Head to Table

In this week’s episode our boys turn a little barbaric and punch the rat-race right in its snout! In doing so, they develop the licensed RPG of a fictional sitcom about a barbarian trying to hold it together in a hectic, stress-filled 21st century world (confusing, right?); The Barbarian Bunch.

♬ Shurra Bloodtooth was a mighty mean man,

Greatest swordsman of the bloodtooth clan.

Now he’s traded it all for a Ford Sedan,

And keeping up payments on his pension plan.

It’s the Barbarian Bunch! ♬

Head to Table is Thom Rawson and Tom Snowden. Check us out on Twitter at @headtotable or at headtotable.com. Special thanks this week to DJ Alcock No Trousers for creation of the sublime Barbarian Bunch Theme.

Did you know that non-elven advenurers spend, on average, one third of their adventuring lives asleep? And that the greatest threat to a sleeping adventurer is a noisy tent-mate? Armed with this knowledge, our sleepy boys do what all good adventurers must and finally take a long rest! But, faced with the unedifying prospect of an hour-long podcast of uninterrupted snoring, they decide to set-about redesigning the nightly watch, common to so many RPGs. Will we make it through a night in these menacing lands when faced with a party members’ night terrors and other noisy nap-time activities? Join us to find out!

Head to Table is Thom Rawson and Tom Snowden. Check us out on Twitter at @headtotable or at headtotable.com.

This week the boys get musical and design a game of bands and fans. In this system a fallout can mean character death, so you’ve gotta rock and roll some dice and try to play nice together, despite all the setbacks. Keep it tight and you can go from garage band to headliner! Join us to find out if we hit the high notes or end up falling a little flat!

Head to Table is Thom Rawson and Tom Snowden. Check us out on Twitter at @headtotable or at headtotable.com.

Our hearts are all a-flutter for this episode of romance and drama! This week we devise a system designed to make downtime into date time. Compatible with all your favourite RPG systems, D8 Night can help you take your characters from single to mingle and beyond. But it’s not all roses, roll them wrong and the D8s of fate can show that the lines between adore and deplore are not so wide... Join us to hear the tale of our dice-crossed lovers!

Head to Table is Thom Rawson and Tom Snowden. Check us out on Twitter at @headtotable or at headtotable.com.

This week the boys return once again to their nightmare-otorium and concoct a system to horrify even the hardest of hearts. Taking inspiration from films such as It Follows, The Terminator and ITV’s hit game show, The Chase, they design a game about being relentlessly pursued. Join us as we meet our gravest fear – Vinnie the Foot, laddish distillation of centuries of East London pub culture – and attempt to evade his insatiable ire!

Head to Table is Thom Rawson and Tom Snowden. Check us out on Twitter at @headtotable or at headtotable.com.

Happy Halloween, everybody! This week we try to design a system for spookiness, but really just end up fixated on our favourite parts of Halloween - costumes and confectionary! Trick or treating in a truly monstrous neighbourhood, your aim is to frighten the fearsome by building an outfit to unnerve. Join us to find out if we’re able tailor a true terror and collect all the candies!

Head to Table is Thom Rawson and Tom Snowden. Check us out on Twitter at @headtotable or at headtotable.com.

In this episode the Thom Team take inspiration from Winnie the Pooh and set out to design a game of childhood innocence, sentient toys, and the joys of imagination. Unfortunately, they fail spectacularly, and the boys’ designs soon turn to the troublingly twisted. Oh bother! Join us as we straddle the realms of fantasy and reality to engage in some childhood criminality!

Head to Table is Thom Rawson and Tom Snowden. Check us out on Twitter at @headtotable or at headtotable.com.

This week the boys do the neighbourly thing and create a game about looking after the house next door… assuming, of course, that your neighbour is also an archmage of unrivalled power? With mythical pets needing to be fed and plants craving more than just water, things swiftly become a lot more Doctor Strange than Mister Rogers. Join us as we tend, mend and fend our way through a myriad of conjurer’s chores, transmuter’s tasks and evoker’s errands!

Head to Table is Thom Rawson and Tom Snowden. Check us out on Twitter at @headtotable or at headtotable.com.

This week the boys don their togas and pursue their own excellence in designing their most virtuous RPG yet. All men are mortal, and Socrates is a man, therefore welcome to the world’s first philosophical, no-holds barred, deathmatch discussion game! Set in an anachronistic Athens, we revisit the archons of argument and battle for dialectical domination. Join us to find out who will be crowned philosopher king and who will be left drinking the hemlock!

Head to Table is Thom Rawson and Tom Snowden. Check us out on Twitter at @headtotable or at headtotable.com.

In this episode our two jokers go wild as they ditch the dice and purge the polyhedral, and finally make a game employing the humble playing card. Following the logic that cards equal casinos, and casinos equal heists, it’s time to lock up your valuables, friends! Because this week we design a game of skulduggery and subterfuge. Will we find ourselves several cards short of a deck or will we manage to pull another ace from our sleeves? Join us to find out!

Head to Table is Thom Rawson and Tom Snowden. Check us out on Twitter at @headtotable or at headtotable.com.