Singer

Singer Alias: none Alignment: Town Role type: Negative Utility Choice: none

Singer is a role that, upon being nightkilled, will reveal a random town role to the Mafia. It's usually a town role, although it has been used on independents before, and has potential as a scum role in Multiball setups. It's sometimes used as a modifier for balance purposes. However, due to its negative utility, unprovability, and the fact that unlike Miller there's no real way to make it useful to town, Singer is a very unpopular and uncommon role.

Use and Power

The role's most common use is to tip the game slightly toward scum, as it's basically a free Role Cop check if the player gets nightkilled but scum doesn't pick who gets checked. It also doesn't work if the target gets eliminated (as a result, Singers are subject to Policy Eliminations). It's not very powerful for either side, so it's only really used if the game would be slightly pro-town otherwise.

Note that although it triggers on an action that's bad for town and hurts town – a combination that would normally cause the role to increase swing – nightkilling players is something that the scum are almost guaranteed to do anyway, and nightkilling a Singer means that the scum aren't nightkilling a more useful power role. As such, the role acts to slightly even out the mechanical advantage that scum gain from their various possible nightkill targets, reducing swing slightly.