Board Thread:Role Ideas (Mafia)/@comment-38965982-20190329212832/@comment-28092296-20190511141029

QuothTheRaven131 wrote: TheLastHappyPotato, let me explain my reasoning for what you find bad.

First, about the trial thing. I know it kinda messes with town, but observant players can find out there is a puppet simply by looking at the number of votes needed to send someone on trial - and when that happens, who the puppet is can be figured out easily just by who types or not. Also, the effect on the trial system is not that large- due to the mechanics of the puppet master, only one false vote can be made at a time per puppet master.

Also, the old disguiser was banned b/c the disguiser would talk as the dead player, and if they spam stuff or yell obscenities in chat, the person who died and got replaced was reported. THAT was why old disguiser was changed. Since the puppets can't talk in any way (no strings, just dolls here), this shouldn't be an issue.

I think you incorrectly think that the puppet can speak. It cannot. No player is controlling the puppet; it simply doesn't show that a certain player has died for a while. I'd like to butt in here and point out that a lot of reports come against people for being AFK. Like, when somebody is AFK and causes town to lose the game because they didn't vote, or if they didn't protect the Mayor, etc. Even after people figure out that the dude is still dead, that's a lot of false reports for the staff to dig through, and there's not a 100% chance that a player will be viewed as innocent and not gamethrowing if they were a puppet and reported.