Sam holds a seance with two spirits, Walid and Misha, to discuss the beloved combination of blogs, pdfs, excel documents, and communities that make up the GLOG: a ruleset by by Arnold Kemp. Join the guys as they recap the history of OSR revival, walkthrough version 1.0, and argue design philosophy. Stick to the end to hear about our favorite classes, and meet special guest Bill Toast.

Walid and Misha, two sentient insects controlling human bodies, bring on entomologist Sam to discuss the Ennie Award winning adventure by Leo Hunt: The Shrike. Join the bugs as they converse over dungeon design, mandatory cannibalism, "video-gamisms", and the problems with visualizing physical space.

Editors Note: Misha's audio get's a little janky partly through this episode. Apologies! We fixed it, but this recording went through some struggles.

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Sam brings on two of his favorite cyborg robots, Misha and Walid, to discuss an influential book to them and much of the TTRPG scene: John Harper's Blades in the Dark. Listen to the guys break down their experience Forging in the Dark, what this book provides, what its missing, and a brief stint into what really constitutes "fiction first" gameplay.

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Dead Letters is back with a special episode! Sam and two famed astronauts Walid and Sam return from their mission on flat Mars to discuss Miguel Sicarts famous article Against Procedurality. Listen to the guys transform into video game designers for an episode, and discuss what the deal is with proceduralists, MDA, meaningful play, and how it all connects to RPGs!

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We at Dead Letters are proud to present two Mega Billion lottery award winners Misha and Walid along with their poor "friend" Sam to discuss Luka Rejec's Holy Mountain Shaker, a caving adventure. Listen to the billionaires +1 discuss the pitfalls of point crawls, modularity on mountains, and the infamous bullet points vs paragraphs debate!

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Sam invites Fields medal winning mathematicians Walid And Misha as they ponder the various machine mysteries in Gradient Descent, a Mothership adventure by Luke Gearing. Listen to the guys argue about panic checks, formatting decisions, how they would run Monarch, and what the best number is (it's 0).

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Local magicians Misha and Walid bring Sam along a magical journey of discovery, as they review Thriftomancer's funky metasystem: Null. Discover the implications of system when it is removed from play, parsed between the guys arguing about definitions, what counts as a "lyric game", and the fraudulent nature of Harry Potter spells.

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Today is a special day at Dead Letters as the guys return from the moon to analyze and review the iconic: Apocalpyse World. They'll discuss the makings of a great system, the power of modularity, and how Vincent and Meguey Baker's vision has evolved through PbtA.

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Sam brings in his two uncles, Misha and Walid, to discuss the ENNIE Awards: the premier TTRPG award show. The guys do this through the lens of Clayton Notestine's series of blogposts discussing his personal experience as a judge for the awards. Join Sam and the Uncs as they argue about award shows being bogus (they are), and how they plan on capitalizing on making their own (which definitely won't also be bogus)!

Special shoutout to Clayton Notestine for his blogpost series, which you can check out here:

https://www.explorersdesign.com/ennies-1/

https://www.explorersdesign.com/ennies-2/

https://www.explorersdesign.com/ennies-3/ 

https://www.explorersdesign.com/ennies-4/   

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Today on Dead Letters, Sam and two dangerous musicians, Misha and Walid unravel the mystery in Zedeck Siew's "A Perfect Wife". Join the guys as they talk about the best parts of world building, anxious roleplaying, and mispronouncing the word "Pontianak".

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