Role:
Dictator
Alignment:
Neutral Evil
Role Card:
Summary:
A powerful tyrant waiting for the perfect moment to take over.
Abilities:
Mark a player for their body to mysteriously disappear when they die.
Attributes:
When a marked player dies in any way, their body will not be found, preventing the town from seeing their role and Last Will.
You will know the roles and see the wills of marked players when they die.
Marked players will remain marked for the rest of the game, even if you continue to mark other players or die.
When you die, your body will also mysteriously disappear and the town will not see your role and Last Will.
If you survive to the end of the game and win, all other factions will lose. [1]
Goal:
Survive to see the Town lose the game.
Win Conditions:
You must kill the Town.
You win with Witches.
You win with Survivors.
You win with Dictators.
You may spare anyone else.
Mafia, Coven, all Neutral Killing roles, Pestilence and Vampires will get an additional win condition:
You must kill Dictators.
Special Attributes:
Attack:
None
Defence:
None (Basic until first attack, like the Witch) [2]
Investigative Results: [3]
Sheriff: You cannot find evidence of wrongdoing. Your target seems innocent.
Investigator: Your target could be a Framer, Vampire, Jester, Hex Master or Dictator
Consigliere: Your target is plotting to take over the town. They must be a Dictator.
Notifications:
You have (instead) chosen to mark <player name>. - When targeting a player at night
We could not determine their role. - When a marked player or Dictator dies
<player name> (Unknown) - When a marked player or Dictator is shown in the graveyard
You secretly know <player name>'s role was <role>. - When a marked player dies
You secretly know their last will. - When a marked player dies
A Dictator has taken over the town! - When the game ends with a Dictator win
Additional Information:
- The Dictator's primary goal is to see the Town lose the game, like the Witch. However, if this happens and the game ends in an evil win (Mafia, Coven, Vampire, Pestilence or any Neutral Killing), those evils will lose and only the Dictator will win.
- In other words, if the Dictator survives to the end of the game and all of the Town is dead, all other players will lose unless they are a won Neutral Benign or Neutral Evil role (or a won Pirate).
- This means all evil roles need to watch out for the possibility of a Dictator in the game, and they need to kill the Dictator before killing their final opposition.
- Marked players will disappear no matter how they die, including being lynched.
- If a player dies the night they are marked, their body will not disappear. [4]
Strategy:
- The Dictator needs to help the evils in misleading the Town by using their ability to open up claim space for themselves and other evils. They should try to mark players who are likely to die, to make full use of their ability.
- While doing this, the Dictator not only needs to trick the Town into believing them, but also needs to trick evils into thinking they are Town and the Dictator is either dead or another player.
- Once evils have the majority vote, evils should generally keep the most confirmed Town role alive until they are the final opposition, because they can be fairly sure that if they aren't the Dictator, the Dictator must already be dead.
- Therefore, the Dictator needs to make it seem like they are the most confirmed Town role alive, by using the wills of dead marked players to make a convincing Town claim.
- An alternative strategy is to not mark anyone at all (so evils do not know there is a Dictator) and claim to be a different Neutral Evil when evils have majority, so that they assume you are on their side and spare you.
More detailed strategy
As the Dictator:
- There are two main strategies. You can either make as many bodies disappear as possible to create confusion and give yourself and other evils more claim space, or mark no one so that the existence of the Dictator isn't even known to the evils.
- If you're trying to mark as effectively as possible, you need to see what players are most likely to die to create as much confusion as possible. Not only do you need to harm the Town, but you also need to make the evils think that one of the disappeared players was the Dictator all along and that you aren't a threat.
- If the existence of a Dictator is known due to players having disappeared, you need to be a more convincing Town member than the actual Town, because evils will keep confirmed Town players alive until they are sure the Dictator has been killed.
- You can try to look confirmed by using the wills of dead players that you marked and possibly assuming their identities.
- Another strategy is to not mark any players at all and pretend to be another Neutral Evil role in the endgame. The easiest strategy is claiming to be a won Executioner siding with evils, as they would appreciate the extra vote and may ignore you. However, some evils may be wary of an Executioner claim exactly for this reason (as it would become a common Dictator claim).
- You can also claim to be a Jester and beg for a win, making sure you are annoying enough that the evils don't want to give you the free win and will not lynch you.
- It is possible to claim to be a Witch, but if no players have ever claimed to have been witched, it will be difficult to convince evils that you are one.
Against the Dictator:
- As Town, even though the Dictator isn't a direct threat, you should still push or even lynch possible Dictators. They cause a lot of confusion and give evils a lot more claim space, much like a Janitor.
- As an evil, if the existence of a Dictator is known, towards the end of the game you need to make sure you kill them before ending the game. Usually you can do this by keeping a confirmed Town player alive until the end (but beware of skilled Dictators who may trick you into thinking they are confirmed).
- Even if no dead players have disappeared, don't assume there is no Dictator in the game. They may not be marking players, or they might have even just gotten unlucky and marked players that are all still alive.
Additional strategy for All Any:
- Most of the above strategy still applies.
- Survivor is another easy Dictator claim, but it will attract suspicion from almost all other players.
- Hiding the existence of a Dictator by not marking anyone is not as important in All Any, as you can still claim to be a different Neutral Evil even if players know there is a Dictator in the game.
- Should Neutral Killing roles win with the Dictator? (i.e. only the Mafia and Coven will lose if a Dictator wins)
- Should the Dictator have permanent Basic defence?
- Should marked players get the Dictator's Investigator and Consigliere results?
- Should players disappear if they die the night they are marked?