Retributionist Nerf: The Revenant

[Brilliand]

Role Name: Retributionist

Role Alignment: Town Support

Abilities:

• Once per game, you can revive one dead townie whose killer is still alive
• A revived player's role changes to Revenant (see below)

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Role Name: Revenant

Role Alignment: Town Support

Abilities:

(No night or day abilities)

Attributes:

• You do not necessarily know who your murderer is.
• If your murderer dies, you die as well.
• This role can only exist when created by a Retributionist.

Notifications:

"<player_name> has been revived by a Retributionist! He is now a Revenant!" (when the role appears in the game)
"<player_name> expired, having fulfilled his purpose." (when the Revenant dies because his killer died)

Goal: Lynch every criminal and evildoer.

Win Conditions:
(Town win conditions)

Special Attributes:
Attack: None
Defense: Invincible

Investigator Results:
Sheriff - Your target seems innocent.
Investigator - Your target is a Revenant.
Consigliere - Your target was raised from the dead in full view of the town. This is the Revenant.

[Transcender]

A retri which makes people not win with town

/no

[Brilliand]

A retri which makes people not win with town

/no

I guess it wouldn't be a disaster to give the Revenant exactly the Town win condition. "He dies when his target dies" is more important to the theme.

[Transcender]

A retri which makes people not win with town

/no

I guess it wouldn't be a disaster to give the Revenant exactly the Town win condition. "He dies when his target dies" is more important to the theme.

T H E M E

theme does not take priority over balance

[Brilliand]

A retri which makes people not win with town

/no

I guess it wouldn't be a disaster to give the Revenant exactly the Town win condition. "He dies when his target dies" is more important to the theme.

T H E M E

theme does not take priority over balance

"A retri that makes people not win with town" isn't a balance concern.

Also, theme and balance are both necessary; if you have to destroy the theme for balance, you may as well scrap the role.

[Jalandh]

To be fair, the wincon is only antitown if a Retri brings back someone a vigilante, a vet or a Jailor kills. Make them unrevivable if killed by them and there ya go, a wincon that is purely protown

[Watt20I5]

To be fair, the wincon is only antitown if a Retri brings back someone a vigilante, a vet or a Jailor kills. Make them unrevivable if killed by them and there ya go, a wincon that is purely protown

there are situations where you could mafside though

[Jalandh]

To be fair, the wincon is only antitown if a Retri brings back someone a vigilante, a vet or a Jailor kills. Make them unrevivable if killed by them and there ya go, a wincon that is purely protown

there are situations where you could mafside though

How so?

[Watt20I5]

To be fair, the wincon is only antitown if a Retri brings back someone a vigilante, a vet or a Jailor kills. Make them unrevivable if killed by them and there ya go, a wincon that is purely protown

there are situations where you could mafside though

How so?

n e u t r a l k i l l i n g s a n d c h a o s

[Brilliand]

The point of giving the Revenant a not-exactly-town goal was to pressure them to kill their target ASAP and go back to the graveyard, even if the Town would benefit more from lynching that player last.

On further consideration, though:

• Considering the convoluted betrayals Witches will sometimes carry out in All Any, such light pressure is probably not enough.
• Even if the Revenant wants to lynch his target last, the Mafia has counterplay in deceiving the town as to who is the Revenant's target.

So I will edit the role accordingly.

(For anyone confused by the previous comments: The Revenant was previously a Neutral Chaos with the goal to "live to see your killer die".)

I'm not adding a "cannot revive players killed by townies" restriction, because if that happens the Mafia can then get a 2-for-1 by killing the bumbling Veteran or Jailor, and I find that dynamic interesting.