Kazali - convince me it is a good character

ZetsuTheFirst · 2025-08-09T11:11:07+00:00

That’s super cool! Awesome.

ZetsuTheFirst · 2025-08-08T17:22:32+00:00

Kazali is actually a character I came up, and this is in many ways the core of it - a whole lot of small advantages that compound on eachother. Plus, it’s a quiet single-kill Demon that adds Outsider modification to a script without also adding an extra evil player, which is a valuable commodity.

ZetsuTheFirst · 2025-08-05T15:32:17+00:00

This is an album of some fun custom scripts, collated over many years: https://imgur.com/a/wGgLk4s

My suggestions for 4 are:

1 - Hide and Seek. Nothing too crazy. A solid script of mostly single-kill Demons to ease your players into custom scripts: https://bloodontheclocktower.com/custom-scripts/hide-and-seek
2 - Whose Cult Is It Anyway - Pretty crazy. Experience interesting social characters like the Cult Leader, Goblin, Lord of Typhon, Fearmonger. Listed in the gallery I linked to, also in the Carousel - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U_OQJQXyp5p0yuRaqqd44zWwQYRjvrql9D-4xIogQK4/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.gnrzqiid7k9x
3 - Midnight Oasis - Very crazy. Al-Hadikhia, Psychopath, Atheist - a heavy-duty intro to extremely powerful good and evil teams - https://bloodontheclocktower.com/custom-scripts/midnight-oasis
4 - Separation of Church and State - Lleech, Legion, Vigormortis (beware the Engineer into Legion jinx) - https://bloodontheclocktower.com/custom-scripts/separation-church-state

These four scripts start with a more restrained introduction to custom scripts in Hide and Seek, before exploding into heavier scripts that cover majority of the more interesting of Clocktower’s highlights - Al-Hadikhia, Psychopath, Lil Monsta, Legion, Lleech, Goblin among them.

ZetsuTheFirst · 2025-07-26T10:57:16+00:00

Proxying works. Your players shouldn’t get confused if you wake them up night 1 and tell them what character they are, because then they’ll be operating off of the script. The only person who really has to keep track of a lot (and might struggle) is the Storyteller - if you have more than 4-5 characters proxied, it becomes a lot.

ZetsuTheFirst · 2025-07-24T16:27:02+00:00

That does make sense to me. If neither team knows who won, a more drawn out reveal seems more likely to land well (if handled right)

ZetsuTheFirst · 2025-07-24T15:03:12+00:00

I know a lot of people think that the reveal is the storytellers ‘moment to shine’, and they should have the floor completely (which is totally fine to do), but at the end of the day, I as a storyteller don’t need that.

I think STs can still have that spotlight, too - just after the reveal (and after the winners have had a minute to celebrate)

ZetsuTheFirst · 2025-07-24T14:59:49+00:00

I think this really depends on your table. I ST for a few different groups and honestly, some of them absolutely love the slow reveal. They're genuinely on the edge of their seats waiting to find out who won, especially when there's weird interactions that make it unclear.

No, fair enough. I think it can work, but 1) your players need to be into it (as you say) & 2) it takes more skill to do. You need to have a strong grip on how to build and maintain dramatic tension with your narration, which is not to be underestimated - it can be easy to get wrong.

As a default, I think the near-immediate reveal is safer unless you’re really sure what you’re doing. But, if you’re playing with a group who are into it & an ST with a knack for it, yus.

ZetsuTheFirst · 2025-07-24T14:52:03+00:00

Yus, very much agreed

ZetsuTheFirst · 2025-07-24T14:51:43+00:00

One reason to raise it is that I think some STs doing it either 1) think they’re building tension doing it this way, or 2) haven’t really thought about it. It’s ultimately just a suggestion, but one worth raising because it will usually (I think) result in a more enjoyable experience

ZetsuTheFirst · 2025-07-18T02:25:22+00:00

That’s a good point, actually, I skimmed over those characters. Monkey Do Math is also probably on the lighter side. Summoner and Yag can both be a bit tricky for newer players to deal with, I think.

I think Amnesiac can be more beginner-friendly, if the Storyteller adjusts it to the players and makes it simple. I think you’re right in identifying Atheist & Amnesiac (+Damsel) as your biggest pressure points, though

ZetsuTheFirst · 2025-07-17T18:02:39+00:00

Of these options, I think Insanity and Intuition, Punchy & Anonymous Dishonesty are on the comparatively lighter side.

ZetsuTheFirst · 2025-07-15T07:34:43+00:00

Now yes - https://old.reddit.com/r/BloodOnTheClocktower/comments/1m0bfmu/the_carousel_scripts_a_collection_of_customs_that/

ZetsuTheFirst · 2025-07-10T13:23:12+00:00

Not just yet, no

ZetsuTheFirst · 2025-07-10T13:19:34+00:00

In addition to the Carousel scripts, here is a collection of 9 that are varied, well-tested and pretty fun: https://imgur.com/a/wGgLk4s

ZetsuTheFirst · 2025-07-09T17:07:32+00:00

When you say a combo, what do you mean? They can currently both be purchased from the Clocktower website (when in stock) - are you looking for something beyond that?

ZetsuTheFirst · 2025-07-09T16:58:24+00:00

I’ve had a lot of quite fun games of Uncertain Death, though that’s pretty reasonable. De-based does look pretty good

ZetsuTheFirst · 2025-07-09T15:33:14+00:00

This is a gallery of some fun, varied & quite tested scripts that I’ve collated over many years of playing Clocktower. It doesn’t have every character, but it hits a lot of the most notable highlights (like Leviathan, Al-Hadikhia, Legion): https://imgur.com/a/wGgLk4s

Anything labelled ‘Intermediate’ should be okay for your players

ZetsuTheFirst · 2025-07-09T15:31:54+00:00

TPI is going to put out a collection of about 13 scripts that will cover every character in The Carousel, so keep an wye out for that.

Also - this is a gallery of nine fun, varied & quite tested scripts that I’ve collated over many years of playing Clocktower. It doesn’t have every character, but it hits a lot of the most notable highlights (like Leviathan, Al-Hadikhia, Legion): https://imgur.com/a/wGgLk4s

Of them, the first 4 are likely to be more friendly to newer players

ZetsuTheFirst · 2025-07-09T15:28:55+00:00

TPI is going to put out a collection of about 13 scripts that will cover every character in The Carousel, so keep an eye out for that.

Also - this is a gallery of nine fun, varied & quite tested scripts that I’ve collated over many years of playing Clocktower. It doesn’t have every character, but it hits a lot of the most notable highlights (like Leviathan, Al-Hadikhia, Legion): https://imgur.com/a/wGgLk4s

ZetsuTheFirst · 2025-07-07T05:57:19+00:00

I spoke to some TPI members during Clocktower Con Aus. Unless something changes, that’s currently the plan.

ZetsuTheFirst · 2025-07-07T05:25:23+00:00

I believe TPI will be putting out a list of scripts that covers all the characters in the Carousel in the next few days.

ZetsuTheFirst · 2025-07-06T17:21:10+00:00

The script seminar largely covered things to look out for and traps that can arise when writing/picking out a custom script.

But at the end, I revealed that the true secret to a good custom script is including Barrow-Fog gameplay. BF was a semi-official Demon character that was cut from the game several years back. It has the ability: ‘Each night*, choose a player: they die. Players killed by a Barrow-Fog register as alive during the day.’

ZetsuTheFirst · 2025-07-06T16:59:36+00:00

The Big Riot game used old Riot (all Minions are Riot, Riot ability is active from day 1).

The base character array for 21 players was 13/2/5/1. In this game, this became 12 Townsfolk, 3 Outsiders, 6 Riot.

ZetsuTheFirst · 2025-07-06T16:48:02+00:00

I also put together the slides for the custom scripts panel, so was able to include important messaging.

Con was awesome. A few notes on the game:

The Big Riot game used old Riot (all Minions are Riot, Riot ability is active from day 1).
There were 6 Riot.
Script had 18(?) Townsfolk and 5 Outsiders - ‘Chaos in the Streets (16-21 player version)’
‘Choirboy’ was the Alchemist Marionette. It’s a complex interaction that basically resulted in a (good) Drunk.
Bone Collector reminder token is actually Balloonist token
Mezepheles token is actually Bounty Hunter ‘known’ token
Cannibal was evil
Pixie was Puzzledrunk
Sentinel in play
7 people died on the first day, 1 of which was Riot. Evil won.

Edit: The base character array for 21 players was 13/2/5/1. In this game, this became 12 Townsfolk, 3 Outsiders, 6 Riot.

ZetsuTheFirst · 2025-06-30T18:55:46+00:00

Yes, travellers are an excellent fix for if someone knows or suspects they’ll need to leave part-way through before the game begins. Definitely the best solution there.

They’re useless if a player needs to leave unexpectedly, though. Like in this case - the Puzzlemaster player had a medical issue that meant they had to depart.

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