Board Thread:Role Ideas (Neutral)/@comment-71.46.89.246-20190113175756/@comment-32611151-20190114021505

71.46.89.246 wrote: Role: Scientist

Alignment: Neutral Benign

Summary:  You are a scientist who craves knowledge of everyone's roles.

Attack: None

Defense: None

Goal: Survive long enough to guess everybody's role. So 14 nights. Games rarely last that Long.

Unique:  Yes. If there was more than one scientist, they could simply whisper everyone's roles to each other, meaning that one scientist winning equals both of them winning.

Abilities: Investigate someone every night. Your investigation is not fooled by an Arsonist, Hex Master, or Framer.

Attributes: Every night, you may investigate someone's exact role. Selecting yourself at night will give you an opportunity to guess every living player's roles ( by choosing them through the same lists that the host can pick through in a custom game). You cannot investigate or guess at night. The night phase is short, and can be challenging to Guess 14 roles in 40 seconds.

Mechanics: You only get one guess per night. You cannot guess and investigate at the same time. If your guess is correct, at the end of the night, this message will appear: "You have correctly guessed everyone's role!" if your guess is incorrect, this message will appear: "Your guess is wrong.  Try again the next night!" The guess has the same priority as an investigation, so it will not factor in Vampire conversions or Amnesiacs remembering the exact same night that you guess. Oh so only one Guess then, and you can’t invest someone on that night. So 28 nights?

Investigative Results: Your target could be an Investigator, Consigliere, Mayor, Tracker, Plaguebearer, or Scientist ok

Color of Role: Dark Green

Sheriff: Appears innocent to the sheriff

Wins with: Everyone like a pirate

Note:  If the Scientist chooses to guess, it is control immune for that night. If the scientist guesses, but gets killed that night, the guess's priority is higher, and if the guess is right, the Scientist will still win. Wait so you only need to Guess 1 role? Or everyone’s role?

Just like the Investigator, the Scientist difficulty and effectiveness will be strongly affected by the game mode or setup. Game Modes like All Any or Custom can be extremely challenging for the Scientist. However, because of the fact that the Scientist can win with anyone, it can "sell" it's knowledge to Mafia, Town, and Neutrals to prevent itself from being killed. It is strongly recommended to put all results in a separate text file so that killing roles don't simply kill you to gain the information in your will. Overall, this role is too hard to win with as many games don’t last past the single digits. Also if a role dies and is cleaned, how would you Guess it?