Board Thread:Role Ideas (Rework)/@comment-37421692-20190125015934/@comment-37421692-20190128002447

But according to the actual definition of séance, the medium shouldn't be able to séance at all since that would be the dead contacting the living, even though it should be the other way around according to google or whatever. So that point is immediately invalid.

The medium should be able to fudge up the evils during a 3v3 standoff, since the role is literally heccing useless when it is alive. This ability allows a different type of play where it forces the mafia/coven or potential neutrals to be careful of who they kill, because if they kill the medium, the medium can come back later and fudge up their majority. The general idea now for medium is that they are essentially more useful when they are dead, because now they can have a bomb to drop in the form of one extra vote for one day. But if the evils choose to keep the medium alive and save them for last to kill, the role stays useless.

Also there is no surprise to the new medium's séance. It's not like the Retributionist in the way that there may be no confirmed Ret around and it might take the evils by surprise when the dead jailor suddenly comes back. But when you kill a medium, you should literally expect the medium to come back later and attempt to fudge you up. Also, if a serial killer goes into a 1v1 without taking into consideration obvious problems like a medium who hasn't yet used their séance 2.0, they do not deserve their win, if anything, they probably won by luck if they are that bad to not acknowledge such an obvious issue.

On the side note, will it be fair if I make medium unique? Because three mediums can get really annoying for the dead.