[Drury18]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

2. I don't think redirection works that way. mafiascum.com is also blocked for me at work, can someone find out if there is a role that can redirect all of the initiators actions onto someone else. I think the mafia would have to redirect things that happen to Puxlut and why would they do that?

I think it goes A ---> B ----> C (A's action to B is redirected to C). I don't think you can go A ------> C ignoring B. But I could be wrong.

The only other redirection roles I can find aside from a Bus Driver (who seems to be able to take actions focused on two players and switch them) or a plain redirector (take one action, redirect to someone else) is the Captain who can order who can do what:

A Captain is a role who can choose what other roles in the game will do during the night, but those roles have an option to 'obey or disobey' his orders. If they obey, they will go through with the action. If they disobey, the action will not happen. The Captain is informed of what roles he has command of in his Role PM. At least 1, usually no more than 3. He only knows what the roles are, not who the roles are. Simplified, the Captain does not get results, he simply tells them what to do through the mod and those roles are faced with a YES or NO question pertaining to whether they agree with what he wants. The action typically takes place during the day as to not load down the night with awkward phasing.

There's also something called a Switch:

A Switch is a role that can choose at Night whether to enable or disable all roles of a given type. For instance, a Doctor Switch can choose whether all Doctors in the game would be effective on a given Night. If the Switch dies, the power associated with it is considered enabled for the rest of the game.

The most used role associated with Switch is Vigilante; historically, a Vigilante Switch is called a Tooth Fairy. The reason why Vigilantes are associated with Switches is that a bad Vigilante can single-handedly ruin a Town; with a Switch, the Town has some recourse against a bad Vig beyond finding and lynching it. By the same token, this usage of Switch can be extended to control any role that may bring harm to the Town if used improperly, such as Bus Driver.

With this in mind, Switches are commonly, but not necessarily, Town-aligned.

Compare and contrast Enabler, particularly in the case of Mafia Switches.

If anti-Town Switches are to be used, a better design move would be one that limited power roles on both the Town's side and the Mafia's side. For example, a game may have a Doctor, a Mafia Doctor, and a Mafia-aligned Doctor Switch; thus forcing the Mafia to consider whether it wants to give up its Doctor in order to stop the Town Doctor. The example becomes more intriguing if the Serial Killer is made the Switch instead, as the SK has its own agenda; this idea is used in the Switch setup.