Tabletop Season Three: Days Zero Through Two

Today is our third day of production on season three of Tabletop, so I thought I’d share some pictures from behind the scenes so far.

Here’s our hardworking production intern, Melissa, writing some of the 7000+ names of the backers who chose the “make Melissa and Kevin write my name on the set” perk.

On Day Zero, we rehearsed most of our games, and then we shot our special backers-only mini episode. I played a really great pub game called Pairs with our Art Department head, Nick, our producer and games expert, Boyan, and Geek and Sundry Social Media Director, Sarah.

On Day One, I played Concept with Rhett and Link, and Joseph Scrimshaw.

I also played Tokaido with J. August Richards, Chris Kluwe, and Jason Wishnov.

Yesterday, we started the day playing Roll For It and Sushi Go!, with Jennifer Hale, Jason Ritter, and John Ross Bowie.

Normally, I don’t like dice games, but Roll For It is one of the rare exceptions that proves my rule. We play to 40 total points, as per the rules, but we also play the Troll For It variant, where a player gets troll bonus points for stealing a card away from another player who’s been trying really hard to score it. And Sushi Go! is just one of the

greatest drafting card games I’ve ever played.

I loved the set decoration the art department did for Sushi Go!, incorporating some adorable sushi plushies that I got from nicericeshop.com.

Our second game yesterday was Forbidden Desert, with this salty crew:

That’s me, Felicia Day, Jon Heder, and Alan Tudyk, if you didn’t recognize us from the mug shots.

Now, you may notice that I’m wearing the same shirt in both episodes. That’s a mistake, because I usually change my shirts between the two episodes we film each day … but I forgot to do that, and realized it halfway through the episode. I was wearing the correct shirt for the introduction, and then I put it back on when we did the loser’s couch and winner’s wall … but it’s pretty hilarious when I realize that I’ve screwed up, and some comedy ensues.

Finally, here are a couple more pictures of our wall of backers…

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