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Who’s playing Blood on the Clocktower?
Wondering if we have tilde fellows playing it. I’ve become addicted since last year and it’s fully taken over my regular board game nights… I’ve been storytelling and doing custom scripts and characters.
I haven't played, though I'm interested and have watched a handful of actual plays of it (mostly with Dimension 20 or adjacent folks). I've not played a social deduction game with a true "GM' before rather than essentially a moderator ala werewolf/mafia.
It's a bit intimidating to actually play for that reason I think
I've been on a BOTC binge! I've been watching No Rolls Barred in person plays and I just really really want to play it too.
I've only ever played it once a long while back with my friends and we've never done it again. Adult life making people busy and all that.
I didn't understand the game much then, but with what I know now, I really want to give it a go again.
Luckily, I found a local group that meets up every week to play and I aim to join them once I'm free!
I've played it three times, once as a player (was the imp) and twice as a GM. I also have a lot of experience playing Mafia (as a forum game), with almost 15 mafia games. Our Mafia group is so advanced that we have custom powers every game and custom template for all powers. We make our powers based on the theme of the game.
For me, I just hate it.
There was a point in my life where acting, lying and deceiving was cool and fun, for the sake of the game, but now, I just see it as not being myself and I cannot live with that. It makes me stressed every time I end up with a role on the "baddies" team and I end up having no fun at all for the whole game because I'm constantly stressed that people will realize I'm lying. I just completely dislike lying and being dishonest so even in a game setting, I can't wrap my head around it. As for being on the "good" players team, I also dislike it. I see people making analysis mistakes and I kinda dislike that too. I've also stopped playing mafia for those reasons.
That's my opinion.
My friend group absolutely love it, they have had 4 games in a year without me, the latest one being with 15 players this Saturday. They all loved it. Good for them! At some point, one guy in my group wanted to GM and I didn't want to be a player, so I haven't gone back since, it's just not for me.
So yeah, if you're a social person and easygoing in groups, it's an amazing game. If not, this game is not for you.
Another person who's become addicted over the past year. Clocktower has become my default background YouTube to put on while making dinner and other such mundane activities. Unfortunately timezones mean that I don't get to catch most of the streams, but I'm also not a huge stream watching person so that doesn't matter.
I have a local group that meets occasionally, but unfortunately the venue they've been using is shutting down (last game this Friday). Quite often there'll be new players, but when there's not we've had some rather silly games. One of my favourites was a game of "Nobody Fucking Move" (one of the best teensies out there) that I storytold where the players drew their tokens, but didn't look at them. Everyone had to figure out which character they were. The Duchess did double duty of being the only real information the town had, as well as a mechanism for the evil team to figure out their own alignments and find each other.
I've recently found someone else at work who owns a grimoire, so the two of us are now running fortnightly games after work in the office. It's most players' first or second times playing, so it's been TB and they're starting to get the game. Still very execution shy (and I don't really want to introduce the Vortox just yet), but there's been some decent world building. The players all seem to get the premise and are happily talking to each other afterwards, which I count as a success.
Haven't played as its been a long time since I've been capable of a mafia-like social game for many reasons, but I'll mention that Demon Bluff (https://store.steampowered.com/app/3522600/Demon_Bluff/) seems like this game if it were in the framework of singleplayer, solving who's evil at a given table. The playtest is generous, and went a long way towards getting me interested in the planned Q1 release.
I used to enjoy watching internet video mafia, but those days are past and when I was recently exposed to BotC for the first time - a charity event ran by players from the recent UK Genius Game season - it seemed overly complex to learn through observation.