Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-175.158.201.4-20190211165509/@comment-35813313-20190212023646

175.158.201.4 wrote: Name: Researcher

Alignment: Town Investigative

Game Background: While creating a scientific breakthrough you were accused of witchcraft and was exiled by the town and now is forced into hiding while continuing your research at the safety of your own house Not required to review this, but this is an interesting story.

Attack: None

Defense: None

Unique Role: No

Abilities:   (Day) Pick 2 targets during day. At night you will observe them

You cannot pick yourself and you cannot change targets

(Night) Choose to whether work on your scientific breakthrough or Observe one of the                           targets

Attributes: You will be seen suspicious by the Sheriff '''Why? Why is this necessary?'''

You cannot whisper But if you can't whisper and you're seen as suspicious, wouldn't you be automatically confirmed?

Mechanics: It will take 4 nights or 2 successful observes to complete your scientific breakthrough and once you have completed it you may use it during day or night and will vary based on the time that you use this ability '''I'd say keep it strictly to the night. Having two day abilities would instantly be confusing.'''

Observe-Predict what roles will be visiting that target and if you guessed wrong you will know if the guessed role is present but won't contribute to the scientific breakthrough if you guessed right you will get a "successful observe" for the scientific breakthrough I don't think you should know if your guessed role has visited the target.

Scientific breakthrough-(Day) Reveal a person's exact role{Click the sun icon} '''Whoa, whoa, whoa. What? The exact role?'''  (This will not be shown to the town but to yourself only) (Night) You may give someone one charge for their ability. '''Charge? Like a Veteran and alerting?''' Cannot be used on a Retributionist,Medium, and a Jailor who has lost theirexes.If the target does not use charges they will instead be unroleblockable for one night{Now hold your horses before you say "so this is a supplier?" Yes it is but it takes scum reading and it will only benefit some roles such as vig,vet,spy,invest,sheriff) I don't know if this could be balanced. This feels like a mix of Consig and TOL's Court Wizard.

-Investigative Results-

Sheriff: Your target is Suspicious

Investigator: Vigilante,Veteran,Mafioso,Researcher '''3-2-1-0. Not sure if this will work; try another investigative result. (Town-Mafia-Neutral-Coven; under this investigation result, 3 Town would appear, 2 Mafia, 1 Neutral, and 0 Coven. Just a heads-up for the future.)'''

Consigliere/Witch: Your target is collecting data from specific people. They must be a Researcher!

Goal: Lynch all evildoers.

Wins With: Same as Town

Must Kill: Same as Town

Purpose/Reason: We need a new claim for mafioso... while being helpful to the town and becomes a sort of like a mini-jester where in you must think if this is really a Researcher or some random mafia pretending to be a Researcher while also giving the executioner more options. Okay.

A few things off the bat: this role is unique and I like that. Its ability to find exact role, however, throws out the idea of deducing pretty quickly, and deduction is the basis of the game (which is why Investigator has 3-5 results and not just one).

A Townie having this much power is extremely OP. I'd say make this a Neutral Benign and make it win with anyone, or have it be a killing role and make it Neutral Killing. This way, one faction doesn't outplay the other.

Otherwise, good job!