i think Amortal Ephemera is fine, though, because they have to actually gather materials to commit murder on a soulless puppet and have people not be immediately suspicious of them in order to use it for investgiation
so like
sure you can do super accurate autopsies
but to do it you have to give someone with a flesh puppet knives and weapons
That’s possibly because of fear of inactive clears
But a more rational answer would be “there are players who join dr games to not do anything”
the good news is that this probably isn’t the case this game
we’ve got a playerlist that will kill
their Ultimate requires a cut tongue and is one of the coolest murder abilities in the game
i think they’d want to keep it under wraps
i don’t think that’s neccecarily a bad thing, though?
(also, Mastermind could originally make actions in any room with a dead body without actually being there, so what you’re looking at is a significantly nerfed version of the Mastermind)
if there’s some way you can think of to make this work, like make it be not a straight up “you can do any action” or something more like “you can launch a single object a set distance through the room”
Disclaimer:
I haven’t looked at the setup holistically, so my certainty regarding “what you can realistically accomplish” thus is nonexistent
urrrgh no that’s really not interesting
i think i’ll keep it the way it is and make the Mastermind a more shadowy presence this game
MM manipulating scene of crime often doesn’t happen because of how risky it is
Especially given that security cam isn’t particularly helpful when there’s a fuckload of rooms
You’d think they know when to go in to manipulate stuff
But it’s often dangerous due to a bunch of pms being ~annoying to deal with
the “you can do actions in the same room as the body for 0 AP” is meant to give the Mastermind some incentive to do that. maybe i can add something like “you may additionally become invisible while in the presence of a dead body” to that ability?
so they aren’t just lolinvisible but they can sure as hell do crime scene manipulation with slightly less risk
enough that they may actually decide to do it
Idea:
They have a room dependent ability that allows them to mess with the crime scene without being in it
Like a spell that affects a certain area in a given way
so like
“You may freely perform actions in the Senate without actually being there. The players will see a shadowy figure perform these actions.”, which also reflects how the Mastermind is controlling the Class Trials that take place in that room.
or something like that