Inside The Table: A Tabletop RPG Talk Show

In this very special episode, Marley is playing through a solo game of Notorious by Jason Price as Cole was feeling a little under the weather. Now, Notorious is a game about a bounty hunter (or a nomad in the parlance of this game) tracking down their target on a strange planet. They mess around with the local factions, cause trouble, build reputation, and eventually come face to face with their...

This episode, we're chatting about how art changes how we approach tabletop RPGs! It's also kind of a Halloween episode! But first, Marley chats Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinent of Curiosities (which he has found largely mediocre, with a handful of enjoyable episodes) whereas Cole has been enjoying Nona The Ninth , the latest book in Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb series. They also went to an Everything E...

After a week off (curse you, Pax Pox...), your co-hosts return, this time to discuss pitching Tabletop Games, both to players and to the world at large. But first, Marley talks about his experience attending PAX Aus, along with seeing panels, celebrities, and talks about the sheer number of TTRPGs he played while he was there... Cole, on the other side of the planet, talks hanging with AshenWorks...

This episode, we're doing something different. Marley is going to PAX Aus (say hi if you see him!), which means he didn't have the time to edit a big proper episode and do the usual social media stuff. So instead, Marley's playing a solo game of Anomaly: Containment Breach by Sniper Serpent . It's a really fun Quiet Year -hack inspired by the SCP Foundation and video game Control, and it's one of...

This episode, we're talking about all the ways roleplaying games shape and restrict the roles we play in them. But first, Marley checked out Nicolas Cage's Pig , which he describes as a non-violent John Wick film set in the seedy underbelly of the Portland haute cuisine scene. It was way weirder than he expected it to be, but still rad. Cole meanwhile has been watching Beaststars. It's a bizarre a...

This episode, we're joined by special guest Brandon AKA AshenWorks ( @Ashen_Works ) of Huntsmen's Hydra ( @HuntsmensHydra ) to talk about Blades in the Dark and the Forged in the Dark genre as a whole.  But, to start with, Cole is stumbling back into Destiny 2 , finding too much story and a crafting system? We also spend some time talking about Lance Reddick, because of course we do.  Th...

Today, we're talking Sparked by the Resistance games with game designer Scampir ! But first, we chat about the strange things RadioTVsolutions have been up to (something about Half Life with self-aware AI?), the weirdness of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 , ethical quandries in Cult of the Lamb , and thick thick fantasy book, The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. Marley also revisits Jennifer...

This episode, we're talking about Prep-less Tabletop RPGs: The Tabletop RPGS that you can just sit down and play without any fuss. Most of the time. But first, Cole's been enjoying baby-faced Ewan McGregor in Moulin Rouge! and has somehow managed to pick up Star Wars trivia while watching it. He has also been inspired by watching his partner, Holly , "get her ass kicked in Mario Kart live on strea...

This episode, we're gonna talk through our experience doing very first actual play recording of the RUNE playtest by Spencer Campbell ( @GilaRPGs ). (You can find said actual play recording at bit.ly/InsideTheTableYoutube , by the way...) But first, Marley talks about being utterly blown away the buck-wild story in Powerwash Simulator 's campaign mode, despite still feeling weird about gaming on G...

Marley opens the podcast up with a fairly straightforward question, before Cole lets us know what's been inspiring them lately. Specifically: The moral quandries of stealth-em-up Dishonored and some insights he gained from watching the recent Game Masters of Exandria Roundtable , which has got him thinking about the experience of running games as a GM. Then, Marley talks about the experience of wa...

Ah, the FATHOM Playtest (v0.21) deep dive.... A whole episode where we sit down to do a book report on an incredibly interesting and surreal tabletop RPG that we've been reading, playing, and thinking about a whole lot.  But first, we spend some time talking about similarly weird and surreal media that we've been checking out. Marley's been watching The Truman Show and thinking a lot about th...

This episode, we spend some time talking about media we've been enjoying, starting with "Disney Isekai" The Owl House and The Prestige (a rare film which depicts magicians as "cool"), before talking about our Elden Ring woes and thoughts. For reasons known only to ourselves, we also discuss our favourite video games of the year so far... Then, on to the Tabletop RPGs! Recently, we've been focusing...

In our very first episode, we start with a big discussion about films and shows that have been inspiring us lately. There’s plenty of chat about Nicolas Cage movies and we learn how exactly Marley got… The Morbs . Then, we go into the meat of the episode: Listener Questions And, yes, this is our very first episode, so our listeners are ourselves. Nonetheless, we go deep about our experiences with...