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Welcome to High Rollers, a live-play Dungeons & Dragons campaign! Join Dungeon Master Mara and their players - Kim, Tom, Katie, Trott and Rhi - as they explore the world of Altheya on Europe's biggest RPG Stream! Watch live every Sunday at 5pm UK Time on Twitch Campaigns Lightfall Lightfall is High Rollers' first main campaign. It is a homebrew campaign designed and DMed by Mara Holmes, featuring Mara's unique spin on a classic high fantasy D&D campaign. Aerois Aerois is High Rollers' second main campaign. It is an epic fantasy/sci-fi fusion campaign DMed by Mara Holmes and is primarily set in the homebrew setting of the Aerois Nexus, inspired by a variety of sources including Star Wars and Final Fantasy. It ran for near-exactly five years from 1st July 2018 to 2nd July 2023. Altheya: The Dragon Empire Altheya: The Dragon Empire is High Rollers' third main campaign. It is a high magic fantasy campaign DMed by Mara Holmes and is set in the homebrew setting of the Altheya Nexus, inspired by many classic fantasy sources such as the Lord of the Rings and Records of Lodoss War, with additional inspiration from various games and other anime (such as Delicious in Dungeon). It premiered on 5th November 2023. Links highrollersdnd.com - Official website twitch.tv - Twitch channel high-rollers-dnd.fandom.com - High Rollers wiki youtube.com - Youtube channel

A Dungeon and Dragons 5e Actual Play podcast set in the Digimon Universe where 4 camp counselors are looking for 3 lost children in the digital world. Links spotify.com - Spofity feed podcasts.apple.com - Apple Podcasts feed

"Ludonarrative dissonance" is a term from game-design commentary, describing a moment when the game mechanics pull in one direction but the game story pulls in another, creating dissonance. The ‘Ludonarrative Dissidents’ are three game designers, reviewers and commentators, veterans in the field of ludic narrative, who have come together to discuss the art, science and craft of RPG design by vivisecting game systems and seeing what makes them run.  Your hosts are Ross Payton, Greg Stolze and James Wallis. Ethos Every episode of Ludonarrative Dissidents is built around four pillars: What does this game do? How does it do that? How do people play it? Why do they play it that way? (and how well does it succeed?) We examine games from all angles: mechanical, ludic, narrativist, historical, cultural, structural, whether or not it’s fun, and Greg complains about its use of the future-conditional tense. We look at its influences and pedigree, its narrative engine, its world-building, its book-design, and James reveals that he dated the designer’s sister, or something like that. In season 2 we have added episodes that look at specific aspects of RPGs, such as initiative systems, metacurrencies and diceless games. Origins The idea behind Ludonarrative Dissidents came from a Twitter discussion in early 2021. Someone was looking for RPG designers to work on a project, someone else suggested Greg and James, and after the two of them politely declined, a third person opined that a podcast with the two talking about games and game design would be quite a thing. Greg and James exchanged a virtual glance across the Atlantic, Greg mentioned the idea to Ross, the three of them filled a Google document with ideas, and the project was born. Links ludonarrativedissidents.com - Official website spotify.com - Spotify feed podcast.apple.com - Apple Podcasts feed discord.gg - Discord server ko-fi.com - Ko-Fi page