u/Responsible_Edge7087

You've seen them everywhere: "Neutral roles". Roles where you dont play on anyone's team, and have a unique win condition outside of the standard "vote imposter out vs kill everyone", but how could these rules be implemented in game? There's three ways I've thought of.

#1: As is.

Take for example the jester role, if you implement it as is, your win condition is "get voted out" which in a game of among us is very common. This WOULD serve to make people more careful when voting, but it also gives importers and unfair edge, as people will be hesitant to vote.

#2: harder win conditions.

Again, using the jester role, to balance the instant win condition of "get voted out", it could be made harder by making you need to get voted by 2/3rds of the crew when you are ejected. Another way could be to make you get voted out twice, after your first vote out, you can come back to life in the body of a crewmate who is killed by an imposter in the next round. Example: round 2 you get voted out, round 3 the imposter kills a person, you take over their body through an ability (like the gaurdian angels protect) and you win once you manage to get that crewmate voted out. This is made more difficult, as you will likely be targeted by the imposter that killed the player you yook over, since they know you are close to winning.

#3: neutral roles cant win.

You could also balance the neutral roles by making it so they dont win. Once you get voted out once as jester, you dont win, but you get special abilities as a ghost. To fit with the theme of a jester, you could have the ability to play pranks on the crew or imposter, like playing fake noisemakers, closing doors for a few seconds, or making a fake shapeshifter bubble. This one is my personal favorite.

Should neutral roles ever be added, should they work in any of these ways? What neutral roles would be the best to add? I'd love to here what you all think.

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