No Rolls Barred Plays Blood On The Clocktower

**No Rolls Barred Plays Blood On The Clocktower** is a series on the No Rolls Barred YouTube channel (with some episodes on Patreon) in which members play *Blood On The Clocktower* as a group.

"*You don't get moments like this in* Werewolf*, kids!*"
―Ben (*A Good Day to Die*)

## History

The series began in February 2021 under the umbrella of Board Game Club for its first two episodes, *A Stud In Scarlet* and *The Billiard Boys*, recruiting Ben Burns from The Pandemonium Institute as their guest storyteller. Until November 2022, games would be conducted entirely online. Adam had previously played the game in person a number of times. Beginning with *Human Remains Of The Day*, the game was given its own dedicated series.

The cast played a trilogy of games of each of the base scripts: Trouble Brewing, Bad Moon Rising and Sects & Violets. The series then continued with a variety of custom and homebrew scripts. *Where's The Lie?* began the monthly run of episodes available via Patreon in September 2021.

A design competition was run at the end of 2021 to determine a script that NRB would play in an upcoming episode, announced in *NRB Halloween COMPETITION - Design A Script For Blood On The Clocktower!!*. The competition received 600 submissions, many of which were high-quality scripts. The winner, announced in *Clocktower Competition Winning Script REVEAL!! (and it's INSANE)*, was Andrew Pichot with the script No Roles Barred which was played in an episode of the same name and more episodes afterward. The runners-up can be accessed here.

Until May 2022, the series was filmed online over Zoom. However, the episode *Live and Imp-Person* and Patreon episode *Gran That Jam* were both in-person and featured a significantly upgraded production with a spooky set. This set in motion a Kickstarter campaign for a series (described in detail below), while online episodes continued for a while longer.

This series, later dubbed Season 1, featured six episodes of in-person Blood on the Clocktower. The final episode featured the new Vizier character. This will be continued into Season 2 in 2024, which will feature a new character from The Pandemonium Institute every episode.

There was significant confusion with the schedule and arrangements for Season 2, following the departure of Adam Blampied from Trident Digital Media. On 13 December 2023 it was announced that filming would begin at the end of February 2024, with episodes set to release from March 2024. No information about Patreon-specific online episodes has yet been released.

## Kickstarters

The positive experience of the in-person episode, and response to it, laid the groundwork for a Kickstarter project, "Help NRB Make An In-Person Blood On The Clocktower Series," supported by an announcement video. The campaign gained over two thousand backers and contributed to funding six more in-person episodes with over £100,000. These were filmed at The Arts Centre in Hounslow. The six episodes became Season 1 and were released on a monthly basis from November 2022 to May 2023.

At the end of the 6th episode of the first kickstarted series, the campaign to fund Season 2 was released under the name "SEASON 2: NRB Plays Blood On The Clocktower LIVE!!." Each episode in Season 2 will feature a new character, in conjunction with TPI. It was also announced that no more publicly available episodes would be released in 2023. *A Royal Blunder*, the reward episode from the previous Kickstarter, was released publicly instead to encourage backers.

The campaign was successful by its close - funding the stretch goal of 6 more episodes, to be filmed in late 2023/early 2024 and released in 2024. On 5 July 2023 the reward episode, *A Good Day to Die*, was released to Kickstarter backers.

## Episode structure

Episodes usually begin with the introduction from the NRB storyteller (often Tom), and the hellos. Ben usually gets his own special, themed introduction. An explanation of the script, roles and interactions the players will have, by Ben and the other storyteller, takes place before Night 1 begins. The rest of the episode is then split up by alternating days and nights. Like an offscreen game of *Blood on the Clocktower*, the game ends with an explanation of who everyone was and what they did throughout the game, often with incredible player reactions. In several episodes, particularly those that are in-person, Editor James adds bloopers and songs following the outro.

## Episodes

There were 13 free episodes in 2021, 11 in 2022, and 4 in 2023, not including former Kickstarter releases. A playlist of all free episodes in the series can be found here.

* Online
* In-person
* Paid exclusives
* 2021
* 2022
###  Online episodes in 2021

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* Season 1
###  Pilot episode

*To see this table as its own page, click here.*###  Season 1 episodes

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* Kickstarter
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###  Patreon-exclusive episodes

There are 18 episodes of **No Rolls Barred Plays Blood On The Clocktower** available exclusively through Patreon, as of 29 July 2023. All except *Gran That Jam* are online recordings.

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###  Kickstarter reward episodes

All Kickstarter episodes so far have been in an online format. Kickstarter episodes are sometimes released publicly later on.

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The NRB crew have also featured in other games, such as one with a Trouble With Violets script.

## Soundtrack

Music in the series is sourced from Epidemic Sound. Songs used in episodes include:

* Jon Björk - "Calcifer" (intro, background music)
* Stationary Sign - "Haunted Playhouse" (background music)

1. ↑ On 12 September 2023 Adam resigned following a currently ongoing investigation into accusations of misconduct. Adam's statement on his resignation explained that he was stepping back from YouTube to protect his own mental health and those around him.