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 and detailed 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:

• Delivery Notes

• Augmented “How to Play”

  • Welcome the Players (TPI WEBSITE)

  • BEFORE THE GAME STARTS (TRANSCRIBED TEXT FROM TPI)

  • Names & Acoustics Check

  • Tone Set / Call for Player Accommodations

  • “Lock In” Commitment Check

  • About the Script / Brew the Bag

  • Hand Out Tokens / Take Back Tokens

  • Pre-Game Administration

  • Experience Check / Taking the Room Temperature

  • First Night Patter / Evil Learns Each Other

  • Signal for Attention

  • BEFORE FIRST NOMINATIONS (TRANSCRIBED TEXT FROM TPI)

  • Extra Exhortation for Executions

• Traveler Management

  • Onboarding Private Conversation w/ Traveler(s)

  • Adding a Traveler Patter

• Penultimate Days

  • At Final Four Alive

  • At Final Three Alive

• Post-Game Landing

  • Ending the Game

  • Grim Reveal (Optional)

  • Post-Game Debrief (Optional, Recommended)

  • Close the Game

• Mechanics Briefings for intermediate Scripts

  • Bad Moon Rising New Mechanics Briefing

  • Sects & Violence New Mechanics Briefing

• Teensyville Management

  • Teensyville Rules Explanation

  • Standard Teensyville

  • Toymaker Teensyville

  • Toymaker - At Final Four or Final Three Alive

• Player Buy-In Briefings

  • Hustle-Meta Scripts Player Buy-In Briefing

  • Storyteller-Proxy Involvement Player Buy-In Briefing

  • Extra-Constitutional Play player Buy-In Briefing

• Hurry Up / Wrap It Up

  • Deploying the Doomsayer

  • Deploying the Fiddler

Direct link: TEACHING SCRIPT for BOTC.gdoc