Shapeshifter
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Abilities: Every day, you may pick the role that you will appear as if you are lynched. Every night, you may take on the appearance of another player, framing them as having visited someone else and causing investigators to receive confused results.
Attributes:
-Basic Defense
-Your target will appear to have visited whoever you specify, rather than who they actually visited, to any Tracker or Lookout.
-If your target would normally appear as Innocent to a Sheriff, they will appear Suspicious, and vice-versa. Detection-immune roles will continue to appear Innocent.
-Framed targets will appear to be a Framer, Vampire, Jester, or Shapeshifter (or Hex Master, if playing with the Coven DLC) to an Investigator.
-All Mafia and Neutral Killers will be notified that you were the Shapeshifter if you are lynched and appear as another role.
Goal: Ensure that three Town players are lynched.
Win Conditions:
Wins with the Mafia
Wins with Serial Killers
Wins with Arsonists
Wins with Werewolves
Wins with Witches
Wins with Survivors
Wins with Vampires
Must kill Town
Investigative Results:
Sheriff: You cannot find evidence of wrongdoing. Your target seems innocent.
Investigator: They must be a Framer, Shapeshifter, Jester, or Vampire.
Consigliere: Your target can take on many forms. They must be a Shapeshifter.
F.A.Q.
Isn't this just a NE Disguiser/Framer combo?
Sort of, but it's much more than that. Its goal is to prevent other non-Town roles from being lynched and push mislynches instead. Unlike other evils, however, it can do this through acting a bit suspicious during the day - much like the Jester, the Shapeshifter uses getting lynched as a tool to achieve its win condition. Unlike the Jester, however, it is a true Neutral Evil, that must balance its useful night ability with its ability to get itself lynched and send the Town down the wrong path. It can also "tailor" other evil roles, making them appear as innocent to a Sheriff, a niche no other role currently fills.
What's all this about being a Jester or Executioner replacement?
This role can either be implemented as a new Neutral Evil, and Jester and Executioner can be made Neutral Chaos and Neutral Benign, respectively; or, one of the two can be reworked to have the Shapeshifter's abilities, and the other one can be moved. Either way is perfectly acceptable, as both remove a role that is toxic to the game (Jester) and a role that doesn't fit in Neutral Evil (Executioner) from Ranked and replace them with a role that works in a similar fashion to both but to an end that doesn't punish the Town for correctly lynching a Neutral Evil.
Discuss.