Read The Basics from the Base Almanac (pages 4-8)
Read Running the Game from the Base Almanac (pages 10-16)
Read the Trouble Brewing Almanac, cover to cover
Take the following online rules quizzes:
Fundamentals | Easy
Trouble Brewing | Easy
Trouble Brewing | Intermediate
Read the Explaining the Rules sheet and prepare to read it for your players
Read the game creator's advice regarding Explaining the Rules to New Players
You are ready to start running Trouble Brewing.
(Trouble Brewing's Travelers are explained in the next section)
Text source: BASE Almanac, page 3
Read The Nitty Gritty from the Base Almanac (pages 19-25)
Read Great Storytelling from the Base Almanac (pages 27-32)
Read the Bad Moon Rising Almanac, cover to cover
Read the Sects & Violets Almanac, cover to cover
Read the Travelers & Fabled Almanac, cover to cover
Take the following online rules quizzes:
Bad Moon Rising | Easy
Bad Moon Rising | Intermediate
Sects & Violets | Easy
Sects & Violets | Intermediate
Fundamentals | Travelers
Fundamentals | Fabled
Read the game creator's advice regarding Including New Players
You are ready to start running Bad Moon Rising; Sects & Violets; & Travelers.
Text source: BASE Almanac, page 3
Read Accessibility Guidance notes from the Blood on the Clocktower website
Read TPI Canon Rules Interpretations which highlights nuance that may be missed when reading the game's documentation and includes post-release rules clarifications
Supplement the TPI advice with additional community conventional wisdom:
Feel free to read and borrow my Augmented Teaching Script that I use to teach the game, it only adds a few minutes to the standard rules explanation and it includes contingency scripts for specific in-game situations.
Read Player Conduct Resources for a discussion about managing player conduct.
Read the documents and articles on the "Best Practices" tab on this website for deep dives into specific character interactions.
Review the contents of my personal Storytelling kit in the "Grim Kit" tab of this website
Read the rest of the Base Almanac, including Going Further
Check out community-vetted full scripts and Teensyville scripts linked on on the "SCRIPTS" tab of this website
Learn about the ins-and-outs of Teensyville with the slide decks from the Teensyville Appreciation Panel
Read the The Carousel Almanac. (This publication is evolving and mostly duplicated in the BotC Wiki).
Browse the Blood on the Clocktower Wiki rabbit hole.
Check out my Unified Experimental Rules Updates document for evolving additional rules, obscure character interaction rules, nuances not already covered in the wiki
Check out my index of House Rules / Bootlegger on this website to learn about community house rules