Board Thread:Role Ideas (Mafia)/@comment-5.80.129.59-20180206225027/@comment-28112409-20180207054707

Right, I need you to fix your "maybes", but I'll review it in all cases anyway.

Attack counts as Basic btw, regardless of whether it kills the bombed target or not along with whoever the target visits.

Presuming it kills both whoever gets visited by the target and the target himself.

It's basically a buffed Mafioso.No difference between it and the Mafioso in regards to when an attack succeeds or fails, and now you have a possible bonus of getting an extra kill every night depending on who you target. Buffed versions of another role are never a good idea. Did I mention that this role is also terrible in case whoever you target visits you or your mafia? Yeah, horrible horrible thing and you have no control over it even though the source is from your own faction.

Presuming it kills only whoever the target visits.

An indirect killer basically. The only advantage to this is that you'll evade Lookouts. The disadvantages outweigh the only advantage by tons. You have no control over who you're killing, and you just pray to god it hits someone non-immune. Worse, the target could be a non-visiting person, so you get no kills. Even worse, the target could visit one of your non-immune mafia, so you essentially kill your own ally in friendly fire. Now it's a terrible mafia killer.

Terrible mafia killer, you'd need a cooperative Witch to turn this role into a Mafioso. That's just a waste of space. Get a Mafioso instead of this and kill whatever you need to kill directly, why get a bomber for such a miniscule advantage? Why implement a buffed Mafioso who can't control his killing?

Mafia's about coordination, using info, planning attacks and schemes together. This role has an aspect of luck and randomness to it even without anything interrupting or causing your initial plan to fail. A role fully relying on randomness (if we're taking the 2nd case) in the mafia, where you're supposed to have things go according to plan and only non-mafia roles should be able to ruin your plans, is just a no-go.