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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.
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- Sep 25, 2026
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29: Wet Grandpa (opens the original)
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Long time boy scouts Misha and Walid take a break from watching corn sweat to bring on Eagle Scout Sam and discuss a fan favorite adventure: Evey Lockhart's Wet Grandpa. Join the scouts as they discuss the value of exposition, motivating players to do cool stuff, and revealing the gradient between the mundane and mystical. Dead Letters forum: https://deadletters.nyc/forum/ Follow us on bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/dead-letters.bsky.social
28: Magical Industrial Revolution (opens the original)
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Sam summons magical Fae beings Misha and Walid to step away from their days of mischief and mayhem and discuss tabletop roleplaying games. Today they will be discussing Skerple's Magical Industrial Revolution. Join the fairies as they argue the logistics of city crawls and dungeons, discuss what kind prep work is acceptable, and end with a small pivot into postmodernism! Dead Letters forum: https://deadletters.nyc/forum/ Follow us on bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/d
27: The Invisible Rules of Roleplaying (opens the original)
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Fire elementals Walid and Misha surface on earth during a devastating heatwave to give Sam and his AC a break. They're here to discuss Nordic scholar Markus Montola's Invisible Rules of Roleplaying. Join the toasty trio as they unpack roleplaying games, separate narratology vs ludology, define frame theory, and praise the power diegesis! Dead Letters forum: https://deadletters.nyc/forum/ Follow us on bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/dead-letters.bsky.social
26: The Black Wyrm of Brandonsford (opens the original)
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Knights in shining armor Misha and Walid tag in squire Sam and embark on the epic adventure from Chance Dudinack: The Black Wyrm of Brandondsford. Listen to the guys breakdown the importance of maps in adventures, the topos - topography -topology connection, and the fragility of information ordering. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT : we have a website! Listeners, if you'd like to share your RPG takes with us, comment on episodes, or yap about the general discourse, join us on our forum! Dead Letters forum:
25: Mythic Bastionland (opens the original)
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Decorated historians Misha and Walid take a break from their respective research papers to bring on plebeian Sam and discuss a familiar topic: tabletop roleplaying games. Today they're examining the Ennie award winning TTRPG Mythic Bastionland by Chris McDowall. Tune in as the guys breakdown omens and myths, differentiate task and conflict resolution, and argue if this book is really just a story game in disguise! Follow us on bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/dead-letters.bs
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