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Ludonarrative Dissidents

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 https://www.ludonarrativedissidents.com/ to get detailed show notes. Join our Discord at https://discord.gg/CQt5DbFZCD

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01:08:40

Diceless Role Playing Games

Ludonarrative Dissidents ·

2023/07/12

Diceless RPGs are games that do not use dice to randomize game elements. Many of these games do not have any randomization elements and include games like Amber, Pantheon, and Marvel Universe. Others use randomizers like shuffled cards or spinners. We discuss these systems and how they affect game play and storytelling. Check out the LND website for links to games and more! Discuss this episode on the LND Discord!

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01:12:57

Tales from the Loop

Ludonarrative Dissidents ·

2023/06/19

The landscape was full of machines and scrap metal connected to the facility in one way or another. Always present on the horizon were the colossal cooling towers, with their green obstruction lights. If you put your ear to the ground, you could hear the heartbeat of the Loop – the purring of the Gravitron, the central piece of engineering magic that was the focus of the Loop’s experiments. The facility was the largest of its kind in the world, and it was said that its forces could bend

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01:04:17

Dread

Ludonarrative Dissidents ·

2023/05/26

Dread is a game of horror and hope. Those who play will participate in a mutual telling of an original macabre tale. The goal of Dread is to sustain the delicate atmosphere that invokes the hand quivering emotion that lends its name to the game. The thrill of a Dread game lies within the tension between desire and loss. Players take on the role of someone trapped in a story that is only as compelling as it is hostile. Discuss this episode on the Ludonarrative Dissidents Community Discord!

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01:11:25

Planet Mercenary

Ludonarrative Dissidents ·

2023/05/01

Planet Mercenary RPG is a space opera adventure game based on the popular web comic Schlock Mercenary. It contains everything you need to create characters, equip them, and load them onto warships for adventures across the galaxy. Build your own mercenary company and accept all the best contracts. Rescue ecotourists from Eina Afa’s Stormring Sea. Leap between the Pereri Ring’s tethered asteroids in pursuit of pirates. Brave the dark heart of Ellwor’s mechorganic jungle in search of the Greater

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01:24:48

Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition

Ludonarrative Dissidents ·

2023/04/24

Call of Cthulhu is the world’s best game of secrets, mysteries, and horror, first published in 1981 and now in its seventh edition. Playing the role of steadfast investigators, you travel to strange and dangerous places, uncover foul plots, and stand against the terrors of the Cthulhu Mythos. You encounter sanity-blasting entities, monsters, and insane cultists. Within strange and forgotten tomes of lore you discover revelations that humanity was not meant to know. If you want to discuss the

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01:16:27

Initiative Systems

Ludonarrative Dissidents ·

2023/04/11

Initiative systems are an important but often overlooked element in role playing games. They determine who can act and when. They allocate spotlight time for players and influences the action economy of a game. We talk about different ways of determining initiative and if you even need them.

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01:36:56

Eclipse Phase Second Edition

Ludonarrative Dissidents ·

2023/03/14

Eclipse Phase is the post-apocalyptic game of transhuman horror. Humanity is enhanced and improved, but also battered and bitterly divided. Technology allows the re-shaping of bodies and minds, but also creates opportunities for oppression and puts the capability for mass destruction in the hands of everyone. And other threats lurk in the devastated habitats of the Fall, dangers both familiar and alien. In this harsh setting, the players participate in a cross-faction conspiracy called Firewall that

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01:13:13

MÖRK BORG

Ludonarrative Dissidents ·

2023/02/23

MÖRK BORG is a pitch-black apocalyptic fantasy RPG about lost souls and fools seeking redemption, forgiveness or the last remaining riches in a bleak and dying world. Who are you? The tomb-robber with silver glittering between cracked fingernails? The mystic who would bend the world’s heart away from it’s inevitable end? Confront power-draining necromancers, skulking skeletal warriors and backstabbing wickheads. Wander the Valley of the Unfortunate Undead, the catacombs beneath the Bergen Chrypt or

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01:21:43

The Laundry RPG

Ludonarrative Dissidents ·

2023/01/27

The Laundry Files Roleplaying Game is based on the best-selling novels by Charles Stross. In the game, you play officers of the Laundry, that eccentric and underfunded agency dedicated to protecting the United Kingdom from unthinkable horrors. The Laundry uses the Basic Roleplaying System - the same system that powers the classic Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game (so you can easily convert adventures from one game to the other). As Laundry staff, you're trained to deal with the weird and ghastly

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01:21:37

Meta Currencies in RPGs

Ludonarrative Dissidents ·

2023/01/08

Meta currencies are a type of game mechanic found in tabletop role playing games. They are an abstract resource used by players to affect the narrative but do not represent something in the game except luck, fate, or willpower and so forth. Examples include fate points in Fate, willpower in Red Markets, and Resolve in Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. We discuss types of mechanics and why they are used in RPGs. Discuss this episode on our community Discord server!

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01:25:55

Red Markets

Ludonarrative Dissidents ·

2022/12/23

Red Markets is a tabletop RPG about economic horror. In Red Markets, characters risk their lives trading between the massive quarantine zones containing a zombie outbreak and the remains of civilization. They are Takers: mercenary entrepreneurs unwilling to accept their abandonment. Bound together into competing crews, each seeks to profit from mankind’s near-extinction before it claims them. They must hustle, scheme, and scam as hard as they fight if they hope to survive the competing factions and

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01:23:34

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th Edition

Ludonarrative Dissidents ·

2022/11/26

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th Edition is a game set in the Old World of Warhammer Fantasy. Dating back to 1986, WFRP is a celebrated British RPG about living in a detailed setting loosely inspired by the decline of the Holy Roman Empire. Players take on the roles of common folk who have uncommon destined fates, investigating chaos cults, surviving deadly monsters, and trying to scrape by in a grim and dark world. The current edition adds new mechanics to the game while retaining much of its old

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01:40:19

Coyote and Crow

Ludonarrative Dissidents ·

2022/11/07

Coyote and Crow is a tabletop role playing game set in an alternate future of the Americas where colonization never occurred. Instead, advanced civilizations arose over hundreds of years after a massive climate disaster changed the history of the planet. You'll play as adventurers starting out in the city of Cahokia, a bustling, diverse metropolis along the Mississippi River. It's a world of science and spirituality where the future of technology and legends of the past will collide.

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01:25:24

Card Mechanics in RPGs

Ludonarrative Dissidents ·

2022/07/18

Many RPGs use cards in their mechanics, from playing cards to Tarot to custom decks of cards. We discuss some of these games, the types of mechanics we've seen and the history of card-based games. If you enjoy this episode, back our Kickstarter for Season 2 of Ludonarrative Dissidents. This podcast is only possible with the help of backers and this time we'll have a private RSS feed for early access to all episodes, plus other great rewards! Some of the games mentioned in this episode Everway The

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01:56:32

Dueling Fops of Vindamere - An Actual Play

Ludonarrative Dissidents ·

2022/06/29

Greg Stolze's procedurally generated game puts you in the corrupt, dissolute city-state of Vindamere, but don't worry. You play the best people there, spoiled children of privilege with nothing better to do than pursue swordplay, flirt outrageously, and snack on delicious vol-au-vents. A single game session covers the social year from Ye Midwinter Balle through the prestigious Alle-Valley Fencinge Championeshippe. Your louche elite blade-swanks fall in love, brawl, sneer and engage in truly petty

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01:09:32

Base Raiders

Ludonarrative Dissidents ·

2022/06/22

Base Raiders is a Fate powered superhero RPG about dungeon crawling in abandoned villain and hero bases. Characters find super power sources in bases or buy them from the black market. It was written by Ross Payton and published in 2014. Buy Base Raiders here. Our season 1 finale, an actual play of Dueling Fops of VIndamere, is coming next week. After that, our Kickstarter for Season 2! Stay tuned!

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01:16:09

The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Ludonarrative Dissidents ·

2022/06/14

The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausenby James Wallis is a humorous and competitive storytelling game of telling tall tales. During the game, each player must tell a story, while the other players attempt to interject and stage interruptions or distractions. The player with the best story at the end of the game is the winner. Our next episode will look at Base Raiders, a Fate powered superhero game about dungeon crawling in abandoned bases. After that, our final episode for season 1 will

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01:37:35

Unknown Armies

Ludonarrative Dissidents ·

2022/06/08

Unknown Armiesis a modern horror RPG that presents magick as it might exist in a world informed by crime fiction and secret histories, as twisting wrinkles in reality created by greater and greater risk, sacrifice, and obsession.It was created by Greg Stolze and John Tynes.

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01:14:10

13th Age

Ludonarrative Dissidents ·

2022/05/03

13th Age is a d20 fantasy role playing game designed for "experienced Gamemasters and players of all experience levels." It features several new mechanics and character class designs unique to it, like the Icon system and One Unique Thing. It was written by D&D designers Rob Heinsoo and Jonathan Tweet.

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01:18:18

Thousand Year Old Vampire

Ludonarrative Dissidents ·

2022/03/28

In Thousand Year Old Vampire by Tim Hutchings you chronicle the many centuries of a vampire’s existence, beginning with the loss of mortality and ending with inevitable destruction. Prompt-driven play and simple resource tracking provide easy rules for exploring your character’s human failings, villainous acts, and surprising victories.

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