Vote Thief

Vote Thief Alias: Politician Alignment: Town Role type: Voting Choice: Night Status: Historical

A Vote Thief is a role that can target a player at Night to steal their vote during the following Day.

For balance reasons, Vote Thief is usually Town-aligned.

Standard version

A Vote Thief may target a player at Night. If the action succeeds, the following Day the Vote Thief will be able to also vote on the target's behalf, and the target won't be able to vote at all.

Use & Balance

Town-aligned Vote Thieves can steal other players' votes. The only practical positive effect of this is to allow for "beyond ELo" play; situations such as "2 town 2 scum", which are normally an immediate loss for town, can still be winnable (if very difficult) if the Vote Thief repeatedly steals votes from scum to prevent them forcing a no elimination. Along similar lines, the role could potentially be used to bait scum into making quickhammers that won't actually work (although you will need to rely on some other townie to place someone at E-1).

The role can, however, have a nasty negative effect if the Vote Thief is killed during the Night, rendering one player Voteless during the next Day.

Scum-aligned Vote Thieves have one more vote to their faction's credit as long as the Vote Thief is alive. In order to balance this like in a normal game, this means the scum team has one fewer member than usual and gets hosed if the Vote Thief dies.

Sample Role PMs

The standardized Role PM for "Vote Thief" describes the action as follows:

• As a targeted action: the next Day you will be able to vote on that player's behalf, and that player won't be able to vote. (edit)

Example (simplest form)

Welcome to game! You are a Town Vote Thief.

You have the following active ability:

• Each Night, you may target a player. Assuming no interference with your action, the next Day you will be able to vote on that player's behalf, and that player won't be able to vote.

You win if all threats to the town are eliminated and at least one town-aligned player is alive.

Confirm by replying to this PM with a summary of your role.

Example (with modifiers)

Welcome to game! You are a Town 1-shot Loud Vote Thief.

You have the following active ability:

• Once in the game at Night, you may target a player. Assuming no interference with your action, the next Day you will be able to vote on that player's behalf, and that player won't be able to vote. Your target will learn that you targeted them (but not what action you targeted them with).

You win if all threats to the town are eliminated and at least one town-aligned player is alive.

Confirm by replying to this PM with a summary of your role.