Shield

Shield Alias: none Alignment: any Role type: Manipulative Choice: Night Status: Regular Normal

A Shield is a role that may intercept a kill. If a Shield targets someone performing a kill, the Shield will instead take the kill.

Shield is usually Town. It makes little sense for there to be a Mafia Shield, as they have no reason to target anyone except a potential Vigilante; and a Vigilante who finds that their kill resolved on a different scum than they expected can simply shoot their previous target again.

Normal version

This role is allowed in Regular Normal games.

A Shield blocks their target's kill and dies instead of their target's target. A Shield cannot stop a Juggernaut from committing a kill, nor a Weak role from dying due to targeting anti-town. Shields don't redirect the kill but block it instead, so a Tracker tracking the killer will not see anything.

Variations

A Power Shield is a variant that will also kill the person who performed the kill, in effect straight up reflecting the kill back at the user.

A Perfect Shield is a variant that will negate all other deaths when intercepting the kill, guaranteeing the Perfect Shield will be the only one that dies that night barring unavoidable deaths.

A Bodyguard takes a kill that targets the Bodyguard's target.

Sample Role PMs

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

• As a targeted action: you will block your target's kill actions and you will be killed instead. (edit)

Example (simplest form)

Welcome to game! You are a Town Shield.

You have the following active ability:

• Each Night, you may target a player. Assuming no interference with your action, you will block your target's kill actions and you will be killed instead.

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 Shield.

You have the following active ability:

• Once in the game at Night, you may target a player. Assuming no interference with your action, you will block your target's kill actions and you will be killed instead. 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.