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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 joke about it.
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Episodes

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 storage facility has some mighty nice loot, just there for the taking. What could go wrong? If you enjoy Base Raiders, why not pick up a copy? Get the book and PDF for only $21!

May 01, 20173 hr 3 min

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 resources are invaluable, so Fallen Flag must push the cult out to succeed. Of course, there's a reason why no one else has wiped out the cult. Their secret weapon may be too much for Fallen Flag to handle, but the die has been cast. Even if the crew takes the water park, what will happen to them? Will they reach retirement? Can they ever be ...

Apr 25, 20174 hr 27 min

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 everyone on the station. A team of commandos from Global Ecology Organization (GEO) has been sent in to investigate why. They will have to deal with storms, the station's defenses, and a renegade genetically enhanced super soldier. This session was run by the game's creator, Jeff Barber. Please check out Biohazard Game's website to learn mo...

Apr 18, 20174 hr 19 min

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 Virginia and North Carolina. They were constantly pressed between the danger of capture and the extreme challenges of material survival in a landscape where even stone and metal were rarefied resources. To this day, only faint traces of their lives and communities can be found deep within the swamp. For one group of new fugitives in the 18...

Apr 14, 20173 hr 9 min

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 truly stands for and what they are chasing after. See what each team member does in their final hours before leaving. To reconnect with family, friends, or contemplate their own mortality.

Apr 08, 20171 hr 43 min

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 factions, like MISCHIEF, want to exploit the naive base raiders for their own gain. The team also needs to sell some loot to a corporation, but a rival team of base raiders wants to stop them for some reason. Will team Gate 9 bother to find out why or just start punching them? Let's find out! If you enjoy Base Raiders, consider buying the P...

Apr 04, 20172 hr 26 min

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 Wiseau, Neil Breen, and James Nguyen, were able to create a movie they co-wrote, starred, and directed called The Marcy's Invisible Veranda of Infinite Light. Find out what twists and turns are in this fine piece of cinema in this very serious movie! In order to capture its brilliance, I used the RPG It Came From the Late, Late, Late Show w...

Apr 01, 20171 hr 8 min

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 built to delve into a fringe theory of physics. A few hours ago, the Holobeam Array went online. A few minutes ago, it went offline in a catastrophic power surge. Its engineers soon restored power and communications. Its lead researcher said everything was fine. Working Group Icarus is sent in, under cover of a Department of Energy safety...

Mar 25, 20173 hr 18 min

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 Ural Sea that once had an Ideal facility. The sea is now empty but supernatural mysteries still abound. A floating and invisible tomb of an ancient sorcerer may hold resources the team needs. What still lurks within its walls? If you enjoy this campaign, please consider buying Base Raiders in print for 30% off.

Mar 19, 20173 hr 33 min

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 team must find a job that won't get them killed by the local militia or failing that, find out how to outwit them. If they complete this job, only their last score stands between them and retirement.

Mar 14, 20174 hr 18 min

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. Synopsis: Decades ago, an explosion leveled the Hunt Electrodynamics Plant and put most of Hellbend, California, out of work. Now the town is nearly dead. Only eighty-two people call the crumbling remains of Hellbend home, and those few don’t look to the future. They get by on what they can, selling gas and goods to tourists on the way to t...

Mar 09, 20173 hr 12 min

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 do with them? Clearing their names has quickly become the least of their problems. Accessing an Ideal teleporter hidden in the museum, the new team is confronted by dangers they have never even imagined. Even if they can find a way home, will they have a life for themselves?

Mar 04, 20172 hr 53 min

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 alerts anyone. Casualties block the rails. Deals must be struck. More importantly, the team must stay together even though tensions between them have never been higher. Will they avoid killing each other before they arrive at the next leg of their journey?

Feb 23, 20172 hr 51 min

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. They were in Myanmar, deep in the undeveloped hinterlands. The operation went south, people died, and something unnatural and monstrous escaped -- perhaps with the aid of an agent from the task force. Now they're the operation for a new team of agents. Working Group Icarus must determine what really happened back in the jungle. A task easier...

Feb 18, 20172 hr 32 min

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 monsters at gate 9 of an airport. They were turned back into normal humans, but their lives were never the same. Now, the government is poised to remove their civil rights because they are technically registered as non-humans. However, they are given a lead on a potential source for superpowers. If they gain powers, perhaps they can use the...

Feb 13, 20173 hr 5 min

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. However, they must smuggle the computers out of an enclave while another Taker group hunts for them. The government has put a bounty for their heads, although they are not sure who raided the black site. What price is Fallen Flag willing to pay to make the sale?

Feb 07, 20172 hr 22 min

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 someone carved a symbol in the Bernier's door, strange things have been happening. The mark drew in the conspiracy — a symbol for a creature worshiped in antiquity by a mystery cult. Working Group Icarus has been assigned to investigate the symbol — but who has drawn it, and for what purpose? And what's loose in the house, going bump in the ni...

Feb 01, 20172 hr 56 min

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, along with their new ally, go on a do or die mission to stop the death of millions. The mission leads to thousands of miles above Mars, as the clock to a potential doomsday starts ticking. The HSD finale is here!

Jan 26, 20172 hr 43 min

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 DHQS black site in the Loss. They must sneak into the site, breach its walls, and kill all of the defenders before they even learn if the engineer is even still alive. But even if accomplish all of that, they still must escape.

Jan 21, 20174 hr 7 min

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. Synopsis: A long-retired agent died four days ago. Delta Green has tasked a team to make sure he didn't leave any deadly secrets behind. The simple task turns dark when the agents find out he has an isolated cabin outside of the city, with secrets he didn't tell anyone. What lurks beneath?

Jan 16, 20172 hr 12 min

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, the clue is in the form of a former mercenary who is being held in a maximum security Black Site prison. Fully committed, the agents hatch a plan to break into the prison and get their target out. The way in, however, might not be very pleasant. Get ready for Operation Sewer Cat!

Jan 10, 20173 hr 54 min

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 distant enclaves, trading food for technology and other supplies. Fallen Flag has signed on to protect the train during the journey but the real Bounty is in finding jobs at each enclave they visit. Their first job seems simple enough: find an engineer with a particular skill set. However, no job is as simple as it seems. To complete it, th...

Jan 04, 20173 hr 23 min

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 enforcement and military agents find themselves in Afghanistan on a mission for Delta Green. A fellow Delta Green agent has gone missing from an Army base in a troubled province. It's up to the agents to find him before the disappearance draws the kind of attention that Delta Green cannot afford. The missing agent went on a mission by himself into t...

Dec 27, 20163 hr 29 min

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 new agent to the group, who seems to share the same dark moment from the past as the others. Only this lead will take them to the dark underworld of Mars' capitol city, and make them deal with an insane poison master. And maybe draw closer to the mysterious terrorist from their past.

Dec 20, 20162 hr 55 min

Red Markets: Fallen Flag – Episode 6

Instead of taking a contract, Fallen Flag decides to try for a Score. They've heard of a cache of cargo drones that would fetch a high price in the market, so they head out to grab them. Of course, there's a reason why no one else has retrieved the drones yet. A sinister foe unlike any they've faced before between them and their goal. Before they know it, the team is in the crosshairs.

Dec 15, 20163 hr 35 min

Puppetland: Two Tales

Sponsor: Get Puppetland now in print and PDF through Arc Dream. Join the fight against Punch the Maker-Killer! Synopsis: One-hour games have never been filled with more humor and horror, courage and cowardice, childlike wonder and childlike terror than the experimental role-playing game Puppetland. In one golden hour, you and your friends shall weave a tale none will soon forget: a tale of good-hearted puppets in a bad-hearted world. You shall rise up against the savagery of Punch the Maker-Kill...

Dec 09, 20161 hr 35 min

Hc Svnt Dracones – Echoes of the Past – Episode 1

A heinous crime has been committed on 28th century, corporate controlled Mars. A powerful corporate executive has been brutally assassinated, apparently while committing corporate espionage with underworld elements. Instead of a standard investigative team, three different agents from three different corporations have been called in to investigate the crime. Is there something that ties these three different agents together? And what kind of nightclub caters exclusively to AI robots? Find out! A...

Dec 05, 20163 hr 22 min

Red Markets: Fallen Flag – Episode 5

Fallen Flag has evacuated a group of refugees in order to bring them to their own enclave. Between them and safety stands an unknown number of vectors wandering the countryside. In order to save the refugees, the takers must find a way to lead the undead away. Of course, serving as bait for a marathon running zombie is far from a safe proposition, especially when the team is so low on resources. Will everyone make it back?

Nov 30, 20163 hr 14 min

A Dirty World: Cottonwood – Part 2

It's day two of the investigation into the murder of Texas Ranger Norm Davis and the special team has managed to reassemble much of his case against the corrupt officials of Page, a window into a network of malfeasance which spreads across Bates County, Texas. The murder, however, remains unsolved and the clock is ticking. Will the Rangers solve their comrade's death within 48 hours? Will they be able to contain their outrage with this lawless county? Just who is Cottonwood Slim, anyways?

Nov 24, 20163 hr 23 min

A Dirty World: Cottonwood – Part 1

Join Ross, Caleb, and Tom as they play Texas Rangers called to the tiny town of Page, Texas. When one of their own is killed, these Rangers will stop at nothing to tear out the gnarled, diseased roots of corruption that are crushing this township and its surrounding county, but how deep do those roots run? It's A Dirty World (RPG), and things are about to get uglier.

Nov 19, 20163 hr 26 min
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