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 ...
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- Adam Scott Glancy1 ep
- Jerry Grayson1 ep
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- 🇺🇸United States · GamesHOME#10316K to 82K
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom · Games#821.7K to 8.9K
- 🇭🇺HU · Games#111.5K to 7.9K
- 🇮🇩ID · Games#411.2K to 6.4K
- 🇸🇪Sweden · Games#49626 to 3.3K
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23K to 124K🎙 Weekly cadence·87 episodes·Last published 1w ago - Monthly Reach
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47K to 248K🇺🇸66%🇬🇧7%🇭🇺6%+11 more - Active Followers
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/14/26 | Vincent and Meg Baker and Season 4 Kickstarter Launch! | 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 discuss the history of RPGs, possible games we may review for Season 4 and many other topics! | 2h 41m 00s | ||||||
| 10/5/26 |  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 attempt to build something good within their quiet year. Every decision and every action is set against a backdrop of dwindling time and rising concern.We were fortunate enough to have two very special guests for this episode.Avery Alder is the Quiet Year's creator and an award winning game designer. You can find her website at https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/ and she's on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/lackingceremony.bsky.socialOrder the Quiet Year https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/the-quiet-yearor from DrivethruRPG https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/110152/the-quiet-year?affiliate_id=465273Dr. Emily Friedman studies actual play and storytelling. She has an upcoming book on the history of Actual Play. You can find her on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/ecfriedman.comand on https://patreon.com/ecfriedman | 2h 48m 20s | ||||||
| 9/28/26 | 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!This live episode discusses what will be new for the fourth season. We plan to have shorter book reviews in our live episodes, along with special segments. To that end, I review the new Mothership bounty hunting supplement, Wages of Sin. We're also hosting a book club on game design, where each host reads and discusses multiple books with backers. Watch the video version of this episode. | 1h 12m 28s | ||||||
| 9/15/26 |  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 first part of the Ludonarrative Dissidents Season 3 finale and we are delighted that Kevin Kulp, co-designer of Swords of the Serpentine, volunteered to administer a one-off adventure for Greg, Ross and James. It was a splendid evening of entertainment, running the system through its paces as we hurtled through several of the setting’s notable locations, and finding every possible opportunity to fall in the water.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 published by Pelgrane Press in 2022. It uses a variation of the Gumshoe system originally created by Robin D. Laws in 2007. The book has 396 pages.Swords of the Serpentine at Pelgrane PressSwords of the Serpentine at DriveThruRPGNo conventional show-notes this time, except to express our thanks to Kevin for giving up an evening to escort us through his co-creation, and to you for giving up your time to listen to it. Hope you enjoy it as much as we did.Thank you for listening! The hosts of this episode were Ross Payton, Greg Stolze and James Wallis, with audio editing by Ross and show notes by James. We hope you enjoyed it. If anything in this podcast or these notes has spurred your interest then we invite you to come and chat about it on our friendly Discord. If you click on any of the above links to DriveThruRPG and buy something, Ludonarrative Dissidents will receive a small affiliate fee. You will not be charged more, and the game’s publisher will not receive less, it’s a win-win-win. Thank you for supporting the podcast this way. | 3h 25m 51s | ||||||
| 8/24/26 | languageRPG+4 | — | Thorny GamesDialect | — | DialectRPG+7 | — | 55m 00s | ||
| 8/17/26 | livestreamdiscussion+3 | — | YoutubeDiscord | — | livestreamdiscussion+3 | — | 1h 05m 48s | ||
| 7/2/26 | fantasy gamesrole-playing games+5 | — | Pelgrane PressSwords of the Serpentine+1 | — | Swords of the Serpentinefantasy shenanigans+6 | — | 1h 09m 01s | ||
| 6/23/26 | livestreamdiscussion+3 | — | Ludonarrative Dissidents | — | livestreamdiscussion+3 | — | 1h 02m 42s | ||
| 5/29/26 | Vampire the MasqueradeChicago by Night+3 | — | Renegade Game StudiosChicago by Night+1 | — | Vampire the MasqueradeChicago by Night+3 | — | 57m 24s | ||
| 5/25/26 | livestreamgame discussion+3 | Jerry Grayson | Godsend AgendaKhepera Publishing | — | livestreamdiscussion+3 | — | 1h 04m 53s | ||
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| 5/5/26 | livestreamgaming+3 | — | YoutubeDiscord | — | livestreamgaming+3 | — | 1h 04m 06s | ||
| 4/22/26 | modern horrorRPG design+3 | — | Cthulhu NowThe Unspeakable Oath+1 | — | Cthulhuhorror RPG+3 | — | 1h 11m 43s | ||
| 4/6/26 | livestreamgaming+1 | — | YoutubeDiscord | — | livestreamMarch 2026+3 | — | 1h 04m 50s | ||
| 3/20/26 | RPGroleplaying games+5 | — | Puffin BooksPenguin Books+3 | — | MAELSTROMRPG+6 | — | 1h 09m 06s | ||
| 2/23/26 | livestreamDelta Green+3 | Adam Scott Glancy | Delta GreenDelta Green Countdown | — | livestreamDelta Green+3 | — | 1h 15m 27s | ||
| 2/2/26 | Delta GreenRPG+3 | — | Delta Green: CountdownDelta Green+1 | — | Delta GreenCountdown+4 | Technical Difficulties Podcast | 1h 14m 49s | ||
| 1/19/26 | livestreamnew games+3 | — | YoutubeDiscord | — | livestreamgaming+4 | — | 1h 05m 33s | ||
| 1/9/26 | RPGtabletop games+3 | — | Hunters EntertainmentRenegade Game Studios+1 | — | Alice is MissingRPG+3 | — | 1h 09m 58s | ||
| 12/22/25 | livestreamcommunity+3 | — | Ludonarrative Dissidents | — | livestreamDecember+3 | — | 1h 01m 17s | ||
| 12/8/25 | SF-horror RPGmodule+3 | — | Tuesday Night GamesMothership+1 | — | MothershipGradient Descent+5 | — | 1h 12m 10s | ||
| 11/26/25 | larpingnew games+2 | — | Dragonmeet | — | larpinggames+3 | — | 1h 03m 04s | ||
| 11/10/25 |  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 (Blacksburg Tactical Research Centre). The first edition was released in 2003, the second – which is what we discuss in this episode – in 2012.Read the full show notes here.Discuss this episode on our Discord. | 1h 08m 32s | ||||||
| 10/14/25 | Livestream for October 2025 | Our livestream for October 2025!Watch it on Youtube.Discuss this episode on our Discord. | 1h 02m 34s | ||||||
| 9/30/25 | Livestream for September 2025 | Our livestream for September 2025!Watch it on Youtube.Discuss this episode on our Discord. | 1h 09m 32s | ||||||
| 9/24/25 |  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 Markets last season and liked it a lot, as you can imagine, and this episode is an opportunity to hear more about how it looks in action, and get Ross’s insights into how he went about constructing this compact, intense supplement.Our previous episode covering Red MarketsTrabajo at DriveThruRPG Red Markets at DriveThruRPG, ridiculously good value at just $5Read the full show notes here.Discuss this episode on our Discord. | 1h 00m 26s | ||||||
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Chart history for Ludonarrative Dissidents
Peaked at #11 in HU, currently #11 in HU.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
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| HU | — | #11 | #11 | — |
| Ireland | — | #34 | #34 | — |
| ID | — | #41 | #41 | — |
| Sweden | — | #49 | #49 | — |
| Norway | — | #57 | #57 | — |
| CZ | — | #57 | #57 | — |
| CO | — | #58 | #58 | — |
| South Africa | — | #64 | #64 | — |
| Finland | — | #76 | #76 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #82 | #82 | — |
| United States | — | #103 | #103 | — |
| SG | — | #106 | #106 | — |
| South Korea | — | #111 | #111 | — |
| HU | — | #123 | #123 | — |
| Canada | — | #124 | #124 | — |
| IL | — | #145 | #145 | — |
| France | — | #165 | #165 | — |
| Netherlands | — | #181 | #181 | — |
| CH | — | #197 | #197 | — |
Chart Positions
19 placements across 18 markets.
Chart Positions
19 placements across 18 markets.