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This is Dom's world, and we all have the luxury of living in it.

Even if Sullivan had his eyes open the whole time, his Cheese Blindness would have meant he still didn't know who the Cultist was.

If Dom has million fans, then I'm one of them. If Dom has one fan, then I'm THAT ONE. If Dom has no fans, that means I'm dead.

"Don't Laurie about it!" has me absolutely rolling!! I'm aching from laughing so hard 😂

I imagine it the first game when the cultist comes to meet Dom in the cafeteria it's like this. "Hey bro how's it going having fun with the killin'?" "Dude, I told you to not come here! Listen, I'm going to pretend to kill you, and you need to just jump out a window. Alright?" "Anything for you bro." "Wonderful." And then Dom actually throws his fellow cultists out the nearest window.

As soon as I saw who was the cultist and seer in the second game, I knew we were in for a treat. I was not disappointed.

I wish I had such a way of explaining a board game as Adam and a silent group as the NRB crew while Adam’s explaining the game rules

Don't Laurie, Be Happy might be the best tagline since Eat Shit Blaire :D

I love how innocent Adam seemed when he learned that killing someone isn't like in the movies. He never even considered it might take a long while, being horrified that everyone had realized this before him.

Laurie with a knife brings such childlike glee to his eyes. Beautiful to watch!

Dom is a legend it was clearly all his plan

Nothing gives me as much joy in life as Teri wiggling her hand in front of the camera.

It appears that just like Among Us the cultist has a really easy time murdering everyone so you're either executing him or losing and doing tasks is useless.

This game must be very familiar for Rosie and her childhood I also love how Rosie just shuts down after knowing she traded cards with a cultist (Dom) as the seer

(Me, musing to myself as they’re covering the ground rules): “Geez, could you imagine the chaos if Dom is the Cultist & Rosie ends up being the Seer?” (Me, five minutes later when the game is under way and the roles are revealed): “……”

This game seems heavily in favor of cultist win or vote win, how in earth do you avoid mingling so long that you actually get to 12 points?

Social deduction games are the best! I swear you guys have the best group for them, I could this for hours on ends.

Just starting the episode, I figured out the cultist from a social read before they even did the whole "everyone close your eyes" shtick. (When Adam described how to determine if you are a seer, it was a little fuzzy so everyone double-checked their token -- except for Dom...)

Oh my god, they did it. They finally did it. They actually made among us in real life

Dom is a treasure

"It's a hat."

Dom is everything

Could we have the T-shirt “Don’t Laurie, be Sully!”?

I'm so excited to see cool Maanuv back. Cool of Maanuv to help out Dom in the first game. Cool Maanuv helping Dom in the second game too. This was fun to watch.

Humble main character Dom 😇

Sully's joke of the day went over my head...

the most violently british way to describe a cafeteria: the teacup room

Like Among Us, winning on either points or tasks seems like a near impossibility

OH MY GOD LAURIE ACTUALLY JOINED THE CULT

i think a lot of people are missing the point of having the alternative win condition with the task. The point of it isn't rlly to get the win through that means, it is more so used as a way to stop the imposter from stalling the game. If there was no alternate win con, then the cultist could just kill once every 10 turns and make it basically impossible to figure out who the cultist is, or even never kill, making the game pure guess work on voting. the game can literally be endless without an alternate win con for the investigators

WOOO LETS GO!!! ITS THE BEST TIME OF THE WEEK!!! ITS BOARD GAME CLUB!!!

Some good old facts about strangling: When you strangle someone, they almost never die because their airway is closed but mostly because you close off the arteries providing blood to their brain. That’s why it takes not as much time as if someone would just hold their breath.

I actually agree with Dom. He talked to Manuv in a way that he would think that Laurie being the Cultist was his idea, thereby getting everyone to think it was Manuv's idea instead of Dom's.

43:28 That look to the camera, of course he killed Sullivan.

I feel the book part of this game is almost a non-entity, unless the cultist plays extremely slowly and for me to be _that_ slow doesn't make sense. It's an interesting game, but because of that flaw in trying to acquire all the books taking too long I feel it needs some alterations to make it a bit more worthwhile the exploration.

This game really feels like it has far too much going on. Not beyond saving with a solid set of house rules though. Most of the best games have the least going on so I'd strip a lot out to simplify and speed things along. As we saw in this, even they got confused with the rules at times and took 2 hours to do 5 rounds. So my house rule version would be: 1. After you move, perform your action immediately. 2. No events 3. No sabotage or book cards 4. No route cards 5. All rooms start with their max amount of books. 6. Rooms must be investigated once before you can start searching 7. There is only 1 dead player at the start of the game 8. All coloured rooms are connected 9. The last 2 players remaining in the starting room of the first turn are not forced an encounter 10. No Seer Below I explain my reasoning behind these but I did think of a fun twist while writing it to give the book and sabotage cards some use - but I don't know how many come with the game so may or may not be viable. Because the idea is, everyone gains a hand of shuffled cards containing mostly books and a single hand's worth of sabotage cards and, upon mingling, if you are not a cultist you must hand a sabotage card to your opponent if you have one, facedown (The cultist can choose to give a sabotage card or a book card). Then give the cultist an alternative win condition of "ultimate sabotage" having a full hand of sabotage cards. Given the cards aren't marked sabotage you could even rename the whole thing to good books and forbidden books and the win condition would be completing the big ritual (you know, give some thematic reason for them actually being a cultist instead of just a random murderer...) 1. The whole "move phase", "action phase" - make them one phase where you move and perform an action at the same time, because as far as I can tell, it's completely unnecessary to split them up and just slows things down. (even if you decide to kept the sabotage card mechanic) 2. Events, unless there's far more interesting ones in there, throw them out (we only saw 3 unique in 2 hours and a mention of a 4th) 3. Throw out the hallway cards and by extension all the sabotage cards. Because - The sabotage mechanic is clunky at best, throw it all out. (I have to assume there's some actually significant sabotage effects after the 3 cultist tokens are dealt with but a game's never going to go that long and the mini cultists are just arbitrary skip your turn crap, same with the power outage event and the game's already too slow) 4. Throw out the route cards, you already have three mechanics to encourage moving: the forced move, other players and once a room is cleared it's done. This bad mechanic caused pointless turns and suicidal play. 5. Since sabotage is out, players don't have to clutter their hands with those so we may as well get rid of books as well , set all rooms to their max books (if this makes the game too fast just slow it down by adding no effect sabotage cards to the piles) 6. But have the tick token gate the room initially so you spend a turn "examining the room" before finding books, that would mean the game would end in 5 rounds, 2 more than any of these games went to. 7. The starting dead - "necessary to avoid the cultist being instantly ousted", but why can it be 1 or 2 death cards, how does RNG making it easier for the cultist help anyone? Make it a guaranteed 1. (although it could be argued you should be handing out more life cards and not instantly trying to murder everyone, but majority don't want to play a long game) 8. Have that secret hallways event active constantly because the game really needs more movement options. 9. The last 2 in the starting room should not be forced an encounter, obviously. 10. The seer's a neat idea but giving the cultist a 1 in 5 chance of winning when they lose stinks, you could be obscenely aggressive, get caught immediately but still win on a guess.

Sometimes I get sad… and then I remember that I get to be alive at the same time as Dom… ❤

Knock knock…It’s mingle time. THAT needs to be a shirt

So glad Dom was the cultist.

A great lineup of players on this one. it was really cool of Maanuv to let Dom use him as a Seer bluff; he’s so 😎

I love social deduction games and also love that this genre suits this group so well. I don't think I will become a big fan of this game but it was great to watch it played! Sully's hat joke made me laugh more on the second time, then even more on the third re-tell xD

A new episode just dropped. I can finally stop being productive and watch this. I LOVE this channel

One lone cow in the field next to my house, at 3am: "It's time to MOO"

Gotta say, I agree with Cool Guy Maanuv's playing style: was he on the good team both times? Yes. Did he accuse the shit out of people for no apparent reason? Also yes. Reasoning out loud in a game where a Seer type exists is a great save for them, since it gives off the vibes that you're just trying to educate other players into the correct line of thinking since you're frustrated they're not getting it right. Go Maanuv!!! ... also a mandatory "Dom is my favorite being and I would die for a chance to get killed by him" comment. He's simply a delight

1:07:28 “It’s a Hat” Comedic Sullivan Timing at its finest

Adam is very very good at explaining rules

why does sully sound like the “how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop” owl at 1:03:45

The Maanuv is cool meme is one of my favourites in recent days!

Gonna be honest the guy sitting by the window of draughts in the first frame will forever be in my head. I dont know who you are but i will never forget you

18:25 - I just wanted a tea cup…

Thankyou guys, because of this channel we've discovered a new found love for board games. so far we've bought Ticket To Ride Splendor, let the collection begin!

At 50:58, the oracle should have pointed at the killer. The oracle knew who would be opening their eyes, that he was innocent, and he could deduce the who the oracle was and that they were pointing out the killer (since everyone else was supposedly abstaining).

Dom, winner. Final Boss.

Please someone make me a gif of 58:46 to 58:47! Best pure evil laugh I've ever heard.

it was great to see this gameplay. the same comments, the same laughter and the same surprises as in our testgames of "AMONG CULTISTS" !!! I love this game !!! 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙

Adam: "no one's had an encounter with me." A wrestling RU-vidr who also runs a board game channel? How is that possible? I'll be back later in the video for more sarcastically personal attacks because that's how I show love.

I'm glad Rosie is back! She's so chaotic.

27:58 Maanuv laugh appreciation timestamp - so cool

So excited!! Have been binge watching NRB's videos all week :D

This game is a great idea, but seems badly executed. The amount of randomness is insane, considering that cultist may get an early free kill AND start already with 2 Bruce Willis points.

What a bloody great episode!! Well played team, well played!

Red is sus... Dom is wearing red...

Such a fun game! You guys are amazing, I love to watch you playing this kinds of games. Keep up with the good work!

The " I have" was so badass.

If no one makes an among us joke I will be surprised. Edit: Adam does it immediately.

Great Sully jokes and then chocking facts straight from Darth Vader's diary. So many emotions in this episode 😂

Bruce Willis was dead the entire time in Armaggeddon?!

I lament any young person ever being able to watch _The Sixth Sense_ without having had it spoiled for them by people like Adam.

This is secretly a game about social distancing

Ouch! Teri hit me in the nose!

Yay! Rosie and Dom episode!

Dom and Sully are soulmates. No one can convince me otherwise.

Cool man Maanuv is back!

Didn't quite click with rules so I was somewhat confused but still entertaining as always.

I would genuinely wear a shirt or hat with Laurie's face that says don't Laurie about it

Yeah fav time of the week

>Dom is revealed to be the cultist I mean, yeah, it couldn't be anyone but him.

When he said "it's mingling time" and then mingled all over the place

OMG 2 awesome games! Thank you so much for all those magic moments with laughing & backstabbing. cheers from Godot Games 🕵🏻‍♂️🐙🖤🖤🖤

Don't Laurie about it! It's the new motto 😂

Yea Rosie Love her so much

WE WANT LAURIE SHIRTS NOW!

Seems like an interesting game. But it seems practically impossible to win on points or anything. With such a small map there's bound to be so much mingling.

I am going to the hat room......now that's a hat. 😅

Board Game Club 2023 Stats Weeks: 13 Games: 25 Adam: 12-13 Sully: 11-14 Laurie: 10-15 Brooke: 7-7 Dom: 5-7* Rosie: 4-8 Tom: 2-4 Holly: 2-4 Maanuv: 1-3 Tilly: 1-5 Blair: 0-1 *Watch Diamant (All-time stats in replies)

this was so sweet 🥲 i love ttrpgs from nrb

The way they talk about checking is like STD testing

So this is among us meets the thing meets werewolf. Amazing

[Among] c[U]lti[S]ts 😳😳

Love to see you guys do a three or four player game of Dice Throne.

Ngl best joke of the day

Sullivan O'Brown and Dominik Allen is my favourite characters of this show. love it. Needs more Jon too!

Let's go baby board game time

Maybe I'm too monkeybrained, but I just don't see this game ever extending into much of the book collecting phase. It's just far too easy for the cultist to pass out whatever Dead cards they have to their respective victims to match exactly the amount of their objective and win the game. Maybe it would be more interesting if they had one less than whatever their objective needs to force the investigators to call a vote and kill one of their own, or start a BS vote on their own.

A year ago! A year ago! On the NIGHT of the Night episode on the shelf behind Rosie, was a game call LAST FRIDAY. I have not seen an episode where yall played it yet.

This game feels more like a "avoid corona, dont mingle" kinda game than anything else-

Man this week is awesome Monday got to work on pinewood derby cars watch a banger of Monday Night Raw tonight get to go to the movies to see Jon Wick Chapter 4 watch this video right here cant wait to see what else happens this week lol

Maanuv!!!!! This is officially my favorite group of players! The nostalgia from the pandemic days 😅

I just love you guys! :)