HachiDraft Manual

• Players count toward lobby capacity, the seven-player minimum, team composition, bans or votes, and character assignment.
• Spectators may opt in from the waiting lobby. Anyone joining after all player seats are occupied automatically enters as a spectator instead of being rejected. Spectators do not count as players and receive a read-only observer view with live information similar to the Storyteller view.
• A spectator may reclaim a player seat before the draft if the player capacity is not full.
• A Storyteller can use Manage on a player or spectator card to promote that participant to an additional Storyteller.
• Additional Storytellers do not count as players and receive full Storyteller controls.
• Before the draft, any Storyteller can step down into a spectator seat. If no Storytellers remain, a connected player can claim the open seat; that participant then stops counting as a draft player.
• A disconnected Storyteller keeps the seat for five minutes in the waiting lobby. After that grace period the seat is released and the former Storyteller becomes a spectator. During an active draft, the seat remains protected until the lobby returns to waiting.

• The upper-right controls provide one-click mute, sound and display settings, and a book button beneath the settings cog that opens this manual. Display settings include a toggle that disables all interface, draft, reveal, and background animations.
• Selecting your profile picture in a lobby opens the avatar picker. Your most recent avatar is reused when possible.
• Green and white connection indicators distinguish connected and disconnected lobby members without relying on color alone.
• HachiDraft saves the current player session in the browser so returning through the lobby code can restore the correct player route.
• The update modal reads the current version and release notes from the app manifest; it is not a separate list maintained by each page.
• On capable desktop browsers, the WebGL background responds to the current phase, pointer activity, staged bans and picks, confirmations, removals, and Democracy vetoes. Mobile and lower-end devices receive lightweight fallback pulses; reduced-motion preferences disable those animations.
• Selected character tokens briefly surface inside the atmosphere. During banning, known bans remain around the ritual field; Blind bans show only your own staged choices until they are revealed. Script Building and the final reveal arrange accepted script characters into a background constellation.
• Animated background can be disabled at any time to keep the static gothic backdrop. Desaturated colors retains motion and reactive effects with a muted near-monochrome palette. Both choices are remembered by the current browser.

1. The app preselects one Demon seat and the required Minion seats before voting so it knows who will receive vetoes.
2. Every drafted player submits up to their good or evil vote allowance. A player cannot put multiple votes on the same character.
3. Characters at or above the threshold become provisional bans. Characters below it remain available.
4. Each preselected Demon or Minion player receives one optional veto. A veto removes exactly one vote from one currently banned character.
5. If the adjusted total drops below the threshold, the character immediately becomes available again. A role with votes still at or above the threshold stays banned.
6. The Storyteller may force-complete voting or vetoes; incomplete players are treated as submitting what they staged or skipping their veto.

Democracy requires stable evil seats during voting. Atheist, Kazali, Legion, Lord of Typhon, and Summoner are disabled because their setup replaces or restructures those seats.

Lil’ Monsta remains enabled: if selected, the original Demon-seat player becomes a Minion-role player while remaining the Lil’ Monsta holder.

Marionette remains enabled: when its chance succeeds, the app preselects one fewer normal Minion picker.

Storyteller pre-bans are locked before players act and cannot be vetoed. HachiDraft also protects the draft from exhausting a character team: at least four roles from each playable team must remain available.

Force-assignment-only roles, such as Drunk and Marionette, cannot be manually banned, voted for, or picked as ordinary visible characters.

Demon and Minion choices can alter setup. HachiDraft therefore resolves the Demon and required Minions before splitting good players into Townsfolk and Outsiders.

The base Outsider count follows the standard player-count cycle. Known selected setup modifiers are then applied when enough information exists. Supported examples include Baron (+2), Balloonist (+1), Fang Gu (+1), and Vigormortis (−1); variable modifiers are rolled once per lobby and reused consistently.

The Drunk occupies an Outsider slot but is shown a Townsfolk character. The app handles that as a hidden forced assignment rather than a normal visible pick.

Some characters alter the usual one-Demon-and-Minions structure. Outside Democracy, HachiDraft delays Minion seat assignment until the selected Demon setup is known so Atheist, Kazali, Legion, Lil’ Monsta, Lord of Typhon, Summoner, and Marionette can be handled safely.

When Kazali is selected, the Kazali player receives a private player-card panel showing how many Minion seats remain. They choose the players first; those players then draft or receive their Minion characters before good character types are assigned. Automatic assignment pauses for this player choice, and Friend’s Draft rebuilds its temporary teams around the chosen seats.

The complete list of automated exceptions is in Character-specific rules.

• Atheist: only the Demon-seat player may select Atheist as the special setup choice; ordinary Townsfolk players cannot choose or receive it. Selecting it moves that player and every other player to the good team, after which the remaining players are assigned Townsfolk or Outsider pools. Atheist is disabled in Democracy.
• Kazali: all non-Kazali players are reset to good first. The Kazali player privately chooses the normal number of Minion players; each chosen player then drafts or receives a Minion character. Good character pools wait until those seats resolve. Kazali is disabled in Democracy.
• Legion: the app assigns Legion to 70% of players, rounded up, while always keeping a strict majority. Every Legion player is placed in the Demon pool and all remaining players become good. Legion is disabled in Democracy.
• Lord of Typhon: the selected Demon remains in place, separately assigned Minion seats are removed, and every other player is reassigned through the good pools. The Lord of Typhon player then chooses four or five Minion characters for the generated script before reveal can complete. Lord of Typhon is disabled in Democracy.
• Lil’ Monsta: the setup creates one more Minion seat than the normal player-count table. In Democracy, the original Demon-seat player is treated as a Minion-role player while remaining the Lil’ Monsta holder.
• Summoner: the Demon-seat player may select Summoner even though it is a Minion character. The app reduces the additional Minion seats by one but always creates at least one other Minion, even when another setup modifier would otherwise reduce the count to zero. Summoner is disabled in Democracy.
• Marionette: if Marionette is available, the configured chance is rolled once for the lobby. When active, one fewer visible Minion seat is created. Marionette is hidden and cannot be banned, voted for, or selected as an ordinary character.

• Baron: adds 2 Outsiders.
• Balloonist: adds either 0 or 1 Outsider.
• Fang Gu: adds 1 Outsider.
• Godfather: adds either 1 Outsider or removes 1 Outsider.
• Vigormortis: removes 1 Outsider.
• Drunk: occupies an Outsider slot but is secretly forced onto a player assigned to the Townsfolk pool. That player is shown one of their Townsfolk choices when possible, or another available Townsfolk character. Drunk cannot be selected directly.

Balloonist and Godfather are rolled once per lobby and reuse the same result. After every final character is known, HachiDraft recounts the modifiers and may replace a non-forced good character to make the Townsfolk/Outsider split match the final setup.

• Huntsman / Damsel: assigning Huntsman forces Damsel onto another good player if Damsel is not already present. The chosen player becomes an Outsider and their previous choices are cleared. Generated and uploaded script pools also try to include Damsel whenever Huntsman is present.
• King / Choirboy: random resolution gives Choirboy its normal weight once King has been chosen; otherwise Choirboy is strongly deweighted.
• Village Idiot: unlike most characters, which are unique, up to three Village Idiots may be assigned or included on a generated script.
• Extra-evil risk: Bounty Hunter, Cult Leader, Goon, Mezepheles, and Ogre are limited to two total characters in play and two entries on a generated script. Random assignment prefers a non-risk character after one of these is already present when another legal option exists.

Standard generation and finalized Script Building favor useful character combinations rather than filling every team uniformly at random:

• Lleech and Zombuul favor Pacifist, Sailor, Devil’s Advocate, or Fool.
• Dreamer favors Spy, Widow, or Wraith.
• Assassin favors Gossip, Gambler, or Tinker.
• Goblin and Vizier favor Alchemist; Shabaloth favors Professor; Imp favors Ravenkeeper or Sage; Summoner favors Po or Riot.
• The builder adds an Outsider-count support role, a misinformation role, and Gardener when eligible, unbanned, and compatible with the current pool.
• Atheist, Amnesiac, Goon, Heretic, Hermit, Legion, Politician, Wizard, and Zealot are deliberately less common during automatic script construction.
• Lil’ Monsta or Lord of Typhon increases the preferred Minion pool from four to five. Summoner has a 50% chance to do the same.

Blocking jinx pairs are removed or rejected during script construction. These support rules affect the exported list of possible characters; they do not assign extra roles to players unless a player-assignment rule above explicitly says so.