- 1 hour 2 minutesLudonarrative Dissidents Livestream for June 2026
Our livestream discussion for June!
23 June 2026, 5:18 pm - 57 minutes 24 secondsChicago by Night: Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition
CHICAGO BY NIGHT is a 2018 city sourcebook for Vampire the Masquerade 5th edition, written by Matthew Dawkins and a host of others, and published by Renegade Game Studios, who have the rights to do all this stuff these days. The most recent iteration of a sourcebook that first appeared in 1991, this edition is by far the longest at 357 pages. It describes the vampire culture, clans, people, locations, backstory and subterfuges of the eponymous city. (‘Eponymous’, because I always have to check, means ‘lending its name to’ a thing, not ‘taking its name from’). We talked about the latest edition of Vampire the Masquerade earlier this season and concluded that it did what it needs to in a suitable style, if you like that sort of thing. How does that fit with huge chunks of crunchy campaign-world detail like this? Don’t click that dial!
- Chicago by Night at DriveThruRPG (there’s more information here than at the publishers’ website)
- Vampire the Masquerade 5th edition at DriveThruRPG
- The original Chicago by Night from 1991 at DriveThruRPG
- Chicago by Night second edition (1993) at DriveThruRPG
29 May 2026, 5:40 pm - 1 hour 4 minutesLudonarrative Dissidents Livestream for May
Our livestream discussion for May, featuring special guest Jerry Grayson of Khepera Publishing. Check out the Godsend Agenda today.
25 May 2026, 10:23 pm - 1 hour 4 minutesLudonarrative Dissidents Livestream for April 20265 May 2026, 5:46 pm
- 1 hour 11 minutesCall of Cthulhu: In Medias Res
IN MEDIAS RES is a short modern-horror scenario (‘adventure’ is the wrong word for it) by John Scott Tynes, originally designed for Cthulhu Now and first printed in The Unspeakable Oath issue 10 in 1993. It was reprinted in The Resurrected #3 – Out of the Vault in 2003. Thirty years after its publication, it still lives up to its reputation as an unflinching piece of modern horror RPG design that’s genuinely horrific.
22 April 2026, 7:21 pm - 1 hour 4 minutesLudonarrative Dissidents Livestream for March 20266 April 2026, 5:31 pm
- 1 hour 9 minutesMaelstrom
MAELSTROM is a paperback-format RPG written by Alex Scott and published in 1984 by Puffin Books, a division of Penguin Books in the UK. It contains rules for roleplaying in Europe, mostly England, at the time of the Tudors (the 1500s), with a solo adventure, a sample adventure and a herbiary. It is an interesting comparison to the other 1980s British RPG set in a faux-Europe of the early Renaissance, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, which was published two years later.
The game was re-released by Arion Games in 2008, and the company has also released an expanded version and several supplements, as well as standalone titles Maelstrom Domesday (set after the Norman invasion), Maelstrom Rome and Maelstrom Gothic.
20 March 2026, 5:59 pm - 1 hour 15 minutesLivestream for February 2026
We have a special guest, Adam Scott Glancy, one of the Delta Green co-authors! He clarifies a few points about Delta Green Countdown.
23 February 2026, 10:52 pm - 1 hour 14 minutesDelta Green: Countdown
Sponsor: Technical Difficulties Podcast - check out an excellent actual play RPG podcast, featuring Delta Green, Eclipse Phase, and many other fine systems featured on LND.
Delta Green Countdown is a massive sourcebook for the original edition of Delta Green. It blows the doors off the world of Delta Green, reaching wider and digging deeper to map the terrain of the twisted pulp apocalypse we call the dawning of the 21st century. How has it aged since then?
2 February 2026, 6:01 pm - 1 hour 5 minutesLivestream for January 2026
Our first livestream of the year! We talk about new games we played and a grabag of topics.
19 January 2026, 9:45 pm - 1 hour 9 minutesAlice is Missing
ALICE IS MISSING is a self-contained one-session RPG for 3–5 players, designed by Spenser Stark and released in 2020 by Hunters Entertainment with Renegade Game Studios, after a Kickstarter that raised $138,000. It’s been described as ‘unique’, ‘sublime’ and ‘a little masterpiece’, and has won a bagful of awards including three 2021 Gold ENNIEs and the Indiecade award for tabletop design.
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