Actor

Actor Alias: none Alignment: Town Role type: Voting Negative Utility Choice: none Status: Historical

An Actor is a player that can only vote if the vote is a hammer. An attempt to cast a vote that isn't a hammer may be met either with a vote count where the Actor's vote does nothing (confirming the player as an Actor), or a modkill.

Actors are essentially never seen in practice, but are traditionally Town-aligned.

Standard version

An Actor may not cast a vote that isn't a deciding vote. If an Actor casts a vote that isn't a deciding vote, their vote weight will be zero.

Variations

An Actor who casts a vote that isn't a deciding vote may instead unavoidably die or may instead be modkilled.

This role is the inverse of the Priest.

A variant unofficially termed Sadist may only vote players who are at most three votes away from being eliminated.

This is not to be confused with Hammerer.

Use & Balance

Because it is usually impossible to prove a given player is an Actor if they only place hammering votes, the fact that this role is usually Town-aligned cannot be taken advantage of. However, the fact that Actor is a particularly unheard-of role makes it an unlikely falseclaim...

Ignoring the meta context, Actor is at best no different from Vanilla and at worst a distraction to the Town.

Sample Role PMs

The standardized Role PM for "Actor" describes the passive ability as follows:

• As an unmodified passive ability: You must not attempt to cast a non-deciding vote. (edit)

• As a passive ability with a modifier: You must not attempt to cast the nth non-deciding vote OR a non-deciding vote on day n. (edit)

Example (unmodified)

Welcome to game! You are a Town Actor.

You must not attempt to cast a non-deciding vote.

You have no active abilities.

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 (modified)

Welcome to game! You are a Town Odd Day Actor.

You must not attempt to cast a non-deciding vote on an odd-numbered day.

You have no active abilities.

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.