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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 PlayCall of Cthulhu 7th Edition: The Space Between
In modern day Hollywood, a new movie, The Space Between, faces more troubles every day. The lead actress, Verity Harrow, has disappeared. The Church of…
RPPR Actual PlayAshen Stars: Abundance – Episode 4
Team Silverhawk tracks down a group of miscreants on Abundance 5 by tracking cyber cows and investigating an abandoned resort, complete with malfunctioning…
RPPR Actual PlayThreadbare: Off to See the Clockmaker
Once upon a time, there were humans who built toys and a great many other things. The humans are now gone, but the toys remain, now magically animated by some…
RPPR Actual PlayAshen Stars: Abundance – Episode 3
Team Holiday is off to the moon of Abundance 5 to investigate a missing expedition. A group of colonists found something on the moon and dug it up, but failed…
RPPR Actual PlayDelta Green: Pulvis Et Umbra Sumus
Reminder: You only have a few days left to get your RPPR Enamel Pin by backing our Patreon! Delta Green has an unusual asset, a person who can provide vital…
RPPR Actual PlayAshen Stars: Abundance – Episode 2
Between squatters, odd critters, and a darker mystery, the lasers assigned to protecting Abundance 5 have their work cut out for them! Can they keep the peace…
RPPR Actual PlayThe Devil John Moulton: The Resort
News: RPPR Enamel Pins are available for a limited time! Find out how to get one on the RPPR Patreon! Synopsis: Somewhere out there is your quarry. The one…
RPPR Actual PlayAshen Stars: Abundance – Episode 1
Abundance 5 is a remote planet, ill-equipped to deal with dangers. Its population of former resort employees who re-enact the Wild West, the rebels who hate…
RPPR Actual PlayDelta Green: The Gorgon Incident
Several years after the raid on Innsmouth, a small group in the Office of Naval Intelligence is tasked with investigating the occult. P-Division has learned of…
RPPR Actual PlayTales from the Loop: Boulder City – Episode 5
Dawn Lynn's father is sick and needs help beyond what conventional medicine can offer. Agents of the KGB prowl Boulder City, looking for their target, a pair…
RPPR Actual PlayAs Blossoms Fall
A pre-feudal Japanese oneshot about five people torn between the terrible weight of duty and the bonds of feeling between them: forced to choose what they will…
RPPR Actual PlayTales from the Loop: Boulder City – Episode 4
A mummy has been sighted near Lake Mead by several kids. The adults dismiss the rumor as mere childish imagination, but for a certain group of kids, they know…
RPPR Actual PlayZweihander: Night of Blood at Gen Con 2018
A group of weary travelers are caught out in the rain. Stumbling through the darkness, they head to a nearby inn to wait out the storm. However, there they…
RPPR Actual PlayTales from the Loop: Boulder City – Episode 3
The new video rental store in town has all the coolest horror and sci-fi movies but some adults now want to shut it down. These adults are acting pretty weird…
RPPR Actual PlayIron Edda Accelerated at Origins 2018
Ragnarok is here! The Dwarven Destroyers bear down on your holdfast. A cult dedicated to Loki foments deadly mischief within your walls. The local seer…
RPPR Actual PlayTales from the Loop: Boulder City – Episode 2
An artificial intelligence controlling a swarm of toy robots is trying to take over the world, starting with Boulder City! Only a group of heroic kids, aided…
RPPR Actual PlayDelta Green: Dream-Away Camp
Grace & Glory Camp for Wayward Youth: Train Up Your Child has been operating in the North Idaho wilderness for almost twenty years. Promising to shape troubled…
RPPR Actual PlayTales from the Loop: Boulder City – Episode 1
The landscape was full of machines and scrap metal connected to the facility in one way or another. Always present on the horizon were the colossal cooling…
RPPR Actual PlayHollow Earth Expedition: New Rome
A group of heroes, scholars, spies, and thrill seekers converge at a hangar to examine a wondrous drilling machine. When the group is attacked by a horde of…
RPPR Actual PlayMagical Fury: Dagashi – Episode 4 – Salt
The city is under complete lockdown as the Ground Self Defense Forces secure Tokyo, quarantining all women between the ages of 15 and 35. Shadow monsters have…
RPPR Actual PlayWarhammer 40k: Wrath and Glory – Blessings Unheralded
In the grim and dark future, there is only war. After the Great Rift tore the Imperium in two, every solar system struggles against the crushing weight of…
RPPR Actual PlayMagical Fury: Dagashi – Episode 3 – Bitterness
Panic is slowly building in the city as the destruction surrounding the magical girls takes its toll. As battles that once were confined to time-stopped arenas…
RPPR Actual PlayMonster of the Week: Cobra-Matic
A group of dedicated protectors has been hunting down a collection of cursed artifacts. The latest is a record player that summons monsters based on the music…
RPPR Actual PlayMagical Fury: Dagashi – Episode 2 – Hot
As they start to understand the sheer scale of the looming presence known as “The Beast,” the magical girls are starting to become more comfortable with their…
RPPR Actual PlayDelta Green: Operation FOREST STOWAGE
A so-called 'biohacker' in Florida is conducting suspicious research in Florida. Delta Green has activated a team of agents to go undercover as potential…
RPPR Actual PlayMagical Fury: Dagashi – Episode 1 – Sweet
Welcome to the beginning of Bridget's Magical Fury campaign! A group of women blow off steam at a regular meeting of their Gunpla club, when mysterious…
RPPR Actual PlaySlasher Flick: Emperor of the North
In the grim dark Mega Depression, there are only trains and hobos who ride them. A murderous train conductor kills any hobo he finds on his train, but a motley…
RPPR Actual PlayZweihander: A Rough Night at the Three Feathers
It’s been a long day’s travel, and the sun is just beginning to go down as you see an inn in the distance. As you draw closer, you see the sign of three…
RPPR Actual PlayBase Raiders: Gate 9 – Episode 26
The members of the Gate 9 crew only sought out superpowers to protect themselves from the government. Now, it has become so much more than that. They have…
RPPR Actual PlayEclipse Phase: The Manor (Redux)
A group of Firewall agents has been asked to investigate a hidden research facility deep in the Martian wastelands. What secrets lie buried beneath the soil?…
RPPR Actual PlayDelta Green: Bright Redoubt
A group of Delta Green agents have been dispatched to investigate a person who was flagged by an automated monitoring system. The target has an unusual medical…
RPPR Actual PlayBase Raiders: Gate 9 – Episode 25
In order to finish their mission, the Gate 9 crew must take control of a base on the moon. Getting there won't the problem. They have a teleporter after all…
RPPR Actual PlayDamn the Man, Save the Music!
Damn the Man, Save the Music! is a game about making a last-ditch effort to save something you love. Play a ragtag group of underachievers, overachievers…
RPPR Actual PlayBlue Planet: Natural Law
A prison transport ship malfunction and crash lands near a remote island. The only three survivors are two prisoners and a single marshal. After they find…
RPPR Actual PlayBase Raiders: Gate 9 – Episode 24
Demise, a powerful elder being, threatens the entire universe. A hero from another dimension has come to stop it and the Gate 9 crew is joining him for his…
RPPR Actual PlayCall of Cthulhu 7E: Reign of Terror – Part 2
It is five years later, during the Reign of Terror. The survivors of the raid on the Comte's mansion are thrown into a conspiracy, where spies and agents seek…
RPPR Actual PlayCall of Cthulhu 7E: Reign of Terror – Part 1
A time of struggle, intrigue, and horror. A divided country, where the upper class enjoys the bounty of wealth, and the poor cannot afford a loaf of bread…
RPPR Actual PlayBase Raiders: Gate 9 – Episode 23
The Gate 9 crew returns to the Aral Sea to recover an alien weapon of mass destruction. Different factions control the region now, one seemingly themed after…
RPPR Actual PlayDelta Green: Manhunt
A man arrested on burglary charges in a small town in Oregon escapes from jail after murdering a police officer. A group of Delta Green agents are already in…
RPPR Actual PlaySpirit of 77: The Warriors 2 – Electric Boogaloo
After the death of Cyrus, the leader of the most powerful gang in New York, every gang in the city has been uneasy. Many gangs have fought each other for…
RPPR Actual PlayBase Raiders: Gate 9 – Episode 22
The Gate 9 crew needs mystical artifacts as part of their mission to save the world from an ancient evil. Many powerful artifacts were kept in a vault hidden…
RPPR Actual PlayDelta Green: Avatar Wars
While on a green box reclamation mission in Santa Fe, auditors assigned by Delta Green find the contents of storage site ransacked. When attempting to contact…
RPPR Actual PlayThe Sprawl: Black Hats and Pacts
A group of hackers are hired to digitally infiltrate a remote facility. It appears to be an abandoned military research lab, but it is populated by certain…
RPPR Actual PlayBase Raiders: Gate 9 – Episode 21
The Gate 9 crew heads to Hawaii to fight the cult of Logos. Specifically, they need to find the leader who knows the details of Logos' ascension ritual and get…
RPPR Actual PlayDelta Green: Jungfrau
A group of mountain climbers are hired to guide some rich tourists up Jungfrau, a mountain in the Swiss Alps. Something dark has thawed in the mountains. When…
RPPR Actual PlayShadowrun: Trust Me
A group of shadowrunners has been contacted by Clarabelle (aka Wolf Knight) on a juicy lead. A secret lab has been shut down for unknown reasons, seemingly…
RPPR Actual PlayBase Raiders: Gate 9 – Episode 20
The Gate 9 crew must travel to an fantastical realm in another universe as part of a larger quest to save the world. They must contend with strange monsters…
RPPR Actual PlayDelta Green: Venera
Agent Stanfield was tasked with finding the truth behind an artifact that has recently surfaced. He has since vanished. The artifact in question is what…
RPPR Actual PlaySynthicide: The Enslaved Heir
A pair of sharpers are hired to rescue the heir to a corporate fortune. The problem? He's been kidnapped and enslaved on a mining planet. Finding one man among…
RPPR Actual PlayBase Raiders: Gate 9 – Episode 19
In order to fight the cult of Logos and the Crystal Children, the Gate 9 crew must secure a powerful occult artifact before either side seizes it. Doing so…
RPPR Actual PlayFate Core: The Demon of Tenjin Bridge
Two months after the incident in Osaka, the Inukai clan waits out the last days of winter. With enemies perched quite literally on their doorstep, Lord…
RPPR Actual PlayDelta Green: Under New Management
A call in the dead of night to go to an office park a two-hour drive away. It is an emergency. When the team assembles, a woman who smells of smoke and death…
RPPR Actual PlayBase Raiders: Gate 9 – Episode 18
The Gate 9 crew wants to capture the Biobuddy market! There's a rival gym in the Rocky Mountains though. So our heroes head to the Rockies to take it over. A…
RPPR Actual PlayFeng Shui 2: Dim
Imagine the real world BUT there is also magic and fantastical creatures like elves, centaurs, and orcs. This did not change history or culture in the…
RPPR Actual PlayShadowrun: Everybody’s Grudge
Merry Bridgetmas! Even during the holiday season, work never stops for the shadowrunners of Seattle. One crew is contacted to eliminate a target VIP at a…
RPPR Actual PlayBase Raiders: Gate 9 – Episode 17
The Gate 9 crew is visiting the robot graveyard as part of their quest to save the world from a cosmic threat. It contains many pieces of high technology but a…
RPPR Actual PlayFate Core: Two Fangs of Winter
The year is Tenshō 10, in the Twelfth month. Six months ago the betrayer Akechi Mitsuhide attacked his master Oda Nobunaga at Honnō-ji, burning it to the…
RPPR Actual PlayDelta Green: Operation RED WILLOW
NuSeed, a biotech firm with several Department of Defense contracts, asked for discreet aid with an urgent matter at their primary research facility. The…
RPPR Actual PlayBase Raiders: Gate 9 – Episode 16
A being from beyond time and space now threatens a major city. Only the Gate 9 crew can stop the monster's hunt but to do so, they must confront it directly…
RPPR Actual PlayOrpheus Protocol: Fugue
A man, a self-proclaimed psychic, sleep walks onto the road, causing a car to crash. Inside the trunk is a man's body. The driver has no memory of the…