Role Playing Public Radio

Games like Dungeons and Dragons are often regarded by pop culture as nerdy and antisocial, but Wheelhouse Workshop founders Adam Davis and Adam Johns use them to help their neurodiverse teen clients become more confident and socially capable. Come hear how these lifelong gamers used their training in counseling, drama therapy, and human development to embark on a new frontier in therapy, ask questions about your own gaming experience, and celebrate how the games we love are more than just games. This panel was recorded at PAX South 2016.

Masks of Nyarlathotep is a classic (some would say quintessential) campaign for Call of Cthulhu. Given how much we play CoC, I thought it would be remiss of us not to record a run of it. It took us about a year to get through the campaign, but our dedicated group of investigators solved mysteries, fought cultists, and confronted horrible abominations from beyond time and space. I heavily changed the core campaign, using advice from Adam Scott Glancy and the invaluable book, the Masks of Nyarlathotep Companion. Find out what I changed and why and how the players thought of the game. Get links to every AP episode of the campaign here. Song: We’ll Meet Again by Vera Lynn

To celebrate our first year of the RPPR Patreon, we have created new milestones so we can create more podcasts for you! After Hours has proven to be a hit with our Patreon backers and there’s a lot of interest in the Old World of Darkness, so I merged the two to create WoD The Heck.It’s a humorous look at the oWoD, by a mix of veterans and newbies. This episode is a free preview of the podcast. If you like it, please consider backing the RPPR Patreon. If we reach the $1,600 milestone, we will make this a monthly podcast for all backers! In this episode, Shaun and I, along with Faust from the Third Wheel look at one of the most hated books in the entire oWoD – The Dirty Secrets of the Black Hand. This book broke all the rules: blatant crossovers from multiple gamelines, unabashed powergaming, and worst of all, it made the kewlest, most munchkin discipline, Vicissitude, into a bad thing. Truly, unforgivable crimes. Song: Marketplace by Chinese Hackers.

Ask anyone, from the lowliest farmhand in Missouri to the wealthiest banker in New England who they consider to be the most important figure in history, chances are they’ll give the same answer: Robert Fulton. By his simple act of installing steam engines into antiquated clockwork armors from the Napoleonic Wars, he changed the face warfare forever. Armed with massive Colt repeaters, these mechanical behemoths were the premier soldiers of the American Civil War, with both North and South creating untold devastation that fractured the nascent United States by wars end. Now a more dangerous Wild West has risen from the ashes of Reconstruction. Iron Rangers from the US Calvary clash with Comanche Iron Killers. Cattle rustlers conduct midnight raids in rickety Turkey Walkers and groups like the Chinese Freeman Society and New Africa fight to hold claim to their new territories. This is the world of Mecha West. Mecha West is a standalone game setting utilizing the MECHA RPG system. Written by Chris C. Carter and Edward M. Edelac, the game presents an alternate history look at Post-Reconstruction America where Steampunk Mechs are the staple weapons for lawmen and wandering gunmen alike. Aaron interviewed Chris and Eric about the setting and what influences they took from the real history of the Wild West. Mecha West is currently running a Kickstarter, so if you like Steampunk warfare, give them a look. If you also interested in running MECHA games, their current games are available for purchase on DrivethruRPG. Kickstarter link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/565866321/mechawest DrivethruRPG MECHA link: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/2550/Heroic-Journey-Publishing

I recorded some panels while I attended PAX South this year. The first one I recorded goes over some GMing tips and tricks. Have you been running an amazing RPG campaign for years but still have a few problems that keep coming up? Have you always wanted to run a game but felt afraid to get started? The Art of the Table and its fine crew of experienced game masters is here to have a look under the hood of your home game and install whatever’s needed to send your campaign roaring off towards legendary status. Hosted by Danielle Harper [Veteran GM, The Art of the Table], Adam Koebel [Game Designer, Sage Kobold Productions], Randy Scheunemann [Retail Specialist, Steve Jackson Games], Ryan Coogan [Director, Dystopia Rising Lone Star], and Steven Lumpkin [Veteran GM, The Art of the Table].

News: A new Base Raiders PDF supplement is out. Check out New Teams: Cosplay on sale now! Also, the Red Markets beta campaign has started. Be sure to listen to the first episode. Finally, Raillery has a ton of new videos on its Youtube channel. Check em out. Synopsis: We recently posted the conclusion to the Atomic Robo campaign and as our custom, we have a post-mortem to discuss what went right and what went wrong. The players and GM had varying levels of knowledge about the setting, which posed unique challenges for Aaron. We talk about what we liked about the game and what could have changed and what we would do differently next time. If you missed some episodes of the campaign, visit its page for a list of links to all the episodes. Shout Outs Eclipse Phase: After the Fall: The first anthology of fiction for Eclipse Phase. A must-read if you enjoy transhuman sci-fi Showa 1944-1953: The third volume in Shigeru Mizuki’s award-winning history of Japan. Undertale: A video game RPG where you don’t have to kill. You still can though. Just saying. Duck Game: A brilliant and perfect game of quacking and shooting ducks. Also, hats. Armello: A fantasy board game/video game with good multiplayer features. Spirit of 77: A Powered by the Apocalypse 1970s exploitation film inspired RPG with beautiful art Ghostbusters Board Game: Play the Ghostbusters busting ghosts in tabletop format. Everything is Terrible – Legends: a sanity-grinding 12 hour compilation of Everything is Terrible. Beware of TRICKY PEOPLE. Five Element Ninjas: The Shaw Brothers had some peculiar ideas about ninjas and samurai. Sunless Sea: A video game set in Fallen London. Explore an underground sea filled with strange monsters. Crawl: An unusually designed co-op video game about dungeon crawling and monster slaying. Song: Resonance by Home

Last year, I briefly worked on a film called the Weight. I worked under Darrell Claunch, a local artist and graphic designer. He’s worked in video games and in Hollywood as a compositor on giant films like Iron Man. After talking to him on our trips to and from the movie set, I thought this might be an interesting podcast for RPPR, so here we are. We even talk about how the office politics of film studios could be used as fodder for RPGs. Enjoy! Be sure to check out Darrell’s blog and Twitter as well.

News: Death Traps: Volume 1 is out for Base Raiders! This supplement was co-written by Caleb, so be sure to check it out. Buy it on DrivethruRPG or at the Base Raiders store. Check out the free artwork produced via the RPPR Patreon. Synopsis: Covering mature or sensitive topics in games is a challenge. Messing up can alienate players and result in a bad game. Dan, Tom, Aaron, and I discuss how we would approach these issues in a game. Shaun also comes in to bring a bit of historical context in gaming by talking about how major publisher White Wolf used the Black Dog Studios imprint. We also have shout outs and anecdotes. Shout Outs Showa 1939-1944: A manga history of Japan and autobiography of Shigeru Mizuki. Excellent read and insight into Japan. Yamamoto: A Japanese film about the war in the Pacific during WW2. Final Fantasy 14: Dan and Aaron play it. Join their free company. Details here. Radioactive Dreams: A proto-Fallout film that mixes 80s New Wave with 1940s hardboiled. One Punch Man: The perfect adaptation of the perfect manga. Seven Deadly Sins: A fantasy anime reinterpretation of King Arthur’s legend. Monster Factory – Fallout 4: A hilarious comedic Let’s Play of Fallout 4. Bloodsucking Bastards: A horror comedy about vampires in the workplace. Very funny. Music: Rush by Run Vaylor.

Only a short time after picking up the game from Drivethru RPG, Tom Church interviews Pierce Fraser, the writer and creator of HC SVNT DRACONES.  Find out all about this unique RPG, as well as the process that went in to making it.  And also get a short glimpse into the 4 part campaign being run for the RPPR crew in this game universe! http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/141683/Hc-Svnt-Dracones http://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/7700/Weapons-Grade-Funk http://hsdroleplayinggame.com/

News: Please get your Red Markets playtest reports in by December 20. Thanks for supporting the game! Synopsis: The new Fallout game has a settlement leadership feature that allows the player to design and run small communities. It’s impressive but tabletop RPGs can capture more complexity and sophisticated narratives than any video game. Games about community leadership should be different than the standard murderhobo dungeon crawl/investigation campaign model. Tom, Aaron, Caleb, and I discuss how they should be different and what players and GMs can do to make them more interesting. Tom also has a letter, plus shout outs and anecdotes! Shout Outs and Reviews: She Walks in Shadows: A Cthulhu mythos fiction anthology of talented women writers. Highly recommended! HC SVNT Dracones: Transhuman talking animal peope. In Spaaacce! R23X – SOUND_TRACK ~ [MP3?]?.?torrent. A vaporwave album inspired by video game music. Very chill and has a great music video! Spotlight: a brilliant film about the Catholic church sex scandal and the reporters who uncovered it. Bone Tomahawk: A weird western film starring Kurt Russell, Kurt Russelling the shit out of things. Great if you can stand extreme gore. Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans: Just what space opera anime needs, child soldiers! Ash Vs. Evil Dead: A cinematic murderhobo of legend is now on TV. Hail to the King baby. Spectrum: Look at all that pretty art. Music: Various tracks from SOUND_TRACK ~ [MP3?]?.?torrent  by R23X