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Eidolon Playtest is an award-winning actual play podcast consisting of two interconnected campaigns, releasing every Monday on alternating weeks. The current season, VGM/EDM, is a brand new story unrelated to previous seasons. We are playtesting EIDOLON: Become Your Worst Self, the villain-themed expansion to the original game EIDOLON: Become Your Best Self.

Eidolon VGM: The EIDOLON corporation rules the crumbling lunar colony LUNA-1. Empowered by the launch of their new mixed-reality social platform Undrtow, the QA team assures quality by any means necessary.

Eidolon EDM: The revolutionary organization GLITCH MOB recruits the toughest lowlifes, punks, and mercenaries on LUNA-1 to overthrow the EIDOLON corporation before the struggling lunar colony collapses forever.

try to start with something small and simple, one page... if you desire external accountability, consider joining a game jam

Eidolon EDM #4: Eternal September, Part 2

Eidolon EDM #4 is available now for everyone! The revolutionaries of GLITCH MOB infiltrate a web forum to hack the account of one of its most controversial posters — who is also an executive of the tyrannical EIDOLON Corporation! 👩‍💻

If you want to start from the beginning, check out EDM #1!

If you want to follow the employees of the corporation, check out Eidolon VGM!

one thing I really love is long text posts analyzing or reacting to eidolon playtest...

I'm not sure I understand the question... I believe that the cultural phenomenon and the episodes of Eidolon EDM are both titled Eternal September...

5 years ago today, Eidolon Playtest debuted with Design Session #0!

[From Luke]

i think i probably wouldn't be able to resist, is the thing. like, the original plan WASN'T to have the poprock campaigns intertwine. they were supposed to be two completely different stories. The original point of it was that we had more than one party's worth of playbooks that needed testing, so we needed two campaigns to test everything. I guess the main influence of it being a podcast is that instead of doing them serially we did them in parallel; that lets us have a weekly release schedule while keeping most everyone involved on only an, on average, biweekly recording schedule (and i don't mind having a weekly recording schedule for myself because i'm a gremlin who doesn't really socialize outside of podcasting). the idea of it being two wholly separate campaigns softened pretty quickly into being two stories set in the same world, and from there it just got more and more tempting to find ways to make the two storylines dovetail. and once that happened once it just sort became one of the signatures of the show

Anna is tall, with straight long black hair she has bangs, has a very default face that is weirdly perfect, no agelines no blemishes, she is a light-skinned Latina woman.

L E is shorter than Anna for sure, mid-neck length purple hair that naturally fades into blue at the ends, and dresses almost exclusively in slacks + button ups/blazers. Oh and the cat ears. I forgot to mention the cat ears.

hercule: what if the monopoly guy was a blue mage and also served cunt

Marci: I guess kind of like an adult Marci from Peanuts lol. But with bitchier glasses, a severe bun and whatever your idea of a modern-day admin assistant who thinks her job is way more important than it is

Eidolon EDM #4: Eternal September, Part 2

Eidolon EDM #4 is available one week early for $1 subscribers! The revolutionaries of GLITCH MOB infiltrate a web forum to hack the account of one of its most controversial posters — who is also an executive of the tyrannical EIDOLON Corporation! 👩‍💻 🐬 😾

If you want to start from the beginning, check out EDM #1!

If you want to follow the employees of the megacorp, check out Eidolon VGM!

Eidolon VGM #4: Carry the Sun

The fourth episode of Eidolon VGM is available now! The employees of the EIDOLON megacorp are called in to defend the solar farm powering their lunar colony, which is under assault by the rebellious GLITCH MOB! However, their true threat might come from somewhere a little closer to home... 🌞 🧹 🤖

If you want to start from the beginning, check out VGM #1!

If you want to follow the revolutionaries fighting the corporation, check out Eidolon EDM!