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Lapropo
by Mean and Imply Productions
LAPROPO (The Language Proficiency Podcast) is an actual play podcast of D&D and Dialect. We create stories together, from the beginning. Using Dungeons and Dragons and Dialect (a game by the marvelous Thorny Games), we work together to create the community from which our heroes arise.
Episodes
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Programming Update!
Hello, viewers at sea! As your humble editor casts the requisite spells to prepare the third arc of Hel'mith, we will be filing the weeks with a few different kinds of episode. We'll be doing an Off Watch Chatter, our casual chats about how to run or enjoy TTRPGs, and we'll be doing a 'clip show'...
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S1E35 The All Seer (The Restless Deep Saga)
Hel'mith / D&D / Combat / Finale The thrilling conclusion of Arc 2! Sprinting across the gangway, having fought through the warehouse, the Greymates, ironbound to finish their journey, head into the inner sanctum of Councilor Willoughby, charging headlong into the deep unknown. Facio puts on the...
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Finale incoming... next week!
Hello viewers at sea! This is just an update to let you know that NEXT week will be finale of the Restless Deep Saga--it's a behemoth in more ways than one... meaning an editing one too! I'll be posting some clips to our Patreon (patreon.com/lapropo), and there's going to be character art coming...
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S1E34 Wrangling at Willoughby's Warehouse (The Restless Deep Saga)
Hel'mith / D&D / Combat The Greymates follow their leads to where the tracks meet: a warehouse run by a suspicious commissioner by the name of Willoughby. They spend a surprising amount of time talking about how to proceed, before kicking the door in and proceeding with plan kick monster-butt.…
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S1E33 Calypso City Mysteries (The Restless Deep Saga)
Hel'mith / D&D The Greyling arrives at Calypso and begins their hunt for Shiloh Hopper, and finds a tangled web of murder, mystery and misery in the lower city section of Calypso, called the Bilges. Oggy settles old tabs, Facio spins new yarns, and Sir calls on some deep deep Atlentar naval code....
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S1E32 Murder in the Maelstrom Straights PART 2 (The Restless Deep Saga)
Hel'mith / D&D / Combat The Greyling is grappled and pirates swing aboard! Sit the Quarry gets spooky, Oggy takes a moment to hydrate, and Facio mocks with words and tentacles. Follow us on instagram at @lapropodcast and support us by joining our patreon: patreon.com/lapropo
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Off Watch Chatter #4: Follow Your Instincts with Claire Hogan
Welcome to Off Watch Chatter, where we chat all about tabletop, how to have fun with it, and share the stories... behind the stories. Claire tells Paul about her early days of D&D, her tips for how to be a fun player and DM and much more. We're off watch, and the chat is spicy!
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S1E31 Murder in the Maelstrom Straights PART 1 (The Restless Deep Saga)
Hel’mith / D&D / The Greyling / combat / ship combat The Greymates set sail for Calypso city to cure their curse… but with a rushed route plotted by Oggy, they choose to go through the Maelstrom Straights. Facio buoys the crew morale with shanties, Oggy leaps around the ship in dire…
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S1E30: Scrap at the Sunken Depot (The Restless Deep Saga)
Hel'mith / D&D / The Greyling / Combat The Greymates fight for their lives against strange, super powered Sahuagins. Facio burbles from the deep, Oggy has a sudden, unwelcome, reprieve from his curse, and Sir leaps (swim-leaps?) around the depot. Follow us on instagram at:...
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S1E29 New Friends, Old Jobs: Or, Glimmers of the Past in Sushi Stands (The Restless Deep Saga)
Hel'mith / D&D / The Greyling The Greyling sails to Marintin to find a job. Oggy takes the lead and risks meeting an old contact with lucrative contracts, Facio has his own mission in the bar, and Roan struggles with the way the world has changed while buying truly everything on offer from a…
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S1E28: Sudden Squalls and Oggy Confesses All (The Restless Deep Saga)
D&D / The Greyling / Hel'mith The Greyling sails into a classic black squall and struggles to stay upright. Facio sings his tunes, Sir rabbits out orders, and Oggy.... comes clean about what's been haunting the dreams of everyone aboard the ship. Follow us on instagram: @lapropodcast (And…
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Off Watch Chatter #3: Building Encounters w/ Chuck Savoy, Vincent Tavani and Paul Deichmann
Chuck, Vincent and Paul chat about how to create encounters from nothing but a few monsters. We discuss what makes a good encounter, how to create interesting situations for players to navigate, and each propose one encounter from a set of monsters. If you've ever wanted to run a game but felt...
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S1E27: The Doldrums, or The Legend of the Five Legged Shark (The Restless Deep Saga)
Hel'mith / Greyling / D&D5e The Greyling hits the doldrums, and the crew's commitment is tested. In the relentless stillness, how will they hold on to the their sanity? Facio makes mistakes at open mic as well as discoveries below the sea, Sir holds true to her ideals, and Oggy does a beautiful...
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S1E26: Traitor
Hel'mith / Greyling / Dialect / Word Episode This week, Claire plays the Traitor card, and we find the word the Greyling uses for those whose "act of selfishness stuns us all."Claire gets to flex some French curses, Chuck floats an obscure documentary, Vincent pontificates on how words become...
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Off Watch Chatter #2: Every Dungeon a Puzzle with Christian Young
How do I start playing a TTRPG? This is how! This week we are joined by Christian Young, a Phoenixville gamemaster, referee, and brain behind a community table top night. Christian and Paul chat about what got Christian into playing TTRPGs, where he draws inspiration, how he’s grown over the…
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S1E25 The Cursed
Hel'mith / Dialect / Word Episode This week, we find a word to describe those who are feeling Oggy's curse... and learn something huge about it in the process. Facio approaches Oggy with treats, and Oggy comes clean. Follow us on instagram: @lapropodcast And consider supporting us on a patreon…
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S1E24: Wonderful and Antonym
Another duo-word-episode! This week we make the word the Greyling uses for ‘wonderful’ and create an antonym for the first age word “misted.” Chuck gets to wax poetic about sailor’s heaven, Claire ruminates on what freedom feels like, and Facio’s soups are still wonderful. Claire plays the…
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S1E23: Technology
We continue creating the world the Greyling sails through by creating its words. This week, Claire plays the Technology card to create a vital tool we use in the isolation. Chuck gets to flex his extensive knowledge of IFAKs, EPIRBs, and boat safety (and read a spell) and we discover an…
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S1E22 Faction
Hel'mith / Dialect / Word Episode We continue to find the story of the Greyling through its words. This week, Vincent plays the "faction" card, and we create a faction in the isolation that causes all of us to, to say the least, hull about it. We meet Perch, Sir the Quarry has choice words, and...
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S1E21: New Source and Unit of Time
Dialect / Hel'mith / Word Episodes A duo-word-isode! As the Ferriers sail across old Atlentar, we continue to create the world they find through their words. This week Chuck plays the "New Source" card (members of the isolation hear one of their words being used from an outside source) and Paul...
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Off Watch Chatter #1 with Joseph and Ayame Rogers!
Vincent and Paul sit down with Joseph and Ayame Rogers, to chat about what got us into D&D in the first place, cool techniques to engage players, and how to make sure we "remember why we are there to play the game." We sat down on our an outside porch, so do enjoy the crickets, the birds…
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S1E20 New Ritual
Hel’mith / Dialect / Word Episode Claire plays the New Ritual card in Dialect, and we develop the new ritual emerging among the crew as the restless deep begins to change our very senses. Facio, Sam and Oggy have a plan, and Sir stands at the bow, ears twitching.
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S1E19 Label: Mapside
Hel'mith / Greyling / D&D We begin creating the language the Ferrier's use as they sail across their new world, starting with an Action: meaning we change an word from the first age to suit the second. Sir the Quarry struggles with negotiations, Oggy pulls out some surprising personal history…
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S1E18 Hel'mith: Lore and Lives Before
This week, the crew of the Greyling gets a lore dump from Paul about old Atlentar, we see the map, and decide where our characters are from, back mapside... literally. Follow our Instagram (Instagram.com/lapropodcast) to see the map we reference in your feed, when we post it! This finishes this...
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S1E17: Hel'mith: The Second Age (Dialect)
The Greyling sets forth into a new world... with new words! We create the new aspects we'll be using for our voyage, and clarify our character's relationship to them. Great great reviews of how Dialect works here, a masterful job by Vincent Tavani to guide and shape our conversations, all buoyed…
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S1E16: The Last Croak (The Restless Deep Saga)
Hel'mith / D&D Our heroes are called into action as their Bullywug hosts are attacked by an old foe. Facio gleams in the night; Oggy controls the battlefield with crossbow, longsword and lightning; and Sir tries out her new gift from the gods. Follow us on instagram (@lapropodcast) for reels and...
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S1E15: Epic Tales and Epic Boons (The Restless Deep Saga)
D&D / Hel'mith / The Greyling The Greyling sets sail, toward their invitation at the Moreas marshes. Our heroes experience the sea for the first time in many years... and other forces start to move around them. Roan and Facio get gifts, and meet Oggy--and then everyone sees an excellent play put…
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S1E14: New Beginnings (The Restless Deep Saga)
D&D / Hel'mith / The Greyling After .... defeating (?) the Deep Mother, the denizens of Hel'mith get a shot to leave their island and go back mapside, but what world will they find there? Sir the Quarry names the ship, Facio gets hints of some gossip, and we meet a new player (Chuck Savoy) and…
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ANNOUCEMENT: No episode this week!
We're hard at work making the next arc, so no episode this week! Follow us on twitch ( https://www.twitch.tv/meanandimply) to get notified when Claire and Paul play BALDUR'S GATE, and check out our Patreon (patreon.com/lapropo) for a Hulling About It about the first arc. See you next week with…
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S1E13: The Deep Mother (The Hel'mith Chronicles)
D&D / Hel'mith We present the thrilling conclusion of the first age of Hel'mith! The team follows Yannique down beneath the island to find what has been lurking at the center of the mist all along... and perhaps along the way learn something about themselves. Facio inspires with a new energy, Sir...
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S1E12 Lost and Found (The Hel'mith Chronicles)
D&D / Hel'mith As the Fogleave wraps up, Lefty approaches Sir the Quarry with troublesome news--and the crew springs into action to keep their little island safe. But what waits for them is much more than they could have ever imagined.... Make sure to follows us on Instagram (@lapropodcast) and…
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Peek into the Patreon: Hulling About It: Fogleave
This week, we're taking a quick break from DnD episodes as we're in the middle of a bunch of planning and recording! Enjoy this preview of our patreon talk back show, "Hulling About It" where we talk about the events of the previous episode. Over on our patreon (www.patreon.com/lapropo), for just…
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S1E11: Fogleave (The Hel'mith Chronicles)
D&D / Hel'mith The kedge all collected, it's time for a wreckoning day, to celebrate. There's also a Fogleave to have, as Marley has made (sorta) clear his intentions to leave. Facio Pacem, Quinmarris, and Sir the Quarry all grapple with that in different ways. The community comes together to...
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S1E10: Luring the Lobster (The Hel'mith Chronicles)
D&D / Hel'mith This week, the denizens of Hel'mith finish their battle with the strange sea creatures which had stormed their beach. Facio Pacem slaps many a tentacle, Roan struggles to figure out what to do without her trusty Halberd, and Quinmarris makes an interesting discovery. And plans are...
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S1E9: Claws of the Shore (The Hel'mith Chronicles)
Hel'mith / D&D And thus we end Dialect and begin to share narrative control with our dice. We're playing DnD 5e for now…. A normal morning on Hel'mith evolves into a crustacean horror as crabs, first small, then large, come swarming up the beaches of Hel'mith. Facio leaps (poorly) into action and...
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S1E8 Hel'mith: Dialect: Resource and Good Luck
Lightning round! Two words we wanted to make before leaving the game of Dialect. We created the words our community uses for resources and for wishing each other good luck. Sir and Lefty talk logistics, and we talk about moss on rocks (again, I know) for a really long time. What can I say, we...
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S1E7 Death
Helmith / Dialect / Word Episode Content note: characters discuss ending their life (by walking into the mist) throughout this episode. This week on Hel'mith we find the word our community uses for death--the ultimate loss. How do we let go? Facio and Quinmarris are summoned to Sir the Quarry's...
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S1E6 Hel'mith: Dialect: Special Occasion
Welcome back to Helmith. This time, we create the word we use for special occasions. How (and why?) do we celebrate on this blasted rock? If this is the first episode you're listening to, I encourage you to go back and hear the discussions we've done from the first episode to create this place....
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S1E5 Hel'mith: Dialect: Worry
Content Notes: 16:43 mention of suicide (by walking into a fantasy mist) 19:39: mention of suicide (by walking into a fantasy mist) Today on the podcast we create the word the community uses for worry. What word does the community use for their worries and concerns? We spend a long time…
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S1E4 Hel'mith: Dialect: The Past
We work together to create the words of our isolation. We're finally playing Dialect! This week we make the word our community uses for "the past," and Sir the Quarry confronts Quinmarris about some unsavory rumors about their life before getting washed up on Hel'mith. If you liked this, please...
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S1E3 Hel'mith: Dialect: Character Generation and Naming our Community.
We make and meet our characters! Dialect provides us with prompts, and we put them in the world. Meet the precocious Facio Pacem, the hafling of many many muffins (and of generous muffin top); Quinmarris, the village crazy with many contraptions … and pulleys; Lefty, who brings people what they...
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S1E2 Hel'mith: Dialect: Refining the Isolation with Community Questions
We continue our dialect session, building more details into the island we've made. We'll ask ourselves questions about our community and sketch out what life on the island is like. This is chapter 2 of our Dialect , so if you missed chapter 1, you're on the wrong boat. Head on back and follow...
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S1E1 Creating Our First Isolation
Tags: Hel'mith / Dialect Hello and welcome to Lapropo! We play Dungeons & Dragons and Dialect (a game by Thorny Games). We play Dialect to create our worlds and stories collaboratively, from nothing creating our world and characters. We later use this world, its words and our character to play...
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LAPROPO (The Language Proficiency Podcast) is an actual play podcast of D&D and Dialect. We create stories together, from the beginning. Using Dungeons and Dragons and Dialect (a game by the marvelous Thorny Games), we work together to create the community from which our heroes arise.
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LAPROPO (The Language Proficiency Podcast) is an actual play podcast of D&D and Dialect. We create stories together, from the beginning. Using Dungeons and Dragons and Dialect (a game by the marvelous Thorny Games), we work together to create the community from which our heroes arise.
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