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In some [[role madness]] games or in games with multiple scum groups, the condition that Role Cop does not learn its target's alignment is not applied. Role Cops will learn the full role name of their targets. In particularly extreme cases this has been extended to the Role Cop receiving the entire Role PM of its target (with names and chat topic links deleted, of course). | In some [[role madness]] games or in games with multiple scum groups, the condition that Role Cop does not learn its target's alignment is not applied. Role Cops will learn the full role name of their targets. In particularly extreme cases this has been extended to the Role Cop receiving the entire Role PM of its target (with names and chat topic links deleted, of course). | ||
A [[Flavor Cop]] is usually a weaker version of a Role Cop, giving hints to someone's role without explicitly naming it. | A '''[[Flavor Cop]]''' is usually a weaker version of a Role Cop, giving hints to someone's role without explicitly naming it. | ||
Any role that gives binary answers based on someone's role (such as [[Gunsmith]]) is probably a derivation of [[Cop]] instead of Role Cop. | |||
==Use and Power== | ==Use and Power== | ||
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A Role Cop is an investigative role that receives the role name of its target. In Normal games, this is "Cop", "Doctor", "Roleblocker, and so forth. There is no indication of the target's alignment; if a Mafia Goon is investigated, they return "Vanilla".
This version of the role, and only this version of the role, is considered Normal on mafiascum.net.
In themed games, the Role Cop has been known to return the target's flavor name (e.g. Pikachu), the target's role name (e.g. One-Shot Thundershocker), or both.
Role Cops have been seen aligned with Town and scum, and is actually a somewhat popular Mafia role in games with many power roles.
Variations
In some role madness games or in games with multiple scum groups, the condition that Role Cop does not learn its target's alignment is not applied. Role Cops will learn the full role name of their targets. In particularly extreme cases this has been extended to the Role Cop receiving the entire Role PM of its target (with names and chat topic links deleted, of course).
A Flavor Cop is usually a weaker version of a Role Cop, giving hints to someone's role without explicitly naming it.
Any role that gives binary answers based on someone's role (such as Gunsmith) is probably a derivation of Cop instead of Role Cop.
Use and Power
In Normal games, Role Cops are about on par with Trackers in terms of its power - Role Cop does not learn who its target targeted, but Tracker doesn't know what kind of action the target used. In Theme games, Role Cop can be a somewhat unreliable Cop (or perhaps Flavor Cop) depending on how likely it is that the result they got would be attached to one faction or another. Either way, Role Cop is obviously good for shutting down fakeclaims if it lives long enough.
In scum hands, Role Cop is useful for hunting power roles to be killed on future Nights. Its drawback is that it takes an extra Night for the scum to kill someone the Role Cop finds is a power role.