[Role Suggestion] Hippie

[Riogho]

Role name: Hippie

Description: An aged hippie with a ton of illicit substances.

Alignment: Town (Random)

Abilities: You invite your target over to smoke a joint, their night action is done on you instead of their intended target.

Win Condition: Town

Host Options:
Invulnerability Vest: 1 or 2 or off
Person knows they got high with hippie: on or off


Pros: A role that allow you to identify invests and such, because people will say "oh I found the old hippy", also allows you to identify mafia if the last will mechanic is used "I made 10 visit me tonight, if I die he is sk/gf/mafioso"

Cons: You die if you find a mafia, unless you use your vests intelligently.

Overall effect on the metagame if implemented: It's a little bit of a town protective and town investigative role rolled into one.

I'm not necessarily attached to the name. It's almost like an inverse beguiler but for the town. Maybe town power would be appropriate, but I could see it being limited to only town random like coroner and spy. I think this is one of the best town roles i've seen proposed in awhile, but I guess I'm biased, and a little bit high.

[Banshis]

What would happen when you claim hippy to town and get a doc on you. Then find the godfather or neutral killing and just bring him to you everynight. Then you have the godfather rolebocked the entire game.

[Fubby]

Well escort can do that too if the option is enabled

[SuperJack]

So, it's basically a town aligned witch, that has to make target, target self. With vests?

[Deantwo]

So, it's basically a town aligned witch, that has to make target, target self. With vests?

I think you misunderstood this.

At least as far as i understand, you force your target to visit YOU.

I mostly only see this role harming the town, even more so in the power role happy SC2 playerbase.

[yzb25]

I don't think any of you are really right in Why you oppose the role.
BD mainly acts as a hindrance on the town usually anyway so that doesn't seem to be the problem.
What I dislike about it is how it just seems to be an evolved escort. Like, it stops people working by making them just visit a hippie, like the escort and its main use is confirming the killings by making them visit you + combining your bpf vest to stay alive.

[SuperJack]

I think you misunderstood this.

At least as far as i understand, you force your target to visit YOU.

I mostly only see this role harming the town, even more so in the power role happy SC2 playerbase.

Yes, like witch you can force the target to visit YOU.

But this hippie makes it so that: You can force the target to ONLY VISIT you.

[Dagaen]

I think of it as reversed Escort - it's still almost roleblocking, but if victim doesn't know he got high it just hurts town - it's like Bus Driver dying without LW, the most annoying thing ever. With notification ON it maybe be better, but I still don't like it as a Town role.

How about this - make it neutral benign and make his goal "You want to see peaceful night in town. You win when you witness 2 nights (and maybe days) without deaths ". Give him 2-3 vests. That way Hippie will be a Neutral who will always try to help town, but he could be easily lynched if revealed for screwing town investigations. What do you think?