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Ship of the Dead Podcast

Limithron’s Ship of the Dead, a tabletop roleplaying game podcast with a strong focus on pirate themed games, Dungeons & Dragons, and OSR/NSR games like Mörk Borg and Mothership. GM tips & tutorials, industry interviews, actual plays, and more. Hosted by battle map artist and Pirate Borg creator Luke Stratton (Limithron). Support at www.limithron.com/patreon.

Copyright: © 2022 Limithron LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Latest Episodes:

Fomoria Sep 09, 2026

Show notes

Kingdom Death: Monster
Arkham Horror
Mold Lich
Astrolich
SVMP
Making Games Podcast
Kala Mandala
Mew-Tants
The Stygian Library — Emmy Allen
Spa — Erik Svetoft
Uzumaki — Junji Ito
Welcome to Night Vale
Dyson’s Tomb of Horrors — Dyson Logos
Rotblack Sludge
Veins of the Earth — Patrick Stuart
Mutant
Year Zero Engine
Scrap Princess
Hekla
Xiuxiuejar — Hekla
Tales Under the Oak — Dolmenwood Soundtrack
An Old Sad Ghost
Fief
All the Problems in This World
Sangre de Muerdago
DayZ
The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu

Credits
Music: Alexander Miller
Editing: Matt Kepler
Producing: Tyler Stratton
Get Episodes 1 week early on Limithron's Patreon

Mausritter & Flail Aug 26, 2026

Show notes

Mausritter
Flail
Backrooms (Kane Pixels YouTube series)
Making Games Podcast
Brindlewood Bay
Fomoria
Ninajirachi
Past Lives - Patrick Wyman podcast
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Glass Beams
The Sorcerers
Khruangbin
Archon Games
Stormkeep (metal band)
The Black Dragons of Iswylm
Into the Odd
Knave
Mythic Bastionland
Chris McDowall
Brambly Hedge
Mörk Borg
Mothership
Tuesday Knight Games
Nate Treme (writer)
The Estate (Mausritter adventure collection)
The 17th Century Minimalist
Trilemma 1 Page Adventures
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Hexcrawl Tool Kit
Kevin Cannon
Bottled Sea
Apocalypse World
Blades in the Dark
The Job
Masks of Nyarlathotep
Slay the Spire I + II

Credits
Music: Alexander Miller
Editing: Matt Kepler
Producing: Tyler Stratton
Get Episodes 1 week early on Limithron's Patreon

Our Golden Age & Shipwrecked in the Swordfish Islands Aug 12, 2026

Show notes

Jacob Hurst - https://shop.swordfishislands.com/

Luka Rejec - https://www.wizardthieffighter.com/

Dark of Hotspring Islands
Ultra Violet Grasslands
Our Golden Ages
Alien RPG
Skorn
Geiger
What Ho! Jeeves
The Painted Wastelands
Tim Molloy (artist)
Mr Unpronouncable
Cascadia board game
Moon board game
Terraformers
Planet Crafter
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced
The Creative Act - Rick Rubin
Tuesday Knight Games
Father Fog
FOQOS app
Wayward Pines
Obsidian App
Darkest Dungeon
Paths Peculiar
Deep in the Purple Worm - Luka 1 page dungeon
Witch Burner
Shadow Dark
Patrick Stewart
False Machine
Veins of the Earth
Gavin Norman
OSE
Dolmenwood
Arnold K - Goblin Punch
Goblin Law of Gaming
Flail
Echoes from Fomalhaut
Echoes from Fomalhaut #01
Barrier Peaks
Frank Frazetta
Moebius
J. C. Leyendecker
Beardsley

Credits
Music: Alexander Miller
Editing: Matt Kepler
Producing: Tyler Stratton
Get Episodes 1 week early on Limithron's Patreon

Deathbringer RPG - Professor Dungeon Master Aug 05, 2026

Show notes

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
Shadowdark RPG
Lamentations of the Flame Princess
Dungeon Crawl Classics
The Keep on the Borderlands
The Lost City
Against the Cult of the Reptile God
The Village of Hommlet
Horror on the Hill
FLAIL RPG
Mausritter
Games Omnivorous
The Ruins of Undermountain
Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
The Fungus-Licking Cannibal Cult
Mordheim
The Creative Game Master’s Guide to Extraordinary Locations – Duncan Rhodes
Stephanie Plays Games
Sickest Witch RPG
Dolmenwood
Outgunned
Mythic Bastionland

Time Stamps
0:00 - Intro: Deathbringer
6:12 - Diving Deeper into the Old School
12:54 - Tools for Adventure Writing
21:39 - What are you into?
31:17 - GenCon
37:47 - The Carribbean (But not the dark Carribbean)

Credits
Music: Alexander Miller
Editing: Matt Kepler
Producing: Tyler Stratton
Get Episodes 1 week early on Limithron's Patreon

Ginny Di & Bob World Builder Jul 22, 2026

Show notes

Flail RPG
Scorn
Riven: The Sequel to Myst
Tuesday Knight Games
Charles Ferguson Avery
Gore Chasm Horror
Public Access RPG
I Saw the TV Glow
Brindlewood Bay

Alone
Cosmere RPG
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Neon Odyssey RPG
TWRP
Gloryhammer
Majestica

Legends of Avantris
Shadowdark
Daggerheart RPG
Into the Odd RPG
Mythic Bastionland RPG
Cairn 2e
Whitehack RPG
Black Sword Hack RPG
Baron DeRop

Vaesen RPG
Beefy Shotgun Wizards
Electrum Archive
Legend in the Mist
Monomakes
Mothership RPG
Fatherfog RPG

Credits
Music: Alexander Miller
Editing: Matt Kepler
Producing: Tyler Stratton
Get Episodes 1 week early on Limithron's Patreon

Pirate Borg Boarding Party Jul 06, 2026

Show notes

Wird Games
Westfalia
Joseph R. Lewis

Pirate Map Collection
Pirate Borg Miniatures
Skirmish Game - From the Depths Below

Formoria
Games Omnivorous - Flail RPG
Mike Mignola - Drawling Monsters
Moebius memorial on Heavy Metal
Sergio Toppi memorial on Comicfans
Hugo Pratt / Corto Maltese homepage
Phillipe Druillet page on Lambiek
Yragaelo Urm Le Fou
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Super Mario Bros. Movie
Mothership RPG
Luke Gearing
Pound of Flesh
Gradient Descent
Sunless Sea
Fallen London
Frontier Scum
Karl Druid
Cy Borg
Kill, Sample, Process
Trench Crusade
Endless Horrors Between the Stars
Southern Reach books
Firelock Games
Mordenheim
Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse

Credits
Music: Alexander Miller
Editing: Matt Kepler
Producing: Tyler Stratton
Get Episodes 1 week early on Limithron's Patreon

Roundtable with Kelsey Dionne & Joseph R. Lewis Jun 03, 2026

Show notes

Kelsey Dionne - Arcane Library
Joseph R. Lewis - Youtube

Ben Riggs
Bungie’s Marathon
Shroom and Gloom
Record of Lodoss War
Ninja Scroll
Wicked City
Angel (Anime)
Robert E. Howard Conan Stories
Darkest Dungeon
Mordheim
Deathbringer
The Black Company – Shadows Linger
Mike Mignola
Goblin Punch Blog (Arnold K.)
Caverns of Thracia
Essentialism
BBC Lord of the Rings (1980s)
Elric
Julien Blondel
Aetherdark
Brad Kerr
Skullfungus

Credits
Music: Alexander Miller
Editing: Matt Kepler
Producing: Tyler Stratton
Get Episodes 1 week early on Limithron's Patreon

Running & Writing OSR Adventures May 20, 2026

Show notes

Matt Finch’s Tome of World Building
Nightmare over Ragged Hollow
Neverland
A Pound of Flesh
The Desert Moon of Karth
City State of the Invincible Overlord
Tome of Adventure Design
Deep Carbon Observatory
Ultraviolet Grasslands 2E
Vaults of Vaarn
Thulian Echoes - LotFP
Call of Cthulu RPG
Delta Green
Skerples
Kidnap the Archpriest
The Dark of Hot Springs Island
Secret of the Black Crag
Mothership RPG
The Black Wyrm of Brandonsford
Gradient Descent
Stonehell
Murkdice
Knock!
Moonbase Blues
The Chair
Witches of Frostwyck
Vibechete (in Hull Breach)
Dolmenwood
Worlds Without Number
Stars Without Numbers
Outcast Silver Raiders
Cairn 2E

Credits
Music: Alexander Miller
Editing: Matt Kepler
Producing: Tyler Stratton
Get Episodes 1 week early on Limithron's Patreon

State of the OSR at Gary Con '26 May 06, 2026

Show notes

GUESTS
Kelsey Dionne https://www.thearcanelibrary.com/
Brad Kerr https://bradkerr.net/
Matt Finch https://www.mythmeregames.com/
Yochai Gal https://cairnrpg.com/
Between Two Cairns (Podcast) https://betweentwocairns.com/

Mythic Bastionland
Dolmenwood
Necrotic Gnome
Skullboy
OSRIC
Swords and Wizardry
Sailors on the Starless Sea
Keep on the Borderlands B2
Magical Demon Driven to the Maw
Feast of Tegny Wood
Rot Black Sludge
Tome of Adventure Design 2nd Edition
Zedeck Siew
Dark of Hot Springs Island
Index Card RPG
Return of the Obra Dinn
Nomicon
Storyteller’s Thesaurus
Winchester Mystery House
Patrick Stuart
Mythic and Electric Bastionland
Ultraviolet Grasslands
Vaults of Vaarn
Electrum Archive
The Name of the Wind
A Wizard of Earthsea
Garth Nix
Jonathan Hickman
Guy Gavriel Kay
Children of Earth and Sky
The Tegana
Lions of Al-Rassan
The Incal

Credits
Music: Alexander Miller
Editing: Matt Kepler
Producing: Tyler Stratton
Get Episodes 1 week early on Limithron's Patreon

Venom in the Veins Deep Dive (Jon Pohl and Will Tramp) Apr 22, 2026

Show notes

These Bloody Sails - Preorders Now Open

Visions of Atlantis

Eschaton - Archon Games

The Stygian Library

Lord of the Rings 5e - Moria

The Gardens of Ynn

Jack Bedashi - Stinky Goblin Maps

Beadle and Grimm’s

Darkest Dungeon

MÖRK BORG - Rot Black Sludge

Tomb of the Serpent King - Skerples

Credits
Music: Alexander Miller
Editing: Matt Kepler
Producing: Tyler Stratton
Get Episodes 1 week early on Limithron's Patreon

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