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Psychiatrist
Alias: none
Alignment:
Role type:
  • Linked
  • Alignment-Changing
Choice:
  • Night

The Psychiatrist is a player who can target a player each Night. If that player is a Serial Killer, that player reverts to a Vanilla Townie. These are not meant to be seen in Role Madness games where Serial Killers have multiple abilities.

Psychiatrists are rarely seen at all, but where they do exist, they are pro-Town.

Psychiatrist is an alignment-changing role, and thus requires declaring a game mechanically bastard.

Standard version

A Psychiatrist converts a Serial Killer into a Vanilla Townie, removing any roles that the Serial Killer used to have.

Variations

A Psychiatrist may allow a converted Serial Killer to keep their role, allowing them to retain any abilities they had before the conversion asides from the Serial Killer's kill ability.

A Psychiatrist may also convert a Serial Killer into a benign independent such as a Survivor instead of a Vanilla Townie.

It has been suggested that Psychiatrists should also be able to remove Doomed from players' roles.

Use & Balance

While the Serial Killer may not appreciate being turned into a powerless Townie, Psychiatrist is nonetheless a reasonably powerful role that grants the Town one more chance to stop one scum-directed kill per Night.

Because of its rarity and specific nature, it should be noted that Psychiatrist is arguably more likely to appear without a Serial Killer in the game than with.


Sample Role PMs

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

  • As a targeted action: that player will be converted to a Vanilla Townie if they are a Serial Killer. (edit)

Example (simplest form)

Welcome to game! You are a Town Psychiatrist.

You have the following active ability:

  • Each Night, you may target a player. Assuming no interference with your action, that player will be converted to a Vanilla Townie if they are a Serial Killer.

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 (with modifiers)

Welcome to game! You are a Town 1-shot Loud Psychiatrist.

You have the following active ability:

  • Once in the game at Night, you may target a player. Assuming no interference with your action, that player will be converted to a Vanilla Townie if they are a Serial Killer. Your target will learn that you targeted them (but not what action you targeted them with).

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.