Board Thread:Role Ideas (Mafia)/@comment-33303864-20171018034514/@comment-175.145.251.10-20171020133824

I love the concept :D but still there are some flaws.

I see some similarity with some other roles. Engineer & Forger used other's role to make your accusation or claim more influential. Forger need to know the exact role of the target to be useful; Engineer doesn't necessarily need to know the role of the target & can simply assimilate a random town & act like an Executioner. Executioner carries risk of being lynch or execute by jailor or even lose the game if their strategy fail, but Engineer has no consequences at all. You may simply play your target as a Jester to waste a day lynching a dead. Kinda OP in that sense as it have possesses variety of playstyle without having to pay. The existing Mafia Deception always carry risk with whatever way they play as there is always flaw with their deception mechanic.

Suggestion: (Choose any option you like)

1) Exposed the Engineer if your assimilated target is lynched

2) Change your investigation result to "Your Target has no investigation result!" (Same as Juggernaut)

3) People may not vote your target (Same as the mechanic of a revealed-mayor-turned-vampire who is able to receive whisper)

(I assume that you may speak for your target to the jailor at night but you are unable to reuse the same target again since you cannot trespass the jail to recharge your toy)

Speaking of trial system, it may cause a little problem there. If a confirmed town lead to the lynching of another town, people may report your target & transfer to you for gamethrowing even you are doing your job to help mafia.(e.g. Assimilated Sheriff accused Town A as Mafia. Town A was lynched & revealed their role as a town. People reported the assimilated sheriff for gamethrowing & divert to the engineer who played as a mafia.) If this could not be solve then your role idea will probably be reject.