Augmented Teaching Script

Teaching instructions transcribed from The Pandemonium Institute
Augmentations by LivFreeOrPie

This is my continually updated teaching script for Blood on the Clocktower. I've refined it over 6+ years. I prefer to read from a script quickly instead of improvising a rules expansion. It stops me from meandering during the explanation. 

This used to be a much longer document. After reading advice from the game's creator, Steven Medway, I decided to use the provided script as a baseline and add brief administrative disclosures to help games run smoothly. 

The introduction in the box should take no more than 5 minutes to read. This augmented script adds a few extra minutes to manage player expectations and handle accommodations.

It starts with a complete transcription of the starting script in the box and makes the following additions for utility:

• Welcome the Players

• TPI "BEFORE THE GAME STARTS"

• Names and acoustics check

• Call for player accommodations (private & public disclosure)

• “Lock In” Commitment Check

  • Time commitment disclosure

  • Bio breaks & absences disclosure

  • Early departure check

  • Fatigue check

• About the Script / Brew the Bag

• Hand Out the Tokens / Take Back Tokens

• Pre-Game Administration

• Experience Check / Taking the Rooms Temperature

• First Night Patter / Evil Learns Each Other

• Signal for Attention

• TPI "BEFORE THE FIRST NOMINATION"

• Execution Exhortation

• Adding a Traveler Patter

• At Final 4 Alive

• At Final 3 Alive

• Ending the Game

• Grim Reveal (Optional)

• Post-Game Debrief

• Bad Moon Rising New Mechanics Briefing

• Sects & Violets New Mechanics Briefing

• Teensyville (Standard & Toymaker)

• Player Buy-In for Hustle-Meta Play

• Player Buy-In for Storyteller-Proxy Play

• Player Buy-In for Extra-Constitutional Play

• Hurry Up / Deploying the Doomsayer

• Wrap It Up / Deploying the Fiddler

Direct link: TEACHING SCRIPT for BOTC.gdoc