We’re a group of 5 game-loving friends living across the United States who have come together to make the kind of Actual Play content we’d most want to listen to: Live play-throughs of tabletop RPGs featuring deep roleplay and less deep tabletalk, recorded with top-notch audio quality.

Our first, flagship show is The Roots of Ruin – you can read more about the show here and more about each of us here.

Pathfinder 2nd Edition! It’s hard to pick a favorite Tabletop RPG, but we love PF2E’s incredible breadth, inclusive vibe, and super-crunchy math. Our first and flagship show, The Roots of Ruin, is a playthrough of the PF2E Adventure Path, Abomination Vaults.

We’ve also played other games together….and if you haven’t heard those yet, maybe you will someday…

Short answer: Lars!

Longer answer: Lars, David, Zoe and RMatt all went to the same college – where Lars and David ended up in the same comedy group and Zoe and David ended up in the same marriage. After college Lars moved to New York City where he began hosting and GMing RPGs that included RMatt, he introduced Zoe and David to the joy of Real Board Games, and his wife became colleagues and then good friends with Robin. (Hey, we got all that into only two sentences!)

Short answer: Lars!

Longer answer: We all love games. Some of us had been playing TTRPGs for years, and others were brand new. And we each have a background in something that feeds the show alongside gaming: Writing, improvisation, music, world-building, production. But the show was Lars’s brainchild – and combines his love and prodigious talents for GMing, audio production, design and editing, music composition, and making sure his players are well taken care of and are having the most fun. (Lars did not write this paragraph and tbh we might have to hide it from him to get it onto the site.)

Lars still lives in Queens, in New York City; Robin recently left the city for Pelham, NY; RMatt left the city a few years ago to move to Austin, TX; David and Zoe left the city a decade ago, and three states later have found a home in Richmond, VA.

The wonderfully talented Odin Gerke. Check out their work here!

The wonderfully talented (and patient) Jonny Silver. Check out his work here!

That isn’t a question! But don’t let that stop you from getting in touch.

We’re always open to on the lookout for good ideas – games to play, shows and other content to try out, gear to add to the merch store, etc, etc. The best way to find us to is on our Discord, where you’ll find all kinds of submission channels, including our suggestion box.

Or if you’re not a Discord person, you’re also welcome to get in touch at letters@tabletopgold.com.

Ask Zoe.

Although when you think about it, they are preeeeeeeeetty weird. As one of our kids once said: “They’re like tiny knives growing out of your body.”