History WebVideo / Tabletop

** In Season 4, the production crew went on a garage sale/ebay shopping spree, buying cheap trophies and then covering the actual nameplates with the piece of tape. Wil makes a big deal of how the trophy is not a used trophy at all.

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Wil saying that season 1's trophy wasn't an old cheerleading trophy purchased by one of the interns from Website/{{Ebay}} for five bucks. This becomes a running gag in Season 4, after the production crew bought a bunch of old trophies to repurpose for the show.

* ADateWithRosiePalms:
** Subverted by Dr. Hannah, Felicia's roleplaying zombie from ''Last Night On Earth''.
--->'''Felicia:''' You know, Dr. Hannah is, he's getting a little lonely. So he's gonna touch himself inappropriately.\\
'''Wil:''' Is it just going through the hole in his hand?\\
'''Felicia:''' Well, that's what I'm saying. ''It fell off.'' It's a sad thing in [that hospital].
** Briefly played straight by Wil in ''Love Letter''.
--->'''Benny:''' ''[gesturing to cards]'' I like that there's the progressive female guard, but the handmaiden is still...\\
'''Felicia:''' Well, would you like a male handmaiden?\\
'''Benny:''' Yes! Is it too hard to ask -\\
'''Felicia:''' It would be... "handmaster". Hand... mister?\\
'''Wil:''' I was a hand master, and then I got married.

* FirstPlayerAdvantageMitigation: In the ''TabletopGame/{{Tokaido}}'' episode, the players [[HouseRule modify the existing rules]] so that the player going first has to give the player going last one coin. This result's in [[Creator/WilWheaton Wil's]] character, the StarvingArtist Hiroshige (who normally starts with 3 coins) having to pay [[Creator/JAugustRichards J's]] character, the wealthy samurai Kinko (who normally starts with 7), leading to quips about Kinko being the 1%.

* FirstPlayerAdvantageMitigation: In the ''TabletopGame/{{Tokaido}}'' episode, the players have a HouseRule that the player going first has to give the player going last one coin, as a way to balance the advantage and disadvantage of their respective positions. This result's in [[Creator/WilWheaton Wil's]] character, the StarvingArtist Hiroshige (who normally starts with 3 coins) having to pay [[Creator/JAugustRichards J's]] character, the wealthy samurai Kinko (who normally starts with 7), leading to quips about Kinko being the 1%.

** From the explanation of the rules for ''Betrayal at House on the Hill'': "One member of the team is revealed to be a traitor who has lured us into the house to do unspeakable things to us... like make us watch ''Film/GhostRider''."

The show unfortunately appears to be on indefinite hiatus or possibly cancelled. Wil has stated publicly that he can't actually say anything about it, but that there's something going on with Legendary (the network that bought ''Geek and Sundry'') and everyone involved that is preventing a new series from being filmed, despite his fervent desire to go back to it.

* MassOhCrap: During ''Ticket to Ride'', Anne Wheaton accidentally provokes one of these from everybody (including herself) when she slams her fist down on the gaming table and scatters a whole boardful of train-pieces.

''Tabletop'' is a WebVideo series on Website/YouTube, which is essentially {{celebrity|Edition}} {{tabletop gam|es}}ing hosted by Creator/WilWheaton. It is part of the Creator/GeekAndSundry [=YouTube=] channel, and can be watched for free [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0Y9n5uBJuXxjSe6lJEHRZICCHym3e-aS here.]] It can also be seen on the terrestrial channel TBD.

The second season of ''Tabletop'' debuted on April 4th, 2013. For season three, the creators decided to go independent and started a [[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tabletop-season-3-with-wil-wheaton crowdfunding campaign at Indiegogo.com]]. The original target of $500,000 for a 15 episode season was more than doubled, bumping up the number of episodes to 20 and funding a spinoff with an ongoing RPG campaign, ''WebVideo/TitansgraveTheAshesOfValkana.'' Season three premiered on November 13, 2014, and season four began filming in April 2016.

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%%A full list of episodes can be found on the '''[[Recap/{{Tabletop}} Recap subpage]]'''.

!''Tabletop'' provides examples of the following tropes:

** Whenever the group loses a team game that pits them against a Game Master or the game itself. For example, during the [[spoiler:''Pandemic'' and ''Forbidden Island'']] episodes.

** The ''Forbidden Desert'' episode, in which the players take the roles of airship crew and which guest stars Creator/AlanTudyk, includes several shout-outs to ''Series/{{Firefly}}''.

* BornLucky: Ryan wins all three games in the Zombie Dice, Get Bit, and Tsuro episode. UpToEleven in the Zombie Dice portion, when he gets almost every brain he needs in his first turn.

** ''Tsuro of the Seas'' is a more complicated version of ''Tsuro'' [[OurDragonsAreDifferent with dragons.]] Part of the rules explanation for ''Tsuro'' is recycled with Wil adding more explanation afterward.

* NiceHat: In the ''Harbour'' episode, Wil makes a joke of wanting the Bait Shop card not for its abilities but for the hat that the bait shop owner is depicted wearing.

* NotZilla: As Wil keeps reminding us in the ''TabletopGames/KingOfTokyo'' episode, Gigazaur is legally distinct from a certain other giant lizard that rampages through Tokyo.

* ButtMonkey: Kelly Hu in ''Qwirkle'', as she kept getting "Qwirkle-blocked". After making a big deal out of finally being about to make her first Qwirkle, only to be immediately Qwirkle-blocked again by Creator/MeredithSalenger.

** ''Tsuro of the Seas'' is a more complicated version of ''Tsuro'' [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons with dragons.]] Part of the rules explanation for ''Tsuro'' is recycled with Wil adding more explanation afterward.

* ButtMonkey: Kelly Hu in ''Qwirkle'', as she kept getting "Qwirkle-blocked". After making a big deal out of finally being about to make her first Qwirkle, only to be immediately Qwirkle-blocked again by Meredith Salenger.

* {{Adorkable}}:
** Amy Dallen from Episode 4. So much.
** Unsurprisingly, Creator/KateMicucci gets in on the act too.

*** Not to mention the multiple backstories on how Frogger got his nickname in ''Formula D''.

Each week, Wil and a number of other celebrity guests (ranging from well-known [=YouTube=] and television personalities to professional game designers) play a chosen tabletop game. These can range from competitive games like ''TabletopGame/SmallWorld'' to co-operative games like ''TabletopGame/{{Pandemic}}.'' The show itself is instruction-light, easing new viewers into the game rules and focusing more on the banter and camaraderie that comes from settling around a table and having good fun with friends. The winner of each episode in the first season was granted the Tabletop Trophy Of Awesome (and a bit of masking tape with their name on it). In the second season, the winner received a Certificate of Awesome. Meanwhile, the defeated licked their wounds on the Loser's Couch with the aid of some webshow-budget beverages.

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Wil saying that season 1's trophy wasn't an old cheerleading trophy purchased by one of the interns from Website/{{Ebay}} for five bucks.

** [[spoiler:Day[9] and Colin Ferguson]], though you can see the latter coming.

* NeverLiveItDown: [[invoked]]
** In ''[[TabletopGame/TicketToRide Ticket to Ride: Europe]]'' episode, it's pretty obvious that Wil still hasn't forgotten how his wife [[spoiler:knocked all trains from the board in her first appearance]].
*** It comes up again in the ''Dread'' episode, where he describes how the random success/fail test is done by playing a turn of ''Jenga''[[note]]Not identified by name for legal reasons[[/note]] and notes that "This is a game where my wife wouldn't wanna be around this table," after Ivan van Norman almost jostles the table. Then they flashback to the infamous ''Ticket to Ride'' scene.
** Throughout the entire show, Wil does this to himself, insisting that he always loses about OnceAnEpisode come the second season, even when he ''does'' have some victories under his belt.

** At one pojnt in the ''Tokaido'' episode, when Wil starts complaining about the other players ganging up on him, J August Richards walks behind him and starts doing exaggerated crying/sad violin mimes.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the second season, when the Trophy of Awesome is retired to appear on the Winners' Wall, the name on the trophy changes to something relevant each episode.