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- 19: Thousand Year Old Vampire
Witch/Demon hunters Walid and Misha bring on possible witch/demon Sam to discuss their vampire shenanigans in Thousand Year Old Vampire, a journaling RPG by Tim Hutchings. Join the guys as they discuss their favorite prompts, the nuances of solo gaming, and what it looks like to "break the rules".
Side note, Walid got a new mic and it was not being good to him. Apologies for his choppy audio!
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1 hr 40 min - 18: Unicorn Meat
Two sides of the same brain Misha and Walid bring single minded Sam to discuss Dan D's gothic horror adventure Unicorn Meat. Join the two (brains) as they discuss faction play, sandbox rhythm, and weird little murderous children.
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1 hr 38 min - 17: Veins of the Earth
Sam invites Legendary inventor Misha and Technologist Walid to discuss the freaky monsters and caves in Patrick Stuart's Veins of the Earth. Join the guys's descent into madness as they parse poetic descriptions, tackle "the sublime", and figure out what it means to move in a cave.
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1 hr 21 min - 16: Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game
Join our medium Sam with two ghosts (again?!) Walid and Misha to discuss Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game by Magpie Games. Dig into the spirit's love of Avatar, what to expect from a licensed game, PBTA, and the ever important question: who's playing this?
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1 hr 52 min - 15: The Expressionist Games Manifesto
Today on the #1 money management podcast Dead Letters, finance bros Walid, Sam, and Misha take a step back from their stock portfolios to discuss Jay Dragon's Expressionist Games Manifesto. Join the guys as they discuss expressionism, playing expressionist games, and being a menace at RPG tables.
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1 hr 14 min - 14: Wolves Upon the Coast
Dead Letters has returned! On this episode, time traveling RPG enthusiasts Walid and Misha argue with Sam about the beloved, massive, hexcrawl adventure Wolves Upon the Coast by Luke Gearing. Tune in as the guys discuss open world adventure games, GM legwork, and man-eating horses. By the end perhaps we will all have answers to the age old question: Why does the Medusa speak Latin?
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1 hr 27 min - 13: Goblin Laws of Gaming (GLOG)
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.
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1 hr 34 min - 12: The Shrike
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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1 hr 25 min - 11: Blades in the Dark
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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1 hr 25 min - 10: Against Procedurality
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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About Dead Letters
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Dead Letters is a podcast about tabletop role playing games. Sam, Misha, and Walid are game designers and academics committed to doing the readings. Rulebooks, adventures, blogposts, articles, and everything in between. Tune in for your weekly dose of RPG discourse every Friday!
If you’re interested in being a part of the conversation, Dead Letters holds a book club every bi-monthly at boshi's place in NYC. Visit boshis.place and join the discord for updates on the next meeting.
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