#secret thing

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next marlin
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"you might learn the entire evil team, but lol it's a public announcement, you probably won't even if you got it right"

barren zenith
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So the ojo just targets the damsel?

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Surely that isn't a good idea

fast anchor
karmic slate
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(Don’t worry, the ST “punished” the Ojo for not knowing what roles are in-play and killed the Damsel)

cold veldt
fast anchor
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Let them have nice things

cold veldt
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ojo reacting to me killing their entire evil team (the stupid fuck picked the out-of-play washerwoman):

karmic slate
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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)”

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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

karmic rose
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I think I've mostly seen this combo in scripts built with that in mind, I imagine it sucks if not accounted for

sour harness
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No need to punish them for not having the grim

barren zenith
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Ojo is only considered a weak demon due to how STs run it

dry sluice
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If you're going to give the Ojo a good kill for missing, why wouldn't your Ojo intentionally miss every single night?

barren zenith
gusty bear
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killing the 2nd, 3rd or 4th best kill every night is a lot worse than killing the exact role you want dead

barren zenith
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Also balloonist should have strong info as they are making the outsider count considerably less solvable

gusty bear
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if the ojo chooses to miss every night i'd probably treat them like a 1kpn no day deaths yaggababble

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which is to say - their kills would still help evil, but they wouldn't get the exact ones they're looking for

sour harness
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You're not a yaggababble, don't pretend to be one

sour harness
ivory ridge
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optimal ojo hit would be like: farmer, farmer, farmer, farmer, farmer

acoustic chasm
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I haven't played with it but
cannibal acrobat makes for an interesting puzzle where either the cannibal or acrobat being evil bluffing can affect the game greatly.

ivory ridge
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would you give your ojo 3 kills for guessing the sage (in)correctly

gusty bear
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i'd probably give them 2

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maybe 3 if evil were really on the backfoot

sour harness
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^ it also depends on the death mod of the script

gray ridge
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Based

tacit fiber
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lil_monstamarionette, lordoftyphonyaggababble (as a script interaction) and harpypoppy_grower all rock

tacit fiber
barren zenith
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Obscuring minion count, gotcha

tacit fiber
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yaggababble can bluff any minion killing ability including even the assassin if the st is cool

hollow oasis
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unless sailor

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or tea lady

sour harness
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When does sailor drunkenness wear off

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*role sailor

low burrowBOT
# sour harness *role sailor
Sailor (Townsfolk) - Bad Moon Rising

Each night, choose an alive player: either you or they are drunk until dusk. You can't die.

**Affects Setup: **False

sour harness
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Boooo

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Yeah ok you can't simulate it on a sailor

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Though you can just drunk the sailor if you really want lol

tacit fiber
sour harness
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Naively

tacit fiber
hollow oasis
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that's really wrap around

fast anchor
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[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)

barren zenith
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I sort of get why but still

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It's a bit of a boring role

supple dirge
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Have we gotten to the point where most people like butler now?

karmic slate
barren zenith
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:)

karmic slate
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I think Poppy Grower is a bit overhated but I also get why lol.
Zombuul and Mastermind (but specifically on BMR) are definitely overhated.

barren zenith
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Zombuul + MM is fine

karmic slate
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Yeah, maybe I’m more ok with the PG challenge than other players

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But folks who cry that BMR’s bad because of Zombuul and Mastermind >:( literally no

barren zenith
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Magician is usually a better choice than PG imo

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RtC but PG would make evils never win lol

cyan reef
cold veldt
supple dirge
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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

cyan reef
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I do like PG with Boffin quite a bit

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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

sour harness
barren zenith
sour harness
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golem I also LOVE golem and think it's sufficiently outsidery in most contexts, and it's just a really really cool concept

gusty bear
barren zenith
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Actually? I think I agree

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Noble info is so weak

ivory ridge
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Sometimes I wonder why someone would put it in script

ivory ridge
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And why does people even enjoy playing it

feral snow
tacit fiber
cold veldt
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yeah I hate being amnesiac but I definitely see why people like it

ivory ridge
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But also

feral snow
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I love amnesiac if I trust the ST

feral snow
ivory ridge
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Nope

feral snow
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Ahhh that was my favourite one

cold veldt
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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

ivory ridge
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Amne sometimes feels like ||bootlegger’s machinist|| haha

feral snow
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Wrong channel

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I think if your ST isn’t at least trying to make the ability solvable they’re doing it wrong

ivory ridge
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but lowkey though

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sometimes it's just not

feral snow
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I think an attempt should be made

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If they die early or can’t figure it out it’s okay

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But it shouldn’t be some insane ability that no one solves for because the ST has always wanted this

hollow oasis
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Sometimes i see value in giving amnes hints

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Or just flat out telling them:

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“Hey, you can give an announcement to anyone or any character”

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Have fun

feral snow
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I don’t mind stuff like “your ability is once per game” because it’s nice to know that

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But I don’t want to give the whole thing away

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Part of the ability is solving it

dense moat
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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

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as oppossed to hb amni variants ive seen. where they are a lot about finding fun & clevelr ways to mess with the good team

feral snow
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I think if you want to put amnesiac in you need to know what you want to do with it during setup

hollow oasis
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I’m usually ok with “you have a really fun ability, play with it”

dense moat
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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

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relative to more fixed roles

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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

next vault
dry sluice
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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.

foggy grotto
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yeah its definitely really strong

dry sluice
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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.

sour harness
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What about like cannibal undertaker and half of BMR 👀

hollow oasis
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And a quarter of SNV

sour harness
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They already mentioned fg tc witch

dry sluice
hollow oasis
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Vortox cere ET stuff

sour harness
hollow oasis
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Ah

sour harness
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Well yeah cerenovus mutant but that's its own thing

hollow oasis
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Evil twin

dry sluice
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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"

sour harness
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I mean as a player you can just not agree to that meta and vote how you want

hollow oasis
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Besides

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If you’re already confirmed by info before

sour harness
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Flowergirl is stronger with imperfect info because it's a social character

hollow oasis
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You can still vote

dry sluice
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You can, but it's not fun to intentionally play badly.

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At least not for me

hollow oasis
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But it’s not badly

sour harness
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I'm saying that it's not playing badly

hollow oasis
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It’s just having bigger priorities than one info role who could also just be evil

sour harness
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Barring vortox

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But then you solve that it's vortox and reverse it

hollow oasis
sour harness
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Nah if you're in a yes in non vortox worlds you could be tainting info on other players

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If you're in a no, you're not the demon

hollow oasis
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I meant

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In the vortox world

sour harness
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Fwiw if SnV had a poisoner this fundamentally wouldn't work

hollow oasis
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Poisoner would destroy SNV

sour harness
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Oh absolutely

hollow oasis
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as much as poisoner vortox is cool

hollow oasis
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No

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Sweetheart vortox really dude

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That’s evil

sour harness
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If the evil team asks for it 🤷

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Look if they have an ET and a pithag it really really isn't a problem for evil

hollow oasis
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“Hi yes I’d like to lose my wincon”

dry sluice
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Sweetheart drunk Vortox going into final 3: cool
Sweetheart drunk Vortox going into final 7 with no claimed twin pair: what are you doing

sour harness
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I mean yeah it's not something you can just do whenever

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Ideally get the evil team's consent first

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It's very player dependent

shrewd cloud
hollow oasis
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Lunatic where

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BMR? fair enough

dry sluice
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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.

shrewd cloud
# hollow oasis Lunatic where

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)

hollow oasis
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Lunatic works when evils have no need to live

feral snow
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I don’t understand it

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Or most fabled that arent for their original purpose (like rev pairs not for accommodation)

zenith lotus
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how is stormcatcher not used for its original purpose?

feral snow
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It is

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Those are two separate complaints

zenith lotus
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oh

feral snow
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I should have been clearer sorry

barren zenith
tall raft
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It’s a joy

feral snow
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I love amnesiac but it really shouldn’t be in the top 5 most used townsfolk

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It can’t work in a lot of scripts and I know people misuse it a lot

tall raft
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I don’t like amni, it feels weird in any script. If I need a role filled I’ll add that role, not amni

feral snow
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I agree with this for the most part

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It’s absolutely not a script filler

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If you want Amne you need to want Amne

tall raft
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But it’s not a build around either

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Because you don’t know the ability

feral snow
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Right

shrewd cloud
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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

feral snow
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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

shrewd cloud
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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

supple dirge
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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

karmic slate
feral snow
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I think general really benefits from telling the ST what towns plan is

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The more the ST knows about the game state, the better the info will be

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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

next marlin
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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)

severe raven
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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.

gray ridge
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Id say BH DA Preacher

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Not sure if ppl like Preacher but I dont like it

hollow oasis
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People don’t like preacher much

indigo osprey
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Preacher is just tricky to script and world build

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by the time preacher did anything, evil can probably find out who it is and kill the

dry sluice
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I don't love preacher, primarily because of the swinginess of the blind N1 pick

hollow oasis
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(Kinda wish it had the star)

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But that’s not how TPI balances

indigo osprey
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people in general aren't big fan of swingy characters (and, imo, for good reason)

hollow oasis
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Thank god legion isn’t swingy (clueless)

gray ridge
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So just BH and DA

hollow oasis
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BH

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Cult leader

gray ridge
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For the overhated part Id say organ grinder ngl, its way more interesting to play after the rework

hollow oasis
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Heretic

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Organ grinder lost the hate

indigo osprey
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they killed organ grinder imo

hollow oasis
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Yay

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Nahhh

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OG is still good

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It now can do a new tactic

indigo osprey
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it's no longer possible to pithag a good player into organ grinder and laugh maniacally into the chaos you caused

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which is the whole fun part of that ability

hollow oasis
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But now the OG can do this:

indigo osprey
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not as much fun

hollow oasis
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“Guys I think it’s a poisoner world”

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3 days later

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“It’s definitely a poisoner world”

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SIKE ORGAN GRINDER

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STEER TO ORGAN GRINDER WORLDS AHHHHHHHHH

indigo osprey
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yeah, not as funny imi

feral snow
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Organ Grinder is different but not bad

hollow oasis
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Now you don’t need a Pithag

feral snow
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You can’t treat it the way old OG worked

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And that’s okay

hollow oasis
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it also now registers to chambermaid

indigo osprey
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they nerfed the fun out of organ grinder

hollow oasis
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So that’s cool i guess

indigo osprey
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but sure, as a minion now it's fine

hollow oasis
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it wasn’t a nerf

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It was a rebalancing

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because sometimes

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You don’t know when you need to evil rise up

indigo osprey
sour harness
hollow oasis
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bounty hunter is a TF?

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and not just an Elder-like?

sour harness
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It's an elder like

hollow oasis
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yea

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bounty hunter sucks

sour harness
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Hounty Bunter (Outsider): You start knowing an evil player. [1 Townsfolk is evil]

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Goes kinda hard

indigo osprey
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bounty hunter is swingy

sour harness
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Very

indigo osprey
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and people do't like swingy characters

hollow oasis
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The info isn't all that fun

next marlin
sour harness
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True

indigo osprey
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in a homebrew, I fixed bounty hunter too: '1 good player might be evil, if so: -1 outsider'

hollow oasis
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wahy

sour harness
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I'd use setup text tho

hollow oasis
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@primal crescent More unnessecary outsider mod again

sour harness
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Ok no need to ping him every time lol

hollow oasis
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lol

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but it's important

indigo osprey
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this (imo) isn't bad outsider mod: it just replaces an evil townsfolk by a townsfolk

sour harness
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That's also... fine outsider mod??

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-1 on a tf is a bit sketchy

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But that's the only problem

hollow oasis
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the evil TF must claim outsider

indigo osprey
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they don't have to

next marlin
hollow oasis
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or confirm the bounty hunter by count

sour harness
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that's in ~2 hours right

hollow oasis
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vatcidial

indigo osprey
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ffs, you guys can be so very ignoring

next marlin
sour harness
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I'm not signed up but hmmm maybe I wanna play

next marlin
hollow oasis
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i'm gonna play a livetext

indigo osprey
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the specific homebrew script has 4 hidden outsiders with tons of outsider modification

next marlin
sour harness
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Oh really

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Cool

sour harness
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Just don't let me cook

next marlin
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and he's rsvped as a yes lmao

hollow oasis
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i'm signed up for a vat livetext rn

next marlin
sour harness
next marlin
# hollow oasis the bomb isn't real?

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

hollow oasis
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what the fuck

sour harness
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Wrong

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These were both apprentices

next marlin
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technically true

hollow oasis
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WHAT IN THE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

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wait

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does that include the one ring

sour harness
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The widow poisoned the spy (vati)

next marlin
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also I was widow-poisoned so I technically couldn't reg good to the bomb but I was being barista sobered every night

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so it worked out

zenith lotus
primal crescent
sour harness
next marlin
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it wasn't a teensy, there were 13 players

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(10 of them were travellers)

primal crescent
sour harness
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This was a threensy

hollow oasis
primal crescent
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if anything i want to get pinged for stuff bc there's so many channels

sour harness
primal crescent
hollow oasis
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(popcorn eating ensues)

ivory ridge
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is the amne ability fucking "every fabled is in here"

sour harness
sour harness
primal crescent
zenith lotus
indigo osprey
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why the fuck are you guys so fucking annoying bitches about this?

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really

primal crescent
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"I love it when my Townsfolk ability adds more Townsfolk"

sour harness
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The amne ability was "nobody can die" (in a leviathan game)

primal crescent
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Adrian there's no need for that kind of abhorrance

indigo osprey
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don't go after the guy who is being bullied as the perpetrator here

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I share a random thing from a homebrew script out of contexta

ivory ridge
indigo osprey
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and nerdguy goes immediately haywire on it like 'look at that idiot'

ivory ridge
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nobody can die (beside the demon)?

indigo osprey
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even literally calling in other people go to even harder on 'look at that idiot'

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that's just fucking rude

sour harness
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Grim reveal starts here

indigo osprey
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there is literally no need for that

hollow oasis
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O-mod isn't a great fix for most things

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i needed the rant

indigo osprey
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you don't 'need't he rant

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and if you 'need' the rant, go look it up

sour harness
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If you wanna backread the full game that starts here

hollow oasis
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the wall of text is held by luis and luis alone

indigo osprey
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you don't have to point fingers and go 'please, some one, call that guyu an idiot'

primal crescent
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Adrian after reading above, not once did Nerdguy directly insult you, they were talking about your suggestion being not the best

indigo osprey
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if you don't see how fucking insanely dickish behavior that is, I feel sorry for you

hollow oasis
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I criticize characters, not people

indigo osprey
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you don't have to insult someone directly, to clearly being a bully that is insulting

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yeah, syre

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the cowards bully defense

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you do you

hollow oasis
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what

sour harness
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Can we not antagonize people please

indigo osprey
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you were being a prick

sour harness
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We have a ticket system for a reason

primal crescent
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^^^

hollow oasis
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fair enough

primal crescent
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I was about to say

sour harness
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If you have a problem with someone or their actions, please open a ticket

primal crescent
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I'd like to suggest that this gets moved to a ticket

sour harness
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There's a much more civil way to deal with this than attacking them back

primal crescent
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and I'd also be happy to comment in each as you guys wish

hollow oasis
sour harness
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Ur not helping rn

primal crescent
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yeah i think we should just drop this for now

hollow oasis
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anyway

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sorry

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:/

zenith lotus
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what was the prompt again?

hollow oasis
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I'd say legion but that's overdone

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I've said too much legion stuff

primal crescent
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For me a reverse one is Pacifist

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I think pacifist is amazing

indigo osprey
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the weirdest character I see on a lot of scripts where it has no point being is grandmother

hollow oasis
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pacifist is cool

primal crescent
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but also i get that loads of STs are just shit at running it 💀

hollow oasis
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people forget the second half

hollow oasis
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pacifist is weird

sour harness
hollow oasis
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and i think it's less interesting on BMR

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and cooler on customs

sour harness
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Paci?

hollow oasis
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paci

sour harness
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Paci on customs is usually a problem

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Not always tho

hollow oasis
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My legion script with paci/DA/Alch DA

indigo osprey
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pacifist is potentially a virgin where no one needs to die on customs - insanely powerful

feral snow
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Good storyteller Pacifist is awesome

hollow oasis
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true

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especially when the ST allows my "hey can I force this person to live"

ivory ridge
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pacifist is powercrept

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by pumpkin 😔

primal crescent
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😔

sour harness
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TRUE

hollow oasis
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doesn't spooky imply being evil

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so therefore pumpkin is an outsider?

ivory ridge
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not necessarily

hollow oasis
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because it saves evils?

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(logic)

indigo osprey
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pumpkin ('good people that good people are mad that they are evil might not die') should be a real character

sour harness
hollow oasis
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(don't put with DA)

feral snow
ivory ridge
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if pumpkin is on script

hollow oasis
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not hard to be spooky as an evil player

sour harness
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Did it specify good players lol

ivory ridge
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i'd be saved every time

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squall can back me up on that

feral snow
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Yeah you’re pretty scary sometimes

hollow oasis
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so Johnny is a psychopath

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which is spooky for a horror movie right?

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therefore

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all psychopaths cannot die because pumpkin

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genius

primal crescent
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yk what

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homebrew has completely fried my brain

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bc i just look at the vanilla characters and think "damn this stuff is so boring" 😭

hollow oasis
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I cannot homebrew for the life of me

feral snow
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I have the opposite problem

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Every time I try to make homebrew I end up making base characters again

hollow oasis
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Every time i make homebrew i make comintern

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bad vortox

primal crescent
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r/accidentalbotc

hollow oasis
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or some weird thing

ivory ridge
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every time i try to make homebrew i stopped

hollow oasis
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my moonshine is poisoned i say, poisoned

ivory ridge
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to be honest, a net benefit trait i feared

primal crescent
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maybe even 1000

hollow oasis
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Hystrex told me to do a new game my homebrew was so weird

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lol

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(it was gonna be a script with 4 types of legion)

hollow oasis
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He's been lost to the Bootlegger

primal crescent
ivory ridge
sour harness
hollow oasis
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not surprised

primal crescent
sour harness
hollow oasis
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yeaaaa

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i'm not creative enough to make my own rules tho 💀

sour harness
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I'm scared

hollow oasis
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well

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at least 26

sour harness
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25 is standard??

hollow oasis
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26 scripts

sour harness
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Oh

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Wait huh

hollow oasis
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800/30 = 26.666666666666666666666666666666

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add more 6s

sour harness
sour harness
hollow oasis
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who needs a calculator

sour harness
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("patch up" may be pushing it but still)

hollow oasis
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patch up is accurate

primal crescent
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it is

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lmao

sour harness
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Have a private voting system where only good votes count

sour harness
primal crescent
sour harness
primal crescent
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Matsuraid was literally derived from a SDG i was about to make lmao

sour harness
primal crescent
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😭

hollow oasis
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Matsuraid is great design

sour harness
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I need to play a matsu game one of these days

feral snow
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It feels like it shouldn’t work but I think it does

primal crescent
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it works like a charm lmao

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(flashbacks to the icarus matsu teensy with 5 residents 💀)

sour harness
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5 residents.......... how many travs

next marlin
feral snow
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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

supple dirge
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The rulebook says about a dozen, probably more have been created in the years since then

feral snow
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Yeah that’s the number I was going off of

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Of which 4 are released (Mutant, Cere, Pixie, Harpy)

hollow oasis
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We also know of ||Thespian,Klaun,Queen,Tipi-Tipi||

dry sluice
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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."

gray ridge
primal crescent
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and even then, in the very beginning of the copypasta, i literally say "and absolutely ignore this if you disagree"

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(for context:)

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oh wait no you were just saying what i was saying

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sorry mb 😭

fast anchor
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this just in: homebrewers cannot read either

naive flame
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Any prompts so far chat..?

primal crescent
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for people that care so much about wording, we're surprisingly shit at reading

fast anchor
tall raft
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It’s extraordinarily hard to do.
I have never seen a working -1 outsider townsfolk that was well balanced.

tall raft
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Not a townsfolk

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It’s a demon

ivory ridge
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wdym 😭

tall raft
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It’s a demon

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It should be considered a demon in script creation and analysis

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Imo

ivory ridge
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i mean fair

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it is a better legion

tall raft
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Huh?

ivory ridge
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wait i didn't mean to ping

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sorry

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oh the joke is that huntsman hitting a damsel first night is technically -1 outsider

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i do think -1 outsider is probs possible though

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we've had strong tf that impact the set up to offset their ability after all

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such as balloonist w/ +1 outsider and bh w/ +1 evil tf

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technically cult leader too? but idk if turning evil is a downside tbh

fast anchor
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the thing with [-1 Outsider] on a Townsfolk is that it basically has to be an outsider itself, right?

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i've seen You start knowing an out-of-play Outsider. [-1 Outsider] and it didn't feel particularly interesting or unique?

ivory ridge
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this remind me of the question i posed a few days ago

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"is 1 tf 1 outsider or 2 blank token better for the good team"

flat lintel
flat lintel
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great

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nvm

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i cant read

ivory ridge
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😭

flat lintel
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but its still weak imo

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99% of the time it gives me info i already know is not in play

ivory ridge
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so in your opinion 2 blank < 1 tf 1 outsider i see

flat lintel
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like for example, in a 10 player, what does it do

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i dont know what you're referring to

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in an 11 player, what does it really do

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odds are, the st isn't giving you the bluffs of the outsider

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and holding onto that info close to your chest is just not powerful info to hold

ivory ridge
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right but it adds a townsfolk in

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i think that's the innate power

flat lintel
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and in my opinion

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so what 🤷‍♂️

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adding a townsfolk isn't always the greatest powerful thing for town

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i also would just find token lame

ivory ridge
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wdym

flat lintel
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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

ivory ridge
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as an tf, removing an outsider just means you innately have more power than other townsfolk

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i think

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unless it's b0, then you just suck

flat lintel
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eh, id rather have an outsider tbh if my main ability isn't fun

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cause than i can at least account for an outsider or smth

ivory ridge
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oh i'm not saying it's fun

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i'm just saying it's strong

flat lintel
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a confirmed [-1 outsider] isn't strong imo

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you still have to convince town of its presence

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and you're sorta reworking how solving works

hollow oasis
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-1 Outsider is literally

flat lintel
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+1 townsfolk

hollow oasis
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"Vanillager"

ivory ridge
hollow oasis
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at that point

flat lintel
hollow oasis
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the TF is literally a blank token

flat lintel
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have to convince town that a townsfolk was added

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and odds are

hollow oasis
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that's an outsider

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really townsidery, but i digress

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Pagan exists

flat lintel
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what does pagan do again

hollow oasis
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Well

flat lintel
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is it that weird heretic cult one

hollow oasis
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"If a Heretic is in play, all Good players know the players and characters of the evil team. [-1 Outsider or +Heretic]"

fast anchor
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yeah nexus it is

ivory ridge
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sorry i was away for a bit

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anyway

flat lintel
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why are we talking about homebrews

hollow oasis
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because that's the -1 Outsider

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that works

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because it's -1 Outsider, no heretic

flat lintel
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what does the -1 do for pagan

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im kinda lost on what it does

ivory ridge
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-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

hollow oasis
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the -1 allows it to bluff heretic

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and it is in an extremely good spot to do so

ivory ridge
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wait...good townsfolk become pagan?

flat lintel
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why doesn't good just execute the demon

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if there's no heretic

hollow oasis
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pagan would have to out first

flat lintel
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huh

hollow oasis
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and also, it's easier to get the demon to kill themselves, than to kill a demon

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pagan is a fun YSK

shrewd cloud
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I get what Pagan’s going for, interesting idea though definitely a lot of things in one character text

ivory ridge
flat lintel
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oh

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if there's no heretic

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its just a [-1 outsider]

ivory ridge
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yeah

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which is

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still too strong imo but

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i can see it being a bluff for evil

hollow oasis
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it does keep it a TF

gray ridge
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Pagan is kinda like a reverse legion

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If theres a heretic

hollow oasis
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yes

primal crescent
indigo osprey
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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.

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Or more precise: the homebrew character replaced one outsider with an evil tf or outsider.

ivory ridge
gusty bear
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||mizu reinventing hermit from first principles||

primal crescent
indigo osprey
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the script has grimpeakers

primal crescent
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w e l l

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I mean imo BH is balanced as is

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it's just that you see too many people just making the BH evil for shits and giggles which ruins its balance

indigo osprey
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bh is evil is just dumb

primal crescent
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(it does have its places but not as many as people give it)

indigo osprey
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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

primal crescent
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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

primal crescent
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That said:

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[time? what time?]: What's 1 thing that you wished a character did? (or multiple for that matter)

indigo osprey
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A lot of speculated characters should exist as confirmed characters, but that's probably not the question.

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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.

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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

ivory ridge
gusty bear
indigo osprey
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better asked in speculation

primal crescent
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^

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#speculation-and-spoilers

sour harness
indigo osprey
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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.'

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(+1 outsider)

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fun with heretic

sour harness
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I mean at that point let's just use the FoR character

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Scholar I think?

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But I like huntsman being just for damsel tbh. Outsiders come out sometimes

ivory ridge
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Whats HP’s design intent?

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every night, learn a good player

sour harness
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Help a good player solve the game by being super efficient in who they talk to and at what time

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It's an advice role

ivory ridge
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oh actually talking about controversial change

feral snow
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I love high priestess

ivory ridge
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I think even with Levi and Riot

feral snow
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My reverse answer to the previous question is HP

ivory ridge
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I want them to change Monk and Soldiers

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Why can’t the Soldiers be immune to Psycho, Witch, Godfather… 😔

sour harness
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Because it's a TB character written before most other characters in the game

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😔

cold veldt
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safe from the demon is much more specific wording than "you can't die at night" or something like that

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i feel like it was intentional and not just a TB-focused oversight

indigo osprey
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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.

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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)

ivory ridge
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Godfather and Gossip

cold veldt
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oh wait you're wanting them to be safe from minions as well

ivory ridge
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Oh I just feels like the spirit of Soldiers is “easy frame, the evil team can’t get rid of it unless frame”

indigo osprey
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Soldier: 'You are safe from evil.' would be amazing

ivory ridge
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But I do acknowledge that this is a more controversial opinion

indigo osprey
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like imagine with immunirty, psychopath immunity, etc. (except assassin because assassin)

cold veldt
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eh i like the poisoner interaction

ivory ridge
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I just want to put soldiers in more script 😔

cold veldt
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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

ivory ridge
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No I like Soldiers Poisoner

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I just don’t like Soldiers being to die at random in other script

feral snow
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There are so many reasons to talk to people

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I rarely solve the game by talking to the good player with healthy info

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They’ll usually out that publicly

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The person I should talk to most in private is the evil player double claiming whose info doesn’t line up

indigo osprey
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imo you can create convoluted reasons for why talking to evil people might be useful

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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?'

feral snow
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Yes but that’s not the ability and if you know your ST is running it decently it’ll never just be that

indigo osprey
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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

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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'

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I feel like we are going in circles now

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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

feral snow
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Yeah and I agree with that. I just know some people run it the “sober healthy info” way and I’m sick of it

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Honesty I’m not sure how you’d even reword the ability to prevent that

indigo osprey
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well, you can't fault people from reading that token text and defaulting to tht

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that's why... there is a discrepancy between token text and desgn intent

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which is something - and here is the topic of the question - I wish was changed in botc

ivory ridge
feral snow
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But it’s not just preventing tunneling

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It’s also leaning into tunneling

indigo osprey
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if a bunch of people independent from each other interpret a character in the same inaccurate way, the problem is probably the character description

feral snow
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Especially when it’s correct

ivory ridge
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When the fisherman advice is “You should stop cooking”, it’s joever for you

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Hardest General 1 in the west

indigo osprey
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I have given 'Keep doing what you are doing' to a fisherman as game winning advice

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there was nothing left to give, they had solved the grim basically 10 seconds before they came to me for advice

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this was like day 3 in a 14 player game, I believe

feral snow
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“Make people believe everything you just said”

ivory ridge
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When you think about it

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HP is just “you should build a tunnel” and General is “you should follow a tunnel”

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Idk I just wake up from a nap

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Maybe I’ll regret saying this in an hour

hollow oasis
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HP doesn’t have the characters that support it yet

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It has a few

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Heretic

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Damsels

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Huntsmen

stable latch
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High Priestess is actually pretty good all in all IMO, general on the other hand…

ivory ridge
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General is certainly

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a character of time

feral snow
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General benefits from the ST knowing as much as physically possible about the game, including plans and intentions that haven’t happened yet

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I like it in theory

ivory ridge
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You know

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TB + General would be cool

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I think

stable latch
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Actually that sounds decent

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I might think about making a TB clone with General and a few other additions

shrewd cloud
# indigo osprey well, you can't fault people from reading that token text and defaulting to tht

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

sour harness
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I think "most" pulls way too much weight in its text

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And people give it more weight than it even asks for

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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

indigo osprey
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A fortune teller with a ‘yes’ isn’t necssarily publicly outing, so a hp could be a fine spokesperson

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Same with dreamers

sour harness
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Sure but a FT yes is so weak

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Unless context makes it strong

indigo osprey
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A fortune teller yes with a hp send to that yes is very strong

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because of the hp

tardy wyvern
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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”

feral snow
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Honestly I think HP needs a script that’s built around preventing that

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Put things like Huntsman, Damsel, Poppy Grower, Snake Charmer

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Give good and evil reasons to be secretive

feral snow
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no because its bad with Vortox lol

ivory ridge
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Get better?

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Idk

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Is HP + Vortox even that bad

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😔

indigo osprey
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HP gets send to mutant every day who is faking dreamer

ivory ridge
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Tbf

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HP’s wording imply you can still show mid pick

karmic slate
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Which is why it’s bad lol

sour harness
flat lintel
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are yall social or mechanical players

indigo osprey
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mechanical

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social is my back up

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(and it did win me a game recently)

flat lintel
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and are you social or mechanical sts/script writers/homebrews

sour harness
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i do both

flat lintel
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like mechanical players look for worlds and than plug the socials back into said worlds

sour harness
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maybe mechanics? not by much tho i dont think

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depends on format tho

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socials exist more irl

flat lintel
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(which is probably the default of what most people do)

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socials are just you look for weird socials and see where it breaks

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i ask this bc im curious how the for hp and against hp people are when it comes to solving

shrewd cloud
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Probably mechanical for me

feral snow
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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

ivory ridge
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I’m a mechanical player only because I have fucking horrendous social

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(mechanical have often fail me more than not)

hollow oasis
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Mechanical

ivory ridge
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Mechanical never solves world low key

hollow oasis
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(Livetext is too chaotic for solving for me)

ivory ridge
foggy grotto
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yes it does

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not always but often

next marlin
ivory ridge
next marlin
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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)

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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

ivory ridge
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i see

next marlin
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so d2 would likely have narrowed down the puzzledrunk fairly quickly

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assuming perfect town coordination

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which for several reasons did not happen

acoustic chasm
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mechanical player, with some attempts to generate socials to help that

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mechanical script writer. That makes sense though. Knowing how characters work together is important

hollow oasis
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most of us mechanically script write

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here anyway

next vault
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how did the poli get the win?

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that's wild

next marlin
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Bluffed savant for 5 days such that basically all worldbuilding pinged on "either mizu is the savant or an evil [non-poli] bluffing savant"

next vault
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ohhh

next marlin
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The cere then locked the dead savant as pixie so he had to back up the poli savant

next vault
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was the poli approached by evil?

next marlin
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Not intentionally that I saw

next vault
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oh ok

next marlin
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They just quietly knew each other

next vault
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with widow in play it would make sense

flat lintel
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im a social weirdo

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i go off the vibes

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solving mechanics is boring to me

tacit fiber
tall raft
lost thistle
next marlin
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oh shit is this your first time hearing about #time-isnt-real

lost thistle
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im sorry? what the fuck is the immortality curse amne live text leviathan featuring the bomb from new world chaos

next marlin
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it was so based

gusty bear
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you say this like it isn't 3 days old vati

next marlin
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yes and half the server has heard of it already

gusty bear
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it's hilarious to me that you went all the way down to the text channels to talk about it

next marlin
lost thistle
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why was this publicly announced by the st

gusty bear
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vati was in kib

next marlin
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Because I had already seen the grim, openly

lost thistle
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what the fucj

next marlin
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Also because I was specifically doing a bit where I misregistered as a good townsfolk to the Leviathan

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So town needed to know

lost thistle
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what was this game

next marlin
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oh livetext 7 is a thing

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you just spam 7 in every countdown

lost thistle
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grand dad?

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fleenstones?

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what the fuck is a threensy

next marlin
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the thing is the SINGLE funniest part of this game was the whisper between me and axo, which can't be backread

feral snow
feral snow
sour harness
gusty bear
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hystrex i don't think legality is what people are concerned about here

next marlin
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I don't think the fisherspy thing was legal but we can say the amne did it

sour harness
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Well. "Grim"

next marlin
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also we needed to work out the borderlands of 'all fableds'

sour harness
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TPI fabled + s0i lol

next marlin
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if I manifest the bomb in play it will enter play

sour harness
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Next time maybe

gusty bear
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vati so commie paranoid he drops the bomb even outside of nwc

next marlin
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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

next marlin
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including the demon

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social_deduction.txt

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It was basically an atheist game except it had a losing team

sour harness
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That's why at the end I said "yeah everyone won but technically there was a winning team not that it matters"

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Anyways this is one of my favorite interactions from the game

ivory ridge
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how did 7 from livetext come from

zenith lotus
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miha

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i think

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it started as a small joke and is now a staple of every single livetext game

next marlin
hollow oasis
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oh absolutely

ivory ridge
#

[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?

dense hound
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Pixie/Philo/Alch, Plague Doctor, Boffin and Lord of Typhon

hollow oasis
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atheist is required

hollow oasis
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needs more TF(it's 3 TF)

sour harness
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Oh right

hollow oasis
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also new icon

sour harness
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Edited

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As much as I don't like PG... it's very powerful

ivory ridge
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(I might or might not make a grim out of this)

dense hound
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we really are liking the +1 minion demons

next marlin
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building "someone who could be a collaborator or a competitor" is weird

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actually no second thoughts, pukka mayor sucks

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I want a demon that expands worldbuilding but has counterplay

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can't do vigor because the minions will probably suck for it, imp expands a bit TOO much, typhon is a possibility

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lleech has pukka's problem that you just cannot go for a mayor win

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let's just take imp

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the minions are likely to be loudish

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so starpasses are semi-trackable

gusty bear
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drafting for someone else is hilarious

sour harness
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BMRcore

gusty bear
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my favourite bmr character

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heretic

sour harness
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Could be funny

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If the gf jinx was better it would be an interesting experience

gusty bear
ivory ridge
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Omg we got 7 people, I could draft this

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I’ll wait to see if there’s any response and post a grim tomorrow same time

next marlin
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I can't wait to be the organ grinder in a trivially solvable typhon line

foggy grotto
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do we have a question for today yet

sharp violet
foggy grotto
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i’m statistically likely to be good so i’m putting in things that’ll be strong for the good team

gusty bear
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not if everyone rolls evil from l o t

foggy grotto
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zoinks

stable latch
hollow oasis
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Why no atheist

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It’s likely to win

ivory ridge
hollow oasis
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wait

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so good wins yo lets go

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droisoning the atheist wins the game

karmic rose
hollow oasis
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Legion

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interesting

next marlin
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1 legion

gray ridge
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lunatic legion

gusty bear
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ooh legion is a better shout for my purposes than zombuul

next marlin
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I can't wait for mizu to post the grim of 8 legions and me as the alsaahir

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(I win d1)

hollow oasis
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should I ricepost

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tommorow

fast anchor
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i just want whoever gets this draft to have fun tbh

gusty bear
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so you picked noble for them??

ivory ridge
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If I ever do an 8 legion game

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Nerdguy would be the alsahiir

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100%

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And it’s up to you to fake Vortox PitHag

next marlin
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No, the other legions fake it and I play outed evil pithag

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Anyway I was assigning myself as the solo townsfolk for the correct "immediate paranoid explosion" aesthetic

fast anchor
flat lintel
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how come nobody told me

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that the original comment on this post

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was in past tense for some reason

ivory ridge
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ok imma set up a grim now

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see what happened

ivory ridge
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ok so turn out this grim is harder i expect 💀 give it a bit more

sour harness
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Oh I didn't make the grim for mine

ivory ridge
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after some consideration, this is the grim i ended up with

next marlin
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I can work with this

ivory ridge
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gambler is the one i'm most concerned about, but just frame them lol

hollow oasis
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lol i added a recluse

ivory ridge
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anyway don't blame me, blame what you peer have chosen

hollow oasis
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nice

ivory ridge
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your role is directly influence by your counterclockwise neighbor 😭

hollow oasis
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entertainment

next marlin
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Actually I think I got the best role on this grim, that's hilarious

sour harness
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Recluse is less fun without TB OM but it's fine

fast anchor
next marlin
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Yeah that is incredible

fast anchor
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I'm pretty happy with this eden though I'm wasting a day checking the all-legion world

next marlin
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It's fine! He's learning my savant info every day

ivory ridge
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Plus everyone gonna totally tunnel on the LoT world

next marlin
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Play chaos witch and self-curse so they can't execute you, though

zenith lotus
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nah, play witch but good and curse the minstrel

next marlin
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Yeah but minstrel is a bluff like 70% of the time and if you witchkill them they're proportionately less likely to be bluffing

zenith lotus
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says the person who just wanted to self curse

next marlin
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It's the flowergirl problem. If the flowergirl lives to d2 and is still the flowergirl you have to frame them

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Because anything else soft confirms their info

next marlin
sharp violet
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It's my (second) favorite role!

ivory ridge
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baron singlehandedly the strongest minion here my adding a bazillion misinfo source

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it's kinda funny

next marlin
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I'm carrying 🔥

ivory ridge
foggy grotto
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i hate CL much more

ivory ridge
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and also the slayer on f5, and pixie when one of the minion die

foggy grotto
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who picked for me btw

ivory ridge
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me

zenith lotus
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vgvideo

foggy grotto
ivory ridge
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but if you're talking who did you get it from, it's your counterclockwise neighbor

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aka vgvideo

foggy grotto
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oh ok

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i will alhad pick them

ivory ridge
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here's the full chart

zenith lotus
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gasp

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you mispelled alsaahir

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death

ivory ridge
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😭

next marlin
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(parker is going to be stuck with pixie after we both instantly claim savant out of the gate)

ivory ridge
next marlin
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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

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@foggy grotto always canni meta

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oh wait 4 minions, gimme a sec

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boffin atheist 🔥

ivory ridge
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well you have to boffin nwm it i think

next marlin
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No way

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Boffin atheist

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We're doing it

ivory ridge
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evil

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but also i actually did consider lot at first

dense hound
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well i gotta widow poison that savant dont i

ivory ridge
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but i didn't because of a petty reason haha

fast anchor
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we couldve had the dream team but now hes gonna get fish advice and eat us alive

next marlin
ivory ridge
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the reason btw is that i just

next marlin
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But it depends on the fish advice