Board Thread:Role Ideas (Rework)/@comment-32994909-20171221154748/@comment-5498154-20171223201238

The only reason the Executioner and Jester are Neutral Evil and not Neutral Benign is because the other Neutral Evil roles were not ported from SC2 Mafia which would make the only Neutral Evil role the Witch, so they just made the Neutral Benign roles that can/have to kill people into Neutral Evil.

What makes a Neutral Benign is not that it can't possibly harm town; just because Executioner and Jester are prone to harming town does not make them evil roles. What makes a Neutral Benign role is that they have no definitive 'side' and are malleable after their goal is complete. (Amnesiac and Survivor can win with anyone; so can Jester and Executioner, which is why they should be NB and not NE).