TableTop is one of our most successful shows to date, but we’ve seen some negative feedback regarding our latest episode. We hear your concerns and completely own up to our mistakes. But please do take it easy on Wil, because he-along with countless others-always work diligently to make sure that the production and creation of TableTop goes off without a hitch. Our sincerest hope is that you all continue to enjoy watching TableTop and our other shows as much as we love making them for you. With all that said, please keep in mind that mistakes are bound to happen at times, even with the best producers and creators. And as with any of our videos, we want to keep hearing any suggestions you might have for us. -Geek & Sundry
I saw this post on Geek and Sundry's Facebook page and immediately came to watch what all the fuss was about. Honestly, the show is still great if not getting better. Keep up the great work Wil and team.
Geek & Sundry I watch this show to see Wil Wheaton and his nerd friends, who I happen to also be a fan of, play games. We are all human and if mistakes happen, mistakes happen. The show is not a tutorial, and everyone has their own house rules with games. I know that since this show started, I have gotten more into tabletop games. Thank you guys for that.
The intro threw me off because I was like "wei chi sounds a lot like go" and then you said "popularly known as go" and I felt simultaneously smart and dumb for knowing what the game was from the description but not knowing its proper name
DisaidraGaming Same here, but I don't think it's really a matter of one being more correct than the other. For a game as ancient as that there's probably countless other names too.
SootShade And being an asian game it must have sooooo many misstranslations of the name, too. I can imagine someone in the 17th century advertising it as "Goat herd swiftly soar" or something like that.
I must be tired. I initially scan-read that as "Do you want to build a klingon.... ?" Though "Klingon Builder" definitely sounds like a game I'd like to play...
Love that the 'Yuri is always eating' joke is still going. Just, give him one of those fruit-hats next time and have him pull oranges and banana's and stuff out of it. That'd be great, thanks!
rafhalimaxd This is the second time Yuri's been on Tabletop. The first time, every time he was on camera that wasn't at the table, he had food, usually a banana or something. Or maybe you want me to explain the fruit hat... If that's what you want me to explain, well, just google Carmen Miranda. Or just google 'fruit hat'. All will become clear.
I feel bad because I am largely unfamiliar with Yuri's works, yet when I saw him on TableTop the first time and now again, his understanding of comedic effect gets me every time. I'm sorry, Yuri! I promise to start delving into your previous projects and learn it all!
Colonel Dookie I thought so, too, but then I looked him up, and... he's the voice of Simon from Gurren Lagaan, and Ben Tennyson from Ben 10. Also some things I never watched but I know are popular, like Naruto and some video games.
I've gotta be honest this was one of my favorite episodes ever shot. None of the humor was forced, the random conversations were great, and Everything as a whole just made it feel like a group of friends getting together for a game night. Keep up the good work!
This is by far the best episode i've seen. Everyone having a great time, laughing and smiling. Grats to Wil on a job well done. Your dedication to the series is immensely appreciated. To the production team, you guys and gals are awesome for a job well done keeping Tabletop such a great series to come back to watch. Thanks for all the episodes. And have a great day.
"Hey what happened to Yuri? Haven't seen him in a while." -Will "Oh because he won the game, Tara killed him and burried his body under the local swimming pool. Not in that order." -Paul "Jesus. Good thing we recorded Titansgrave weeks ago." -Will "Oh yeah Tara wanted to know why she wasn't invited to be in Titansgrave. There she is, with her shovel." -Paul
chris86simon I feel like the only proper decision would be to have him play Smite (the video game) and to have him play Ah Muzen Cab, the Mayan God of Bees.
Geek & Sundry Yeah, some people missed Owlbear because of all the broken rules on the last episode. But I don't care about the rules breaking, I just think Owlbear's cute :P :D :D :D
"Hey Yuri, say it." "No." "C'mon man, say it!" "No." "I'll give you fifty bucks if you say it." "Sigh... enchantment..." "Yay!" - The shitty conversations I have in my head with celebrities.
Watching tabletop made me realize that me and my friends had been playing Carcassonne wrong for 3 years. We had been playing each meeple only once. So I don't blame Will and Company for making the occasional rule mistakes. It's part of learning a new board game.
Secret Strategem GoT in reality takes 6-8 hours despite people claiming they can finish in 2-3 hours. They can't, it just goes so fast it feels like it was only 2-3 hours. I doubt any editing can crunch down that much time :)
Derrek McNab They have played other long games too, such as Lords of Waterdeep. I think it would be AMAZING to see all the banter and intrigue that would happen at that table if they played it.
Derrek McNab I've played 3 and 4 player games of GoT that only lasted about 90 minutes. All players were quite experienced though. Games with more players grow in length exponentially especially wit unexperienced players... And I think GoT is actually to complex for Tabletop. At my best I needed about 30 - 45 minutes to explain the rules to a new player... But I love it so much and if they pulled it off well it would be awesome!
Gordon Parks Poor thing's gonna have a heart attack! And that's assuming it doesn't absorb the Yuri's eternal hunger trait... If it does, it will consume everything in sight until its organs can no longer hol on...
You really really need to play "robo rally". It's a good mix of strategy, luck and wft moments when the robots drive into each other, and total wrack any kind of preplanned program.
Love that game. The frustration of watching someone's robot crash into yours and mess your whole plan up paired with the joy of perfectly screwing someone else's robot over is great.
chakrafiend personally I'd rather them play Zombie state : Diplomacy of the dead. the "co-op" game where you try steer zombies into your friends country to eat his populace.
Derrek McNab My friends who have played it refer to it as a game you spend either an entire day playing, or space out over a weekend to not go crazy. Still want to play it, but it's not really feasible as a video.
You know, if Yuri really did eat all that food, I have to give him a ton of credit for keeping his suit and shirt cuffs completely clean. Not a crumb in sight!
Great episode! I also really like Wil's comment and philosophy towards winning. I play that way as well, and that's the message I'm trying to teach my son.
Alex Pope Ah. I thought he was "orc-ing"; and I was unfamiliar with Orc as a verb. Sounds like a Warhammer reference to painting something red perhaps?
gekkobear2 "To Orc" - Orcing, to be orced: to use an unreasonable amount of force when limited, or even no, force is actually necessary. He orced that door right off the hinges! He could have just turned the knob.
Yuri: Vast trade empire. Paul: Scattered vampire mining lords. Tara: Colonists from the desert isle of the giants. Wil: Wobbly arm people? Almost a good D&D setting.
Is it just me or was UA-cam stabilization enabled by accident? Or was it that way after post processing? In the losers lounge scene is where it hit me. Especially right after the transition it was almost motion sickening from the warp stabilization effect. Geek & Sundry *****
MajorLeagueGamer838 Definitely... He was talking about weight gained in the amount of time he scored points, or how much food he ate in the entire game. Don't be so sensitive mate :D Do you think being fat is a bad thing?
After a hard day's work where nothing goes right, you come home to play a game and it stresses you out, switch games and find out someone raided everything you had and its start over time, then check your bank account and see stuff that shouldn't be there... Thank you Wil, Felicia, and the rest of the gang for TableTop. When nothing else in the world is going your way, its nice to be able to sit in and watch where everything is good and right, and stress melts away. I feel like I can go to bed in peace now. I sincerely thank you.
TakanashiYuuji They said the game this is based off of is popularly known as Go. This had modifications to the rules. Now I really want to play Go, because I've played Kingdom Builders. How many people do you think fits well in it?
TakanashiYuuji It is about cutting people off and placing stones near stones you already placed, with a few keypoints on the board. So in a sense it has strong similarities
Graham Hayes It depends if you see Cain as an actually vampire, if you accept biblical lore as well, and some other points. After all not everyone believe those thoughts. I certainly do not as I find all christian/jewish/islamic mythos quite hogwash and badly written stories.
According to Bram Stoker, Dracula was basically an evil wizard who learned the dark arts at Scholomance, where students of magic make a pact with the Devil, and that's how he became what he was.
Oh no! Did I hear a misuse of the expression, "Pay the Iron price"? Maybe what Wil meant to say is that he will have paid the Iron Price for that pretty pink tie after Yuri lays defeated at his feet. In the words of Kevin Sorbo, "DISAPPOINTED!" I still love you, Wil.
PropaneWP been like that for a couple of episodes. They probably killed their sound editor and replaced him by a bugbear. They tried an Olwbear too, but it kept pecking the keys of the keyboards. Almost choked too. Fanta-PETA went nuts and they just had to let the owlbear go. Quite the sad story, with it's 6 offspring and all...
Man, them screwing up the rule about playing tiles on the same turn they were drawn really looks like it affected the game. People were just chaining that shit.
waiting a turn literally changes nothing, except possibly speeding the game up very slightly like Jacob mentioned. It wasn't even worth your thoughts honestly.
Rule mistake...After taking a location tile, you can use that location ability from the next turn on. Players were using those abilities on the same turn they were obtained. Now I get house rules and video editing to make the flow a little better, and for the most part TableTop has done a good job of explaining when they use a rule variant. If the point of the show, aside from entertainment, is to encourage people to get into the hobby and buy the games featured, then accurate rules should be an important part. That's just my stupid opinion, though.
Chozo Tull as someone who has played the game, it strikes the right balance of giving you options while still making every move you make significant to your future. trust me, if you had a hand of multiple cards to choose from each turn, there would be a lot less risk and planning involved, which is the crux of the strategy. the first couple moves will inevitably be your most important ones, but the later ones can sometimes be your most fun as well since you gain a lot more options as time goes by.
Chozo Tull There are house rules to either: draw two keep one, draw from three face up or blind draw a la Ticket to Ride, or the "just choose any terrain". Donald responded on a boardgamegeek.com post as to why the final decision was the single terrain card. i'll try and find the link at some point, but i recall he doesn't completely downplay fan variants, heck, that's what board games are about :)
It's for this reason that I don't think "A little bit of luck" is a valid phrase to use for this game. Your turn is completely decided by what terrain tile you draw, and since you can't choose one out of a hand or something, there's very little ability to plan forwards. So yeah, comparing it to Go is not realistic, imo.
I think it's probably only me, but I find these types of games extremely boring to watch. The games with stories or traitor elements are much more interesting to me. It's difficult to really identify with the players' motivations in games like these. Fun to play, but not so much to watch.
its a bit sad for me that they had "prof. owlbear" out in almost every episode to fix a rule they overlooked, it makes me feel like they stopped caring about the games anymore, at least before, wil would have been stopped mid-game to fix it
They missed a lot of things in the old episodes too. Small World alone has a ton of uncorrected mistakes. Just now they address it if someone catches it later because people watch these to help them learn to play the game
Andrew Liang This is not true as @mumakirby was saying they did not fix it a lot of times in the old episodes either and do not mention it even. Now they at least mention it in post. Also they do care deeply, if you watched and heard will wheaton talk about it, he hates it if certain things are played wrongly.
Andrew Liang It does seem like they make a lot of errors with the rules. As supposed "gamers" I would expect that someone would have played the games many times with other people who knew the rules (and worked out most of the misconceptions/errors/mistakes before hand) so that these occurrences would be less frequent. I enjoy the episodes (I'm not 100% sure why), but it does seem some additional attention should be given prior to putting in all the effort to film the episode to making sure that one or more people (the more the better) understand the rules in more detail.
NoExitLoveNow Yeah, but to be fair, nobody's perfect. Everybody makes mistakes when they play games, and Wil plays a LOT of games. It's a bit silly to expect him to remember the intricacies of every rule in every single game...and does it really detract that much from the entertainment value of the show?
I like it how you guys pause the video to indicate an error and how its supposed to be played. People that point errors out may seem like "bitching" by others in the community but really most are just trying to state out the error out. Takes guts to accept when you are wrong.
TableTop is one of our most successful shows to date, but we’ve seen some negative feedback regarding our latest episode. We hear your concerns and completely own up to our mistakes. But please do take it easy on Wil, because he-along with countless others-always work diligently to make sure that the production and creation of TableTop goes off without a hitch. Our sincerest hope is that you all continue to enjoy watching TableTop and our other shows as much as we love making them for you.
With all that said, please keep in mind that mistakes are bound to happen at times, even with the best producers and creators. And as with any of our videos, we want to keep hearing any suggestions you might have for us.
-Geek & Sundry
This show is great! Keep'em coming! =D
Haters always will be. But we like you a lot! =D
Geek & Sundry the only rule you really need to follow is : have fun
I saw this post on Geek and Sundry's Facebook page and immediately came to watch what all the fuss was about.
Honestly, the show is still great if not getting better. Keep up the great work Wil and team.
Ashley Munro me too! But I found nothing... what was that about?
Geek & Sundry I watch this show to see Wil Wheaton and his nerd friends, who I happen to also be a fan of, play games. We are all human and if mistakes happen, mistakes happen. The show is not a tutorial, and everyone has their own house rules with games. I know that since this show started, I have gotten more into tabletop games. Thank you guys for that.
So Wil's arms were a Stretch goal?
That's a great piece of wordplay. 10/10!
parasite159 Best comment I've ever seen, bar none XD
BlueCar don't you mean... Hands down? XD
The intro threw me off because I was like "wei chi sounds a lot like go" and then you said "popularly known as go" and I felt simultaneously smart and dumb for knowing what the game was from the description but not knowing its proper name
DisaidraGaming Same here, but I don't think it's really a matter of one being more correct than the other. For a game as ancient as that there's probably countless other names too.
SootShade And being an asian game it must have sooooo many misstranslations of the name, too. I can imagine someone in the 17th century advertising it as "Goat herd swiftly soar" or something like that.
SootShade IIRC, it's Baduk in Korean, and Go or Igo in Japanese.
Jason Ramboz DisaidraGaming I've always heard it called Baduk. I call it Go. I felt cultured (for once) when Wil mentioned it.
It's just the fact that weiqi is chinese and go is japanese
Edit: and a few minutes ago, i heard it's baduk in korean
Do you want to build a kingdom....?
I must be tired. I initially scan-read that as "Do you want to build a klingon.... ?"
Though "Klingon Builder" definitely sounds like a game I'd like to play...
Geek & Sundry I like how it has the "Spiel des Jahres" Logo on it :P Greetings from Germany!
Or settle trains around the laaaaaaand?
Yes
Geek & Sundry Wil absolutely needs to print new business cards now that say "Wil Wheaton: He's Built for Gaming" #BuiltForGaming
Love that the 'Yuri is always eating' joke is still going. Just, give him one of those fruit-hats next time and have him pull oranges and banana's and stuff out of it. That'd be great, thanks!
RikazeMA I'm so glad you thought of this, because it's the best idea I've seen on this comment thread!
RikazeMA Do you mind explaining me the joke?
rafhalimaxd
This is the second time Yuri's been on Tabletop. The first time, every time he was on camera that wasn't at the table, he had food, usually a banana or something. Or maybe you want me to explain the fruit hat... If that's what you want me to explain, well, just google Carmen Miranda. Or just google 'fruit hat'. All will become clear.
Yuri is the only gamer that eats more than Dodger while gaming.
***** I want to see a eating contest between them.
Kaoss134 NEXT TIME ON TABLETOP!
***** And Dodger is still that tiny... damn...
CZProtton Well, she was known as "fat thighs" for an entire episodes of the co-optional podcast, so I guess that's why she's that small.
***** Chun-Leigh
I feel bad because I am largely unfamiliar with Yuri's works, yet when I saw him on TableTop the first time and now again, his understanding of comedic effect gets me every time.
I'm sorry, Yuri! I promise to start delving into your previous projects and learn it all!
Colonel Dookie If you play video games or watch anime, you probably have heard him more then you might think.
Colonel Dookie Specifically, he played Simon in Gurrenn Lagann, and teenage Ben from the Ben 10 series.
Colonel Dookie Surely you've heard his voice SOMEWHERE before.
Colonel Dookie I thought so, too, but then I looked him up, and... he's the voice of Simon from Gurren Lagaan, and Ben Tennyson from Ben 10. Also some things I never watched but I know are popular, like Naruto and some video games.
Colonel Dookie Have you played Dragon Age? Enchantment!
I've gotta be honest this was one of my favorite episodes ever shot. None of the humor was forced, the random conversations were great, and Everything as a whole just made it feel like a group of friends getting together for a game night. Keep up the good work!
I love the reference to the old Eddie Izzard bit! "Tea and cake or death, tea and cake or death" :D
This is by far the best episode i've seen. Everyone having a great time, laughing and smiling. Grats to Wil on a job well done. Your dedication to the series is immensely appreciated. To the production team, you guys and gals are awesome for a job well done keeping Tabletop such a great series to come back to watch. Thanks for all the episodes. And have a great day.
Paul Scheer was awesome in this episode. I loved seeing actors of shows be themselves and play some games.
"Hey what happened to Yuri? Haven't seen him in a while." -Will
"Oh because he won the game, Tara killed him and burried his body under the local swimming pool. Not in that order." -Paul
"Jesus. Good thing we recorded Titansgrave weeks ago." -Will
"Oh yeah Tara wanted to know why she wasn't invited to be in Titansgrave. There she is, with her shovel." -Paul
Great session with some amazing banter! :D
Andris Stafeckis Thanks!
I love the running joke with Yuri's food. Well done, G&S. It's the little things that set you apart.
crazeh8 awww shucks.
Nick Cage should be on Table Top. What Game should Nick Cage play on the show?
Paul Turner The Busy Little Bees boardgame...obviously
chris86simon I feel like the only proper decision would be to have him play Smite (the video game) and to have him play Ah Muzen Cab, the Mayan God of Bees.
TristamWolf On tabletop? Good try.
Mostly just in general, really. There is no other character to my knowledge quite so intrinsically connected to the idea of bees as Ah Muzen Cab.
Paul Turner Obviously, they would play Cage Who.
Tea and cake or death!
Tea and cake or death!
Little red cook book!
Little red cook book!
Brok3nC4rrot eddie izzard quote?
You didn't catch that one in the intro?
nope
4:03
ACtheWookiee yep it is.
I would love to see Paul Scheer again. He is fantastic.
And always love to see Yuri.
YAY! Owlbear is back xD
Paulo Frota Hurray for OWLBEAR!
Geek & Sundry Yeah, some people missed Owlbear because of all the broken rules on the last episode. But I don't care about the rules breaking, I just think Owlbear's cute :P :D :D :D
Paulo Frota it is an owlbear thanks for clearing that up for me :)
eihnxanderstorm You're welcome, but they actually talk about the owlbear in other episodes :) So the owlbear became a regular character in the show
The owlbear is pretty much TableTop's mascot.
Listening to Yuri's voice for such an extended period of time has made me realize that this man is in EEEEEEEEEVERYTHING.
"Hey Yuri, say it."
"No."
"C'mon man, say it!"
"No."
"I'll give you fifty bucks if you say it."
"Sigh... enchantment..."
"Yay!"
- The shitty conversations I have in my head with celebrities.
imaloony8 I'd want him to yell, "KAMINA!!"
I tabbed away for a second and I sort of pictured Sasuke saying "I'm a bit of a dandy."
imaloony8 I'd probably ask for "KING MORON, WHY MUST YOU TORTURE US FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE?" instead.
imaloony8 I'm a Matt Miller girl myself. "One thing ... call me Nyte Blayde?"
Orillion123456 or just, you know...
"PERSONA!"
I love Tabletop! I find I miss some things the player say (I'm deaf). Any plans to add subtitles on to your videos?
Well I'm watching this five years later and it has them.I don't know if they're still out of generated but they look good.
Watching tabletop made me realize that me and my friends had been playing Carcassonne wrong for 3 years. We had been playing each meeple only once.
So I don't blame Will and Company for making the occasional rule mistakes. It's part of learning a new board game.
Yuri is a great voice actor, funny dude and has a gawguss wife...
I totally wanna hang out with that bro!
Trigger McTriggerson We agree! You forgot to include ravenous food consumer....
That too, you need to feed him more!
Trigger McTriggerson Most voice actors seem like really chill people in life, from what I've seen.
Trigger McTriggerson but then he might not show up on tabletop :p
Brosuke is great
Hearing Yuri and Tara together makes me wanna play Persona 3 again :P.
Please play Game of Thrones the Board Game! Seeing all the references to ASOIAF you guys made here
Secret Strategem GoT in reality takes 6-8 hours despite people claiming they can finish in 2-3 hours. They can't, it just goes so fast it feels like it was only 2-3 hours. I doubt any editing can crunch down that much time :)
Yes! I've been wanting to see that ever since I discovered Tabletop!
Derrek McNab They have played other long games too, such as Lords of Waterdeep. I think it would be AMAZING to see all the banter and intrigue that would happen at that table if they played it.
Derrek McNab Also they could split it in two parts, if necessary
Derrek McNab I've played 3 and 4 player games of GoT that only lasted about 90 minutes. All players were quite experienced though. Games with more players grow in length exponentially especially wit unexperienced players... And I think GoT is actually to complex for Tabletop. At my best I needed about 30 - 45 minutes to explain the rules to a new player... But I love it so much and if they pulled it off well it would be awesome!
Every single Yuri interview scene just cracked me up. For some reason it caught me by surprise each time.
hahahah that plate of food >< made me laugh every time he came on screen with it
Owlie the Owlbear, Nooooo!!! You're eating Yuri!!!
qdHazen *No Owlbears were harmed in the making of this episode....
Geek & Sundry How can you say that? Do you have any idea how much fat and cholesterol is contained in your average Yuri?
Gordon Parks Don't worry, he's training so he needs the calories.
Gordon Parks Poor thing's gonna have a heart attack!
And that's assuming it doesn't absorb the Yuri's eternal hunger trait... If it does, it will consume everything in sight until its organs can no longer hol on...
Yuri eating his full plate of treats throughout this episode cracked me up.
nick cage rant in the middle made this episode so much better!
You really really need to play "robo rally". It's a good mix of strategy, luck and wft moments when the robots drive into each other, and total wrack any kind of preplanned program.
Love that game. The frustration of watching someone's robot crash into yours and mess your whole plan up paired with the joy of perfectly screwing someone else's robot over is great.
TableTop is awesome. I hope they'll keep these series running for a long time
Get Diplomacy on this show. I've heard so much about it, and I want to see it played.
chakrafiend personally I'd rather them play Zombie state : Diplomacy of the dead. the "co-op" game where you try steer zombies into your friends country to eat his populace.
chakrafiend I don't think UA-cam can handle a 10 hour video that's NOT a 3 minute loop of a music video.
Derrek McNab It can go on for 10 hours?
Yes, the rulebook even says you can take 15 minutes before each turn to discuss and diplomacized behind closed doors with others.
Derrek McNab My friends who have played it refer to it as a game you spend either an entire day playing, or space out over a weekend to not go crazy. Still want to play it, but it's not really feasible as a video.
Yuri is such a funny dude, so happy to find out he's in the rpg as well!
great ep mr. wheaton!
You know, if Yuri really did eat all that food, I have to give him a ton of credit for keeping his suit and shirt cuffs completely clean. Not a crumb in sight!
Great episode! I also really like Wil's comment and philosophy towards winning. I play that way as well, and that's the message I'm trying to teach my son.
Props for the Eddie Izzard reference in the opener, "Well I meant Cake". Also Wil, did you say 2014 in the intro?
this was a great group. you need to have them all on more if possible, especially Paul Scheer!
I'm still waiting for the Wil and Anne vs Yuri and Tara
As always, thank you for the fun!
If Evil Wil was here, Yuri might not have scored as well as he did.
But love the show!
Paul Scheer is one funny dude.
dgisgd we love Paul Scheer!!
Geek & Sundry Is that why you let Paul Scheer into Wil's man cave of TableTop?
This episode was awesome! I just love all the Yuri and all the Owlbear! Such fun!
Paul is the Orc King?!! Damn. Didn't see that coming. But orcs are pretty good miners, so I guess that makes sense. ;)
Alex Pope Ore King. ore is mined from mountains.
FreakinFred08
Thanks FF, I know. Just sounded a lot liked "Orc King" which I found amusing.
Alex Pope
Ah. I thought he was "orc-ing"; and I was unfamiliar with Orc as a verb.
Sounds like a Warhammer reference to painting something red perhaps?
gekkobear2
"To Orc" - Orcing, to be orced: to use an unreasonable amount of force when limited, or even no, force is actually necessary.
He orced that door right off the hinges! He could have just turned the knob.
Yuri: Vast trade empire.
Paul: Scattered vampire mining lords.
Tara: Colonists from the desert isle of the giants.
Wil: Wobbly arm people?
Almost a good D&D setting.
Is it just me or was UA-cam stabilization enabled by accident? Or was it that way after post processing? In the losers lounge scene is where it hit me. Especially right after the transition it was almost motion sickening from the warp stabilization effect.
Geek & Sundry *****
Yey! I wanted to re-watch some old episode of Table top, because I was bored and now a new episode is up! What a great timing! xD
Yuri probably gained as many pounds as he scored points.
Suits tend to make people look fatter than they actually are.
MajorLeagueGamer838 pretty sure he was talking about the fact the he was constantly eating... not how he looked
Sergeant Spoon Possibly.
MajorLeagueGamer838 Definitely... He was talking about weight gained in the amount of time he scored points, or how much food he ate in the entire game. Don't be so sensitive mate :D
Do you think being fat is a bad thing?
Sorryforthelamevideo Not at all.
Yesss he is eating! That inside-joke is perfect, so glad it continued
Owlbear is always a good sight
TheDeathThatNeverWas We need Owlbear to show up on reality shows whenever there is some inaccuracies.... unless that would be too much owlbear.
Derrek McNab There is no such thing as too much Owlbear. Scientific fact.
TheDeathThatNeverWas owlbear is life. owlbear is love
On Soviet Tabletop, Owlbear domesticates you
If it's 70 years after the death of the composer, Hall of the Mountain King has been in the public domain for 38 years. :)
I've been holding this since I found the series but I must do it, I don't care if I'm not the first one:
WHEATOOOOOOONN!!
After a hard day's work where nothing goes right, you come home to play a game and it stresses you out, switch games and find out someone raided everything you had and its start over time, then check your bank account and see stuff that shouldn't be there...
Thank you Wil, Felicia, and the rest of the gang for TableTop. When nothing else in the world is going your way, its nice to be able to sit in and watch where everything is good and right, and stress melts away. I feel like I can go to bed in peace now. I sincerely thank you.
Enjoy Every Sandwich - Yuri Zevon
Seriously fun to watch this time, guys. Well edited too!
Where did Yuri get all the food?
MissCaraMint he was constantly eating some snacks the last time he was on tabletop so I guess they just went an extra step this time
Formulka yeah, i think it was a reference to that, that made me LOL
***** yeah it gave me a good chuckle :)
MissCaraMint Craft services?
MissCaraMint Yuri cleaned us out. We have no food for the cold winter......
YAY TABLETOP OWLBEAR!!! That guy is now synonymous with Table Top since he was picked up way back when and I'm happy he's a part of Table Top now.
I kept hearing "Avril Ravine"
starcrafter13terran Hell Yeah! Owlbear!
Great episode! Also lol, Yuri is dressed to the point where I think he might take over Kyrat and plunge it into chaos,then enjoy some crab rangoon.
As an amateur Go player I can confirm that this is game is _nothing_ like Go.
TakanashiYuuji They said the game this is based off of is popularly known as Go. This had modifications to the rules. Now I really want to play Go, because I've played Kingdom Builders. How many people do you think fits well in it?
TakanashiYuuji It is about cutting people off and placing stones near stones you already placed, with a few keypoints on the board. So in a sense it has strong similarities
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The trophy on the wall says "A horse! A horse!" which is a quote from Richard III.
Best Nick Cage movie. The Rock.
one of my favorite episodes - the three guests (and Wil) were really great!! :)
Caine is the first generation of Vampires. Vlad was 4th gen. :p
Graham Hayes I guess it depends on the setting?
TheVanilla1009 Yeah, it does. :p I was just being a VTM geek. Pop culture probably considers Vlad the first.
Graham Hayes It depends if you see Cain as an actually vampire, if you accept biblical lore as well, and some other points. After all not everyone believe those thoughts. I certainly do not as I find all christian/jewish/islamic mythos quite hogwash and badly written stories.
Graham Hayes VTM rocks.
According to Bram Stoker, Dracula was basically an evil wizard who learned the dark arts at Scholomance, where students of magic make a pact with the Devil, and that's how he became what he was.
I can't express how much I love that the owl-bear has become the Table Top mascot.
When's the next installment of the .hack series coming out, Haseo?
Oh no! Did I hear a misuse of the expression, "Pay the Iron price"?
Maybe what Wil meant to say is that he will have paid the Iron Price for that pretty pink tie after Yuri lays defeated at his feet.
In the words of Kevin Sorbo, "DISAPPOINTED!"
I still love you, Wil.
I'm sorry, Wil, but the way you pronounce "Spiel des Jahres" is just too funny :D But I guess, you'd say the same about my english, so... ;)
This series is why I look forward to Thursday's
Is it just me, or does the audio seem out of sync?
Me too brothaa
PropaneWP It's a problem with UA-cam right now. Been happening a lot lately.
PropaneWP It seems to happen to me every time a new episode of Tabletop is released. The audio is always out of sync.
***** I guess I haven't noticed this earlier because I don't watch a lot of videos where I can compare voice and mouth movement.
PropaneWP been like that for a couple of episodes. They probably killed their sound editor and replaced him by a bugbear. They tried an Olwbear too, but it kept pecking the keys of the keyboards. Almost choked too. Fanta-PETA went nuts and they just had to let the owlbear go. Quite the sad story, with it's 6 offspring and all...
Paul Scheer's shirt is an optical illusion, the one where it asks how many black dots are on the screen haha
Why is Tara's name missing from the video title?
Everyone needs a Yuri Lowenthal in their life
Man, them screwing up the rule about playing tiles on the same turn they were drawn really looks like it affected the game. People were just chaining that shit.
I don't think it did. It just speed up the game. It didn't break the game at all. Look at it as a variant
waiting a turn literally changes nothing, except possibly speeding the game up very slightly like Jacob mentioned. It wasn't even worth your thoughts honestly.
I love it how you pronaunce "Spiel des Jahres"
Americans triing to speak german will never get boring
Yuri Lowenthal should come back a 3rd time.
Technically he's been there for more since he was in the Titansgrave: The Ashes of Valkana videos.
They dont have enough Food :(
The food plate gag is great lol
Yosuke! Why are you wasting your time eating giant plates of food and playing board games? There's still a killer on the loose!
CrimsonOptics Also, WHEN DID YOU GET MARRIED?!
+CrimsonOptics He's also the protagonist of Persona 3. While Tara is Mitsuru Kirijo from the same game (and a possible love interest).
In the original World of Darkness lore, Caine was the "Patient Zero" of all vampires, and Vlad Tepes was 3rd generation, IIRC.
I feel like there should be more comments on how Yuri is cosplaying Brad Pitt from Oceans 11.
Love the show! Thanks for the countless hours of entertainment!!
am I the only one who can't un-hear sasuke uchiha from Yuri
+dj dotson You are not.
+William Winder His wife was Temari
Yuri and Tara work opposite each other a lot actually
I hear the Prince from Prince of Persia.
"My opponents were great...but they weren't good enough."
So good. :P
Wil, you can't be a Greyjoy, ou spent your entire teenage years making it so :P
I could listen to Yuri talking for hours
Edit: that laugh at 26:29 omg
Yuri Lowenthal's voice is such a leg opener...
1000YearsOfDeathh after all he is Sasuke's voice actor and Marth from Fire Emblem
Loved the random food plate in Yuri's interviews.
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Rule mistake...After taking a location tile, you can use that location ability from the next turn on. Players were using those abilities on the same turn they were obtained. Now I get house rules and video editing to make the flow a little better, and for the most part TableTop has done a good job of explaining when they use a rule variant. If the point of the show, aside from entertainment, is to encourage people to get into the hobby and buy the games featured, then accurate rules should be an important part. That's just my stupid opinion, though.
Every time Yuri talks all I hear is, "NARUTOOOOOO!!!!!"
Caitlyn Sackman I always hear him summoning personas, or calling out to his big bro Kamina
Next time Yuri is on the show, you should do the interview in the restaurant xD
... Is the game giving you one card each turn ? That seems unnecessarily restrictive ...
Chozo Tull as someone who has played the game, it strikes the right balance of giving you options while still making every move you make significant to your future. trust me, if you had a hand of multiple cards to choose from each turn, there would be a lot less risk and planning involved, which is the crux of the strategy.
the first couple moves will inevitably be your most important ones, but the later ones can sometimes be your most fun as well since you gain a lot more options as time goes by.
Chozo Tull That's one of the more prominent criticisms of the game.
Chozo Tull There are house rules to either: draw two keep one, draw from three face up or blind draw a la Ticket to Ride, or the "just choose any terrain". Donald responded on a boardgamegeek.com post as to why the final decision was the single terrain card. i'll try and find the link at some point, but i recall he doesn't completely downplay fan variants, heck, that's what board games are about :)
It's for this reason that I don't think "A little bit of luck" is a valid phrase to use for this game. Your turn is completely decided by what terrain tile you draw, and since you can't choose one out of a hand or something, there's very little ability to plan forwards.
So yeah, comparing it to Go is not realistic, imo.
Derrek McNab excellent point about boardgames being adaptable so you can make house rules and variants
Awesome episode, I'm not a big fan of this game but the episode was still entertaining. Congrats on getting Paul Scheer on as well, that's a big win!
I think it's probably only me, but I find these types of games extremely boring to watch. The games with stories or traitor elements are much more interesting to me. It's difficult to really identify with the players' motivations in games like these. Fun to play, but not so much to watch.
Fantastic episode from start to finish.
its a bit sad for me that they had "prof. owlbear" out in almost every episode to fix a rule they overlooked, it makes me feel like they stopped caring about the games anymore, at least before, wil would have been stopped mid-game to fix it
They missed a lot of things in the old episodes too. Small World alone has a ton of uncorrected mistakes. Just now they address it if someone catches it later because people watch these to help them learn to play the game
Andrew Liang This is not true as @mumakirby was saying they did not fix it a lot of times in the old episodes either and do not mention it even. Now they at least mention it in post. Also they do care deeply, if you watched and heard will wheaton talk about it, he hates it if certain things are played wrongly.
wil has actually talked about this on one of his blog posts. he does feel bad about it.
Andrew Liang It does seem like they make a lot of errors with the rules. As supposed "gamers" I would expect that someone would have played the games many times with other people who knew the rules (and worked out most of the misconceptions/errors/mistakes before hand) so that these occurrences would be less frequent.
I enjoy the episodes (I'm not 100% sure why), but it does seem some additional attention should be given prior to putting in all the effort to film the episode to making sure that one or more people (the more the better) understand the rules in more detail.
NoExitLoveNow Yeah, but to be fair, nobody's perfect. Everybody makes mistakes when they play games, and Wil plays a LOT of games. It's a bit silly to expect him to remember the intricacies of every rule in every single game...and does it really detract that much from the entertainment value of the show?
Yuri and Tara are the most adorable couple ever....
I like it how you guys pause the video to indicate an error and how its supposed to be played.
People that point errors out may seem like "bitching" by others in the community but really most are just trying to state out the error out.
Takes guts to accept when you are wrong.
Great game, great guests.
P.S.: You are welcome, Yuri!
Loving the voice actor guests!
I love the Eddie Izzard reference during the intro.