When we’re in production on Tabletop, we shoot two episodes a day. Each episode takes around five hours to film, and by the end of the fourth or fifth day in a week, we all get a little silly from sleep deprivation.
Before they leave for the day, we ask all the players to sign a few copies of the game they played. We keep these signed games in a vault at Geek and Sundry, and give them out as prizes, or offer them for select charity auctions.
Last season, when we were shooting Lords of Waterdeep, I went to sign the cover of the game, and thought that the artwork sort of looked like Escape From New York. I was feeling a little silly, so this happened:
This copy of the game lives in the Geek and Sundry offices, and will remain part of our permanent collection.
Speaking of Tabletop, here’s what’s coming up for the rest of this season. If you own a game shop, you may want to talk to your distributor about getting extra copies of these upcoming games, if you experience what I’m told is called The Tabletop Effect:
- December 26th – Carcassonne
- January 9th – Tsuro of the Seas
- January 23rd – Ticket to Ride Europe
- February 6th – Fortune and Glory
- February 20th – Lords of Vegas
Oh! And speaking of Lords of Waterdeep, which is one of my very favourite games of this year, the iOS version is really great.
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It’s on iOS now? You have filled my day with magic and slow work production.
The iOS implementation is awesome and is one of the reasons I wish I had a coffee table running iOS.
I’m curious what you will be doing with Tsuro, since it was featured on a previous TT. WIll you be doing a different version of the game? Or will i just have to wait and see?
sweet mother of jeebus, just delete that comment. I am at work. with students. helps to read thoroughly. derp. AAAAAAAnywayzzzzzzzzzz can’t wait until it comes out…*slinks away*
List is Tsuro of the Seas, before Tsuro was played. They are two different games, though they do have similarities.
Tsuro of the Seas:
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/124172/tsuro-of-the-seas
Tsuro:
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/16992/tsuro
I would have gone with “Escape from Waterderp.” DERP!
Can we assume that Anne will not be allowed near the table for “Ticket to Ride Europe”? Or will this be her chance for redemption?
You get paid to play games, Wheaton?
You well and truly rock.
So, Wil says he never win in TableTop. Well he’s right, but as with most statistics a bit of interesting data shows up
With 30 games thus far (I’m looking so much forward to the last 5) Wil have won 4 games. That is a 13% victory chance, not exactly pretty numbers, with 4-5 players his victories should atleast be around 20-25% right ;).
HOWEVER, The two games where there have been a traitor (not counting Resistance), congratulations! Wil have a 100% win rate, as traitor that is. Unfortunately afaik there is no traitors in the following games, so i guess we have to see him on the losers couch again. hehe 😀
Thanks for a great show Wil, hoping to see another season
btw if Wil have lost all 5 of the last games he’ll be down to 11% victory chance, Mr Wheaton that’s starting to get embarrassing 😀
tl:dr Wil are good at roleplaying, not dice rolling.
Notice it is Tsoro of the Sea, it is a different version of Tsoro with a few twists. I have been thinking about buying it. It will be great to see how it plays.
Every time I walk by the game shelves, I see more and more games in main stream shops that were featured on Tabletop that I NEVER saw there before they were on Tabletop. Tabletop seems to be doing what it set out to accomplish.
I have Fortune and Glory with a web expansion. Love the game planning on getting the new expansion after the new year.
Any word on a season three yet? Please say yes! Tabletop brings me joy and delight.
Me too dormouse, I also hope yes!
If you looking for another fun/quick dice game, Steve Jackson’s Chupacabra is fun. I would love to see this with Erik Estrada as a guest star!