Board Thread:Role Ideas (Neutral)/@comment-26234016-20181215141450/@comment-27575896-20181217142336

Vert made a pretty good point, I would just like to point out some of my own issues with the role:

The “Possession” ability makes zero sense especially talking about the fact the user must accept to be possessed for you to kill someone. They can simply DENY it and you lose your ability without doing anything. The only thing this would play useful for is for single-role factions, like Neutral Killing and Plaguebearers. If you choose a Townie, then they will just deny in fear of another important town being killed. If you choose a Mafia, Vampire, or Coven member, they will just deny in fear of having another faction member be killed. If you choose an NE, they’ll likely accept since they don’t have anything else to do, but an Executioner will always deny it if the Town killed the Revanent in fear of getting their own target killed. A Pirate might deny it if they need more targets to plunder. This won’t apply to much at all. If a Lookout can catch them as well, then they will NEVER want to do it. Maybe only a Jester, which is a pretty dang small minority.

Also plus if the LO sees them visiting when they clearly died to a Revanent, why would it matter? Basic thing is they get their role asked for saying yes to possession, but otherwise it’s clear they didn’t do the actual killing.

This is the only NC that the Sheriff can find, which is basically a nerf to the Sheriff. Mafia, NK, Coven, and sometimes Vampires rely on random choices to kill, and this is fine enough considering it has no defense and just needs to bait.

If you want to make lynchings more thought out, you give it Basic defense. But Jesters already do this, and it’s an instant target onto the Town. AKA they won’t lynch you if they can find another immune evil, like an NK or Godfather.

But if you keep it with no defense, it becomes a target to evil factions, especially the Mafia and Coven. And NC at the moment is supposed to attack the Town or at least cause chaos. Vampires and Plaguebearers do this perfectly. Pirate is a good exception.

Otherwise, it’s a good concept.