What is the Tabletop Bellhop?
Tabletop Bellhop is a podcast and a website dedicated to answering your tabletop gaming questions, providing game night advice and sharing game reviews. Every podcast episode we answer a gaming or game night question, we talk about the games we’ve been playing since the last episode and we do two (or sometimes even three) detailed board game reviews. We love all manner of tabletop games, and sometimes we dip into RPG territory, but our main focus is on board games.
Think of us as like a Dear Abby but for tabletop gamers, so instead of answering questions about etiquette and relationship advice we talk about how to keep your game group running smoothly (which oddly enough, often involves etiquette, like “No Cheetos!“, and relationship advice, like “How do you deal with nepotism at the table?” ).
We’re here to help you find new games to play. We’re to help people make informed decisions about their game collections. We want to help folks organize game nights for maximum fun and entertainment. We want to tell you about new and hot titles and hidden gems. We want to save people money when shopping for games. We want to use our many years of gaming experience to help you make your game nights better. We want to help you and your game group have more fun doing that thing we all love: gaming.
You can check out our podcast HERE.
How can the Cardboard Concierge help you and your game group?
We love hearing your questions. If you have a gaming related question, the odds are there are others out there wondering the same thing. We want to get your questions, give you our best answer, and then share that answer with the community for the benefit of all of our gaming groups.
If you’d like to submit a question you can send an email to [email protected].
We record live on Twitch every Wednesday at 8pm ET. Prefer on-demand content? Watch our edited episodes on YouTube or listen to the streamlined podcast version on your favorite podcatcher. If reading is more your style, you’ll find written versions of our reviews and game night advice right here on the website. However you like to consume your tabletop gaming content—watching, listening, or reading—we’ve got you covered!
The team behind the Tabletop Bellhop website and podcast consists of:
Moe Tousignant
Moe Tousignant (he/him) is a lifelong gamer and active member of the tabletop gaming community. As The Tabletop Bellhop, Moe takes his lifelong love of gaming and channels it into helping others upgrade their game nights. Whether through game night tips, recommendations, or in-depth reviews, his mission is simple: to help you make your game nights better.
CLICK HERE to learn more about Moe, his history with gaming, favourite games, and more.
Deanna Tousignant (she/her) has loved board games for as long as she can remember. As part of The Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast, she shares her passion for gaming, offering her perspective as a woman, a parent, and a fan of heavier board games. Behind the scenes, she serves as editor and webmaster for TabletopBellhop.com, ensuring the site runs smoothly—though she’ll happily take the blame for any pesky typos or glitches you find.
CLICK HERE to learn more about Deanna, her history with gaming, favourite games, and more.
Deanna Tousignant
Sean Stephens
Sean Stephens (he/him) is a photographer with a day job in the lighting industry. Despite his busy schedule, he still finds time to co-host The Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast and to work his magic behind the scenes, transforming our live recordings into something you can watch on YouTube or download on a podcatcher.
Answers to some FAQs about us:
What's your origin story? How did you get into gaming? How and why did you start the podcast?
The answer to these and other burning questions can be found in a special Bellhop Backstory episode we recorded back in August of 2024.
What are The Bellhop's Laws?
We’ve developed a few rules over the years, what we like to call The Bellhop’s Laws. These are things that we’ve said or mentioned many times on the podcast or that come up often in articles.
The Bellhops First Law and a very important rule in regards to gaming in general, is that the best games in your collection are the ones that actually get played. It doesn’t matter how fancy the game is, how much you spent on it, how clever the mechanics are, how great the miniatures are, or how well known the designer is. None of this matters if the game just sits on your shelf.
The Bellhop’s Second Law is that your first play of any game will be eXteme! No matter how hard you try, or how many times you re-read the rules or how many how-to-play videos you watch, you will mess up. No one gets a game right on the first time and sometimes it’s only ten games in or even ten years later that you discover you’ve been playing a game wrong the entire time.
Our newest law, one that we’ve learned the hard way and that is a bit of a follow up the the Bellhop’s Second Law, is “Games are better when you play by the rules, who knew?”
Who draws those cool cartoon characters you use everywhere?
Moe and Deanna’s eldest daughter, Gwen, has done commission pieces to create all of the artwork you see on our podcast thumbnails, etc. She’s a University student who is pursuing a career as an illustrator. If you’d like to see more of her work you can click here to check out her Instagram account.
Who designs the neat pictures on your t-shirts and other merch?
All of the art in our “Inspired-by x game” line-up of merch is digital art that was hand drawn by Moe and Deanna’s daughter, Gwen, who is working towards being a professional illustrator.
Need help finding our content?
- Here’s a list of every written game review we’ve ever posted.
- Here’s a list of every Ask the Bellhop Question we’ve answered so far.
Where else can you find our stuff?
You can find us:
- over on Twitch, where we record live bi-weekly on Wednesday nights at 8pm.
- over on YouTube, where we drop edited videos of our live content on the regular
- over on Spotify, Apple, or your podcatcher of choice, where we drop new episodes weekly.
- over on Patreon where members get access to weekly bonus content.
- over at Fourthwall where we sell some cool Tabletop Bellhop merch.
- on social media where you can find us everywhere as @tabletopbellhop.
- over on Bluesky | Instagram | Mastodon | Threadz | Facebook | Tumblr
- You can also email us at:
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Join Our Discord Community
We love hearing about what you’ve been playing lately. Come join in on the tabletop gaming discussion over on our Discord server.
Other Things You May Like to Know
We owe a huge thank you to Bryan Weiss of RPG & Co who designed our Bellhop logo.
If you’d like to read our review policy, you can find that here.
If you want to check out our full disclosure and privacy policy you can find it here.
If you’d like to help support the show, you can tip the Bellhop here.
