Board Thread:Role Ideas (Mafia)/@comment-38965982-20190329212832/@comment-28092296-20190516131722

QuothTheRaven131 wrote: You're right there. . . but the puppet being 'afk' is a crucial point of the Puppet Master. Do you have any replacement suggestions? And no one say that the Puppet Master can control the Puppet, because that's old disguiser and what I want to avoid. Well I have two semi-decent ideas that I'm not entirely sure work:

1) Program some kind of warning flag that would alert BMG to any reports on a puppeted player. However, this wouldn't solve the potential sheer velocity of reports.

2) Maybe orient the role so people don't know if the target is dead or not. It would be like the Janitor's cleaning mechanic, but with determining if somebody died or not. The town would be alerted that they don't know if so-and-so died or not, and the Puppet Master could either fake that they puppeted someone or pose as someone and vote/talk like them. This would keep ppl from not realizing that somebody could be impersonated by someone else and report for gamethrowing, while keeping the same theme of the role. I think this would create problems on its own, however, not to mention the complete re-haul of the role that would occur if this idea was implemented into your role idea