Judge (Neutral Evil)

## Mechanics

### Abilities

You may call court during the day, stopping all discussion and forcing an anonymous ballot where you have extra votes.

### Attributes

When in court, your vote counts as 3 votes.
You cannot call court day 1.
You can only call court once.

# **Judge**

The Judge is a neutral evil role who has the ability to Call Court once per game during the day. This ability will heavily disrupt the town's communications, as all chat and voting will become anonymous. As well as this, the Judge gains 3 votes.

## Mechanics

* Once per game during the day, the Judge can call court using the button in the bottom right of the screen.
* The entire town will be alerted that "The Judge has called court!"
* When court is called, voting and chat become anonymous. Townies are simply referred to as *"Jury"* and the Judge is reffered to as *"Court"*. Voting will simply say *"Someone voted [x]"*
* During court, the Judge also has three votes similar to mayor, but this only counts for the day.
* When someone is voted up during court, they are IMMEDIATELY found guilty with no defence phase.
* Once the Judge has called court, they cannot use their ability again for the rest of the game.
* Court cannot be called day 1.

## Investigative Results

 : Your target is innocent or great at hiding secrets!

 : Investigator, Consigliere, Mayor, Tracker, Plaguebearer, **Judge**, Marshall

 : Your target has the power to control the trials. They must be a **Judge**!

## Strategy

* Court is a powerful ability, but also a valuable one as it can only be called once. Its most powerful use is to deal with the Jailor, but it is also valuable for saving Evils who are about to be voted out.
* Generally, it is best to only call court when you are sure of how many evils are in the game. If there are not enough evils, town can out vote you and your ability would be wasted. Even if you do not know who specifically is evil, calling court is typically a sign for evils to rush the highest priority target.
	+ If you believe that evils have a majority after you Court, consider revealing who you are. Because you are not anonymous during a Court, this tells evils to avoid killing you at night.
		- Beware of Vigilantes if you do this.
* On the other hand, if a Marshall reveals and you still have court, you have an amazing chance to cause tons of damage to town and take out three confirmed townies at once. Be careful who you lynch however, as you may accidentally lynch an evil if you randomly lynch. It is important to communicate with the Mafia while in court.
* If someone is outed as evil, you can use Court to turn the tides and protect them.
* It can be tempted to summon court if you are pushed, but be wary that this can easily backfire and your ability will get you killed if you are voted up at all. While you may as well use Court if there is no other hope, if you still have a chance to fight back and be found innocent, calling court will simply get you killed.

## Dealing with **Judges**

* If there is a Neutral Evil slot in the game, keep an eye out for players claiming Witched, Audited or Smoked. If nobody is claiming to have any of these effects happen to them, you can deduce the Neutral Evil must be a Judge.
	+ As a Marshall, this is especially important to keep track of. If you know there is a Judge in the game, saving your group lynch until they die is often your best option.
* Judge is the only neutral evil to not have any form of defence or scum shield - if you are playing as a Vigilante, you will be able to shoot a suspected Judge.

## Trivia

* Judge was the second revealed role in the BetterTOS mod.
* Judge was the first (new) Neutral Evil role in the BetterTOS mod.
* Judge is the first evil role in Town of Salem to affect voting.

## Update History

### ***Beta:***

* Judge was changed to be able to call court Day 2. Previously, the earliest they could call court was Day 3.

### ***Release v1.0:***

* No changes from Beta

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