Extortionist: Neutral evil

[Squidypie]

Extortionist
Neutral Evil
Clue set: Detective/Lookout/Agent
marks a person each night, during day can type -shakedown, and all marked people must vote innocent for the rest of the day.
Win condition: Town loses
Optional:
- Can only extort town/neutral benign, is notified when extortion fails.
- Cannot mark the night after a shakedown

Strategy:
Town usually relies on lynching rather than killing roles. The extortionist has the power to delay lynches, and tip the balance against town. Extortionist can save confirmed maf/neut evil/neut killing/ self from a lynch. It's unlikely to tip the balance often, but may frame a person or two and may delay a close lynch or two. That is IF the Extortionist has figured out who the bad guys are. A bad extortionist might save townies rather than maf.

-Anyone the extortionist saves will likely be lynched the next day or killed that night

-People will occasionally try arguing that they were forced to vote innocent to deflect suspicion.

-The extortionist skill will likely need to be saved for several tuns to have any meaning.

[Mouchoir]

Why not, could be interesting.
Or, it could force the marked person to vote the choice they didn't pick : let's say I vote inno, it would guilty. It might kill a town, or save a maf, who knows.

Is the "shaked" personn noticed they have been targeted ?

[eezstreet]

This looks like a really interesting role, not too similar to other roles and not too powerful. The only thing I have against it I guess is the name and what it does -- extortionist sounds like a mafia-aligned role by nature.

[Chane]

IF it changes the vote instead of making it insta-inno I"ll +1 this. gonna take a look around if the role already exists in FM-maf

[Squidypie]

The only thing I have against it I guess is the name and what it does -- extortionist sounds like a mafia-aligned role by nature.

Yeah, I would have called him Blackmailer if that didn't already exist :/
Should I call him The Wormtongue?

IF it changes the vote instead of making it insta-inno I"ll +1 this. gonna take a look around if the role already exists in FM-maf

I would have liked to do that too, but then he might have had to spend 4 nights marking people only to have three of them abstain. Making them change would potentially ruin evil plans if he marked the wrong people. If it was a change they could just put him up a second time, the extortionist might maybe trick a few people and make a few evil votes go ignored, but really he buys time. If all day his targets have to vote inno, then that day's lynch may be entirely wasted. i never really looked to see if someone had suggested a Vote-arson before.

[Roac]

Looks fun.

[Chane]

change name to "Littlefinger"