Sham Shab Shag

Full Script

SilentInAWay

Notes

This script offers opportunities to work with the "calculus of death" (the reasons why deaths occurâor do not occurâin the night) from Bad Moon Rising without the stress of having to figure out which demon is in play (or suffer through long games of double-taps and players surviving execution). Playable using any Grimoire, this script is designed to appeal to players of all experience levels. Although over half of the characters come from Bad Moon Rising, the characters imported from Trouble Brewing and Sects & Violets can be used to create an experience unique to this script. The script's name refers to the featured demon (the Shabaloth), the Lunatic (aka the "Sham Shab") and coitus (shagging). So, in other words, Sham Shab Shag means Fucking with the Lunatic. For any given game, one might ask: âWho's shagging who?â â Is the Shab shagging the sham? Is the Storyteller shagging the Shab with thoughts of being shammed? Or perhaps the minions are sham-shagging their own Shab?

Characters

Total 28

Townsfolk

Grandmother

You start knowing a good player & their character. If the Demon kills them, you die too.

Chambermaid

Each night, choose 2 alive players (not yourself): you learn how many woke tonight due to their ability.

Mathematician

Each night, you learn how many players’ abilities worked abnormally (since dawn) due to another character's ability.

Oracle

Each night*, you learn how many dead players are evil.

Innkeeper

Each night*, choose 2 players: they can't die tonight, but 1 is drunk until dusk.

Gambler

Each night*, choose a player & guess their character: if you guess wrong, you die.

Monk

Each night*, choose a player (not yourself): they are safe from the Demon tonight.

Exorcist

Each night*, choose a player (different to last night): the Demon, if chosen, learns who you are then doesn't wake tonight.

Gossip

Each day, you may make a public statement. Tonight, if it was true, a player dies.

Professor

Once per game, at night*, choose a dead player: if they are a Townsfolk, they are resurrected.

Philosopher

Once per game, at night, choose a good character: gain that ability. If this character is in play, they are drunk.

Minstrel

When a Minion dies by execution, all other players (except Travellers) are drunk until dusk tomorrow.

Mayor

If only 3 players live & no execution occurs, your team wins. If you die at night, another player might die instead.

Outsider

Tinker

You might die at any time.

Sweetheart

When you die, 1 player is drunk from now on.

Moonchild

When you learn that you died, publicly choose 1 alive player. Tonight, if it was a good player, they die.

Lunatic

You think you are a Demon, but you are not. The Demon knows who you are & who you choose at night.

Barber

If you died today or tonight, the Demon may choose 2 players (not another Demon) to swap characters.

Minion

Godfather

You start knowing which Outsiders are in play. If 1 died today, choose a player tonight: they die. [-1 or +1 Outsider]

Poisoner

Each night, choose a player: they are poisoned tonight and tomorrow day.

Pit-Hag

Each night*, choose a player & a character they become (if not in play). If a Demon is made, deaths tonight are arbitrary.

Assassin

Once per game, at night*, choose a player: they die, even if for some reason they could not.

Scarlet Woman

If there are 5 or more players alive & the Demon dies, you become the Demon. (Travellers don't count.)

Demon

Shabaloth

Each night*, choose 2 players: they die. A dead player you chose last night might be regurgitated.

Traveller

Apprentice

On your 1st night, you gain a Townsfolk ability (if good), or a Minion ability (if evil).

Bone Collector

Once per game, at night*, choose a dead player: they regain their ability until dusk.

Judge

Once per game, if another player nominated, you may choose to force the current execution to pass or fail.

Butcher

Each day, after the 1st execution, you may nominate again.