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Bureaucrat

Each night, choose a player (not yourself): their vote counts as 3 votes tomorrow.

Sign here please. And here. And here. Aaaaaaaaand here. This should all be sorted and tallied by the end of the day, assuming everyone's signatures are legible. We haven't had a mix-up in the paperwork for ages. Yesterday noon, if memory serves...

Storyteller cues

First nightThe Bureaucrat chooses a player. ◦

Other nightsThe Bureaucrat chooses a player. ◦

How to run it (Storyteller)

Each night, wake the Bureaucrat and have them point to any player except themselves; that player's vote counts as 3 votes the following day only. Track this carefully on the vote sheet so you can apply the triple-vote at the right moment. Introduce the Bureaucrat when the game needs help reaching execution thresholds, or when you want to add a political wildcard that forces the table to negotiate; avoid adding them if a single forced execution would trivially end the game.

How to play as a good Bureaucrat

  • Publicly announce who you buffed each morning — transparency builds trust and lets the table coordinate around the boosted vote, making it harder for evil to dismiss or exile you.
  • Buff a player who is about to nominate a strong evil suspect, ideally someone whose credibility is already high, so their vote alone can carry or anchor an execution.
  • Use your ability to break a stalemate: if yesterday's nomination fell just short, buff the most credible good player nominating today to push the count over the threshold.
  • Threaten to buff the player who nominates you for exile — this creates a political deterrent against evil players trying to remove you before you can influence a critical vote.
  • Pay attention to vote patterns and buff players who consistently vote against likely-evil targets, rewarding accurate reads rather than swinging power randomly.

How to play as an evil Bureaucrat

  • Buff evil teammates on days when you want a specific good player executed — a coordinated 3-vote anchor from a trusted-seeming player can swing a close nomination decisively.
  • Claim you buffed a good player each morning regardless of truth to appear cooperative; the town cannot verify your choice unless they track vote counts meticulously.
  • Use the buff as a political bribe: offer to boost players who agree to nominate or vote for town targets evil wants dead, steering execution without being directly responsible.
  • If you are suspected, buff a high-credibility good player to buy goodwill and delay exile, then resume buffing evil-aligned players once heat dies down.
  • Save a buff for the Demon on a day where a close vote would otherwise miss — a single 3-vote block from the Demon can flip an execution onto the wrong player.

Key interactions

Poisoner

If the Bureaucrat is poisoned, the tripled vote may not apply correctly or may misfire entirely, meaning the town could be misled about vote weight. The Storyteller should decide whether the poisoned ability silently fails or behaves erratically, and players should not assume the buff functioned if the Bureaucrat's status is uncertain.

Virgin

If the Bureaucrat buffs the Virgin on the night before the Virgin is nominated for the first time, the nominator may be executed immediately — but that execution still counts as an execution for the day, so the tripled vote from the buff may never come into play at all. Be aware this turn-order nuance can waste or redirect the buff entirely.