Doppelganger

Doppelganger Alias: none Alignment: Mafia Town Role type: Deceptive Negative Utility Choice: none Status: Untested

A Doppelganger is a player who returns role investigative results as if they were instead another player. The Doppelganger is usually informed of the player they look like.

A Doppelganger can be negative utility, especially if they are appearing to be scum.

Standard version

A Doppelganger returns role investigative results as if they were instead another player. They appear as the other player's alignment and role to investigative roles.

Doppelgangers don't interfere with action investigators like a Tracker.

Use & Balance

A Doppelganger may be equivalent to either a Miller or Godfather, and will appear as an incorrect role to Role Cops.

Sample Role PMs

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

• As an unmodified passive ability: You investigate as if you were name. (edit)

• As a passive ability with a modifier: You investigate as if you were name the nth time you are investigated OR on day n. (edit)

Example (unmodified)

Welcome to game! You are a Mafia Doppelganger.

Your team-mates are names. You may talk to them here during night phases and confirmations only.

You investigate as if you were name.

You have the following active ability:

• Each Night, if no other member of your faction is performing this action, you may target a player. Assuming no interference with your action, that player will die.

You win if at least one mafia member is alive and all other players are dead (or if nothing can prevent the same).

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

Example (modified)

Welcome to game! You are a Mafia 1-shot Doppelganger.

Your team-mates are names. You may talk to them here during night phases and confirmations only.

You investigate as if you were name the first time you are investigated.

You have the following active ability:

• Each Night, if no other member of your faction is performing this action, you may target a player. Assuming no interference with your action, that player will die.

You win if at least one mafia member is alive and all other players are dead (or if nothing can prevent the same).

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