Board Thread:Role Ideas (Neutral)/@comment-175.158.216.45-20171118085738/@comment-30105631-20171118100513

175.158.216.45 wrote: Alignment: Neutral Benign/Neutral Killing/Random Town/Random Mafia (actually, i dont know which) '''that's a lot of alignments. Couldn't you at least pick a faction?'''

Summary: You're a hopeless romantic looking for your one true love

Goal: find the your partner among the town/mafia/neutral players

Abilities: Visit someone each night to find your (designated) partner. (this can be delimited to a number of people like five or six if you think the chance of finding 1 out of 14 was hard but heck consider how sheriff can find 3 mafias, an sk and a ww)

'''so visit someone. If they are your partner you win. It's indeed effectively find them before they die. Is their any hint as to who your partner is? '''

 Attributes:

 --You win if you found your partner.

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 --if the partner was killed before you found him/her, you will commit suicide.

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 -- If you found your partner but the partner dies, you will assume their role may it be town/mafia/neutral.

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 * note: the role assumption as said can be limited to the abilities only but not the attributes. ex: if the designated partner was sk, this role will not have immunity but will still be able to kill.

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 * note: once assumed a role, it is not necessary to play the role to win, the winning condition was already met upon finding the partner. The assumption will only cause a twist in the number of mafia/town.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;"> '''uh, i think it should be that you get extra points for winning with that faction or something. otherwise it encourages going afk or gamethrowing upon finding the partner'''

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 * note if the assumed role was mafia, the mafia will know and will be able to talk to them at night. (mafia can also be removed in the possible partners if you think it will cause gamethrowing like naming the mafia members and such otherwise make the lover not able to recognize the names of the mafia even assuming mafia)

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 * note: if the assumed role was a town protective, they will not be able to heal/vest on their self.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;">no reason for this one, but ok

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 * note: the designated partner cannot be one of the unique roles like jailor, veteran and mayor and also witch (that would be OP)

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<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;"> Attack: None (unless assumed a killing role)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;">Defense: None

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;">Investigator results: Disguiser, Doctor, Serial Killer, or Lover.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;">Sherrif results: your target is not suspicous.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;"> Consig result: your target is looking for their true love. they must be a lover!]

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<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;">I know there's a big chance that the partner would die before the player can find him/her. perhaps give the player a clue if the lover was a town/mafia like how one would prefer their fetish.

I feel like the main problem with this role is it doesn't invite skill or strategy, it's just a guessing game role. And a lot of people will argue that every role is a guessing game, but they are wrong. There is skill to virtually every role, but not with this one.

Also, it incites game-throwing / afkness as you can literally do nothing once you have found the lover and still win.

I think a way to fix the second issue is to give some form of bonus points, or a reward in town points for winning with the team you assume, and for the first one a fix might be limiting the types of roles that can be your lover so that you have to figure out who is potentially evil and thus your lover.

apart from that, interesting role!