#Bodyguard rework, 9th edition

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simple coral
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Bodyguard
Town Protective

Abilities :

Guard (☀️, 1️⃣) :
During the day, choose a player to guard.
You will guard that player each night until you terminate your contract or they die, preventing one direct attack against them.
May not be used day 1 if Grace Period is active.

Specialize (🌙, ♾️) :
During the night, while guarding a player, choose a way to improve your guard :

  • Break Contract : Terminate your duty after this night, regaining your charge of Guard.
  • Reinforced Protection : Deny all evil abilities targeting your target, excluding roleblock, control, and unknown obstacles. (priority issues moment)
  • Focus : Focus on your duty, gaining control and roleblock immunity tonight.
    You may not use the same specialty two nights in a row.
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PMer BG ?

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Now BG benefits from hiding who they are currently guarding, as they cannot quickly change targets.

exotic iris
grand zenith
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Weaker trapper

quick blaze
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5 nights at bodyguard reworks

simple coral
quick blaze
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Anyways limited protection? y

simple coral
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limited in what way

quick blaze
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doesnt it say 1 charge

simple coral
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you get the charge back when you break contract

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it just forces you to stay on the same player until you do

minor tide
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Imo

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Maybe any night where you have no contract or guard charge, you gain a charge of gaurd

grand zenith
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It’ll still compete with trapper though

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And then it’s either worse trapper or better trapper

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Still, Focus feels worthless and reinforced protection is just socialite but weird

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Focus is a silver bullet against poisoner and witch

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(And baker ig)

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RB immunity just doesn’t fit imo unless it’s necessary

simple coral
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could bake it into reinforced

grand zenith
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Focus just feels like an unthoughtout addendum made to add more things to do

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I like the idea of blocking evil abilities on your target

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Though it’d need to be limited since better soc

simple coral
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the thing is I don't want to make reinforced deny RB and UO because then you can hardconf Tavs or Socs

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could still give it Rb/control immune

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I like having an rb immune tp (condtionally) ngl

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what could fit for a 3rd effect

grand zenith
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Rb immune is ehh because like

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Tav already has so few things to do

simple coral
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fair

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could just scrap it

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Identify : If you prevent an attack, learn the name of the attacker.

grand zenith
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Pois has more but there’s still some centralizing things that it can’t stop

simple coral
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that sounds broken idk if I like that actually

grand zenith
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Honestly I don’t think protecting the same person each night is fun

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It locks you into “protect the most important claim”

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And you can’t switch targets on a dime

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Meaning you’re heavily incentivized to never protect weak claims that might get attacked

simple coral
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fair point

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I was tempted to add a Patrol option that let you choose a second player to protect

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but then it's kinda just better cleric atp

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since that completly removes its designed weakness

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I will keep this concept in mind and try to find better boosts

muted geode
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The idea of having different modes is neat

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but this is bad because its just a hug the TPOW simulator

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Its basically a male anglerfish

gray anchor
gray anchor
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feels like just an excuse to shit on poisoner

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at least I think roleblock immunity shouldn't be used as a "game balance" measure

simple coral
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Ye I'll scrap the rb immunity

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just need a good concept to replace it

cedar bramble
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Just seems like a better cleric

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tbh, no difference except you choose during the day instead of at night

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  • you get bestowed, or your target gets safe
lilac aspen
cedar bramble
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I mean, it does from what im looking at

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you continuosly guard until they get 1 direct attack

lilac aspen
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You may not use the same specialty two nights in a row

cedar bramble
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Bro, just use the other one then.

lilac aspen
cedar bramble
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You grant safe one nigth then bestow yourself on the other

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you protect regardless

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you guard and also use a specialized ability

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this has 100% uptime

lilac aspen
cedar bramble
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Well no shit. But id rather this over cleric tbh. It's kinda rare to get 2+ attackers on a target

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granting safe every other night and gaining bestow is so strong

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it has 100% guard time even if it can only protect against 1 attack

lilac aspen
cedar bramble
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How

lilac aspen
cedar bramble
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Im assuming its like safe

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where the visit still goes through

lilac aspen
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It says "denies them from targeting" so I assume it just doesn't allow the visit to go though

cedar bramble
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The wording is vague there

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I dont think it's like soci?

simple coral
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it denies abilities, not visits

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if a VM goes on target, they aren't silenced but the VM is still seen visiting

cedar bramble
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yeah thought so

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but anyways, just a stronger cleric with 99% uptime