Let's Play AVALON | Board Game Club

[@harveyholmes9533]

John calling Brooke ‘the lady of the lake’ went so under the radar but was so brilliant

[@mariopkmnzelda]

Adam agreeing with Isaac at the end was a brilliant way for him to turn the fact that everyone was already convinced he was bad into his favour.

[@alharron2145]

21:00 These sorts of silly improv moments are why I enjoy NRB playthroughs so much, where you take a fundamentally dry rules-based game that focuses on social deduction & inject some RP into it. It runs the risk of derailing a game, but I enjoy it so much, be it Jon's in-flight movie reviews in Pandemic, Sullivan's kissing-adjacent Liberal policies in Secret Hitler, naughty gnome trade union debates in Saboteur, or mad fun like the Billiard Boys in Blood in the Clocktower. It totally makes these games for me. Embrace the silliness!

[@thinktankstudios]

My God, Tom saying "Yeah boi" is somehow the funniest thing in the entire galaxy!

[@aaronpelavin2445]

Yeah boooooooiiiii

[@AdamGaffney96]

They never mentioned, but I think it was pretty obvious that Isaac was Merlin at the end there and it was a really tough spot for him to be honest! He came up with some good logic, but unfortunately it's difficult as Merlin to push hard for the good team in the last quest without obviously outing yourself and losing anyway.

[@michaelclarkj]

As someone else mentioned, needing all 4 good players in the final round, he should have been crying to get himself in (as should everyone else). Wouldn’t work per se but makes logical sense at least. He *has* to be on that mission.

[@ewanmacdonald728]

Sheriff Of Nottingham with everyone playing characters so basically just make sure Sully is there

[@jp_dxsolo]

I face palmed in the last game. Isaac buddy, you need 4 good people on the last mission to win. There are only 4 people in the game. So if you are good and not on the mission you should be fighting to get put on it. True it might not have made a difference. In any event loved the episode. Social deduction games are amongst my favorite games. Full disclosure I have made my own dumb mistake playing Avalon. I was merlin and when the game runner asked out loud at the end "Who was Merlin?" of course directing that at the evil team , my hand shot straight up in the air , I tried to save it but it was definitely too late

[@michaellee8816]

I feel the great strength of Board Game Club is you have to watch every episode lest you fall 7 in jokes behind....

[@SESauvie]

I once fell into the toilet when I was 6 and very sleepy. I don't believe these things are comparable to Brooke's regular trips to the vacation toilet.

[@mattsugrim7132]

Ahh, nothing like a game of medieval Secret Hitler with a side of Brooke falling into a toilet.

[@Clapham37]

I ALWAYS fail the first mission. Once I convinced someone else they put in the wrong card. I love these games.

[@danielpeters9110]

Yep, you probably won’t be taken on another quest but the game plays out so much differently with an early failure. Gotta sow the distrust and get the early failures

[@MikeysLegend]

"But some of us are looking at the stars" - poetic and apt. Sullivan Prime is looking back

[@WhyWouldYouLikeThis]

So according to this game, Jon and Blair are evil 100% of the time.

[@Maahks]

Dear Lord, it felt like forever since the last episode

[@EdsonR13]

"The steaks arent too high" killed me 🤣

[@RealEaril]

At 52:58, when Jon says that he can be left out, it is a proof that he is red. Since it is the last quest, that you need 4 successes and there is only 4 blues, all of them have to be in it. Not wanting to be in is not a blue move. QED

[@lexicornfell7361]

I can't believe I requested this last week and here it is! You guys are the best. Also, I never thought of playing it as a story telling game. I'm going to do that from now on. One small quibble - the team leader doesn't have to choose themselves for the team. (They probably should, but they don't have to.)

[@thekevinsantos]

In a parallel universe, an ethereal Sullivan Prime watches over us, ensuring his subjects have functioning toilets and second class bleach

[@seandunne9048]

After hearing Tom's storytelling abilities, I can't wait for CBW or NRB DnD 😁

[@pomiwrestling]

Avalon AKA the Quest for Bleach, Toilets and Steaks

[@scotta2896]

My favorite part of Fridays these days is getting a new Board Game Club episode!

[@stevencowan37]

Best memory of The Resistance (Avalon but cyberpunk, basically the same game except for Merlin), we played a Blind Traitors variant with 7 players (so 3 traitors). I was a traitor and on the first mission, and had the idea to fail the first mission. Some of you know where I'm going with this: turns out the other mission member was another traitor and we double-failed. Found out at the end of the game that the person who sent us on the mission was the third traitor. 10/10 best game

[@patrickhohmeyer7416]

In our group, the meta is to reject most mission proposals. Group proposals and voting patterns give you information, so having more of that is usually better for good. I was really surprised to see them accept almost every group.

[@TheFinalChapters]

They do this in every social deduction game. It typically doesn't work out for team good.

[@alixx_legenddark_xx2819]

FYI If you reject 5, team evil wins

[@iceman2292]

Yes! My favourite time of the week, board game club time! Love your work guys, thank you for brightening up my life each week :)

[@Elkott]

I'd love to see this channel do a tabletop RPG campaign

[@jackmitchell9079]

After having just watched CBW I want to watch a series of Tom being a DM

[@ZakRobinsonMusicOfficial]

Sullivan Prime vs The Biggest, Worst Blair… BOOK IT, ADAM

[@ThrawnIsAlive]

Cheers for the Monty Python reference.

[@BlueWoWTaylan]

Yes, I've been waiting for this! Lets see who is the terrible traitor! You gotta do the Shadows over Camelot too.

[@CaptLoquaLacon]

I'd prefer Dead Of Winter or BattleStar Galactica for the role-play aspect, but they are both much longer games

[@TheBT]

Yeah, every copy of avalon looks like this. It gets played that often

[@EmmaBonn96]

32:42 I want the story to be Sully, Jon, and Adam, rescuing Lady Brooke from her toilet tower First They approach the tower But they come across an Ogre With one swing of his hammer, Jon slays the foul beast, or maybe fights to a draw. They enter the tower climbing up the stairs and find A gelatinous beast! With quick wits and a flick of the wrist Noble Sir Adam douses the cube in bleach slaying it and whitening the castle steps. Lastly King Sullivan makes it to the top door of the tower. He opens it and finds a room with a large toilet. The lovely lady Brooke yelling for help, well, maybe just asking but the porcelain has good acoustics. King Sullivan reaches with all his might down the toilet. Lady Brooke jumps and their hands meet and the mission to rescue lady Brooke was a success!

[@chrisofgames]

Yaaas! A game that I’ve actually have and played 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 excited to see how this goes

[@e7venjedi]

Brooke's "I'm going to take everyone!" made me think she was a little like hobbit muppet type creature who was on the Round Table who was just so chipper and happy, but didn't really have a clue on how to get sh*t done XD

[@rasmusforchhammer9557]

Haha 'Brooke'

[@Milksword]

Brilliant game, brilliant group, brilliant episode.

[@e7venjedi]

52:09 Isaac's "nope." was just great :D

[@Steev42]

Oh, that last night hurt me. As soon as you saw 5 approvals you knew the quest was lost -- there is no reason for good to approve a final mission if they are NOT on the team.

[@minaDesuDesu]

Nice to see you guys playing this game. We used to play the same game all the time through out high school with regular playing cards. The biggest bunch we had was like 10-11 people with a lot of special roles. Good memories

[@joshculver4381]

7 times... goddammit Sully, put the seat down!

[@LifeUntilLove]

Man, that last game was surprisingly intense! It required just the right play, but it worked out in the end!

[@ienjoypaste]

...where the first rule of Board Game Club is evil is efficient. ...where the first rule of Board Game Club is "BOOK THE EGG, BLAMPIED". ...where the first rule of Board Game Club is everyone loves curry. ...where the first rule of Board Game Club is BYOD. Bring your own dice. ...where the first rule of Board Game Club is no licking other people's cards. ...where the first rule of Board Game Club is never trust a goblin.

[@marqueeungovernable6170]

I didn't think falling into a toilet is possible until like 5 seconds ago.

[@TheQrstOne]

Awww, you poor thing! 😝😆

[@TheBT]

I always reject missions I'm not on, as I know a good character isn't on it, or I pretend a good character isn't on it.

[@jeffradiane]

I feel like whenever Jon stretches his arms up, he is evil... like it’s his tell.

[@JonGracey69]

oh my god maybe you're right

[@jeffradiane]

@@JonGracey69 Gonna have to keep an eye on it. ;)

[@jeffradiane]

@@JonGracey69 I just watched the latest NRB plays BotC and you raised your arms, and you weren't evil, nor were lying as far as I could tell! So I think you are in the clear! :)

[@JonGracey69]

@@jeffradiane PHEW!

[@darrenkavanagh5385]

Jon please play werewolf with these one week

[@JonGracey69]

yeah alright then. Since you asked so nicely

[@darrenkavanagh5385]

@@JonGracey69 thank you Jon, your a great man and very funny, please say hi to all of the gang for me love you all

[@theAstarrr]

That's a flaw with the online version. You are never required to pick yourself. It's important because if you don't want the votes to fail 5 times and it's gotten to you and no one trusts you (meaning they would reject a 5th time), you can pick other players to get your team the point for this round.

[@pghcameron2806]

Mythology references? THANKS SMITE, I recognize things!

[@ProdigalGeek]

Was hoping at least one of the games would introduce more variants! They are what make Avalon that much more exciting

[@CaptLoquaLacon]

I think they should have had Percival in too, but I think it was a first game for most of them

[@lexicornfell7361]

Yeah I thought the same. Hopefully there’ll be a sequel with more roles added, and maybe even the Lady of the Lake.

[@lexicornfell7361]

Yeah I thought the same. Hopefully there’ll be a sequel with the other roles and the Lady of the Lake.

[@e7venjedi]

45:01 "To uh... Elongate... ya Elongate my uh... 'legacy'... ya. That's what it's for." So good.

[@aaronpelavin2445]

Rip sir tomcelot, long, but not forlongen

[@johnsmith2589]

the evil team needed to reject right away. they couldn't recover after the first quest they bluffed on.

[@martayharmay]

Yes! Been requesting this for so long!

[@e7venjedi]

Time to go clear Blair's Attitude [problem] XD lmao love it.

[@DKL.]

Gonna assume Issac was Merlin in that last one but couldn't over play his hand otherwise he would've easily been sniped by the baddies. A tough but fun game to navigate, gonna get my mates to try this one for sure

[@windberbrandt]

Jon's "Lady of the Lake" joke went severely underappreciated.

[@dumblonde8872]

I live for the Brook and Sully interactions!!!

[@ZanraiKid]

Adam corpsing during a bluffing game? SEND FOR THE MAN

[@MeonLights]

Yon party bus pulling up outside Ye Olde BnQ to buy bleach for the toilet of the Lady of the Latrine sounds like a very drunk/high round of dnd. Love it

[@paulsummers9860]

If nobody sings Avalon to the tune of ‘Babylon’ then I’ll be disappointed … I’ll return up finishing the video

[@Alucard-A-La-Carte]

Sully's toilet's so big, it needs a lifeguard! Heh-HEEEEH!!

[@michaelj1534]

I've fallen in toliets before usally when I'm in a hurry and forget to look

[@cashmere3575]

Question: who was Merlin in the final round? Was it Isaac? 🤔

[@rasmusforchhammer9557]

Seemed like it

[@markcarlyle4840]

Got to be

[@angelxob64]

It seems he is. His reasoning was also logical, Blair on the 4th quest had to suceed (i mean, one failure would only harm evil team) so she was not cleared. But what it points clear to it is that if another player were Merlin, that player would jump to support Isaac's logic (his logic was so solid that Adam agreed instead of fighting it, so Merlin could have support that without outing himself)

[@hawyee9090]

jon's "bleach boys" joke was everything to me

[@kobba8813]

Tom Saying “Don’t even trip dog” raised the ceiling on my happy place😂😂😂

[@Believer1980]

My grandmother once told the story that my Mum fell into the toilet once, granted my Mum was 4 or 5 at the time, so Hell knows heaven suspects how Brooke can do it.

[@e7venjedi]

49:40 Get called out on the nonsense role-playing in the most eloquent way :D As only Tom can do! +10

[@ZacPepper]

This is a direct copy of midnight. Love the content btw

[@oh.hey.matthew]

I'm here for Tom's adventurous B&Q tale. Huzzah, for the bleach bretheren's deft good fortunes.

[@dmacartney]

Seems like only taking 2 people in the first round weighs this heavily in favour of the good team, but it was fun to watch.

[@samjohnson4751]

Growing up sharing a bathroom with three brothers I'm sure I've fallen into the toilet seven times, but I didn't count how many times.

[@jimmykilloran5621]

I can confirm I’ve fallen into one total toilet.... it was 2am and I was 5 years old, I was sleepy but a mans gotta poop. And boy howdy did I miss the toilet seat

[@TheNeonParadox]

See how goofy these quests were? This is why NRB has to eventually give in and run a D&D campaign. I'd be happy with just a brief three-hour one-off at this point.

[@hannahbtw3331]

I’ve watched a lot of Mindnight before and had no idea it was based off of this board game 😮

[@agentxorangexskies]

I once played a game of DnD where my cohort played my brother in game. Tensions got high because my brother was running off on his wife and I was slowly being consumed by a demon. Of course we ended up coming to blows- the problem is that he was a wizard and I was a sorcerer. We punched at each other for at least fifteen minutes, during which one point of damage was dealt to me. That was the total damage from the fifteen minute fight. If Adam and Sully actually went out to fight in the woods I imagine it would be something like that.

[@snoogins37]

Toilet humor has never been more literal

[@williamfowler8686]

DAMO DAMO DAMO DAMO DAMO DAMO

[@JohnnyFWA]

I’ve fallen into exactly ONE toilet because I wasn’t looking. I’ve never done it again.

[@aidenpearce6624]

Yet.

[@SLPrawn65]

This is the best trip to the shops

[@WebMonkey741]

I was curious to know who was Merlin in that last round. I think I know.... but would luv some confirmation. 🤔

[@joshuacarysforth3062]

Have you fallen into a toilet that wasn’t your fault You could claim 0000s in compensation

[@RoderickEtheria]

I'm sorry Adam is always evil. First night of Avalon is almost always safe, because if Evil fails the quest, they make it clear that one of the two players who went on the quest was evil. It's better to fail later on if you're Evil. This basically means that the first quest rarely tells you anything valuable. And it is wise to reject most quests. The same quest can be chosen later in the day, but you get an idea of who every player wants on their team if you reject proposals.

[@ImaginaryMdA]

Congrats to Adam!

[@danielfennessey]

Blair straight away , throwing Brooke right under the bus.

[@christopherdunstan1519]

hello what is your quest? what is your favorite color?

[@jessica.lugo.]

On the toilet issue: almost guaranteed that Sully leaves the seat up. Falling into the toilet happens to many women who sit down expecting a seat that isn't there. By the time we realize that there's nothing to sit on, it's too late.

[@sullivanbrown252]

I grew up in a household of many women so I can confirm I never leave the seat up purely through muscle memory now!

[@ericharden4914]

I have no idea if they have some sort of online emulator, but it's there any way at some point you guys could play the "book" games, like Salem or Tortuga? Thanks, love you guys!

[@ChrisDeRoin]

And here i thought Jon would be the one with the toilet stories.

[@rhumrunners7]

I have fallen into toilets two times.

[@CaptLoquaLacon]

Are you evil?... It does say something just how battered the sleeves for your copy of the game are!

[@TheBT]

Every copy of Avalon is like that.

[@scottstrauss7886]

Dumb question let say I Merlin and I know there bad guys on quest but it the first second quest can fail the quest to throw off the bad guys and see who reacts and that give good guy info that someone bad on that quest

[@e7venjedi]

You gotta take a shot at ... Isaac as Merlin for the last one? Or Brooke. We'll never know!!!

[@alexanderrenaissance5771]

This wasn't a game of Avalon, this was a whole Monty Python skit

[@Sgrand80]

I have fallen into the toilet once before, I was drunk and the toilet seat was up.

[@MrSahdred]

Fun fact: Ye is pronounced The. When the printing press was invented they stopped using the letter thorn, so they used Y as a place holder.

[@clpearson991]

Every game should name their teams Evil and Not So Evil

[@huntermurdock6796]

I was certain that when it got to Adam, to raise the stakes he was going to say "today we are going on a quest to kill God."

[@MonkeyMonkeyJoeJoe]

Fall into toilets? Me? Of course not, never.

[@obsidiansiriusblackheart]

This game seems extremely hard for evil team because on the first mission you have to play Succeed otherwise you're out for the rest of the game!

[@theAstarrr]

but you can decieve the others about who the other bad guys are and you have 1 out of 3 fails

[@fawful9992]

Why is there a hammer on some people?

[@marajoy7226]

Because 5 rejected quests count as a failure, that symbol signifies the leader of that fifth quest. If you haven't approved a quest by the time you get to them, you basically have to accept whatever they propose or fail.

[@lightningwaitforitakash]

who was the Merlin in last game ? It was not revealed...

[@davidlieberman1381]

Isaac. Merlin would have voted against that last quest group knowing they were going to lose and the only other person to vote against it was evil.

[@lightningwaitforitakash]

@@davidlieberman1381 that was also my read but wanted to confirm..

[@agentxorangexskies]

It's the Master Hammer.