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Ludonarrative Dissidents is a podcast from Greg Stolze, James Wallis, and Ross Payton to explore and analyze tabletop RPGs. What does each game do, how does it work, and why do people play it? We are currently in season 3, and we've expanded to include sourcebooks and adventures. Visit our website at ludonarrativedissidents.com to get detailed show notes. Join our Discord at discord.gg/CQt5DbFZCD
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The One Ring RPG and Microscope 2E: Live with Gareth Hanrahan and Ben Robbins
Special guests Gareth Hanrahan (The One Ring RPG and too many games to count) and Ben Robbins (Microscope) join us for another live episode of LND to discuss game design and history. Back the LND Kickstarter today and join our book club on
Vincent and Meg Baker and Season 4 Kickstarter Launch!
We hosted a live episode to talk about the launch of our Season 4 Kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rosspayton/ludonarrative-dissidents-podcast-season-4). Join me, Greg Stolze, James Wallis and special guests Meg and Vincent
The Quiet Year: An Actual Play featuring creator Avery Alder and Dr. Emily Friedman
The Season 4 LND Kickstarter pre-launch page is live! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rosspayton/ludonarrative-dissidents-podcast-season-4The Quiet Year is a map game. You define the struggles of a post-apocalyptic community, and attem
Ludonarrative Dissidents Season 4 Pre-Launch Live Episode 0 and Mothership: Wages of Sin Review
We recently completed season 3 and are going to launch a Kickstarter on October 13 to fund a fourth season! Follow the Kickstarter campaign to be notified when the campaign goes live! (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rosspayton/ludonar
Swords of the Serpentine Actual Play
IN OUR TRADITIONAL style, as we reach the end of the season we’re bringing you a couple of Actual Play sessions of games that we’ve covered in earlier episodes, putting some actual ludo-ing into the customary narrative. This episode is the
Dialect
DIALECT: A Game About Language And How It Dies (https://thornygames.com/pages/dialect) is a 2018 single-session RPG by Hakan Seyalioglu and Kathryn Hymes, published by Thorny Games. It’s a game about a small community, isolated from larger
Ludonarrative Dissidents Livestream for August 2026
Our livestream discussion for August! Watch the episode on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Voj1z4N-EM4) Discuss this episode on our Discord. (https://discord.gg/8duhtFUFEV)
Swords of the Serpentine
SWORDS OF THE SERPENTINE (https://legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/408716/Swords-of-the-Serpentine?affiliate_id=465273) is a game of fantasy shenanigans in a labyrinthine sinking city populated by rogues, schemers, cultists, swashbucklers an
Ludonarrative Dissidents Livestream for June 2026
Our livestream discussion for June! Watch the episode on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Cm6-mNB4I) Discuss this episode on our Discord. (https://discord.gg/8duhtFUFEV)
Chicago by Night: Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition
CHICAGO BY NIGHT (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/283858/chicago-by-night-vampire-the-masquerade-5th-edition?affiliate_id=465273) is a 2018 city sourcebook for Vampire the Masquerade 5th edition, written by Matthew Dawkins and a hos
Ludonarrative Dissidents Livestream for May
Our livestream discussion for May, featuring special guest Jerry Grayson of Khepera Publishing (https://kheperapublishing.com/). Check out the Godsend Agenda today. (https://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Godsend-Agenda-3rd-Edition-Prin
Ludonarrative Dissidents Livestream for April 2026
Our April livestream! Watch the livestream on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5RERT35HGA) Discuss this episode on our Discord. (https://discord.gg/8duhtFUFEV)
Call of Cthulhu: In Medias Res
IN MEDIAS RES is a short modern-horror scenario (‘adventure’ is the wrong word for it) by John Scott Tynes, originally designed for Cthulhu Now and first printed in The Unspeakable Oath issue 10 in 1993. It was reprinted in The Resurrected
Ludonarrative Dissidents Livestream for March 2026
Our March livestream! Watch the livestream on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLkaZ0BmrAk) Discuss this episode on our Discord. (https://discord.gg/8duhtFUFEV)
Maelstrom
MAELSTROM is a paperback-format RPG written by Alex Scott and published in 1984 by Puffin Books, a division of Penguin Books in the UK. It contains rules for roleplaying in Europe, mostly England, at the time of the Tudors (the 1500s), with
Livestream for February 2026
We have a special guest, Adam Scott Glancy, one of the Delta Green co-authors! He clarifies a few points about Delta Green Countdown. Watch the livestream on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ7uTt9uORU) Discuss this episode on
Delta Green: Countdown
Sponsor: Technical Difficulties Podcast (https://www.technicaldifficultiespod.com/)- check out an excellent actual play RPG podcast, featuring Delta Green, Eclipse Phase, and many other fine systems featured on LND. Delta Green Countdown (h
Livestream for January 2026
Our first livestream of the year! We talk about new games we played and a grabag of topics. Watch the livestream on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkxCjfae7BA) Discuss this episode on our Discord. (https://discord.gg/8duhtFUFEV
Alice is Missing
ALICE IS MISSING (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/321387/alice-is-missing-a-silent-roleplaying-game?affiliate_id=465273)is a self-contained one-session RPG for 3–5 players, designed by Spenser Stark and released in 2020 by Hunters E
LND Livestream for December
Our monthly livestream for December! Watch the livestream here. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZBRkyxzpqU) Discuss this episode on our Discord. (https://discord.gg/8duhtFUFEV)
Mothership: Gradient Descent
Gradient Descent is a module/campaign setting/megadungeon for the SF-horror RPG Mothership, released in 2020. It is written by Luke Gearing, with art by Nick Tofani and layout by Sean McCoy, and was published by Tuesday Night Games. Dimensi
Livestream for November 2025
Our monthly livestream for November 2025. We talk about larping, new games in development and Dragonmeet! Watch the Livestream here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SGrhZWYDy0). Discuss this episode on our Discord. (https://discord.gg/8d
EABA v 2.01
EABA (End All Be All) 2e (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/114516/eaba-v2-01-augmented-pdf?affiliate_id=465273) is a generic roleplaying system with a core rulebook and a collection of sourcebooks designed by Greg Porter and publishe
Livestream for October 2025
Our livestream for October 2025! Watch it on Youtube. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbdvqYwe6OM) Discuss this episode on our Discord. (https://discord.gg/8duhtFUFEV)
Livestream for September 2025
Our livestream for September 2025! Watch it on Youtube. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ac9HfTBQME) Discuss this episode on our Discord. (https://discord.gg/8duhtFUFEV)
Red Markets: Trabajo
Trabajo (Hebanon Games, 2019) is a 32-page ‘portfolio’, part sourcebook and part adventure pack, for the Red Markets post-apocalypse RPG of economic and undead horror, written by Ludonarrative Dissidents’ own Ross Payton. We analysed Red Ma
Brindlewood Bay
Brindlewood Bay is a tabletop roleplaying game that combines Murder, She Wrote with H.P. Lovecraft. In it, you play a group of elderly women, members of the local Murder Mavens Mystery Book Club, who help the authorities solve murder cases
Unknown Armies: Jailbreak
JAILBREAK is a one-session scenario for Unknown Armies, originally written by Greg Stolze of this parish, in 1998 as a demo adventure for conventions, and subsequently published in the One Shots adventure anthology. It has since been descri
Livestream for July 2025
Our livestream for July! We talk about Gencon, the Ennies, and we get a surprise visit! Watch the episode here on Youtube if you want to see the visuals. (https://www.youtube.com/live/vGI0q9hFc-o?si=fvn7fZEiygRTDJSn) Discuss this episode on
Rifts: Ultimate Edition
RIFTS is a role playing game designed by Kevin Siembieda and originally published by his company Palladium Books in 1990. In this episode we examine the Rifts Ultimate Edition from 2005, a revised and expanded version of the original game r
