Hello and Welcome to The Dungeons and Discourse Wiki
What is this about?
Dungeons and Discourse is a philosophy-themed tabletop RPG inspired from a comic created by Aaron Diaz in his series Dresden Codak. Players create a character based on real-world philosophical schools of thought, and fight it out using every dirty trick in their rhetorical repetoir.
No, give me a long dramatic introduction!
Imagine a world where ideas can not only change the course of history, the fate of nations but the very shape of the world.
This world is Deixis.
In this world, seething with intellectual minds, countless philosophers venture forth hoping to become heroes; seeking relics of bygone days, falling into the machinations of empire or bringing them down from the ground up. As mighty empires seek to vindicate their ideals and win the hearts and sometimes souls of the people, delicately maintaining the constantly shifting balance of power between ancient prophets and ambitious scientists who seek to control the fate of Deixis, the forces of madness, and hypocrisy emerge from all the dark twisted corners of Deixis and the human psyche hoping to flood Deixis beneath a wave of irrationality. You must find your place in this world, either triumphing over the forces of intellectual dishonesty or slowly descending into the madness that is Dungeons and Discourse.
Coming soon to a table-top near you.
How Do I Help Out?
Click right here to join up, and post a word or two in the introduction thread in the forum. Whether you just want to play around and argue with people and punch metaphysical concept or are an artist or writer who wants to help expand the setting head over the forum here and start a thread with whats on your mind, join in or start a debate or head over to Recruitment&Updates to join up in a campaign.
For those interested, there are also campaigns on at:
There is currently a Play by Post Campaign Running on the Forum, anyone is welcome to join.
There is an IRC campaign attempting to start up that requires more volunteers to get started.
What's happening right now?
I'm back from a fairly lousy month but making a steady recovery. I'm hoping to reboot some kind of IRC campaign and am finally getting back to work on the rule book. The player's manual is mostly complete but the DM's guide is rather difficult and I am currently doing my best to work on it. For those interested, they can be found [here]. We're fairly short handed due to the slow month and need a few more hands, whether as players, editors, or simply to offer ideas and support for the project.
-Meta
