DiamondRanger8 wrote:Wow that was a hand full to read. Honestly I could see this. It's a little complicated for my tastes, but with a little bit of practice, or if you already played Throne of Lies this expansion would be great. I especially like the Lawyer idea, I think it should just start a normal trial at the start of the day, instead of this new system. TBH this kind of inspired me to make my own expansion LOL. We'll see. I'm curious, how long did it take you to come up with all of this?
Once I found the Anticipation discord server, it took me a few days to review the roles. I have a deck of all of my ideas and reworks for Town of Salem roles hand-written on notecards, and I saw the Corporate and thought, "Well, why not?" From there I took some of the roles (CEO, Mercenary, Security, Recruiter, and Salesman all originate from that list, CEO is the only one that's been copied verbatim) and re-inspired my own variations of them. For instance, the Mercenary in ToS:A grants defense to itself and its target if they're both evil, but attacks its target if it's an opposing faction. In my variant, I rewrote the Mercenary as a charge-up kill. Originally it was entirely dependent on the Human Resources to provide additional bullets as it was a 1-shot ability, but I then realized factions need a consistent kill or the ability to get one, so it instead became an increasingly-powerful role with combo potential with the Security and Human Resources.
Ex: Human Resources empowers the Security, granting it Basic defense and the ability to tell Corporate from others in its kills. The Mercenary then attacks the TP/LO claim and the Security gatekeeps the TP/LO claim. Now, the Security takes the hit, losing its Basic defense but counterattacking
everyone who went on the TP/LO claim except the Mercenary. LO, BG, and Spy are all dead the next day.
It took some revising to fix up some roles from being broken to sort-of-OK. Due to the Recruiter's ability, I had to theme most information-gatherers around other info-gatherers (this can be seen in the Backgrounder being a Tracker rehash and the Telemarketer being like the Blackmailer with anonymous whispers. Besides, how fun would it be to troll the Jailor by Telemarketing to them?
From A Telemarketer: "Today's game is sponsored by RAID: Shadow Legends..."
All in all, it took about four weeks to get this to a point where I liked it, and then I posted this about a month later.