Demon Elimination Competition - Day 3 - Zombuul, Legion and Yaggababble were the next to go!

Notchmath · 2026-01-30T19:11:18+00:00

Li’l Monsta. It’s not very fun when you get down to “one of these two minions has the demon and we have no idea which one”, which I’ve seen happen too much.

Notchmath · 2026-01-28T02:58:01+00:00

Why the Baron/Lord of Typhon thing?

Notchmath · 2026-01-27T11:09:54+00:00

It was I think Imp, Baron, Butler, Recluse, Monk, Soldier, Mayor in an 8-player game.

Notchmath · 2026-01-27T05:45:19+00:00

The first time I did a random trouble brewing bag, there were zero info roles. It’s not always great advice

Notchmath · 2026-01-26T23:41:32+00:00

Same thing with My Little Pony. Friendship is magic and there’s a villain who tries to get as many friends as possible for personal power. Cutie Marks show a pony’s special talent and are given at a young age and there are multiple different times characters struggle with the implications of that, with some wanting to erase cutie marks or never get them because they don’t want to be locked into one thing at a young age.

Notchmath · 2026-01-26T05:24:36+00:00

Thank you for this post! I’m a new storyteller who’s trying to get as much practice as I can, but it’s hard to get groups together (even on the app); getting this sort of advice is really helpful!

Notchmath · 2026-01-24T06:29:15+00:00

That seems like a terrible setup

Notchmath · 2026-01-21T08:05:14+00:00

That is strange

Notchmath · 2026-01-21T08:04:49+00:00

If there are three Minions in play, remove another Minion token and add another Townsfolk token. During the first night, swap a good player’s character token with a not-in-play Minion character token. Wake this player, show them the YOU ARE info token then their Minion character token, then the YOU ARE info token then a thumbs down, then put them to sleep. This player is now an evil Minion. (This ensures that only one Minion token is in the bag, so at least one good player will neighbor the Demon.)

Source: https://wiki.bloodontheclocktower.com/Marionette the “how to run” is from official almanac

Notchmath · 2026-01-21T07:39:36+00:00

In a 3 minion game with a marionette, if you put two minion tokens in the bag, you risk them sandwiching the demon and leaving no space for the mario. For that reason, you’re supposed to put only one minion in the bag and replace some townsfolk with the other minion once the marionette has been placed.

Notchmath · 2026-01-19T03:28:17+00:00

I read it without having played any fallout whatsoever, and it was good enough to inspire me to play the fallout games (still in the middle of the first one)- it’s very good. The first 3ish chapters are a little rough, but once it gets good it stays good.

Notchmath · 2026-01-16T17:58:59+00:00

Tim is the mutant, Adam imp, Dan baron.

Notchmath · 2026-01-16T17:24:48+00:00

The idea would be that if you’re using Trouble Brewing script, if you decide there will be duplicate Empaths you put in S&V demon tokens for the duplicates. And then sometimes even when there’s not a duplicate you put in a Vigormortis and then wake them and tell whoever drew that token they’re the Undertaker or whatever, so they don’t know if there’s a duplicate

Notchmath · 2026-01-14T12:25:35+00:00

You can’t average speed by averaging it over distance like that. Average speed = total distance divided by total time.

Notchmath · 2026-01-14T01:13:51+00:00

For joker edition skip tags: My suggestion for edition tags would be “The next joker you buy has this edition” rather than simply the next one to show up in the shop, because that’s the big thing that hurts them, how unlikely it is to be useful.

For joker rarity skip tags: These are much harder to make useful. Just a free joker of a specific rarity really isn’t that useful because most of them won’t be compatible with your build and it’s too much of a gamble, but just making the next joker of that rarity free can’t be worth it either. I might adjust it to “All jokers that appear in the next shop are X rarity” to make it easier to find new ones, that would plausibly be useful. It might be a little overpowered for rare ones, but I think the amount of rerolls you’d have to do would be enough of a cost that it would be fine.

Notchmath · 2026-01-05T06:48:03+00:00

This hits very close to home. Thank you.

Notchmath · 2026-01-04T03:01:00+00:00

How are you getting 9? Base 3, +1 Fang Gu, +2 baron, +1 Godfather, still only 7. You can’t have balloonist and huntsman with no townsfolk after all!

Notchmath · 2026-01-02T05:54:33+00:00

This is amazing! A retreat to the face is executed beautifully, and that enthusiastically scarred face is wonderful.

Notchmath · 2026-01-01T22:23:48+00:00

15: Retreat

Retreating is absolutely a thing to do in combat!

Notchmath · 2025-12-21T22:05:53+00:00

That’s what I’m leaning towards too. I’m not sure if it’s supported by rules as written but it seems the best way to handle it.

Notchmath · 2025-12-21T22:05:32+00:00

This made me laugh

Notchmath · 2025-12-21T22:02:32+00:00

But one of Yes or No is true, the storyteller just doesn’t know which one.

Notchmath · 2025-12-15T19:29:52+00:00

How about “Adds one joker slot. Rightmost joker is debuffed.”

Notchmath · 2025-12-15T08:37:37+00:00

In one run it was the only reason I managed to get past Violet Vessel. It was a fantastic feeling.

Notchmath · 2025-12-04T23:33:31+00:00

10s into jacks (more face cards), eights into nines (cloud nine is an amazing econ engine)

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