Board Thread:Role Ideas (Town)/@comment-96.227.136.236-20180908204142/@comment-36558623-20180909024938

96.227.136.236 wrote: Genius

A role's name is typically a job, maybe this could be an observer or librarian?

Description: You are an intellectual that has gone mute.

Allignment: Town Support

Defense: None

Attack: None

Ability: See everything that happens in a night.

Attributes: -You cannot speak in chat -If you die, your will cannot be revealed -You may communicate with a town role at night once a game. (They would do this with a day ability, clicking on a character. They cannot select characters who talk to others at night ex. jailor or jailed person) -If you are put on trial, you will say "I am blackmailed" in chat.

Sheriff: Your target is not suspicious.

Investigator: Spy, Blackmailer, Genius, Jailor, or Gaurdian Angel

Consigliere/Witch/Coven Leader: Your target knows too much, they must be a genius.

Goal: Lynch all criminals and evil-doers This role makes several fatal mistakes. Having a role that can't speak during the day is not fun for players, it makes the game uninteractive. Besides an easy stradegy would arise by spam-voting and then a townie asking, vote 1 if you're bmed and vote 2 if you're genius. After they confirm themself as Genius, they can easily find evils because they see everything during the night.

A role that can talk at night, immediatly confirming themself is not only a slight Jailor re-hash, but also overpowered because it can easily confirm itself. In the case of this role, it can easily confirm itself during the day.

This ability is extremely vague so I cannot judge it incredibly accurately but I'll review three interpretations that I immediatly thought of

Genius sees every dialogue box each player says  (i.e., mafia chat and who each player has selected to do their role on)- Instant no, overpowered to hell

Genius sees notifications that spy sees (i. e., john hathorne was hauled off to jail, ann hibbins was roleblocked, edward bishop was attacked by a serial killer.) - it's a bug on every player, still pretty op.

Genius sees visits - (i.e., Gies Corey has decided to watch Samuel Parris tonight. Sarah Bishop had decided to kill William Phips) - more op then 2 but less op then 1.

In any case, it's op. But let's assume it's number 2, slightly reasonable.There's still a ton more problems. First of all, what I've already mentioned, it doesn't interact during the day, and it confirms a townie almost immediatly. But also, this role is a town support, which (as an alignment) is already busted. I'll give it a pass because currently almost all ts's are easily confirmable (transporter transes, ret revives, escort rbs, medium can confirm if there's ret or another medium, mayor literally confirms themself to the entire town. that's like.... the whole idea of mayor,)

It also is an awful claim for mafia. Half the reason ret, mayor, and jailor are so op is because if someone claims one of those roles, it's easy for them to prove themself, so if mafia tries to claim those roles, it doesn't work. You can't claim genius, if you do you immediatly died because you talked, and if you try to not talk, you won't have any info to back it up.

Although there are some things I like about this role. The investigation result is not used very often, and this role was built for "your target knows your darkest secrets"

that's it though.

So it confirms itself easily, it's overpowered, it's vague, it's non-interactive.

good luck next time -.-. sorry for the bash