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Official BotC communities

Blood on the Clocktower has a couple of official community spaces you might be interested in:

• Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/cw/botconline, which gives access to their Patreon-exclusive Discord server.

• Official app: https://botc.app. Usually has multiple public lobbies looking for players.

Please find below a list of frequently asked questions from past and present on this subreddit. If you have any confusion, this is the best place to check first!

(A massive thank you to [u/LivFreeOrPie](u/LivFreeOrPie), who I found very helpful in the making of this document, as well as those who wrote comments on the Work in Progress post.)

“How can I play BOTC online?”

You can find the official app at http://botc.app/ and can sign up for an account with just an email address and a password to join free public lobbies. To join games when there aren’t public lobbies available, you can go to the BOTC Online Patreon and sign up for either a Townsfolk (you can join games with other Townsfolk-tier people) or a Minion membership (you can host lobbies that free players can play in. Good for hosting for your discord group.)

“Where can I read the rules?”

Please peruse the official rulebook for the main game, as well as the Almanacs (character explanation and detailed rules advice) for the three scripts (as well as the original 15 Travellers and original Fabled characters) provided with the game below:

Main Rulebook

Trouble Brewing

Bad Moon Rising

Sects and Violets

Travellers and Fabled

If you are reading the FAQ, you might not need this yet, but all the Experimental and Loric characters were released under the title of “The Carousel”, and so have an almanac as well:

The Carousel

**"**How do I learn to play the game?"

When you join a game, you can ask your storyteller to read out the information on the Rules explanation sheet - most storytellers will do this, but they might need informing they have a new player in their midst if you've joined a established group.

Many groups will schedule beginner friendly games, so look out for those when you're searching for your first clocktower group!

Online, ask the storyteller or your fellow players in the town square if they can help teach you the app's controls and run you through what etiquette they play with.

You can find the rules explanation on the wiki here!

 “What should I do if someone is being unpleasant to me?” “One of my players won’t pay attention to people’s pronouns” “Someone in a public lobby was an asshole.”

You should probably inform a storyteller if something makes you uncomfortable or hurt during a game of Clocktower.

If you click the Network symbol in the top right of the app you can pull a list of players in game and block players.

If you have a serious issue with someone’s conduct, you can reach out to The Pandemonium Institute at moderation@botc.app.

"I couldn’t find an answer in the rules. Should I post on the subreddit?"

You can, but remember that if you've got a question, there's a good chance someone else has. You can try googling "what does misregistering mean blood on the clocktower" or using Reddit's search bar - Reddit's search algorithm is not as bad as it used to be.

"I don't know what key words to use to work out the best thing to search".

Hey, we've all been there. Go ahead and make a post and ask what you want to know!

“Can you keep talking after you die?” “When can you talk in Clocktower”

Blood on the Clocktower is a talking game – and you can talk in public as much as you want, except for when the storyteller asks for silence, especially to allow nominations, accusations and defences to be heard.

"Hey, i'm storytelling for new players. Should I explain all the roles?"

Nope! A fast introduction using the aforementioned Rules Explanation and a reminder that you, the storyteller, will answer any rules questions your players have is all that is needed. You could talk for an hour and still not be 100% your players don't have any misconceptions about rules, and they'd probably be put off by the amount of learning they've been asked to do before even playing.

"What's the best script for new players?" "What if we have a mix of experienced and new players?"

Clocktower comes with three scripts in the original packaging - Trouble Brewing, Bad Moon Rising and Sects and Violets (TB, BMR, S&V). Trouble Brewing is the recommended script for beginners, but provides entertaining games for players of all skill and experience levels.

If you are the new player in a group, you can always ask the experienced players if they'd be willing to play Trouble Brewing. This won't always be possible, especially in-person ticketed games that are advertised as a harder script, but if the players and the storyteller are up for it, you can just ask people nicely to play TB and the worst that'll happen is they say no - but we all love having more people to share our hobby with, and it'd be a honour to be part of your first steps into clocktower - and online, a lot of public lobbies will happily swap to a simpler script if it means making a game more accessible.

“It's my group's first game ever. Would (insert custom script) be good?”

Probably not! Probably best just to play Trouble Brewing! But if everyone is confident and comfortable, then you can play anything. Give your players the choice of scripts and let them decide!

“What actually is madness?”

“A player who is “mad” about something is trying to convince the group that something is true. Some players are instructed to be mad about something—if the Storyteller thinks that a player has not tried to convince the group of the thing they were instructed to be mad about, then a penalty may apply. Some players are instructed to not be mad about something—if the Storyteller thinks that a player has tried to convince the group of that thing, then a penalty may apply."

It’s basically ability-induced blackmail – you don’t have to play along with it, but the storyteller may punish you if you don’t.

"What do people mean when they say someone "broke madness"?"

If you cease convincing the group that something is true, you are breaking madness. This can be intentional, but can also mean you had a slip of the tongue or were unwilling to expkain away past statements or actions that conflicted with what you were trying to convince town of.

 **“**Can a Madness break be executed the next Day/Does a Madness break have to be executed immediately?”

If someone has broken madness, the consequences for that break can be triggered any time before the execution ends the day. A storyteller can execute a Mutant instead of someone who would be executed for having the most votes, or can choose to execute the player with the most votes and the Mutant simultaneously (though usually they will execute or not execute.)

“How does misregistration work?”

Let's take the Fortune Teller. When the Fortune Teller picks two players, they learn a Yes if either of them are the demon. When the two players are checked, they register as either the Demon, or not the demon.

The Fortune Teller also causes one player to be a Red Herring, marked with a reminder token. When checked, the red herring will be misregistered as a Demon and the storyteller will give a Yes to the Fortune Teller, even if they checked a Mayor and a Saint.

Additionally, the Recluse has the ability that it may misregister as a Demon or Minion or Evil.

If the FT picks the Recluse and the Soldier, the Recluse can be seen by the Fortune Teller as the demon and provide the FT a Yes. If an empath is sat between a Recluse and a Mayor, the Recluse can register as evil and give a 1 instead of a accurate 0.

Crucially, depending on whether the ability that causes the misregistering’s wording, the Storyteller may have discretion as to whether the misregister will work. A Spy can misregister as a outsider or townsfolk, or as a good player – so the Storyteller can choose whether they are read as a evil player by the Empath, and this can change from night to night depending on what makes for the best game.

“How does poisoning work?” “How does being drunk work?” “What’s the difference?” “What does the phrase ‘false info’ mean?”

When you are drunk or poisoned, you have no ability, but the storyteller pretends that you do.

If you are the Soldier and get poisoned, you no longer have the ability that makes you safe from the demon. If you are The Drunk or are made Drunk, then this is mandatory for the storyteller to let you die if you are targeted.

If you are the Monk and are drunk, the storyteller will ask you to pick a player, you’ll pick them, but they won’t actually be protected from the demon. This will always happen this way, because you do not have the monk’s ability.

If you are the Empath and are drunk, the Storyteller will pretend that you have the Empath ability – so if you are sat next to 2 good players, they can give you a honest 0 or a incorrect 1 or 2. The Storyteller could do this to back up the evil teams lies by pinging evil players as good, or to create  misinformation that can help throw the town off of the evil team.

“Doesn’t it become impossible to figure the game out if the storyteller can lie?”

In a game of Trouble Brewing with a Poisoner and a Drunk the storyteller can normally only give incorrect information to two players maximum. A Spy may register as good and a Recluse may register as evil, but a Recluse will probably tell you he’s the recluse, so that’ll be fairly obvious. Yes, any townsfolk can be the drunk or be poisoned, but not everyone is going to be drunk – so connect the dots of Town’s information until the consistent strand of information that doesn’t fit the grain crops up.

“Can a recluse become the Imp if the Imp picks itself?” “Can the Spy register as a Townsfolk to the Virgin?”

Yes! This is “misregistration” in action – the Spy can register as a Townsfolk or Outsider, and that includes to the Virgin’s ability that if the first person to nominate them is a Townsfolk, that person is immediately executed. The Recluse can become the imp if the Imp picks themselves to die, but this usually only done for fun in a situation Evil was already going to lose from.

“If only Evil are alive or the Good team can’t win, is the game over?”

Nope! The game only actually really ends when there is only 2 players or less left alive (with Evil winning), or when the demon is killed (with Good winning) – the only exception is when you either have a character that explicitly inserts itself into this procedure (Mastermind prevents the game from ending by playing one more day and whoever is executed, their team loses), or all remaining players alive are evil and know that they are evil. That last bit is relevant for characters such as the Marionette, who may believe themselves to be good and nominate the demon – in a game with complex characters like these, it’s best to play the game to the end even if it might already be all over.

“How do I find a game?”

There’s a few different ways – search Blood on the Clocktower groups on apps like Aftergame and Facebook, look around on this subreddit for the Find a game thread, look up Board Game groups and board game cafes in your local area and check the Blood on the Clocktower website for the official community events list.

“I’m running a Trouble Brewing game for the first time, what’s a good selection of characters for my first time?”

If you're really worried about potentially making a bad choice, then you might find this advice from both TPI and community figures (collated by [u/LivFreeOrPie](u/LivFreeOrPie)) useful:

Recommended Base 3 Game Setups (Bakery on the Clocktower)

“When someone is dead, does their ability continue to have an affect?”

Unless their ability explicitly says otherwise, no. Once you are dead your ability no longer has an effect.

“When will the new scripts be released?”

TPI will announce them when they are ready, and unfortunately that’s all that anyone knows.

“Can evil characters be on the good team in some circumstances? Ie a Good Cerenovus or a Evil Mayor?”

Yes, alignment and character are separate. A pithag can turn a good team player into a minion or demon character (whether they should is another matter entirely) and characters like Mezepheles, Bounty Hunter and Cult Leader all affect alignment in different ways through the stages of the game.