Board Thread:Role Ideas (Town)/@comment-28278669-20170619080751/@comment-25493615-20170704205138

DesertStorm11 wrote: So let me give you an example.

You protect the Sheriff night one. He was attacked by the Mafia, meaning you absorb the attack.

The Sheriff comes out ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) and says that someone is Mafia, but they are not lynched because it's a day two claim.

You would protect the Sheriff again, but you can't as targeting him would mean you would kill him, not protect him.

So you go for the so-called Mafia member instead. You kill him, while the Mafia kill the Sheriff because you're the only TP in the game.

So the Sheriff dies, and you just killed the Spy, who was framed when the Sheriff checked him.

I mean, yeah, you don't die of guilt now which is good, but the part where you absorb the attack then automatically release to the next person you visit severely limits your protecting abilities.

REJECTED!

Your example is just a series of unfortunate events and an amalgamation of things that can go wrong. Oh, someone was framed and got killed at night because of it?

Just think of the times where this could be useful. Perhaps you absorb maf kill and rebound it back to the maf, winning the game even. All roles have weaknesses.

The only real issue you pointed out is that it's potentially the only tp, but that can easily be fixed by changing it to ts instead.

As such, your example is REJECTED(role is still plausible)