#Tabletop Industry

[tabletopbellhop]

New Episode!

Stories and Games from GAMA Expo 2025

The Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast Episode 267, our #GAMAExpo re-cap episode.

The first half we tell stories from the show and tell you why you should attend, the second half we highlight great games we saw!

[anim-ttrpgs]

didnt behind the bastards really recently do an episode about the coercion of prisoners to give blood, too?

I’ve never listened to that podcast but yeah forced blood donation in US prisons is already a real thing, that’s why I bring it up every time somebody tries to “solve vampirism” by saying that the government should just make blood donation mandatory.

It’s easy to say “oh the government should just force people [to do good leftist thing]” when you don’t think about a less idealistically morally pure government could do with that power and will after an inevitable shift in voter opinion. These things really are never that simple and have to be thought about very carefully both in real life and in fiction.

[vintagerpg]

Flip the switch to the UHF dial! This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we chat with the one, the only, Joey Royale about Weird Heroes of Public Access, coming soon in hardcover to BackerKit. Unearth strange mysteries, save your community and get it done in time to tape the next episode of your show. This is your chance to get into one of the best, coolest, most heartfelt RPGs of the decade!

[handwrittenhello]

another character from my tabletop group! (i'm really loving this DE-style portrait thing i've got going on tbh)

this is elodie, she was maximum Baby before we all Saw Some Shit

[gammaknights]

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[professionalscrublord]

Custom-modeled Sniper Turret (print file for sale!)

Yes, that's right, I made this, it's mine. $1 in Canadian Pesos and it can be yours too!

I started a ko-fi where I can beg for money from strangers on the internet start a personal business making and selling 2d/3d art. It's here should you feel like buying this .3mf file for yourself, or buying a cup of hot beanwater wakey-juice for me, you absolute cool person:

^Regular size w/ matching base and shell casings

^Jumbo size w/ matching base (no shell casings)

And printed! The model went through ~8 major revisions before I got to this point. My printer scrap bucket is full of failed prototypes.

Done with Bambu A1m, 0.2mm nozzle, 0.06mm layer height HQ setting, PETG HF filament. Would likely look best in resin though.

[petersphotography]

Hospital at night and day.

[stormiebreaks]

It’s been a minute, hasn’t it? But I’m back yet again. I haven’t really posted many of the pieces I built this year, so with tomorrow being December 1st here in the US, I’ll be posting a figure a day to show off all 32 pieces in the 2023 collection.

First up was a surprise piece I came up with while watching The Crow back in October. I haven’t tried my hand at building this amazing character since 2005, so it was high time to make a new version and he honestly came out beautifully.

[tgcnews]

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[ippinka]

Simple in form and design, the Hinoki Tabletop Mirror makes a stunning addition to your makeup table.

[vintagerpg]

This is SLA Industries (1993). That’s pronounced “slay,” incidentally, a fact that should give you some insight into the overall temperament of the game.

Let’s see if I can do this in the character limit. The titular company is run by Mr. Slayer, a pumpkin-headed supervillain, and it sits at the center of a horrible, violent universe. The company headquarters is surrounded by post-apocalyptic city ruins called Cannibal Sectors that are filled with all manner of mutants, monsters and serial murderers. Players are freelancers (of COURSE, why would there be paid benefits in a dystopia) who hunt monsters and take part in office politics.

There is a laundry list of super obvious influences. The goth and industrial music scenes are big one — lots of Siouxsie’s with big guns (and top hats) in the art. 40K is another, both in some of the art and in the waist-deep approach to lore. It being a product of Scotland, I expect 2000AD is in the mix, though not as front and center as I would have guessed. There’s some cyberpunk elements (the megacorp, for one), but SLA’s prime science fiction is more in line with the schlocky dystopias of Death Race 2000 and The Running Man, especially in the game’s notion that the players are probably on-camera through most of their exploits, an eerie (if likely entirely accidental) anticipation of reality TV. All of this is filtered, to varying degrees, through the aesthetics and sensibilities of early 90s manga and anime. The result is a big old stew pot of the likes of Rifts and Battlelords, but slathered in nihilism rather than bombast.

System? Oh god, there’s a system under all this? Oh, yea, there it is, on page 110. There is so much lore in this book that even when I am staring right at the system, I can’t really parse it, because I am still reeling from all the factions and history. It looks complicated and embedded in too many words.

[handwrittenhello]

more tabletop portraits 💪 this is brigette, a scary-smart (or maybe just scary) student who belongs to @eyesofshinigami!

[song-of-the-rune]

debating if i should add a rudimentary camera to Lorynthia (my campaign setting) just so one NPC can share pictures of cats. I think I should

[aozorawireless-iriscchen]

K8 Active rugged tablet: Built for the Field.

Sunlight-readable screen, rugged durability, and all-day power—perfect for blueprints, site management, and tough job sites. Work smarter, anywhere.

[peteramthor]

The last sourcebook for the vastly superior 1st edition of Sla Industries.