Sheriff would still be easily claimable, even more so than the old one since it can appear in both unseen and cult games. Maybe it could be reduced to 2 or 3 uses to balance it?
All you would need to do is whisper a sheriff (when you can prove yourself) to check if you are X BD class (you aren’t). If they say you are then you prove yourself as not that and execute him.
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Alright, changed it
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I’m not crazy about their ability to do that; it’s not really necessary when their main ability is already extremely powerful, anyway.
That was part of it (the most serious part, yes). But I feel that detecting neutrals was also generally bad for the game. “NEUTS OUT” is really not a good meta when most neutrals need to survive in order to win and can be randomly detected as early as N1.
It also slightly decreases claimspace, which is always bad. (Without neutral detectors, neutral claims become theoretically more reasonable because NKs have no particular reason to make them, making them less suspicious - not by very much, since there’s still reasons the BD might distrust them, but generally I think a “lynch neutrals instantly” meta is bad for the game. In particular I feel that Alchemists getting insta-lynched is a sign something is wrong, since they’re supposed to be somewhat BD favored because they limit the Cult / Unseen’s poison / bleed.)
Finding neutrals should be hard but not impossible. For example unlike the king an observer using peek early game is suspicious and the fact that he is a non-liniar Investigator means that him finding you is almost never a random check. King however had 4 checks and was practically forced to check early thus making random neut checks much more of a problem. A sheriff with unlimited neut checks worked into his main Ability would definitely be a problem. However a limited high skill Ability that MIGHT be able to find a neutral is fine.
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I agree with that, window peek should just be changed so it discovers the classes that visit your target. The current window peek doesn’t fit with the theme of observer anyways.
I did change the ability, is it better now?