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**Plot Points**

Plot Points is a monthly podcast which discusses table-top role-playing games and their supplements as literature. Our quirky panel discusses games old and new, spotlights innovations in the hobby, and links to literature.

Latest Episodes:

Raccoon Sky Pirates! Ep 228 Oct 01, 2021

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Play a trash panda! Raid suburbs for the garbage that is rightfully yours! Check it out here!

Catching up with Pelgrane Press- Ep 227 Jul 30, 2021

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One of our favorite publishers is Pelgrane Press. Geek journalist extraordinaire Ben Riggs sat down with Pelgrane co-owner Cat Tobin to see what the publisher of 13th Age and Dracula Dossier is up to!

What if Evil Tech Cultists Ruled the Galaxy?- Ep 226 Jul 08, 2021

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Synthicide: Sharpers in the Dark takes the setting from a bestselling game of grimdark cyberpunk and translates it into the brilliant Forged in the Dark game system. Listen to find out more in this interview with creator, Dustin DePenning! Click here to support it on Kickstarter!

Now with More Bards! Satine Phoenix & Jamison Stone Center Setting on Bards Ep 225 Apr 30, 2021

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These bards go to eleven! Gamer glitterati Satine Phoenix and Jamison Stone of Apotheosis Studios are Kickstarting a campaign of intrigue and art, songs and spycraft, portraying a city in which art and abomination abounds! Click here to check out the Kickstarter! Image courtesy Apotheosis Studios.

A Long Look at Amy Vorpahl's Candlekeep Deconstructed Ep 224 Apr 10, 2021

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A D&D adventure with a rocket ship? Probe "Kandlekeep Dekonstrukted" by Amy Vorpahl, part of Candlekeep Mysteries for 5E!

Ben's book on RPG adventure design, Encounter Theory, is on DriveThruRPG. Click here to pick up this essential volume!

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Image courtesy Wizards of the Coast.

Monte Cook Kickstarts Product so New There's No Word for It Ep 223 Mar 30, 2021

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Imagine running an adventure online, and instead of books, notes, and PDFs, everything is in a single app, right before your eyes. Now imagine the app has art from world-class artists, and design from RPG luminaries. That is what the brilliant and bodacious designers of Monte Cook Games have created: an adventure made to be run online. Explore more at The Darkest House Kickstarter today!

Image courtesy Monte Cook Games.

An RPG of Maximum Ecstasy with Minimum Effort- Ep 222 Mar 26, 2021

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City of Winter and Fall of Magic are story games centered around journeys in fantasy worlds. Play revolves around gorgeous, hand-made scrolls, and mechanics so simple and elegant that they bring one to question where RPGs end and storytelling begins. Furthermore, these games get to the good stuff of RPG play with shocking speed. We probe these questions and more with the games' designer, Ross Cowman! If you're interested, City of Winter is on Kickstarter right now. Play a demo here now!

Image by Doug Keith and courtesy Heart of the Deernicorn.

Mountains of Madness Panel- Ep 221 Jan 22, 2021

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Hear a stellar panel of nerds discuss the Appendix N text, At the Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft! Included are 7th edition Call of Cthulhu designer Mike Mason, RPG academic Scott Bruner, and the regular Plot Points crew!

Never tried Call of Cthulhu? Hie thee forth to Chaosium.com for all your sanity-blasting needs!

If you want to see the most eye-goggling and disturbing edition of At the Mountains of Madness yet published, check out this edition illustrated by Francois Baranger and published by Design Studio Press and Free League Publishing here!

Ben's book on RPG adventure design, Encounter Theory, is on DriveThruRPG. Click here to pick up this essential volume!

Like Plot Points? Support it on Patreon!

Image by Francois Baranger courtesy Design Studio Press & Free League Publishing.

Reading the DMG Aloud pt 8- Ep 220 Jan 15, 2021

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An impenetrable table! Rolling attributes! Hear the 1st edition DMG read aloud with RPG academic Scott Bruner and host Ben Riggs! Eighth in a series!

Ben's book on RPG adventure design, Encounter Theory, is on DriveThruRPG. Click here to pick up this essential volume!

Like Plot Points? Support it on Patreon!

Image courtesy Wizards of the Coast.

The Homeric RPG! Agon Ep 219 Jan 08, 2021

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Inspired by epic poetry and pulp television, John Harper & Sean Nittner's Agon takes an old system, dice pools, and makes it new to produce a play style more Greek than Gygax!

Ben's book on RPG adventure design, Encounter Theory, is on DriveThruRPG. Click here to pick up this essential volume!

Like Plot Points? Support it on Patreon!

Check out Agon here!

Wanna hear more epic Agon adventures featuring our own Sarah Babe? Click here to experience Theatre of the Mind Players actual play of the series! Music: "Highland Song" by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Image courtesy Evil Hat Productions.

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