Argue the Toss

Tabletop roleplaying games: beyond DnD

Drew and Chella discuss tabletop roleplaying.

What do you do if you want to play a fun roleplaying videogame, but you don’t have a controller, or a games console, or a TV, or a videogame, and in fact all you’ve got is a raised surface, some seats, some weird cubes and other polytopes with numbers printed on them, and three to five other nerds? Sounds like an impossible conundrum, but astonishingly, there is something you can do.

This week, Argue The Toss investigates the world of non-video videogames, or as they’re more commonly known, tabletop roleplaying games. Or as they’re even more commonly known, “what, you mean like Dungeons and Dragons? That’s the thing they play on Stranger Things, right?” And as if that weren’t enough, and it actually would be enough because this episode’s a long one, we delve deep into ATT lore and recount Chella and Drew’s origin story.

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Chella Ramanan

Chella hails from the UK and joined Gameindustry.com around the year 2000. It was so many moons ago, she can't quite remember. Back then, the only women you saw in the games industry were in bikinis and vertiginous heels at trade shows - oh how times have changed, kind of. Chella started as a humble reviewer, but soon became our European Correspondent and keeps us on top of industry happenings across the Pond. She tends to like the weird Japanese games we've never heard of, so that's good for making us look all-encompassing and stuff. Chella does like games, so don't be fooled by the copious amount of columns devoted to bemoaning the lack of variety in the industry. When she's not surfing (the sea, not the internet) or camping up mountains, Chella likes a good action RPG (especially if it's sci-fi), anything with a good narrative and like we said, the weirder the better. She's also a regular in the GiN Lounge, but that's just because we like her accent.