Board Thread:Role Ideas (Mafia)/@comment-35798431-20190426092141

New Role:Judge

Alignment:Mafia(Deception)

Attack:None

Defence:None

Coven Only:No

Unique:Yes

Summary:You are an evil Judge who secretly tampers with the voting system.

Ability:During the night you may ‘Tamper’ with someone’s votes. People who are tampered during the night will have the tampered effect on them for the next 2 days. You can ‘tamper’ your own mafia. If someone gets voted up to the stand and they have the tampered affect on them, the Judge will get a menu pop up during the defence phase. The Judge can then overwrite the vote’s and immediately Lynch or Pardon the Accused player. If The Judge lynches then the game immediately cuts to the lynch phase. If the Judge chooses to pardon, then the player is immediately released off the stand and cannot be revoted for the rest of the day. A message will pop up saying, “The Judge has decided to Lynch/Pardon ‘Player Name’.

Attributes:You can only decide someone’s fate once per day. If you decide a tampered targets fate they will lose the tampered effect. Once you tamper with someone you must wait 3 nights before you can tamper that same person. If there are no kill capable roles left you will become mafioso.

Invest Results:Investigator, Consigliere, Mayor, Judge

Additional Notes: 1:Judge dosnt have to use his ability on a tampered player, they can just wait for the defence phase to go by without selecting any options if they wish for the trial to continue normally.

2:Spies will see you visit, and that includes you visiting other Mafia.

3:Waiting 3 nights is just a cool down so the Judge can’t keep on tampering his mafia and making them impossible to lynch.

4:No, the Judge can’t tamper himself

Why I think Judge is balanced: I can tell people will think the is Judge OP, and yes on paper he does sound OP. However put him into an actual game, He’s really there to counter VFR(Vote for role). His tampered effect only lasts 2 days, Meaning he can’t have more than 2 people tampered at a time. He doesn’t have r’b Immunity so Escorts can really disrupt him, and he’s unique meaning there can’t be more than one. The Judge can be super strong, but only in the right situation’s. And you might say, ‘Well he can save all his mafia from the stand!’ No, he can only use his ability once per day, meaning town could just vote on you or another member of the mafia. And the tampered effect disappears after you pardon your mafia member, meaning they could just be killed by TK or be lynched the following day. Actually imagine Judge in a real game. And suddenly he’s not overpowered. I just wanted to say this and why I think it’s a balanced role. 