Role Playing Public Radio – Details, episodes & analysis

I caught up with Gareth Hanrahan at Gencon this year to talk about the Borellus Connection, a new campaign for Fall of Delta Green. Find out the secrets behind this globe hopping 1960s campaign! This interview has been mirrored on Youtube.

Do you have questions on actual play podcasts? Talk to Ross Payton (RPPR), Caleb Stokes (Dead Channels), Rob Stith, (Orpheus Protocol) and Ethan Cordray (Technical Difficulties) for all the answers you want! We talk about creating shows, running them, editing, marketing, and many other topics related to running an AP podcast. We recorded this panel at Gencon 2024. Enjoy!

The Flash is a spectacularly bad movie. Caleb, Spencer, and I got together to discuss exactly WHY it was so bad. I was part of a podcast called The Mixed Six for nearly 6 years. I had a blast making it and I’m proud of the episodes we made. It ended a year ago, but we came back together recently to record a reunion special episode. This is Hot Takes on Ice, a shorter podcast we did on a single take. I’m sharing it here because I think if you missed the Mixed Six when we were making on a regular basis, now is the perfect time to binge the series. I’ve mirrored the entire catalogue of the podcast on archive.org so you can listen to regular episodes, formerly Patreon-exclusive episodes, and mini episodes like Hot Takes on Ice. We’ll have a full new episode out on Monday.

Don’t forget to back The Night Clerk on Backerkit today! A full color 44 page scenario zine of architectural horror!

All of the main episodes are here.

All of the Patreon bonus episodes are here.

All of the Hot Takes on Ice and other mini-episodes and specials are here.

Join the Mixed Six Discord Server, now open to the public to discuss this episode and catch up with the community.

This is our newest RPPR Patreon bonus podcast series, Don’t Cross the Stream! In each episode, cast members like Caleb, Bridget, and Thad review and break down a title currently available streaming on Netflix. We then figure out how gameify it – either by creating new mechanics or random tables or creating entirely new mini-games. We also write up one of our ideas into a PDF you can use!  If you like it, please back the RPPR Patreon to access all of the episodes and PDFs today!

Song: Right Place, Right Time by Willbe.

Aaron spoke with Kyle Carty about the recent Savage Tokusatsu Kickstarter recently. They discuss the genre, the new mechanics for the game and a lot more. If this interview interests you, check out the Kickstarter today! There’s also a free test drive of the rules now on DrivethruRPG.

?????Sponsor: BPB Games is running a Kickstarter for their latest project, Savage Tokusatsu, a supplement for Savage Worlds that lets you use transforming heroes, kaiju, giant robots, and more! RPPR’s Aaron is working on this project, so be sure to check it out!

News: We have a new show for the RPPR Patreon! Don’t Cross the Stream looks at a title on a streaming site and analyzes it for its gameable material. We have 3 episodes online as of this episode. Check it out!

Synopsis: I have mentioned the Picaresque genre/style several times over the years on RPPR but I recently realized we haven’t done a full episode on it. In short, it’s about sympathetic outsiders who dabble in criminality, with no real overarching plot. Sounds like more than a few RPG campaigns I’ve been in. Bill and I talk about the genre, how it can be used as inspiration for RPG players and GMs, and more. We also have shout outs and an anecdote!

Shout Outs

• Bridget on Patreon: Our favorite Shadowrun GM has her own Patreon! Help support her game design and podcasting efforts.
• Delinquent Hamsters: A comedic anime about misbehaving hamsters.
• Skavenslayer: A Felix and Gortrek novel about bar life and slaying evil rat men.
• Seco Creek Vigilance Committee: A game about vigilantes and justice.
• The Ritual: A great horror film about getting lost in a Swedish forest.
• Funny or Die’s 1986 Lineup: Hilarious sketches about potential Base Raiders characters!
• Morazan Maru: A wrecked cargo ship from WW2, now a great dive site in the Phillippines
• Catherine: An oddly intriguing web series starring Jenny Slate
• Samurai Gourmet: A Netflix series about a retired man rediscovering his love for food and drink.
• By the Author of Lady Windermere’s Fan: a storytelling game about reinventing Oscar Wilde plays.

Song: Evening Tide by Kulpa

Even though Red Markets is out, Caleb is still hard at work designing new games and fulfilling stretch goals. He gives an update about Party Fowl, a new card game currently in development. Meanwhile I have made a few breakthroughs while working on Ruin. I now have concrete ideas on how a game should work and have made progress on character generation rules. Hopefully I will have playtest rules at Gen Con this year!

News: I am going on vacation later this month, but don’t worry! There will be a lot of podcasts this month. We also have a new system for scheduling online games for the RPPR Patreon using our Discord server.

Synopsis: There is an annual contest on the Delta Green email list for writing short scenarios. The Shotgun Scenario contest forces contestants to write the best possible DG scenario under 1500 words. It’s gone on since 2005 and last year had some great entries. Dan, David, Tom, and I read a bunch of them to discuss what we liked about them. We also have shout outs and anecdotes!

Shout Outs

• Dark Season 1: an intriguing and fascinating mystery show on Netflix.
• Skullsplitter Dice: Very cool dice for the hardcore player.
• 2mello: A talented lo-fi hip hop producer and DJ. Great tunes!
• Synthetic Dawn: a new DLC for Stellaris
• Doki Doki Literature Club: A free and amazing game on Steam. Saying more is spoilers. Play it!
• Polyhero Dice: Uniquely shaped dice for the discerning gamer.
• Renowned Explorers: A RPG with roguelike elements. Become Explorer of the Year!
• Those Unknowable: A Lovecraftian sci-fi web comic.

Song: Tracks from the Upwind EP by 2mello

Aaron, Tom, and I traveled down to Texas for PAX South 2018 and we had a blast! I finally got to play True Dungeon and we tried out multiple games that weekend like:

• True Dungeon: An escape room with LARPing and pog collecting (kind of). It’s got it all!
• Wild West Exodus: A new weird western themed skirmish game with great models and interesting rules
• Tokaido: An excellent board game about traveling to Edo, in style.
• 4 The Birds: a board game about getting your birds in a row (or square).
• Tonight We Riot: An upcoming video game about fighting The Man.
• Deep Sky Derelicts: A sci-fi dungeon crawling game, similar in structure to Darkest Dungeon.

We also listened to a bunch of great podcasts like:

• The Bald Knobbers episode of Dollop
• Blaster Master and Level 26 of I Don’t Even Own A Television
• Way of the Shadow Wolves on El Chapo Trap House.

Song: Spirits Seeking by 2mello

We’ve all been there: After hours of meticulously planning an epic campaign, our players kill the quest NPC and run off after the first shiny thing they see. The cure for this problem may be easier than you think. With your help we’ll create a world from scratch, and then we’ll crowdsource some story hooks with the audience to create a whole campaign of our own. You can steal this adventure and use it in your own game, or steal the techniques and keep your players chomping at the bit. (The map referred to in the panel is included in this post. Click on it to see a larger version)

This panel was held at PAX South 2018.

Panelists: Adam Davis [Executive Director, Game to Grow], Adam Johns [Executive Director, Game to Grow]