Board Thread:Role Ideas (Mafia)/@comment-216.164.228.71-20190123215706/@comment-31256456-20190123225225

216.164.228.71 wrote:

​​​​​​​Let's take this one step at a time.

The name isn't amazing. Not crucial, but you could change it.

1. Medium is a rather useless role because it gives very little information. This role gives even less information. Townies might reveal something useful, but nothing to the Mafia.

If a TI investigates someone and goes "this guy was invest/consig/mayor", yes, it's information, but at the end of the day, you're not getting much out of it. A consig can do the same thing but find out an exact role, for example. This has the same problem as the medium where it is underpowered, but in the Communicator's case, it's even worse because there isn't much to do with the information you receive. You can't tell the mafia your information because then the people who give you info during the night will realize that you are a Mafia member. And we all know how that goes if there's a ret or a second medium.

Though deception is a useful tool, and Medium deception is interesting, it doesn't work because this role is underpowered and there is no way to share your info.

Also, Medium being such an easy claim for Mafia, this just makes Medium an even more weak claim. This role works in theory but then falls apart unfortunately once you dig a little deeper, unfortunately as of now.

2. A Medium can only seance when dead. Therefore, when you seance while alive, the town will know that you are a Communicator.

Now, let's say you change it so they can only seance when dead. They know that you are a communicator, therefore you reveal yourself.

Only exception is Medusa/Janitor, but even then it's so rare.

Therefore, this ability is useless.

Overall, this role does not provide enough benefit to be useful, and has many drawbacks. Unfortunately, I also cannot see a way to improve this role. Thanks for sharing your idea, though! In the future, building a MS means that you should focus on something that focuses on gaining info reliably OR does something that really gives some advantage to the role. Just a small tip, I'm sure someone else can also help you with this.