Board Thread:Role Ideas (Mafia)/@comment-36709870-20181020010905/@comment-36558623-20181020013224

Aamora wrote:

Name:Politico

Alignment: Mafia deception

Background: A Crow of a man, as he was called. He lost the last election to the mayor and now he'll use any power to win.

Attack: None

Defense: None

Unique Role: Yes

Abilities: Prepare an election

Attributes: You can prepare an election and become "mayor"

Mechanics: (How It Works)

- On night one You can Prepare an election

- On anyday after you can use your day ability to call an election

- You can reveal as "mayor", gaining their abilities.

- Mayors can activate his or her ability to call an election in which the politico and the mayor will be voted to see who becomes the mayor, gaining the mayor's abilities

- You can do the same as the mayor to call an election

-Investigative Results-

Sheriff: Your target is not suspicious

Investigator:Your target is an Investigator, Consigliere, Politico, or Mayor.

Consigliere/Witch: Your target is a vengeful crow who will stop at nothing to reign, they must be a politico

Goal: Kill the town

Wins With: Mafia, Survivor, witch This is a rehash of a town role, L̶o̶o̶k̶o̶u̶t̶ Mayor, which is an immediate fault. It also is role dependency because a Crow must be in the game for a Mayor to be in the game.

But look at what happens to this role usually:

They call an election, having both the Mayor and Crow come on stand. If the Mayor wins, the Crow is hanged and was utterly useless except wasting a day of lynching

They call an election, having both the Mayor and Crow come on stand. If the Crow wins, the Mayor is hanged and the Crow dies to Jailor/Vigilante that night or is lynched the next day meaning it just traded itself with one townie, which is always weak (except for maybe jailor).

And what happens if the Mayor dies night one? The Crow is never going to able to use their ability, and will be useles.