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This episode discusses the RPG Dialect, focusing on its themes of language creation and community adaptation.

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 creates its own verbal forms to describe its situation, and then must adapt or lose them as the community reacts to external threats. It is critically acclaimed and a winner of multiple awards. Dialect at Thorny Games Dialect at Wikipedia Preview sample of the Dialect rulebook Read the full show notes here. ⁠Discuss this episode on our Discord.

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