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Just seen this--White Plume Mountain was a banger, what an amazing introduction to fantasy gaming, and I bet when you found the actual AD&D rules they were something of a let-down.

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The Ludonarrative Dissidents crew will be livestreaming this Friday (20th) with a special guest--Adam Scott Glancy of Delta Green fame, specifically to talk about his legendary work DELTA GREEN COUNTDOWN. Do join us

22:00 UTC, 5pm Eastern, 4pm Central, on Ross's channel www.twitch.tv/RossPaytonRPPR

Ludonarrative update: the Dissidents have released a new public episode analysing ALICE IS MISSING, the one-session RPG in a box, of troubled teens searching for a missing friend. Did they find her, and what happened when they did? Meanwhile our Kickstarter backers can hear us go over our

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The Ludonarrative Dissidents are livestreaming tonight (Friday), talking about the year in RPGs, cool new releases, the Robocop statue in Detroit and more. We're live from 23:00 Europe, 22:00 UTC, 5pm Eastern, 4pm Central and it'd be great to see you. www.twitch.tv/RossPaytonRPPR

New episode of Ludonarrative Dissidents, the RPG-analysis podcast I do with Greg Stolze and Ross Payton. This time we're diving into Gradient Descent, the space-based megadungeon for Mothership. What did we make of it? Did we get out with our humanity?
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Hey! The Ludonarrative Dissidents podcast team are livestreaming later today (23:00 Europe, 22:00 UK, 5pm EST), to spend an hour talking about chamber larps, Dragonmeet, new RPGs and more. Do join us, it'll be lovely. www.twitch.tv/RossPaytonRPPR

Meanwhile our lovely Kickstarter backers can hear the audio of us exploring the depths of GRADIENT DESCENT, a megadungeon for SF-horror RPG Mothership, to emerge apparently safe but changed. This one's in backer-only quarantine for a couple of weeks. www.ludonarrativedissidents.com/season-3-epi...

The cover for the roleplaying game EABA, showing a view of the Earth from the surface of a weird rocky planetary body in orbit around the sphere.

Heads up Dissidents! We've just put episode 17 of the podcast live, covering Greg Porter's incredibly complete END ALL BE ALL set of RPG rules (aka EABA), a fascinating look at generic systems and their uses. We had a lot of fun with this one.
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The Ludonarrative Dissidents crew are livestreaming later today (4pm central, 5pm eastern, 22:00 UK, 23:00 Europe) and you should come and join us. Mostly we're talking about our almost-finished LND zine, including my new game CYBERPLUNK (it's real) and the usual stuff
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DISCOMFORT FOOD A collection of Greg Stolze's recent science fiction, fantasy and horror. Contains love potions, cursed art and telepathic speed dating

If just five more people backed this, it would hit an even hundred, which means nothing but looks tidy. You wish something was tidy, right?

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some mad coincidence was written by Dissident Ross Payton himself. Get his insights on how he constructed its blend of sourcebook and adventure, and hear whether Greg and I thought he succeeded or not. If that's not to your taste, why not try one of our fifty earlier episodes of RPG critiques?

Ludonarrative Dissidents update! In our latest episode Greg Stolze, Ross Payton and I analyse EABA, Greg Porter's incredibly detailed generic RPG system. Right now that's backer-only, but the rest of you can hear us discuss Trabajo, a Red Markets supplement that by...
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Fate Accelerated – Drow and Dracoliches – Episode 15 The heroes race to save Waterdeep with careful and strategic negotiations between factions. They also must rescue Rushk from prison if they're going to have a chance in this crisis! Does Waterdeep stand a chance of surviving? Bridget as the GM – Check out Bridget’s Patreon! Lydia as Xastra Telarr, Paladin of Eilistraee Fae as Rushk: “Doctor” Rachel as Daelia n’Valsa, Albino Elf Warlock

Fate Accelerated – Drow and Dracoliches – Episode 15

The heroes race to save Waterdeep with careful and strategic negotiations between factions. They also must rescue Rushk from prison if they're going to have a chance in this crisis! Does Waterdeep stand a chance of surviving? Bridget as the GM –…

Just finished editing Episode 25 of Season 3 of the TERMINATION SHOCK Actual Play.
(You can hear all the previous stuff on our Patreon at patreon.com/terminationshockga… )
Possible titles for the episode follow in the next post…
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At a loose end? In a few hours the Ludonarrative Dissidents (me, @gregstolze.bsky.social and @rosspayton.bsky.social) will be livestreaming about RPGs and RPG culture, and taking questions from watchers. Watch here www.twitch.tv/rosspaytonrppr (4pm Central, 5pm Eastern, 22:00 UK, 23:00 Europe)...

If your Tuesday is moribund and mired by tube strikes, you could pass a pleasant hour in the company of Ross Payton, Greg Stolze and myself discussing the murder-mystery RPG BRINDLEWOOD BAY (basically Murder She Wrote if She was HP Lovecraft's sister) www.ludonarrativedissidents.com/season-3-epi...

We've got a new episode! Ludonarrative Dissidents s3e15 is now public, wherein I, @rosspayton.bsky.social and @gregstolze.bsky.social analyse the murder-mystery RPG Brindlewood Bay, while our backers get to hear what we think of Trabajo, a portfolio for Red Markets.
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Wyrd Science 7! Back from the Dread Not going to sugarcoat this, we're here to talk - at length- about our new issue here...

Hey, hey, hey. We have very very big news. We finally have a new issue on sale right... NOW!

We hope it's not our last but that is up in the air so this really is a case where YOU ARE THE HERO

but also other very cool non WS stuff mentioned! so check it out...

RFK Jr and Tor Johnson from Plan 9, both with the same expression

separated at birth

Meanwhile the cool cats who backed us on Kickstarter have advance access to our episode on BRINDLEWOOD BAY (Jason Cordova, 2022), Murder She Wrote meets Arkham Horror in a cosy-crime mash-up, emphasis on the mash. Shownotes here--first one's a doozy.
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Our latest episode is up, discussing classic horror RPG adventure JAILBREAK written by Greg Stolze for Unknown Armies (1998). Smart minds will have realised that Greg is one of the LND crew, and his behind-the-curtain analysis is fascinating (1/2)
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An update on Ludonarrative Dissidents, the RPG podcast I do with @gregstolze.bsky.social and @rosspayton.bsky.social. We've just released our episode discussing RIFTS, the big-ideas big-guns game, and it's a great listen. Meanwhile our backers have early (cont.)
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Ludonarrative Dissident Bulletin! Episode 12, covering the gearbook Black Chrome for Cyberpunk Red, is now up on the public server with shownotes on the website and goes to some interesting places about the nature and purpose of gearbooks.
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RossPaytonRPPR - Twitch Twitch page for Ross Payton, host of Role Playing Public Radio, co-host of Night Clerk Radio, and TTRPG author.

can listen to us opine on UK Games Expo and how UK cons differ from US ones, games in a can, and subjects in between. It'll be online on Twitch and Youtube, and it'd be great to see you there
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Meanwhile our backers have access to Episode 13, covering Rifts. Yes, that Rifts. The shownotes are up but may be inscrutable if you haven't heard the audio yet.
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And we're livestreaming this Saturday (22:00 BST, 17:00 EST, 16:00 CST) and you
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Ludonarrative Dissident Bulletin! Episode 12, covering the gearbook Black Chrome for Cyberpunk Red, is now up on the public server with shownotes on the website and goes to some interesting places about the nature and purpose of gearbooks.
www.ludonarrativedissidents.com/season-3-epi...
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Update on Ludonarrative Dissidents, the RPG analysis podcast I host with @rosspayton.bsky.social and @gregstolze.bsky.social. We've just released s3e11, covering stylish technoir epic CYBERPUNK RED, and you can hear it and read the shownotes here www.ludonarrativedissidents.com/season-3-epi...

And everyone is welcome to join our Discord server, though if you're not into roleplaying games, game design, other games (tabletop and video), media, memes, photography, and cute animal pics then you might not enjoy it. Go on. discord.gg/8duhtFUFEV

Ludonarrative Dissidents Podcast Season 3 Early Access - Ross Payton's Ko-fi Shop Get all season 3 episodes a month before they show up on the public feed. Support the podcast! You'll be emailed a link to the RSS feed and instructio...

You can become a Ludonarrative Dissidents backer, support the creation of the podcast and get early access to this and the other 19 episodes still to come in season 3 for $20 - that's just a buck per hour-long episode - on our Ko-fi page ko-fi.com/s/d4522f9f4f

And our backers now have early access to episode 8, discussing the GROGS supplement for wizard-college game ARS MAGICA, what Hogwarts wants to be when it grows up. Grogs covers the non-magical members of the Covenant and is a great read for all GMs. www.ludonarrativedissidents.com/season-3-epi...