{"podcast":{"title":"Ludonarrative Dissidents","slug":"ludonarrative-dissidents-4355607","podcast_index_feed_id":4355607,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/672330cc/podcast/rss","website_url":"http://www.slangdesign.com/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/17203595/17203595-1628529148723-1a6a2a86402f9.jpg","author":"Ross Payton","episode_count":89,"summary":"Ludonarrative Dissidents is a podcast from Greg Stolze, James Wallis, and Ross Payton to explore and analyze tabletop RPGs. What does each game do, how does it work, and why do people play it? We are currently in season 3, and we've expanded to include sourcebooks and adventures. Visit our website at https://www.ludonarrativedissidents.com/ to get detailed show notes. Join our Discord at https://discord.gg/CQt5DbFZCD","last_synced_at":"2026-09-29T00:21:38.284325+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ludonarrative-dissidents-4355607"},"episode":{"title":"Dialect","slug":"dialect","published_at":"2026-08-24T18:24:57+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ludonarrative-dissidents-4355607/dialect","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ludonarrative-dissidents-4355607","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ludonarrative-dissidents/episodes/Dialect-e3nr71c","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/672330cc/podcast/play/124672492/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-24%2F26ce2321-dec2-7acc-b8c3-6d17d98cea7c.mp3","summary":"DIALECT: A Game About Language And How It Dies is a 2018 single-session RPG by Hakan Seyalioglu and Kathryn Hymes, published by Thorny Games. It’s a game about a small community, isolated from larger groups, that first creates its own verbal forms to describe its situation, and then must adapt or lose them as the community reacts to external threats. It is critically acclaimed and a winner of multiple awards. Dialect at Thorny Games Dialect at Wikipedia Preview sample of the Dialect rulebook Read the full show notes here. ⁠Discuss this episode on our Discord.","meta_description":"DIALECT: A Game About Language And How It Dies is a 2018 single-session RPG by Hakan Seyalioglu and Kathryn Hymes, published by Thorny Games. It’s a game…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3300,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ludonarrative-dissidents-4355607/episodes/dialect/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ludonarrative-dissidents-4355607/dialect.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}