BGG.Con Spring 2026 - Day 3
So this was an entire day of Sects & Violets debauchery! I may have gone overboard with this script, considering how many times I ran it during the whole Con, but I do think people had a good time, and I certainly don’t regret it.
Sects & Violets - 15-player + 1 Traveller - evil won.
The Snake Charmer hit the Demon N1 and swapped, so I made the former Demon (now poisoned SC into the Evil Twin’s good twin - people admired this move quite a bit, after the Grim reveal. Unfortunately 2/3 Outsiders were killed quite early - Witch curse and 1st execution. But the Fang Gu stayed hidden for most of the game, but became a Minion after the Barber execution triggered another swap. Because Sweetheart died early, the Juggler got Sweetheart drunk, and another thing you don’t see every day was that the evil Judge died without ever using his ability.
Sects & Violets - 12-player + 2 Travellers - good won.
This game had to be a good win, because this is the final photo I took of it; the Vortox gave wrong info to the Artist, Town Crier, and Philo-Seamstress - I do remember that much! I guess it’s possible the game ended with a Klutz pick of an evil character, but I don’t think that happened all weekend, in spite of how many S&V games I STed. The good Deviant never made me laugh really, and the evil Bureaucrat chose her Pit-Hag friend for the entire game.
Sects & Violets - 15-player - good won.
This game was so wild that I decided to provide the before & after; this is before, from N1. See below for the after…
On N2, the Philosopher chose to steal the ability of the Snake Charmer, who then became drunk for about half the game. Then on N3, the Philo used the Snake Charmer ability to swap alignments & characters with the No Dashii, who promptly outed the Minions, although most people were reluctant to trust her. The dead Town Crier helped her solve exactly what had happened, though! The Dreamer got mostly poisoned info, but was Cerenovus-mad and therefore unable to out her wrong info, until she was executed due to madness. The Pit-Hag took quite a few nights to figure out his ability, but eventually turn the new Philo into the Sweetheart, the Seamstress into the Mutant, and the Snake Charmer into a good-team Fang Gu. We also had a good-twin Barber who decided to help her Evil Twin friend, and never outed to the town, so it was a huge surprise when the good Fang Gu got to Barber-swap the Cerenovus with the Flower Girl, and nobody understood what the hell was going on. The game was overlong and absolutely insane, but eventually good team won by executing the Evil Twin then the final Demon, the good Fang Gu.