We’re shooting the Tabletop RPG show all this week. Yesterday was our first day of production, and we had so much fun, eleven hours of nonstop work flew by in a flash. In fact, at the end of the day, one of the players said to me, “that’s it? I want to keep playing!”
We’re going to be slowly announcing details about the show all this week, and yesterday, I introduced the players to the world:
Here’s a little bit about them:
- Hank Green is one of the most successful and influential YouTubers of all time. With his brother, John, he created the Vlog Brothers. Their network has grown to over 1 billion views, and earlier this year, Hank interviewed the president. Hank is an old school role player, and he’s a fantastic storyteller.
- Alison Haislip hasn’t ever played an RPG like this, but she was amazing in Fiasco during the first season of Tabletop. She’s worked for G4 and Nerdist, among others. It was pretty awesome to watch her start out tentatively yesterday morning, and by the middle of the day she was slinging dice like she’d been doing it all her life.
- Yuri Lowenthal is one of my best friends. We met when we were working on Legion of Superheroes, and we’ve gone on to work together on Ben Ten, There Came an Echo, and countless other animation projects. You’ve heard him in pretty much every video game, ever, (he’s Sandal in Dragon Age: Origins), and you’ve heard him as Sauske in Naruto. Yuri has been playing RPGs as long as I have.
- Laura Bailey and I met when we worked on There Came An Echo last year. By lunchtime on the first day, we had decided that we needed to be friends, and it feels like we’ve known each other since college. She’s an accomplished voice actor who you have heard in over 250 projects, including Dragon Age: Inquisition, Hearthstone, The Last of Us, World of Warcraft, and Fullmetal Alchemist. Laura also plays on Geek & Sundry’s RPG Twitch show, Critical Role.
You can find them on the usual social networks, and we’ll all be posting behind the scenes pictures and short videos during production this week.
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Exciting! Can’t wait to hear what the setting/campaign is going to be about.
Sounds fantastic. Laura, Alison and Yuri are all awesome. I’m less familiar with Hank, but if he’s an “old school role player,” that should be excellent. Can’t wait to see this.
Oh heck yes!!!! I was hoping that one or more of the brothers Green would make an appearance on Table Top someday! And it’s Hank! And it’s the RPG show! Yeeeee!!!
How kid friendly will this show be?
Who is the DM?
I know this sounds silly, but i love seeing you on vids and on screen for some reason. I don’t really know why. Maybe it’s the connection from when u were on Star Trek. I was such a geek and watching you made me feel not so different. sorry for the tmi .. all that being said thank u for allowing me in your world 🙂
Pretty please have an all-Harmontown show. Harmon, Spencer, Jeff. The nerd serendipity would be magical.