Board Thread:Role Ideas (Mafia)/@comment-38127112-20190224014532/@comment-31256456-20190224020521

Connortheandroid wrote: Goal: win with the mafia Summary: you are a doctor who works for the mafia Alignment: mafia protective Attack: none Defense: none

Abilities: you may choose to heal a member of the mafia

Attributes: -you will know if theyve been attacked -your target is granted a powerful defense when healed -you can only heal yourself once

Investigation results Consigliere/Witch: your target is a doctor who works for the mafia, they must be a surgeon Investigator: Doctor Disguiser Serial Killer or Surgeon Sheriff: your target is suspicious Hey man, it's a little hard to read, so for the future, just keep in mind: Try to check for grammar, and space the role out, bold if needed, just make the format a little better.

In terms of the role, this is quite underpowered. There's a few uses for this that I can think of:

-You could heal your mafioso/gf to prevent Veteran from shooting

-protecting from NK

-Protecting from Vigilante shot

All three of these uses are quite arbitrary and wouldn't really do much for the Mafia. It would be much rather used on other Mafia roles. There's very little application for these uses, basically.

This also could cause some weird scenarios, Doctor+BG with Surgeon+GF always results in a tie I believe. Surgeon will protect from BG's attack, GF will always attack either Doctor/BG and will fail every time. Dunno if that's a problem tbh, but something to consider.

Overall, a Mafia Doctor is not really needed in the faction. If anything this slows down the game rather than helping much because it really doesn't do much to help. In the future, Mafia Support (which is the implied faction) generally aren't healers- they are more of disrupting the Town and finding information for the Mafia, which is more of a Investigative/Support role rather than a healer, especially because healers aren't very useful for the Mafia.

This also doesn't prevent lynching or anything like that which means most applications are useless.