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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 https://www.ludonarrativedissidents.com/ to get detailed show notes. Join our Discord at https://discord.gg/CQt5DbFZCD
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Signup to Generate a PitchLudonarrative 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.
Ludonarrative Dissidents is hosted by Ross Payton. The show has published 92 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The One Ring RPG and Microscope 2E: Live with Gareth Hanrahan and Ben Robbins" (19 October 2026, 75 minutes), "Vincent and Meg Baker and Season 4 Kickstarter Launch!" (14 October 2026, 161 minutes), and "The Quiet Year: An Actual Play featuring creator Avery Alder and Dr. Emily Friedman" (5 October 2026, 168 minutes).
Ludonarrative Dissidents publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 84 minutes across 92 episodes.
Booking probability for Ludonarrative Dissidents is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Ludonarrative Dissidents requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Ludonarrative Dissidents's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Ludonarrative Dissidents are Artists, Writers & Performers and Fitness, Golf & Recreation. Ludonarrative Dissidents has a leisure audience.
Ross Payton hosts Ludonarrative Dissidents, a leisure podcast with 92 episodes published.
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Ludonarrative Dissidents
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...
Ludonarrative Dissidents
We hosted a live episode to talk about the launch of our Season 4 Kickstarter . Join me, Greg Stolze, James Wallis and special guests Meg and Vincent Baker (Apocalypse World, Dogs in the Vineyard and many more) as we...
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...
Ludonarrative Dissidents
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! This live episode discusses what...
Episode #26
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...
Episode #25
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 community, isolated from larger groups, that first...
Ludonarrative Dissidents
Our livestream discussion for August! Watch the episode on Youtube Discuss this episode on our Discord.
Episode #24
<p>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, written by Kevin Kulp and Emily Dresner, and...
Episode #24
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, written by Kevin Kulp and Emily Dresner, and...
Ludonarrative Dissidents
<p>Our livestream discussion for June!</p><p>Watch the episode on Youtube</p><p>Discuss this episode on our Discord.</p>
Ludonarrative Dissidents
Our livestream discussion for June! Watch the episode on Youtube Discuss this episode on our Discord.
<p>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, who have the rights to do all this stuff...
Ludonarrative Dissidents
<p>Our livestream discussion for May, featuring special guest Jerry Grayson of Khepera Publishing. Check out the Godsend Agenda today.</p><p>Watch the episode on Youtube</p><p>Discuss this episode on our...
Ludonarrative Dissidents
<p>Our April livestream!</p><p>Watch the livestream on Youtube</p><p>Discuss this episode on our Discord.</p>
Episode #22
<p>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...
Ludonarrative Dissidents
<p>Our March livestream!</p><p>Watch the livestream on Youtube</p><p>Discuss this episode on our Discord.</p>
Episode #22
<p>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...
Ludonarrative Dissidents
<p>We have a special guest, Adam Scott Glancy, one of the Delta Green co-authors! He clarifies a few points about Delta Green Countdown.</p><p>Watch the livestream on Youtube</p><p>Discuss this episode on our...
Episode #21
<p>Sponsor: Technical Difficulties Podcast - check out an excellent actual play RPG podcast, featuring Delta Green, Eclipse Phase, and many other fine systems featured on LND.</p><p>Delta Green Countdown is a massive...
Ludonarrative Dissidents
<p>Our first livestream of the year! We talk about new games we played and a grabag of topics. </p><p>Watch the livestream on Youtube</p><p>Discuss this episode on our Discord.</p>
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