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Ludonarrative Dissidents

by Ross Payton

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

Latest episodes

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Dialect

DIALECT: A Game About Language And How It Dies is a 2018 single-session RPG by Hakan Seyalioglu and Kathryn Hymes, published by Thorny Games. It’s a game about a small co

Aug 24
55 min

Ludonarrative Dissidents Livestream for August 2026

Our livestream discussion for August! Watch the episode on Youtube ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Discuss this episode on our Discord.

Aug 17
1 h 05 min

Swords of the Serpentine

SWORDS OF THE SERPENTINE is a game of fantasy shenanigans in a labyrinthine sinking city populated by rogues, schemers, cultists, swashbucklers and your player characters

Jul 2
1 h 09 min

Ludonarrative Dissidents Livestream for June 2026

Our livestream discussion for June! Watch the episode on Youtube ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Discuss this episode on our Discord.

Jun 23
1 h 02 min

Chicago by Night: Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition

CHICAGO BY NIGHT is a 2018 city sourcebook for Vampire the Masquerade 5th edition, written by Matthew Dawkins and a host of others, and published by Renegade Game Studios

May 29
57 min

Ludonarrative Dissidents Livestream for May

Our livestream discussion for May, featuring special guest Jerry Grayson of Khepera Publishing. Check out the Godsend Agenda today. Watch the episode on Youtube ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Di

May 25
1 h 04 min

Ludonarrative Dissidents Livestream for April 2026

Our April livestream! Watch the livestream on Youtube ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Discuss this episode on our Discord.

May 5
1 h 04 min

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 U

Apr 22
1 h 11 min

Ludonarrative Dissidents Livestream for March 2026

Our March livestream! Watch the livestream on Youtube ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Discuss this episode on our Discord.

Apr 6
1 h 04 min

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

Mar 20
1 h 09 min

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 ⁠⁠

Feb 23
1 h 15 min

Delta Green: Countdown

Sponsor: Technical Difficulties Podcast - check out an excellent actual play RPG podcast, featuring Delta Green, Eclipse Phase, and many other fine systems featured on LN

Feb 2
1 h 14 min

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 ⁠⁠⁠Discuss this episode on our Discord.

Jan 19
1 h 05 min

Alice is Missing

ALICE IS MISSING is a self-contained one-session RPG for 3–5 players, designed by Spenser Stark and released in 2020 by Hunters Entertainment with Renegade Game Studios,

Jan 9
1 h 09 min

LND Livestream for December

Our monthly livestream for December! Watch the livestream here. ⁠⁠⁠Discuss this episode on our Discord.

Dec 22 2025
1 h 01 min

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 l

Dec 8 2025
1 h 12 min

Livestream for November 2025

Our monthly livestream for November 2025. We talk about larping, new games in development and Dragonmeet! Watch the Livestream here. ⁠⁠Discuss this episode on our Disco

Nov 26 2025
1 h 03 min

EABA v 2.01

EABA (End All Be All) 2e is a generic roleplaying system with a core rulebook and a collection of sourcebooks designed by Greg Porter and published by his company BTRC (B

Nov 10 2025
1 h 08 min

Livestream for October 2025

Our livestream for October 2025! Watch it on Youtube. ⁠Discuss this episode on our Discord.

Oct 14 2025
1 h 02 min

Livestream for September 2025

Our livestream for September 2025! Watch it on Youtube. Discuss this episode on our Discord.

Sep 30 2025
1 h 09 min

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