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Clocktower Resolution – Goals and Progress
Not one big on New Years resolutions, I made just a single one this year. More Blood on the Clocktower, in all it’s forms and ways. So the goal is to play, at least, 1 game a day, on average.…
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The ways to play
There are multiple ways to play this game and I have done a bunch of them. The four ways I am aware of are:– Real Life ✅– Online ✅– Live Text ❎– Asynchronous Text ✅ I participate in these in…
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Recluse is a Good Legion Bluff
I was fortunate enough to play on the Thursday night TPI stream, the game before the Village Idiot release. I went into that game thinking I’d never been evil on stream before and, lo-and-behold, there it was. A big red…
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Player Counts
Blood on the Clocktower works well at almost all advertised player counts. BoardGameGeek lists it as 6-21, including the Story Teller as a player, which they very much are. First, those few player counts that are the ones I try…
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That’s not how the Amnesiac works
Sometimes, things just happen that are funny. I was the good Goon, bluffing Gossip, in a role swap with the Amnesiac. I was nominated because people thought Tesso, my neighbour, was evil and there was a (made up) Clockmaker 1,…
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Village Idiot Release
A new character! A townsfolk. The Village Idiot. Here are my quick initial thoughts an hour or two after release. These are likely to change as I get to actually play with and as this character. While being a townsfolk,…
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Where You Can See Me Play pt.1
I get around. Playing here/there/everywhere. But where can you see me play, you might ask. The places are many and varied. The first is on The Pandemonium Institute Twitch channel. A new member there, having been approached to join at…
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Why Clocktower is my favourite Social Deduction game
In social deduction games, one name reigns supreme: Werewolf/Mafia. The OG, the classic, the one all others are compared against. With good reason. It set the framework – Informed Minority vs Uninformed Majority. Many games have progressed this formula. Werewolf…
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Huntsman is an Outsider
Probably my least favourite Townsfolk is the Huntsman. It feels like it should exist in the Outsider category, and here I will briefly explain why I think that. It has a major downside, adding an outsider, the Damsel, which includes…
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A Monk Shaped Hill to Die on
Everyone has opinions, on something or other. This is one of mine. I know the reasons it will never be changed (existing printed versions the primary one) but still, here I am, fighting for it. The Monk should be an…