Special New Episode! We're proud to support the new game Ballad Hunters, from @moltensulfur.bsky.social and @pelgranepress.bsky.social ! We got to test it out with the author, and we had a blast! Kickstarting now at www.kickstarter.com/projects/pel...!
And here's our playtest!
It's out ten-year restrospective! 2020 was...a good year for pretending to be in other worlds. Greg helped us out with his game Orichalcum Chef: exciting food competitions in a friendly fantasy world!
We were busy in 2019! One of our special projects was an adaptation of @rosspayton.bsky.social 's chain-journal-writing game "Lovecraftian Narrator," which our founding member Aaron transformed into a voicemail recording game to fit the audio medium. It was incredible!
It's our Ten-Year Podiversary retrospective! In 2019, our Adam began a tradition of running horrifying #EclipsePhase one-shots for us on his birthday. And this first one was a real doozy.
It's our Ten-Year Podiversary retrospective! In 2018, we were deep into our 10k Lakes "living world" campaign for #RedMarkets, with several partner podcasts. Someone came up with a job to collect feral cats that we could trade for weed...it got weirder from there.
We interrupt this festival of nostalgia to bring you our New Episode! We're playtesting The Black Company RPG, coming soon from @arcdreampublishing.bsky.social ! These beta rules aren't final, but they're already a ton of fun!
In 2017, we'd finished our first campaign and started branching out. Our founding member Aaron ran a brilliant game of Delta Green for us, and the horrors of VHS...
We're celebrating our Ten-Year Podiversary with a festival of throwback links!
For starters, here's where it all began: March 24, 2016. The first episode of our first campaign, playtesting the original #RedMarkets beta rules by @hebanongames.bsky.social. Welcome to Technical Difficulties!
We can't believe it, but our little podcast is now officially TEN YEARS OLD! Not old enough to vote yet, but old enough to make a pretty good shoebox diorama for a fifth grade science project. We'll be celebrating with special retrospective links to old episodes! Watch this space!
New Episode! It's the thrilling conclusion of our single-player noir horror adventure! Can one librarian thwart the plans of a sinister sorcerer? Or will she herself become his sacrificial victim? And what side will the Hounds of Anubis be on??
New Playtest Episode! It's the Black Company RPG, coming soon from @arcdreampublishing.bsky.social ! We're trying out the playtest rules. Four soldiers. smart enough to know they're on a dumb mission. Let's all try not to get killed over a singing lesson!
Exciting News! Our member Ben is active on the professional GMing service @startplaying.bsky.social! He's a great GM (as you know if you're a listener), and you can play games with him here: startplaying.games/gm/cm78i99vk...
New Episode! Does anybody know what it means when a horror story suddenly introduces a big group of new colorful side characters? It means they're probably safe, right?
New One Shot Episode! It's been out for four years, and there's still no game quite like Fae's Anatomy by @hebanongames.bsky.social . Fantasy doctors curing fantasy diseases with the power of science, logic, and romance!
New Episode! They say the first step to recovery is accepting that you have a problem. That you caused. A thousand years ago. Actually, several of them.
New Episode! What could be more Lovecraftian -- and more Noir -- than a single nerdy bookshop owner going up against sinister magicians and cosmic horrors!? Enjoy a special one-player adventure!
New episode! It's Heart time, but it's a solo side episode, featuring our favorite priest of the Goddess of Debt! You owe it to yourself to listen in. (And also you owe it to the Goddess. You always owe the Goddess.)
If you haven't before, Listen to an episode or two of the cast you're on, so you can get a feel for the vibe. If you've done that, just make sure you keep a consistent distance from your mic. And have fun!
New Episode! Our heroes discover their true foes: ghost-powered robots, academic theology, and the demographic transition! Obviously, the only solution is punk rock.
New Episode! @callmemav.bsky.social runs a *hunky* #CallofCthulhu one-shot for us! Bros before Mythos!
New Episode! Join us as we discover how to turn the spectrum of gender into...something a little more like a Möbius strip.
Bold red text on a black background: BITE THE HAND A CYBERPUNK TTRPG BY ALEXANDER VIGNA The Spellbook Gaming and Panic Engine logos A sleek robotic hand holding a human skull, filtered to be only black and red with a digital glitch effect.
Back from the dead after an incomplete crowdfund, BITE THE HAND will be coming to Itch.io on January 10th! BTH is a complete Cyberpunk TTRPG built on Mothership's Panic Engine. Also it's red now.
Follow so you don't miss it!
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New Episode! Merry 'Clipsemas, friends. And happy birthday to our favorite #EclipsePhase freak, Adam!
A green background. Title: "Your top podcast of 2025" Subtitle: "It doesn't get more "you" than this" Center: The Roleplaying Public Radio Actual Play podcast logo. A red dragon gives finger guns from behind a GM screen over the text: " RPPR ACTUAL PLAY" Footer reads: "53 episodes, 4 days, and 12 hours." "That's commitment!"
A blue background headered: "Your other go-to's More favorites, more play, more you" followed by a numbered list showing the logos for the following podcasts in order: #1 RPPR ACTUAL PLAY logo Ross Payton RPPR Actual Play #2 TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES logo Technical Difficulties Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast #3 ONE SHOT logo Dillin Apelyan One Shot #4 MY FIRST DUNGEON logo Many Sided Media My First Dungeon #5 RPG DESIGN PANELCAST logo Jason Pitre RPG Design Panelcast
My @pocketcasts.com wrapped. @rosspayton.bsky.social, @techdiffgp.bsky.social, @manysidedmedia.bsky.social
New Episode! What would Narnia have been like if they'd had the Protestant Reformation and the Industrial Revolution between books 2 and 3? Maybe 1,000 years is a little too long to leave the anthropological experiment cooking...
When forced by circumstances or game mechanics to choose, yes - we choose bear.
Well, that maybe depends on the crime...
New One-Shot Episode! This Thanksgiving, we're thankful for bears, and we're thankful for bears. We celebrate both, in the best way we know how. #HoneyHeist!
