Professor
“The process is simple. Attach the hydraulic confabulator to the modified chi matrix amplifier, add 20 CCs of pseudodorafine, keep his Z levels above 20%, and your husband will be fine. Now, all we need is a lightning strike.”
Identity: Professor
Alignment: Good
Category: Townsfolk
Ability: Once per game, at night, choose a dead player: if they are Townsfolk, they are resurrected.
Explanation: Once per game, you can choose a dead player. If that player is a Townsfolk, they are resurrected, becoming alive again. Note that this ability only works on Townsfolk. If you accidentally target an Outsider, Minion, or dead Zombuul, your ability won’t work (but you will still have lost it!).
Tips for playing as the Professor: A good strategy is to use your ability as early as you possibly can! Evil players will really not want to keep you around, so getting your ability to trigger as soon as possible will give you an edge. Additionally, it is more likely that players who die early in the game will be good Townsfolk, since they are in the majority and evil will be protecting each other.
If you’re feeling more risky, use your ability as late in the game as you dare! While risky, you can’t underestimate how disruptive the resurrection of a confirmed Townsfolk at the end of the game can be for the evil team. The good team will be able to rally around both you and your revived Townsfolk, and the evil team will have a lot fewer options for disguising themselves as the game has worn on.
Tips for bluffing as the Professor: Claim to have used your ability on a trusted good player. When nothing happens, the group will assume (unless you can convince them that you were drunk or poisoned for some reason) that one of you is evil. And the odds are, that if they are trusted, you are not. This strategy is more useful if you are a Minion, as being executed can often be a good thing.
If the Demon is the Shabaloth and a player is regurgitated at night, this can look identical to a Professor resurrecting someone. If you think this might happen, or if you have quick wits and can claim in the morning that last night’s surprise living player was due to your efforts, you can convince the group that you have used your ability effectively. This is doubly damaging if the regurgitated player was actually a fellow Minion.
