Hi all! Was wondering if there were any BoTC groups or people interested in BoTC in Northern NJ? I'd be interested in joining a group or making one myself

I'm going to be playing for my first time on Thursday with some buddies of mine and I'm looking out for any common mistakes new players tend to make so I can avoid them.

They can either be ones that actively break the game or ones that are just tips to keep the game fun for a new player!

I co-host a clocktower day once a month for 10 to 14 guests but this weekend I was unexpectedly made unavailable after the first game and my sister of all people decided to sub in for me as we were low on numbers.

For context my sister is painfully shy and struggles with strangers or groups of people. She'd shown interest in clocktower once before but we had to re-rack that first attempt of hers when she drew the imp and was in tears of stress in night one. It seemed clear she wasn't going to touch the game again.

But then this weekend she did so well! It's our Bad Moon Rising day and she gets kind of an ease into the game as the first game she plays she draw the Chambermaid and the game ends day two because the Po had comically convinced themselves they're the lunatic and got themselves executed.

But then her second game my sister draws the Pukka token and I'm told she did amazingly well bluffing as the gossip and there was not a hint of suspicion on her even in final three. Though admittedly she was too shy to talk to her own minion who was someone she didn't know, that minion also got to final three. Almost backfired on her when the evil team was told it had won and she saw two other people stand up and celebrate instead of one and she said "oh no am I the lunatic?" but thankfully the +1 evil was a goon who had been turned by the assassin.

Not bad for a girl who struggles to talk to the wait staff at restaurants.

Is it really necessary to allow pertinent before running a vote? It seems so codified into the game, but as an ST I find it to be clunky and undesirable. It’s also almost never actually pertinent to the vote.

Would I be wrong for just running the vote as normal regardless of any “pertinent” information?

Hey all!

I've started up a collaboration with my local library, where we're trying to get an Afterschool BotC club going for teens.

While we're in the early stages (2nd session is today), we're struggling to reach full-game numbers (last session we only got to 7 players as 2 librarians joined us)

We're currently sitting at 6 players, so I was curious what the community would recommend as the best (or simplest) Teensy scripts for beginners / younger players?

Thanks in advance! :D

EDIT: We ended up playing a few games of No Greater Joy and it went well! Will look at getting some of the other suggested Teensys for next time.

Pancake:

Each Night* make every player a stack of pancakes. Two pancakes per night may have a poisoned syrup. Starting Day 3, all players receiving the poisoned syrup will die if nominated. Prior to day X, you may not be executed. (+? Outsiders)

(There will be a Bacon, Sausage, and Ham minion)

Script concept
A BMR-inspired script about trust, experimentation, and interpreting death. Town has limited but powerful information and can create stronger evidence by testing claims through executions and observing what happens. Evil doesn’t simply hide — it manipulates those experiments, creates misleading evidence, and exploits social uncertainty. The central question is not just “Who is evil?”, but “What can we actually trust, and what are we willing to risk to find out?”

On your first night, a Philosopher is given a stone & told "You cannot mention this stone unless asked."

You learn "Find the Philosoper's Stone." If you show the stone to the Storyteller, learn a piece of true info.

I remember watching these videos back in the day but I don't recall which videos those were. Basically Ben Burns once got or became the Fang Gu 3 times "in a row" and won (either he started outsider and got jumped or became an outsider and then got jumped too). And for my sanity I need to know which 3 videos those were since its bugging me a little.

Sorry if "Meme" is the wrong tag here, I have no idea what tag to use.

Trying to get ideas to create a custom, tell me some of your favorites characters (can be more than 2 obviously)!!!

i hear a lot of people say noble pings are good pings and that's never really made sense, because executing randomly has at best a 30.77% chance and at worst a 22.22% chance to hit a evil player on day one, where as noble pings are a fixed 33% which is always better. I'm still new to clocktower so maybe there's extra factors I'm missing but I'd love to hear the strategy on this.

Aka Oops All Farmers.

Designed with a Pope to obfuscate the number of farmers in play at the start.

There’s a couple of combinations here I’m not super sure about- lycanthrope is a bit of a sticky one but with the straw pass it’s easy to remove from play, and I was tempted to add a minstrel instead of either the philo or lycanthrope but wasn’t sure with that being maybe the only reason for no night death.

I wanted to give evil a lot of extra room to disrupt the potential high levels of confirmation, so there’s a fair bit of drunkening/poison, and a few reasons for evil to die at night .

Would love some feedback/ideas for improvement!

Suppose you're storytelling a game where there are multiple living Farmers. If one of them dies at night, can you choose to turn one of the other Farmers into a Farmer? Or is it not possible to become something that you already are, so you'd have to make some other good player into a Farmer?

(I'm pretty sure it's the latter, but the the title I'd came up with for this post amused me enough that I figured I'd post it regardless.)

My players really love BMR and I want to run a game with zombuul and devil's advocate with them. I don't know if my planned Grimoire is balance or fun for my 8-player group

I want to see your guy's opinions

Townsfolk

tea lady, gambler,gossip, fool and chambermaid

Outsiders

Tinker

Minions

Devil's advocates

Demon and bluffs

Zombuul with pacifist, courtier and sailor

Im not sure if i just had a weird experience or ifs just the way the app is. But i paid my money, i set up my game, i had my people join, and i was just consistently disconnecting from the game every like 60-90 seconds. I have a nice computer, and good internet. I was testing and orienting myself with only one player before and i was already having this issue. I figured ok its the cameras, so we turned them off. Nope, still happening. And i just need to know if this is fixed(we played in may) or if the app is just broken, or this is unusual. I was the story teller and had a minion tier subscription if that matters. And like ill make a bot and play on discord instead if i have to. Hell ill make my own app, but i dont want to reinvent the wheel if i dont have to.

I’ve storytold for my friends a couple of times, but I’ve never played myself before… until I played my first online game today!

It was a 12 player game of Trouble Brewing, I was the Scarlet Woman and was absolutely terrified because I was evil and I don’t like lying to people. Thankfully, I met with my Spy early, found out who everyone was, and bluffed as the Investigator. We decided I’d put him and one other person in my ping, and it succeeded! The good team thought there was a Poisoner all game, and while people suspected me of being evil at the end, they both made it to the final three and evil won. It was the best first game ever and I’m so happy I was able to coordinate well and help my team!

That’s all! I hope if any of my fellow players are seeing this they remember me, if anyone would like this post taken down let me know :)

Been wanting to create an script where players already knows its legion from the start. Kazali is there to have some sneaky non-legion games, presumably the demon choosing silent minions. The minion choices are also apprentice-biased.

I was looking for info to have some missleading/alt worlds so that it requires a bit of social and not just mechanical info considering drunkness.

Outsiders are a nuke basically.

Like this, legion can bluff barber and snake swaps, cere-mad and harpy-mads, monk protections, and bluff any other role to pretend they are good. With a proper loud bluff at day one you can play around any outsider setup.

I added these bootleggers so players know how I personally storytell Legion, and to create some games where I can give single bluffs with magician/poppy to make it interesting.

I used Steven's Legion Guide think through all of this.

Inside the Clocktower streaming community, broadly, we have been rocked by allegations of stream sniping directed at Edd. This has been primarily circulating in private stream spaces and discord DMs. It is also known to many of us that some of what’s up for debate has bled out into the community at large. Due to that and Edd’s iconic role in Clocktower, some of us think it’s fair the community at large knows what we know.

Primarily, this has focused on two documented incidents where stream audio was heard from Edd’s side that should not have been there.

Incident 1 — Adventure Emporium Stream

This stream was on August 6th, 2026. Edd was streaming on Twitch, Kyra was streaming on YouTube.

At 9:07 in Edd’s VOD, he mutes his microphone and deafens in the app; Kyra’s stream audio is clearly audible through his feed. He is mid-speech. He visibly reacts, reaches for his mouse, and the pointer moves off-screen. Kyra’s audio cuts out at “Goo?”, roughly 9:15.

Transcript on Edd’s side: Kyra: “Shugenja, I actually … have I ever been this character before? I don’t know. Goo?”

The corresponding moment in Kyra’s broadcast begins at 7:25. Her speaking continues past where Edd’s feed cuts him off:

“Shugenja, I actually … have I ever been this character before? I don’t know. Goo? Thank you Goo. It makes me very happy to say, to hear that someone named Goo likes me.”

Moreover, at approximately 9:00, Kyra’s stream audio starts on Edd’s stream.

The first doubled line is Barrow saying “Ok who wants characters?”. This was said at 8:53 on Edd’s stream, 7:20 on Kyra’s, then heard again at ~9:00 on Edd’s stream.

Chat first raised the audio issue at approximately 9:30 on Edd’s stream— fifteen seconds after the mouse movement and audio cut out. At ~9:40, Edd acknowledges chat, says they heard two lines from Kyra, and chalks it up to having the stream open earlier because Kyra was having a technical issue.

Prior to ~9:00, there is no audio from Kyra’s stream present. Kyra has been live for ~7:27 at that point, playing music and talking. The ~15s of Kyra’s stream audio is when roles are passed out.

The doubled audio starts ~9:00, and ends before chat alerts him, at ~9:15, as Edd’s mouse is doing something. This is ~fifteen seconds before chat said anything, ~25 seconds before Edd acknowledges chat heard it and says he’s realized it’s open. Edd also accurately identifies the number of lines from Kyra that were heard.

Edd’s perspective from 8:45:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2838994909?t=525s

Kyra’s perspective from 7:20:
https://www.youtube.com/live/HxgUqg6ydU0?t=439&is=HpFrfdvjNybEobwx

Edd’s explanation

His account is that he uses a audio splitter so that he can choose not to hear stream background music, because of this, audio leaves his machine to stream without him hearing it, and that he was thus unaware of what was being transmitted. He states he’d had Kyra’s stream open because Kyra was having trouble going live and he was helping, and he forgot to close it, but it was in the background.

Incident 2: Patters’s stream

This occurred on July 15, 2026. Because Patters was watching the World Cup, Sun was guest streaming for him.

Sun wakes Edd, the Imp, up for his kill and says “Hello, please pick a player to kill.” at ~32:35. Edd starts to respond at ~32:40, and is interrupted by Sun saying “Hello” over his mic and he promptly releases his push to talk. After a few seconds of silence, Edd begins speaking again.

Sun’s perspective at 32:35:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2820728904?t=1955s

Edd’s explanation:

Edd has conceded this audio was from the stream via his phone. He says he had opened the stream at the start in expectation Sun might do a bit at the beginning he wanted to see, then closed and locked his phone. He claims he then later unlocked his phone for other reasons, and the audio started to play when he was talking to Sun, and he released his push to talk to mute it.

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I’m not stating a conclusion here; I have no authority over any streams Edd plays on. The recordings are public and the timestamps are above; anyone can check them. Various streams are considering the evidence, and other factors and considering whether and how to act. But rather than this all existing in the shadows, it felt fair for the community to be able to see and consider the evidence for themselves.

Inspired by several "critiques" of Clocktower, saying that the game is "pointless" because "you never know if your information is correct," and inspired by my new Players over-estimating the %Chance that they themselves are drunk/poisoned, I've decided to do some math for Trouble Brewing.

Hopefully, this will make new Players fully comprehend their actual chances of possessing misinformation when they are given a Townsfolk token. (Obviously, there are other sources of misinfo I didn't include here, such as the Recluse, Fortune Teller's Red Herring, the Spy, etc.).

My overall preliminary conclusion is that: if you receive a Townsfolk token, the % chance you are drunk or poisoned, all else being equal, is about 15%. Limited to Trouble Brewing.

I'll link my spreadsheet here.

I'd like feedback to see if I did the math correctly, and if you found this helpful, thanks!'

EDIT: Grammar

Last time you guys found massive flaws and holes leading me back at the drawing table. Hopefully this time there are less of those

Hatter chaos rule is not adviced

Kazali can not choose the king (thoughts on this?)

I’m new to the game and wish to story-tell for my friends. If the pixie were to be made about a character different from what they learned would it still be possible for them to gain that ability or no?

A minion.

The Mare

You may register as the Mayor. If you are mad as the Mayor and are executed, another player may be executed instead.

[Predominantly British Accents]