Board Thread:Role Ideas (Mafia)/@comment-66.65.103.157-20190923032712/@comment-2600:1017:B82C:21E8:A5C9:A0E0:9375:E763-20190924194939

Tainn wrote: 66.65.103.157 wrote: Name: Deafener Alignment: Mafia Support Attack: None Defense: None Unique Role: No ok

Summary: You are an evil hearing specialist who isolates people during the day. ok

Mechanics: Choose to Deafen someone each night. what .You have 4 deafens left at the start of the game.''' why 4? 3 is standard for other coven roles like janitor and forget, so why 4?''' Deafening lasts for one day. Deafened targets will not be able to see anything in chat except their own voice. okay? This includes: Day Chat. Whispers to you. Other people whispering. People’s defense on the stand. Other people voting against targets Guilty/Innocent voting '''Do they know if they're the one on trial? if not that seems unlucky and too overpowered. However, your targets can still talk just fine. they could literally just say "im deafened" in chat and it literally wouldn't matter. ''' Deafening is seen as a passive visit. You cannot deafen the same person more than once (As that would be really annoying and would induce rage quits). fair. Results: Your target is suspicious. Your target could be a Sheriff, Executioner, Deafener or Werewolf '''​​​​​​​this placement of roles feels awkward and it doesn't match the other roles in the list. '''. Your target destroys people’s hearing. They must be a Deafener.

Messages: You woke up without hearing. You are deafened! '''but its not just hearing - theres voting which is more of a seeing thing. '''

Goal: Kill everyone that will not submit to the Mafia.

'''This is a smart idea in theory but there's something about it that makes me think that it just wouldnt work. It feels like a knockoff blackmailer, and BMG does not want the same roles, just edited a little bit. This role seems both useless and overpowered at the same time, and just overall would contibute negatively to the overall flow of the game. '''

Ok. 1. You see yourself on trial, duh. 2. How would this role be useless? Ok, let’s say I’m TP, the only TP. The Jailor comes out on d3, the same day I’m Deaf. That would benefit the Mafia greatly. Let’s say I’m TI and, since I’m deaf, I don’t see someone claim TI so I don’t cc. This could draw suspicion to the deaf person, as if they were faking being deaf so they didn’t have to CC their “fake claim”. There are uses for this role, dude. Might need tweaks but still. 3. This isn’t really that similar to BM’er, in fact it’s the opposite, technically speaking.