{"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":85,"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":"2026-07-03T06:19:35.155013+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ludonarrative-dissidents-4355607"},"episode":{"title":"Mothership: Gradient Descent","slug":"mothership-gradient-descent","published_at":"2025-12-08T20:18:49+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ludonarrative-dissidents-4355607/mothership-gradient-descent","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ludonarrative-dissidents-4355607","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ludonarrative-dissidents/episodes/Mothership-Gradient-Descent-e3c2br0","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/672330cc/podcast/play/112323872/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-11-8%2F43d351a9-0596-cd55-4190-bb3b82d7ef20.mp3","summary":"Gradient Descent is a module/campaign setting/megadungeon for the SF-horror RPG Mothership , released in 2020. It is written by Luke Gearing, with art by Nick Tofani and layout by Sean McCoy, and was published by Tuesday Night Games. Dimensionally it is a tightly packed 64-page digest-sized booklet, and the PDF sells for $20, or as part of the Mothership deluxe boxed set . Mothership homepage The Mothership book range at at DriveThruRPG Gradient Descent at DriveThruRPG Read the show notes here. ⁠Discuss this episode on our Discord.","meta_description":"Gradient Descent is a module/campaign setting/megadungeon for the SF-horror RPG Mothership , released in 2020. It is written by Luke Gearing, with art by…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4330,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ludonarrative-dissidents-4355607/episodes/mothership-gradient-descent/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/mothership-gradient-descent.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}