Board Thread:Role Ideas (Neutral)/@comment-71.46.89.246-20190113175756/@comment-35195751-20190114023555

71.46.89.246 wrote: Role: Scientist

Alignment: Neutral Benign

Always a fan of Benign suggestions.

Summary:  You are a scientist who craves knowledge of everyone's roles.

Alright...

Attack: None

Defense: None

hmm

Goal: Survive long enough to guess everybody's role.

That looks promising

Unique:  Yes. If there was more than one scientist, they could simply whisper everyone's roles to each other, meaning that one scientist winning equals both of them winning.

Oooh yeah, good call

Abilities: Investigate someone every night. Your investigation is not fooled by an Arsonist, Hex Master, or Framer.

And thank goodness (What about Disguiser)

Attributes: Every night, you may investigate someone's exact role. Selecting yourself at night will give you an opportunity to guess every living player's roles ( by choosing them through the same lists that the host can pick through in a custom game).

Ok

You cannot investigate or guess at night.

...You just said you could (did you mean "and")

Mechanics: You only get one guess per night. You cannot guess and investigate at the same time. If your guess is correct, at the end of the night, this message will appear: "You have correctly guessed everyone's role!"

Hold up

So do you

a) Guess EVERYONE'S role at night (That seems time consuming)

b) Guess one person's role a night (That seems game consuming)

c) Guess 1+ people a night (Why say everyone's role was correct?)

For the sake of the review I'm going to assume it's C

if your guess is incorrect, this message will appear: "Your guess is wrong.  Try again the next night!"

Ok

The guess has the same priority as an investigation, so it will not factor in Vampire conversions or Amnesiacs remembering the exact same night that you guess.

Fair Enough

Investigative Results: Your target could be an Investigator, Consigliere, Mayor, Tracker, Plaguebearer, or Scientist

Not sure how well that fits, anyone else have thoughts?

Color of Role: Dark Green

Well thats nice

Sheriff: Appears innocent to the sheriff

Wins with: Everyone

Watch as everyone whispers him their role

(Actually this brings up some interesting stuff, If he guesses a role (PB) and it turns out to be correct, he could totally Blackmail that guy.)

Note:  If the Scientist chooses to guess, it is control immune for that night.

'''I... Suppose that's ok'''

If the scientist guesses, but gets killed that night, the guess's priority is higher, and if the guess is right, the Scientist will still win.

Ok

Just like the Investigator, the Scientist difficulty and effectiveness will be strongly affected by the game mode or setup. Game Modes like All Any or Custom can be extremely challenging for the Scientist. However, because of the fact that the Scientist can win with anyone, it can "sell" it's knowledge to Mafia, Town, and Neutrals to prevent itself from being killed.

You assume people'd want to give their roles to this guy.

It is strongly recommended to put all results in a separate text file so that killing roles don't simply kill you to gain the information in your will.

That doesn't actually make sense, you still die, they just don't get the info.

Ok, a couple things.

1) The above (very long) comment has a point, if theres a janitor Scientist is screwed.

2) This is REALLY hard to win with.

3) Yeah this is going to get slaughtered long before it gets to try anything, if only for being NB (Theres actually a reason Survivor's goal is just to survive)

I dont see a viable strat for this to be honest, they just want to fly under the radar and not die.

Thats all I have to say so far, anyone else have thoughts