Friends at the Table is an actual-play podcast about critical world-building, smart characterisation, and fun interaction between good friends.
COUNTER/weight is the name of the second season, which is a science-fiction roleplaying campaign set in a world inspired by mecha anime, noir, cyberpunk, and Cold War-style drama.
The ground game runs on a slightly modified version of The Sprawl, and follows the lives of a group of four individuals known as the Chime.
COUNTER/weight is an animated 10-episode Netflix Original series, based on the podcast Friends at The Table.
The series follows the lives of a group of four individuals known as the Chime, a part-private investigation firm, part-governmental agency, and part-underground small crime group.
They undertake missions, and get into trouble in the harsh urban sprawl of Counterweight.
THEMES: Crime // Spy // Private Investigation
KEY WORDS: Technology // Space
AUDIENCE: Young Adult / 15-30
SETTING: Futuristic / Alien Planet // Cold War
GENRES: Cyberpunk // Sci-Fi // Noir
:// AESTHETIC SOURCES OF INSPIRATION:
Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team (1996-1999)
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket (1989)
The Third Man (1949) dir. Carol Reed
“Like this is going to be a sci-fi, cyberpunk film noir mashup and that's what—that's, y'know, Cowboy Bebop is already doing that. Except we'll have giant robots involved.”
Session 01: I Would Like A Bribe
Session 03: It's Fine, We're Criminals
Session 04: The Bells Are Ringing
Session 05: A Ship of Seeds
Session 06: Here's Your Bribe Tip
Session 07: I Am Not Allowed
Session 08: Our Hostage Below
Session 09: This Month Of Ours
Session 10: Drawing Clocks
