content by The Pandemonium Institute
markup and administration by LivFreeOrPie

Since April 2020, staff and endorsed volunteers from The Pandemonium Institute have posted accepted rulings on obscure character interactions in a running closed chat on the Unofficial Blood on the Clocktower Discord.

If you've ever dreamed up an obscure interaction between characters occurring during a game, there's a chance that this Discord has discussed your hypothetical scenario and and a sensible and fair way to interpret the rules (unless it's the Lil' Monsta). 

Unfortunately, stale advice is present across this Discord Chat.

Aspiring new  players may not know where to locate an esoteric channel buried in a difficult to navigate Discord.

So, with the intention to making the entirety of this important historical channel more accessible and internally consistent, I've put together a living Google Document where I scrape the contents of the channel and apply red text markup to stale and outdated information.

There are also a set of supplemental instructions nested in the Discord which have extremely detailed and helpful advice, but this advice is not featured in the BotC Wiki or official BotC sources:

• Lil’ Monsta Supplement / Some Clarifications - 2021.01.16

• Laissez un Faire Supplement - 2021.02.20 - updated 2024.06.27

• Madness Supplement - 2021.02.20

  • TPI link: https://botclinks.page/MadnessGuide 

• Legion Supplement - 2021.02.04 - updated by TPI 2024.08.06 

  • TPI link: https://botclinks.page/LegionGuide

• Marionette Supplement - 2021.04.15

  • TPI link: http://bit.ly/MarionetteSteventhoughts   

• Lleech Supplement / Immortality - 2021.06.21 - made obsolete 2024.07.26

• Boomdandy Supplement / Who to Kill - 2021.07.01

• Al-Hadhikhia Supplement / Naming Notes - 2021.08.21

• Atheist Supplement - 2021.12.04

  • TPI link: https://botclinks.page/AtheistGuide 

• Yaggababble Supplement - 2024.03.01 

  • TPI link: https://botclinks.page/yaggababble 

• Alchemist v2 Supplement - 2024.11.18

• Wizard Supplements / Video Digests - 2025.01.09

  • YouTube Link: Hard Claim with VivaLaSam ep. 33 w/ Jams from TPI

    •  Written video digest / Hard Claim (by LivFreeOrPie)

  • YouTube Link: Grim Scenarios ep. 50 w/ Edd from TPI

    • Written video digest / Grim Scenarios (by LivFreeOrPie)

I plan to continue to update this document to keep it current and consistent as new characters and rule changes are released.

Direct link: BotC Experimental Characters: Comprehensive How to Run w/ Annotations & Updates.gdoc

content by Steven Medway
markup and administration by LivFreeOrPie

Steven Medway, the creator of the game, occasionally posts upcoming changes and rule interpretations on his X account. Links to updated experimental character almanacs and some new information not present in other sources is hosted here.  I've collected them into a document for archive purposes.

Direct link: BotC Medway Updates X /Twitter Scrape.gdoc

content by Edd Gabriel
editorial by LivFreeOrPie

It's impossible to foresee every potential interaction between characters in every conceivable game state. Sometimes, as a Storyteller, you need to make a determination that seems fair and roll with it. Here are some ways of thinking about rules what may be helpful with those considerations:

"RAW - Rules as Written. When someone talks about justifying something RAW, they mean this is based entirely on a strict logical understanding of the rules as they are laid out in the rulebook and almanacs, no other considerations.

RAF - Rules as Fun. This is the way of the roleplaying Games Master - what can I do that makes it most fun for all concerned. Usually used as one of two tiebreakers when RAW isn't entirely clear or when RAW justifies multiple options.

RAI - Rules as Intended. A slightly more nebulous tiebreaker, but used in attempts to discern what a character is supposed to do, rather than what a strict and draconian adherence to the exact wording of the character text might technically allow."

Source: Unofficial BotC Discord | #rules-disccusion | 2022.02.01