are and will not be alerted of the said findings.

This would be an attribute

+If the two people you chose are different roles (Town and Mafia, Town and Neutral, or Mafia and Neutral) then it will say "Mixed Results".

~ I cannot decide which one is better, so I will put both here. Sorry, I'm just not a balancing wiz ~

+If the two people you chose are the same roles (Town and Town, Mafia and Mafia, or Neutral and Neutral) then it will say "Same Results".

~Framed targets will appear as Mafia for said results.

Good

~Cannot use this ability when roleblocked or jailed.

~(Undecisive) Will make Godfather appear as Town

Hmmm idk about that one but it would make sense

~Upon a witch controlling you, you will investigate the second person you chose and the Witch's target.

Yay not RNG :D

If you don't understand, here's an example. 1 2 and 3 are Mafia, 4 5 and 6 are Town.

If I compare the players 4 and 5, I will get "Same Results" since they are both Town.

If I compare the players 1 and 2, I will get "Same Results" since they are both Mafia.

If I compare the players 3 and 6, I will get "Mixed Results" since one is Town and the other is Mafia.

Investigative Results -

Investigator Investigator, Consigliere, Detective or Mayor - Your target has sensitive information to reveal.

Sheriff Your target is not suspicious.

Consigiliere Your target compares his findings. They must be a Detective.

The Point Of This Role -

I wanted to try making a role with a twist that does not involve finding out people's roles, but instead compares their results.

+If someone is confirmed Town (A best example of this would be Mayor, but there could also be others with non-concrete proof) you could compare said person with other roles. If you get "Mixed Results", that means your other target must be Neutral, Mafia, or Framed.

+From the previous point, also adds a use for Mafia and Neutral roles, except instead would be with "Same Results" instead. This would be useful early game, because if you manage to strike gold and find a Mafia or Neutral member but it's too early to reveal your role since it's a Town Investigative and therefore important role, you can take advantage and compare them with as much people as possible.

+This also could maybe slightly buff Godfather and Framer (?)

That's all. Sorry if I missed anything or if this breaks one of the role rules. Hope you enjoyed reading. So I actually do like this role.

Pretty much throughout the game if you have a confirmed Town and an unknown, then choose the confirmed and unknown, you'll get a pretty good basis on what the unknown is. If they're Town or not. Or if someone is Mafia, you can choose someone else to see if it's mixed results.

This may or may not be up to change the Sheriff... but idk

See what others have to say! For now it's accepted from me.