Board Thread:Role Ideas (Mafia)/@comment-31566340-20170516021719/@comment-29253708-20170516031923

Liytus wrote: Impersonator

Alignment: mafia support

Immunities: None

Investigation Results:

Sheriff: Your target is the member of the mafia.

Investigator:  Escort, Transporter, Impersonator, or Consort - Your target is skilled at disrupting others.

Consigliere:  Your target is an evil actor. They must be an Impersonator.

 Summary:   A clever actor who can fool even the best. (idk about flavour text yet)

Abilities:  Choose one person to impersonate at night. All effects and visitors will now target you for that night.

'''So... I assume it's the visitors that were originally going to your target? Mafia gets witched into your target? RIP you! Target was gonna get mauled by a Werewolf? RIP you! Target was gonna... ah you get the point. This isn't really a good ability .3.'''

Attributes: I f there are no kill-capable Mafia roles left you will become a Mafioso.

You can talk with the other Mafia at night.

Goal:  Kill anyone that will not submit to the Mafia.

Wins with:

Mafia

Survivor

Witch

Must kill:

Town

Vampires

Arsonist

Serial Killer

Werewolf

Notes: Only interaction that doesn't work is if a transport tries to transport you and your target but I suspect just giving the error of "You cannot transport someone with themselves. Please make another selection" could work, provided that the error was given the day after i.e. the transporter gets the message after the night phase ends therefore his ability would have had no effect that night but he can now confirm the existance of an Impersonator.

That doesn't make this role any better...

Also if your target is jailed then you will get the message: "You target was jailed." Yeah so this role is extremely underpowered. Like this is the new old-Disguiser or the Forger. "C'mon, why'd we have to get an Impersonator? Why not something like Consort at least? Looks like we're gonna lose!"

See what I mean? This role wouldn't really be fun to play as. It's extremely impractical. The only time I would see this role as helpful would be if you could choose your own Mafia friends to keep investigatives/roleblockers off them, but then investigatives will just see them as this role. Can't claim Escort as most roles.

But roleblockers are a different story. I'm thinking if this was roleblockers immune, then your Mafia friends can still do their abilities, like killing someone, and the Escort would think that they were obviously not the Mafia Killing role and pass them off their list of possible-Mafia.

But that's literally the only good situation here. And it's just an underpowered role idea anyway, so this role idea is OBLITERATED!