States

In Blood on the Clocktower, players can be lots of things - this character or that one, drunk or sober, alive or dead, healthy or poisoned. (Of course, we don’t mean literally.) These are called states. Basically, they’re permanent elements of a player that are independent from each other. For example, if you’re drunk and change your character, you stay drunk. If you’re poisoned, you can be drunk too.

Life and Death

At any given time, a player is either alive or dead. Generally, players die during the day from execution and die at night from characters’ abilities. Execution is different from death. Sometimes, a player may be executed but remain alive rather than die. Players may be executed multiple times, and even dead players may be executed again, just to be sure. Regardless of whether the group executes an alive or dead player, this counts as the one execution allowed for the day. A dead player cannot die again. If a dead player is attacked by the Demon, for example, they do not die again, and the group does not learn that they died last night.