Board Thread:Role Ideas (Town)/@comment-28278669-20170619080751/@comment-29253708-20170705105615

Volf049 wrote: DesertStorm11 wrote: So let me give you an example.

You protect the Sheriff night one. He was attacked by the Mafia, meaning you absorb the attack.

The Sheriff comes out ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) and says that someone is Mafia, but they are not lynched because it's a day two claim.

You would protect the Sheriff again, but you can't as targeting him would mean you would kill him, not protect him.

So you go for the so-called Mafia member instead. You kill him, while the Mafia kill the Sheriff because you're the only TP in the game.

So the Sheriff dies, and you just killed the Spy, who was framed when the Sheriff checked him.

I mean, yeah, you don't die of guilt now which is good, but the part where you absorb the attack then automatically release to the next person you visit severely limits your protecting abilities.

REJECTED!

Your example is just a series of unfortunate events and an amalgamation of things that can go wrong. Oh, someone was framed and got killed at night because of it?

'''No, I'm giving an example of the fact that you can't protect someone two nights in a row when you absorbed an attack. The Framer happening to frame the Spy is just kind of unlucky, and used here to show that it could happen, and therefore needs to be taken in consideration.'''

'''There could be quite a lot of examples where a player is trolling, making another player such as a Vigilante shoot them and die of guilt because they were Town. It's not like that's uncommon or anything.'''

Just think of the times where this could be useful. Perhaps you absorb maf kill and rebound it back to the maf, winning the game even. All roles have weaknesses.

Yeah, but then there are so many players who are bad at claiming and end up looking suspicious, and could become potential targets.

The only real issue you pointed out is that it's potentially the only tp, but that can easily be fixed by changing it to ts instead.

'''It's not like one TP is uncommon either. In ranked there is a fair possibility that there would be only one TP.'''

As such, your example is REJECTED(role is still plausible)