#secret thing
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no, as in the Ojo can target the role the Damsel is bluffing, watch them not die, and realize what's happening and tell the minions to guess them
(Don’t worry, the ST “punished” the Ojo for not knowing what roles are in-play and killed the Damsel)
oh that makes sense I was wondering who the hell gets in a damsel double claim
I am of the opinion nowadays that the Ojo should just be able to select a bluff and get a decent kill out of it
Let them have nice things
ojo reacting to me killing their entire evil team (the stupid fuck picked the out-of-play washerwoman):
Agree! The Ojo’s ability is not “guess what roles I put into the bag” but “you have certainty a character you chose is dead (beyond death mod scripts etc with protection)”
If they choose Flowergirl and there isn’t one in play, that’s good for them! They know the Flowergirl ability is gone. It isn’t time to kill the Damsel or Barber N2 or Mutant
I think I've mostly seen this combo in scripts built with that in mind, I imagine it sucks if not accounted for
Yeah I wanna give them a similar kill. They were trying to get rid of a demon finder early? There's a fortune teller in play? Wow guess that FT is dead, it's what the ojo wanted anyway
No need to punish them for not having the grim
Ojo is only considered a weak demon due to how STs run it
If you're going to give the Ojo a good kill for missing, why wouldn't your Ojo intentionally miss every single night?
Because then they aren't killing who they actually want to kill
killing the 2nd, 3rd or 4th best kill every night is a lot worse than killing the exact role you want dead
Also balloonist should have strong info as they are making the outsider count considerably less solvable
if the ojo chooses to miss every night i'd probably treat them like a 1kpn no day deaths yaggababble
which is to say - their kills would still help evil, but they wouldn't get the exact ones they're looking for
Well if they miss too often I'm gonna stop giving them good kills lol
You're not a yaggababble, don't pretend to be one
I mean I wouldn't actively harm evil with the kills but they'd get progressively worse for sure
I haven't played with it but
makes for an interesting puzzle where either the cannibal or acrobat being evil bluffing can affect the game greatly.
would you give your ojo 3 kills for guessing the sage (in)correctly
^ it also depends on the death mod of the script
Based

, 
(as a script interaction) and 
all rock
Why yaggababble + LoT?
can bluff multiple minion abilities making them interesting to figure out which is in play
Obscuring minion count, gotcha
can bluff any minion killing ability including even the
if the st is cool
Boooo
Yeah ok you can't simulate it on a sailor
Though you can just drunk the sailor if you really want lol
The drunking is an outsider ability
Naively
Kill the tea lady then ask the Yag to pretty please Boffin Prof the TL
that's really wrap around
[time might be real or something]: What's a character that most people really seem to like that you just don't get? (or vice versa, if that's more interesting)
Why do people like butler lol
I sort of get why but still
It's a bit of a boring role
Have we gotten to the point where most people like butler now?
:(
:)
I think Poppy Grower is a bit overhated but I also get why lol.
Zombuul and Mastermind (but specifically on BMR) are definitely overhated.
PG just isn't very fun for evils imo
Zombuul + MM is fine
Yeah, maybe I’m more ok with the PG challenge than other players
But folks who cry that BMR’s bad because of Zombuul and Mastermind >:( literally no
Magician is usually a better choice than PG imo
RtC but PG would make evils never win lol
there are definitely plenty of people on the evil team who think this makes for a fun puzzle
especially if you throw in a boffin with some interesting abilities to boff
I like poppy grower if I'm goblin or some minion that can mess with town like da, posioner, cerenovus. I'd get way more nervous as the demon
I do like PG with Boffin quite a bit
I did Boffin/Shugenja once in a 1-Minion game, though it was a fun way to point the Demon toward the Minion...then the Minion decided to play outed evil and it kinda didn't matter lol
I'm slowly coming around to the role, but very slowly. I wish it was framed more as "should you change gears" rather than the obscure version of that which is "which team is winning"
General is fun imo with "swingy" roles that can massively change your readings in a single night. It isn't just a role you can add onto a random script though.
I also LOVE golem and think it's sufficiently outsidery in most contexts, and it's just a really really cool concept
controversial one:
- maybe haven't played enough games with it yet, but it feels very dull to play and solve with
Amnesiac
Sometimes I wonder why someone would put it in script

And why does people even enjoy playing it
What you don’t like my amnesiac abilities?
its a fun puzzle
yeah I hate being amnesiac but I definitely see why people like it
I’ve never pull Anne irl tbf
But also
I love amnesiac if I trust the ST
Were you in the 17player po game?
Nope
Ahhh that was my favourite one
even if I trust the ST, I know I’ll never be smart enough to solve my own ability
it leads to me just basically wasting each day away trying to desperately think of any question I can ask that won’t get me closer to the truth
Amne sometimes feels like ||bootlegger’s machinist|| haha
Wrong channel
I think if your ST isn’t at least trying to make the ability solvable they’re doing it wrong
I think an attempt should be made
If they die early or can’t figure it out it’s okay
But it shouldn’t be some insane ability that no one solves for because the ST has always wanted this
Sometimes i see value in giving amnes hints
Or just flat out telling them:
“Hey, you can give an announcement to anyone or any character”
Have fun
I don’t mind stuff like “your ability is once per game” because it’s nice to know that
But I don’t want to give the whole thing away
Part of the ability is solving it
im also not a huge fan of amni. like amni can have good individual games, but its stressful to come up with stuff. esepecially since amni usually depend on being able to learn something from their ability
as oppossed to hb amni variants ive seen. where they are a lot about finding fun & clevelr ways to mess with the good team
I think if you want to put amnesiac in you need to know what you want to do with it during setup
I’m usually ok with “you have a really fun ability, play with it”
Im not saying Amni is bad or always results in bad games. It just requires a lot of thought & even then doesnt always go as you expect
relative to more fixed roles
not trying to be reductive. its just that even relative to regular roles, amni can do great things or it can be really hard to figure out, for player & ST
That's why I let dead amnes guess
I'm not a fan of Mezepheles. I'd rather have a minion that can make an evil Townsfolk in a more controlled way that's less dependent on private communication.
yeah its definitely really strong
I also dislike every character that interacts with the nomination/voting phase, because they encourage a smart town to (1) figure out who to execute, and then (2) separately, figure out what they want from the nominations phase. I'm okay putting in Town Crier, I think Flowergirl/Witch are meh, and I very much dislike Fearmonger and Vizier.
What about like cannibal undertaker and half of BMR 👀
And a quarter of SNV
They already mentioned fg tc witch
They don't interact with the nominations phase, they interact with who gets executed. So they're not problematic at all
Vortox cere ET stuff
The other one is just vortox but that doesn't really count
Ah ok
Ah
Well yeah cerenovus mutant but that's its own thing
Evil twin
Basically, I like how BoTC's nomination phase is a fun way for people to decide who gets executed. I dislike how Flowergirl makes everyone say "okay who wants to execute player A? seems like enough people to do it. in that case let's tell people X, Y, Z, W to vote on it for Flowergirl info"
I mean as a player you can just not agree to that meta and vote how you want
Flowergirl is stronger with imperfect info because it's a social character
You can still vote
But it’s not badly
I'm saying that it's not playing badly
It’s just having bigger priorities than one info role who could also just be evil
^^^ SnV's misinfoscape allows this, if you've been in a fg no before you can just vote
Barring vortox
But then you solve that it's vortox and reverse it
(If you’ve been in an Fg yes before)
Nah if you're in a yes in non vortox worlds you could be tainting info on other players
If you're in a no, you're not the demon
Fwiw if SnV had a poisoner this fundamentally wouldn't work
Poisoner would destroy SNV
Oh absolutely
as much as poisoner vortox is cool
Man what the hell
No
Sweetheart vortox really dude
That’s evil
If the evil team asks for it 🤷
Look if they have an ET and a pithag it really really isn't a problem for evil
“Hi yes I’d like to lose my wincon”
Ok that’s fair
Sweetheart drunk Vortox going into final 3: cool
Sweetheart drunk Vortox going into final 7 with no claimed twin pair: what are you doing
I mean yeah it's not something you can just do whenever
Ideally get the evil team's consent first
It's very player dependent
I’m not sure if I’d consider Lunatic really liked but I really don’t care for it at all
I like Lunatic and I'm happy that my group's very-low-private-communication meta makes it plausible to fool a Lunatic for the entire game.
Just in general. I get it’s not meant to be fooled the entire game but it figures out what it is on the first whisper of the entire game way too often to me (I am an online player for the record)
Same
Lunatic works when evils have no need to live
Storm Catcher
I don’t understand it
Or most fabled that arent for their original purpose (like rev pairs not for accommodation)
how is stormcatcher not used for its original purpose?
oh
I should have been clearer sorry
It's so fun to solve your/someone else's ability imo
Being evil in a PG game is so fun
It’s a joy
I love amnesiac but it really shouldn’t be in the top 5 most used townsfolk
It can’t work in a lot of scripts and I know people misuse it a lot
I don’t like amni, it feels weird in any script. If I need a role filled I’ll add that role, not amni
I agree with this for the most part
It’s absolutely not a script filler
If you want Amne you need to want Amne
Right
Amne’s definitely one of those characters that has a lot of “flashiness” to it. I think a lot of players have that phase where they are lowkey obsessed with super flashy experimental characters
Yeah there’s definitely a “woah this is insane and cool I wanna use this all the time” phase for a lot of the popular characters
Even some less popular characters fall into that category. I’ve seen people be like “Cult Leader sounds so interesting and cool!”
And then they play with it a few times and move on since CL is certainly the character of all time
I don't really like boomdandy, I prefer games go down to the wire in final 3 and don't really like the trade off of losing that for a big explosive moment
I think a big way to help General is to dial back the levels and just go 3 stars! The nuance of 5+ is great for the ST to say "hey you guys are doing well but the poisoner hit someone strong" but for the player it's really confusing I think. But a general "Evil" says more
I think general really benefits from telling the ST what towns plan is
The more the ST knows about the game state, the better the info will be
If evil has a bunch of players still alive but good is confident they want to execute the demon tomorrow, learning good is winning is reasonable
Amnesiac is already given (it's such an ST and player pain separately), Lunatic is already given (it very nearly doesn't work in modern online games, especially with more than one minion)
Radical third option...Klutz? A lot of people find it one of the more interesting outsiders, but it's so volatile and in practice I find it way more interesting as a bluff than an actual role
You either end the game (which ends the game) or confirm a good player (which means worldbuilding now needs to warp around someone being good in a way that is otherwise rarely possible on its homescript and benefits town a lot)
For me, the reason I like Amnesiac so much is because it's the only character that is a true inductive logic puzzle, and that's something I see so rarely in games.
But I don't like it with characters like Poisoner, Vortox, and Xaan that can interfere with the induction itself, unless you bootleg that guesses are immune to droison/Vortox/||I don't need to name this character||. It's also a shame when the Amnesiac dies early, before you could reasonably expect to have solved the ability (again, unless the estee allows guessing while dead). It's also better in Leviathan games or larger games for the same reason.
Speaking of Xaan... I kind of still feel like it's a bit unbalanced specifically at base 0 outsiders. X=1 at base 0 nullifies a lot of information AND adds an Outsider; the same X at base 2 nullifies the YSKs and other first night/first day info but removes an Outsider.
Mandatory Bounty Hunter mention
Id say BH DA Preacher
Not sure if ppl like Preacher but I dont like it
People don’t like preacher much
Preacher is just tricky to script and world build
by the time preacher did anything, evil can probably find out who it is and kill the
I don't love preacher, primarily because of the swinginess of the blind N1 pick
people in general aren't big fan of swingy characters (and, imo, for good reason)
Thank god legion isn’t swingy (clueless)
So just BH and DA
For the overhated part Id say organ grinder ngl, its way more interesting to play after the rework
they killed organ grinder imo
it's no longer possible to pithag a good player into organ grinder and laugh maniacally into the chaos you caused
which is the whole fun part of that ability
But now the OG can do this:
not as much fun
“Guys I think it’s a poisoner world”
3 days later
“It’s definitely a poisoner world”
SIKE ORGAN GRINDER
STEER TO ORGAN GRINDER WORLDS AHHHHHHHHH
yeah, not as funny imi
Organ Grinder is different but not bad
Now you don’t need a Pithag
it also now registers to chambermaid
they nerfed the fun out of organ grinder
So that’s cool i guess
but sure, as a minion now it's fine
it wasn’t a nerf
It was a rebalancing
because sometimes
You don’t know when you need to evil rise up
please read the entire sentence
People like bounty hunter???
It's an elder like
Hounty Bunter (Outsider): You start knowing an evil player. [1 Townsfolk is evil]
Goes kinda hard
bounty hunter is swingy
Very
and people do't like swingy characters
The info isn't all that fun
again1 good character is evil and known by the Demon. If you correctly publicly guess (once) who they are, learn the evil team that night.
True
in a homebrew, I fixed bounty hunter too: '1 good player might be evil, if so: -1 outsider'
wahy
Yeah that's just more fun isn't it
I'd use setup text tho
@primal crescent More unnessecary outsider mod again
Ok no need to ping him every time lol
this (imo) isn't bad outsider mod: it just replaces an evil townsfolk by a townsfolk
That's also... fine outsider mod??
-1 on a tf is a bit sketchy
But that's the only problem
the evil TF must claim outsider
they don't have to
yeah no we should save randomly pinging luis in order to randomly ping him for the livetext scheduled he isn't signed up for instead (ignore that he doesn't play livetext)
or confirm the bounty hunter by count
TRUE
that's in ~2 hours right
vatcidial
ffs, you guys can be so very ignoring
works if drunk is on script
I'm not signed up but hmmm maybe I wanna play
yes
i'm gonna play a livetext
the specific homebrew script has 4 hidden outsiders with tons of outsider modification
you're rsvped as a maybe
and he's rsvped as a yes lmao
i'm signed up for a vat livetext rn
time isn't real, and neither are nuclear weapons, madness executions, or townsfolky amnesiacs
the bomb isn't real?
Look the amne was outsidery so I had to let the mutant be townsidery
lmao
we had a livetext in which, amongst several other things, the spy and widow were trying to drop the bomb together because "all fableds are in play" and that technically does not exclude the bomb
what the fuck
technically true
The widow poisoned the spy (vati)
also I was widow-poisoned so I technically couldn't reg good to the bomb but I was being barista sobered every night
so it worked out
welcome to livetext teensies
I was summoned?
This was NOT a teensy
Also i'm okay w getting pinged lmao
This was a threensy
'1 good player might be evil, if so: -1 outsider' for BH
if anything i want to get pinged for stuff bc there's so many channels
Ok lol I just see it a lot
what the actual fuck
what
(popcorn eating ensues)
is the amne ability fucking "every fabled is in here"
Besides -1 on a tf it's conceptually fine
No that just happened
it really really isn't 💀
no, it was that everyone was immortal
"I love it when my Townsfolk ability adds more Townsfolk"
The amne ability was "nobody can die" (in a leviathan game)
????????????????
Adrian there's no need for that kind of abhorrance
don't go after the guy who is being bullied as the perpetrator here
I share a random thing from a homebrew script out of contexta
how the fuck is good supposed to win
and nerdguy goes immediately haywire on it like 'look at that idiot'
nobody can die (beside the demon)?
even literally calling in other people go to even harder on 'look at that idiot'
that's just fucking rude
there is literally no need for that
the wall of text is held by luis and luis alone
you don't have to point fingers and go 'please, some one, call that guyu an idiot'
Adrian after reading above, not once did Nerdguy directly insult you, they were talking about your suggestion being not the best
if you don't see how fucking insanely dickish behavior that is, I feel sorry for you
I criticize characters, not people
you don't have to insult someone directly, to clearly being a bully that is insulting
yeah, syre
the cowards bully defense
you do you
what
Can we not antagonize people please
you were being a prick
We have a ticket system for a reason
^^^
fair enough
I was about to say
If you have a problem with someone or their actions, please open a ticket
I'd like to suggest that this gets moved to a ticket
There's a much more civil way to deal with this than attacking them back
and I'd also be happy to comment in each as you guys wish
I wasn't tring to insult you, just... the Outsider mod felt arbitrary
Ur not helping rn
yeah i think we should just drop this for now
what was the prompt again?
.
the weirdest character I see on a lot of scripts where it has no point being is grandmother
pacifist is cool
very true
but also i get that loads of STs are just shit at running it 💀
people forget the second half
yeaaaaaa
pacifist is weird
ME TOO
Paci?
paci
My legion script with paci/DA/Alch DA
pacifist is potentially a virgin where no one needs to die on customs - insanely powerful
Good storyteller Pacifist is awesome
😔
TRUE
not necessarily
pumpkin ('good people that good people are mad that they are evil might not die') should be a real character
Oh it absolutely is
(don't put with DA)
Only if evils can be spooky
if pumpkin is on script
not hard to be spooky as an evil player
Did it specify good players lol
Yeah you’re pretty scary sometimes
so Johnny is a psychopath
which is spooky for a horror movie right?
therefore
all psychopaths cannot die because pumpkin
genius
yk what
homebrew has completely fried my brain
bc i just look at the vanilla characters and think "damn this stuff is so boring" 😭
I cannot homebrew for the life of me
I have the opposite problem
Every time I try to make homebrew I end up making base characters again
r/accidentalbotc
or some weird thing
every time i try to make homebrew i stopped
my moonshine is poisoned i say, poisoned
to be honest, a net benefit trait i feared
fwiw that's increasingly likely when you have over 800 characters as a group
maybe even 1000
Hystrex told me to do a new game my homebrew was so weird
lol
(it was gonna be a script with 4 types of legion)
Nooooo
That's true lol
He's been lost to the Bootlegger
i mean this is why i like just making characters individually
i'd kms before touching it i can't lie
I do that a lot fwiw
because it means that you don't have to commit to 30 characters at once
Again, I think this is a really cool concept for social deduction. But botc is not the medium for it
Luis how many 30 character scripts are you making
I'm scared
25 is standard??
26 scripts
The biggest reason the concept doesn't fit into botc imo is public voting
Oh 💀
who needs a calculator
Legion is cool and all but it's like that because botc isn't built for legion types. NWC even needs to patch up comintern using the bomb
("patch up" may be pushing it but still)
patch up is accurate
Have a private voting system where only good votes count
Yeah ok lol
Matsuraid...
And maybe you're trying to vote for good players, not evils 👀
Matsuraid was literally derived from a SDG i was about to make lmao
Actually this is a genuine good piece of inspiration for a legion like
😭
Matsuraid is great design
I need to play a matsu game one of these days
It feels like it shouldn’t work but I think it does
oh it works
it works like a charm lmao
(flashbacks to the icarus matsu teensy with 5 residents 💀)
5 residents.......... how many travs
I am not particularly interested in homebrew as a class but I am also psychically battling tpi to release occultist as an official role
I mean it’s known from QnA’s and the wiki that there are a bunch of madness characters, so we can have faith that they will one day
The rulebook says about a dozen, probably more have been created in the years since then
Yeah that’s the number I was going off of
Of which 4 are released (Mutant, Cere, Pixie, Harpy)
We also know of ||Thespian,Klaun,Queen,Tipi-Tipi||
Late, but: Tacking on outsider mod for balance is good. -1 Outsider on a TF can be fine. The important thing is that the overall character is balanced. The point of Luis' "lol never add outsider mod for balance", as I gather, is that outsider mod can change a character's balance in ways more complicated than just "adding outsiders is good for evil."
||Hustler, Strongman, Imposter||
linus that's outlined in the copypasta lmao
and even then, in the very beginning of the copypasta, i literally say "and absolutely ignore this if you disagree"
(for context:)
oh wait no you were just saying what i was saying
sorry mb 😭
this just in: homebrewers cannot read either
Any prompts so far chat..?
we never could
for people that care so much about wording, we're surprisingly shit at reading
we have a prompt! @naive flame
-1 outsider townsfolk can just replace outsiders arbitrarily
It’s extraordinarily hard to do.
I have never seen a working -1 outsider townsfolk that was well balanced.
atheist

wdym 😭
huntsman hehe
Huh?
wait i didn't mean to ping
sorry
oh the joke is that huntsman hitting a damsel first night is technically -1 outsider
i do think -1 outsider is probs possible though
we've had strong tf that impact the set up to offset their ability after all
such as balloonist w/ +1 outsider and bh w/ +1 evil tf
technically cult leader too? but idk if turning evil is a downside tbh
the thing with [-1 Outsider] on a Townsfolk is that it basically has to be an outsider itself, right?
i've seen You start knowing an out-of-play Outsider. [-1 Outsider] and it didn't feel particularly interesting or unique?
this remind me of the question i posed a few days ago
"is 1 tf 1 outsider or 2 blank token better for the good team"
we know 😛
so unless its a 9p, 12p, 15p, it gets no info
great
nvm
i cant read
😭
but its still weak imo
99% of the time it gives me info i already know is not in play
so in your opinion 2 blank < 1 tf 1 outsider i see
like for example, in a 10 player, what does it do
i dont know what you're referring to
in an 11 player, what does it really do
odds are, the st isn't giving you the bluffs of the outsider
and holding onto that info close to your chest is just not powerful info to hold
and in my opinion
so what 🤷♂️
adding a townsfolk isn't always the greatest powerful thing for town
i also would just find token lame
wdym
like i basically learn something that i pretty much can deduce from the game 90% of the time (mind you exceptions being rare evil flips, drunk, and heretic) and a random townsfolk is added
as an tf, removing an outsider just means you innately have more power than other townsfolk
i think
unless it's b0, then you just suck
eh, id rather have an outsider tbh if my main ability isn't fun
cause than i can at least account for an outsider or smth
a confirmed [-1 outsider] isn't strong imo
you still have to convince town of its presence
and you're sorta reworking how solving works
-1 Outsider is literally
+1 townsfolk
"Vanillager"
wait wdym
at that point
like you as this role
the TF is literally a blank token
what does pagan do again
Well
is it that weird heretic cult one
"If a Heretic is in play, all Good players know the players and characters of the evil team. [-1 Outsider or +Heretic]"
-1 outsider on a tf (without other ability text) is strong because by definition, it always result in a stronger state for good:
if the original state is: 1 tf & 1 outsider -> good's power is 2 good + tf power - outsider power
w/ said tf (call it vt), the state is: 1 tf & 1 vt -> good's power is 2 good + tf power - 0
so explicitly, you are just straight up removing the negative aspect of an outsider
wait...good townsfolk become pagan?
pagan would have to out first
huh
and also, it's easier to get the demon to kill themselves, than to kill a demon
pagan is a fun YSK
I get what Pagan’s going for, interesting idea though definitely a lot of things in one character text
because tf wouldn't learn it
it does keep it a TF
yes
That's the issue, if you just make the Townsfolk an Outsider, all you've done is replace an outsider with another outsider lmao
Hypothetical Bounty hunter (which started the discussion) replaced one outsider (bad for the good team) with an evil townsfolk (even worse for the good team). Which was less of an outsider than regular bountyhunter sometimes ends up being. You can disagree with that, but none of the usual ‘you shouldn’t do -1 outsider’ arguments applied to it.
Or more precise: the homebrew character replaced one outsider with an evil tf or outsider.
Ok but hear me out: -2 Outsider and make the penalty even bigger
||mizu reinventing hermit from first principles||
fwiw I'm of the opinion that adding evil players that evil doesn't know about is only a slight advantage
the script has grimpeakers
w e l l
I mean imo BH is balanced as is
it's just that you see too many people just making the BH evil for shits and giggles which ruins its balance
bh is evil is just dumb
(it does have its places but not as many as people give it)
anyway, I don't feel the need to discuss the entire homebrew or whatever, the point was that the -1 outsider wasn't 'out of the blue': it was connected to balance but in a way that was connecte dto the character eve though it didn't mention 'outsider' anywhere else in the character
no yeah, i mean it kinda makes sense in that you're adding an extra townsfolk who's evil, as opposed to blindly removing an Outsider for the sake of it
That said:
[time? what time?]: What's 1 thing that you wished a character did? (or multiple for that matter)
A lot of speculated characters should exist as confirmed characters, but that's probably not the question.
High Priestess should have a more accurate token text that aligns with design intent (although I don't know what it is). Soldier should have something more interesting than 'just exist'. Dreamer should be less swingy on night 1.
I personally think plague doctor and hatter could use an 'on execution' clause. Or at least: 'Once per game, choose that you are drunk tonight.' to try and bait a kill or whatever
What is ||Hermit||
||you have the ability of all outsiders on script, you are the only outsider||
better asked in speculation
LMAO
I agree a lot with HP
I wish huntsman was buffed enough that it could justify adding in an extra outsider at least sometimes
Huntsman could be: 'You start knowing an outsider. Once per game, at night, choose a living player: the outsider you know, if chose, becomes a tf.'
(+1 outsider)
fun with heretic
I mean at that point let's just use the FoR character
Scholar I think?
But I like huntsman being just for damsel tbh. Outsiders come out sometimes
Help a good player solve the game by being super efficient in who they talk to and at what time
It's an advice role
oh actually talking about controversial change
I love high priestess
I think even with Levi and Riot
My reverse answer to the previous question is HP
I want them to change Monk and Soldiers
Why can’t the Soldiers be immune to Psycho, Witch, Godfather… 😔
safe from the demon is much more specific wording than "you can't die at night" or something like that
i feel like it was intentional and not just a TB-focused oversight
HP as written (to me) is 'Each night, learn a good player with sober and healthy information'. That is not how I run it (and nor how you should run it) but that is how I interpret the token text.
the problem is that' safe from the demon' doesn't mean anything if it just means 'you can't die by the demon' (+funky stuff with pukka and no dashii)
The thing is it only affects 2 unit beside demon 😭
Godfather and Gossip
oh wait you're wanting them to be safe from minions as well
Oh I just feels like the spirit of Soldiers is “easy frame, the evil team can’t get rid of it unless frame”
Soldier: 'You are safe from evil.' would be amazing
But I do acknowledge that this is a more controversial opinion
like imagine with immunirty, psychopath immunity, etc. (except assassin because assassin)
eh i like the poisoner interaction
I just want to put soldiers in more script 😔
looking at tb, your only option being to poison the soldier at the cost of outing a poisoner if the soldier is hard-trusted is pretty neat
No I like Soldiers Poisoner
I just don’t like Soldiers being to die at random in other script
I really wish people didn’t read it this way
There are so many reasons to talk to people
I rarely solve the game by talking to the good player with healthy info
They’ll usually out that publicly
The person I should talk to most in private is the evil player double claiming whose info doesn’t line up
imo you can create convoluted reasons for why talking to evil people might be useful
but if you learned each night a good player with sober and healthy info, it's going to be very easy to solve the game, because you don't have to spend time thinking about 'is this person perhaps evil? is this info perhaps poisoned?'
Yes but that’s not the ability and if you know your ST is running it decently it’ll never just be that
because 'the evil player double claiming whose info doesn't line up' requires additional teps: (1) you need other info, (2) you need to know what info to trust and what not
while 'oh, this guy is good (so not the demon) and they have a fortune teller yes on these 2 people? Well, they are now a sage and we can win the game'
I feel like we are going in circles now
because this all started with me explicitly saying that it shouldn't be run like that and that I don't run it like that
Yeah and I agree with that. I just know some people run it the “sober healthy info” way and I’m sick of it
Honesty I’m not sure how you’d even reword the ability to prevent that
well, you can't fault people from reading that token text and defaulting to tht
that's why... there is a discrepancy between token text and desgn intent
which is something - and here is the topic of the question - I wish was changed in botc
Every night: learn who you need to talk to prevent tunnelling
if a bunch of people independent from each other interpret a character in the same inaccurate way, the problem is probably the character description
Especially when it’s correct
Damn if only that happen irl
When the fisherman advice is “You should stop cooking”, it’s joever for you
Hardest General 1 in the west
I have given 'Keep doing what you are doing' to a fisherman as game winning advice
there was nothing left to give, they had solved the grim basically 10 seconds before they came to me for advice
this was like day 3 in a 14 player game, I believe
“Make people believe everything you just said”
When you think about it
HP is just “you should build a tunnel” and General is “you should follow a tunnel”
Idk I just wake up from a nap
Maybe I’ll regret saying this in an hour
HP doesn’t have the characters that support it yet
It has a few
Heretic
Damsels
Huntsmen
High Priestess is actually pretty good all in all IMO, general on the other hand…
General benefits from the ST knowing as much as physically possible about the game, including plans and intentions that haven’t happened yet
I like it in theory
Actually that sounds decent
I might think about making a TB clone with General and a few other additions
Yeah, this
HP as just a good, healthy&sober detector is broken and not fun at all. But I think people need to acknowledge that a lot of the problem comes from the ability text itself and not solely just STs
I liked HP a lot when it was initially revealed but have honestly sort of fallen off from it. Though I do think when more characters and editions come out in the future it’ll be easier to run HP in a fun way instead of it being stuck on scripts where there’s stuff like Sage pings and FT pings running around lol
I think "most" pulls way too much weight in its text
And people give it more weight than it even asks for
If someone just got snake charmed, they will almost certainly say so. They shouldn't take up the HP's ping for the day, I want to show the HP someone they weren't already gonna hear from
A fortune teller with a ‘yes’ isn’t necssarily publicly outing, so a hp could be a fine spokesperson
Same with dreamers
HP is a very nuanced and versatile character and I don’t think there’s just one way to run it but sadly on like the first or second day there’s usually not too much you can do but “Sober TF with helpful info”
Honestly I think HP needs a script that’s built around preventing that
Put things like Huntsman, Damsel, Poppy Grower, Snake Charmer
Give good and evil reasons to be secretive
SNV + HP?
no because its bad with Vortox lol
HP gets send to mutant every day who is faking dreamer
Which is why it’s bad lol
HP conversations shouldnt be self justifying imo
are yall social or mechanical players
and are you social or mechanical sts/script writers/homebrews
i do both
yeah but even than you probably prioritze one over the other
like mechanical players look for worlds and than plug the socials back into said worlds
maybe mechanics? not by much tho i dont think
depends on format tho
socials exist more irl
(which is probably the default of what most people do)
socials are just you look for weird socials and see where it breaks
i ask this bc im curious how the for hp and against hp people are when it comes to solving
Probably mechanical for me
I’m definitely mechanical for 99% of the game except the very start or the very end, at which point I use socials to confirm my worlds
I’m a mechanical player only because I have fucking horrendous social
(mechanical have often fail me more than not)
Mechanical
Mechanical never solves world low key
(Livetext is too chaotic for solving for me)
Tbf sometime you just get bombard with 5 days of bullshit savant info
???
yes it does
not always but often
1 savant, 5 days of savant info, none of which was from the savant
do you remember what did you give the savant?
d1: "both minions neighbour exactly 1 non-townsfolk" (true, cere between banshee and pd, widow between general and poli)/"the traveller chose an evil player" (false, but he chose the poli; later info would've been able to differentiate poli from evil)
d2: "there is one living outsider" (false, poli and pm both alive, poli claiming townsfolk so hidden)/"a drunk or poisoned player has received true information at some point during the game" (true, the puzzledrunk 'pixie ft' had a true no)
notably there were not many people on the grim at that point who could be droisoned but have received true info and not be the savant himself
i see
so d2 would likely have narrowed down the puzzledrunk fairly quickly
assuming perfect town coordination
which for several reasons did not happen
mechanical player, with some attempts to generate socials to help that
mechanical script writer. That makes sense though. Knowing how characters work together is important
Bluffed savant for 5 days such that basically all worldbuilding pinged on "either mizu is the savant or an evil [non-poli] bluffing savant"
ohhh
The cere then locked the dead savant as pixie so he had to back up the poli savant
was the poli approached by evil?
Not intentionally that I saw
oh ok
They just quietly knew each other
with widow in play it would make sense
yeah
I alleyooped with mizu basically
Cough A Duo of Disputative Demons Cough
what the fucj
oh shit is this your first time hearing about #time-isnt-real
im sorry? what the fuck is the immortality curse amne live text leviathan featuring the bomb from new world chaos
it was so based
you say this like it isn't 3 days old vati
yes and half the server has heard of it already
it's hilarious to me that you went all the way down to the text channels to talk about it
Sterling asked (he did not)
vati was in kib
Because I had already seen the grim, openly
what the fucj
Also because I was specifically doing a bit where I misregistered as a good townsfolk to the Leviathan
So town needed to know
the thing is the SINGLE funniest part of this game was the whisper between me and axo, which can't be backread
3 player teensy
This and flintstones is just an obscure ass meme
it was legal I promise
hystrex i don't think legality is what people are concerned about here
I don't think the fisherspy thing was legal but we can say the amne did it
I absolutely love how the only whisper in the entire game was 2 players who were both publicly known to have the grim
Well. "Grim"
I wasn't letting town hear the fisherspy advice
also we needed to work out the borderlands of 'all fableds'
TPI fabled + s0i lol
It wasn't lol
if I manifest the bomb in play it will enter play
Next time maybe
vati so commie paranoid he drops the bomb even outside of nwc
anyway what the fuck is the immortality curse amne live text leviathan featuring the bomb from new world chaos is a secret-thing quote of all time
I also love how every single evil player was completely, unambiguously, beyond a shadow of a doubt outed except Proxi
including the demon
social_deduction.txt
It was basically an atheist game except it had a losing team
That's why at the end I said "yeah everyone won but technically there was a winning team not that it matters"
Anyways this is one of my favorite interactions from the game
how did 7 from livetext come from
miha
i think
it started as a small joke and is now a staple of every single livetext game
Objectively speaking, a game like this should probably be atheist. However: "spy and widow drop the bomb" is peak Clocktower
oh absolutely
[1D/C/7E8]: It’s time for your monthly Whalebucket Draft question!
Choose 3 Townsfolk, 1 Outsider, 1 Minion and 1 Demon! (no unreleased or homebrew characters)
Here’s the catch: you will be drafting for another player on the grim. You don’t know who, nor what their alignment will be.
What will you choose?
Pixie/Philo/Alch, Plague Doctor, Boffin and Lord of Typhon
Oooo fun gimmick

needs more TF(it's 3 TF)
Oh right
also new icon
(I might or might not make a grim out of this)








we really are liking the +1 minion demons
building "someone who could be a collaborator or a competitor" is weird
actually no second thoughts, pukka mayor sucks
I want a demon that expands worldbuilding but has counterplay
can't do vigor because the minions will probably suck for it, imp expands a bit TOO much, typhon is a possibility
lleech has pukka's problem that you just cannot go for a mayor win
let's just take imp
the minions are likely to be loudish
so starpasses are semi-trackable






BMRcore
anyway these are all mostly traceable characters so i can determine if there's a heretic or not whilst still giving someone a strong character
Omg we got 7 people, I could draft this
I’ll wait to see if there’s any response and post a grim tomorrow same time
I can't wait to be the organ grinder in a trivially solvable typhon line
do we have a question for today yet
yes


i’m statistically likely to be good so i’m putting in things that’ll be strong for the good team
not if everyone rolls evil from l o t
zoinks

Watch as I make you the Atheist and vat the Amne with the ability “all TF are drunk, even if dead”

1 legion
lunatic legion
ooh legion is a better shout for my purposes than zombuul
I can't wait for mizu to post the grim of 8 legions and me as the alsaahir
(I win d1)
so you picked noble for them??
What?
If I ever do an 8 legion game
Nerdguy would be the alsahiir
100%
And it’s up to you to fake Vortox PitHag
No, the other legions fake it and I play outed evil pithag
Anyway I was assigning myself as the solo townsfolk for the correct "immediate paranoid explosion" aesthetic
NOBLE IS FUN WDYM 😭😭

how come nobody told me
that the original comment on this post
was in past tense for some reason
ok so turn out this grim is harder i expect 💀 give it a bit more
Oh I didn't make the grim for mine
after some consideration, this is the grim i ended up with
I can work with this
gambler is the one i'm most concerned about, but just frame them lol
lol i added a recluse
anyway don't blame me, blame what you peer have chosen
nice
your role is directly influence by your counterclockwise neighbor 😭
entertainment
Actually I think I got the best role on this grim, that's hilarious
I'll take it
Recluse is less fun without TB OM but it's fine
Kenoboi is shitting a brick rn
Yeah that is incredible
I'm pretty happy with this eden though I'm wasting a day checking the all-legion world
It's fine! He's learning my savant info every day
There was an iteration with minstrel in so I’d say you get off easy

Plus everyone gonna totally tunnel on the LoT world
Just don't play "chaos baron"
Play chaos witch and self-curse so they can't execute you, though
nah, play witch but good and curse the minstrel
Yeah but minstrel is a bluff like 70% of the time and if you witchkill them they're proportionately less likely to be bluffing
says the person who just wanted to self curse
It's the flowergirl problem. If the flowergirl lives to d2 and is still the flowergirl you have to frame them
Because anything else soft confirms their info
The wheels turn eternally
Witch 🙈
you're welcome Kenoboi
It's my (second) favorite role!
baron singlehandedly the strongest minion here my adding a bazillion misinfo source
it's kinda funny
I'm carrying 🔥
you didn't even do anything 😭
oh joy it’s my least favorite townsfolk (lie)
i hate CL much more
don't worry, i'll make you to send you to whoever bluff savant every time
and also the slayer on f5, and pixie when one of the minion die
who picked for me btw
vgvideo
i am going to yaggababble phrase you
but if you're talking who did you get it from, it's your counterclockwise neighbor
aka vgvideo
here's the full chart
😭
It's me and you know it
(parker is going to be stuck with pixie after we both instantly claim savant out of the gate)
make sure all your savant statement are stolen from the bank and/or rehash of other character's ability
I made a variant with a typhon line because everyone picked typhon
I don't think the minion choices I reserved actually match up perfectly with the picks but that's kind of a problem that emerges when you superimpose typhon on this
@foggy grotto always canni meta
oh wait 4 minions, gimme a sec
fixed
boffin atheist 🔥
well i gotta widow poison that savant dont i
but i didn't because of a petty reason haha
you couldve turned nerdguy and you instead turned sharkly 😭
we couldve had the dream team but now hes gonna get fish advice and eat us alive
I think turning the math is better for evil than turning the fish
the reason btw is that i just
But it depends on the fish advice

