Board Thread:Role Ideas (Neutral)/@comment-44917313-20200123211106/@comment-27575896-20200123215750

Duwiiton wrote: The guidelines exist for a reason. This is just a slightly different Amnesiac. It's redundant. Instead of blatantly shutting down an idea, with zero usage of actual pointers or reasons why a role wouldn't be useful, you could provide this user with tips or reasoning why some roles just won't work.

Anyway, the issue with these types of roles is it that this role is heavily luck based. Since you don't know the exact role you will be getting, your role may prove extremely beneficial to your faction or completely useless based on the circumstances. Becoming a against a lot of evils with little  alive will hurt you, but becoming a  can suddenly shift the game in your favor when evils generally had the game going for them. The can suddenly get a  or  and completely screw  over, or can get a  when all roles are known at that point.

Also, remember again that adding another player to a specific faction greatly boosts that factions' power. It helps with lynching, majority or plurality, and gives them more tools to work with. It wouldn't be too nice to have a 4v3 lead over the as a  when suddenly another person pops in as a  and screws you over entirely, right? What if you needed to hang a in order to block the rest of the, but now you can't and are doomed to lose? It isn't very good.

The role isn't redundant, it simply will not work well overall. It honestly would serve as a better replacement for simply because it can do its ability quicker.

Roles that can change factions are very hard to work with because some other roles do a better job or simply become useless with these types of roles around. The power to shift to another faction in a game relying on lynchings and majority-rules gameplay is massive, and can do that, but so can every other  role.

The ​​​​​​​Making New Roles page can provide some excellent pointers to help you out in your future endeavors, however. Feel free to use it to enhance future role ideas!