Let's Play FURY OF DRACULA | Board Game Club

[@NoRollsBarred]

Come see NRB on tour in the UK: www.aegpresents.co.uk/event/no-rolls-barred/

[@auratheva]

Can't wait for the House Rules episode of this game where Rosie - and only Rosie - can move at night

[@Orionte9]

Ooooor Rosie can only move at nigth

[@stone5against1]

Jon placing the roadblocks and acting as if they're hot on his tail, when he went the opposite direction was a great move!

[@landa2]

Watching Sully's brain collapse around Berlin as well, very well played.

[@martijnposthuma3121]

The smile to the camera at 2:04 is just glorious

[@stone5against1]

@@martijnposthuma3121 I think you meant 2:04:00 haha cause I clicked your timestamp and it was Laurie explaining the game haha :p videos over an hour are so rare though i probably would have done the same

[@drachentopf5470]

Now I am stuck with a mental image of the hunters turning the entire central Europe upside down trying to find Dracula, while he's enjoying himself on a beach somewhere in Spain.

[@CommieCat]

Their logic was really painful to watch. The cast is like two golden retrievers and a goldfish.

[@nihkhdtigerson1599]

​​@@CommieCat, that's very harsh on those animals. They clearly need pen and paper to jot down movement as they got well lost chasing ghosts in places that they said he couldn't be at and wondering if he went to sea even without the use of the blue cards. x:x

[@granthor8873]

Yeah, ​@@nihkhdtigerson1599one brief span where they forgot that Jon should have been revealing Berlin/Hamburg and wasn't basically screwed them. If they'd written off the possibility of him being up there a turn or two earlier and they might have found the trail.

[@RedSoxFanatic4Life]

Jon’s use of the road blocks as misdirection was masterful. Very well played.

[@aquietdarkness]

Absolute blinder Jon! I especially loved all the little 'fake' reactions when they were on your (wrong) trail and the sneaky little "youve fallen into my trap"

[@hotscottrulz]

Man, this game seems really easy, not sure why they were having trouble finding out where Dracula is. Why don’t they just follow the magical blinking red lights that show up where he moves?

[@geofftottenperthcoys9944]

Right!

[@Jackthetattedone]

Fools, all of them!

[@ithinkitsaurus]

Why didn't Jon, the largest NRB cast member, not simply eat the other three?

[@EllieP.-hi5fx]

I occasionally watch the Fury of Dracula Tabletop episode to remember Grant Imahara, and I'm excited NRB took it up!

[@gconnor18]

Exactly the same, really enjoyed that episode.

[@taylorpoirier1765]

Same here, one of my absolute favourite tabletop episodes ever

[@jasonl9682]

Agreed

[@krzysztofwrona2426]

Personally, I watch Dead of Winter for the same reason

[@Montyandrew45]

Me too. I went to buy this game then I saw the price on it 😂

[@GrkTheGrk]

Me: Ok its now the work day is over and sun has set, I can go out into the city and meet up with my friends Sullivan: You can't move its night time.

[@KristjanKalve]

Truly a masterful play by Jon with the Prague ploy, completely threw everyone off their game.

[@dripsoup6639]

As someone who always cheers for the "evil" team, I was quite chuffed with Jon's little escape.

[@danielleoliver1734]

All that French slander threw everyone off his trail

[@ricardovillon1189]

That's why he's Count Dabula.

[@Darlnezz]

It did not help the Hunters kept going back and forth on the same cities instead of exploring new ones and expecting to see a ping. Mostly Rosie xD. But Indeed Jon deserves his Crown back!

[@ricardovillon1189]

@@Darlnezz Jon is the true Lord of the Board. Sully is the usurper.

[@Astronimal]

I guess it's fair to say, Jon is now Lord of the Vampireboard, because that kind of masterful deception deserves a title like that

[@thomassaint7775]

Oh shit it's Scarlett Johansson.

[@Mealbot2000]

This is so specific I love it

[@allgreatfictions]

Me, clicking on this video: "Someone better have already said it's Scarlett Johansson."

[@hotscottrulz]

When he talked about Van Helsing going to Edinburgh for a live show, all I could think of was “Van Helsing as Chris Grace as Scarlet Johansson”

[@meesschultheiss1999]

Nah, it's sadly only grant o'brien

[@itsbeelieve]

oh damn i made my comment before i saw this one

[@Dr.Death8520]

Classic tunnel vision. Perhaps they should have utilised the psychic bond once they realised they'd lost him, try to get a direction (since they canvassed the entirely opposite side of Europe)

[@randomjunk1977]

This is my second favorite game of all time. I've played it several times, usually as Dracula. The psychic bond is by far the most powerful tool the hunters have. Groups that make good use of it definitely have always given me the most trouble.

[@robertbouley7697]

@@randomjunk1977Agreed. Activating it a second time, after crossing a border, gives I great sense of direction for the group. One time, I saw Dracula dance across to avoid and that was rough. 😅

[@plzletmebefrank]

I think they had separated Mina from pretty much all the other hunters by that point, unfortunately.

[@mamalmi]

@@plzletmebefrank Yea they had Mina holding down Vienna to try and prevent him from going South East while everyone else was supposed to close in on him. Once they felt like they lost him, should have had Mina come up and join to use that power and just see if he was in that region. If they had done that Jon would have been in trouble.

[@connla]

They tried to do the close your eyes to play along at home and less then 2 minutes later a graphic has a big shiny red icon over the city dracula is hiding in hahahaha

[@vaultdweller64]

There’s a literal game mechanic that if Dracula makes an illegal move, the Dracula player suffers some severe in game repercussions. I feel if you’re not actually playing, keeping Jon honest is more fun anyway. At any rate, I appreciate the editing team not caring what Jon proposed would be happening as ‘host’.

[@mamalmi]

Yea it would be great if they did a patreon version where you could watch them play and not know where Dracula is and play along with the hunters.

[@Blogofoa]

Loved watching Jon psych out the hunters with the clever use of the roadblocks. There were some mistakes made which ended the game prematurely in Jon's favor, though. One, Dracula doesn't get to put a encounter card on his starting location, so that vampire should never have been there, which netted him four points early and cleared spots off the trail prematurely. Another is that even though Dracula can put two vampire encounter cards in one location, only one will mature and earn you points. You mature each card one at a time, and all vampire cards instruct you to clear out locations 4,5 and 6 on the trail. So the first matured vampire card would remove the second one before it can mature. Found that out the hard way when I had a vampire card wipe out consecrated ground when I matured them in the wrong order!

[@Allen-P]

Wow...I didn't Think they made any game breaking errors, but the last one is huge. The first vamp would probably be in position two, so likely to happen anyway, but only 4 points at the end is a huge difference. Guess they would play another hour!

[@Allen-P]

@@benallen2513 Reading the card of New Vamp, it says "then clear this hideout", which would remove the other encounter card. I read a thread that the official FFG response was only 1 vamp can mature. If it was a Fog, you'd mature fog first, and then the Vamp, and that's totally ok. But if Vamp first, it says to clear the hideout.

[@Donolohe]

A cheeky play reinforced by a touch of luck and Hunters being a bit stubborn. I lowkey loved that, the villain ending up looking like absolute mastermind with every move orchestrated, but it was so close to falling apart. A very entertaining game and a very entertaining episode.

[@isabelnecessary5915]

Not Terri getting her revenge for all the France comments by pointing out Italy 😂

[@Pootasaur]

John juking them all out was impressive… the road blocking the bluff is tremendous

[@shaheer_the_writer]

as smart as the prague ploy was, the hunters definitely needed to eliminate possibilities based on the number of places he had been through, circling the same five cities when they should have been ruled out was kind of infuriating

[@unstablepinecone]

especially since they weren't encountering his hideouts when they were "on his trail" :P

[@LinoWalker]

Yeah, that annoyed me as well 😂

[@Tribdinosaur]

Yaaay more Chris with the NRB crew!!

[@IceCenders]

I agree, very nice chap so far

[@MKisFeelinSpicy]

@@IceCenders He's pretty nice on his own Blood on the Clocktower channel as well! It's called Noobs on the Gooftower. He's been in a few Dropout shows as well, including having his own special "Chris Grace as Scarlett Johansson" which is probably the best thing I've ever watched on Dropout.

[@Ariurotl]

Jon as a vampire is doubly dangerous, did Betrayal at Baldur's Gate teach them nothing?

[@ricardovillon1189]

Thank you for remembering Count Dabula. Jon was the perfect choice for the vampire.

[@ethanlarsen7367]

This is honestly one of my favorite games you guys have ever played. I know its a really big one but I could watch way more of this game.

[@cojomojojo]

I love Rosie for just so consistently managing to put her well intentioned foot in her mouth at the beginning of every video, she's a treasure

[@Scotsword]

I'm only about halfway through the playthrough (watching it in chunks) but thought I'd comment now anyway. I've been recording Fury of Dracula videos for over 2 years now - I'm so passionate about the game that it fills me with sheer joy anytime I see new videos of people playing it, especially nowadays when it's been out of print for quite a while. It's such a wonderful game with many different facets (deduction, bluffing, movement, resource management, rock-paper-scissors combat) and every game is unique. There have been a few rules mistakes up to where I've stopped for now, but I don't overly blame the players; it seems simple on the surface but there is a lot to consider in terms of all the different events, interactions etc. I don't know how much time they (or at least one of them) had to study the game beforehand. Once you get into the rules in even more depth, you'll find strange consistencies and interactions that even the makers of the game didn't consider, and the amount of strategy that goes into even a single game is immense. If anyone is interested a lot in this game but cannot find the physical version, there is a digital edition with a small but dedicated Discord community, where we normally play 1v1. There is an AI but it's not great, unfortunately.

[@DekuKirby]

Sullivan's cheese blindness VS Rosie's night blindness

[@fabiosamuco2561]

Rosie's Night Sleepwalking*

[@blacklotus561]

Chris smartly deducted that Dracula can't be in the east, but then still decided to spend like 4 turns travelling towrads that direction to "make sure". Should have just listened to himself.

[@forestmischief]

What's delightful about the 'Mina loves trains' bit the gang do here is that it's canon! In the novel, Mina says "I am the train fiend" because she's studied the timetables so well

[@Alucard-A-La-Carte]

Having read the book somewhat recently, the thing about Dracula "respecting national borders" is KIND OF a thing? It was written at a time when "ownership of land" still had this quasi-spiritual notion, and of course the English were correct about all of it, so there's a huge chunk of the book that is DEDICATED to explaining Victorian property laws, and how Dracula taking ownership of this property is quite literally like him taking 'hold of the "spirit" of England.

[@davidboswell5767]

I still yearn for more Ctrl freaks content, but a 2 1/2hr board game club is a sure fire way to keep me happy

[@Zeigler_]

I loved the spookified intro 10/10

[@Quincy_Morris]

42:00 Dearly beloved we are gathered here to morn the loss of a Renewed Vigor. Squandered in week one by new players who didn’t know any better. May you have eternal rest in that great hunters hand up in the sky, where the horse economy is always good, and nobody ever draws garlic wreath. Rest in peace Renewed Vigor. You were meant for so much more 🫡

[@kimmikkelsen9601]

That was an amazing move Jon pulled there. Well done! The rest of them had to kiss his grits off screen I think!

[@Zone1BC]

And the hunters not noticing that Jon didn't reveal anything when Sullivan moved to Berlin meaning they all kept heading up that way. Well played Jon indeed!

[@jekanyika]

I have doubted Jon's ability to bluff in games in the past but he proved me wrong in this one.

[@acerumble]

Jon risks giving his deception away for a mug to the camera at 2:00:55 , the True Lord of the Board

[@oyasumiruby2751]

Jon did a great job running the game today! His bluff was amazing. It was so fun watching the other team run around in circles Give the rightful King his crown!!

[@stone5against1]

I have a feeling that Rosie moving at night is going to be a recurring joke

[@AdamjacobiGIA]

The dictionary definition of a blinder, well played to MY Lord of the Board!

[@k1ngadazmus]

Jon done a great job in the game, and a great job at leading the video.

[@Mealbot2000]

That move Jon pulled was crazy. Props to him

[@TheKlikluk]

As a German I am always extremely delighted by the random bits of German they speak on this channel

[@hannah2729]

same! and they speak such good German as well! all the British people i know who took German in school could barely count to ten while they were still actively studying it.

[@markross6817]

Oh, man. I cannot WAIT for you to play this again. This was so excellent. 5/5 'Bluhs'🧛‍♂️

[@amanda-graceschultz3630]

I love Jon so much in this game! I also really enjoyed Chris on his first Board Game Club.

[@elzbthlncstr]

I like the "Holly Mus" grave pun lmao

[@Matt-lb4cn]

That went completely over my head until your comment lol

[@Slywyn]

"They made a movie about him" "Oh yes with Hugh Jackman" "I heard it was bad" You sir do not have good taste in movies, that movie was awesome. And it has my favorite Dracula portrayal ever. (This is rather tongue in cheek, but I do think the movie holds up waaaaaaaaaay better than a lot of people think)

[@Quincy_Morris]

Van Helsing is a masterpiece and anyone who says otherwise can talk to my fully automatic repeating crossbow.

[@mikepictor]

John, you're playing an absolute blinder. You took one gamble, with a well timed diversion, and you send them into a spiral.

[@pepijnvemer4819]

I absolutely loved that move west and feint east. Way to go, John.

[@paulmcp8861]

The disappointment with Rosie every time she tried to move at night....

[@mothmansboyfriend8021]

omg wait it's Chris Grace!!! we need more dropout/nrb crossover content

[@isitmyturn9199]

Great video. John eyeing the camera and Terri calling John a villain were highlights.

[@Cosmic_Gorilla]

Shout out to the spooky edit of the opening; Dom as the literal Devil and Holly Mus grave were particular highlights.

[@elleryrhodes8818]

One of the most gripping playthroughs I've seen of any game recently.

[@mattnottm8363]

When playing as Dracula I love when the players own over confidence sees them start to make mistakes. Jon played a blinder by keeping a straight poker face when Sully moved to Berlin and forgot to ask if he'd been there. From that point onwards they just lost the plot. As a viewer though, Rosie moving from Strasbourg to Zurich (one space away from the winning hideout in Geneva) then deciding on the next turn to move back to Strasbourg was just infuriating. By then all logic had gone out the window or the hunters had misunderstood/ forgot the rules on which hideouts are cleared.

[@SubParGolf11]

Loved Chris in Superstore, excited to see him with the NRB crew

[@tsaageotrimm]

Wow, those roadblocks were so clutch!

[@JokelNiina]

Jon should host NRB games more! :) I really liked this show. And kudos on the spooky time intro too!

[@MKisFeelinSpicy]

This was a fun watch (I love watching hidden movement games), and what a delight to see Scarlett Johansson join in!

[@Crysarcher]

This was amazing episode, I have been wanting that you guys play Fury of Dracula for so long! Also compliments to the new intro! Super Spooky!

[@bronwynhl]

was honestly a joy to watch jon's ploy work and witness the rest of the crew bark up the wrong tree

[@mikepictor]

Oh I love hidden movement gaes. I hope this month calls up Whitehall mystery

[@phe_day1603]

I loved this! It was so fun watching Rosie travel at night. ❤

[@buckysinister]

Got pulled away from this one the day it dropped, and promptly forgot that I hadn't finished. Glad I went back to it today, because that wound up being REALLY compelling. Well-played, Jon! Your bluff with the roadblocks paid off, in spades.

[@johnj2784]

2 and a half hour video, yes please.

[@lexicornfell7361]

Yeah, FoD is a long ‘un.

[@kazkasKitoBaisaus]

Give the man his crown back! Amazing play!

[@danielmarques70966]

Drinking game: take a shot whenever john looks at the camera

[@jackgeneser5285]

Dracula punches the hell out of dudes in castlevania S1 from Netflix hahah

[@Quincy_Morris]

Dracula has the strength of ten men. Which is why when hunting him you need to take eleven men

[@RainNah]

That was an incredible bluff using the roadblocks!

[@Orange_Pith]

john snapped everyone's ankles with that double back

[@stone5against1]

Sullivan was Jon's best ally the entire game, always picking dracula cards from the bottom of the deck!

[@talonsaurn5764]

I am so looking forward to this, was worried it would be a two parter, I know how long a game this is, so seeing 2.5 hours is great... and from the thumbnail, oh this is going to be a show... oh yes...

[@xMERCx]

Chris is fun! We love him here!

[@xtomvideo]

Text book or board game example of playing a blinder :)

[@hannah2729]

not Chris giving up on following Jon's movements and deferring to Sully. there were multiple moments where i thought he was just about to figure it out. _i was rooting for you, we were all rooting for you!!_

[@secretscarlet8249]

Yesss Chris! Love him from the Clocktower series 🎉

[@cecilygriffis6508]

bro im about to read dracula for spooky season, and this game just makes more excited! im in a dracula kind of mood ig

[@GrzegorzCembruch]

Why did they not change Dom's intro silhouette?

[@snarkbotanya6557]

Because Dom is already inherently spooky in and of himself.

[@SP11616]

That BGC But Spooky intro is EVERYTHING

[@PriyaPans]

Jon did a great job! More jon please!

[@MustacheWins]

That double back into roadblock bluffs move will be talked about in the 41st millenia!

[@lethalty6055]

I agree with Sullivan. Jon got extremely lucky he got Strasbourg cleared just before the hunters hit it.

[@Quincy_Morris]

38:00 HE’S BEGINNING TO LEARN! ITS BEAUTIFUL!

[@BigDec97]

Unreal play from John in the end. Well played 👌🏻

[@JosephtheCanuck]

Love the new intro!

[@nitramreniar]

The greatest juke in NRB history!

[@KalaansImperium]

John staring into our souls at 40:19

[@Csiem005]

I’ve been waiting for the gang to play this one!!

[@lordpelagius5078]

i am requesting a "you cant move at night" t shirt

[@Phalxxx]

I love how in the first 5 minutes they trashed-talked an acting college and a French town. lol.

[@crmr2728]

Shouting all the second half. "Use Mina's ability Chris!" Honestly if he had used it once in that region, instead of going all over the place, it would have been a completely different game.

[@ChrisGraceComedy]

What round was Mina in the same city as another hunter after getting fogged in to use her ability? I didn't think I could scan a region unless another hunter was in the same city as me. Or do you mean move to meet one of them or have them meet me?

[@danielleoliver1734]

They could have cleared regions so easily

[@crmr2728]

@@ChrisGraceComedy You were given a vampire radar on wheels and you only used its headlights to search. If I sound condescending its because I routed for you guys to win, seeing the Jon so cheeky, trying not to laugh as you went the wrong way for 1 hour strait was somewhat irritating. lets be honest you had tons of chances to guide mina to another character, but I don't blame you for that, because lets be honest, Rosy is a wild card and Sully is notorious for not strategizing. Around 1:20:00 you were all dancing on Jon's mesmerizing tunes as he masterfully misdirected you with the blockades until 2:00:08 when you begun to doubt the info you knew. I remember someone saying "I stopped following because I thought Sullivan had it all in the bag". Lets be honest you had lots of chances to check, after that point but you decided not to, there were 4 chances after the 2hours mark to make it happen. To be Exact you had 4 day and 1 night of movement and 3 nights to use the ability, I think the ability also works at night, correct me if I'm wrong, so no whining. If at any of those days or nights you checked, the game would have been different. Nether the less it was One fine game. Hats off to you Sir!

[@Tipper2020]

​@crmr2728 Ah yes the old I can be a condescending dickhead because I rooted for you. Be a better person and try to learn being condescending to people is very rarely the right choice especially to someone who only wanted to entertain us. You will make more friends and influence people better by just not doing it. Really enjoyed you in the video @ChrisGraceComedy and I hope to see you in another NRB video soon.

[@ChrisGraceComedy]

@@crmr2728 can you answer my question above or are you saying they should have come to me when I was fogged in

[@kuroshiroOwO]

Love the spookified intro animations

[@Quincy_Morris]

48:15 NOOOO. Not CG! You monster! You murderer! You killed the card! What did CG ever do to you? He was so young!

[@Quincy_Morris]

At least you put the permanent token in a good spot

[@Allen-P]

33:00 Jon needed to play that ally card immediately...either for the event, or the ally. He wanted it as the ally - it should have been face up and working the whole time.

[@QuibbleTrouble]

From the sound of it Jon was under the impression that ally cards get played face down and then revealed the first time they are triggered, so he did play it as an ally. Just its effect never triggered because the whole time it was in play there was never a red card on top of the deck, so it didn't matter anyway.

[@Morcarag]

Yes it should have been played face up, but its power was never able to be triggered while it was out, so no net big impact on the game.

[@Mealbot2000]

Jon’s back and the black widow?! It’s a good day

[@Lineman72T]

Lets go! Been waiting for this game to pop up on the channel

[@QuadSmod]

Love the Halloween intro!

[@ThatWomanClark]

😂Y’all I hear “LORD GOBBLE ME” instead of Lord Godalming- EACH TIME.

[@Xenotric]

Definitely Went To Prague!

[@davetech9403]

I can’t wait to see the KZbin short super cut of Rosie trying to move at night

[@joshrosario1269]

With chris and becca showing up I have a feeling sam reisch is gonna hostile acquisition NRB

[@Voice_of_p]

I played as Dracula once. Good move jon.

[@pinkluver7715]

I hope this gets replayed in the future. It was thrilling to watch and painful to see. The "tactics" deployed were incredible and the luck of the "choices" was such a shame for the team. What a win and according to Jon it was his first as Dracula??