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  • I listen to an unholy amount of actual play podcasts, there are some very good explicitly anti-colonial and anti-capitalist ones out there. Good for entertainment that isn’t pure lib slop, some hilarious bits with engaging stories and the unpredictability of dice-driven storytelling. Not in a position to make specific recs right now but I’ll come back to this thread.

    EDIT: Oddity Roadshow is pretty fun and irreverent. GM has a tendency to “make capitalism the bad guy”, one of the PCs is openly commie (but it doesn’t come up much). Tendency to commit to the bit at the expense of plot (or even narrative sense) means it goes a bit off the rails sometimes, but it’s fun.

    I was going to recommend Campaign: Skyjacks as well, but I’ve kinda lost interest in it over the last year or so. It did set out to tell an anti-colonial story (the Big Bad organisation is basically Dutch East India Corp) but kinda got bogged down in its own lore. YMMV. There’s also Courier’s Call which is closer to a kids show, set in the same world that I find quite heartwarming.

    Also a shout out to The Orpheus Protocol. It’s a cosmic horror epic run on the GM’s own system. I get the feeling the GM has pretty good politics but they don’t really make it into the show. Basically the podcast that got me hooked on actual play. It’s very, very cool. CW for some pretty gruesome shit tho.