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In this session, the Water Barons confront a dangerous beast that stalks the colony. It has killed and terrorized the simple workers of the colony and no one dares to venture outside the protective walls of the colony. Find out who pays the ultimate price to stop the beast! Support Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPR/ The post RPPR Actual Play: 4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Campaign Game 07 appeared first on Role Playing Public Radio.

In this episode, Tom and I more or less interview each other about our habits as players. Find out what can truly surprise Tom in a game or what my favorite character type is. If you want to get an idea of how to improve your game, think about how you play, what works and… Support Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPR/ The post RPPR Episode 31: Be A Team Player appeared first on Role Playing Public Radio.

Show your support for RPPR by donating to the New World Campaign Primer Ransom! There’s less than a week to go. The Water Barons (I.E. our intrepid heroes) face many new threats and dangers this session. The thieves guild has its own designs on the New World. A rival adventuring company becomes popular in the… Support Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPR/ The post RPPR Actual Play: 4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Campaign Game 6 appeared first on Role Playing Public Radio.

The worst pain you can feel when running a game comes from min/maxing players, the jerks who love nothing more to make unstoppable killing machines that defy the laws of man, god, common sense, physics and the damn game itself. So, how do you deal with these min/maxers? We provide a few ways to dish… Support Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPR/ The post RPPR Episode 30: Min-Max Pain appeared first on Role Playing Public Radio.

For the last year, I have been writing and running a massive Call of Cthulhu campaign. I have not breathed a word about it so I could unleash it to the world in one massive release. However, everything fell apart in the last session. I will post this as a warning to never give the… Support Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPR/ The post RPPR Actual Play: Call of Cthulhu – Wrath of Cthulhu Game 73 appeared first on Role Playing Public Radio.

In this session, the players continue their struggles against the goblins massing in the New World. Theolonius the merchant lord tries to manipulate the players but will it pay off? How will Cody’s romantic exploits be used against him? Will the grippli be rescued? Find out in session 5! If you enjoy the New World… Support Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPR/ The post RPPR Actual Play: 4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Campaign Game 5 appeared first on Role Playing Public Radio.

The time of judgment is upon us. Tom and I judge a few games, a D&D mockumentary and several bad GM habits. The Assemblage of the Crystal Sphere is a indie comedy about a RPG group about to complete a 5 year campaign. Tom looks at Cthulhutech, a game of animu giant robots fighting monsters… Support Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPR/ The post RPPR Episode 29: Time of Judgment appeared first on Role Playing Public Radio.

Rejoice! Game 4 of the RPPR 4E Dungeons and Dragons New World campaign is here! The party has to deal with the horde of goblins migrating to the new world as they are threatening their grippli allies! Plus, romance, orc migration, intrigue and a daring escape from a goblin ship. Oh and loads of profanity,… Support Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPR/ The post RPPR Actual Play: 4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Campaign Game 4 appeared first on Role Playing Public Radio.

Recorded by Ross Payton I was one of the little dots you see here on the National Mall on Jan 20 2009. I brought my H2 digital recorder (which I use to record all of the RPPR actual play sessions) and recorded president Obama’s Inauguration speech as an experiment in field recording. Unfortunately in my… Support Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPR/ The post RPPR Field Recording – Inauguration 2009 on the National Mall appeared first on Role Playing Public Radio.

Tides of Doom, part of In Search of Adventure Run at Visioncon. Synopsis: The village of Crafthaven has awoken an ancient evil buried underneath. Can the brave heroes stop the cult from completing its ritual? Oh, and this dungeon isn’t just filled with Lovecraftian monsters. It corrupts all who spend time in it. Even the… Support Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPR/ The post RPPR Actual Play: 4E Dungeons and Dragons Tides of Doom appeared first on Role Playing Public Radio.

Synopsis: Every gamer has their own expectations at the gaming table. Most of the time, everyone has similar enough expectations that they can all enjoy the same game but this isn’t always the case. How do you deal with people who seem to have mutually exclusive expectations of a RPG? Ultra realism or cinematic action?… Support Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPR/ The post RPPR Episode 28: Great. Expectations. appeared first on Role Playing Public Radio.

4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons The New World Campaign- NSFW! GM: Ross Payton Players: Tom, Cody, Jason and Dan Synopsis: The adventurers have gained some new friends, a tribe of grippli. They’ve also made some new enemies, the thieves guild.  Furthermore, a horde of goblins has arrived in the new world, their massive hulk anchored… Support Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPR/ The post RPPR Actual Play: 4E DnD – The New World Game 3 appeared first on Role Playing Public Radio.

Synopsis: Open-ended or Sandbox games can be extremely fun but it requires a lot of work on the part of both the GM and the players. Our friends over at the Bearswarm recorded an episode about sandbox games recently but we thought we would give it a shot (and neither of us has listened to… Support Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPR/ The post RPPR Episode 27: Grand Theft Apparatus of Kwalish appeared first on Role Playing Public Radio.

The New World a 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons Campaign Session 2 Players: Tom, Cody and Dan IMPORTANT NOTE: This game is full of profanity, even by our standards. This is very much NOT SAFE FOR WORK. Synopsis: The kingdoms of the old world have discovered a vast new continent across the ocean. Brave settlers… Support Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPR/ The post RPPR Actual Play: 4E Dungeons and Dragons – The New World Session 2 *NSFW* appeared first on Role Playing Public Radio.

We’ve received a lot of messages from listeners so we thought we discuss a few of them. This show covers a lot of topics, from our personal favorite RPGs, the indie RPG Dread, to dealing with out of control house rules and other issues. We also got our first donation, so if you like the… Support Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPR/ The post RPPR Episode 26: Going Postal – Mailbag Madness appeared first on Role Playing Public Radio.

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is a delightful story by L. Frank Baum with an intriguing mythos. Rankin-Bass produced a claymation adaptation, which is where Katie and Jonny first discovered it. There have been a few other incarnations as well, including a Japanese anime. Jonny always thought it would serve pretty well as… Support Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPR/ The post RPPR Actual Play: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus appeared first on Role Playing Public Radio.

Synopsis: Because of the holidays, we’ve decided to take a look at the most neglected of subjects in gaming: happiness and joy. Given that the average RPG is a angst ridden world of grim and gritty darkness populated by hideous monsters and slightly less monstrous player characters where the typical encounter is a savage bloodsoaked… Support Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPR/ The post RPPR Episode 25: Save vs. Warm Fuzzies appeared first on Role Playing Public Radio.

There is trouble in Bethlehem…. Thousands of crows have taken roost in the woods surrounding Bethlehem, NH, mercilessly attacking anyone who tries to enter the forest. The human population is outnumbered more than ten-to-one, and the birds are growing more bold every day. Can the investigators solve the mystery behind this unnatural infestation? Can they… Support Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPR/ The post RPPR Actual Play: Call of Cthulhu – A Murder of Crows appeared first on Role Playing Public Radio.

When we role play, we almost always imagine an action scene, whether it’s kicking down dungeon doors and slitting the throats of whatever lies beyond them or kicking open vampire coffins and staking whatever lies inside them or kicking down giant metal doors with giant robot legs and stomping whatever lies beyond them. So no… Support Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPR/ The post RPPR Episode 24: GO GO GO! and other Action Movie Cliches appeared first on Role Playing Public Radio.

Ben Baugh aka Bailywolf on the RPG.net forums is the mind behind Monsters and Other Childish Things, a game near and dear to my heart. In this interview, we talk about game design, his other work, some of the more interesting threads on RPG.net and of course Monsters. I apologize for the poor audio quality.… Support Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPR/ The post RPPR Interview with Benjamin Baugh, creator of Monsters and Other Childish Things appeared first on Role Playing Public Radio.