We're starting a new podcast series! Mega Dungeon Meandering is a deep dive into one of the best reviewed mega dungeons of all time, Stonehell:
Stonehell Dungeon is a classic-style mega dungeon, filled with enough monsters, traps, weirdness, and treasure to keep you gaming for a long, long time. ...
2023-11-06 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostI'm running two games this month!
Time: Saturday November 18 at 12 pm CST
Players: 2 to 5 - players should make their own PC. Chargen doesn't take long so we will do that before the game.
Synopsis: You are all onboard the space station Olaf. It houses over 50,000 at any given time. It's a major trading hub for the frontier. All of you are in the same compartment when y...
2023-11-04 18:39:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Screams Amongst the Stars is a zine-sized sci-fi horror RPG that I got recently so I decided to try it out with my own scenario.
An industrial planet is behind on its starship engine production. The ship hired to transport the engines can't leave without its cargo. The captain sends the crew down to find and stop saboteurs from slowing the pro...
2023-11-01 17:23:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The agents found a passage from the hotel to Carcosa but it quickly becomes a labyrinth. The Whisper Labyrinth holds countless bottles, each named after a person. Others wander the labyrinth, including others from their past..
2023-10-25 21:47:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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 named George Mackenzie murdered 17 men at a lodge in the Appalachian mountains in Tennessee. The crew soon discovers secrets in the lodge not mentioned in the murder trial but as they delve into the matter, strange events begin to plague the crew. What were the victims doing up in the lodge? Who is watching them from the forest? The crew is...
2023-10-23 19:28:46 +0000 UTC View Post
I recently realized I had not updated the RPPR Actual Play podcast logo...ever. So, Patsy and I got together to discuss it and he came up with a brilliant new logo! I've updated the website so the new logo should start showing up on podcast apps sooner or later.
2023-10-19 19:55:46 +0000 UTC View Post
June, 1956: A team from the Royal Jaune Records label arrives in Bon Marais, Louisiana, in search of the original lyrics to the popular folk song "Cotton-Eyed Joe." The family of local folk legend Rory Welch claims to have those lyrics and have promised to release them...for a sizeable sum, of course. But dark and terrible things lurk in the Louisiana swamps, and you may find yourselves getting more than what you bargained for in this lyrical deal. 2023-10-18 20:33:04 +0000 UTC View Post
After 12 long years, Far West is finally free to conquer Earth! Or something like that. Aaron, Baz, Noah, and I explore the mysteries of Far West, a game I honestly thought would never be released. It was Kickstarted back in 2011 and was finally released last month.
2023-10-17 17:33:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the Broadalbin! Don't worry. You have a reservation. Let us show you to your room.
2023-10-11 21:39:26 +0000 UTC View Post
A group of FIST agents try to stop CYCLOPS deserts from enacting their terrible plan to fulfill an ancient cult's prophecy...
2023-10-04 17:58:02 +0000 UTC View PostAs described in this post, I am experimenting to see if patrons want original scenario writeups. I picked three RPPR Actual Play episodes that have no official published version. They are:
Over the years, I've run a lot of original scenarios that I never fully wrote up for publication. A lot of listeners have asked for those scenarios so they can run them and I have to say no, it's just an outline that's not useful to run.
HOWEVER, I just had an idea. I normally run 2 online games or 1 online game and 3 consultations for listeners with RPG running/game design questions. I can use that time I would normally reserve...
2023-10-01 18:19:42 +0000 UTC View Post
The agents return to New York on their quest to find the hotel Broadalbin. Old ghosts haunt the city and new terrors are uncovered..
2023-09-27 20:27:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Find out how Bop It, Brisket, MDOL, and Strickle fare on their mission to capture the base in the conclusion of our game of Planet FIST!
2023-09-20 20:39:36 +0000 UTC View PostWe've started a Savage Rifts campaign but what is Rifts? It's a thinking man's game for sure, but what kind of media can inspire a game or Rifts? Tom, David, Thad and I discuss many potential sources for inspiration.
(Thad had network problems during recording - I fixed them up as best I can but there's nothing else I can do about it.)
2023-09-20 00:54:45 +0000 UTC View Post
The person behind the evil at the Sleep Easy Inn and the person willing to risk everything to get revenge on him. These two characters are at the core of The Night Clerk scenario.
Check it out the zine funding campaign on Backerkit!
2023-09-18 20:21:42 +0000 UTC View Post
The Marsh Island Resort cordially invites you to tonight's Soirée. Don't mind the storm. It only adds to the charm of tonight's festivities..
2023-09-14 00:36:49 +0000 UTC View Post
You can't have an adventure set in New Orleans without a trek into the swamp. Chris and I look at the second half of Dark Conspiracy: New Orleans as the heroes somehow are led into the swamp in their quest to avenge Lou, the missing reporter. There's monsters, mayhem and a lot of helpful NPCs out there. Kind of weird how many helpful NPCs there are in the swamp to be honest.
PLANET FIST is a Powered by the Apocalypse narrative wargame of satirical scifi skirmish storytelling and a hack of CLAYMORE's FIST.
Set on the isolated planet of Sixaura, you are soldi...
2023-09-06 18:48:35 +0000 UTC View PostTime: Sunday September 17 at 12 pm central time
System: Delta Green
Players: 2 to 5 - pregens available
Synopsis: The Program has detected a burst of Internet searches for flagged terms by a person of interest, Samara Goddard. She matches descriptions from police reports of an erratic armed woman in the area. You are to find her and determine if she has had contact with a vector. Find...
2023-09-05 20:04:20 +0000 UTC View Post
The agents travel down south on a mission to investigate Elmer Losette. His records only exist in the Iberia Parish records hall or so the agents are told. But as they travel far from Boston and New York, they find Carcosa still haunts them.
2023-08-31 00:21:12 +0000 UTC View Post
We're back in the Lost Frontier, six guns and shotguns blazing! Three desperadoes seek a way to remove the curse and find it at the top of Unholy Mountain. Can they save the mountain from the army of Pinkertons waiting to reclaim the mountain for themselves?
2023-08-23 20:19:50 +0000 UTC View PostTom and I are talking about mutant animals this episode. Mutants in the Now is a game about being an exile from society and also you're a mutant animal. It's a fun game and there are cool media inspirations for it.
Media mentioned in this episode:
1. Mutants in the Now (Role-Playing Game)
2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Comics, Cartoon, Movies)
3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness (Role-Playing Game)
4. Marvel's Guardians of the Gala...
2023-08-21 17:59:06 +0000 UTC View Post
We take a momentary pause as we shift focus to a hospital in New York City, where a person visiting an injured colleague stumbles upon the unnatural.
2023-08-16 21:44:10 +0000 UTC View Post
In the grim dark near-future, the sewers are full of insectoid monsters eating buffets of severed human limbs and the sun is harsh enough to blind you. We're looking at New Orleans, an adventure for Dark Conspiracy, a 90s horror RPG about a secret invasion of extra-dimensional monsters. Chris and I plumb the depths of this quest to find a missing journalist and its dungeon crawls in sewers and skyscrapers. Dare you climb the gelatinous spine?
2023-08-15 13:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Camp Kingdom Come is a rules-light roleplaying game where players play the roles of Bible Camp Counselors during the Apocalypse. They must shepherd a group of unruly Campers through various tribulations - at least until their parents pick them up on Sunday night.
We gave it a shot and had a blast playing it. Enjoy!
2023-08-09 19:38:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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A puzzle room can resemble any kind of room ever designed by humans in any period of history or place. It can only be escaped by completing a puzzle that forces the person to rethink reality. A person trapped inside a puzzle room cannot escape until they h...
2023-08-07 17:04:49 +0000 UTC View Post
The Agents are free from Dorchester House, but now what? Their problems are only beginning...
Fun fact, I used rules I had not previously used in a Delta Green game during this session!
2023-08-02 20:13:11 +0000 UTC View PostI am running two games for patrons this month! If you want to play Delta Green or Mothership, as run by me, (Ross Payton), here's your chance!
Time: Sunday August 13 at 12 pm CST.
Players: 2 to 5. Premade characters available. A mix of agent types is recommended - investigation, combat, and social.
Synopsis: Doctor Phillip Riffle, a professor of history, sent an email wit...
2023-08-01 18:38:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Caleb is currently working on Red Markets second edition. He ran a one shot playtest for us! Find out who the Sharks are and their next score!
Get the beta rules now on Caleb's Patreon.
2023-07-26 18:20:57 +0000 UTC View Post