r/ClocktowerCircleJerk

My partner and I host games about once a month with usually around 15 players. Because we have so many different friends we invite, we mostly stick to TB as it's the easiest and every session we generally have a new player (or someone who hasn't played too often). Our last session was on my birthday so I chose a different script that had ogre, mez, politician, cult leader, pixie, and goon. We also watched a game where Edd watched the grim and the game was gardened.

This gave me a (selfish) idea. I asked my partner if, for my birthday, I could choose my role. He said yes, so I started thinking about what to be. Then I thought since we don't play other scripts too often (I'd love to play more), I want to try playing a different demon. So I told him I want to be the Pukka. I then (selfishly) had ANOTHER idea. I wanted to choose my evil team and all the good roles in the bag. I asked my partner and he (hesitantly) agreed. I chose Mez, Poisoner, and Assassin. I also put cult leader and pixie cult leader and removed spirit of ivory.

During the game my assassin and I coordinated to kill the goon by turning him evil. We made both the cult leaders evil and executed them (I had grim access because of the birthday boy rules). In the end, evil had more votes than good did because my partner also added 3 travellers who were all evil (I chose their alignment)

Was this cheating?

I got my copy of the game two weeks ago and have been exploring how I would run stuff when I get the chance to storytell.

One thing very quickly became very obvious: playing the three base scripts is easy as all the tokens involved are in separate boxes. Get the right box, create a bag, play, put stuff back in the box, done and done.

For custom scripts this is much more difficult as you need to collect characters from several of the token boxes and then after playing, put them back in the right place. Both take about half an hour. So basically this means you can't play a custom script and something else back-to-back.

So what if... we create some custom scripts that can sit in their own box just like the base scripts?

There's 30 town folk in the carousel, which is a little more than you need for two separate scripts, but definitely not enough for three scripts without overlapping characters.

So if you want to join me in this endeavor, let's discuss which of the carousel demons would go together well on the same script.

(If anyone has existing scripts that fit here, please mention those!)

I'm thinking leviathan, al-hadikhia, lleech and lord of typhon would be a good fit. Lev and al-had are loud demons, so you know they're in play early on. Lleech and LoT each require a special strategy, and I think they go well together because if not the loud ones, it's one of these or the other, so you're not completely flying blind but you have a puzzle to solve.

As for a second script with the other demons, yaggababble, legion and lil' monsta have in common that the ST determines who is killed at night. To some degree this also applies to the ojo. The lil' monsta and kazali have in common that they react a lot with the minions.

The riot is an example of a character that you probably don't want on a general purpose script, as it would dominate a script too much, but which can be a visitor on such a script, much like the atheist or heretic, IMO.

So for the second script demons, ojo, yag, legion, lil' monsta, possibly kazali?

Let me know what you think and once the demons make sense, let's look at the minions, then the outsiders and finally the townsfolk.

Please note that these are not intended to be the forever perfect scripts. I think Trouble Brewing is that. But you don't eat your favorite dish every night. My goal is a couple of scripts that are good enough to be fairly replayable if you want to have a workable experience in person.

And then a small number of characters that can be added to the base 3 + new 2 scripts to add some spice.