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Lawyer
Alias: none
Alignment:
Role type:
  • Deceptive
Choice:
  • Night

A Lawyer may choose to protect a player from investigations during the night, causing that target to investigate as Innocent (or whichever result is most favorable) to Cops. This role typically hurts town regardless of who uses it (except in rare cases involving multiple anti-town factions), and thus is basically never seen in Town hands.

This role is not considered Normal on mafiascum.net, due to producing misleading investigation results in a way that town cannot reasonably anticipate.

Standard version

A Lawyer targets a player to have them investigate as Town to Cops.

Variations

Related roles are the Framer, who makes a player appear guilty rather than innocent, and Tailor, who has both Framer and Lawyer abilities. A player who has a permanent self-targeting Lawyer effect is a Godfather (or Investigation-Immune if a third party).

In terms of variants, it is possible to imagine a Lawyer variant who protects against tracking, Rolecop investigations, or some combination, but such roles are rarely used and do not have a name.

Use & Balance

A Lawyer effect is best aimed at the player on your team who is most likely to be investigated. Many Cops use the strategy of investigating their null reads; thus, you should use it on a player who is hard to read, perhaps on a lurker (who is on your team, obviously).

The role is a little stronger than that of Godfather because its target can be moved around, but a little weaker in that (unless it can self-target, which is rare) it becomes useless when the team is reduced to one member.


Sample Role PMs

The standardized Role PM for "Lawyer" describes the action as follows:

  • As a targeted action: that player will investigate as "Town" to Cops. (edit)

Example (simplest form)

Welcome to game! You are a Mafia Lawyer.

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

You have the following active abilities, but may use only one per Night:

  • 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.
  • Each Night, you may target a player. Assuming no interference with your action, that player will investigate as "Town" to Cops.

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 (with modifiers)

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

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

You have the following active abilities, but may use only one per Night:

  • 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.
  • Once in the game at Night, you may target a player. Assuming no interference with your action, that player will investigate as "Town" to Cops. Your target will learn that you targeted them (but not what action you targeted them with).

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.