Ben Burns

Ben in No Rolls Barred Plays Blood On The Clocktower

**Benjamin Burns** is the head storyteller in the No Rolls Barred Plays Blood On The Clocktower series. He is often referred to as **Daddy Ben** by the rest of the No Rolls Barred cast.

"*The only thing I've got is these fucking rules, I'm going to enforce the shit out of them!*"
―Ben (*We Are Legion*)
Ben is the community manager for *Blood On The Clocktower* at The Pandemonium Institute as well as a freelance games journalist who has written for Eurogamer, Dicebreaker and GamesIndustry.

Ben is a fan of potatoes and likes to put paprika on his mash. Or at least, he's considering giving it a try in case it's as yummy as it sounds.

## Biography

In the summer of 2018, Ben was working as a games journalist and helping manage a board game cafe in Derby, where they played a lot of social deduction games. On a trip to UK Games Expo, he discovered *Blood On The Clocktower* and fell in love with it; he asked to be more involved with The Pandemonium Institute and so they recruited him as a UK community employee. At Cakes and Ladders which was a board game café situated on a double decker bus, he met Adam Blampied who he hosted a game of Clocktower for. Two years later, Ben offered to run a game for the No Rolls Barred channel when he saw Adam tweeting about it, and Adam accepted the offer.

## Notable Moments

* There is constant debate between Ben and Jon, who is convinced that Ben deliberately makes the game harder for him. Ben repeatedly assures Jon that, for example, roles are assigned randomly and that his decisions are not meant to penalise Jon specifically. An early example was in *Human Remains Of The Day*, when information Jon was given as a poisoned Washerwoman led him to becoming the evil team's biggest supporter. Despite Ben's protests, Jon claimed that he had been deliberately sabotaged, saying "I feel like I’m playing on ultra-hard mode, every single time." In true NRB tradition, this is now part of the meta, reaching its peak in the events and conversation of *God Is A Legion*.
* In *God Is A Legion*, Ben found himself accused multiple times of being the Demon as there was rumoured to be an Atheist in play. At the end of the episode, everyone voted unanimously to off him.

## Quotes

"*Apologies for interrupting your screaming match guys, but you're welcome to get back into it.*"
―*The Billiard Boys*

"*I'm a harsh daddy!*" [to Adam calling him a harsh man]
―*Panic Has A New Face*

"*Isaac... the worst pit-hag in the history of Blood on the Clocktower.*"
―*Ding Dom Merrily On High*

"*OoOh I'm a middle class cheesemonger.*" [mocking Dom]
―*God Is A Legion*

"*I don't really feel a need to defend myself against a man who dresses up as a wolf and prances about at conventions for a living... I apologise Jon, I haven't actually seen any of your work.*" [to Jon]
―*God Is A Legion*
More quotes by Ben Burns can be found here!

## Appraisals

When Ben is the storyteller for No Rolls Barred Plays Blood On The Clocktower, particularly when Tom is co-storyteller, he is often introduced with a thematic description.

"*Ben, don’t do this to me. Even your comforting is a knife to me.*"
―Jon (*Human Remains Of The Day*)

"*Just to reiterate, storytellers - there is an entire network of YouTube channels that depends on this friendship, that you are putting under the crosshairs.*" [on the twinning of Luke and Oli]
―Adam (*Twin Magic*)

"*Take a running jump, you bellend.*"
―Adam (*I, Carley. I, Zombie*)

"*Don't lump me in with Jon, Daddy Ben. I know you hate him, but you're supposed to like me.*"
―Adam (*No Roles Barred*)

"*I've been playing this game for a year and a half - two years. And there's one thing, one thing that I've always wanted. Ever since game one, where Ben screwed me over. And game two, where Ben screwed me over. Moving on to game three, four, five, six, and we're like, what, thirty? He gets me every time, he gets me every single time, including this game where I was one of the few good players. And the one thing I've wanted to do my whole life is kill this man... Daddy Ben, Father Benjamin, Brother Poo-Poo - so many names we've had over the years, but god this feels good. Let's get him.*"
―Jon (*God Is A Legion*)
More appraisals of Ben Burns by the rest of the cast can be found here!

1. ↑ *No Roles Barred*
2. ↑ *Everybody Loves Puppets* 2 hours 44 mins, if you're curious