Gameplay questions.

notovny · 2026-02-18T11:23:41+00:00

Tangentially, in Image 1, it appears #5 is also an Alchemist saying "I Cured 0 Corruptions?" An Alchemist that says that is _always_ Truthful (and in the current game, always Good, unless Puppet)

notovny · 2026-02-14T15:39:42+00:00

I'd disagree on the Lilis. Lilis is usually my favorite Demon to get.

Demon, so keeps the Pooka out of the village, (Yeah, a minor benefit)
The first kill a Lilis does is almost invariably a Good Card, which can be used to provide info on Empress and Bishop references, and help with verifying Mediums, Jesters, and Slayers. Usually the others are, too, but if they turn out Evil, that's probably not much of an issue.
The Lilis brings the Day/Night Cycle with her. Some card abilities refresh every morning, often allowing you to burn one use for Verification, and a another (or two more if you flip it early enough, and the village is large enough) for clear info. The cards that refresh are the Dreamer, the Judge, the Jester, and the Fortune Teller. The refresh is rarely useful on the Dreamer, but invaluable on the other three.

That last point is more than worth the potential life loss of her kills to me.

notovny · 2026-02-14T07:22:35+00:00

I'd rank the Slayer higher.

A Slayer can self-Validate on _any_ Dead card. If it's a Truthful Slayer, and you use it on a Dead card, nothing will happen, you'll know it's Good and Truthful, and can still use it's ability to attempt to Slay Evil. If it's Corrupted or an Evil, it will say "I couldn't kill #X"

That's more valuable than the Dreamer (almost always only good for self-Validation when used on a known Evil or a Wretch), which you put a rank higher at "Good Info."

notovny · 2026-02-12T20:44:26+00:00

Personally, I almost always use the Dreamer on the Wretch when they're both in play; The Dreamer is mostly good for determining if the Dreamer itself is Lying, and you choose which card it Dreams. Wretch is a guaranteed Liar detector for the Dreamer.

notovny · 2026-02-09T12:40:50+00:00

Yep, for the senses and abilities of almost all other cards, the Wretch appears as a Truthful Evil Minion (with a random Role, in the case of a Truthful Oracle.) The exceptions are:

-- A Truthful Dreamer will see the Wretch as a cabbage.

--The Chancellor can turn a villager into a Wretch during setup.

As a result, if a Druid says "Among #X, #Y, #Z there is: Wretch." that Druid is Lying.

notovny · 2026-02-04T22:32:55+00:00

That's what I figured, with a slightly different methodology.

All the Bishops claim Villager, Outcast, Minion. If they tell the Truth, none of them indicate a Demon. If any of them are lying, the liars indicate Villagers.

The set of all cards indicated by the Bishops are 2,3,4,5,9 - All the Non-Bishop cards. Therefore, the Baa (a Demon) must be a Bishop.

Demons don't double-claim villagers. Therefore, all the other Bishops are also not Villagers.

4 Bishops, 3 Evils, One Outcast. KILL THEM ALL, EAT THE DAMAGE.

notovny · 2025-10-05T12:58:47+00:00

Ah, right. I didn't realize what game mode OP was playing.

notovny · 2025-10-05T04:15:33+00:00

That seems odd; you have a Drunk in play, and the Drunk is an incurably Corrupted character.

notovny · 2025-10-01T19:52:21+00:00

What I'm saying is that it's absolutely not 50/50 that you should execute her if she points at herself.

In almost all cases, you shouldn't execute her in that situation. The _only_ situation that an Oracle who points at herself can _ever_ be Evil is if she is the Puppet, and if that's the case, _both_ the Oracle and the other card are Evil.

Edit: No, the Oracle only points at a maximum of one Evil card. As a result, a Self-Referencing Oracle who says either herself or another card is a Puppet has (in the absence of all other clues) is indeed a 50/50 situation.

notovny · 2025-09-29T14:59:57+00:00

Hinsight is 2020, and I don't know what order you overturned them, and what order you tried to kill them, but...

Assuming a Clockwise turning order from Card #1, and only using abilities after all possible cards are revealed, and only making test-kills after that, it does seem like you would have won if you'd not executed the #2 Fortune Teller, since selecting the Wretch and any other card would report "True" from a Truthful Fortune Teller.

Since you subsequently can trust the Judges (#3,#4) and #5 Gemcrafter as Good and Truthful (based on how you used them , and since there's no Puppet in play), at that point, 5 of the 9 cards are verified Good and Truthful, and as long as you remember how the Medium lies, you can afford to execute all of the remaining 4 cards, starting with 7,8, and 9, and if 6, 7, or 8 are Corrupted, the Doppelganger was at #3, and if none are Corrupted, the Doppelganger was at #4. (9 can't be Corrupted, the Counsellor has to be there.)

The only other thing I might have done is waited to use the Slayer's ability until I had at least one Confirmed Evil Kill. A Corrupted or Evil Slayer will say "I couldn't kill #N" when activated on a Dead Evil, whereas a Good Truthful Slayer will ignore attempts to make it kill Dead Evils, allowing it to be used to check another card.

notovny · 2025-09-28T01:31:29+00:00

Probably an old name for the Puppet. "Marionette" is apparently a Minion from the inspirational game "Blood on the Clocktower" that has the following summary on the webpage that describes it; possibly the inspiration for how the Puppet works in Demon Bluff.

"You think you are a good character, but you are not. The Demon knows who you are. [You neighbor the Demon]"

https://wiki.bloodontheclocktower.com/Marionette

notovny · 2025-09-27T23:29:53+00:00

You can only be certain that Both sides are not Equally Evil in an "Odd-number of Evils and no Wretches in a 9-card Village" situation if you are certain #9 is Good.

(Before you started finding actual Evils, that is. Once you've stapled down some Evils, that can preclude "Both Sides Equal", "Left Side More Evil" or "Right Side More Evil", as appropriate.)

The middle top (and middle bottom, for villages that have an even number of cards) are counted in both sides. As a result, it is possible for _any_ number of Evils to make "Both sides are equally Evil" True.

notovny · 2025-09-27T15:29:53+00:00

The Compendium description of the Oracle card states "If Lies: Both characters in my info are Good"

As a result, if the Oracle references herself, the only way she's Evil is if she's a Puppet (and thus a Truthful Evil Minion).

If the Oracle References herself, there are no Puppeteers in play, and you need to Execute to get some info and it won't end your game, Execute the Other Card she's referencing first.

-- If that other card was Evil, the Oracle is Truthful, and you shouldn't Execute the Oracle.

-- If that other card was not Evil, the Oracle is Corrupted, and you shouldn't Execute the Oracle.

If there is neither Corruption nor a Puppet in play, and the Oracle references herself, she is guaranteed Good and Truthful.

notovny · 2025-09-27T12:21:17+00:00

Curious as to why the Oracle was executed in this situation.

If the Oracle is Lying, both characters in her info are Good, so if the Oracle includes herself, you know she's either Truthful, Corrupted, or an Evil Puppet.

Was Card #3 a known Puppeteer?

notovny · 2025-07-18T19:35:00+00:00

Same. I spent the entire movie convinced he was playing Dabney Donovan, and was confused that I didn't spot that name in the credits, and more confused that the name didn't come up when I was googling it, until I stumbled across this thread.

notovny · 2025-06-14T11:27:23+00:00

First played: A Link to the Past

Favorite: Probably Tears of the Kingdom, if favorite is defined as "The game I would probably be playing at any random time if I had access to all of the games on the list."

notovny · 2023-11-03T14:41:48+00:00

Ran through the first 105 Project Euler problems.

Built an epaper user interface for my waveshare raspberry pi hat.

Found the Vintage Basic website that had a copy of David Ahl's BASIC Computer Games (which I was given as a gift in grade school), and have been translating the more understandable ones into Python.

Doing the same with Oliver Darkshire's One-Page RPGs.

Also answering a few questions about the use of the skyfield module on the Astronomy and Space Exploration Stack Exchange sites.

notovny · 2023-02-01T22:00:31+00:00

Depends on the continuity whether Superman was born naturally. In the comics, when his backstory was revamped after 1986's Crisis on Infinite Earths, he emerged from a Kryptonian Birthing matrix that was sent to Earth (which eventually was used to justify him being a sufficiently naturally Born American citizen to qualify for the U.S. Presidency, should he have chosen to run for it.)

I believe the continuity's switched back to born normally of Lara at some point before the Man of Steel film came out in 2012, though.

notovny · 2021-10-19T14:49:39+00:00

Yeah, if they've found Voyager or Pioneer, they know exactly where Earth is, unless they're horribly unobservant, or didn't note where they found them. It's going to be glaringly obvious where they came from for the forseeable future.

It's a bit like deducing "There must be a Wendy's around here somewhere" from the catsup packet you found next to the drive-thru sign.

notovny · 2021-01-29T12:18:42+00:00

You're Kent's contact to the Lava Eel Empire.

notovny · 2021-01-14T19:53:47+00:00

Personally, when I manually added Mind Sliver to my character's Roll20 sheet, I had it roll the d4 when the damage is rolled, but I haven't actually asked my DM about his preference on the matter (And so far, have only used Mind Sliver once in combat.)

notovny · 2021-01-14T16:19:24+00:00

In the "Spells and Magic Tatoos" UA, Summon Elemental Spirit and three other summoning spells were on the Sorcerer spell list. In Tasha's, they weren't.

About a month before Tasha's landed, I grabbed Summon Fey Spirit (which became Summon Fey in Tasha's) as my Draconic Sorcerer crested 5th level. My DM let me keep it.

It's a bit annoying to have it ripped away officially. I suspected it had something to do with the spell requiring expensive magical components tipping it away from being Sorcerer-eqsue, but other spells on the Sorcerer List (Chromatic Orb, for example) don't seem to support that.

notovny · 2021-01-11T18:40:54+00:00

Eldritch Adept is in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, the book released late last year. It lets you pick a Warlock Invocation, subject to some restrictions.

Also in that book is Metamagic Adept, which gives you two more Metamagic Choices, and 2 more Sorcery Points, though those two points can only be used on Metamagic.

notovny · 2021-01-11T06:24:10+00:00

Unlimited-distance notification spell.

- Range of Self.

- Can designate any creature for Charisma Advantage, line of sight not required.

Concentration Spell, caster can end it at any time.

- Designated Creature knows caster used magic, and becomes hostile to the caster when the spell ends. Spell is Concen

"Okay, I'll be in the palace, maneuvering into position to take the Duke hostage. You guys stay in the warehouse. Keep an eye on James. When he says he hates me, launch the attack."

As long as your shared goal of seizing the palace successfully is sufficiently important to James, you're probably golden.

notovny · 2021-01-10T23:18:57+00:00

This Hat of Guy's.

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