Board Thread:Role Ideas (Town)/@comment-2604:6000:1114:492D:319A:AED:DA31:7970-20190618145312/@comment-28092296-20190620180343

2604:6000:1114:492D:D99A:49A1:1E0E:8832 wrote: No you can't have 2 mayors, only if the mayor is dead, or there wasn't one to begin with. Also, this wasn't meant to be as legitimate as it was comical, imagine: -You open town of salem one day and there's is a new mode with new roles -Then u go into a game - Night One someone is found dead, and it says they were tarred and feathered by the mafia. -lol right? It would be funny at first, but the joke would quickly wear away—it's like the Medusa getting stoned joke that was here for the first weeks of the Coven DLC

Anyway,

I see a major flaw in this role—it's like a Sheriff, but amalgamated with really strange mechanics. All other roles in the game have only a few mechanics and are pretty simple. With Jailor, your job is to question potential suspects and execute them when the Town doesn't have enough trust in you/votes to kill that person themselves. Pretty simple and easy to understand. The Consigliere's job is to discredit Investigator claims and to provide the Mafia with intel on who they should and shouldn't kill. Again, pretty easy to understand and the mechanics themselves are simple.

Now we get to the Tax Collector. It's a combination of the Sheriff/Mayor—you can determine who's guilty/innocent by visiting them and either dying or not dying. The Sheriff does this job a lot of efficiently, and it's a lot fairer to evil roles to go up agaisnt a Sheriff, who may have framed results. This role would function like the 'Escort roleblocked someone and died to sk' loop, where whoever the Tax Collector went to last would die. That feature should be removed.

The Mayor part is an interesting idea. You are rewarded for not dying by being more powerful. However, this conflicts with your 'ask for taxes' mechanic, as asking for taxes would increase your chances of dying and therefore work against the 'stay alive to become Mayor' mechanic. It really encourages people to stay home and do nothing until they become Mayor—and at that point in time, somebody who doesn't visit and can have 3 votes is basically a Mayor already, it's just that for the first night(s), you have only 1 vote. I think this part itself should be dismantled and replaced with something else. Like, 'if you collect enough taxes, you can cash them in for a temporary ability' or something. Add abilities that encourage strategy and paying attention to the game.