Role Idea: Wiretapper

[lawson]

Neutral Evil.

Can read PMs. Can read night chat from Mafia, Triad, Cult and Mason.

Basically old spy without the visits and a different alignment.

[Rachyl123456]

I LIEK THIS IDEA

[Exeter350]

At first I thought this role could be promising as a Neutral Benign, and was thinking of various strategies they could pull off.

Then I realized it will just revert the game to 1.0 no night chat meta.

[lawson]

well I proposed it as neutral evil so I don't see why a NE would try to reveal mafia and their intentions

[Exeter350]

This ability is too OP for a NE. He would get all role claims and LWs as soon as Town Gov reveals and all players start PMing.
It would work better as a NB who could decide which faction to side with (as opposed to a NE, who doesn't have the same flexibility).

Additionally, even if it's NE, Mafia would STILL refrain from talking at night to avoid getting screwed over.
Neutral Evil and Mafia are two different factions, they don't need to work together to win.

Can't see this role working.

[lawson]

with all due respect, I think you are overthinking it. I'm not saying this would be a good role, maybe it isn't a good idea, but to make change you have to take a risk. You can always remove something later on.

personally I think poltergeist would be the best use of bringing the reading the PMs back. would it be OP? maybe.. would it be fun? hell yeah it would.

[Renegade]

Ah yes, the good old let's make every role OP because it will be fun. No consideration of balance. I'm shocked!!!!!

[Exeter350]

I don't see any merit in bringing back the ability to read night chat. There's no "risk" since the community already has 10 years of experience with it, we already know what's wrong with it.

My honest opinion is that reading night chat is detrimental to the game meta and shouldn't be brought back. It was removed for a reason.

[DJarJar]

this is literally the "i get to know everything going on in the game so i can control it and be the king" role