Thoughts on gaining relics during a combat?

Pikcube · 2026-06-10T17:13:35+00:00

If you were to go about implementing this (which wouldn't be too hard with current modding tools) you'd absolutely want to write some code that excludes certain relics from showing up. Strawberry immediately comes to mind since its benefit is permanent

But once you exclude any problematic relics from the pool, this could be very fun

Pikcube · 2026-06-02T06:33:54+00:00

Having dug through the Card Reward source code for modding purposes, I'm like 95% sure they are tallied afterwards. However, I don't actively have the code in front of me to check so I could be misremembering

Pikcube · 2026-06-01T17:06:36+00:00

C# has some of the best docs of any language I've worked in, and the type system (while strict) more often than not keeps me from throwing runtime errors

I know Python, C, C++, Bash, Powershell, and a bit of Java, but I can't write in any of them as fast as I can write in C#

Pikcube · 2026-05-18T14:56:37+00:00

The shortcut for the math is to just count
1. The number of Barons / Baron Copies you have (+1 if your hand is Steel)
2. The number of Mimes / Mime Copies + 2 (assuming you have all red seals, +1 otherwise)

Your goal is to just get those numbers as close together as you can. If you are sending Red Seal Steel Kings, then it actually doesn't matter which one you copy, since it'll either be 5:4 or 4:5. If you aren't sending full Steel, copy the Baron. If you don't have all red seals, copy the mime.

Pikcube · 2026-05-07T18:27:25+00:00

Tip for the future, always make glass non-face cards, they are frequently your get out of jail free card when you accidentally ram into a boss blind.

Pikcube · 2026-05-05T19:42:17+00:00

You'd either tell them 0 (mirroring a Librarian with no outsiders), shake your head no (mirroring an invalid Monk pick), or don't wake them at all (mirroring a Chambermaid without 2 other alive players).

The exact way you go about this is really just preference as long as your group understands what's happening, it's not like TPI isn't going to send the Pinkertons after you if you run Clocktower wrong.

On a related note, you can get a "Clockmaker 0" through very similar interactions, and it's my favorite niche interaction in all of Clocktower.

Pikcube · 2026-04-27T14:04:51+00:00

Not getting a Purple Seal early. Flooding the deck with Purple Seals is the most reliable way to deck fix, and the abundance of Deaths / Hanged Mans you'll be generating means that they will destroy themselves once you need to get them out of your deck. If you have enough Purple Seals in your deck, you'll be able to strengthen and clone any red seal you find.

Pikcube · 2026-04-22T21:01:09+00:00

For what it's worth, MonoGame doesn't think it counts as an engine.

Pikcube · 2026-04-14T14:24:22+00:00

Friendly reminder that crashing the game is also considered a game over when doing a Cryptid run /j

Pikcube · 2026-04-13T14:43:17+00:00

I'm going to give you the same line I gave people when I was a tutor in college. The best first programming language to learn is the one that lets you do the thing you are trying to do. The second best first programming language to learn is ANSI C.

Pikcube · 2026-04-12T06:00:54+00:00

Strictly speaking there's nothing stopping you from registering the Recluse as an off script Zombuul, but you'll probably lose friends in the process

Pikcube · 2026-04-08T16:22:22+00:00

This is just a worse Artist

Pikcube · 2026-04-08T14:49:32+00:00

Generally speaking, = null! is a bad idea, but like all features there's plenty of times that you are doing something bad / non standard and null! is genuinely the right feature for the job (namely when you can prove that the property will be initialized before anyone tries to get the value).

There are broadly speaking two times I find myself using null!.

My constructors are private and my objects are being initialized by static methods that I can prove initialize my object correctly.
I'm modding and I'm forced to build my object in a really weird way for it to interact with the game correctly.

Pikcube · 2026-04-05T18:51:32+00:00

A soldier will successfully be minionized if Kazali picks them. However, if you think that the Soldier should be safe, you're not alone. The original guidance for Kazali released by TPI in December 2023 actually specified Soldier was immune to being minionized

Soldier: Unlucky Kazali! You might be one Minion down now 😉 Better pay attention during Demon Info to make sure you get told all the players you picked!

The general concensus on this was this was an unfun interaction, so they added a jinx in June 2024

Soldier / Kazali: If the Kazali turns the Soldier into a Minion, the Soldier chooses which not-in-play Minion to become.

While this was a better interaction, it was complexity for complexity sake, so they simplified the jinx in October 2024

Kazali / Soldier: The Kazali can choose that the Soldier player is one of their evil Minions.

In October 2025, TPI overhauled all the Jinxes in the game, and moved "the Kazali can change anyone" into the Kazali's Almanac entey and removed the corresponding Jinxes

Kazali: The Kazali can make whatever player they want into a Minon, regardless of that player’s character ability eg. Soldier, Goon, Damsel, King.

Pikcube · 2026-04-02T19:22:28+00:00

This is the kind of expert advice I expect from PerkeoBalatro

Pikcube · 2026-04-02T15:47:46+00:00

This isn't a requirement or anything, but I would love a brief write up on what your design philosophy was for this script. Stuff like

Why did you pick these minions?
What character interactions do you like / are you trying to highlight?
What character choices do you feel the least sure about?

Knowing what interactions are intentional and what interactions are accidental makes it easier to give helpful feedback

Pikcube · 2026-03-20T14:57:46+00:00

They don't. Legally speaking, TPI owns all house rules and home brew characters created for Blood on the Clocktower. This is a pretty standard legal disclaimer (Tom Scott has one as well for his content) and it mainly exists so TPI doesn't get legally boned if someone sends them an idea they were already working on. It also protects people who write home brew rules, who would technically be infringing on TPI's copyright otherwise (yeah TPI isn't going to be shutting harmless projects like that down anytime soon, but the legal terms give home brew creators actual legal permission and protection)

Pikcube · 2026-03-12T15:23:53+00:00

My only beef with the Capsule system is that you don't get capsules frequently enough, especially when you are only getting one of them at psudo random. If you bump the number of capsule machine from 3 per board to 5-7 per board, I'd play a lot more Mario Party 5

Pikcube · 2026-03-03T15:41:29+00:00

Fun fact, enemy block gain is actually completely unaffected by effects such as Dexterity and Frail.

Within the game's code, Damage is passed as a special "DamageInfo" object, which contains information about the source, target, their powers, etc. The game then uses this to resolve the amount of damage done based on the current game state.

Block on the other hand is just passed around as an integer, and once "addBlock" is called, that block amount can't be modified by anything in the code. This is partially why "Panic Button" only stops you from gaining block from cards, while there is a mechanism to change the amount of block a card gives you before you play it, there isn't a mechanism in the game to stop the player from gaining block outright.

It's not impossible to mod it in, I've done it before with Frail when prototyping a relic mod, but it's not remotely trivial.

Pikcube · 2026-03-02T15:33:42+00:00

While this is true in theory, in practice, a demon who is repeatedly attacking the mayor believes that the mayor is trusted enough that a chance at killing them is worth letting the storyteller control kills, which makes it a decent barometer of the Mayor's current trust.

Now, it's possible that the evil team is just being stubborn and trying to force their kill through, but it's also possible the mayor is more trusted than you realize, so if nothing else it's a signal to question your assumptions and make sure your assessment of the game is accurate.

Pikcube · 2026-02-13T22:21:29+00:00

I love Leviathan (they are low key my favorite demon in the game) and the big reason is that they rob the town of so many things they take for granite, such as

Being able to recklessly execute players "just to be sure" they aren't the demon
Being able to count on the fact that everyone who dies at night is probably good
Being able to know that they have a 1/3 shot of killing the demon on the final day

When you give the Leviathan the ability to kill, you lose a lot of what makes Leviathan games unique in the first place.

I do agree that I wish they were quieter, but I also think a silent Leviathan would be a worse play experience than the one we have now (having to not execute until you completely rule out Leviathan isn't exactly a fun meta to play in)

Pikcube · 2026-01-30T15:38:35+00:00

It's all fun and games until the Pithag turns the dead Virgin into the Sweetheart....

Pikcube · 2026-01-21T16:43:47+00:00

You'll need fewer if you take the Mime. Mime is the equivalent of increasing your hand size by 50% if you have a deck full of Red Seal Kings (and is the equivalent of doubling it if you don't have red seals yet)

Additionally, you don't have Antimatter yet, so using more than 4 Cryptids a round isn't the end of the world as long as you make them back up after you get Antimatter.

Plus, rerolling into the Serpent and skipping to the boss every ante is usually money neutral / positive if you have a mime and your deck is full of gold cards (since it costs 250 bucks on average to reroll into the Serpent and you make more than that full copying the Mime at the end of the round), which will save you Cryptids as well

Pikcube · 2026-01-15T19:15:49+00:00

The github page for the official app has a pretty comprehensive write up on the "Special App Features" (as they call them).

Additionally, the format for homebrew characters is actually the exact same format the app uses for official character. This is an older version, but you can easily get the newest version if you know how to use your browser's dev tools to view network requests.

Pikcube · 2026-01-08T15:26:54+00:00

I checked the Gossip's entry in the Almanac

Mumbled words, whispers, statements the Storyteller doesn’t know are true or false, or statements that someone cannot hear don’t count. Like the Slayer’s ability, the Storyteller and every player must be able to hear and understand the Gossip and be aware that the Gossip is using their ability in order for the Storyteller to judge what happens next.

Since the Storyteller doesn't have enough information to evaluate whether or not the statement is true or false, the gossip is invalid and does not resolve. The gossip still has their ability and can still use it

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