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Post Post #3 (isolation #0) » Thu Apr 02, 2015 12:01 am

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It's worth noting that N tricked the rest of the NRG by telling us he'd be announcing the changes at April 1.

It's also worth noting that we standardized night action resolution, voyeur, traitor and gunsmith! People might disagree with individual choices but that's undeniably progress.
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Post Post #5 (isolation #1) » Thu Apr 02, 2015 12:54 am

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The best way is to have three results for any investigative role: a positive result, a negative result (e.g. you tracked X nowhere) and no result (which is what you get when you target a Commuter). And then you include what you would PM the player in each of those cases in the role PM for maximum clarity.
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Post Post #7 (isolation #2) » Thu Apr 02, 2015 1:36 am

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Fruit Vendors were never whitelisted. You still have 1 or 2 slots (Mini or Large respectively) to use non-standard roles like Compulsive roles or Fruit Vendors.
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Post Post #9 (isolation #3) » Thu Apr 02, 2015 1:56 am

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You can still do the "do it or get modkilled"-version of Compulsive!
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Post Post #57 (isolation #4) » Tue Apr 07, 2015 10:23 am

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In post 55, GreyICE wrote:Isn't that just a voyeur/follower?

If not, is the difference large enough to be worth splitting hairs over? A role should be distinct from another role enough that there's no confusion as to which is which.

The outgoing motion detector doesn't detect whether their target has made a kill, so that alone makes it quite a bit different from follower.
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Post Post #197 (isolation #5) » Wed Jul 08, 2015 2:32 am

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Yarr.
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Post Post #254 (isolation #6) » Wed Feb 24, 2016 9:21 pm

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In post 252, Sméagol wrote:Can I ask why ninja isn't a normal town modifier? I definitely can imagine a use for town ninja power roles.

And the new night-specific modifier.. Can that one be used as "From night x and beyond" (since apparently you can specify a range of nights)? For example, I don't want something used on night 1, but don't want any restrictions beyond that, so: Night 2-and beyond cop, or what ever power role.

Both of those don't seem too unreasonable (and would work fine as a variant role) but I've also never seen either of those in a game. Normal games are to some degree about predictability (or at least taming the level of unpredictability) so that does mean we do care about how common a role is.
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Post Post #333 (isolation #7) » Sun May 08, 2016 10:44 am

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I don't really think spreading things across multiple wiki pages is desirable.
In post 332, Sméagol wrote:- Are jack-of-all-trades required to only use 1-shots, or can you use other numbers? For example: Jack-of-all-trades (1-shot cop; 2-shot neapolitan).
It's a bit of a grey area. The role doesn't specify that the one-shot abilities need to be distinct, so there is some space for giving a JoAT a 2-shot ability but it should at least feel like a JoAT; I wouldn't allow the example role you gave but e.g. 1xCop,1xRB,2xDoc would be okay.
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