Real Play Games Podcast
An actual-play role-playing game podcast where G.M. John runs his friends through a bunch of tabletop role-playing games, some pretty popular, and some of them obscure! We release episodes every week using a variety of different role-playing systems!
Episodes
218 episodes
Troika! - A Jolly Time at the Blancmange & Thistle
What do a poorly-made dwarf, a member of Miss Kinsey's Dining Club, and a parchment witch have in common? Find out as these three traverse the perilous and dadaist halls (and lifts, and stairwells) of the Blancmange & Thistle. B...
Troika! Adventures Trailer
A dish best served orange and bicycle, we play a couple of quick games of the other world's favourite RPG, Troika! A grand time was had by all, and the mental scars prove it. Enjoy two helpings starting April 24th!Troika!, th...
Hard Times Beyond the Breach - A Fistful of Scrip Post-Season Episode!
The madness has subsided, at least for the moment, and we (as ourselves, not characters) sit and discuss our fondness for the Through the Breach 2E system and adventures, our love of westerns, our lack of understanding on various things, and pl...
Hard Times Beyond the Breach Ep. 13 - The Two Body Problem
With the group inside Appleton Manor, they find themselves needing to split up to get everything accomplished! Annastasia gets a hand cramp really bad! Barty stands a whole, whole lot until one very pivotal moment! Celia is un...
Hard Times Beyond the Breach Ep. 12 - A Soiree State of Affairs
Fancy outfits and hidden weapons are the items of the evening as the Fated Five head towards the party at Appleton’s manor. There’s schmoozing and boozing, and a wonderful reason to prompt a Carouse check while they’re at it. But it...
Hard Times Beyond the Breach Ep. 11 - A Circle of Trust and Honesty
After Celia and Oswoldo’s bat-shit crazy experience at the Appleton Estate, the time’s come to get some fancy duds for the group and get all of their duckies in a row before the big to-do. The Fated Five head over to Redchapel to touch ba...
Hard Times Beyond the Breach Ep. 10 - Just An Easy Break-in and Grab
Some days are lucky, and some days are decidedly not, but after taking a while to plot out a strategy, the team's contact with Edgar Harris pays off and he gets them set up with a meeting with Viktor Hirsch, who requests they retrieve his inden...
Hard Times Beyond the Breach Ep. 9 - Maybe We Get the Full Tea Service When We Finish
A trip to the Five Orchids Tea House in the Little Kingdoms district lands the group with an interesting job: retrieve a statue from the socialite, Margaret Appleton, and replace it with a different statue. With a whole bunch of prep time...
Hard Times Beyond the Breach Ep. 8 - Shown No Quarter and Given None
Having finally managed to guilt Irving into assisting them, the group descends once more into the sewers beneath the city, and makes a plan that more or less falls apart on contact with the enemy, as all plans do. Anastasia discovered a n...
Hard Times Beyond the Breach Ep. 7 - Gonna Make You a Star Right Here, Ma'am!
Having discovered some of the sinister ends towards which Elizabeth Irving plans on putting the children of the Dogsend Child Workhouse to, the Fated Five decide to intervene, and James come up with a wild distraction while the others do their ...
Hard Times Beyond the Breach Ep. 6 - Would Much Rather Take the Dogs
It’s cold and oppressive out, and the man of shadows Oswoldo Franc finds himself shadowed instead! A simple interaction can cause a chain reaction that leads to some disturbing discoveries. Luckily, we know just the right people to ...
Hard Times Beyond the Breach Ep. 5 - Soupermahdles
With all of the insanity of the auction and everything that happened afterward out of the way, it’s time to head to the Edge Point First Second Annul Fashun Show! The crowds are packed, the competition is fierce, but our Fated five can su...
Hard Times Beyond the Breach Ep. 4 - Desperate Bids for Success
An auction, an auction! Marvel at the wonders from Breachside and Earthside alike as the Fated do their damndest to get a bunch of good stuff for their employers! Of course, they’re not the only people bidding on the items, so they’...
Hard Times Beyond the Breach Ep. 3 - The White Rabbit Company
Following their success with the train incident, Barty gets a lead on some potential work and gathers the gang back together. They head to Redchapel, one of the most notorious areas of Malifaux City, to meet with a curious pair of haberda...
Hard Times Beyond the Breach Ep. 2 - Acquaintance Retrieval Technicians
In the cyclopean sewers beneath the Southside Slums, the Fated find themselves hunting for the undead abominations who kidnapped their contacts via candlelight! Bullets will fly, and quill pens will furiously write about said flying bulle...
Hard Times Beyond the Breach Ep. 1 - Strangers on a Train Platform
Five souls, linked by an ineffable fate, all find themselves at the Southside Station waiting for the 10:15 from Edge Point. Each is waiting for something different: information, money, or something else entire. What they all have i...
Hard Times Beyond the Breach Trailer
Join Anastasia Adams, Barty T. Badge, Celia Nettle, James Pierce Hawthorne III and Oswoldo Franc for a tale of fates intertwining, set in a land accessible only through a rent in reality and filled with magic and danger! 1907 was never th...
The Sins of the Father Ep. 4 - Determining Who Ruined This Particular Christmas Gathering
There are hatches where hatches don’t belong, and Susanne, George, and Jaime are going to get to the bottom of it, unless it’s going to get them killed, at which point they’re all very reluctant to get to the bottom of it. Still, once a t...
The Sins of the Father Ep. 3 - The Horace Where-is-He
Once the lighting situation’s been handled in the Prescott home, an entirely new and different complication arises, and one with far more chilling implications! Gather up the whole family and get somewhere safe, because death has come to ...
The Sins of the Father Ep. 2 - My Dinner with Outrage
Intriguing family secrets are uncovered just before dinnertime, and of course, any event that gathers as many Prescotts together in one room as possible is going to go just about as well as you think that it would. Susanne would look agha...
The Sins of the Father Ep. 1 - Meet the Prescotts
It’s Christmas Eve 2005, and the Prescott family has gathered for the presumed last Christmas celebration of family patriarch Douglas Prescott, former MP and a man of vast wealth and influence. Predominantly out of a sense of obligation (...
The Sins of the Father Trailer
In a manor house built like a castle just off the coast of British Columbia, the Prescott family has gathered together for decades. Now, they gather on Christmas Eve of 2005 as family patriarch Douglas Prescott faces a losing battle with ...
Surviving Love: First Camp Aftershow - Recentering in a New Dimension!
The story of the dimensionally-displaced reality stars from First Camp is over, at least for now, and we delve into some of the questions that the players had for GM John, reveal some background info, and talk about some things that ended up ge...
Surviving Love: First Camp Ep. 10 - My Ex-Girlfriend, the Harrier Jet
Things have been absolutely crazy for the six Earthlings who’ve found themselves magically transformed and landed on a gateway to potentially unlimited worlds, so what’re they going to do? What every other sad fuck in any galaxy has to do...
Surviving Love: First Camp Ep. 9 - Joining the Military Because They Have Cool Outfits Never Caused Problems Before, Right?
Even if you’re not in love with your ex anymore, you can still hope that they get good gas mileage! The group gets results of their testing, as well as preliminary offers from prospective employers, and everybody gets a little overwhelmed...
