Inventor

Inventor Alias: none Alignment: Pro-town Anti-town Role type: Manipulative Choice: Night

The Inventor is a role that can give out various gadgets to other players. Each gadget typically provides one-shot of a Power Role, such as a one-shot kill, a one-shot investigation, a one-shot bulletproof, etc.

Inventors can almost never use their own gadgets themselves; they must give them to another player to use. An inventor who is able to use their own gadgets is almost always better off simply using them themselves.

Variations

Usually, an Inventor does not know what the gadget they give away on any particular Night does. A common variation is to provide the Inventor with a list of inventions, and allow them to choose which one they give on a particular Night. This list may either explain exactly what each one does ("One-shot Cop investigation"), or may hint at their power ("Forensic analysis kit"). A more complex variation is for an Inventor to start with an incomplete list, and have possible gadgets added on as the game goes on.

Some Inventors may have gadgets that do nothing, or that have negative results upon using.

Some Inventors only give out one type of gadget, such as an Inventor that can only give out kills.

Use and Power

Setup-wise, an Inventor fills the same niche that a Jack of All Trades does: they are less powerful, but more versatile, than other equivalent power roles because the gadgets that they give out are one-shot. However, an Inventor is usually weaker than an equivalent Jack of All Trades. This is a combination of both the possibility that an Inventor gives a gadget to the Mafia instead of Town, and the fact that an Inventor usually does not know the effect of the gadget they are giving.