The Tables and Fables Podcast
The interactive bookclub! An anthology actual play TTRPG podcast with discussions after the adventure about successes, failures, inspirations, mechanics, and weirdness!
Podcast Description
The interactive bookclub! An anthology actual play TTRPG podcast with discussions after the adventure about successes, failures, inspirations, mechanics, and weirdness!
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Episodes

Mar 27, 2025
Short Rest Inn: You paid HOW MUCH?!
Mar 27, 2025
Mar 27, 2025
22 min
An adventurer? In this economy?! Hope you put that sword on layaway. We look at gold, it's value, and making some value based adventurers in this short interlude episode between the actual play episodes!
So, pull up a stool fair adventurer. Have a short rest here...at the Short Rest Inn!
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As an additional note, we will be soon resuming a proper schedule here into our actual play series with Blades in the Dark soon! But for now, we hope you enjoy having these littler interlude episodes in the meantime!
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Music and Sound FX used:
Tables and Fables Intro by Collin/Crash

Apr 4, 2025
Short Rest Inn: Pop Culture Party!
Apr 4, 2025
Apr 4, 2025
30 min
So a bunch of cartoon characters, a pop diva, and an actor walk into a bar...they go on an adventure. I guess? We create random party makeups of various members of pop culture and figure out their class!
So, pull up a stool fair adventurer. Have a short rest here...at the Short Rest Inn!
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As an additional note, we will be soon resuming a proper schedule here into our actual play series with Blades in the Dark soon! But for now, we hope you enjoy having these littler interlude episodes in the meantime!
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Music and Sound FX used:
Tables and Fables Intro by Collin/Crash

Apr 11, 2025
Short Rest Inn: Creature Kitchen
Apr 11, 2025
Apr 11, 2025
25 min
C'mon on back here in the kitchen and let's cook up some monsters in the Creature Kitchen, yah? Rolling traits, sizes, and more!
So, pull up a stool fair adventurer. Have a short rest here...at the Short Rest Inn!
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Partially inspired by the podcast, "Just a lil' Guy" https://www.justalilguypod.com/ Check them out!
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As an additional note, we will be soon resuming a proper schedule here into our actual play series with Blades in the Dark soon! But for now, we hope you enjoy having these littler interlude episodes in the meantime!
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Music and Sound FX used:
Tables and Fables Intro by Collin/Crash

Apr 18, 2025
Short Rest Inn: Spelling Slot
Apr 18, 2025
Apr 18, 2025
33 min
...can you use that in a sentence? We figure out how to spell out various fantasy creatures and famous entities from the world of Dungeons and Dragons!
So, pull up a stool fair adventurer. Have a short rest here...at the Short Rest Inn!
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Partially inspired by the podcast, "Just a lil' Guy" https://www.justalilguypod.com/ Check them out!
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As an additional note, we will be soon resuming a proper schedule here into our actual play series with Blades in the Dark soon! But for now, we hope you enjoy having these littler interlude episodes in the meantime!
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Music and Sound FX used:
Tables and Fables Intro by Collin/Crash
Pamgaea by Incompetech

May 13, 2025
Sanguine Song: Episode 1
May 13, 2025
May 13, 2025
1hr 8 min
Wherein the members of the Hatchery begin their heist upon the haunted docks of Saltvein...what terrors and more will they experience while doing...crimes?
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Blades in the Dark is a tabletop fantasy role-playing game by John Harper (published by Evil Hat Productions), set in a fictional city of Doskvol, inspired by Victorian London and Gothic fiction. Players take on the role as "Scoundrel" n'er do wells that work to establish a foothold of their own criminal enterprises. The game was crowdfunded on Kickstarter in 2015 and published at the start of 2017. Blades in the dark operates off a number of different resources but is predominately a D6 dice pool game.
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Resources:
https://bladesinthedark.com/greetings-scoundrel
Music and Sound FX used:
Tables and Fables Intro by Collin/Crash
ZapSplat

May 29, 2025
Sanguine Song: Episode 2
May 29, 2025
May 29, 2025
42 min
The tension builds as our scoundrels, Brodie and Wicker deal with more guards, strange apparitions, and calling in favors with friends as they retrieve the contraband from the Shiver!
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Blades in the Dark is a tabletop fantasy role-playing game by John Harper (published by Evil Hat Productions), set in a fictional city of Doskvol, inspired by Victorian London and Gothic fiction. Players take on the role as "Scoundrel" n'er do wells that work to establish a foothold of their own criminal enterprises. The game was crowdfunded on Kickstarter in 2015 and published at the start of 2017. Blades in the dark operates off a number of different resources but is predominately a D6 dice pool game.
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Resources:
https://bladesinthedark.com/greetings-scoundrel
Music and Sound FX used:
Tables and Fables Intro by Collin/Crash
"Thinking Music" by Incompetech
ZapSplat
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Jul 17, 2025
Sanguine Song: Episode 3 [FINALE]
Jul 17, 2025
Jul 17, 2025
47 min
Join us as we detox from a successful heist! We level up some characters and discuss what is to come in the future for the Sanguine Song! The finale...for now...
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Blades in the Dark is a tabletop fantasy role-playing game by John Harper (published by Evil Hat Productions), set in a fictional city of Doskvol, inspired by Victorian London and Gothic fiction. Players take on the role as "Scoundrel" n'er do wells that work to establish a foothold of their own criminal enterprises. The game was crowdfunded on Kickstarter in 2015 and published at the start of 2017. Blades in the dark operates off a number of different resources but is predominately a D6 dice pool game.
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Resources:
https://bladesinthedark.com/greetings-scoundrel
Music and Sound FX used:
Tables and Fables Intro by Collin/Crash

Sep 26, 2025
Short Rest Inn: That's Entertainment!
Sep 26, 2025
Sep 26, 2025
25 min
"Cowl of Simon, activate!" Let's figure out the tavern bands that will play here at the Short Rest Inn. Names? Instruments? It's all...kinda here?
So, pull up a stool fair adventurer. Have a short rest here...at the Short Rest Inn!
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As an additional note, we will be soon resuming a proper schedule here into our actual play series with Blades in the Dark soon! But for now, we hope you enjoy having these littler interlude episodes in the meantime!
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Music and Sound FX used:
Tables and Fables Intro by Collin/Crash
Shady Tavern by Monument Studios

Oct 2, 2025
Short Rest Inn: What's your poison? DRINK!
Oct 2, 2025
Oct 2, 2025
27 min
Puckering? Blaster? Does it go down smooth? We create various drinks for the Short Rest Inn! For use in...future endeavors (cue evil laugh.)
So, pull up a stool fair adventurer. Have a short rest here...at the Short Rest Inn!
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As an additional note, we will be soon resuming a proper schedule here into our actual play series with Blades in the Dark soon! But for now, we hope you enjoy having these littler interlude episodes in the meantime!
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Music and Sound FX used:
Tables and Fables Intro by Collin/Crash
Shady Tavern by Monument Studios

Jan 5, 2026
Jan 5, 2026
59 min
Join Granny the Firbold and Crunch the Goblin as they enjoy some magical drinks at the Short Rest Inn! (drink responsibly. Unlike Crunch.)
Our final bit in the little 'arc' we have for the Short Rest Inn! We play a made up drinking game (no real alcohol) in which we have characters compete in ability checks and more to stomach the strange concoctions we made in the previous episodes!
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Side bar! New episodes the actual play here start proper in the new year! Thank you all for your patience!
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Music and Sound FX used:
Tables and Fables Intro by Collin/Crash
"Shady Tavern" by Monument Studios
"Mall Memories" via Humble Bundle
"Waiting Room" via Humble Bundle
"Please Hold" via Humble Bundle

The Tables and Fables...
Critical Successes and Critical Failures. A TTRPG podcast about the highs and lows associated with playing TTRPGs and Narrative based games. Join us as we explore all sorts of TTRPG games in the vast world of this wonderfully collaborative narrative hobby!

