Board Thread:Role Ideas (Neutral)/@comment-35420390-20180428132409/@comment-35356104-20180430100953

No, I never state that you can't never break rules. Some of us are strict with rules because we want to strive for the best balance of the roles especially in Ranked where people easily rant about unbalanced issues here and there. I mentioned almost everytime that I'm fine with breaking rules is acceptable as long as you have good reasoning for that. I personally don't even mind minor rules like re-hash and combination role. However, there are rules that I strongly oppose of breaking them including the purpose of alignment. We can't make roles like that kill or  that protect. Alignment is more than categorizing, it is designed to create an aim and goal for roles of how they should be and purpose they should serve. We do not create out of thin air and forcefully fit them inside any group except  which add flavour for the game. The reason they don't appear in Ranked is because the roles under that group severely damage the balance of overall gaming, such as OP, who does nothing and wins by playing mini-games and  who roleswaps  and change their goal. There was a time where / only consists of 3 members and terribly hard to win as. basically has 70% win rate during that period. This is the comment from actual developers:

''Why are there 4 Mafia/Coven instead of three: We felt that having two confirmed Mafia was necessary(Godfather and Mafioso), and that making the Coven list translate easily would lower the learning curve getting into Coven ranked, so we have two confirmed Coven roles as well(Coven Leader, and Medusa). With these two confirmed roles it can sometimes be rough to get a good supporting 3rd role that fills out the Mafia/Coven list and creates pressure for other roles in the game. We added a 4th Mafia/Coven member so that there is 1 more evil role that you have to consider when trying to call out someones investigative results.''

stays in Ranked because it is deemed helpful to achieve evenness of win rate by helping the evils. So, it's the best not to touch baseline of alignment as it potentially turn everything upside down. I'll try to explain this in an easier way. should be "PLUS" for all the evil and "MINUS" for the, but you're making a role that "MINUS" to all the roles. The evil shouldn't be harmed even more during the uprise of the VFR and D1-Jailor-Reveal META issue. If you really break this rule and didn't fulfill the purpose of alignment especially those in Ranked, you're only reversing the the current state to the previous one, hence breaking the overall balance of the game. Such rule-breaking is unacceptable to me. I personally still prefer this role to fit in and it is perfectly fine there. It's recommendable that you think of what alignment you are going before creating details.

I definitely see your perseverance and determination in role-making. You may want to seek advice from active and advanced forumers at Official Forum. Developers will judge your role idea themselves as well as some experienced players.