u/typeforty

Lessons learned during my first foray into storytelling (Trouble Brewing, yesterday night):

1. Don't get distracted by the town's chatter while you're trying to set up the grim and lose track of which way you were placing the pile of tokens you just collected...
2. Probably don't make the Virgin the other half of the Investigator ping (even if the Investigator is the Virgin's partner and you know it'll be hilarious), as it's the most confirmable role on the script.
3. If the Slayer is the Imp's girlfriend and they're sat next to each other, for god's sake make sure she's also Drunk so she can't just end the game during the first day phase.
4. Don't wake the Saint up and give them the Empath info on Night 1 (even if the Empath is actually the Drunk)
5. FIVE GOLD RINGS! Love that bit.
6. Don't give the Fortune Teller incorrect Night 1 information when there's no mechanical reason to do so; simply being a cheeky sod who frequently insults his Storytellers is not a good enough excuse (though there's not a court in the land that would convict).
7. Don't give the Fortune Teller their Night 2 information if they've just been murdered by the Imp.
8. If you do realise during the Day 2 conversations that you gave the FT wrong info on Night 1, there are probably better ways of handling it than simply going "Sorry, guys, game's cooked" and ending it there.
9. If the Imp star passes to the Poisoner after the Poisoner has poisoned the Fortune Teller, the poisoning is no longer effective and the Fortune Teller should get correct information, even though this makes ZERO THEMATIC SENSE. If you poison someone and then throw yourself under a bus, that person doesn't magically get better, do they?
10. Fortune Tellers are clearly more hassle than they're worth; don't bother putting it in the bag next time. Oh, and I probably should've told the Poisoner that he was now the Imp. But somehow he figured it out anyway. Y'know, when I revealed that the Imp had died during the night in a one Demon-one Minion game.

Apart from that, I think it went rather well...  😁