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At long last, we wrap up our discussion of alignment with alignment languages. Here's a link to the article on RPGs and religion Ben referenced in the episode. Join us on Discord! It's booming over there! ( https://discord.gg/95nH7AdnyA )  Preorder Ben's book on TSR history by clicking  here,  and you will receive FOR FREE a bookplate featuring art by D&D icon Jeff Easley and signed by Ben. It's j...

We continue our discussion of alignment, diving down on the alignment graph! Join us on Discord! It's booming over there! ( https://discord.gg/95nH7AdnyA )  Preorder Ben's book on TSR history by clicking  here,  and you will receive FOR FREE a bookplate featuring art by D&D icon Jeff Easley and signed by Ben. It's just our way of saying thanks for preordering the book! See the bookplate in this ep...

Continuing with alignment! Historian Ben Riggs & academic Scott Bruner read aloud the section of the DMG on alignment.  We now have a channel on  Discord! ( https://discord.gg/95nH7AdnyA ) Come on over to chat.  Preorder Ben's book on TSR history by clicking  here,  and you will receive FOR FREE a bookplate featuring art by D&D icon Jeff Easley and signed by Ben. It's just our way of saying thanks...

What's your alignment? Historian Ben Riggs & academic Scott Bruner read aloud the section of the DMG on alignment.  We now have a channel on  Discord!  Come on over to chat.  Preorder Ben's book on TSR history by clicking  here,  and you will receive FOR FREE a bookplate featuring art by D&D icon Jeff Easley and signed by Ben. It's just our way of saying thanks for preordering the book! See the bo...

Let's talk Lycanthropes! We now have a channel on Discord! Come on over to chat.  Preorder Ben's book on TSR history by clicking  here,  and you will receive FOR FREE a bookplate featuring art by D&D icon Jeff Easley and signed by Ben. It's just our way of saying thanks for preordering the book! See the bookplate in this episode's show notes!  Already preordered the book? Click  here  to acquire y...

Listen as Scott and Ben discuss Gygax's thoughts on the monster as PC... Preorder Ben's book on TSR history by clicking  here, and you will receive FOR FREE a bookplate featuring art by D&D icon Jeff Easley and signed by Ben. It's just our way of saying thanks for preordering the book! See the bookplate in this episode's show notes!  Already preordered the book? Click here to acquire your Jeff Eas...

Once again, RPG academic Scott Bruner and RPG historian Ben Riggs convene to read and chew over the 1st edition Dungeon Masters Guide! Preorder Ben's book on TSR history by clicking here, and you will receive FOR FREE a bookplate featuring art by D&D icon Jeff Easley and signed by Ben. It's just our way of saying thanks for preordering the book! See the bookplate in this episode's show notes!

Once again, RPG academic Scott Bruner and RPG historian Ben Riggs convene to read and chew over the 1st edition Dungeon Masters Guide! Interested in Ben's book? Preorder it from the store of your choice  here! Check out his current book on RPG theory  here! Ben started a YouTube channel with his friend Eliza about what to play after D&D. Check it out  here !   Image courtesy Wizards of the Coast. ...

Ben and Scott finish up with spies and start in on thieves as they plunge ever deeper into the 1st edition AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide! Interested in Ben's book? Preorder it from the store of your choice here! Check out his current book on RPG theory here! Ben started a YouTube channel with his friend Eliza about what to play after D&D. Check it out here !   Image courtesy Wizards of the Coast.   

Hear about the paladin's warhorse and spying as academic Scott Bruner and historian Ben Riggs continue their tortoise-like read-aloud of the DMG! Interested in Ben's book? Enter here to win an early reader's copy! Ben started a YouTube channel with his friend Eliza about what to play after D&D. Check it out here !   Image courtesy Wizards of the Coast. 

Once more, Scott Bruner & Ben Riggs return to discuss the 1st edition Dungeon Masters Guide, this time covering everyone's favorite topic, followers for upper-level PCs!  Ben's book the collapse of TSR and sale to Wizards is available for preorder here!   Want to read more Ben now? His book on RPG adventure design, Encounter Theory , is on DriveThruRPG.  Click here  to pick up this essential volum...

Again, Scott Bruner & Ben Riggs return to discuss the 1st edition Dungeon Masters Guide! 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.

Explore the seas! Discover shanties! Watch them come to life before your very eyes! Experience a game like no other from RPG luminary Tristan Zimmerman! Back it on Kickstarter here! Ben's book on the failure of TSR is finally available for pre-order here on Amazon or through your friendly local bookstore. Ben's book on RPG adventure design, Encounter Theory , is on DriveThruRPG.  Click here  to pi...

Which races love money and a good time the most? Why are those the axes Gygax chose to judge races in the first place? Weirder questions and thoughts follow in this episode with Scott Bruner and Ben Riggs! 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 th...

Behold  Secrets of the Vibrant Isle ! The solo RPG on Kickstarter right now by revolutionary game designer Craig Campbell! Explore the wonders and dangers of the island upon which you've been shipwrecked! Click here to learn more!

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

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!

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!

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 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! Like Plot Points? Support it on  Patreon ! Image courtesy Wizards of the Coast.  

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 co...

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 C...

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 t...

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.

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...