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Do you listen to other people playing role-playing games? Do you want to discuss the technicals of these game systems with other people? This is your thread. "Actual play" podcasts are just that - people actually playing RPGs. Sometimes funny, sometimes exciting, sometimes...not. Here's some of the big ones:
Do you want more? There's more below from the old version of this thread: Helical Nightmares posted:<A bunch of stuff> I'll add more noteworthies to this list if you send me a link and description. So let's discuss! Megaman's Jockstrap fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Oct 5, 2015 |
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Goon Clockwork Joe has RPPR Actual Play, if you wanted to add that.
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Sep 25, 2015 22:48
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I enjoy RPPR but I'll admit that I usually only listen to games Caleb GMs as I'm a fan of both the timbre of his voice and also deathtraps.
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Six Feats Under (iTunes) is a podcast I GM for and help organize. Our central product is an ongoing 13th Age Campaign that started with the playtests and is currently in Epic Tier. Those episodes are interspersed with Bonus Feats; one-shots and miniseries from a variety of systems with a variety of guests. I'm a big fan of the World Wide Wrestling, Goblin Quest, and Night Witches games. The Bonus Feats are also accompanied by discussions about general roleplaying topics that relate to the game at hand, like talking about the Japanese RPG scene with Ewen Cluney, or discussing premade adventures between running two groups through the same Costume Fairy Adventures playset. We have a tumblr for in-character asks, announcements, and collecting fanart. You can follow along in our SA thread too! Upcoming episodes include Ehdrigohr with Austin Walker, 13th Age in Glorantha with Rob Heinsoo, and episode 73 of LP13A where we learn the details of The Physical Challenge. Our first "official" convention appearance is coming up October 16-18: http://13questions.tumblr.com/post/129522655038/six-feats-under-at-valorcon Megaman's Jockstrap posted:[*]One Shot and Campaign: James D'amato and friends are trained improvisers who play RPGs. Campaign is their long-running Star Wars campaign, while One Shot picks up a new system every couple of episodes. One Shot and Campaign are my favorite podcast of any kind. I encourage everyone to check them out. James and Kat are arranging the panel at Valorcon I talk about in the link above if anyone wants to come and see. General Ironicus fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Sep 26, 2015 |
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Sep 26, 2015 04:00
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The Dragon Friends is a great live D&D game that features music and a dedicated 'voices guy'. It's a monthly show in Australia so there's not a huge backlog, you can get caught up in a day right now.
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Sep 26, 2015 05:59
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http://majorspoilers.com/category/critical-hit/ Critical Hit is a long running 4e podcast. During the "off season" they switch it up with one shot adventures, board games, other systems (recently they did superheroes in FATE).
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Sep 26, 2015 13:06
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BlackIronHeart posted:I enjoy RPPR but I'll admit that I usually only listen to games Caleb GMs as I'm a fan of both the timbre of his voice and also deathtraps. herd u were talking poo poo
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Added more podcasts, man there's a lot that I didn't know about!
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Oh, there's the Drunk and Ugly http://drunkandugly.com/ They do a ton of games and have a large cast. I also recently found out about a youtube AP series called Thrilling Intent - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=user?3rdWheelie They put a ton of production value into their videos, with the music and art and whatnot.
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Sep 28, 2015 18:48
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Oh. I also forgot about Austin Walker's Friends at the Table I haven't gotten around to listening to it, but Austin is a pretty cool guy, so I imagine it's at least decent, if not pretty good.
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Sep 28, 2015 19:06
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Can we list which ones are cut down (25 minutes-1 hr) and ones that are actual length? I feel like 60 minutes, aka Adventure Zone length, is about the amount I can dedicate to other peoples' gaming.
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Sep 28, 2015 20:14
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One Shot, Campaign, and Critical Hit all usually clock in at about 1 hour an episode, sometimes a little more. All three are also well edited (cutting out dead space, combat set up etc as needed) and produced, with good sound quality.
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Are you looking strictly for ongoing podcasts? Other people have already covered the main ongoing casts I'm listening to (RPPR, One Shot, Nerd Poker in theory if less in practice, Friends at the Table), but there were a few decent ones that have closed up shop at this point, like The Walking Eye, whose mission was to run one shots of various mostly indie systems across a few casts and then do a review and interview with the designer. They lasted almost three years doing that and produced some great APs, in my book. Or NerdBound, who seemed to have a pretty similar format to RPPR, and even ran Clockwork Joe's 4E campaign, The New World.
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The ones I enjoy the most you have in the thread already, except for Friends at the Table . They're about 7 episodes under way with Mech Noir. They go DEEP into characterization and world building (like, they actually have an episode every few weeks that they roll dice to determine what is going on in the universe they play). It's intricate but I enjoy it. The GM is Austin, Giant Bomb's recent hire. Typical episodes are about an hour and a half.
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malkav11 posted:Are you looking strictly for ongoing podcasts? Other people have already covered the main ongoing casts I'm listening to (RPPR, One Shot, Nerd Poker in theory if less in practice, Friends at the Table), but there were a few decent ones that have closed up shop at this point, like The Walking Eye, whose mission was to run one shots of various mostly indie systems across a few casts and then do a review and interview with the designer. They lasted almost three years doing that and produced some great APs, in my book. Or NerdBound, who seemed to have a pretty similar format to RPPR, and even ran Clockwork Joe's 4E campaign, The New World. If you send me URLs and descriptions I'll make a list in the OP. I'm not going hunting for this stuff myself, though.
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So besides listing podcasts, what else should we be discussing? A few people mentioned looking for the bite-size (1 hour) podcasts; I generally prefer the ones that are a whole session. I think the flow is better without the interruptions of ending one episode and starting another. RPPR does whole sessions (sometimes two put together for two-shots) and I just listen through in bits as I have time. As the usual GM in my group, I often use AP podcasts to get a feel for rulesets I haven't played. I didn't really get Fate until I listened to some of the RPPR Base Raiders games. Gumshoe clicked a lot better for me after listening to Tribes of Tokyo (also RPPR) and Caleb's Wives of March. So I'm curious if anyone has recommendations for specific sessions or campaigns with less common rulesets. For instance, I'd love to hear some good ones with translated Japanese games like Tenra Bansho Zero or Double Cross, but I haven't come across them yet.
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Oct 1, 2015 15:27
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I know a lot of RPPR listeners have long jobs or commutes where they can get through a whole episode in a day or so. We have some hardcore fans that can't get enough even though we put out over 20 hours a month easily.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:If you send me URLs and descriptions I'll make a list in the OP. I'm not going hunting for this stuff myself, though. The Walking Eye: an actual play podcast that was dedicated to exploring indie RPGs. The format was a one-shot arc over typically 3-5 sessions, followed by a review, and then an interview with the creator of the system. They closed up shop in mid-2014 due to grad school, but there's still a substantial archive covering a bunch of really exciting games. (Nerdbound no longer has a site up and while some podcast hosting sites have episodes, or at least appear to, I'd guess it's not precisely available in its totality. So nevermind on that one.)
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clockworkjoe posted:I know a lot of RPPR listeners have long jobs or commutes where they can get through a whole episode in a day or so. We have some hardcore fans that can't get enough even though we put out over 20 hours a month easily. Are you the DM in those RPPR podcasts? I've got a bunch of people trying out my pretend Lovecraft story-time games for the first time in any of our lives, and all because I listened to you guys on a whim while jogging. Thanks, man. New weekend nerd hobbies are fun as hell. I'm listening to one of your CoC Delta Green things about a lost plane, at the moment.
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The Drunk and the Ugly are great. I'd personally suggest their Ms. Frieda's campaign (ORE-Monsters and Other Childish Things) and Prominence, SC (ORE-Wild Talents.) Be warned, while both are lengthy Ms. Fireda's is loving massive at about 95-ish episodes. Well worth it in my opinion but it may not be for some.
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A Tasteful Nude posted:Are you the DM in those RPPR podcasts? I've got a bunch of people trying out my pretend Lovecraft story-time games for the first time in any of our lives, and all because I listened to you guys on a whim while jogging. Thanks, man. New weekend nerd hobbies are fun as hell. I'm listening to one of your CoC Delta Green things about a lost plane, at the moment. Thanks! I'm the GM in many games, but not all. We rotate GMs on a regular basis. The lost plane one http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/2015/04/systems/call-of-cthulhu/call-of-cthulhu-the-last-flight-of-0237-part-1/ was run by Tom. For those of you listeners out there - what draws you to an AP podcast? Is the genre or system first or something else? What keeps you listening?
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 new thread Previous thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3598928&pagenumber=2 Grey Hunter's Actual Plays Grey Hunter's LP Youtube Channel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=user?greyhunterlpquote:Hitting the machine spirits hard -Let's Play Rogue Trader! gradenko_2000 posted:Grey Hunter also did an Actual Play of RoleMaster, which seems stunningly apt for a guy that played War in the Pacific one day at a time. quote:Looking for a Magic Space Nazi Inquisitor Johnson quote:kalonZombie's Pathfinder and Star Wars Campaigns quote:Skype of Cthulhu quote:Gamerstable – Actual Plays and Discussion of Gaming Topics Helical Nightmares fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Oct 19, 2015 |
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Oct 2, 2015 15:01
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Critical Hit is pretty good. Rodrigo is great DM.
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New content NPC Cast Run by goon Sarx, NPC cast discusses a variety of RPG topics including boardgames, cardgames and table top rpgs. Their actual plays include D&D, Gamma World, new World of Darkness, Savage Worlds and Nights Black Agents. I have to recommend the WOD adventure Angles over Bourbon Street as one of the most perfectly balanced games between Gamemaster detail and time efficiency I have listened to. It is really quite good. NPC cast: https://npccast.wordpress.com/ Actual Plays: https://npccast.wordpress.com/tag/actual-play/ RollPlay Youtube channel that plays D&D, Stars Without Number, Shadowrun, Dungeon World, Dark Heresy, and one very infamous episode of Maid in costumes with current and former eSports [Dota, etc.] people and Twitch streamers. The Stars Without Number campaign (Swan Song) is immediately very funny with a cast morally compromised characters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iofsg3hqZjo The West Marches is a D&D campaign with a rotating cast of players in the West Marches tradition which of course includes highly lethal encounters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=playlist Maid. Yeah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUcGZ2u4Q1c Youtube: http://www.itmejp.com/RollPlay Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/itmejp/ The Glass Cannon Podcast A bunch of married buddies get together and play through the Pathfinder Giantslayer adventure path. Very good so far. http://www.glasscannonpodcast.com/episodes/ The Arcology Podcast Alternates between Shadowrun chat about upcoming books, videogames, and the RPG in general; with Actual Play Shadowrun campaigns. They have a Patreon only Shadowrun Lone Star campaign. http://arcologypodcast.com/ The Esoteric Order of Roleplayers have been playing a Pendragon campaign since 2013 and it is currently ongoing. They have also played Deadlands: Reloaded and Call of Cthulhu. YakOnFir posted:http://esoteric-rp.blogspot.ie/ Additional Pendragon Resources here: http://esoteric-rp.blogspot.com/p/pendragon-resources.html Helical Nightmares fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Oct 19, 2015 |
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General Ironicus posted:One Shot and Campaign are my favorite podcast of any kind. I encourage everyone to check them out. James and Kat are arranging the panel at Valorcon I talk about in the link above if anyone wants to come and see. The final schedule for ValorCon went live today, so I put together a list of events that relate back to Six Feats Under: http://13questions.tumblr.com/post/130368378253/six-feats-under-at-valorcon One Shot and Campaign fans will be spoiled for choice. James and Kat are going to be all over the place.
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Oct 3, 2015 02:05
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Lately I've been listening to the Happy Jacks RPG Podcast, more specifically their Legend of the Five Rings campaign. They post full-length episodes with just the dead air cut out and they remind me a lot of my gaming group. There is one player who I find a little annoying, but overall I've really enjoyed the L5R episodes. I can't speak for their other campaigns or their non-Actual Play podcasts as I haven't listened to them yet.
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The thing that draws me to an Actual Play podcast is mostly an entertaining cast/ one that's full of personality (Either from characters, or players). I listen to the Adventure Zone because I'm a big MBMBAM fan. I like 6 Feats Under because their predecessor LPDnD was what got me into the hobby and they all craft pretty delightful characters. I haven't listened to much of RPPR's extensive library, but I really enjoyed their Know Evil campaign- since that was their first major endeavour that I listened to it took me a while to tell the players apart, but it had some quite interesting characters, including a celebrity/activist octopus.
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Yeah, the main question I ask an AP podcast is: "Do any of these people make me want to tear my ears off for one reason or another?" After that it's if they're entertaining on top of not being awful.
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Helical Nightmares posted:RollPlay These are Twitch shows that get uploaded to YouTube over the course of about a week after they premiere. They're easy to listen to as podcasts, but it does require an extra step or two depending on how long you're willing to wait for the whole episode. If you're content with the drip-feed of roughly an hour per day per show, you can rip the MP3s directly from YouTube with peggo or something similar. If you want to get the whole thing immediately, you'll have to subscribe to JP's Twitch stream or use some combination of Twitch VOD downloaders (TwitchDown, etc) and MP3-ripping programs like VLC Player. Related to the RollPlay games listed above, there's also Mirrorshades, a Shadowrun 1E campaign run by Adam Koebel, co-creator of Dungeon World and GM of Swan Song. Mirrorshades is... Strange. Fun, but strange. The runners are hilariously incompetent even by Shadowrun standards, a fact they slowly realize both in and out of character over the course of the show. Their jobs tend to have a social consciousness angle to them, because the GM is much more interested in exploring the "punk" part of the cyberpunk equation, and the pacing is relatively slow with a lot of time devoted to the interpersonal dynamics between the runners. It's sillier than Swan Song, which means it gets very silly at times, not least because one of the players (Kaitlyn, playing failed rock star-turned gun-toting criminal Nightsass) is on a totally different and much less serious wavelength from everyone else, which is saying something. It's essentially Shadowrun done as a slice-of-life anime. Overall, Swan Song is a stronger show, but Mirrorshades gets consistently fun after a rocky start. Swan Song and Mirrorshades are enjoyable, but if you're looking for something with a more consistently serious tone, look elsewhere. Specifically, look at the Apocalypse World and Burning Wheel games Adam runs for the Roll20 Games Master series. Roll20 Apocalypse World follows the four-person crew of a small patrol boat as they try to make their way and keep their independence in a sunken cityscape infested by psychic weirdness, where the real threat to their survival may be one another. This series is excellent, in no small part due to having two masterful players who know the system inside and out and are able to put real emotion into their play; one of them is John Harper, author of Blades in the Dark and Lady Blackbird. If you enjoy slow-burning, relentlessly gloomy and unsettling sci-fi like The Southern Reach Trilogy, you'll love it. If you're okay with spoilers, check out the Post-Apocalypse World series that shows Adam's prep between sessions. The series is complete at ten episodes, plus another ten hour-long prep sessions, and it manages a complete and satisfying arc. Roll20 Burning Wheel is still a work in progress: it's only six sessions in, and BW games really shine in long-term campaign play. At the moment we're following four "heroes" of a French Revolution-esque movement and the struggle between their high ideals, baser instincts, and the harsh realities of trying to control and convert a subjugated population in a remote mountain village. Oh, and they're also laboring under a curse leveled against them for helping to murder a child-empress. It's got real promise, but it's hampered by two of the four players being a bit flat and relatively new to RPGs, one of whom is so loving lazy that he literally has not named his character in the four months since the game began. It's causing the GM to play softer ball than Burning Wheel really wants, so it's not an ideal example of play. On the other hand, the other two players are excellent, with engagingly-portrayed characters who are also interesting to watch from a mechanical perspective. I'd still rank it below Apocalypse World, Swan Song, and maybe even Mirrorshades, but it's got a ton of promise. Edit: There's nothing like finding typos in a post you made a year before. Kestral fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Aug 21, 2016 |
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Oct 3, 2015 23:56
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clockworkjoe posted:For those of you listeners out there - what draws you to an AP podcast? Is the genre or system first or something else? What keeps you listening? It's usually the system first and the scenario second. I was interested in Eclipse Phase so I started listening to Know Evil and eventually picked up some books. Likewise, I haven't listened to any of the D&D content. It can work the other way though, I picked up A Dirty World because I listened to The Dangers of Fraternization and found the scenario interesting and I'm actually running it for friends tomorrow!
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I primarily listen for enjoyment, so good group chemistry and a lack of people who constantly get on my nerves are the primary draws for me. I don't care very much about the system the game's in or how much the rules are explained. I do tend to prefer more comedic groups than ultra-serious ones, but that may just be because it's hard to do a really serious campaign without going too far into, for lack of a better term, "tryhard mode".
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I like seeing a good variety of systems and settings, especially if they skew towards indie games. Good group chemistry is also a plus and depending on how entertaining the players are it's sometimes enough to surmount a system that I don't find very interesting to listen to, like D&D. But I've been tending to avoid pure D&D podcasts because I just find the combat super tedious and it's always hours long when it crops up.
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clockworkjoe posted:I know a lot of RPPR listeners have long jobs or commutes where they can get through a whole episode in a day or so. We have some hardcore fans that can't get enough even though we put out over 20 hours a month easily. There was one memorable 'day' where I got through nearly 20 hours in a 24 hour period. Have I said thank you recently? Thank you. You guys rock.
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I alluded to it above, but I like finding podcasts that touch on games I haven't played myself. One-Shot and RPPR both have a huge mix of games, including many that I either hadn't heard of or didn't quite know how to translate into a game. That's enough for me to give a show a shot, but I only stick with it if I feel the players have good interactions and if the stories are interesting. I really like seeing clever mechanics (Caleb's time tokens in Eclipse Phase) or story notes (Tribes of Tokyo's time travel elements) that give me ideas on stuff to steal for my own games.
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SageNytell posted:There was one memorable 'day' where I got through nearly 20 hours in a 24 hour period. Wow, what were you doing that required you to stay up that long? Glad you guys enjoy our show. BTW, there are some free AP downloads on the RPPR Patreon page https://www.patreon.com/RPPR?ty=h - including a few of Caleb's No Security playtests.
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D6 Mafia (http://www.youtube.com/user/theD6mafia) is a pretty fun group that's had three 'seasons' of play. They run pretty short sessions, usually about an hour to an hour and a half, and they're a lot more story focused, with a lot of people having acting backgrounds. Really fun to listen to, with generally pretty drat good GMing, and the players are awesome and have great chemistry with each other.
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Usually it's how funny the group is. I thought I hated when people did voices but some of my faves have people doing voices! I just needed to find funny people doing voices.
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clockworkjoe posted:For those of you listeners out there - what draws you to an AP podcast? Is the genre or system first or something else? What keeps you listening? I picked up RPPR at first because I was curious about Iron Heroes, and you seemed to be the only guys that made a game about that. I kept listening because the production values/sound quality is great, the players are great at characterization and banter, and you all seem to make the games flow really well regardless of system. The Double Hamlet and the incredibly well drawn-out plan to bomb the Red Emperors still stand out to me.
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clockworkjoe posted:For those of you listeners out there - what draws you to an AP podcast? Is the genre or system first or something else? What keeps you listening? Good roleplaying first for sure, followed by an interesting premise. D&U's Mrs. Frieda's campaign had some of the best interplayer interaction and relationships I have ever seen. And yes, I will continue to mention these guys as much as I can. They are loving great.
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clockworkjoe posted:I also recently found out about a youtube AP series called Thrilling Intent - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=user?3rdWheelie
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