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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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Blades in the Dark – The Blind Eyes – Episode 5
Hulls are automatons powered by a soul. They are intelligent but constrained by their programming. Still, they can act on their own volition. The Blind Eyes…
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Blades in the Dark – The Blind Eyes – Episode 4
The Blind Eyes turn their attention to the wealthy. They see an opportunity by deceiving a rich family in Whitecrowne, the exclusive district for the rich and…
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Delta Green: Eldritch America – Spearfinger
In Wildwood Tennessee, an outbreak of a mysterious illness resulted in rapid onset symptoms resembling hepatitis. All infections were fatal. Six children and…
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Eclipse Phase: Mediation on Iapetus
Iapetus is overrun by Exsurgents and discarded TITAN machinery. Firewall maintains a base to destroy Exsurgents and stop TITAN artifact smugglers…
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Blades in the Dark – The Blind Eyes – Episode 3
The Blind Eyes turn their focus to sports! A local and unique sport can only be held if a unique mystical artifact can be brought into the city. The…
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Delta Green: The Last Flight of the Slim Crow
The flight crew of the Slim Crow, a B25 bomber, embark on a secret mission in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. They will encounter a new threat unlike…
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Blades in the Dark – The Blind Eyes – Episode 2
A medicine show has rolled into Duskvol. The Blind Eyes want to take down the charlatans but defeating a well-organized gang is easier said than done. Even…
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Over Arms: Yog-Sothoth’s Pact
In the sleepy town of Arkham, an evil sorcerer performs a ritual to gain power. Three random citizens will find themselves imbued with power, but also made…
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Blades in the Dark – The Blind Eyes – Episode 1
A new crew of smugglers takes on their first job in Duskvol. They call themselves the Blind Eyes and specialize in the weird and the occult. With a small…
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Dungeon Crawl Classics: Tremors and Dragons
In a world of magic, dragons, and adventurers, a simple village finds itself at the frontline. An errant wish made by a fool unleashes a new monster never seen…
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Savage Worlds – Future Denied – Part 3
With the moirai drone black site disabled and Steel Fate functionally dismantled, it’s time to take down the man on top of it all. Brad Halcyon, the…
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Monsters and Other Childish Things: Xtreme Tricks or Gnarly Treats
Pleasant Glades Mall is hosting a special Halloween event! Kids can trick or treat at stores to get candy and win special prizes. But a group of four kids soon…
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Savage Worlds – Future Denied – Part 2
The heroes must stop Steel Facade before it's too late! But how? The team investigates the criminal organization and finds a black site. Delving into its…
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Delta Green: Post Mortem
A true crime podcast and documentary crew has hired three investigative experts to help them produce a show about the Mackenzie Massacre. Years ago, a man…
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Savage Worlds – Future Denied – Part 1
New Veridian is a megacity on the bleeding edge. Vibrant neon signs cast each street in never-ending light, but the darkness of the back alleys is ever…
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Unknown Armies: The Send Off
Claire and Calamity are back! Claire has been commissioned to draw two local wrestlers as part of a promotion for an upcoming match for the backyard wrestling…
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Eclipse Phase 2E: The End (for now) – The Eighth Sea – Episode 17
The Eighth Sea regroups and recovers after the Mercury heist. Secrets are revealed and plans are made. Unfortunately due to real life circumstances, we were…
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Monster of the Week: Barracuda Arizona
Check out the Deck of Monsters Kickstarter! If you run Monster of the Week, the DoM adds a bunch of new monsters to help run a game without prep. The small…
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Eclipse Phase 2E: The Heist – The Eighth Sea – Episode 16
After all of their challenges and preparations, the Eighth Sea is finally ready to pull off the heist of the century! The secret traitor among them is still at…
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Monster of the Week: Godzilla versus Malum
After Mothra and Battra defeated Godzilla, a new agency called G-Force created a deniable black ops team for special missions. After a new kaiju called Malum…
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Eclipse Phase 2E: Mercury Jail Break – The Eighth Sea – Episode 15
The Eighth Sea needs help with the Mercury heist, so they're going to break a few people out of prison to get their help. They're locked up in a mining…
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Unknown Armies: Ghosts and Coffee
Claire (Stickypawz on Furryart) and her talking dog Calamity (only she can hear him) have learned of a mysterious diner. If you are the last person in the…
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Eclipse Phase 2E: Scouting the Factory – The Eighth Sea – Episode 14
The Eighth Sea knows the location of an incredibly valuable data cache on Mercury. It's stored in an abandoned antimatter factory, supposedly infested with…
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Zweihander: Into the Green Valley
A band of conquistadors has disappeared in the jungles of Guatemala. A second group sets out to find them, but as they venture into the green valley, they find…
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Eclipse Phase 2E: SPACE WHALES – The Eighth Sea – Episode 13
As part of the Eighth Sea hides on an exoplanet, the other team travels to the Sun to pull off a daring scam. It turns out that space whales (whale uplifts…
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Base Raiders: Project Bildungsroman
A group of Base Riaders have all been approached by Vivien, a scarred woman with an intriguing tale. She claims to represent a group who have a lead on a…
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Eclipse Phase 2E: Polar Assault Part 2 – The Eighth Sea – Episode 12
The Eighth Sea has taken the polar base but can they catch the last VIP before they escape? The crew goes on a daring aerial chase but Martian authorities have…
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Call of Cthulhu: Risam Vellere
Helos, a Greek Occultist, has acquired a complete copy of Al-Azif. Having a desire to keep this acquisition secret, he has sought the most distant translator…
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Eclipse Phase 2E: The Eighth Sea – Gatecrashing – Episode 11
After the polar assault, the Eighth Sea has to lay low to avoid getting caught. Half the team hops through a Pandora Gate. While they wait on an exoplanet…
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Monster of the Week: A Wizard
A dimensional intrusion threatens the city, yet only three supernaturally gifted heroes are even aware it exists. It manifested as an invisible bubble inside a…
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Eclipse Phase 2E: The Assault – The Eighth Sea – Episode 10
The Eighth Sea launches the assault! The Night Cartel's polar fortress is their last stronghold on Mars and if the Eighth Sea can destroy it and capture a…
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Call of Cthulhu: Bereavement
Content Warning: Reference to real-world tragedies in this scenario From the Author: During quarantine, I was thinking a lot about the nature of grief…
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Eclipse Phase 2E: Under the Ice – The Eighth Sea – Episode 9
The Eighth Sea knows how to assault the polar fortress of the Night Cartel. A daring plan to build a tunnel under the ice until they can breach the perimeter…
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Fear Itself: Weep Not Manor
Content Warning: This episode features brief descriptions of torture. Synopsis: Weep Not Manor is considered the nation's most extreme haunted house. Open only…
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Eclipse Phase 2E: Road Trip – The Eighth Sea – Episode 8
In order to launch an assault on a polar fortress, the Eighth Sea must assemble an army. Quite literally that is. They must transport fabricators and raw…
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Call of Cthulhu: Sundown
The year is 1880, and the posse is forming.It's easy to feel alone as the shadows gather and the pale moon rises over the High Plains. The Apache say that on…
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Eclipse Phase 2E: Chicago 334– The Eighth Sea – Episode 7
The Eighth Sea needs an army, so they'll have to steal it! A cult has a cache of weaponized egos, heavily modified through psychosurgery to serve as the…
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Zweihander: Shrine of the Lake
The village of Penkurth relies on pilgrims to the Shrine of Our Lady of Stone. The shrine is reputed to heal many lingering ailments and the steady stream of…
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Eclipse Phase 2E: Calamity – The Eighth Sea – Episode 6
A contact named Calamity wants to meet the Eighth Sea. She knows a way to strike back at the Night Cartel but she wants to meet in person at an outdoor…
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Delta Green: Many Angles
No one knows what's happening at Rane Fine Art. The gallery had a new show but a riot broke out. At least that's what the initial 911 calls said. Now, the area…
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Eclipse Phase: Pennies for Your Morph Part 2 – The Eighth Sea – Episode 5
News:I have launched a vaporwave and dark ambient music review podcast called Night Clerk Radio. Listen to episodes now! The heist continues! The Eighth Sea…
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Call of Cthulhu: Blood and Forge
An middleman named Mr. Bartlett hired a crew of mercenaries in 1899 to help his client 'acquire' some land in Montana near the town of Eden. The crew rolls…
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Dallas the Television Role Playing Game
Dallas debuted on April 2, 1978, as a five-part miniseries on CBS. Producers initially had no plans for expansion; however, due to the show's popularity, it…
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Eclipse Phase: Pennies for Your Morph Part 1 – The Eighth Sea – Episode 4
The Eighth Sea has intel on valuable morph design data, which could fetch a high price on the black market. Unfortunately they aren't the only ones after the…
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Stories from the Grave: Dark Ultimatum – A Neil Breen Tale
The Shadow Council wants to control society through fear and violence. To that end, they use their most deadly secret agent to devastate Las Vegas. Can a group…
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Eclipse Phase: Safe House Raids – The Eighth Sea – Episode 3
The raids on the Night Cartel continue in the second part of the job! The Night Cartel has a safe house in a remote and well-defended section of the Martian…
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Delta Green: Night Floors – Featuring Pretending to be People
The cast of Pretending to be People, a Delta Green AP podcast, agreed to let me run them through Night Floors, perhaps my single favorite DG scenario. An…
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Eclipse Phase: Safe House Raids – The Eighth Sea – Episode 2
The Eighth Sea, a new criminal syndicate on Mars, has taken a job to destroy multiple Night Cartel safe houses. The Night Cartel is embroiled in a system-wide…
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Night’s Black Agents: Direct Action
Protests rock Seattle over a G8 summit meeting held there and new laws expanding the powers of the police force. A group of intelligence experts are retired…
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Eclipse Phase: Djerba – The Eighth Sea – Episode 1
A group of desperate and ambitious criminals on Mars plan to start their own gang. Named the Eighth Sea, after the restaurant serving as their front, the crew…
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Tiny Dungeons: Fable of the Undetected Sanctuary
A group of children have been chosen to participate in the greatest contest of their young lives. The Undetected Sanctuary offers magical power to any worthy…
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Eclipse Phase 2E: The Motivator
A group of soul-trafficked egos awaken in a simulspace and told they have a shot at freedom if they can complete a job. A notorious criminal hacker, the…
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Ruin Playtest – December 2019
News: The RPPR Patreon has a special offer going on right now. Back at the $10 level to get B-Sides Volume 5: Gaming Gains! It has 20 new Actual Play episodes…
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Scum and Villainy: The Oddballs – Episode 5
Laser Chainsaw, a notorious criminal, is gunning for the Oddballs! It turns out that the Oddballs have inadvertently framed him for their many space crimes, so…
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Alien RPG: Chariot of the Gods – Part 2
The stranded crew of the Montero struggles to survive against deadly aliens and other threats. Repairing the Chronus and dealing with its possibly infected…
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Scum and Villainy: The Oddballs – Episode 4
The Oddballs need to retrieve an artifact from a dangerous cult of mutants. After finding the cult's lair, they'll need to navigate a dark underground maze…
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Alien RPG: Chariot of the Gods – Part 1
The job was routine, the money fair. Then the damn company diverted a crew to answer a distress call from a ship that disappeared almost 80 years ago—a…
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Scum and Villainy: The Oddballs – Episode 3
The Oddballs are working for robots! The Conclave, a secretive faction of free-willed robots, wants their help on a factory planet. The Oddballs will have to…
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Slasher Flick: Ghost Puncher
A TV producer believes that audiences will love to see MMA fighters and Extreme Athletes hunt ghosts and attempt to punch them! The pilot episode will be…
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Scum and Villainy: The Oddballs – Episode 2
The Oddballs are hired to steal an artifact from a dangerous cult. Fortunately the cult is looking for a crew to transport the artifact to one of their allies…