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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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Bedlam Hall: The Halloween Party
Bedlam Hall is a macabre role-playing game set in the Victorian age, where the players become the hapless servant staff of the Blackwood Family, tasked with…
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Base Raiders: Gate 9 – Episode 15
A secret war has begun in the shadows. Two cults, one led by the spirit Logos and the other by Haruspex, a powerful psychic, vie for domination. The Gate 9…
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Urban Shadows: Wolpertinger
As Europe goes to war in the year 1916, New York City has become a hotbed of international intrigue, even among its supernatural residents. The major factions…
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Shadowrun: A Spooky Scary Halloween Special
A group of shadowrunners have been hired to acquire rare and ancient Japanese artifacts currently stored in a museum in Seattle. It seems their original owner…
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Delta Green: Somewhere Lane
A tourist has come to visit. It is very curious and loves to see new places and meet new people. It hates to travel alone though. Won't you be a good host and…
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Base Raiders: Gate 9 – Episode 14
The Biobuddy fighting circuit is a dark and dangerous subculture, where money is more important than anything else. Trainers do everything to get their…
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Gobblin’ – Kings of the Rings
In a grimdark post-apocalyptic Earth, a horde of goblins from a fantasy realm thrive. Exiled from their own universe, the goblins fight, explore, and aggravate…
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Eclipse Phase: Acrimony
While visiting the asteroid habitat Kongyùn to pay off a triad mob boss, a Firewall sentinel named Chi disappeared. Firewall sends a team of sentinels to…
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Base Raiders: Gate 9 – Episode 13
The global tier begins! A year later, the Gate 9 crew has partially resolved their own problems and have become full time base raiders. Except for Trey, who…
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Trail of Cthulhu: Midnight Sub Rosa
The diary of Ezekiel de la Poer, a colonial-era French necromancer hanged for child-murder in 1736 was stolen at the home of an emeritus professor in the small…
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The Sprawl: A Synthwave Future
In the grimdark and chrome future, teams of freelance mercenaries carry out jobs for anonymous corporate clients, no matter what it entails. One such team is…
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Base Raiders: Gate 9 – Episode 12
The Gate 9 crew is trying to help Jeff claim his family's fortune and in order to do that, they need the help of one woman in particular. She needs an item…
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Hollow Earth Expedition: Escape from the Eye of Thoth
The year is 1936. The passengers on PanAm's trans-Pacific flying boat "The Orient Clipper" are planning to travel from San Francisco to Hong Kong in five days…
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Shadowrun: Moon Drenched Streets
In the grim dark future, Seattle is home to freelance mercenaries armed with high technology and magic. Called Shadowrunners, they take whatever jobs they can…
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Base Raiders: Gate 9 – Episode 11
The Gate 9 team needs to check out a recently discovered base. It has a vast menagerie of genetically engineered fighting animals conditioned to obey the…
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Call of Cthulhu: The Uncorrupted
In the chaos of World War 1,the Serbian army evacuated to the Greek islands after a death march through Albania, losing over a hundred thousand soldiers in the…
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Delta Green: The Enemy of my Enemy
A former Delta Green operative lost his limbs on a mission and retired but the Program still monitors him (as with all retired agents). He recently…
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Base Raiders: Gate 9 – Episode 10
Trey and Saul each have a goal that takes them to the New York Underground and the rest of the crew tags along. Trey wants an Ideal Teleporter to upgrade the…
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Monster of the Week: Lost Things
An old man recently passed away, a man who collected occult artifacts. Now his collection has been scattered to the winds but a small team of investigators are…
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Delta Green: White Winter
A group of FBI and Secret Service agents have been sent to New York City to prepare for a presidential visit. During the inspections, evidence of a secret…
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Base Raiders: Gate 9 – Episode 9
The Gate 9 crew find themselves in the middle of the civil rights for non-humans struggle. A massive rally is being held in Chicago, near the Brass Door and…
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Belly of the Beast: Your Stomach is a Graveyard
Belly of the Beast is a fantasy survival horror RPG about living inside a continent-sized beast that swallows up cities and countries. In this one shot, two…
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Red Markets: The Torus
Shipping Rates Lowered for Red Markets! PREORDER NOW! A powerful tech company's main campus fell to the undead five years ago. Today, the hordes have scattered…
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Eclipse Phase: The Manor
A remote hypercorp research facility buried under the surface of Mars holds dark secrets and Firewall wants to know what they are. Before a team of sentinels…
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Base Raiders: Gate 9 – Episode 8
The Gate 9 team is heading into space! Well, Mars, to be more specific. After figuring out how to operate an Ideal teleporter, the team can now access a hidden…
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Delta Green: Cultural Resource Management
A Cultural Resource Management field archaeology team in eastern New Mexico has uncovered petroglyphs connected to a known cult (keywords CTHULHU, DAGON). The…
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Spirit of 77: The Country Club
A group of private investigators in the 1970s are hired to look into the new members of an exclusive country club. They have wealth, power, stolen art, and…
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Base Raiders: Gate 9 – Episode 7
The Gate 9 crew has a new lead on an Ideal base in the Southwest, a former Ideal-centered town called Idealville. However, the town has a dark secret in an…
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Unknown Armies: The Power of Love
CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains themes of domestic abuse. A group of bar buddies discover that one of their friends has radically changed his life and…
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Red Markets – Cowboy Singing
A new group of takers has formed in the enclave of Trabajo, looking for work. A client in the Recession wants them to retrieve a painting, Thomas Eakin's…
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Base Raiders: Gate 9 – Episode 6
The Gate 9 crew has a hot new lead to check out: an alien dimension filled with incredible technology. It turns out to be a memory library that contains…
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Unknown Armies – The Great American Bakery Ascension
Wendy is calling in some favors. Four men owe Wendy big and they have to repay it by doing a small job for her. Saying no is not an option. The job itself…
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Delta Green: Bestow
A group of untested agents have been asked to assist a rare book dealer who appears to be suffering from a mental breakdown. However, the dealer has fled into…
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Base Raiders: Sparkle’s Big Prison Break Adventure
The government doesn't know what to do with all the extradimensional beings, space aliens, and other non-humans running around. They've captured quite a few…
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Magical Fury: City A
In the Not-Japan-but-still-totally-Japanese City A, a group of young girls will gain tremendous magical power, but for what reason? More importantly, can these…
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Trail of Cthulhu: Uku Pacha
After the discovery of Machu Picchu, other explorers and archeologists searched for other Inca ruins. A confession of a Spanish occultist who died during the…
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Base Raiders: Gate 9 – Episode 5
The actions of the Gate 9 team have led to a citywide crackdown by the government. That won't deter the new base raiders from scheming though. A government…
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Red Markets: Fallen Flag – Episode 13
Just One Last Score. Mr. JOLS. It is time for Fallen Flag to seek out Two Banners, a theme park held by a violent cult of archivists. The territory and its…
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Blue Planet: Deep Shit
A secret underwater lab on the exoplanet Poseidon has gone silent. The last transmission indicates the on site security chief went mad and began to slaughter…
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Red Markets: The Great Dismal Swamp
In the decades before the Civil War, runaway slaves found refuge in the Great Dismal Swamp, an enormous expanse of forbidding wilderness on the border between…
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Red Markets: Fallen Flag – Episode 12
Fallen Flag has raised enough money to chase after Mr. JOLS, Just One Last Score. Before they embark, they must plan their mission. Learn what Two Banners…
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Base Raiders: Gate 9 – Episode 4
The Gate 9 team is beginning to settle into their new digs at the Brass Door, a former villain headquarters/pub right in the heart of Chicago. However, other…
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Base Raiders/It Came From the Late, Late, Late Show – Gate 9 – The Marcy’s Invisible Veranda of Infinite Light
Even the heroes of Gate 9 need an occasional break from raiding bases and fighting villains. Thanks to crowdfunding, three brilliant cinematic legends, Tommy…
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Delta Green: Observer Effect
If we look too deeply into the roiling chaos of reality, chaos may look back. The Olympian Holobeam Array, funded in part by the U.S. Department of Energy, was…
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Base Raiders: Gate 9 – Episode 3
Now linked by new super powers and a shared history, the Gate 9 team must figure out their place in the world. They are drawn to investigate an area near the…
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Red Markets: Fallen Flag – Episode 11
Fallen Flag looks for work in Big Sky country before heading back to Trabajo. Of course, the enclave does not let wandering takers do whatever they want. The…
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Delta Green: Future Perfect
Sponsor: If you enjoyed this AP, you can buy the scenario it's based on! Please support Arc Dream by throwing them a few bucks for their work on Delta Green…
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Base Raiders: Gate 9 – Episode 2
News: Get Base Raiders in print for 30% off! Buy my book! Synopsis: The survivors of the Gate 9 Incident have empowered themselves, but what are they going to…
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Red Markets: Fallen Flag – Episode 10
Fallen Flag travels back west to a new enclave but before they reach it, they must survive the trip. A critically injured witness must be silenced before he…
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Delta Green: Star Chamber
Sponsor: If you enjoy this AP, consider buying Star Chamber! This scenario is available on DrivethruRPG. Synopsis: Delta Green's Task Force T.I. screwed up…
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Base Raiders: Gate 9 – Episode 1
Years ago, a group of civilians were caught in a battle between superheroes and villains. These hapless bystanders were temporarily transformed into mindless…
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Red Markets: Fallen Flag – Episode 9
Fallen Flag has liberated a cache of vital data from the DHQS during their recent black site raid. Now they have a chance to sell the data to the Moths…
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Delta Green: Sweetness
Sponsor: Arc Dream keeps posting new Delta Green content. Be sure to check it out! Two kids, a nice house, and a Shadowman; the American dream. Ever since…
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Hc Svnt Dracones – Echoes of the Past – Episode 4
The mission finally reaches its end! The diabolical plot hatched so many years ago, the plan that saw countless deaths, is finally about to unfold. The agents…
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Red Markets: Fallen Flag – Episode 8
Fallen Flag undertakes their most dangerous mission yet! In order to extract a single engineer with very specialized knowledge, the team must rescue him from a…
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Delta Green: Last Things Last
Sponsor: Get Delta Green: Need to Know and run Last Things Last for your own group! Pay what you want for the PDF. Learn more about Delta Green on its website…
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Hc Svnt Dracones – Echoes of the Past – Episode 3
The former Corporate Agents have finally found a definitive clue as to the location of the terrorist that caused the deaths of their relatives. Unfortunately…
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Red Markets: Fallen Flag – Episode 7
Fallen Flag is on the road! Well, tracks, technically. Trabajo has sent a train on the first trading mission of the year. It will travel hundreds of miles to…
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Delta Green: Kali Ghati
Sponsor: This is a published scenario from Arc Dream. Please consider buying Kali Ghati if you enjoy this AP. Synopsis: A mixed group of federal law…
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Hc Svnt Dracones – Echoes of the Past – Episode 2
Months after the crime that brought a group of corporate agents together, a new lead suddenly resurfaces to bring them together again. This will also bring a…