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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
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4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Campaign Game 44: The Eve of War
The Armada of the Old World draws near to the rebelling colonies of the New World. It is up to the Water Barons to prepare the defenses in order to repel the…
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A Dirty World: Wages of Sin
In the Great Depression, millions turned to religion to ease their suffering. A preacher in Louisiana ran a tent revival to help the masses and spread the good…
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4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Campaign Game 43: Cult Busters
The Water Barons must rescue the powerful nature spirit Coyote from the cult of Vecna! Of course, the cult is led by a powerful lich, so it won't be easy…
RPPR Actual PlayCall of Cthulhu: Delta Green – Lover in the Ice
To: Cell Q From: Andrea Subject: A Night at the Opera (attachment: Cyrano de Bergerac) STATUS: PARROT reports breach of GREEN BOX 224, hereafter DESIGNATE as…
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4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Campaign Game 42: Thunderbird
The Water Barons are closing in on the endgame of the war but a greater threat looms over them. The imprisoned dark entity is stirring within its vault and…
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Wild Talents: Zombies and other Caped Cannibals playtest 1 and 2
PREORDER ZOMBIES OF THE WORLD NOW AND GET A FREE POSTER! In order to prepare for Gencon 2011, I wrote and playtested a Wild Talents zombie-themed one shot. A…
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4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Campaign Game 41: Adventure Time
The Water Barons are up to their necks in adventure! The armada from the Old World threatens New Arcadia and the rest of the New World. The dark entity stirs…
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Eclipse Phase: Through A Glass Darkly
A critical Firewall server has been compromised by an engimatic man only known as Jacob Murphy. A team of three agents has tracked him down to a remote site…
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4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Campaign Game 40: The Pupil
Locke, the wizard of the Water Barons, has a star pupil named Anakin. Unfortunately, Anakin has been keeping secrets from his teacher and Locke will not…
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Call of Cthulhu: The Haunting
It is my honor and privilege to introduce what is no doubt the finest actual play ever posted or ever will be posted on this site. This game used the classic…
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MAOCT: Sucrose Park at Fear the Con 2011
I ran one of my favorite chapters from Road Trip at Fear the Con 4 with special player Chad Wattler from Fear the Boot. As before, the intrepid kids and their…
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4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Campaign Game 39: Fall of the Frost Giants
The Water Barons have infiltrated Frost Giant society to undermine it in a desperate plan to liberate the enslaved orcs. The mighty dracolich He Who Devours…
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Eclipse Phase: A Glorious Fall
Eclipse Phase is an incredible transhumanist based sci-fi horror RPG. I picked up a copy at Gencon 2009 but only got to run a game of it recently. Because we…
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4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Campaign Game 38: The Inadverent Avatar ripoff
The Water Barons have infiltrated the frost giant city by placing their minds in several giant corpses via mind jar spell, all thanks to Pontifex the lich. Now…
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TMNT & Other Strangeness: Mutants in New York 2
The mutant heroes have uncovered a nefarious plot by an evil scientist that must be stopped. To complicate matters, delusional 'monster hunters' are tracking…
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4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Campaign Game 37: Against the (Frost) Giants
The Water Barons have learned that a clan of Frost Giants have enslaved an orcish settlement far to the north of New Arcadia. Cassius leads the charge as the…
RPPR Actual PlayCall of Cthulhu: Bryson Springs
The year is 1935 and horror lurks in the shadows of the Great Depression. In a Hooverille near a small town of California, Bryson Springs, a man has been…
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4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Campaign Game 36: Ogretown
The Water Barons are torn apart by schisms in their beliefs and actions. One has fallen in battle. Another hears the cry of his distant kin, far to the north…
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TMNT and Other Strangeness: Mutants in New York part 1
This game system was the first RPG I ever played, so even though it hasn't aged as gracefully as some games, I'm still fond of TMNT & Other Strangeness. So…
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Dark Sun Episode 03: Dark Come Soon
The Dark Sun campaign continues as our unlucky protagonists find themselves embroiled in intrigue and action in the shadows of the city. Deadly fights in the…
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Call of Cthulhu: Divine Fire – The KGB Files part 2
A team of KGB agents in cold war Berlin have to find an escaped German madman and bring him back to custody. Little do they know that darker forces are at work…
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4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Campaign Game 35: Angelic Hordes Come Forth!
Sarkis, agent of the Crown and adversary to the Water Barons has made a last stand at a temple of Pelor. He does have one last trick up his sleeve: portals…
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Call of Cthulhu: Divine Fire – The KGB Files part 1
In World War 2, a remote Nazi base is destroyed and only a few escaped to tell how and why. One of the survivors was a German soldier who was later captured by…
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4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Campaign Game 34: The Gauntlet
The Water Barons must defeat Sarkis if their rebellion is to have any chance for success but first they must run through a gauntlet of defenses. Dedicated…
RPPR Actual PlayPantheon: The Game of Gods
Pantheon is a GMless game developed by Robin Laws and uses a unique narrative cage match system. Special guests Patrick and Karee match wits with some regulars…
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A Dirty World: Andrew’s Fortune part 2
CONTRIBUTE TO THE RUINS OF LEMURIA KICKSTARTER TO GET 10 PREVIEW AP EPISODES OR A SEAT A SKYPE GAME RUN BY ROSS PAYTON! The mystery surrounding Andrew deepens…
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4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Campaign Game 33: Diplomats and Discourse
CONTRIBUTE TO THE RUINS OF LEMURIA KICKSTARTER TO GET 10 PREVIEW AP EPISODES! As for his literary pursuits, he cultivated chiefly the art of speaking which was…
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Monsters and Other Childish Things: Sucrose Park Gaiden
CONTRIBUTE TO THE RUINS OF LEMURIA KICKSTARTER TO GET 10 PREVIEW AP EPISODES! What happens after the heroes pass through Sucrose Park and defeat Cool Rat? A…
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4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Campaign Game 32: Enter the Dragon
DONATE TO THE RUINS OF LEMURIA KICKSTARTER TO GET 10 FREE AP EPISODES The Water Barons investigate one of the new cities that has risen up in the last year - a…
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Don’t Rest Your Head
When insomniacs spend too long without sleep, they either die or find a way to the Mad City when the clock strikes thirteen. Several desperate insomniacs…
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Dark Sun Episode 2: Welcome to Urik
Read the prequel to this adventure first! A group of desperate and cursed adventurers find themselves in the wilderness outside of Urik. As they travel to the…
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A Dirty World: Andrew’s Fortune part 1
Chicago is a dirty town in a dirty world, especially on the coldest night of the year. Two gangs fall and a power vacuum is left in their former territory…
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4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Campaign Game 31 – We are Legion
The epic tier of the New World Campaign begins! A year has passed between the end of paragon tier and the beginning of epic tier. The colonization of the New…
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Call of Cthulhu: Omar Shakti Must Die!
A group of high powered beings have been charged with assassinating Omar Shakti, the immortal servant of Nyarlathotep, a powerful sorcerer. Yithian super…
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4E Dungeons and Dragons: The New World Gaiden 02
Cortez has a crisis of faith as the expedition discovers the presence of old gods in the New World. While some counsel Cortez to remain faithful, others care…
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Fear Itself: Slender man
The Slender Man is a terrifying entity associated with the mysterious disappearances of many individuals. In the gated community of Fiddler's Green, four…
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4E Dungeons and Dragons: The New World Gaiden 01
Many years before the Water Barons first set foot on the New World, Cortez led a secret crusade to stop a great evil from consuming the world. He is…
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A Dirty World: The Buyout
I picked up Greg Stolze's Film Noir inspired game, A Dirty World at Gencon this year and ran it for the first time recently. Inspired by material I had read…
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Dark Sun Episode 1 – Rime of the Cursed Artifact
The grimdark world of Athas is not one for the weak or foolish. The gods are dead, water is scarce and civilization is ruled by evil immortal sorcerer kings. A…
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Call of Cthulhu: Incident on Bell Island
The liberty ships of World War 2 were hastily constructed cargo ships that moved desperately needed supplies from North America to Europe. They were built in…
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4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Campaign Game 30: A wedding and a funeral
The end of paragon tier in the New World campaign! The Water Barons must deal with the internal division caused by the revelations of the late Bright Eyes…
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Call of Cthulhu: Divine Fire at Gencon 2010
You made this possible: Aaron's first convention game of Call of Cthulhu. He's ran Tom's Divine Fire scenario. Prisoners stuck in a remote Nazi science camp…
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Cyberpunk: Lady Gaga 2.0
In the chromed future wireless Internet access does not exist but full conversion cyborgs are commonplace. Computers Cyberdecks have less memory and processing…
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4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Campaign Game 29: Bright Eyes
The investigation into the death of Sigmund, the leader of the crusaders, reaches a climax as the Water Barons close in on Bright Eyes, the elusive gnome…
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MAOCT: Candlewick Manor at Gencon 09
I ran a game of Candlewick Manor at Gencon 2009 for 7 lucky players including my co-host Tom Church. In short, bad things happen to weird children. The new…
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4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Campaign Game 28: Mysteries upon Mysteries
After defeating the lich Numeides, the Water Barons find themselves embroiled in a number of intrigues and mysteries. Their agendas often collide, leading to…
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Fear Itself: Survival City
A group of unwary party goers finds themselves caught in a forgotten nuclear fallout bunker from the Cold War. Strange people have lived for decades in the…
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4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Campaign Game 27: Die Lich, you don’t belong in this world
The Water Barons now face a lich, Numeides, and must defeat the vile undead sorcerer. Can they defeat her? What is the secret to her phylactery? Will the…
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Monsters and Other Childish Things: Sucrose Park
Designed as the ultimate daycare center, Las Vegas’ Sucrose Park looks after thousands of kids while their parents gamble away their college tuition in nearby…
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4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Campaign Game 26: I, Beholder
The Water Barons have finally defeated Cortez but the end of the war brings new challenges. As the shipyards come close to completion, Pontifex has new work…
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Call of Cthulhu: Delta Green – Convergence
You are cordially invited to a Night at the Opera. A town called Groversville is a hotbed of UFO activity and one of its residents has recently…
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4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Campaign Game 25: Farewell to Arms
Cortez's army has been defeated but Cortez still remains in power. How can the Water Barons remove the tyrant from power once and for all? In this session…
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Wushu: League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen 1988
Inspired by Top Shelf's recent April Fool's joke, I ran a one shot game on this Cinco de Mayo using Wushu, a rules light open ended system. The player…
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4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Campaign Game 24: The Dinner Party
Victory over Cortez's horde means one thing: Party time! Kuthin the warlock's uncle has recently arrived at the colony and is quite rich. Obviously Uncle…
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Call of Cthulhu: Prototype – A town called Hope
An investigative team for a basic cable TV show look into rumors of a government experiment gone awry and uncover a massive conspiracy that threatens the fate…
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4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Campaign Game 23: Battle for Bordertown
The final battle between Cortez's horde and the ragtag underdog colonial army is finally here! No quarter will be given or asked. There will be no retreat. The…
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Wild Talents: Age of Masks at Fear the Con
A group of vigilantes teams up to stop an evil cult's plans to summon a powerful being from beyond time and space. Unfortunately, there's more to this plot…
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4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Campaign Game 22: The Best Laid Plans
On the eve of war, the Water Barons must make their final preparations before Cortez's army arrives. But which strategy should they employ in their greatest…
RPPR Actual PlayWorld of Darkness: Candle Cove
Candle Cove was a kid's show in the early 70s that many remember seeing but no one has ever found proof it ever existed. Until now. Three friends find a tape…
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4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Campaign Game 21: Return of the Captain
In this episode the Water Barons fight to retrieve a Lemurian artifact before Cortez's horde. Can they survive the onslaught of murderous monsters and other…