Board Thread:Role Ideas (Town)/@comment-25185068-20181206070750/@comment-28112409-20181206112554

The way you calculated possible roles fitting into an alignment and such completely missed my point. No matter how low the number of people within an alignment are, they still have so much claimspace. The I/D alignment, no matter how many people from them there are, still have 11 roles that make the investigation result really vague and gives a lot of space for mafia to claim any investigative role they want.

Investigator and Sheriff on the other hand, do not give that much claimspace to a potential evil. They restrict them better and give them less claimspace while Detective gives out claimspace like it's Christmas and all the evils are on the good list.

If you want to talk about role combinations: Investigator + Sheriff already exists and is way stronger. Detective's super broad criteria for each result along with Sheriff is not as effective as Investigator's much smaller number of results per role combined with Sheriff. Sheriff can instantly confirm a big number of evils, which eliminates a solid number of possibilities from the Investigator's results and sometimes instantly identifying the role like a consig would. The Detective cannot outdo either of the investigatives in this combo, it's inferior regardless of who you replace it with.

If you don't want people to take your role "too seriously", put it in the Joke Ideas board. Otherwise, tough luck.