Board Thread:Role Ideas (Town)/@comment-32651233-20180715235211/@comment-32994909-20180716121705

Orecreeper wrote: Alignment: Town (Investigative)

Attack: None

Defense: None

Summary: You are a secret fileholder working for the Town.

Ability:

- Check someone each night.

Attributes:

- None

Mechanics:

- Checking someone will alert you to if they have written a last will or a death note (but you dont get to see what they wrote).

- If your target is cleaned/stoned/forged the night you checked them, you will view their original will. You will be notified of the once the night is over.

- Checking the same person twice will let you know instead if your target changed their will/death note (if they have one).

Sheriff: Your target is not suspicious.

Investigator: Your target could be a Lookout, Forger, Witch/Coven Leader, or Manager.

Consigliere: Your target has access to everyone's private documents. They must be a Manager!

Messages:

"Your target has written/has not written a last will/death note!"- Investigation results of a player. (Note that the will and death note messages are shown as 2 separate messages).

"Your target was cleaned/stoned/forged but you kept their documents!" - Message you get if the target you checked was cleaned/stoned/forged.

"Your target changed/did not change their last will/death note!" - Second investigations results of a player.

Why this role is useful:

- One of the main reasons I created this role was so people would stop writting unrelated/outdated nonsense in their death notes carelessly.

- This role also forces evils to have fake wills at all times and keep them updated.

No Town role has a deathnote apart from the Jailor, so the deathnote thing is quite pointless, as evils will simply never write in their deathnotes due to a chance of Manager.

As for the Last Will thing, unsure how this will even be useful as evils can just change their last will ever so slightly every night to avoid getting caught by the Manager.

'''Regardless, I don’t think last wills should even be ‘checked’ by any investigative role. It ruins the concept of them; only being viewed when you die. It’s also unneccessary, evils are already pressured to keep last wills, in case of being asked of their role, voted up or jailed at any time.''

'''The cleaned/stoned/forged thing is a direct hard-counter to those three roles. In an indirect hard-counter such as Medium would be better.'''