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RPPR Actual Play
Role Playing Public Radio presents a weekly Actual Play podcast of tabletop role playing game sessions. We play a wide variety of RPGs, from popular classics like Dungeons and Dragons and Call of Cthulhu to indie hits like Red Markets and Fate. Some of our episodes are stand-alone scenarios and we also feature ongoing campaigns in games like Delta Green, Eclipse Phase, and Base Raiders. Give us a listen if you want to hear a great gaming crew fight evil, try outrageous plans to save the day and…
Episodes
RPPR Actual PlayFabula Ultima: Ultracraft: Mysteries of the Broken Wastes – Episode 5
The heroes continue their quest to escort the child to safety, taking them to an ancient wizard's tower. In the real world, the players investigate the strange…
RPPR Actual PlayUnknown Armies: Illinois Rest Stop
A cabal of three adepts races toward Chicago on a desperate mission of cosmic importance. Along the way, they pull over at a rest stop in Illinois and find out…
RPPR Actual PlayFabula Ultima: Ultracraft: Mysteries of the Broken Wastes – Episode 4
The heroes investigate a strange portal in Ultracraft while the players investigate a murder in real life. A meeting at a restaurant leads to an unforgettable…
RPPR Actual PlayDelta Green: The Hoarders
Evan Mullins is a wealthy man in Dallas. He built a large and garish mansion in an exurb of Dallas, Texas. His family is worried about him as he has shown…
RPPR Actual PlayFabula Ultima: Ultracraft: Mysteries of the Broken Wastes – Episode 3
The heroes continue on their quest to escort the child to safety. As they travel down a river, a sea monster attacks! Meanwhile in the real world, the…
RPPR Actual PlayThomas Jefferson’s Speedway Hell: A Cold Race in Hell
Certain damned souls in hell race each other for the amusement of the devils. The winner of each race wins a brief respite from their torment and should a…
RPPR Actual PlayFabula Ultima: Ultracraft: Mysteries of the Broken Wastes – Episode 2
The adventurers investigate the permanent death of a player character in Ultracraft, something supposedly impossible in the game. They also find an orphaned…
RPPR Actual PlayRed Markets 2.1E Beta: Get the Cybertruck!
A group of takers are hired to retrieve a flash drive from the glove box of a cybertruck currently located in an abandoned shopping mall. Unfortunately, the…
RPPR Actual PlayFabula Ultima: Ultracraft: Mysteries of the Broken Wastes – Episode 0 and 1
In the future, one MMO, Ultracraft, dominates the world. The game is so immersive and complex that millions of people play it, using cybernetic implants to…
RPPR Actual PlayDelta Green: Veriform
Barnaby Rice, insurance investigator was found dead in Lufkin Texas. Someone ate his gastrointestinal tract. Such a specific form of cannibalism alerted the…
RPPR Actual PlayDungeons and Dragons 5E: Ptolus – The Night of Dissolution – Episode 15
The final battle to save Ptolus is here! The heroes fight to stop Wuntad and the final ritual in a dramatic battle in the sky over the city. Can the heroes…
RPPR Actual PlayDelta Green: The Labor of Dogs – Episode 11
The final mission awaits the agents. Carter Renault must be stopped at any cost before he rewrites the collective unconsciousness of humanity. Only three badly…
RPPR Actual PlayDungeons and Dragons 5E: Ptolus – The Night of Dissolution – Episode 14
The end draws near! The heroes fight their way through the Temple of the 53 Gods of Chance in a last ditch effort to stop the ritual before it's too late. A…
RPPR Actual PlayDelta Green: The Labor of Dogs – Episode 10
The agents discover the true purpose behind the schemes of their adversaries. Can humans fight the Great Old Ones and other cosmic powers? Discover the secrets…
RPPR Actual PlayDungeons and Dragons 5E: Ptolus – The Night of Dissolution – Episode 13
The heroes discover the location of a massive chaos artifact, a multi-story machine capable of harnessing and releasing chaos energy. The machine must be…
RPPR Actual PlayShadowdark: Nightmare at Castle Goldgloom
Lord Fairfax was a wealthy and successful merchant. Having purchased and experienced all the oddities the surface had to offer, Fairfax became obsessed with…
RPPR Actual PlayDelta Green: The Labor of Dogs – Episode 9
After surviving the deadly 'game', the agents finally meet the source of the curse, the Jade Emperor. They learn far too much of the truth and receive 'boons'…
RPPR Actual PlayDelta Green: Cassiopeia
New York State formed the Riley Commission in 1981 to determine the cause of sickness in a number of cases involving gold jewelry. It discovered that someone…
RPPR Actual PlayDungeons and Dragons 5E: Ptolus – The Night of Dissolution – Episode 12
The heroes venture inside the temple of deep chaos and fight their way through! They stumble upon the Kaleidoscope Temple, a place of power guarded by several…
RPPR Actual PlayDelta Green: The Labor of Dogs – Episode 8
The investigation leads the agents to a seemingly normal warehouse. Inside, they find an unnatural trap far more insidious than they could ever imagine. A…
RPPR Actual PlayThe Zone: A Doomed Expedition
The Zone is a tabletop role playing game about a doomed expedition into a mysterious quarantine zone, whose center will grant one survivor their deepest wish…
RPPR Actual PlayDungeons and Dragons 5E: Ptolus – The Night of Dissolution – Episode 11
The Temple of Deep Chaos reveals even more secrets! The heroes slap fight rat brutes, decode secret messages, and encounter a mutant jailer with a dangerous…
RPPR Actual PlayDungeons and Dragons 5E: Ptolus – The Night of Dissolution – Episode 10
The heroes venture inside the Temple of Deep Chaos, an important site to the chaos cultists plotting to destroy Ptolus. They find that not everyone who lives…
RPPR Actual PlayDelta Green: The Labor of Dogs – Episode 7
The agents learn of a strange nightshade growing operation in a sleepy Washington town and an even stranger mobile app called Mythical Sage Hermes. Dark occult…
RPPR Actual PlayMothership: The Oblivion Broadcast
Jackson Gemini, the pilot of a small survey ship, died under mysterious circumstances while at Broadcast Station 65X, a remote facility built on an asteroid in…
RPPR Actual PlayRoguelike: The Tomb of Time
Three heroes enter a strange pyramid and find themselves trapped in the Tomb of Time! They are caught in a paradox where time and reality are as fluid as the…
RPPR Actual PlayDungeons and Dragons 5E: Ptolus – The Night of Dissolution – Episode 9
The heroes explore an apartment building infested with chaos cultists and monsters. They find the remains of victims and mutated thralls waiting to fight them…
RPPR Actual PlayDelta Green: The Labor of Dogs – Episode 6
The agents intensify their search for the grimoire "On Healing the Sick", leading to new revelations and horrors. A seemingly normal black cat is far more…
RPPR Actual PlayDungeons and Dragons 5E: Ptolus – The Night of Dissolution – Episode 8
The heroes battle monstrous undead and oozes as their continue their search for the missing! They stumble upon dragon wyrmlings and must decide what to do with…
RPPR Actual PlayBallad Hunters: Thomas the Rhymer
Britain, 1813. Amateur folklorists work as agents of the Crown. Across the island, the folk ballads of the common people are coming to life. The dead walk…
RPPR Actual PlayMonster of the Week: Occult Con
Three hunters arrive at the same convention at the same time. All three fight a secret war against supernatural evil and each was drawn to Occult Con, the…
RPPR Actual PlayDelta Green: The Labor of Dogs – Episode 5
Project Fairlight was an attempt to learn the true name of God through deconstructing the text of a grimoire known as On Healing the Sick. The results of that…
RPPR Actual PlayDungeons and Dragons 5E: Ptolus – The Night of Dissolution – Episode 7
The heroes recruit a new member to aid in their quest, an elven rogue. They descend into the sewers and confront numerous threats, including an otyugh!…
RPPR Actual PlayDelta Green: The Labor of Dogs – Episode 4
Teenagers in the Pacific Northwest suffer from mysterious anemia, and they're all linked to an extremist Christian organization. The victims are all marked…
RPPR Actual PlayTeenage Ninja Fighting School: R.A.D. Academy
The last city, Bastion, is home to R.A.D. (Radical Athletic Division) Academy, where students train for a chance to participate in the Galactic Olympics. One…
RPPR Actual PlayDungeons and Dragons 5E: Ptolus – The Night of Dissolution – Episode 6
Chaos tech requires surgery to work and the heroes meet the surgeon! As they navigate the city of Ptolus, the heroes investigate the chaos cults working to…
RPPR Actual PlayDelta Green: The Labor of Dogs – Episode 3
The agents make their final move to stop John Anthony Titus from completing his secret project. In order to do so, they'll need to deal with the Servant of the…
RPPR Actual PlayDungeons and Dragons 5E: Ptolus – The Night of Dissolution – Episode 5
The heroes investigate a dangerous cult known as the Brotherhood of Venom. Tracking down a secret meeting and infiltrating it is easier said than done. The…
RPPR Actual PlayLiminal Horror: Moonlit Shadow
A man died under mysterious circumstances near the village of Haddow. Reported as an animal attack, a group of curious investigators heads to Haddow to find…
RPPR Actual PlayDelta Green: The Labor of Dogs – Episode 2
The agents discover the extent of Titus' plans and decide to sabotage them. His research into immortality has gone too far and he has become too dangerous. But…
RPPR Actual PlayDungeons and Dragons 5E: Ptolus – The Night of Dissolution – Episode 4
The heroes investigate mysterious kidnappings, which leads them to an orphanage targeted by Killraven, a notorious crime boss. They'll have to protect the…
RPPR Actual PlayDelta Green: The Labor of Dogs – Episode 1
John Anthony Titus, a former defense contractor, is rumored to be an immortal alchemist. Delta Green has tracked him to a remote island near Japan and has…
RPPR Actual PlayDungeons and Dragons 5E: Ptolus – The Night of Dissolution – Episode 3
The heroes explore the basement and find a cursed ice cavern! Frozen monsters lurk in the walls of the cavern, but the team must press on to clear the dungeon…
RPPR Actual PlayBlack Company RPG Beta – Welcome to Beryl
The Black Company Roleplaying Game is a fast-paced, deadly game of swords, sorcery, and soldiers, based on the novel series by Glen Cook. The all-too-mortal…
RPPR Actual PlayDungeons and Dragons 5E: Ptolus – The Night of Dissolution – Episode 2
The heroes continue their exploration of Pythoness House, an abandoned lair of a chaos cult. It is haunted, trapped, and filled with dangerous foes, but the…
RPPR Actual PlayOutgunned: Amateur Night
A mega cruise ship with an oversized wedding party is a nightmare for three people trying to keep the wedding intact. After a strange night of partying, the…
RPPR Actual PlayDungeons and Dragons 5E: Ptolus – The Night of Dissolution – Episode 1
The threads of a hidden conspiracy lead the characters into a web of insane cultists, wild chaos magic, and horrors from the primordial days of the world. Can…
RPPR Actual PlayDelta Green: ENTOURAGE RAPTURE
The Program needs a high value target secured before an opposition group eliminates them. The HVT is in a remote trailer park in North Dakota. Two cells, O…
RPPR Actual PlayThe One Ring: A Conspiracy Most Cracked
Mad Baggins is at it again, and has gathered in Bag End a new cabal of adventurous spirits whom he has named the Conspirators of the Red Book. In an effort to…
RPPR Actual PlayFall of Delta Green – Borellus Connection – Operation NEPENTHE – Part 2 – Episode 18
The necromancer's plot is uncovered and its apocalyptic ramifications are revealed to the agents. They must stop him from breaking time and space in a final…
RPPR Actual PlayLabyrinth Signal: Alienation of the Flesh
Three patients at a secretive corporate medical facility awaken with strange new scars on their chests. Parasites writhe within their bodies, surgically…
RPPR Actual PlayFall of Delta Green – Borellus Connection – Operation NEPENTHE – Part 1 – Episode 17
The agents have tracked down the necromancer to Baltimore, in a last ditch effort to stop him. He's had centuries to prepare for his master plan, but what is…
RPPR Actual PlayFate Accelerated – Drow and Dracoliches – Episode 17
The Battle of Waterdeep has begun! The heroes make a final stand, facing an army of mercenaries, an arch wizard, and even more dangerous foes. At what lengths…
RPPR Actual PlayFall of Delta Green – Borellus Connection – A walk through Carcosa – Episode 16
A Delta Green agent pursues a target through a portal and winds up in a very strange land. He is joined by other agents from Delta Green, but not from his…
RPPR Actual PlayFate Accelerated – Drow and Dracoliches – Episode 16
The heroes try to save Waterdeep by dealing with an orc army, kobold followers of a dracolich and confront a dangerous gold dragon! Can they succeed in their…
RPPR Actual PlayFall of Delta Green – Borellus Connection – Operation MISTRAL part 2 – Episode 15
The agents close in on their target but the necromancer is a dangerous opponent. Chasing him through the Carcosa-infected streets is even more dangerous. Can…
RPPR Actual PlaySalvage Union: Downing of the Atychos
A cargo plane carrying a top secret corporate research project crashes into the wastes. A team of mecha pilots goes on a mission to retrieve as much salvage…
RPPR Actual PlayFate Accelerated – Drow and Dracoliches – Episode 15
The heroes race to save Waterdeep with careful and strategic negotiations between factions. They also must rescue Rushk from prison if they're going to have a…
RPPR Actual PlayFall of Delta Green – Borellus Connection – Operation MISTRAL part 1 – Episode 14
The agents head to France, ostensibly to investigate civil unrest and its connection to the unnatural. However, their handler found a lead on their primary…
RPPR Actual PlayShadowdark: The Lost Citadel of the Scarlet Minotaur
Three stalwart adventurers venture into a lost citadel determined to seek treasure and glory. But as they delve into the lost citadel, they risk meeting the…