RPGs On Video: Tabletop Does Fate & Acq. Inc Series Coming From WotC & Penny Arcade

Two online video series announcements came over the weekend. Not only did Wil Wheaton announce that the upcoming season of Tabletop will feature more roleplaying games, including Fate Core from Evil Hat Productions, but WotC announced that their popular live Acquisitions Inc., event hosted by Chris Perkins at PAX East every year will be getting its own video series this summer.

[h=4]Tabletop Season 4[/h]
The lineup for Tabletop Season 4, not necessarily in this order, is as follows:

• Lanterns
• Fury of Dracula
• Mysterium
• Code Names (with six players for maximum funtimes)
• FATE Core RPG
• Dragon Farkle
• Flashpoint
• Harbour
• Eldritch Horror
• Star Realms
• Monarch
• Star Trek – 5 Year Mission
• Champions of Midgard
• Steam Park
• Tiny Epic Galaxies
• Welcome To The Dungeon
• Misspent Youth RPG

The season starts filming this week, with a June or July launch date. Additionally, the second season of Titansgrave is in development, with a planned Autumn release.

[h=4]Acquisitons, Inc.[/h]
PAX East took place this last weekend, and one of the highlights was Chris Perkins DMing the Acq. Inc. crew in another comedic game of Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. The full video should hit YouTube soon, and I'll embed it here when it does. Even more exciting, though, was the announcement of a serialised show coming in June 2016. Note there's some NSFW language in the teaser video below.

[video=youtube;dDZJsBiZq_Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDZJsBiZq_Q[/video]​

 

[JesterOC]

I'm glad FATE Core will have get the Table Top treatment. Whats the speculation of theme? Perhaps a Spirit of the Century vibe? As long as they don't go over silly, I will be fine with what they choose (Just not a Titans grave clone).

 

[Brodie]

I'm glad FATE Core will have get the Table Top treatment. Whats the speculation of theme? Perhaps a Spirit of the Century vibe? As long as they don't go over silly, I will be fine with what they choose (Just not a Titans grave clone).

Well, part of the rules for Fate Core involves the group (not just the GM) coming up with the setting - as well as their characters - together and going from there, so I'm kind of hoping they go that route. Without spending a bunch of time on it in the video itself, of course. Last time my friend and I went to GenCon, he happened into a pick-up game of Fate that went like that. Tabletop always does outtakes/behind-the-scenes videos, so they could show the creation process there.

 

[The Hitcher]

For those interested in Acquisitions Inc, it's worth noting that the excellent digital game Card Hunter has just done a crossover expansion with those guys: http://www.cardhunter.com/2016/04/acquisitions-incorporated-opens-its-cardhuntria-office/

For the uninitiated: Card Hunter is a tactical card/miniatures game that resembles a cartoony version of D&D. It's free-to-play with paid expansions, but it handles all of that stuff in a pretty player-friendly way. It's a essentially a series of grid-based battles that feel almost like tactics-based puzzles. It's one of my personal favourite games of the last few years. You can get it on Steam, or just play in your browser. And no, I don't work for them!

 

[Jester David]

A post to the AI Series teaser is now up on the front page of the WotC site.

Still no word of an official stream of the AI game, but there's a posting of the Twitch stream already on YouTube with 65,000 views:
https://youtu.be/op6XOcr__8Y