Board Thread:Role Ideas (Neutral)/@comment-30962589-20180825214807/@comment-35813313-20180825222852

TarrRancher wrote: Name: Smuggler

Alignment: Neutral Chaos '''Ooh boy. BMG doesn't want any more Neutral Chaos roles.'''

Game Information/Background:

Attack: Basic

Defense: None

Unique Role: Yes

Priority: (Optional)

Abilities: You may select one person during the day to try to sell a gun to.

Attributes: During the night, the target will get a notification saying a Smuggler is trying to sell them a gun, which will also include your name. Uh, no. They may select yes or no. If they select yes, they will gain a basic attack for the night, then be dealt a basic attack the night after, in order to get the gun back, as long as the smuggler is alive. Why? Selecting No will cancel the notification. '''​​​​​​​Yeah, but anyone can just select No. Why would they need the gun? If you're trying to sell the gun to TIs, for example, the TIs would rather perforn their ability than take a gun from you and risk death.''' This does not roleblock the target, but their ability will be replaced by the basic attack. (Except for those like medium and psychic, who will still keep their abilities and do the basic attack.)

-Investigative Results-

Sheriff: Your target is a Smuggler!

Investigator: Framer, Jester, Vampire, Smuggler

Consigliere/Witch: Your target smuggles in illegal weaponry. They must be a Smuggler!

Goal: Get people to buy your guns at least three times

Wins With: All, as long as goal is completed.

Must Kill: None

Anything Else

Alright so I posted this role in the role ideas and got "It's shit.", (Like most of my other role ideas.) but I want to actually get feedback that helps. This role, while breaking the Supplier rule (I think) gives a buff at a cost, but also at a risk for the Smuggler. And for a town using a gun, the death message will be "They were killed by a Smuggler's gun." When killed by a Smuggler, the death message will be "They were shot by a Smuggler." May change the former to prevent anonymous game throwing, or the number of times you must sell a gun, to make it easier. Okay.

In all honesty, I don't know if this is a necessary role to add to ToS. It does have flaws, and I don't know if anyone would have fun playing the role. The purpose of Neutral Chaos/Killing roles is to give the player a sense of tension/fun and have fun playing an individually-aligned role. Sorry, but I doubt it would pass the official forum standards.

If you showed this to the BMG forums, you'd get pretty harsh criticism (which explains why you got the whole "it's shit" review). If you got that criticism from this forum, do invite the user to explain why they critiqued the role in this way. If they refuse to explain, please report the user to an admin as these forums are supposed to be a place to help other users design their own roles and to be a place of encouragement.