Board Thread:Role Ideas (Neutral)/@comment-33200482-20170928045950

Bard

Summary: You are a wandering bard who wants everyone to hear your music. You also get thrown offbeat when interrupted.

Alignment: Neutral Chaos

Attack: Powerful

Defense: Basic

Immunities: Bite, roleblock

Ability: Choose someone to play music to at night. If they interrupt you, you may attack them.

Attributes:

Your target can interrupt you by typing anything into the chat box. You will receive a message saying you have been interrupted.

You can read what your target says, but you cannot speak to them (You're too angry over being interrupted to talk).

If your target interrupts you, you can choose to attack them.

If the target does not interrupt you they are roleblocked for the night. This overrides roleblock immunity.

Your attack ignores jailed defense.

Goal: Play music to everyone alive

Sheriff result: NS

Investigator result: escort/cons/trans/bard

Notes:

Whether or not the bard is interrupted, visiting a target will count as having played to them.

I see multiple strategies being viable with this role. One would if you sing to maf/coven early and decide to work them by targeting. This would not be too easy nor be that great a boon to maf/coven as you still need to play music to them. Also maf/coven might not want to reveal to you as you might kill them.

Another would be to target one faction early on but only rb/let live. Then later in the game target opposing factions and rb/kill.

It won't be a smart play for the bard to go around killing everyone who interrupts. They need to sweetly serenade everybody. If you start killing every town, for example, then maf/coven can quickly win without you playing to them.

Let me know what you think! I imagine a jailed target being in quite the pickle when the bard comes humming a tune. 