• Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    8 months ago

    I miss Tabletop. Other similar shows never quite captured the same energy for me.

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      8 months ago

      Most of the other shows are just explanations of how to play a game. Tabletop felt like friends hanging out to play them. It’s the same thing that makes a good D&D show. We want to be a part of something if it actually looks like they’re friends hanging out and having fun.

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        8 months ago

        If either you or @zagorath aren’t aware of it, Dimension 20 is an amazing table top series that is absolutely a bunch of friends sitting around playing D&D. I’ve been hooked the last 6-8 months as we work through the series.

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          8 months ago

          I’m aware of Dimension 20, though as far as Dropout productions go I’m much more a fan of Um, Actually. Wil Wheaton’s Tabletop was actually not an RPG actual-play, it was a board game show. A very different genre of show.

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          8 months ago

          I’m aware of them. I’ve been listening to Tabletop Gold recently, which is only audio but it’s good. It’s Pathfinder 2E, which I hope we see a lot more of. Everyone knows of D&D, but P2e is the better system.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah same here, such an amazing show.

      Forbidden Desert with Alan Tudyk was a personal favourite of mine. “Why can’t we just go where we’re bidden?”

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        8 months ago

        I think one of my favs would have been Fury of Dracula, with Grant Imahara. That highly asymmetric game design is fascinating to me, and add in Grant Imahara’s presence? Yes please!

        I also loved Dread, which is just such a fantastic and clever bit of game design, with a really strong sense of ludonarrative consonance.