Viva Plays - Flesh and Blood 

Rowan playing an armless character is what we in business call foreshadowing

Rowan actually remembering one of his abilities is really weird... Someone give him inspiration!

I had no idea this channel existed until today, but as a Flesh and Blood player, I'm thuroughly enjoying the banter and clean presentation here. Super cool to see you guys playing this amazing game!

As a big flesh&blood fan and competitive player at heart I loved to see more casual approach to the game❤

So weird not seeing anyone behind the table

As a regular Yu-Gi-Oh player, I really enjoyed this content. I've not played Flesh & Blood, but loved the way you started playing, explained the game as you went AND kept the silliness that VLDL D&D is so amusing for. I'd watch more, simple as that.

..... Hold on... This isn't D&D! What's going on!? Rob, where are you?! I'm scared!!

I love the editing on the points throughout, the up/down made it easier to follow along

I'm going to mention this right away because this is the most common mistake new and established players make: you can't pitch cards for no reason. The correct sequence is to announce the card/ability you're playing _and then_ pitch for it if you don't already have enough resources. Otherwise Rok would be the best weapon and fuse effects become even more broken (since you could just fuse with the card you'd be using to pitch) :P Other important newbie mistakes I noticed: 1) @12:12 Rowan discards an Agile Windup using its instant ability, and completely forgets about his hero ability that would have also created a Might token for him, since this is the first time during one of his action phases when he discarded a card with 6 or more power. And if you're about to tell me that blue Agile Windup wouldn't do that, take a closer look at Kayo's abilities once again :P Rowan almost forgets about this once again at 21:45, but then quickly fixes the mistake. Alan, however, never remembered that the 1st time Olympia wins a wager, he gets paid in gold! Don't forget about your hero abilities, people, they are important! 2) This isn't a mistake, but I feel like the moment when Rowan uses Rally the Rearguard's instant ability @1:18:15 could have benefitted from a bit of explanation of the thinking process. When Rowan uses Rally the Rearguard's instant ability, he does this ahead of time (kinda like playing instants in Magic beforehand) which can make this play quite suboptimal. He could have simply defended with the card to see if Alan has an attack reaction in hand, and if Alan played one, Rowan could've activated the instant ability in response. In this situation Alan's hand was empty, so there was no attack reaction to be wary of, but overall, using Rally the Rearguard's instant ability at the right moment lets you learn an important piece of information about your opponent potentially having a deadly finisher. 3) @1:19:49 Alan pitches a blue card for his Cintari Saber (that only costs 1 to use) and has 2 resources left floating (and you might also see how Alan is a bit nervous :P). Rowan only defends for 2, which costs him the game. Whenever you're playing against Warrior and they present a small attack, but you see them with resources floating and cards in their hand and/or arsenal, that is most certainly a bait and they have an attack reaction ready. Warrior is the class that uses the most attack reactions in this game, so be vigilant and don't fall for their tricks!

Rowan stumbling his way to big damage and Adam having great plans that just don't work out gives me flashbacks to the VR battle on the ship.

Doing card/board games opens up a whole new arena

I love VLDL, and I'm happy they're exploring new content but it feels so wrong to be here without Rob 😭

Ben just had to play Betsy - I'm sure he was thinking of Sandra when making that selection!

As a longterm viewer of VLDL and a Flesh and Blood Player from the first hr i love to see this. Please bring more FaB content!

4:24 Rowan casually peeking 😂

Thanks to Rowan for the comparisons with Hearthstone, it helped to understand what’s going on, and thanks to Ben for explaining the rules. At first, nothing was clear, but by the middle I began to understand the rules of the game. I also really liked the rugs. Hurray for the winner! 🥳 P.S. If Adam had targeted Rowan, things might have ended differently.

Long time Magic player going back to 1995. I still love Magic, but FAB is my new love. So fun to collect too!!

Lately I've been kinda looking forward for you guys to play something else too in between DnD sessions. This is just perfect! Mind you I don't play TTRPGs myself but watching you guys play and have fun with it kinda makes me wanna try

It's great to see FaB getting other content creators in on it

Thats cool that the DM portion of the table detaches

What a joy to watch! Flesh and Blood is a fantastic game!

Love how uncluttered the cards are. Magic you can be there for hours reading the cards.

There’s two types of TCG players. Those that love FaB, and those that haven’t tried it yet. Love the content!

Thank you! I’ve literally watched everything you guys have put out on this channel and the pauses between episodes were beginning to kill it for me.

This is great! I love watching you guys learn to play together, it's really fun and relaxing! I always love the energy between you 4 guys so much :)

Tbh the game's a bit confusing but I do appreciate the way Alan says "decks".

Tolarian community collage has some great flesh blood introduction

Ben appreciating art is so cool

I love FAB, me and my grandson have 5 decks each.

Really appreciated the running point totals in the corners & close-ups on a number of cards, tyvm. 😃

If you are doing more shows like this, you need a Top-Down camera for each player zone to show more zoomed what is going on.

Ooooh FAB is fantastic! So excited to see yall playing! Awesome that yall did this. MOAR FABS! lol

Didn’t realize how much I would love a Table Top channel with the boys, card games and board games. Can only dream

Why does this feel like homework set by Rob 😂

Ever since I've seen that Vynnset poster I was wondering when you'll post a video with actually playing the game. Love it! So many illegal or misplays in this video, including the winning one when Alan couldn't have played Fatal Engagement because it requires an ~attack~ action to be defending, and Rowan blocked with a non-attack action card.

Finally they play FAB after having the sealed products on display in techtown for a while haha

Also, this just reminds me of all the Hearthstone PSAs... and the "My Deck" pronunciations ..... man, good times.

I miss Rob brb gonna rewatch all 170 episodes of npc dnd

I did not hear "put this in my arsenal" the first time.

So great to see some of my favorite youtubers play my favorite game : )

Finally :D I asked several times about the FaB booster boxes in the background of the Bored Series, good series by the way, I really like the new content. Nice to finally see you make content of the game, even if it's "just" with starter decks, thanks :D

You should try Round the table. It has also four decks, a ninja, a guardian, a bard and a mechanologist but some decks have ways to create tokens by helping other players.

I’m about 25 mins in at this point, so far, I like the flow because there isn’t cut scenes, but I like the cut scenes so I find myself wanting cut scenes here. i also feel like Rob adds a lot of value. I would love to see him essentially host the game and just let the guys riff. Similar to the bored one shot or the Halloween one shot. I thought to myself while watching the giant vice grip episode, I like the way they didn’t edit it and just let Adam riff. While Rob was looking for their minis. I thought it was so authentic to who this group is. I’ve also said it before. I would love longer D&D episodes, keep the cut scenes and make the episode longer. I like this, it’s a change of pace, so I’ll keep watching

“Don’t break your arm jackin’ him off, man!” 😂

Let's go Ben!!! Big fan of your Rolls!!

This got really heated by the end, and now I'm looking forward to you guys playing another competitive card game!

WOAH never though id see yall play Flesh and Blood Ive been playing for years

Flesh and blood is an incredible game, glad you gave it a shot!

Im so glad your team got to work the FaB! I always see the booster boxes and FaB posters in your store skits and point it out to friends. When can we expect a fun FaB skit?!

Super appreciate the zoom ins on the cards.

This was really fun to watch! Flesh and Blood looks like a really fun game as well. I'd love to see y'all play more, or even other kinds of tabletop card games.

I think Adam playing as a ring girl, during Hamish vs Bob, awakened something inside him

Thanks for sharing flesh and blood it is a really fun game to get into huge fan of FaB and you guys

Oh hell yeah gents! Absolutely love to see the FAB here!

Two things I thoroughly enjoy coming together, fantastic.

Gotta say. The whole time with Ben it was like his 0 charisma character. Everyone was like “you there! Fuck you!”

A crossover for the ages! Big fan of your work and appreciate you featuring the best Trading Card Game ever made! FaB4Life 💚💙💜!!!

ive watched the main channel for a while and noticed the flesh and blood posters in a couple bored episodes so hype to see you guys actually play it

New content on Friday??? Thank you!!!

Wow uploads on Thursday and Friday? Yes please!

Love the chill atmosphere and the well played game!

I enjoyed it a lot. Especially at 1:04:58, I really had a hearty laugh at Alan just putting the dagger to Ben. Poor guy. He had such a great turn planned.

Definitely do this again with, upgrades to y’alls decks!

Flesh and blood is the best TCG. We cosplayers have seen a prop here or there in your sets recently and we are hyped for it. I loved this video ❤

This was fun to watch. Thanks guys.

Oh man... vldl really just influenced me to buy this card game. Bough a deck and will be here in 3 days. I hope i don't regret it..

As a MTG player watching commander gameplay on yt, I'm excited to see you play a tcg. Not sure if I can follow, since I don't know the rules but it's always fun to watch you guys. :D

This looks so weird without Rob sitting at the end of the table.

I love this so much !!! Fab is such an iconic game

So cool to see how quickly you guys picked this game up considering how much depth there is. :)

More please! MORE! 😊 I feel like Adam and Alan could be really good at FaB, Adam especially seems really clued on. Welcome to the amazing game Bros! I hope to see you at some events in out lovely Aotearoa, soon!

THIS IS A DREAM

This video is awesome! Hope to see more FAB stuff in the future!

So, no, I am not a fan of board games, and no, I never thought I would enjoy watching an entire campaign/game of it, but this one ... I actually found myself wondering if I might like to play it for real. My son, who loooooves boardgames, must never find out. :P Thanks for the secret VLDL and Flesh and Blood. ;)

It's nice to see a bunch of friends playing in a relaxed way and not at all like they're playing their lives... 😁

No Ben, he still has one arm. He's somewhat 'armless.

I'd pay any money in the world to see you guys play Commander (MTG). Adam looks like such a perfect Blue player ❤

Oh cool, board and card games. Hopefully more to come

I know this isn’t a FAB channel but man I wish more dedicated FAB channels had this kind of production quality

I love that Alan is so committed to a bit he’s willing to lose. I relate. I’m not very competitive at TT games. I think it’s partly about attention span and ADHD tho.

Personally love watching all your videos, and now you're playing a game I enjoy greatly as well. Please keep up the great work and I hope you continue making FAB videos.

Love this! Thanks for helping to spread the word about this amazing game!

Ben, just so you know, I got the reference regarding the infomercial. They used to be all the rage here in Central Europe at the end of 90s/beginning of 2000s and practically everybody knows them, they are imbued in our psyche. :D So don’t worry, it wasn’t a personal joke for one, some of us get it! :D

How dare you attack me in a game that is all about attacking?!?

This is sick. It would epic to see you guys pull up to the Road to Nationals event at Card Merchant West City on the 17th

Awesome game and banter guys. Would love to see you play it more interspersed among the DND episodes.

That was an interesting twist at the end

That dad pun in the beginning was perfect

Yessss come meet your new lord and savior Flesh & Blood!

Could you do more types of these videos cause this one was great

Awesome video guys! So good to see more people getting into Flesh and Blood, Ive been playing foe a year now and its easily the best card game I've ever played! The game is designed so well so that your decisions matter so much and it makes it so thoughtful and balanced. I hope you guys will do some more of these soon!! 😁

this was actually a really fun watch!

I hope you do this again. I enjoyed watching you guys play.

Looked like a fun game love your content keep up the hard work

Its actually nice to see theme do something else on this channel.

Hoping all the best for this!! Lets go guys!!!! 💪

I've been playing flesh and blood for a while and was wondering if you were players since you played hearthstone back then and know James White (a friend of mine created one of the props you used that he gave you) Glad to see you join the deathmatch arena !

Check out the Tavern guys! Looks so good! still can't find Wotsit..

would love to see more 1v1 tournament style like your old hearth stone tournament videos

Always happy about new content. Would watch even sooner if I knew Ben was in it too.