Real Play Games Podcast

Real Play Games Podcast

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!

Episodes

August 29, 2025 59 mins

The group is all together, at least for like five seconds, before everyone’s all over the place again!  It’s getting later, and there’s more threats starting to compound the problems that the survivors are experiencing!  Chief among them, nobody can get a half-decent hit in!
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Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Gore, Profanity, Violence

Steve is Johnny Streiner
Ru is Barbara Streiner
Roy is Tomm...

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Shocking everyone, Johnny and Barbara both managed to get out of the cemetery, and a whole bunch of folks are heading down country roads!  Will Tommy and Judy ever find out what's really going on with Mr. Schon?  Did you know that seatbelts had just become mandatory in the United States shortly before this episode happens in its in-story chronology?  Fun stuff! 

Episode 2/4

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Gor...

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Join Ben, Johnny, Judy, Tommy, and Barbara in an RPG reinterpretation of the classic (and public domain Night of the Living Dead.  No chocolate syrup, no access to the Capitol Hi-Q music library, and no sense of shame is what we bring to you as we explore what happens when the outer Pittsburgh area is ravaged by a sudden wave of spontaneous homicides!
Episode 1/4

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Gore, Profanit...

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August 8, 2025 41 secs

In 1968, George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead film was released, but due to an error made by the Walter Reade Organization, it was released without copyright notice and therefore immediately became a public domain work in the United States of America.  Fifty-seven years later, we idiots try to reinterpret the original film through an RPG.  May God have mercy on our souls.

 This audio podcast performance of Night of the L...

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As it turns out, there were in fact quite a few more people, human or vampire, that were inside of the house than what the Film Crew had surmised, but hey, it's not like our gang isn't pretty good at making sure people aren't around for very long.  Assuming they're not all bloodily murdered in short order, one would assume that eventually, they're gonna find Kenny and do some horrible things to him, right?<...

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After spending two days preparing the best they could for the job they're about to undertake, the Film Crew has some laughs and finalizes their rough strategy before they head to the house where Kenny's hiding out with his friends, lovers, and possible jabronis.  Surely, though, this is the one time in human history that a plan will survive contact with the enemy.  It's monkeys and typewriters making Shakespeare, etc...

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It's time for the Film Crew vs. Dirtbag Draculas!  Mad Maddie, Patsy Batsy, Rayne, and Handy Hank are part of Dark World Productions, a film crew trying to do an adorable documentary about children attending their first martial arts tournament, but they've run out of funding!  What're they gonna do, sell plasma, hock their shit at a pawn shop, or get a payday loan?  Hell naw, they're gonna hop on Maddie's #...

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July 11, 2025 1 min

Killing monsters in the gig economy is even more fun when you do it with the most well-known RPG ruleset in the whole world!  Kill monsters, pay your rent, and maybe, just maybe, you can get that thing you really wanted.  Episodes start July 18th!

This recording of iHunt Dollars $ Draculas is a Real Play Games Podcast production.  The #iHunt setting, the characters, the logos, the brands, and the names are all licensed under a Creat...

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They've done the research (some of it), they've faced their fears (mostly), and they've equipped themselves as best as possible on their relatively meager incomes!  The Starlite Motor Lodge lies before them, and within lies danger, as well as the Little Man Who Waits!  What horrors will they face, what inner demons will they purge, and what kind of cute little outfit with the ventriloquist's dummy wear next?!

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Having taken an evening for themselves, the investigators meet back up for a light breakfast at a cocktail lounge before heading to the library to get some information, very little of which they glean through actual books.  A chance meeting with one of their fellow broadcasters sheds some light on the situation, and a trip back to the WHPA-13 offices nets the group a much needed ally!
Episode 3/4

Content Warnings: Adul...

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The Starlite Motor Lodge is only getting creepier as the darkness spreads across the East Coast's largest desert town.  What's down the drain?  Don't check!  How deep is that water?  Don't check that either.  And who in the Hell leaves a perfectly good bong and some moon cabbage just hanging around?
Episode 2/4

Content Warnings: Adult Situations, Adult Language, Drug Use/References, Gross/Frightenin...

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In the year 198X, in the small, dusty town of Fairhaven, three public access television hosts are called, as all public access television hosts are wont to do, to fulfill their duty of protecting the town by investigating and, where possible, neutralizing the weird goings-on that just sort of happen when you live in Fairhaven.  That's the price of being a TV star, kid!
Episode 1/4

Content Warnings: Adult Situation...

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Three members of the Tuesday roster of show hosts from WHPA-13, Fairhaven's public access channel, have been tasked via ventriloquist dummy to find out more about the goings-on at an abandoned motel in town.  What they find there would shake them to their cores... if it weren't just another Tuesday in the weirdest desert town east of the  Mississippi!  Merkabah for Mensches: Easy Explanations of Judaic Mysticism with Rabb...

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Now that you've listened to everything that's happened in the season thus far, you can listen to us talk about some of it, what we enjoyed the most, future plans for the series, and other odds and ends.  This one goes a little longer than most of our aftershows but there're a lot of questions!
Episode 17/17

Content Warnings: Adult Language

Everyone's themselves for this one, this is real pe...

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Everything's been leading up to this!  Dani's on a quest to rescue Hassan before the place he's in goes sky-high, and the sisters have vampires, witches, chupacabra, ghouls, and other stuff in their way!  Will they and their friends be able to make things right, or will the LaDuracs continue their wicked ways without anyone to stop them?
Episode 16/17

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, G...

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Things are reaching a fever pitch; as the D'Amore sisters head over to help Milena out at the Magickal Moon, dark forces are coalescing, and Hassan's life is hanging in the balance!  They're up against the clock, but at least they've got friends willing to help.  Will that be enough?
Episode 15/17

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Gore (Impalement, Limb Loss), Violence

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Destiny LaDurac's attack on the gym has ramifications that radiate out through the peaceful streets of Cozy Caverns, and after beating a hasty retreat, the gals find themselves pursued, and the problems piling up.  With the clock ticking down before things reach an explosive conclusion, will all the strategizing in the world make a difference, or will the plan fall apart upon first contact with the enemy?
Episode 14/17

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The preparations are exhausting, although a quick nap was all it took to perk some people up!  The gals gather their friends, finalize their plans, get their arsenals together... and head to gym class!  It's the most exciting hour of self-defense training any of the gals in Cozy Caverns have seen for a long time.  What else do you do when Destiny comes knocking?
Episode 13/17

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adul...

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Someone's been on a rampage stealing holy water across Cozy Caverns and the surrounding areas, but that's got to wait, because Jazz has to go talk to Melina at the Magickal Moon about some fake wolfsbane and Dani's got to run the risk of federal charges for computer crimes related to banks.  It's not as serious as it would seem, but things are still pretty serious.  Also, it was Dana stealing the holy water.

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In our inaugural episode of Out of Character, where we talk about various gaming-related topics, be they tabletop or videogame related, we hit the jackpot and GM John got a chance to pick the brain of legendary game designer from both fields, Tuomas Pirinen!  We talk about his life-long and storied history in tabletop and video game design, including his latest lead design position with the explosive miniature skirmish game Trench ...

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