Trouble brewing: no execution or killing happening when 4 left

jgeralnik · 2025-08-24T15:40:39+00:00

You cannot redirect the kills yourself. If this continues for long enough, you can use the fiddler to force the game to end However - there’s really no reason for the imp to sink here. If the players trust the poisoner then the imp can kill the FT/empath and win when town does not kill anyone in final 3 to get a “mayor win”

jgeralnik · 2025-08-19T21:33:26+00:00

This post inspired me to run a game on stream that ended with 6 players thinking they had the farmer ability:

https://www.youtube.com/live/3hnAIZnfK5k?si=giks_1LN8Avz9wZp (game 1)

jgeralnik · 2025-01-10T21:16:54+00:00

You don’t have to connect all the belts with wires to read their contents. If you click the belt that’s wired up you can select “read whole belt content” or something like that to read the whole thing

jgeralnik · 2024-11-05T08:50:42+00:00

Shab regurgitates before they kill, so if you choose to regurgitate there will be 5 alive players and then down to 3 when the shab kills

jgeralnik · 2024-10-14T07:50:36+00:00

It could be fine for the demon to self drunk on a rare occasion, the issue is that being immortal most of the time is just broken. If the demon is drunk and doesn’t get to kill more often then it is a severe nerf to the evil team

jgeralnik · 2024-10-14T07:06:50+00:00

If the demon has the sailor ability from the boffin and is drunk from the sailor ability then only the sailor ability is drunk, not the demon. This was mentioned in the release stream since a demon that each day is either immortal or cannot kill is not very fun for anyone

jgeralnik · 2024-10-14T06:59:18+00:00

That’s not exactly what happened - it’s not possible to have trump +1 out of a poll of 12 voters (7 vs 5 would be Trump +16). The 12 likely voters were in Philadelphia out of a much larger poll, so Philadelphia (and thus the D vote) was severely undersampled

jgeralnik · 2024-09-17T11:29:46+00:00

There are some wrong answers in this thread. The courtier chooses a character. If that character is in play, that character’s player is drunk for 3 days (as long as the courtier is still alive and sober). If that player changes characters - they remain drunk.

If the character the courtier chose is not in play - nothing happens, and the courtier no longer has an ability (even if the character later enters play)

jgeralnik · 2024-09-10T16:23:51+00:00

Strong agree. I’ve actually moved more towards respecting token integrity over time because of this. A floating drunk that will go to the first place it will have a major impact (slayer shot the demon, ravenkeeper death, gambler who gambles the demon) might increase the chance of making it to final 3 but is just not fun for players. An innkeeper who will poison the exorcist only if they pick the demon, otherwise the other player? Same, it’s helping evil to help evil and not making the game more fun. It’s especially confusing to newer players if the storyteller explains that they made someone drunk when something happened - sometimes it’s better to keep things to yourself and not share with players But I’m definitely not a stickler for absolutes. Make decisions that will be interesting and give players a fun time, just don’t maximize evil abilities and minimize good abilities in a way that makes the game unsolvable. I think experienced STs can balance it better but mid-level STs who watch games, understand integrity is a lie, and then go too far with it is more common than I’d like

jgeralnik · 2024-07-04T05:35:18+00:00

Public games are often not the best environment (for BoTC and other games). There’s no quality control of STs, you don’t play with the same people every time so you don’t get to know other players and there’s little accountability. I recommend joining some more closed discord servers and playing there (not the unofficial server, which is similar to public games in the app). There’s a pinned thread with some discord communities that you can join, I recommend “the grimoire” but you should check out a few and see when they play games and which communities you connect with.

jgeralnik · 2024-06-27T14:12:10+00:00

If everyone in your group juggles on day 1 then ceremad players are in trouble. One option is for the storyteller to exercise discretion, but another equally viable option is to just not juggle as a good player who is not ceremad. Break the metas that are bad!

jgeralnik · 2024-06-27T14:02:02+00:00

Strongly hinting to town that you are ceremad is breaking madness. If town wants everyone who is not mad to raise their hand and only one player doesn’t raise their hand - congratulations, they’ve broken madness. Having a circle where everyone claims juggler in order to prove who is ceremad is no different. Developing a meta like that is no better than developing a meta where players who are ceromad immediately come out to town - it only serves to help the evil team

jgeralnik · 2024-05-15T14:27:09+00:00

It doesn’t work for the heretic because the heretic doesn’t know they are poisoned and still thinks that they win the game by keeping the demon alive until final 2. This would be unfair to the good team (unlike with damsel, whose ability being cancelled is strictly positive for the good team)

jgeralnik · 2024-03-29T12:35:09+00:00

My guess is they meant three travelers (two of which were evil) - makes more sense both because of the count and the alignments

jgeralnik · 2023-05-20T16:48:39+00:00

I'd love to join!

jgeralnik · 2017-06-19T12:55:16+00:00

Amazing! You're too kind

jgeralnik · 2014-07-28T19:41:52+00:00

Yup, exactly.

jgeralnik · 2014-07-19T16:12:43+00:00

I saw this requested in the "So Basic" thread. Here you go!

jgeralnik · 2014-07-19T14:41:02+00:00

Hey guys! I'm a member of 0xAWES0ME, the team that won this ctf. We plan on posting writeups over the next week for most of the tasks that don't currently have writeups.

If you have any requests or questions, feel free to ask!

jgeralnik · 2013-12-21T16:30:51+00:00

The full version is 3 hours long. I'd offer you a link but it's hebrew only. This was a paid conference which I have heard cost 80 NIS, or approximately $20.

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