These are official Blood on the Clocktower rules texts from published resources produced by The Pandemonium Institute (TPI). Content involving experimental and implementation-in-progress rule updates sourced from the Unofficial BotC Discord #experimental-how-to-run and Steven Medway's social media accounts is hosted under the Unified Experimental Rules Updates page.
by The Pandemonium Institute
These are the five rule books that come in the retail copy of Blood on the Clocktower. All aspiring Storytellers should read these guides from cover to cover.
PDF copies of these rulebooks are available for viewing directly from TPI and for download directly from BoardGameGeek.com (account required):
Base Rulebook Almanac
Trouble Brewing Almanac
Bad Moon Rising Almanac
Sects & Violets Almanac
Travelers & Fabled Almanac
by The Pandemonium Institute
These 9 quizzes are endorsed by TPI and cover multiple game scenarios. These quizzes do not cover experimental characters or The Carousel expansion.
Formerly known as the "Experimental Characters Almanac"
Formerly known as the "Kickstarter Almanac"
by The Pandemonium Institute
This Almanac collects all roles released in The Carousel expansion to Blood on the Clocktower released in July 2025. It includes updated version of tokens officially released in the Kickstarter edition of the game and the Clocktower Con 2023 set.
This document is on its 11th revision.
The latest revision of this document was July 9, 2025.
https://botclinks.page/TCalmanac
Mirror: BotC Almanac CAROUSEL v3 - 2025.07.09.pdf
https://botclinks.page/KSalmanac - OBSOLETE LINK
by The Pandemonium Institute
This is the most up-to-date information on all officially released and approved experimental characters, how to run them, and how they interact with other characters. The key pages to monitor are as follows:
All current and confirmed Jinxes (Djinn Special Rules) that explain exceptional interactions between characters on experimental scripts.
All changes from May 2024 onward are recorded here, including character ability changes and jinx changes.
Living document of term definitions.
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noun
Noun (1): Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin, from Latin, ruler, rule, model, standard, from Greek kanōn
Noun (2): Middle English canoun, from Anglo-French *canoun, chanoun, from Late Latin canonicus one living under a rule, from Latin, according to rule, from Greek kanonikos, from kanōn