Difference between revisions of "Doctor"

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Overview

The Doctor is one of the most critical roles to the Town and has the potential to nullify the attempts of killing roles. Every night the Doctor can target a player to heal, and that player will survive if attacked by only one killing role. The Doctor will heal all killing attempts. The efforts of an Arsonist, Vigilante, Godfather or other killing roles will be voided unless a setting says differently (e.g. if the setting is enabled for the Arsonist to burn through a Doctor's heal).

Strategies

• The most standard way to play a Doctor is to simply protect the most valuable role the Town has at the time. Sheriffs and Investigators should take priority for your heals unless circumstances dictate otherwise, or those roles are dead.

• Playing a doctor to its maximum potential however is excruciatingly difficult and will either result in a nigh-unkillable town or a town with very few power roles remaining. For example, if a Sheriff has just claimed obviously the Mafia is going to want to take them out, but if they know that a Doctor will surely be protecting them the most logical target for the Mafia is anyone but the Sheriff. Hence the doctor's logical decision may not be to protect the Sheriff but rather someone else the Mafia may choose to attack. However the Mafia may predict this and attack the Sheriff anyway; but the Doctor might predict this and just protect the Sheriff and so on.

• See Also: WIFOM

• If there is another Doctor, it can be a good strategy for the two of you to heal each other, as this enables your mutual survival. Typically, such coordination requires public chat, which means you are unlikely to be attacked at night as the evil roles will not want to waste an attack. However, you are still vulnerable should two killing roles target you simultaneously at night, though this will be unlikely. Some Serial Killers will claim Doctor, which means you will not really be getting healed at night and are thus vulnerable to attack.

Options

• Knows if target is attacked - (Default = On)
• Prevents Cultist conversion - (Default = Off)
• Knows if target is converted - (Default = Off)

Notes

• A doctor can only prevent one night attack; if a target is attacked by two attackers two doctors must heal the target in order for them to survive.
• Many players consider the Doctor to be a boring role. As such, some Doctors resort to trolling to spice up the game for themselves.