Board Thread:Role Ideas (Town)/@comment-39067078-20190912002227/@comment-31256456-20190918062946

Duwiiton wrote:

The Problematic Series of roles is the 30+ roles I promised for September in an attempt to get people to create more roles.

'''These roles, as said, are roles with problems that I cannot put my finger on. A sense of “Would this even be useful?” '''

They are posted in the order of Town, Mafia, and Coven.

Extra Note: Vertroyer pls no roast

See the other Problematic Roles:

Mechanic (Town Protective)

Houndmaster (Mafia Support)

Empath (Coven Evil)

Politician (Town Support)

NAME

Politician

Summary

A political figure who forces debates.

Lore 

(Refusal.)

Win Condition - 

 (Town Stuff)

Alignment - 

Town Support

Attack -

None

Defense -

None

Unique -

Yes

Attributes -

At night, choose someone to pressure up to 5 times.

There will be a slider from 5-30.

Every [interval you set on the bar], a notification will go in chat announcing that he did not speak.

If he speaks within this time interval, the notification will not go off.

Mechanics -

At night, choose someone to pressure.

There will be a slider.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14cZhfzKeCQXgpB-yfnWogN9yieIWpTHXPq2Z0849kgI/edit?usp=sharing

here's the... slider?

By sliding the little arrow to the time you want, you can choose that interval.

During the day, the target must speak during every of [x] interval.

If they don't, there will be a system message everyone is able to see.

There will be an option to reduce these messages to a smaller size.

Notifications -

"You decided to pressure [x] during the day."

"[x] faltered under pressure!"

-Investigate Results-

Sheriff -

Innocent

Investigator -

Investigator, Consigliere, Mayor, Tracker, Plaguebearer, or Politician.

Precise - 

Your target is argumentative. They must be the Politician!

-Achievements-

Corruption - Be jailed and executed, even after using all of your pressure charges.

Problem: Does this even have a practical application in higher ranks? May cause spam in chat.

I've done many Politician-esque roles, but none quite like this.

However... I have a few problems with this role REJEC-just kidding.

Okay, in any case, I'll say some practical problems and try to convince you to change some things.

1. Applications and Uses

This role doesn't really have that many applications in a realistic match setting.

You're pressuring people to talk, but really, they aren't forced to say anything, they can just spam "lol". On top of that, this hurts Town more than helps because it's unable to find information on its own and doesn't provide any new information. Yes, in very unexperienced towns this can attract attention to possible mafia, but in experienced games, people should notice the details.

2. Encouragement of Spam 

I think it should be relatively self-explanatory with a role that pressures people to talk about

So how do we fix these problems?

Well, first:

'''Make the bribery about helping the Town by either manipulating the mafia or directing Town towards information. '''

Remove the idea of speaking more in general with the bribery and focus more on the aspect of "bribing" than "possible spamming"

Don't make it self-confirmable

These changes should probably fix the major issues with the role.

Duwiiton, as always, you present interesting ideas with a fresh outlook and polished formats.