Board Thread:Role Ideas (Mafia)/@comment-37322933-20191218221207/@comment-29253708-20191228073711

From what I read here, your ability is that you give a fellow Mafia Powerful defense, every single night, along with their visitors, and it's announced to the Town? Doesn't that make this is a better-for-Town, worse-for-Mafia Psychic/mass-Doctor? What if only one person visits your Mafia friend? What if NO ONE visits your Mafia friend? Then they're screwed.

Also, adding a requirement for one extra vote won't really change much early game, especially if a Mafia is straight-up called out at the beginning of the day. This is only really helpful late game when the numbers are closer, but even then, it can screw up a late game reeaaal bad if Town has a good influence.

Let's say a Sheriff visits your target. Then they claim, "oh hey, I visited him, and I saw he was suspicious, so he's probably Mafia". That's much more believable than a counter-claim of "no, he isn't Sheriff, I'm Sheriff" or something like that. You get my point, right?

On paper, this could be a good role with a good amount of tweaking, but right now, reality says this would do much more harm than good for the Mafia. Even if three people visit your Mafia friend, they can all claim and give reasons as to what they did at your target's house. Your Mafia friend will have to be very, very prepared to get out of a call-out like that, and reality also says that most players aren't smart enough for that.

Overall, I don't see how this really... benefits... the Mafia.