Board Thread:Role Ideas (Town)/@comment-34703140-20190402050728/@comment-26234016-20190402180511

The Retributionist, Mayor, Lookout, and Medium are original parts of the game. They've been potentially self-confirming for a long time. Until recently, the Spy was the exact same way, but now changes have taken place. Your argument is a similar one to something like, "You advise against making a copy of [x] role but the Escort and Consort are copies of each other!" And the simple answer is that those roles are already in the game. They were made by the devs, not by the community. You can go to the patch log to see the roles that were added in later (outside of the Coven I believe it's Blackmailer, Werewolf, and then something from the town maybe?) but...

You agree that a self-confirming townie doesn't make for a good game, right? Just because examples of it are present in the game doesn't make it a good thing.