Hello and welcome to the final episode of Head to Table Season One! Like all the best series, we’ve gone and assembled a retrospective ‘best of’ episode… But wait! It’s not what you think! We actually got meta as hell and designed a game employing mechanics from all of our previous 33 games. As you might expect, chaos ensues. Join us to hear Tom venture into the Head-to-table-verse and try to bring Thom back out Read more…
This week we roll over and fetch you a brand new, canine themed episode of Head to Table! Join the two T(h)oms as they discuss what it truly means to be a ‘Good Boy’ and design an RPG of doggy hijinks! Will we prove to be pure pedigrees of game design or mangy mongrels of mucking about? Join us to find out if the stats of floofiness and cheekiness can overcome the overzealous animal pound Read more…
It’s about to kick-off this week as the T(h)oms prepare another slam dunk. Join us as we devise a gory gladiatorial game of great… gusto? A D&D add-on to get the blood pumping, weighing in at 41MB, ladies and gentlemen, we give you, CRUCIBAAAAAAAAAAAAAALL.
This week the Thom team are joined by a special guest! The hilarious and creative Joel Ruiz of the wonderful Critical Bits Podcast. Check them out at @CriticalBitCast or at criticalbitcast.libsyn.com. Together with Joel, we design a buddy cop RPG of jolly copper-co-operation. In this game mismatched officers must learn to overcome their differences and work together in the name of justice; learn to bust wide open your hearts in order to bust wide open the case! Join Read more…
This week the Thom Team attend the party of the century and try to make it *suck* a little more. Take on the role of a fashionable vampire, sate the nobility’s restless curiosity, and play guess who with an anachronistic guest list to die for. Will you manage to avoid the bitter ire of Food Standards Inspector Van Helsing, or will you be fooled by his countless disguises? Join us for a rapidly derailed tale Read more…
I’m afraid it’s time to take a look inside yourself and ask the big questions. Questions like “What would happen if I became really, really small and cast a fireball inside someone’s intestines?” and “Are lymphocytes *really* the good guys?”. That’s right! This week the Thom team take you on a Fantastic Voyage to the Inner Space of TTRPG design! Join us as we shrink down, enter the bloodstream, and attempt to cure what ails Read more…
This week the Tom Team demonstrate that they do, indeed, have a Dickens and design a ghostly game of redemption and restitution. Take on the role of a sanctimonious spectre to produce and direct a series of complicated and flawed visions of past, present and future. Try to crack the mean-spirited heart of your hauntee through arguments of compassion, fear and reason, and show them that in the end, ‘hey, this ain’t you, bud’! Join Read more…
Sit up straight! No chewing gum in class! Is that a pentagonal trapezohedron!? You’d better report to detention!! This week the two T(h)oms head back to school and design a game about being in a whole heap of trouble! Fingered for a crime you didn’t commit, its time to hit the playground and figure out whodunit in a noir-ish game of school investigation. Join us for a C- crime caper of cliques and classrooms!
The year is 2332 and numeric palindromes are back in fashion. In this gritty, cyberpunk world, criminals are recruited to elite government time travel agencies for various logical and entirely plausible reasons. You are one such agent. You are a chronopunk. This week join your two favourite time-travelling T(h)oms as they design a game where ill-chosen mad-libs lead to temporal madness!
Love is at the table! Ding dong the dice are gonna chime! This week we celebrate Valentines Day with our first ever sequel episode; ‘Save the d8’. Following on from the mechanics of Episode 13’s ‘d8 Night’, we create a glamorous game of nerve-wracking nuptials. Will Gesh and Charlos’ wedding go off without a hitch? Will tragedy strike to the sounds of `I OBJECT!’? Will Gesh eat his mother-in-law? Tune in to find out!