<description>&lt;p&gt;Transcripts available at diceexploder.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Last Train to Brooklyn is an actual play from Twice Rolled Tales where they play Last Train to Bremen on a New York City subway car. It&amp;#39;s also probably my favorite actual play full stop. Why? I think because it leans into what I&amp;#39;m most excited about this medium: treating capturing the act of play more like a documentary than a means towards fiction. It&amp;#39;s excited at least as much about its nonfiction story as its fictional one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Today I&amp;#39;ve invited Linnie Schell, one of the main creatives behind Last Train to Bremen, to come give me a beat by beat director&amp;#39;s commentary on everything that went into it, all building to the moment I really wanted to highlight: its ending.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further Reading&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.twicerolledtales.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;Twice Rolled Tales&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nqx8xOimNYo" rel="nofollow"&gt;RuPaul&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=mANejj6o3Xs" rel="nofollow"&gt;videos&lt;/a&gt; Linnie mentions&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/comedy-book-jesse-david-fox/1143164200" rel="nofollow"&gt;Comedy Book&lt;/a&gt; by Jesse David Fox&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/jay-dragon/last-train-to-bremen" rel="nofollow"&gt;Last Train to Bremen&lt;/a&gt; by Caro Asercion&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Socials&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maia on &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/maiasgameroom.bsky.social" rel="nofollow"&gt;Bluesky&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sam on &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/diceexploder.com" rel="nofollow"&gt;Bluesky&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://sdunnewold.itch.io/" rel="nofollow"&gt;itch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Dice Exploder blog is at &lt;a href="http://www.diceexploder.com" rel="nofollow"&gt;diceexploder.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Our logo was designed by &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/sporgory.bsky.social" rel="nofollow"&gt;sporgory&lt;/a&gt;, our ad music is Lilypads by Travis Tessmer, and our theme song is &lt;a href="https://soundcloud.com/purelygrey/sunset-bridge" rel="nofollow"&gt;Sunset Bridge&lt;/a&gt; by Purely Grey.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Join the &lt;a href="https://discord.gg/PhJStRPQDa" rel="nofollow"&gt;Dice Exploder Discord&lt;/a&gt; to talk about the show!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dice Exploder on &lt;a href="https://www.patreon.com/c/DiceExploder" rel="nofollow"&gt;Patreon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

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Actual Play: 4AM at a Diner (Last Train to Brooklyn) with Linnie Schell

OCT 28, 202566 MIN
Dice Exploder

Actual Play: 4AM at a Diner (Last Train to Brooklyn) with Linnie Schell

OCT 28, 202566 MIN

Description

Transcripts available at diceexploder.com

Last Train to Brooklyn is an actual play from Twice Rolled Tales where they play Last Train to Bremen on a New York City subway car. It's also probably my favorite actual play full stop. Why? I think because it leans into what I'm most excited about this medium: treating capturing the act of play more like a documentary than a means towards fiction. It's excited at least as much about its nonfiction story as its fictional one.

Today I've invited Linnie Schell, one of the main creatives behind Last Train to Bremen, to come give me a beat by beat director's commentary on everything that went into it, all building to the moment I really wanted to highlight: its ending.

Further Reading

Twice Rolled Tales

The RuPaul videos Linnie mentions

Comedy Book by Jesse David Fox

Last Train to Bremen by Caro Asercion

Socials

Maia on Bluesky

Sam on Bluesky and itch

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