Learn Tabletop Role Playing Games

Are you playing Dungeons and Dragons and wondering 'What's next?'
Perhaps you've played RPG video games or How To Host A Murder and tabletop role playing games seem like a next step down your trail of geekdom.
Or maybe you have seen the freaks hunched around a table, reading through mountains of books, rolling dice, and role-playing characters and wanted to join in on the fun.
Whatever the case, click on over to Learn Tabletop RPGs and find out just what in the hell is going on.

Tabletop role playing games can be intimidating. There are a ton of different games. The number of books for each game can sometimes be head spinning. The language of gaming is ridiculous to an outsider. Learn Tabletop RPGs knows all this and cuts through it.

New gamers will be clearly and gently introduced to tabletop games and directed to a free starter game depending on their interests.
If you are an experienced gamer, the site has got a bunch of suggestions for games that suit your interest: Gamist, narrativist, or simulationist.

Webmaster Go Faster, Erik, used to write for Lioncorn on the old Posterous site and knows a thing or two about gaming. Erik's clean and relaxed writing style make this site a perfect first-stop for anyone interested in dipping their toe into paper and pencil RPGs. I had my wife read it and she got it. If your significant other or parents are worried about your RPG habits, send them to Learn Tabletop RPGs. If their worried about your Mountain Dew addiction, massive collections of dice and automatic pencils, and creepy friends, you're on your own.

Tabletop.

How's this gonna work out? It'll take some serious charisma to make this interesting. I'm in for a few episodes; we'll see if Tabletop can fully insert its hooks.

As Will Wheaton explains on his blog, Felicia Day asked Mr. Wheaton if he wanted to create a show about gaming:

"Oh my god," I said, "What if we did something that was like Celebrity Poker meets Dinner for Five, where we got interesting people we know together for tabletop games?!"

Felicia thought it sounded awesome, I was really excited about the idea, and we got to work. It took a few months to develop, and in December we finally shot our first block of episodes. In February, we got the band back together and shot another block of episodes, and just last week, I finished locking down the final edits for all the shows (that's why I couldn't come to Wondercon on Friday.)

In season one of the show, we play games like Settlers of Catan, The Last Night on Earth, Munchkin, Small World, and Alhambra. Some of the players include Grant Imahara, Sean Plott (better known as Day[9]), Dodger Leigh, Ryan Higa, Beth Riesgraf, Phil Lamarr, Morgan Webb, Garfunkle and Oats, Veronica Belmont, and Colin Ferguson.

My ulterior motive with Tabletop is to show by example how much fun it is to play boardgames. I want to show that Gamers aren't all a bunch of weirdoes who can't make eye contact when they talk to you, and that getting together for a game night is just as social and awesome as getting together to watch Sportsball, or to play poker, or for a LAN party, or whatever non-gamers do with their friends. I want to inspire people to try hobby games, and I want to remove the stigma associated with gaming and gamers.