Throughout most other online mafia platforms, there are such things as "role modifiers" that do exactly that and modify the role.
Common modifiers:
The problem with EM is that if people want to add some sort of tweak to roles in their setup, the mods basically have to make a brand new role. Adding the ability to add modifiers to roles when making a setup would be nice. It would definitely cause more interesting setups to be made. A good example of one such setup would be Bird7 on Mafiascum. https://wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php?title=Bird_7P
you can read more about modifiers here: https://wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php?title=Category:Role_Modifiers
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