Hitchhiker (Unaligned)

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alphaviki: (Better name pending) Basically this role is born out of the thought to have more of a variety in ua roles. The issue is that I am osciliating between the role being interesting and it being too hard/boring/bad, but I decided to share it anyway. Basically this role is an unaligned player who may stay every phase at a different person, similar to a hooker, just for every phase. And similarly to hooker, if their target gets attacked, so do they. But during the day this means if their target gets lynched, they die (basically ride or die). The goal is to have stayed at every single alive player. Once that happens, they ascend at the end of the phase (after attacks and lynch).

Basically the quirks of this are:

• They will have no allegiance and will try to vote non-visited players out, independent of their alignment
• A good fakeclaim role -> explains weird votes during lynch
• Because of the difference goals, they can be an asset to both teams
• The player either wins, by surviving until the end and staying with the last few players, but because of their nature, they still might switch sides; or by setting kills and lynches up in a way that they ascend mid-game
• They are a bad kill or lynch since they are less of a problem than actual wolves or solos
• Even if they claim publically, they can be counterclaimed by wolves or solos

Additional ideas:

• Maybe a power to gain additional votes? -> Problem: confirmability

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e_thsn:

(Better name pending) Basically this role is born out of the thought to have more of a variety in ua roles. The issue is that I am osciliating between the role being interesting and it being too hard/boring/bad, but I decided to share it anyway. Basically this role is an unaligned player who may stay every phase at a different person, similar to a hooker, just for every phase. And similarly to hooker, if their target gets attacked, so do they. But during the day this means if their target gets lynched, they die (basically ride or die). The goal is to have stayed at every single alive player. Once that happens, they ascend at the end of the phase (after attacks and lynch).

Basically the quirks of this are:

• They will have no allegiance and will try to vote non-visited players out, independent of their alignment
• A good fakeclaim role -> explains weird votes during lynch
• Because of the difference goals, they can be an asset to both teams
• The player either wins, by surviving until the end and staying with the last few players, but because of their nature, they still might switch sides; or by setting kills and lynches up in a way that they ascend mid-game
• They are a bad kill or lynch since they are less of a problem than actual wolves or solos
• Even if they claim publically, they can be counterclaimed by wolves or solos

Additional ideas:

• Maybe a power to gain additional votes? -> Problem: confirmability

lynch attacks

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e_thsn: but it seems slightly complex

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alphaviki: Well wouldn't it be the same as Cupid in that aspect?

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e_thsn:

Well wouldn't it be the same as Cupid in that aspect?

more 1) no clear wincon (thief had this issue of a double wincon imo) 2) possible kingmaker (ua ascend to prevent them lasting until endgame and voting with a team) 3) seems more townsided (more chance of visiting a townie so more likely to vote out evils)

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shapechange: this doesn't seem like a particularly fun role to me

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shapechange: it seems very luck based

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alphaviki: Yeah I feared it might be unfun/bad. I guess we can close this then, unless someone has a good idea to improve on this?

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alphaviki: But thank you for your time!

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e_thsn:

But thank you for your time!

DW unaligned and solo are the hardest to make for, because they all require a new win condition

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e_thsn: At least town and wolves have a set win condition

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e_thsn: Well solo is more in an interesting mechanic

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shapechange: this can be closed