Board Thread:Role Ideas (Mafia)/@comment-69.121.52.45-20180302204745/@comment-27575896-20180302210802

This role servers really no major purpose and is only useful in late game. It messes with the voting system, which in early game Town usually has majority so not much is affected. Late game, 4 Townies dead means that there is no way for them to vote evils, which is useful, but that guarentees an easy shutdown for Town and an increase in the Mafia. Currently, the Mafia have plenty of ways to get around this and are smart enough to know when they have majority. Lessening the Town very early game is a major backdraw they don't need. Votes are required to win games. In a Ranked Match, even a Vigilante and Jailor can't execute all evils. NE and NK are solid, and the four Mafia means they are sitll stuck behind. Lynchings are easier and calmer, and the Mafia's job IS to lessen the lynching cause, but not prevent it entirely. Sometimes if you can get a Townie lynched it's much better than making a Mafia even more obvious with a Politician.