Actual Play Podcasts
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Welcome to Critical Role, home of a bunch of nerdy-ass voice actors playing tabletop roleplaying games! Enter a world of glorious imagination and improvisation with a group of the finest collaborative storytellers around. Here you’ll find our TTRPG and adjacent shows, including Critical Role, Exandria Unlimited, 4-Sided Dive, and a growing selection of one-shots.
Justin, Travis and Griffin McElroy from My Brother, My Brother and Me have recruited their dad Clint for a campaign of high adventure. Join the McElroys as they find their fortune and slay an unconscionable number of ... you know, kobolds or whatever in ... The Adventure Zone..
In the spirit of old-school tabletop role-playing games, a collection of super-nerds engage in Actual Play podcasts of Paizo's Pathfinder Adventure Paths. Interweaving immersive storytelling with irreverent, improvised humor, the Glass Cannon Podcast delivers like no other the experience of what it's really like to sit around a table rolling dice and ball-busting with your best buds. In May of 202...
A derelict ship hauling an asteroid sets the scene for a galaxy spanning adventure of epic proportions. The second long form series ever produced by the Glass Cannon Network introduces new personalities and a new game system as a wayward space crew gets caught up in a race to try to stop the destruction of the universe.
Cosmic and supernatural horrors await the agents of Delta Green, a secret organization committed to protecting an unaware society—whatever the cost. This exclusive anthology series with a rotating cast of players and handlers has quickly become the most sought-after show on the Glass Cannon Network.
To even know that there are horrors beyond the stars would be enough to drive one to madness. In the seminal Call of Cthulhu campaign, Masks of Nyarlathotep, a group of 1920s investigators are forced to not only conceive of these horrors, but face them head on. Few will survive, and those who do will pray for death when the full brunt of the darkness from beyond reaches its tendrils into their mor...
A city bathed in perpetual darkness, and a history not yet written. On the streets of Doskvol, it's kill or be killed as crews vie for power by any means necessary. Haunted City is a dark, twisted romp through a Victorian dystopia, using the rules of arguably the greatest RPG system of the modern era — Blades in the Dark.
In the far future, a story unfolds across charted space and time. In one era, a ragtag crew of spacefarers accepts a dangerous mission that could avert a war or start one. Twenty years earlier, another crew crashlands on a planet that, according to all official starcarts, does not exist. The newly updated Traveller RPG comes to the Glass Cannon Network in an original adventure where the heroes wil...
Started in 2018, Not Another D&D Podcast is an actual-play D&D podcast hosted by Brian Murphy, Emily Axford, Jake Hurwitz and Caldwell Tanner. Since then, the team has created a variety of actual-play campaigns, as well as numerous other series such as DUNGEON COURT and 8-BIT BOOK CLUB. They also occasionally hit the road and play D&D live on stage.
An actual play TTRPG podcast that is done by professionals who—wait, this says UNprofessionals. Hmm. Well, it's a podcast I suppose. It is done by some monsters, and they roll dice. And it also thinks its an old timey radio show! Join us on the first season of our FateCore powered adventure, as we explore The Uncanny Valley—an eerie world of fantasy, cowboys, and steam power!
Welcome to Critically Stupid, a dungeons and dragons real-play podcast created for idiots, by idiots. Join us every Thursday for some laughs, some storytelling and some of the most groan-worthy puns you've ever heard in your life. Now with extra vampires, werewolves, and wish.com Van Helsings!
A Pathfinder 2nd Edition actual play podcast! Join us as we play through the Outlaws of Alkenstar adventure path published by Paizo Inc. as part of the Pathfinder 2nd Edition tabletop role-playing game. New episodes are uploaded every Monday and promise a solid hour of gameplay content every week. The show consists of new players and an experienced GM. So, if you're looking for a bingeworthy show ...
Six dangerously codependent dipsh*ts gather round the microphone, sip cocktails and seek a glorious death in a Dungeons & Dragons themed comedy podcast. With a cast that includes a failed Crocoborn sorcerer, turned children’s party entertainer, a dirty old human priest, on the brink of the afterlife, a Half Orc fighter with the IQ of a pine cone, a sassy blue Tiefling, surrounded by bees and a ret...
Dive into Pathfinder2e with GM Jack and the boys for a weekly actual play podcast as we run through a completely home brew adventure path & setting. If you've got a hankering for good stories, bad jokes, and moments that might break your heart, join us every Wednesday for the Dieing Five podcast.
Throughout the Planescape there are countless wars between good and evil, lawful and chaotic. Forces of great power shift the very nature of reality. These are not their stories... Join the crew of the Per Aspera as they make a living in the expanse of the scape. No job is too odd, no region too remote for this motley crew of adventurers. From the fiery City of Brass to the winding woods of the Fe...
Dice Company Podcast is the latest real-play TTRPG podcast. A group of old friends escaping the mundanity of the real world are now producing this podcast of their game sessions. Set in the fictional world of Elestia and specifically on the continent of Aethelon, the traditional medieval fantasy setting is giving way to a new era. Automatons, steamrunners and airships have become a reality and the...
Reckless Attack, a DnD 5e Actual Play Podcast, is made up of a group of cheery, diverse, regular folks in Chicago who love the game and want to share theirs with you. We aim to capture all the energy, chemistry, and trust of our home game with all the polish of a well-edited and sound-designed actual play. We like fun but deep characters, mysteries, lil’ bits of horror, and the fight of the light ...
What the dice?! currently is a Home brewed, Actual Play TTRPG Podcast, rolling Pathfinder 1E, telling the tale of a group of fate chosen, mismatched, and quirky Heroes. Listen along they discover knowledge about a forgotten God rising to power, and their adventure to take them down as magic quickly fades from the world and fall into war.
One-Shots to Campaigns. Indie Games to Established Titles. Ready for a story you haven't heard? Join our magnificent core cast of top-notch role-players and a rotating cast of incredible guests from around Actual Play as they weave thrilling new stories with gorgeous sound design and beautiful original music! So what are you waiting for? Grab your dice and go explore the Realms of Peril & Glory.
The Oxventurers Guild presents a D&D real play podcast! Join Jane Douglas, Andy Farrant, Mike Channell, Ellen Rose, Luke Westaway and Johnny Chiodini for chit-chat and chaotic good times. The Oxventure D&D Podcast brings you new commentary alongside audio versions of classic Oxventure Dungeons & Dragons sessions recorded for live shows, live streams and video episodes originally published on YouTu...
Welcome to Of Dice and Them! Join Jack, Ralph, Lou, Tove and Bambi, in their new TTRPG actual play podcast, as they laugh in each other's faces and try to get through a session where no one beefs it. Contains frustrated swearing, light-hearted DM bullying, and far too much owl-based combat.
An actual-play DND podcast made by actual asexuals and aromantics! Follow our four heroes as they adventure through a fantasy world on the cusp of a technological revolution, augmented by magic. Each character's fate is tied to one of the 22 cards in the “Deck of Many Things”, a DND magical object based on a tarot deck.
Are you ready to rock? More importantly, are you ready to roll?! Welcome to No Quest for the Wicked, a story driven actual play podcast! Currently in our first campaign using Paizo’s sci-fi space opera system, Starfinder, in a homebrew setting. Starring Ryan Dwyer, Terry Klopfenstein, Dain Miller and Niall Spain.
Dork Day Afternoon is a table top role playing game, actual play podcast. We're not professional voice actors, writers, producers, musicians, or media moguls (not for a lack of trying). We are a group of people that have had so much fun playing TTRPGs, that we thought we might see if other people would like to listen in on our games. If you enjoy juvenile humor mixed with crass melodrama, give us...
Pink Fohawk is an ENnie-Nominated actual play podcast set in the Shadowrun universe, following two rad shadowrunners making names for themselves in the streets of Seattle in the year 2053. Content Warning: Pink Fohawk is a crass, vulgar, violent, and raunchy podcast full of 80s edginess that is meant for immature adult audiences only
Modified Roll is a D&D 5e Actual Play Podcast, focusing on collaborative story telling and having fun. We are now in our second season with a brand new story, new world, new characters, new DM and even some new players, so it's the perfect time to jump in! We are playing a homebrew campaign in an open, living world using the standard D&D 5e rules (plus a few additional optional ones), so we are ea...
Using the Starfinder RPG system, The Atomless is an improvised Audio Drama Actual Play following the rag-tag crew of The Patchwork! Join Ayg, the smuggler; Azhaam, the ex-rebellion leader; Dr. Theriac, the religious scientist; and Skye, the radical teenager as they chart their way across the Atomless Sea in this ongoing Starfinder Podcast. What adventures await them in the eternally colorful Atoml...
Gamewoven is an Actual Play podcast born from a frivolous idea that we think has been bubbling under the surface of AP for a few years now. You've heard of building a setting with The Quiet Year and then playing in that setting, but at Gamewoven we ask "can we go deeper?"Our goal is to build an entire world one game at a time. Rather than write out our worldbuilding ideas to make them coherent and...
There's an overwhelming amount of tabletop RPGs out there. With a wide spectrum of characters and worlds of stories to explore, Nate, Christopher, Aaron, Jake, and Levi are here to help you decide which games are right for you and your friends. We’ll be delving into some of these games with our own "unique" brand of roleplay and reviewing them , for you, the appreciated listener, every Friday. So ...
'Girls who don't D&D' is monthly* real play D&D adventure from three girls (who've never played D&D before), a Dungeon Master (who owns all the books but hasn't read them) and a handful of dice (they're fine)... Our heroes awake without a memory and it's all down hill from there. If you've ever wanted to get started in D&D but didn't know how to do it - these are exactly the right people to join. ...
An improvised fantasy roleplaying game set in the world of Alba Salix, Royal Physician. We use the Dungeon World roleplaying system and improv to weave a tale of flightless fairies, half-demons and cafeteria line workers, dystopian empires, magical waterfalls and mysterious books. Oh, and the end of time—that's in there somewhere too.
A Borderlands Bunkers and Badasses TTRPG actual play podcast. It's Dungeons and Dragons meets the Borderlands video games. Immaturely mature mayhem, action, and comedy. Vault Hunters do odd jobs in search of glory, gold, and gore. Meet our 4 Vault Hunters; a Mechromancer that used to have it all, a Siren and her little bird, a robot loving Mech Pilot, and a Psycho looking for magic.
Halfwits & Failed Crits is an Actual Play Podcast where the players' blundering choices and cursed dice are the real big bad evil standing in the way of getting to the end of a campaign! Join GM Jonathan Swenson while the players Kiley Swenson, Laura Rodgers, and Luis Ardila "expand the chaos" in Children of the Spine - A Stars Without Number Podcast.
The Pen and Paper Pod returns for Season 3 Beyond Evil. Join Scree (Trevor Flynn), Chuck Angus (Edwin Reyes), and Ashe Fallbright (Tanner) as they dodge murderhobo there way through the antics of their nefarious Dungeon Master (Jack Newman). In the Tuscan Shed Media Networks official 5E Dungeons and Dragons Podcast.
To Be or RPG is a regular Dungeons & Dragons web series played by a wily troupe of professional actors affiliated with the national award-winning Classical Theatre Company. Come join us as our band of heroes adventures across the world of Magadrinn - a land of knights and wizards, but with a classical twist! Whose path will our merry band cross? Prince Hamlet? Lady Macbeth? Titania, the Fairy Quee...
Haaaaappy Twosday!!! We're ”In Two the Dungeon,” Two friends that are recording a duet, actual play, Table Top RPG Podcast. Consisting of one GM and one player. Catch new episodes every Tuesday (Twosday). Don't let anybody tell you that size matters, or that more is always merrier; We aim to entertain you as we bring you with us along our journey through different adventures and realms, and in tur...
Join the Party is an actual play podcast with tangible worlds, genre-pushing storytelling, and collaborators who make each other laugh each week. We welcome everyone to the table, from longtime players to folks who’ve never touched a roleplaying game before. Hop into our current campaign, a pirate story set in a world of plant- and bug-folk, or marathon our completed stories with the Camp-Paign, a...
A D&D actual play podcast in the midst of its second campaign! Join us in the world of Grotethe —a dark domain ruled by vampires, ghosts, and other monstrosities. Four adventurers get tangled up in a murderous mystery that not only threatens peace across the lands, but perhaps their very lives! You can also go back and listen to where it all began in our first campaign - The Tale of The Infinights...
Campaign is long-form actual play podcast. Our current series Campaign: Skyjacks takes place in an original setting inspired by folktales and classic adventure fiction. Join Liz Anderson, John Patrick Coan, Tyler Davis, Johnny O'Mara, and gamemaster James D'Amato as they tell a tale of daring sky pirates. … Also it's basically an elaborate re-telling of Weekend at Bernie's.
The DnD podcast where you never need to catch up! Each arc of Unprepared Casters tells a different story, in a different style, with a different party. Even the Dungeon Master changes, as hosts Haley and Amelia pass the hot seat back and forth and spin off each other's adventures. Friends of the hosts and fellow content creators feature as guests as we build out a world together and explore the ma...
Fear the Boot is an irreverent, round table discussion of tabletop role playing games. In this weekly show we debate game-related issues, offer advice for improving your game, and poke fun at the hobby. Our cast changes a little from show to show, but we always assemble a group of dynamic individuals with divergent views, guaranteeing you will hear several perspectives on everything we discuss.
We're 6 DMs with hundreds of tabletop RPGs in our collection that deserve some more attention and playtime. Join us as we play short series of various games, break down approaches in RPG design, and discuss the hobby in general.
It seems that every week, new tales pop up of wicked monstrosities and aberrations, mutated beasts and twisted creatures, plaguing Lethuan. But where are the Hootsforce, so called protectors of the realm? Why is it up to individual bands of adventurers to tour the land and save it? Join Conn, an ex-Paladin who's lost his faith, as he takes Sid, a young academic Ranger, under his wing, and enter a ...
The Actual-Play Homebrew Starfinder Podcast with rotating GMs, based in UK! Join the Laika-7 and her crew of disenfranchised alien mercenaries, living in a retrofuturistic universe inspired by the cartoons we loved in the 80s and 90s. A twisting series of adventures ranging from dark comedy to outright cosmic horror!
Welcome to Taeve. A world of mystery and magic, where old gods and new collide in a cacophony of chaos. It is a world of stories, waiting to be told. It is, dear adventurers, a place of dungeons and dragons. Chaos and order spiralling together in a cosmic dance that seems to outlast time itself. It is a place of quiet stories, of new paths being written and fates changed. What thread will our intr...
Listen, learn, and laugh along with the members of the Critical Hit Podcast. The continuing saga of four adventurers seeking fortune and glory in the world of Dungeons and Dragons. Plenty of role playing and fun for anyone interested in the D&D experience. Newbies or seasoned vets will get a kick out of this live campaign.
Dungeons & Dragons is many things to many people, but it was designed to be a game about killing monsters. We examine the lore and mechanics of each creature and ask a central question: are they really a monster? Co-hosts and are joined by a guest for a DM-deep-dive into a classic D&D monster. The first part is a discussion, and the second is a one-shot Actual Play where our guest takes on the r...
Welcome to Pod Against the Machine, the only Actual Play podcast that specifically mentions its opposition to the machine in the title. We’re a ragtag group of five creating an epic story while playing through the Iron Gods Pathfinder First Edition adventure path from Paizo publishing. It’s like Dungeons and Dragons, complete with wizards, monsters, and skeletons...but with an added bonus of evil ...
Pest Control is an actual-play horror tabletop show from AltHaven. Join Keeper Sam R, and players William, Jonas, and Sam D as they get lost in fantastical worlds featuring compelling characters, engaging story, and thrilling twists! Season 1, "Fate", follows a group of found-family monster Hunters as they set off on a journey across the United States, dealing with the creatures they encounter and...
An actual play podcast using the indie TTPRG system, Cybertopia, run by its creator with a rolling cast of a variety of members from the tabletop community. Set in a near future sci-fi world, the player characters take the form of corporate agents working on clandestine missions to protect their business's interests and reputation.
Welcome to “Bug City Blues,” an actual play podcast following a group of street-level Shadowrunners as they get in way over their heads out in the streets of Chicago. Join our talented cast as they navigate the treacherous underbelly of a corrupt metropolis ruled by mega-corporations and gang affiliations alike. Immerse yourself in a neo-noir narrative filled with thrilling missions, high-stakes h...
Dive into the world of New York in the year 2072, and follow a group of competently chaotic shadow runners who get caught up in events that run deeper than they realise... Surviving a terrorist attack, accidental piracy, punching Humanis and 'Is this the right suit for me?' Welcome to Pride Against Prejudice.
Welcome to the Hapless Heroes Podcast - a dynamic D&D actual play show that boldly fuses improv comedy with the rule-of-cool! Experience a variety of stories in a universe governed by rotating DMs and vibrant homebrewed settings. Here, extraordinary tales unfold through spontaneous humor, epic failures, and the seemingly endless imagination of the players and game masters. So, gather your dice and...
Welcome to Memester Of The Week, an actual play podcast. A reluctant cult member, his stoner roommate, a skeptic youtuber and her fae camera-person walk into a diner. They then walk out of the diner and drive off to hunt the things that go bump in the night. Inspired by works like Supernatural, The Adventure Zone, and The Critshow, join four friends as they travel across the country solving supern...
Ongoing actual play of The Expanse Roleplaying Game based on the books by James S.A. Corey. Follow the crew of the Sin Claire as the future history of humanity unfolds around them in the Solar System and beyond. Game Master John Bultena weaves tales of the folk on periphery of the major powers work their machinations on the fate of humankind. Join cast members Donna Prior, Scott Mitchell, Michael ...
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!
A series of comedy bits, loosely connected by dice rolls. Join a well-meaning barbarian, a mysterious druid, and an orphaned halfling child as they try to figure out the world they're in. Spout Lore takes place in the broken remnants of a world following an apocalyptic event in which all magic suddenly disappeared. It follows the bumbling adventures of three unlikely heroes doing their best to sur...
A group of friends have their lives turned upside down when they find themselves placed as the last line of defense between the everyday world and the things that go bump in the night. This actual play podcast uses Monster of the Week and other Powered by the Apocalypse games, all within the same dimension hopping narrative, to follow the Indiana Paranormal Task-force (IPT) as they are thrust into...
IDENTECO is collection of cyberpunk actual plays based on the best-selling tabletop roleplaying game of the same name. Set in 2099 America, IDENTECO features shows like ”Angel City Stories,” that follows the lives of six ”Fringers” from the edge of society who try to overthrow the ruling corporation in futuristic Los Angeles. ”Chaos, Inc.” focuses on four former corporate operatives who try and st...
Pretending to be People is a mystery/horror role-playing podcast. Join Zach, Thomas, Luke, and Joe as they navigate a terrifying campaign filled with twists, turns, and laughs - all decided on a roll of the dice. Can the officers of the Contention Police Department unravel the mysteries suddenly plaguing their sleepy town? Will they die – or worse – in the attempt?
Ain't Slayed Nobody is a Gold ENnie winning podcast, bringing immersive tabletop roleplaying games to your feed! We feature short campaigns and one-shots using Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu and other systems. We know you’ll find something you love amongst our experimental blend of narrative and actual play series with horrifying, humorous, and dramatic stories.
Red Moon Roleplaying is an actual play podcast that stays true to the roots of pen and paper roleplaying games. We focus on dark and atmospheric games and our current campaign is “KULT: Divinity Lost” by Helmgast. We have been called many things, but a common description is that we are "The Radio Theatre of the Mind".
3d6 DTL is a tabletop roleplaying game actual play series, with a focus on the Old School Revival (OSR) of classic Dungeons & Dragons and its simulacra. We have none of the ego-facing, performative aspects, but all of the easy rapport displayed naturally by a group of old friends. Listen to how D&D is actually played!
Mystery Quest is an actual play podcast that focuses on mystery and horror roleplaying games. Each season, we play a different game and explore the mysteries of the unknown. Join us as we uncover the secrets of the universe!
The Lucky Die is a 5e D&D Actual Play Podcast, that utilises the drama inherent in the ruleset of a roleplaying game to tell a dark and dramatic improvised tale. Edited for audio quality and beautifully scored, TLD focuses on four heavily flawed characters as they try to stop the apocalypse, and make right the wrongs in their own lives.
Side Character Quest (SCQ) is an anthology of improvised fantasy adventures. In each short quest, the show's host takes a single guest player on a journey through a larger shared world. Quests are usually 3-6 episodes long, and listeners can generally start the show at the beginning of any one of them! Your world is a peaceful one, comprised of plains, mountains, swamps, and pines. Cicadas sing, r...
Welcome to The Rogue Maje Podcast (pronounced 'Mage'), an Actual Play Podcast where unexpected and hilarious events unfold with every roll of the dice! Join five friends on an adventure through the fantastical realms of Pathfinder 2e as they embark on daring quests, face formidable foes, and uncover the mysteries of a rich and expansive gaming world. Whether you're a seasoned Pathfinder/role-playi...
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