It's probably also worth remembering that it says "if granted", if storytelling, and someone makes an insane wish that you don't feel up to running (or wish for some variation of "I win"), you have the option to just not grant it, or warn them to make a different wish, or that you'll only be granting tame wishes. Sucks for the wizard if their wish isn't granted, but it was their choice, and the warning is right there on the ability text. Better than you not enjoying storytelling.
Eh, the wizard is so random, I expect most experienced storytellers probably wont use it once the novelty wears off. It makes games go from puzzles to solve to random... who knows wtf is going on. Its like a much worse version of the amnesiac.
That was so good. JC deserves so much appreciation for doing stuff to make the game fun for other people rather than just play to win. Also "the player who has the least fun gets something good happen to them" should be a fabled or something.
I'd like to claim amnesiac and pick myself, Arif & Hobbe. For my wish I'd like to have the most liked comment on this video... In all seriousness, this game is going to be so hard to beat as my favourite game of the year and we're only a week in! The group we have is very special to me and when we show off our group with an example like this, it makes me proud to be a part of it ❤
I'm at the 40 minute mark. I've watched every BOTC video I can find on TH-cam from all the accounts you can think of. This is the funniest one so far. Bravo to the entire group.
Fantastic game. I really enjoyed the fact there wasn't arbitrary "you lose" conditions applied to the wish for no reason, it made the game much more fun to watch. JC MVP too, for both teams. He's got a good ST personality, even as a player. But seriously, mali/benevolent maximus, there. These games have me thinking, the Wizard is like an anti-Marionette. It's a super feels-good roll, the opposite of marionette there, but like marionette, it might be best used on a script as a threat to be bandied about by the evil team, but not actually in-game. Like a script with a Wizard not in play, but a Plague Doctor threatening to give the ability to the STs to help evil, or a Hatter needing to stay alive to stop it from entering, with Fang Gus who could cancel it coming into play needing to pick carefully, or Godfathers needing to hunt them down.
This is legitimately the funniest BOTC game I have ever seen. There is also sweet irony in the character that can register as good and evil ended up getting to decide between good and evil winning.
Loved this. It felt like the right kind of silly for a silly game. Kudos to both the storytellers and also the players for keeping this mostly on track to still be fun for potentially everyone. The wishes being one day only and a good mix of silly but at times also mechanically relevant still made this feel mostly playable and solvable. I've seen a fair amount of Wizard games now, and at times it feels like they evolve into an inside joke for the wizard, the storyteller and viewers but less fun for the other players, so I expected the worst but was positively surprised. Especially enjoyed that eventually we just had "private night greetings" be a thing people spend their wishes on.
Poor swampert. He meant what he said to mean that people he chooses gets wishes. But what he said was people he chooses gets affected by the wizards ability. The reason hes so cold is he thinks he already guessed the obvious.
I'm glad you stayed true to your word and uploaded today so that the people on Alejo's stream we raided can see why it was so difficult to summarise haha
This really was so great, I have been looking forward to seeing all the nonsense people get up to with the Wizard, and I have not been disappointed so far by any of the channels
Arguably gone so far as to not be a clocktower game anymore ( I know this is some people's fear with wizard), but a hilarious evening of chaos and it seemed like players were mostly jovial and having a good time. I appreciated that JC wished to improve someone's game knowing how rough this could have been for some roles waiting with no interaction, also other small wishes which were essentially making the ST be private postmen for whispers. ❤ to Arif and Hobbe
Still watching, but I am SO HAPPY with the Kazali's Wizard pick 😂 I was like "Who here would I turn into the Wizard?" and apparently the Kazali and I agree 😂
I was struggling to sleep last night, so fired up the VOD of the stream that you told me you'd be doing earlier... Was worth not being able to sleep with the hilarity that ensued.
Arif, I'm pretty sure the song you started singing at the start, For the First Time in Forever, is a song from the movie Frozen... Edit: Also, unless this has changed since the release streams for the Wizard, a new instance of the Wizard gets a new wish... One of the first Wizard games, one of the minions was a pit hag(played by Ben Burns if I remember that game correctly), and he kept changing the minions around to get new wizards for new wizard wishes. Something about the way it worked was that once the wish was made, the ability was used, and then a new instance of the Wizard was a new instance of the ability... Although I suppose as the storyteller you can run the Wizard however you want to. This main wizard wish is now one of my favorites. The first one being from the release stream, being that all players have the barber ability, giving the demon the ability to swap players every time someone died.
18:20 For Droisoned NWM that picks themself, if they're specifically the Drunk NWM, you can do that because you're making them think they are a TF, but otherwise you can't do that
Oh no Ellie, I'm so sorry. BUT YOU WERE HAPPIER WITH MAYOR THAN ORACLE, SO IT MUST HAVE BEEN FINE! :D Oh, JC thought Ellie was the mayor? No, mayor was a bluff and ellie was oralce, but i intended to bluff oracle anyway and when i talked to ellie first, both of us decided that swapping those would be more fun
Btw I think this could help next time, if a droisoned player, who has a role that can confirm themself (nightwatchman etc.), chose themselves as the target of their ability, you could lie to them that their ability worked or possibly affected by vortox as long as they do not affect other players. So for example, you could "ask" the wish of the xaan-poisoned amnesiac but just ignore what they say.
Didn't they decide at 48 minutes that "previously selected players get nothing"? Why did they keep giving people wishes? Did i misunderstand something?
If anyone asks why Wizard needs an experienced Storyteller, send them here.
It's probably also worth remembering that it says "if granted", if storytelling, and someone makes an insane wish that you don't feel up to running (or wish for some variation of "I win"), you have the option to just not grant it, or warn them to make a different wish, or that you'll only be granting tame wishes. Sucks for the wizard if their wish isn't granted, but it was their choice, and the warning is right there on the ability text. Better than you not enjoying storytelling.
Eh, the wizard is so random, I expect most experienced storytellers probably wont use it once the novelty wears off. It makes games go from puzzles to solve to random... who knows wtf is going on. Its like a much worse version of the amnesiac.
JC: I'm not wishing for more wishes for myself, I want everyone else to have them.
Swampert:
@@bernard832 😂
That was so good. JC deserves so much appreciation for doing stuff to make the game fun for other people rather than just play to win.
Also "the player who has the least fun gets something good happen to them" should be a fabled or something.
I'd like to claim amnesiac and pick myself, Arif & Hobbe.
For my wish I'd like to have the most liked comment on this video...
In all seriousness, this game is going to be so hard to beat as my favourite game of the year and we're only a week in! The group we have is very special to me and when we show off our group with an example like this, it makes me proud to be a part of it ❤
1:48:34 the way his smile just disappeared when he heard "from chat" is PRICELESS
This might have been not just the greatest wizard game, but greatest BotC game I've ever watched. Delightful chaos.
Okay, perhaps for the first time in my memory, the title of the video with the words "greatest" and "ever" turned out to be absolutely true.
Glad we could back it up!
I'm at the 40 minute mark. I've watched every BOTC video I can find on TH-cam from all the accounts you can think of. This is the funniest one so far. Bravo to the entire group.
In DnD the wish spell is a level 9 spell. JC added metamagic to the spell without cost. Metamagic: Maximize.
Edit: the chaos it gave was the best.
Fantastic game. I really enjoyed the fact there wasn't arbitrary "you lose" conditions applied to the wish for no reason, it made the game much more fun to watch.
JC MVP too, for both teams. He's got a good ST personality, even as a player. But seriously, mali/benevolent maximus, there.
These games have me thinking, the Wizard is like an anti-Marionette. It's a super feels-good roll, the opposite of marionette there, but like marionette, it might be best used on a script as a threat to be bandied about by the evil team, but not actually in-game. Like a script with a Wizard not in play, but a Plague Doctor threatening to give the ability to the STs to help evil, or a Hatter needing to stay alive to stop it from entering, with Fang Gus who could cancel it coming into play needing to pick carefully, or Godfathers needing to hunt them down.
This is legitimately the funniest BOTC game I have ever seen. There is also sweet irony in the character that can register as good and evil ended up getting to decide between good and evil winning.
I was hoping that on night 2 JC would wish that each night he would get a general-like scale of how crazy the wishes were
That was just amazing. Great players and great storytellers made that one of the most enjoyable games I've watched.
@@robdrew376 very sweet of you to say. Thanks for watching!
Loved this. It felt like the right kind of silly for a silly game.
Kudos to both the storytellers and also the players for keeping this mostly on track to still be fun for potentially everyone. The wishes being one day only and a good mix of silly but at times also mechanically relevant still made this feel mostly playable and solvable. I've seen a fair amount of Wizard games now, and at times it feels like they evolve into an inside joke for the wizard, the storyteller and viewers but less fun for the other players, so I expected the worst but was positively surprised.
Especially enjoyed that eventually we just had "private night greetings" be a thing people spend their wishes on.
@@kerwe3447 thanks for your lovely message. Appreciate you watching and giving your opinion.
I think this is the funniest game of botc I've ever watched. Loved the chaos.
Arif you have exceeded yourself, what is this abomination
Love it
Poor swampert. He meant what he said to mean that people he chooses gets wishes. But what he said was people he chooses gets affected by the wizards ability. The reason hes so cold is he thinks he already guessed the obvious.
That was an incredible watch. this group looks like a joy to play with. You and Hobbes are wonderful, entertaining, and resilient Storytellers.
This was a masterpiece of a game to watch
This might be the single greatest game of clock tower ever
This game had soo many amazing moments. Thanks to JC for the opportunity, and the STs for running along with it and sharing it to the world
Sending this video to my friend who's never played a game of BotC as an example of how the game is usually played
Just no lol
This might just be the most fun game I’ve ever watched! Very entertaining as a viewer
This was a fun game between JC and his 14 marionettes
*writes that down for future...*
90 seconds in an Arif is already singing Frozen this is wonderful
@@adamr7963 I don’t care what they’re going to say
And now I have extra context. But still as confused as ever.
I have been laughing throught the whole video. Best game of clocktower
I'm glad you stayed true to your word and uploaded today so that the people on Alejo's stream we raided can see why it was so difficult to summarise haha
@@Caluardo ahaha poor people of Alejo’s stream
This really was so great, I have been looking forward to seeing all the nonsense people get up to with the Wizard, and I have not been disappointed so far by any of the channels
@Dragoninja26 get ready for pure, unadulterated nonesense
Arguably gone so far as to not be a clocktower game anymore ( I know this is some people's fear with wizard), but a hilarious evening of chaos and it seemed like players were mostly jovial and having a good time. I appreciated that JC wished to improve someone's game knowing how rough this could have been for some roles waiting with no interaction, also other small wishes which were essentially making the ST be private postmen for whispers. ❤ to Arif and Hobbe
Holy WIZARD! You guys did a superb job storytelling what has to be one of the most chaotic games of BOTC I've seen. Absolute blast to watch!
Still watching, but I am SO HAPPY with the Kazali's Wizard pick 😂 I was like "Who here would I turn into the Wizard?" and apparently the Kazali and I agree 😂
The sheer insanity and lunacy.. I love it... and I'm only on the second night so far.
Fantastic game, so much chaos!
I was struggling to sleep last night, so fired up the VOD of the stream that you told me you'd be doing earlier...
Was worth not being able to sleep with the hilarity that ensued.
That was wild :)
This is one of the best, if not the best game of Blood on the Clocktower out there. Absolutely loved it!
Arif, I'm pretty sure the song you started singing at the start, For the First Time in Forever, is a song from the movie Frozen...
Edit: Also, unless this has changed since the release streams for the Wizard, a new instance of the Wizard gets a new wish... One of the first Wizard games, one of the minions was a pit hag(played by Ben Burns if I remember that game correctly), and he kept changing the minions around to get new wizards for new wizard wishes. Something about the way it worked was that once the wish was made, the ability was used, and then a new instance of the Wizard was a new instance of the ability... Although I suppose as the storyteller you can run the Wizard however you want to.
This main wizard wish is now one of my favorites. The first one being from the release stream, being that all players have the barber ability, giving the demon the ability to swap players every time someone died.
18:20 For Droisoned NWM that picks themself, if they're specifically the Drunk NWM, you can do that because you're making them think they are a TF, but otherwise you can't do that
@@j-vg good to know for the future, thanks
This was a lot of fun to watch ❤
Arif, it’s XFactor. You should watch TPI Australian stream, second game, from Tuesday! That was a fun Wizard game
I’ll check it out!
I've had a giant grin on my face for the past two hours. This game was absolutely hilarious!
Incredible game, could see each played independently slowly losing their sanity :D
This is the best game of clock tower I’ve ever seen
What a game.
Definitely belongs to a "clocktower hall of fame". I laughed so hard all the time.
Hats off to all of you, that was a blast!
This is the wizardiest game
Oh no Ellie, I'm so sorry. BUT YOU WERE HAPPIER WITH MAYOR THAN ORACLE, SO IT MUST HAVE BEEN FINE! :D
Oh, JC thought Ellie was the mayor? No, mayor was a bluff and ellie was oralce, but i intended to bluff oracle anyway and when i talked to ellie first, both of us decided that swapping those would be more fun
@@Frantasia just remember, your decisions caused this!
This game can be summed up in four, very famous words.
A wizard did it. (≧▽≦)
D15? That's fine, it's just D30 halved. I have tons of D30s.
once you moved the "Is the Philosopher" token to Lorinada then wouldn't Tom have been drunk as they are the Ogre and Lorinda is the Philo Ogre?
Nope - the Ogre's character text specifies even if drunk or poisoned, so Philo drunking them has no mechanical effect (and can be ignored)
Btw I think this could help next time, if a droisoned player, who has a role that can confirm themself (nightwatchman etc.), chose themselves as the target of their ability, you could lie to them that their ability worked or possibly affected by vortox as long as they do not affect other players.
So for example, you could "ask" the wish of the xaan-poisoned amnesiac but just ignore what they say.
Let's goooo! Hype!
Possibly the worst game of clocktower to watch while sleep deprived/sick but hey it was still a fun one!
@@skylinebeemine Get well soon! Hopefully this game didn’t set you back a few days 😂😅
Didn't they decide at 48 minutes that "previously selected players get nothing"? Why did they keep giving people wishes? Did i misunderstand something?
Yeah, I thought it would be best to scrap that rule :)
This is the stupidest best game.