Beardy on the Clocktower

Blog on the Clocktower

  • What is an Engineer to do? Playing Separation of Church and State, a delightful script by Aero, with 10 players the choice to me was obvious. While Legion is always an interesting choice, I decided that minion manipulation was the…

  • An interesting home-brew script, for totally normal reasons not at all related to the time of year, being mid February. Cupid’s Bow, where some players were in hidden Revolutionary pairs where they didn’t have to sit next to each other,…

  • Games of Blood on the Clocktower follow a tempo. Setup – roles are assigned. Night 1 information is provided. Day 1, the game commences in earnest and the deduction, along with the killing, begin. But what if there were deaths…

  • What happens when you’ve done it all? Played, created and checked custom scripts? Well, Homebrew is the final step in the custom script journey. Either individual characters or a script full of them, how would you go about this? I’m…

  • Once you have made a script, and you think it’s pretty good, how can you go about confirming this, before play testing? You can use the handy BOTC Script Checker tool. This checks your script and allows you to avoid…

  • Once you have explored the range of custom scripts available, what if you want more. Particular character interactions or something thematic. Then you can make your own with the script building tool. This tool, provided by TPI themselves, allows you…

  • The base three scripts, Trouble Brewing, Sects and Violets and Bad Moon Rising are great. Each one offers something different. Different characters, mechanics, experiences. But they are limited, only 3 of them. ‘Only’ 72 characters between them when there are…

  • Counting down the days. Only 5 months to go to the first (of hopefully many) Clocktower Convention Australia. First funded on Kickstarter, this event is also a celebration of 10 years! of Blood on the Clocktower. I will be in…

  • The Savant is one of the few characters in the game that the Story Teller gets to directly shape information for. This information can often make or break a game, given the true/false nature of it and the inherent puzzle…

  • How did a lunatic win a game for evil? Let me tell you how. This is a cautionary tale for any Ojo that might be a Lunatic – be careful on who you tell your choices as it just might…