Board Thread:Role Ideas (Mafia)/@comment-2605:A000:1315:95A3:14AF:4B0:301D:6422-20200121171318

Name: Rogue

Alignment: Mafia Deception

Attack: None

Defense: None

Unique Role: No

Abilities: Once a night, up to 3 times, detonate a smokebomb at someones house. This will cloud Investigative results.

Attributes:

-If your target is watched by any Town Investigative, they will get no results. This also affects the target themselves.

-If there are no kill-capable Mafia roles left you will become a Mafioso.

Mechanics:

-At night, you have 3 charges of smokebombs to use. Select a player to use it on, and any Town Investigative that is watching them will fail to get results. If they are Town Investigative, they will also fail to get any results. You can use this on yourself and on other Mafia Members.

Lookouts will not see who visits a smokescreened target. Sheriff will get no results that night, as well as Investigators. If it's deployed on a Spy's bugged target, the bug will not get any info. Spies will also not see a smokescreened target as being visited by Mafia. Tracker's will not be able to see where their target goes if they are smokescreened. Psychic will not get a vision that night if they are directly smokescreened, and will not see a smokescreened player in their results for the night.

Depending on what seems more useful, It could either have a unique message when you attempt to get results ["Your results were clouded!" For all main TI, "You couldn't focus tonight, your vision was clouded!" for Psychic, "You lost sight of your target!", for Lookout and Tracker.] Or it could simply just not display any results that night.

-Investigative Results-

Sheriff: Suspicious

Investigator: Spy, Blackmailer, Jailor, Guardian Angel, Rogue

Consigliere/Witch: Your target conceals information under blankets of smoke, they must be a Rogue!

Goal: Kill anyone who that will not submit to the Mafia

Wins With: Mafia, Survivor, Witch

Must Kill: Town, Vampires, Arsonist, Serial KIller, Werewolf, Coven, Plaguebearer, Pestilence, Juggernaut

Anything Else: Smokebombs will never affect a Consigliere's trained eye. Using a smokebomb is a visit, though for the most part nobody can see it, that does mean alerting Veteran will kill you.

Purpose/Reason: This can be highly useful to damage the Towns ability to obtain information. TP/LO requests do matter for the Town Protective, but this could be used to remove the instant-confirming of other town members. Using this on spies is highly useful as they will see no Mafia visits at all in addition to getting no bug information, and will also mess up anyone elses results that night. Basically it's a good start towards harming the TP/LO instant claim meta, and a good counter to Spies unrelenting power without nerfing spy into the ground. While a Consort can prevent one town investigative for the night, this used smartly can affect multiple players for the night and allow Mafia to safely kill a high-valued target.  