Board Thread:Role Ideas (Neutral)/@comment-33200482-20170928045950/@comment-30105631-20170929115901

A little salty wrote: Bard Summary: You are a wandering bard who wants everyone to hear your music. You also get thrown offbeat when interrupted.

Alignment: Neutral Chaos

Attack: Powerful

Defense: Basic

Immunities: Bite, roleblock

Ability: Choose someone to play music to at night. If they interrupt you, you may attack them.

...That's it?

'''And yes, I know, I've reviewed this before, don't bring that up. Point is, that's really weak for an NC. I realise it could cause chaos with the mafia/jailed targets, but for the most part roles won't be talking at night anyway, and especially not when the only possible thing that could happen to them by talking is possible death on top of an already unstoppable role-block.'''

Attributes:

Your target can interrupt you by typing anything into the chat box. You will receive a message saying you have been interrupted.

Ok.

You can read what your target says, but you cannot speak to them (You're too angry over being interrupted to talk).

Ok.

If your target interrupts you, you can choose to attack them.

'''Again, I bring up my old point. Most roles won't speak in the first place, and why talk when you're taking a role-block and turning it into a role-block with a chance of death.'''

If the target does not interrupt you they are roleblocked for the night. This overrides roleblock immunity.

'''Oooohhh... so interrupting the Bard means if you survive you won't be role-blocked... That's actually kinda cool, but then the problem becomes why would the Bard let anyone live anyway?'''

Your attack ignores jailed defense.

'''So you can kill jailed people? Great.'''

Goal: Play music to everyone alive

So Survivor's goal?

Sheriff result: NS

Investigator result: escort/cons/trans/bard

'''Consigliere's result? It's cool reading the little things people come up with for the Consigliere.'''

Notes:

Whether or not the bard is interrupted, visiting a target will count as having played to them.

Ok.

I see multiple strategies being viable with this role. One would if you sing to maf/coven early and decide to work them by targeting. This would not be too easy nor be that great a boon to maf/coven as you still need to play music to them. Also maf/coven might not want to reveal to you as you might kill them.

A problem with this is YOU can't communicate with THEM, and also they wouldn't do this anyway because you don't NEED to win with them.

Another would be to target one faction early on but only rb/let live. Then later in the game target opposing factions and rb/kill.

'''Again... why? You can just side with anyone... so why even play music to the people you are siding with?'''

It won't be a smart play for the bard to go around killing everyone who interrupts. They need to sweetly serenade everybody. If you start killing every town, for example, then maf/coven can quickly win without you playing to them.

True, but people will do it anyway.

Let me know what you think! I imagine a jailed target being in quite the pickle when the bard comes humming a tune. I think what would make this role cooler and more interesting to play as well as play against would be to:

1.  Have the bard be able to talk to those who have interrupted him.

2.  Have the bard be given a random faction that exists in that current match at the start of the game. In order to win, they must win with that faction. However, the faction is random (Yes, I know, RNG, but who really cares). This would make it more chaotic, and thus more in line with the Bard's Neutral Chaos alignment.

Thanks for reading this review!