Tabletop

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Tabletop is a Web Video series on YouTube hosted by Wil Wheaton, revolving around Tabletop Games. Each episode, Wil and three guests play a different board game.

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  1. Small World. Guest starring Jenna Busch, Grant Imahara and Sean "Day9" Plott
  2. Settlers of Catan. Guest starring Jane Espenson, James Kyson and Neil Grayston
  3. Zombie Dice, Get Bit and Tsuro. Guest starring Ryan Higa, Freddie Wong and Rod Roddenberry
  4. Ticket to Ride. Guest starring Colin Ferguson, Anne Wheaton, and Amy Dallen.
  5. Munchkin. Guest starring Felicia Day, Steve Jackson, and Sandeep Parikh

If the series gets 500,000 subscribers, a second season will be made.


Tropes used in Tabletop include:
  • Adorkable: Amy Dallen from Episode 4. So much.
  • Colbert Bump: Anecdotal evidence suggests that games featured on the show have seen increased sales.
  • Foreign Sounding Gibberish: Ryan's "Hawaiian chant to repel sharks".
  • Incredibly Lame Pun: Wil's wheat puns in episode 2.
  • Million-to-One Chance: The odds of Ryan rolling ten brains on his first turn in Zombie Dice approach infinity. Wil speculates that, in order to balance his luck out, somewhere in the universe a planet spontaneously imploded.
  • Tempting Fate: In episode 3, Wil talks about how he likes Zombie Dice because nobody ever gets out to a huge lead. Cue Ryan getting ten brains on the first turn!