RPPR Episode 176: Running and Playing Online Games
News: Night Clerk Radio is now available! Birk and I have created a new music review podcast focusing on vaporwave, dark ambient, and other haunted genres of music. Listen today on your podcasting app of choice or on Youtube.
Synopsis: Running and playing tabletop games online has become extremely popular lately so Birk, Kyle (from Best Pal Brigade featured in our episode art) and I discuss our experiences. There are many platforms to play games but choosing one is not the only challenge. Learning the differences between online and IRL games is essential to having a great time.
Promo: Thinking Too Hard About Anime, a new podcast from friends of RPPR!
Shout Outs
- Murderbot Diaries: Rogue Protocol – the third book in the Murderbot series and quite fun!
- The Bizarre Modern Reality of Sonic the Hedgehog: a cool video explainer about the weirdness of the fandom
- Hunt Showdown: An excellent multiplayer video game with an original horrific setting
- Song of Horror: A survival horror video game
- World of Horror: a pixel art investigative horror game
- In Praise of Shadows: a book on Japanese aesthetics
- Ironsworn: a new fantasy RPG with a lot of interesting mechanics
- One 2 One Gumshoe: Games for 1 player and 1 GM
- Ghosts of my Life: A book of essays about culture and hauntology
Song: Miles to Midnight. Listen to our review of the album on Night Clerk Radio.
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Game Designer Workshop Episode 22: Cry Novel
RPPR’s most innovative GM, Bridget, and Fae have released the first chapter of their kinetic novel, Cry. It’s about “a road-tripping story about two cryptid-hunters. Follow the exploits of Lorelei Loveless, destitute witch, as she travels the countryside and comes face-to-face with the weird, the wild, and the forgotten.” I talked to them about how they came up with the idea, the challenges they faced making it, and what they have planned in the future.
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RPPR Episode 175: Itch.io
News: RPPR B-Sides Volume 5: Gaming Gains is now on sale! Get 20 exclusive actual play episodes featuring a Caleb mini-campaign, Red Markets, Delta Green, and more! Also, check out the trailer for our upcoming new podcast, Night Clerk Radio! Don’t forget to check out Best Pal Brigade as well.
Synopsis: Itch.io is an indie game storefront that has recently expanded to physical games like RPGs and card games. As a competitor to DrivethruRPG, Itch.io has attracted a variety of indie tabletop games, including ones that you can’t find on DrivethruRPG. Kyle from Best Pal Brigade, David, and I talk about the tabletop PDF marketplace and review a bunch of games:
- Crash Pandas: A one page game about street racing raccoons
- Beneath a Cursed Moon: A PbtA game inspired by Castlevania
- Dusk to Midnight: A sad mecha RPG
- Dead Halt: A 90s themed weird fantasy hotel dungeon crawling game
- The Flux: A new playbook for Masks the RPG
- Beam Saber: A Forged in the Dark mecha RPG
Shout Outs
- Pop Team Epic: It’s on Netflix! Watch it!
- Locke and Key: A weird mansion with magical keys that grant strange powers. A series on Netflix
- Cells at Work: an anime about cells in a human body, at work
- PAX South Raillery Special: Some of the RPPR crew play weird xbox games
- False Knees: A funny webcomic about birds
- Kipo and the Age of Wonder Beasts: a fantasy anime series on Netflix
- Nos4A2: a horror series about vampires and a psychic on Hulu
Song: Nightfall Aboard by New Gaia
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:17:55 — 71.6MB)
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