Hear that? It's the sound of well-ground axes. Of longstanding grudges. Thomas watches Chase remount a vertiably parade well-trod soapboxes on today's episode. These include the transient nature of Discord, crowdfunding platforms, and valorizing dungeon mastery as work done in the service of play. Chase tries to keep the griping to a minimum because we've got a Kickstarter union win and Satanic Panics to discuss.

Mostly the pair dive into the fascinating and lovely emergent culture inside Over/Under, Chase's thoughts about RPGs and comics mixing at the recent Thought Bubble convention, and Adam Serwer's recent Atlantic article about Musk and Co. wanting to reclaim D&D from The Woke. Afterwards, it's a cavalcade of game recommendations and advice on approaching design from the outside as the duo land on an exoplanet called Question_Dungeon and explore its rugged expanses.

Good luck to everyone flying for PAX Unplugged and/or the impending US holidays!

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Games we discuss:

Orbital Blues
Orbital Blues: The Wanderer
Dungeons & Dragons
Oddfolk
Mothership/Cataphracts
A Modern Prometheus
Our Time on Earth
In This World
For The Queen
An altogether Different River
The Quiet Year
Harvest
Last Train To Bremen
Ex Novo
Beak, Feather and Bone
Stewpot
World Ending Game
Deadline
Signal to Noise
Ironsworn & Starforged
im sorry did you say street magic
Gun&Slinger

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Hosted by Chase Taylor- Carter (@chasecarter.bsky.social).

Featuring Thomas Manuel (@newmadras.bsky.social).

Theme song by People Need Goals.

Cover art logo by Johan Nohr (@johannohr.bsky.social).

Episode 26: Bring out your Soapboxes