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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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Mothership: The Haunting of Ypsilon 14
A squad of space marines is sent to a remote mining station on an asteroid to investigate the disappearance of a worker. When they arrive, the marines realize…
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Scum and Villainy: The Oddballs – Episode 1
A crew of smugglers, hustlers, mercenaries, and eccentrics need credits to survive. They specialize in the jobs other crews won't take because they're too…
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Delta Green: The Dreamer Below
A man's body is found, partially cannibalized, near a homeless camp outside Chicago. The killer carved an occult sigil on the body, earning Delta Green's…
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Warhammer 40k: Wrath and Glory – The Anvil
The Pilgrims have made an unlikely ally. A clan of mutant Jokaero, gifted with the ability to speak and think like other species, is on the run from Chaos…
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Call of Cthulhu 7E: Harlem Hellfighters Never Die
Harlem, New York City, December 1920. Even as the bitter cold envelops the city, Harlem is heating up. A vibrant rent party turns deadly when monstrous…
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Warhammer 40k Wrath and Glory: The Pilgrims – Skagtoria
The Pilgrims, an odd group of warriors and rogues assembled for a secret mission, find themselves on Skagtoria, a remote Imperial planet. A small population of…
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Doctor Witch Doctor Playtest Sessions 1
In a hospital of mystically inclined doctors, no disease is too obscure to cure. Patients with the most impossible conditions are healed every day. Two such…
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Unknown Armies: The Treasure Hunt – Episode 7
The hunt for the treasure is almost over. The Ska Band journeys upriver to the mystical heart of the Mississippi River to an island. There, they face the final…
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Lancer: The Siege of Vermeer
In the far future, humanity has scattered across the stars. The Union Diplomatic Corps is bravely exploring the cosmos to re-establish contact with far-flung…
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Unknown Armies: The Treasure Hunt – Episode 6
The Ska Band cabal schemes to help a cinemancer gain three major charges, magick powerful enough to change reality. The Ska Band will take one charge if…
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Eclipse Phase: The Resurrectionist
No one expected to wake up in a graveyard ten years after the Fall mainly because there are no more graveyards. But when a group of forknapped individuals find…
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Unknown Armies: The Treasure Hunt – Episode 5
The Ska Band heads to New Harmony Indiana, where an odd movie production is underway. A wealthy and eccentric filmmaker is making a movie but seems to have a…
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Delta Green: Black Bag Job
In 1970, a group of Delta Green veterans band together to steal documents from their own government. Delta Green has been shut down as an official agency, but…
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Unknown Armies: The Treasure Hunt – Episode 4
Alpha and Omega, O almighty God, the beginning of all things, without beginning, the ending without an end, hear today my prayers, O most holy one, neither…
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Free Spacer at Gen Con 2019
The galaxy is divided by a cold war and only skilled freelancers, known as Free Spacers, can keep civilization running by completing dangerous missions. One…
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Unknown Armies: The Treasure Hunt – Episode 3
The Ska Band cabal needs to summon an angel to bless a divining rod. Fortunately they know of a nearby cult that specializes in summoning angels (located next…
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Delta Green: Operation OPAL ELK
Two Delta Green agents uncovered a criminal conspiracy with an unknown capacity for hypergeometry, demonstrating the capacity to bring dead men back to life…
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Unknown Armies: The Treasure Hunt – Episode 2
After defeating an adversary, the High School Ska Band cabal wants to steal the dead man's occult loot. This entails breaking into his house, finding a…
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Mothership: The Audit
The company needs a space station audited. Multiple irregularities and erratic reports from Caltech 65 worry the accountants and executives. There's a good…
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Unknown Armies: The Treasure Hunt – Episode 1
According to rumor, Koya Amaru, a legendary pirate queen buried her treasure somewhere along the Mississippi River in 1718. Evidence of her actual existence is…
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Red Markets: Black Death at Origins 2019
In Medieval Europe, the Black Death has taken countless lives. Some of its victims have arisen as the restless undead, killing any who fall in their grasp. The…
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Reign: Nagalisitu – Episode 14
The Hunting Pack's journey is nearly over, but their work is not yet done. They still must deal with the undying being they created to monitor Nagalisitu while…
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Unknown Armies: The God of Roadkill
A man is haunted by strange events, impossible to explain. He has been cursed by a mysterious scavenger who leads a pack of feral dogs. The friends investigate…
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Reign: Nagalisitu – Episode 13
The Hunting Pack has come to terms with Nagalisitu society as it has evolved. Only one mission remains: to secure economic power for the nation. That means…
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Things from the Flood: The Traveler
Something weird is taking place in Boulder City. Reality itself seems to blur. Things, and even people, change without warning. When a lost kid is found…
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Reign: Nagalisitu – Episode 12
The Hunting Pack has scattered across the land, each obsessed with their own missions. Some are at war with the world, while others try to find redemption. But…
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Dungeons and Dragons 5E: The Sea Demon’s Gold
A group of three adventurers are on a storm-wracked ship, seeking the island of a long-forgotten, abandoned temple to the Sea Demon. An extinct people…
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Reign: Nagalisitu – Episode 11
The Hunting Pack has split apart. While some members try to keep civilization running, others have turned against society or pursue their own goals. At this…
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The Orpheus Protocol: Knock, Knock
News: The Orpheus Protocol is on Kickstarter now! Ross is writing material for it,as one of the stretch goals.Check it out today! A team of agents has been…
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Reign: Nagalisitu – Episode 10
The Hunting Pack deals with a society growing beyond their comprehension and control. Tensions rise between the leaders. Can the Pack hold together? What…
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Delta Green: All My Sins Be Remembered
While excavating land around Catholic church near Norfolk, Virginia as part of a larger renovation, local construction workers have unearthed a strange burial…
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Reign: Nagalisitu – Episode 9
The leaders of the Hunting Pack have decided that Nagalisitu needs warriors to strengthen its people and teach them in the art of war. They know that a penal…
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A Dirty World: The Weight of Her Shadow – Part 2
Having unearthed far more than they wished, the grandchildren of the fallen Shelby Matriarch take matters into their own hands to determine the accepted…
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Reign: Nagalisitu – Episode 8
In order to prove that evil exists and the faith is necessary, the Hunting Pack is mounting an expedition to an unexplored region of Nagalisitu. Many have…
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A Dirty World: The Weight of Her Shadow – Part 1
The less-than-beloved matriarch of the Shelby family has passed and her surviving children and grandchildren gather to attend her funeral and determine…
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When You’re Here, You’re Family
Finally, after years of hardship, you have made it here; your home, the place where you will make your stand and raise your families as a community.Traditions…
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Reign: Nagalisitu – Episode 7
The Hunting Pack has returned to Nagalisitu to introduce religion but society has changed quite a bit in the interim. How do you introduce faith to a society…
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Delta Green: BLACKSAT
NASA always has more people willing to risk death for glory than missions to fill. When a five astronaut team gets the call that they’ve been assigned a…
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Reign: Nagalisitu – Episode 6
The Hunting Pack is summoned to explain Nagalisitu to the Queen of Newt, but they soon find that she is set on exploitation and conquest. Fortunately, the…
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Slasher Flick: Eyes on Breen
Agent Denim is on a mission to stop the SOVAD global economic forum (held in Las Vegas) before the evil bankers and politicians take over the world. One by…
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Reign: Nagalisitu – Episode 5
The Hunting Pack has to fulfill a lot of prophecies, which might cause the downfall of a kingdom! Dwenar's love, a princess who has gone to the nunnery, is…
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Eclipse Phase: The Coelacanth
An executive's identity is stolen (and murdered temporarily to assist in the identity theft). His fortune has been stolen, but he has enough assets left to…
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Reign: Nagalisitu – Episode 4
The Hunting Pack's quest to unite the tribes continues! Diplomacy must finish the job that war began but the mercenaries may not be up to the task. Persuading…
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Delta Green: The Book Club
A bank is robbed in Los Angeles but it seems to defy all logic. Safe deposit boxes were sawed open but the vault itself was not breached. The door remained…
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Reign: Nagalisitu – Episode 3
The Hunting Pack must unite the tribes of Nagalisitu if they wish to bring them the benefits of civilization and education. It will take a mixture of…
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Warhammer 40k Wrath and Glory: Iota
A most unlikely group of adventurers finds themselves on a desperate mission to rescue an Eldar Farseer from a cult of Chaos. The cult has holed up in an…
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Reign: Nagalisitu – Episode 2
The Hunting Pack has been charged with guiding a new civilization, but before they can help the people of Nagalisitu, they must survive the court of Daryl the…
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Delta Green: Amanuensis Dolls
Jack Knight, a failed horror writer, has been targeted for investigation. Recent communications with his agent and others indicate he may potentially be a…
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Reign: Nagalisitu – Episode 1
Mysterious slavers attack the camp of the Hunting Pack, a small mercenary company. The leaders of the mercenaries chase after the slavers, trying to rescue…
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Slasher Flick: Secret Santa…FROM HELL
A group of (mostly) horrible people find themselves at an isolated mansion on Christmas eve, with a strange older couple as their hosts. An innocent game of…
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Forbidden Lands: Rose Shield Dungeon
After hundreds of years, the Blood Mist has mysteriously disappeared. All throughout the land, villages and settlements once isolated are now open to the rest…
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Delta Green: The Hunters
A squad of Marines in the jungles of Vietnam encounter a power beyond their comprehension. It gives them a chance to defeat the enemy, but at what cost? As…
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Trail of Cthulhu: Double Dare
Bill Wessler is the biggest bully in high school. Just this week, Bill dared anyone brave enough to spend the entire night in the old Denford school on the…
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Ashen Stars: Abundance – Episode 8
Team Silverhawk must stop the villain behind the plan to wipe out Abundance 5 and that means finding and infiltrating his personal ship, the Bloody Baron…
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Rememorex: The Rake
The Rake is an infamous urban legend about an evil creature that preys on innocent sleeping victims. After they wake up and see it hovering over them at night…
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Ashen Stars: Abundance – Episode 7
A villain has plotted to use an ancient artifact to gain control over a swarm of dangerous aliens. In order to do this, the villain has endangered the life of…
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Red Markets: Papers, Please at Patrecon 2018
A group of Takers have been hired to secure printers and laminating machines from a DMV in an overrun mall. Along the way, they will have to fight casualties…
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Ashen Stars: Abundance – Episode 6
Team Silverhawk races to a distant planet to pursue a lead in their investigation. In order to proceed, they must infiltrate a popular game show that pits…
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Delta Green: Sweep and Clear
YOU HAVE BEEN CORDIALLY INVITED TO A NIGHT AT THE OPERA. A dirty bomb has been planted in the training center. Stop them. Get them. You have a weapon and a…
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Ashen Stars: Abundance – Episode 5
The crew of the Holiday needs to research a strange alien artifact they have discovered. A scholar on a remote and dangerous jungle planet can help them, so…