Board Thread:Role Ideas (Town)/@comment-34703140-20190402050728/@comment-38801580-20190402234305

Addfire, this is far less of a self-confirming role than the Mayor, Retributionist, and Jailor. In fact, I think it's even less of a confirming role than the Transporter. It isn't unique, it has only two uses of its ability, and the only time it gets 100% confirmed is when it hits someone with a consumable ability. That doesn't often happen. If at any time, the Mayor, Jailor, or Retributionist feels like leads are getting stale, they can immediately out themselves and show up as a confirmed townie. (Except in the case of the Retributionist, which requires a dead townie who hasn't left.  But still, they can confirm themselves, whoever they revived, plus any Mediums.  They can also expose anyone who is fake claiming Medium, which is more than enough to balance this out.)  Now imagine a Salesman put under suspicion, or stuck in a town where leads are drying up. For them to work, they'd have to speak up, claim Salesman, and politely question the entire town if there's anyone who has a consumable ability that they could use their power on to try and confirm themselves.