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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

Call 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. Where the cries of anger and rage at life’s injustices find momentum, sparking the people to unite and cast away the old regime for a brighter and more hopeful tomorrow. Amid the stirrings of the revolution, sees a group of soldiers descend into the catacombs of Paris and brave the tribulations of courtly life, where debauchery and wickedness...

Apr 04, 20183 hr 33 min

Base 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 post-apocalyptic fashion trends, while another uses inspirational business advice as its basis. All use whatever means they can to give themselves superpowers. Retrieving the alien weapon without letting it fall into a faction's control will prove difficult.

Mar 29, 20182 hr 17 min

Delta 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 town, investigating a string of disappearances that may be the work of a serial killer. The Group believes that they are connected and instruct the agents to join the manhunt for the missing fugitive. There is more at work here than the agents know. Sponsor: Preorder the new Delta Green book: A Night at the Opera!

Mar 23, 20182 hr 46 min

Spirit 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 inexplicable reasons. Rumors of a secret police unit nicknamed "Death Wish" abound. The new leader of the Riffs, Papa Arnold, asked the Warriors to investigate the rumors and put a stop to the fighting. The Warriors, being brawlers, not detectives, asked a group of unique troubleshooters to find the truth.

Mar 18, 20183 hr 3 min

Base 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 in a magical realm far from Earth. The heroes must travel to the vault, overcome its traps, and defeat the guardian within. Sometimes victory is achieved through cunning and not brute strength, a lesson the heroes may have to learn...

Mar 10, 20182 hr 22 min

Delta 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 the veteran agent in charge of the box, the auditing team discovered his corpse at his house in an advanced state of decay. Fearing the senior agent may have triggered a potential biological hazard, Delta Green has sent a team researchers to assess any potential threat to the pubic and contain or eliminate it.

Mar 06, 20182 hr 37 min

The 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 guardians, which have their own agendas. The hackers must choosing between allying and fighting the guardians if they want to succeed, but making a pact has its own risks.

Feb 27, 20182 hr 38 min

Base 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 him to reveal it to them. That won't be easy. The cult has a compound built from a UFO, alien guards, high tech weapons, and more. But the Gate 9 team has a few tricks up their own sleeves..

Feb 22, 20182 hr 17 min

Delta 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 the team finds it, they will soon learn this is no mere adventure. It becomes a matter of life and death. Is escape even possible?

Feb 17, 20182 hr 45 min

Shadowrun: 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 abandoned. It's locked down but still full of valuable loot, like computer servers, and research data. Of course, something triggered that shutdown, but nothing that a team of shadowrunners can't handle. Trust me. If you enjoy Bridget as a GM, check out her work on Patreon!

Feb 12, 20182 hr 14 min

Base 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, such as a mechanical dragon, and the spirits of the unquiet dead. Even once they reach their goal, will they be able to reach the heart of the labyrinth?

Feb 07, 20182 hr 37 min

Delta 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 appears to be a part from one of Russia's Venera probes, the only probes to have landed on Venus. A team of agents has been brought in to find Stanfield and retrieve the artifacts. He was last seen in Russia, beyond the jurisdiction of the United States.

Feb 03, 20184 hr 1 min

Synthicide: 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 countless damned souls may be impossible for some, but these two mercenaries live for the challenge. Find out what happens in our first game run in Synthicide, a new sci-fi RPG available now!

Jan 28, 20182 hr 15 min

Base 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 without outside help may be impossible, so who will the crew turn to?

Jan 22, 20182 hr 15 min

Fate 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 Inukai's retainers busy themselves with festival preparations; despite the celebrations, they can't help but look forward to the coming battles that will arrive in Spring. When the samurai receive a coded message, they must work together to confront an evil spawned from the consequences of their actions.

Jan 17, 20182 hr 40 min

Delta 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, hastily tells them the job. “We need you to pose as the new management team of the local office of McPherson Logistics Solutions, which as far as anyone knows, is an international shipping company. They were led by a group of hostiles. They’re gone now, thanks to us...There’s a basement. It is dangerous. It must be secured. We have a keyca...

Jan 10, 20183 hr

Base 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 giant rock monster has something to say about that though, possibly with giant rocky fists.

Jan 05, 20181 hr 51 min

Feng 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 slightest. Like, aside from there being orcs and magic, everything is literally identical. The Alamo happened. Crazy, huh? Now there's a crystal ball, which is like an artillery strike, but it can also do useful things. Maybe not like grant a wish, but still it's pretty useful. However, only special people called Dims can use crystal balls. In thi...

Dec 30, 20173 hr 21 min

Shadowrun: 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 certain building by a certain time. Of course, getting in a heavily guarded site requires skill, cunning, and good teamwork. This team is not quite as functional though, constantly bickering and arguing. What twists and turns await them and what is Santa carrying in that sack?

Dec 25, 20173 hr 8 min

Base 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 strange ecosystem has sprung around it. The heroes must navigate the various hazards, deal with the local inhabitants, and fight a powerful villain. All in a day's work for the Gate 9 crew!

Dec 21, 20172 hr 55 min

Fate 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 ground along with the demon warlord. Snowfall covers the mainland, and a time that should be spent in contemplative seclusion is now spent in clandestine war meetings. Stillness and oppressive silence envelope the countryside, but whispers of secret treachery fill the halls of every daimyō. In Settsu province, Lord Inukai and his loyal retainer...

Dec 14, 20172 hr 21 min

Delta 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 facility is in a converted oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. A team of troubleshooters is quickly assembled to deal with the problem. Little do they know the matter is beyond their understanding.

Dec 09, 20172 hr 17 min

Base 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, trapped in the city. Faced between saving civilians and fighting the monster, the team has to split up to save the day. Can they succeed?

Dec 03, 20172 hr 25 min

Orpheus 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 incident. As the sheriff tries to puzzle out the pieces, an agent of a secretive corporation arrives, following the trail of a missing person of interest. The psychic, sheriff, and agent all find themselves involved in the same mystery. It leads to a horrifying nightmare beyond their comprehension. Special guest GM, Rob Stith from the Orpheus Prot...

Nov 27, 20174 hr 6 min

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 maintaining a semblance of order within the House while vying for prestige and privilege among their fellow staff members. The Blackwood family celebrates Halloween, including setting up a fake village so the children may trick or treat. The staff must cater to all of the family's whims, regardless of the cost to themselves. Find out who may...

Nov 20, 20173 hr 28 min

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 crew does not trust either group, so they must find what they are doing and put a stop to it. They will need allies for this mission, so they must find them...

Nov 14, 20172 hr 20 min

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 of the supernatural desperately want to remain unnoticed by the human majority, so when strange murders and disappearances begin to plague the humans, they send a team of three beings to solve the problem. When a mage, a ghost, and a werewolf begin to investigate, they find a greater threat than they ever could have imagined.

Nov 08, 20174 hr 9 min

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 wants them back. The team is happy to oblige, only there's an additional twist: no blood must be shed during the heist. This may make the theft more challenging than any of the high tech or mystical defenses set in place. Or perhaps the artifacts themselves may be the final challenge. Ancient art in Japan is more than beautiful...it's posi...

Nov 03, 20173 hr 24 min

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 help? That's nice. Be sure to explain everything to the tourist and don't forget to show it lots of nice maps. It loves to see new maps of places to visit. Every new map means new people to see. Don't worry about missing the tourist. Sooner or later, you'll meet somewhere and won't that be delightful?

Oct 29, 20172 hr 43 min

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 Biobuddy to win arena fights, even if it means dirty tricks. In order to take over the Biobuddy circuit, the Gate 9 crew needs to identify the major players and that means going undercover.

Oct 24, 20172 hr 29 min
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