Board Thread:Role Ideas (Rework)/@comment-33641934-20180207182154/@comment-34013628-20180207192435

Kidflersh wrote: The town put up someone on the gallows

The person claims spy

THEN THE TOWN TRYS THE DANG SPY TEST* THAT DOESN'T WORK

This town is stupid

He actually interprets the whisper, which means he must be the BM

Obvious at this point

You vote guilty, and yell in chat why, but nobody listens, and the town pardons them

Low elo town

Then either one of two things happen

1. The town then lynches you, which means that the town is just dumb. [unless the mafia (and maybe the Witch) have majority, in which case the town isn't necessarily dumb]

2. The Mafia kills you the next night, which means that the mafia know that the spy can't read spytests

This happens WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY to much, and maybe the BM deserves a nerf, removing his ability to see whispers, or at least limit it.

Because the spy used to be able to see whispers, they type a code, whisper it to someone (not the spy) and see if the spy can copy+paste the code. Now only blackmailers can see whispers.

Thats what makes the Blackmailer unique from other Mafia Roles, the Blackmailer is the only role that is able to do this, and it gives pressure to the townies for whispering once they know theres a Blackmailer in the game. And not only does this make it useful in actual games, it makes it useful in All Any, so you can spot teams of other factions as well. So no, getting rid of the BM's ability is a terrible idea.