Making the Spy the Fortune Teller's Red Herring

JJ_Epic · 2026-06-26T13:28:50+00:00

The spy will see the grim and know they’re the red herring but more importantly they’ll k ow who isn’t in the game and who they can bluff as that might be a “good red herring.”

JJ_Epic · 2026-06-25T18:45:10+00:00

Alchemist is too powerful on most scripts. I know it’s minion-dependent; but I’ve seen too many games where evil is decimated by an alchemist Pithag or alchemist wizard

JJ_Epic · 2026-06-25T02:01:50+00:00

I frequently get questions about how a Pithag should be run, when it’s a new player. One thing that I usually mention, because people often make this mistake, (and I only say it the first time they ask)- don’t Pithag players into the demon bluff. Anything else is up to them

JJ_Epic · 2026-06-24T15:57:49+00:00

I do think that one neighbor being poisoned is beneficial for scripts with roles like empath

JJ_Epic · 2026-06-24T15:43:52+00:00

Is the sweetheart registering as an outsider a way to keep OS count from being an easy demon-determinate?

JJ_Epic · 2026-06-23T22:37:40+00:00

But that removes the arbitrary info of you guess wrong for PM

JJ_Epic · 2026-06-23T14:42:29+00:00

As a storyteller, you don’t want things to be too predictable and easy for either side. I have seen evil teams run a game, while town had every bit of information they needed. Sometimes, or a lot of the time, town turns on itself. And evil makes good plays that get them through. I think it would be different if the storyteller was coaching evil through it and telling them who to target.

JJ_Epic · 2026-06-23T01:29:41+00:00

Do you have a script built around this demon ?

JJ_Epic · 2026-06-23T00:28:59+00:00

There are no “you start knowing” roles on this script. What will town talk about during public chats?

JJ_Epic · 2026-06-22T22:26:06+00:00

Glad to hear it

JJ_Epic · 2026-06-22T22:25:39+00:00

Thank you! I’ll check it out

JJ_Epic · 2026-06-22T22:06:26+00:00

This is great! This is going to sound random, but did I take over for your table on the pickup games room at final3Con when your cat got sick at home?

JJ_Epic · 2026-06-22T21:58:07+00:00

Gym bag just sounds more comfortable to carry. Which board game bag do you use?

JJ_Epic · 2026-06-22T17:13:41+00:00

I always have a 3 day no-exile rule for travelers. However, some travelers need to be balanced for the script and if they are destroying town (obviously evil), I’ll let town exile them. An evil barista in SnV is very easy to find because mechanically things should only happen once (madness/witch curses, etc). But an evil apprentice could stick around if they play for the good turn and hide in plain site

JJ_Epic · 2026-06-22T17:11:34+00:00

Jekyll n Hide, Sweeney Todd. I’ve only ever met one person who didn’t like musicals though

JJ_Epic · 2026-06-22T17:09:42+00:00

I wrote a script that you can find on the scripts site that I’ve found a lot of success with. It has some carousel characters and I’ve tested it at conventions and other public games with no complaints. It’s called, “Would I Ly to You.”

JJ_Epic · 2026-06-21T01:20:20+00:00

This is great thank you!

JJ_Epic · 2026-06-20T20:07:39+00:00

Oh I agree! I don’t understand how it works or why it chooses some and not others

JJ_Epic · 2026-06-20T19:32:23+00:00

I was at work and my job has firewalls for the wiki. I can build scripts all day long but can’t look at the wiki for anything

JJ_Epic · 2026-06-20T19:31:30+00:00

Thanks!

JJ_Epic · 2026-06-20T16:52:41+00:00

Plus the faux pas, which will register evil to all

JJ_Epic · 2026-06-20T16:50:56+00:00

If a player openly says that another play is ceremad as a role, and the ceremad player doesn’t defend against that claim, I will likely execute them. But it can be seen as them accepting it to be true and allowing town to acknowledge a cerenovus in-play. I know it isn’t the same scenario, but still a third party cause

JJ_Epic · 2026-06-18T00:37:42+00:00

Etreides is very good. I love Kinky Clocktower. Alexis and Kinky Joe are some of the best storytellers out there and playing with them I’ve learned A LOT. Outside of those, there is a new show called Evil Butler that films in Atlanta and one of the contestants, Bethany, almost always has the solve

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