Board Thread:Role Ideas (Town)/@comment-39067078-20190814030947/@comment-37322933-20190814031730

Duwiiton wrote:

NAME

Attorney

Summary

A brave lawyer looking to really find the truth.

Lore 

The Attorney looked at the papers, the warm light shining on him through the window of his small abode.

The gentleman lawyer loked at the papers of the Defendant. This was all wrong, there was no way his defendant was guilty. The man simply was talking about protecting the Investigator. Scratching his chin, he looked farther.

With each key he had obtained from the Jailor, the more he had to pay with his funds.

The more he uncovered, he saw more of the story.

In newspaper, the article really read "I hope no one protects the Investigator."

That was enough for him.

Win Condition - 

 Lynch all Evildoers

Alignment - 

Town Investigative

Attack -

None

Defense -

None

Unique -

No

Attributes -


 * During the day, you gain 2 Key for voting guilty on a target who was an evil, and 3 keys for voting innocent on a townie.


 * During the night, select a target. You gain a pop-up of a filing cabinet, and the first one will by default be open.


 * There are 2 more cabinets and you can open each one with a key.

Mechanics -

During the night, you select a target.

You will instantly open the first filing cabinet slot.

Opening any cabinet slots gives you the system message and a visual of a cut-up newspaper writing.

The first will always give you the three words that your target said the most.

It will only include roles and things found in any system message, such as "doused" or "died"

The second will give you ten words.

The third will give you the transcript of everything they said yesterday.

This role is mainly meant to select scum-reads that aren't obvious at first, and you can tell when someone is considerably talking about the Arsonist alot when there is in fact a werewolf.

Notifications -

"You got [x] Keys!"

"You opened another cabinet."

"[System Message]"

-Investigate Results-

Sheriff -

Innocent

Investigator -

Spy/Jailor/Blackmailer/GuardianAngel/Attorney

Precise - 

Your target uses words against people. They must be the Attorney!

-Achievements-

Phoenix, Right? - Search a revived person

I rest my case. - Fail to get a key for three days.

Order in the court! - Vote a townie to the stand but vote innocent. Wait, so

it just

highlights what people say?

The inherent problem with this is that players may quickly get bored of just getting messages they've already seen, and that its utility, since you can do the same thing by just actively reading the chat. I understand the point behind this role, it just seems that it doesn't really have a place when other TI roles like Sheriff and Investigator actually find clues to their target's role that they wouldn't otherwise know.

Basically, I don't think this works, since all it does is make what should be already clear a little clearer. That can be helpful at times, but it doesn't seem to be very useful.

I do almost fear that I'm reading this wrong, though- please tell me if I misunderstood your idea. It's a little confusing with the wording, but based on what I think, it doesn't really have a place as a role.