Best Thom Rawson and Tom Snowden Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 34 - Headtotable-verse 1:08:36

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Hello and welcome to the final episode of Head to Table Season One! Like all the best series, we’ve gone and assembled a retrospective ‘best of’ episode… But wait! It’s not what you think! We actually got meta as hell and designed a game employing mechanics from all of our previous 33 games. As you might expect, chaos ensues. Join us to hear Tom ve…

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Episode 33 - Barking Bad 1:16:04

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This week we roll over and fetch you a brand new, canine themed episode of Head to Table! Join the two T(h)oms as they discuss what it truly means to be a ‘Good Boy’ and design an RPG of doggy hijinks! Will we prove to be pure pedigrees of game design or mangy mongrels of mucking about? Join us to find out if the stats of floofiness and cheekiness …

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Episode 32 - Cruciball of Tempus 59:54

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It’s about to kick-off this week as the T(h)oms prepare another slam dunk. Join us as we devise a gory gladiatorial game of great… gusto? A D&D add-on to get the blood pumping, weighing in at 41MB, ladies and gentlemen, we give you, CRUCIBAAAAAAAAAAAAAALL. Head to Table is Thom Rawson and Tom Snowden. Check us out on Twitter at @headtotable or at h…

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Episode 31 - Co-op Cops 1:13:05

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This week the Thom team are joined by a special guest! The hilarious and creative Joel Ruiz of the wonderful Critical Bits Podcast. Check them out at @CriticalBitCast or at criticalbitcast.libsyn.com. Together with Joel, we design a buddy cop RPG of jolly copper-co-operation. In this game mismatched officers must learn to overcome their differences…

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Episode 30 - Vampire the Mask Party 1:04:16

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This week the Thom Team attend the party of the century and try to make it suck a little more. Take on the role of a fashionable vampire, sate the nobility’s restless curiosity, and play guess who with an anachronistic guest list to die for. Will you manage to avoid the bitter ire of Food Standards Inspector Van Helsing, or will you be fooled by hi…

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Episode 29 - Internal Affairs 1:04:05

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I’m afraid it’s time to take a look inside yourself and ask the big questions. Questions like “What would happen if I became really, really small and cast a fireball inside someone’s intestines?” and “Are lymphocytes really the good guys?”. That’s right! This week the Thom team take you on a Fantastic Voyage to the Inner Space of TTRPG design! Join…

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Episode 28 - Die Ain't Afraid of No Ghost 1:11:43

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This week the Tom Team demonstrate that they do, indeed, have a Dickens and design a ghostly game of redemption and restitution. Take on the role of a sanctimonious spectre to produce and direct a series of complicated and flawed visions of past, present and future. Try to crack the mean-spirited heart of your hauntee through arguments of compassio…

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Episode 27 - d10tion 1:01:16

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Sit up straight! No chewing gum in class! Is that a pentagonal trapezohedron!? You’d better report to detention!! This week the two T(h)oms head back to school and design a game about being in a whole heap of trouble! Fingered for a crime you didn’t commit, its time to hit the playground and figure out whodunit in a noir-ish game of school investig…

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Episode 26 - Chronopunk 1:13:05

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The year is 2332 and numeric palindromes are back in fashion. In this gritty, cyberpunk world, criminals are recruited to elite government time travel agencies for various logical and entirely plausible reasons. You are one such agent. You are a chronopunk. This week join your two favourite time-travelling T(h)oms as they design a game where ill-ch…

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Episode 25 - Save the d8 1:00:09

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Love is at the table! Ding dong the dice are gonna chime! This week we celebrate Valentines Day with our first ever sequel episode; ‘Save the d8’. Following on from the mechanics of Episode 13’s ‘d8 Night’, we create a glamorous game of nerve-wracking nuptials. Will Gesh and Charles’ wedding go off without a hitch? Will tragedy strike to the sounds…

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Episode 24 - The Tomb of Twotomcardmun 1:24:29

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As the sound of stone scraping on stone subsides back to grave-still silence, as the ancient mechanism grinds to a halt and as the thick dust ahead of you begins to settle, you see the treasure you came for – an untouched episode of Head to Table! This week we create a game about tombs, traps and treasure; of delving into dusty vaults and making he…

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Episode 23 - Dice Derby 1:00:28

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On your marks, get set, and welcome back to Head to Table! This week we design a dastardly, dice-based driving game inspired by Wacky Races. Construct a road-unworthy racing contraption to clash, smash and dash your way to the finish line. Tune in and cheer for Sir Driftsalot and his trusty steed Toyota – the car impersonating horse. Will our desig…

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Episode 22 - Gorillas in Our Midst 1:05:16

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Have you ever stopped to ask how many of the people around you right now might actually be gorillas in disguise? We have. This week we set out to design a game about going undercover – infiltrating dangerous organisations, hiding in plain sight, and facing the allure of going rogue. Listen as two best mates design a game about pant-wearing primates…

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Episode 21 - Fairway-ther Friends 57:56

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Time to hit the links in Head to Table’s exciting new, dice-based golf simulator! This week the boys design a game featuring high octane golf goodness and friendship found on the course. Putt, iron, drive, and haiku your way to the green – Fairway-ther Friends has it all! Join us this week to find out if aging buddies Mabel and Abraham can survive …

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Episode 20 - Victorious Secret 59:57

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In this week’s episode Thom and Tom peel back their masks and make a game about secret identities. They build an RPG of superheroic suspicion, where the aim is to keep your alter-ego hidden and avoid using your powers in the face of villainous threats! Can you manage to resist the use of your excelsior strength in favour of your skills with Excel s…

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Episode 19 - New Year's Reformations 58:35

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Welcome to the first Head to Table episode of 2019 - New Year, Same Podcast! It’s the time for tightening of belts and resisting of temptations; of committing to change and making resolutions. But this week the Thoms forgo such mortal concerns as shifting those extra Christmas pounds or locking away the alcohol, and instead ask what it might look l…

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Let’s Play! Lancer: Part 2 53:12

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A very Happy Holidays to one and all! This season Head to Table is celebrating with something a little different - a playtest of the public beta of Lancer. Lancer is a sci-fi mech combat tabletop RPG created by the talented Miguel Lopez and Tom Parkinson Morgan. You can find more information about Lancer on their Twitter page @Lancer_RPG and the 1.…

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Let’s Play! Lancer: Part 1 1:29:45

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A very Happy Holidays to one and all! This season Head to Table is celebrating with something a little different - a playtest of the public beta of Lancer. Lancer is a sci-fi mech combat tabletop RPG created by the talented Miguel Lopez and Tom Parkinson Morgan. You can find more information about Lancer on their Twitter page @Lancer_RPG and the 1.…

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Episode 18 - Gary Rotter and the Philosopher’s Dice 1:07:44

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It’s a magical time of the year! A time when blockbuster film franchises get their annual releases and children and parents alike are inspired to create cheap, knockoff tabletop RPGs of all their favourite fiction. The Thom Team are no different and this week they set their sights on the Franchise that Shall Not be Named, and design a game of nonse…

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Episode 17 - The Great British Bake Off: Armabreadon 1:03:03

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The year is 2021 and Great Britain is a wasteland. A year earlier, faced with the series’ first ever fall in ratings, Great British Bake Off star, Paul Hollywood, did the unthinkable. He set a technical challenge like none that came before – he asked his contestants to create life from bakery – to commit the terrible sin of Bakenomancy. Those conte…

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Episode 16 - The Barbarian Bunch 59:47

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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 sw…

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Episode 15 - Night Draws In 54:17

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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 …

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Episode 14 - Bandcampaign 1:04:08

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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 fl…

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Episode 13 - D8 Night 1:08:56

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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 be…

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Episode 12 - Crit Follows 59:11

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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 distillat…

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Episode 11 - Trick or Treat Diceguises 56:28

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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 …

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Episode 10 - Toys“Я”PG 59:54

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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…

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Episode 9 - Sitters & Sorcery 1:06:54

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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,…

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Episode 8 - Diogenes's Dialectical Deathmatch 1:01:43

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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 domin…

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Episode 7 - iHeist 1:03:46

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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 oursel…

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Episode 6 - Dice Dance Revolution: Desperado's Edition 1:07:48

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Nevada, 1876. The great dance rush is over. The vast exodus west, the promise of the freshest line-dances, and the once bountiful honky-tonk mines have all dried up. This week only two boys are made of stern enough stuff to turn the tide and mend achy breaky hearts. Join us as we design an RPG of cowboys, neckerchiefs and hoedowns. Head to Table is…

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Episode 5 - 80 Sectors 1:07:12

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This week the Tom team decides to explore space without a spaceship and make a game about bumming rides across the galaxy. It’s strange out there in the darkness, and with no thumbs to hitchhike, how will our alien protagonist fare? Join the boys as they use the excellent Sectors Without Number (sectorswithoutnumber.com) to inject a little bit of p…

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Episode 4 - Heroic Endeavours Ltd. 1:03:22

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This week the boys consider telemarketing in a high-fantasy world and create an RPG capturing all the drama of the call centre. Providing insurance for adventurers could be a noble (phone)calling, but no-one’s Lawful Good in this mire of misselling, blackmail, and unsolicited telepathic contact. Join us as we attempt to sell our way to the top! Hea…

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Episode 3 - Gore's Teen Morphers 1:09:09

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In this episode we travel back to the nineties when teens had attitude and colour coordinated morphin’ was in vogue. Taking inspiration from Power Rangers and Voltron, we design an RPG filled with giant robots and teen angst. Under the sage guidance of Al Gore, our teens push back against the colossal consequences of climate change with only modera…

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Episode 2 - Twitter, the RPG 1:07:21

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In this episode we take inspiration from the nightmare hellscape that is Social Media. In this anxiety-inducing, survival horror RPG, enemies abound in the form of fake-news and threats to your ego. Is there a strategy for victory, or is the only way to win not to play? Head to Table is Thom Rawson and Tom Snowden. Check us out on Twitter at @headt…

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Episode 1 - Cerulean Depths 1:03:41

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In this episode the boys get brine on the brain and consider fish: What are they? If you were to give them RPG mechanics, what would they be? Can the entire field of marine life taxonomy be bettered with a simple three stat array? Join us deep below the waves as we find out! Head to Table is Thom Rawson and Tom Snowden. Check us out on Twitter at @…

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