Real Play Games Podcast

It’s late August, 2025, and the Spektral Krew has just landed in Perla, Sicily for their biggest investigation to date!  Before they start to head off to the spooky, mysterious island, though, they’ve got to get settled in, get a lay of the land, and most importantly, eat some gelato!  It’s important to have priorities in life. Episode 1/9 Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Alcoho...

A ghost-hunting expedition to an abandoned mental hospital in Perala, Sicily becomes an experience in real-life horror for five investigators trying to make their name in the cutthroat business of paranormal investigation.  Are any of them willing to do whatever it takes to get that stardom?  Even if it means not everyone will make it back? Content Warnings: Profanity This actual play recording of...

After the supernatural-heroic action has died down, we all chat about how much we love Nightbane and some of the things you did (and didn't) hear during the course of the game! Episode 6/6 Content Warnings: Adult Language, Profanity Harm  is Harm Roy is Roy NPC is Nathanael ‘NPC’ Cole Steve  is Steve John’s there too! This actual play recording of Nightbane - Dead Ringer is a Real Play Games...

After beating a hasty retreat after finding the target of their aggression a little too tough for their liking, the Seeker crew relocates to Ezra's house, and has a little impromptu Hendrix sesh and some eggs while they get a whole bunch of aggrieved parties together to make a second go of things!  Will it work out?  That's entirely up for debate! Episode 5 /6 Content Warnings: Adult Lan...

More exploration of the Honeycutt Telecommunications Building reveals a practical abattoir, and an alarm system that is absolutely not up to any sort of state code.  With the help of some clever teleportation and whatever happens to be inside of a Chinese restaurant’s dumpster, the group manages to come up with a plan, but will it be enough! Episode 4 / 6 Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Si...

A jaunt down further tunnels leads to a place of pure magical power, a ley line nexus, and more disturbing details about just what is taking place beneath and within the Honeycutt Telecommunications Building.  Does the power of what’s inside extend so far as to corrupt anyone within its reach, or is it just guarded by some horrible people? Episode 3 / 6 Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situ...

In the darkness beneath Atlanta, something unexpected appears, with implications far beyond the usual threats presented by the Nightlords™, and one that might be proceeding along right beneath its masters’ noses.  Just remember, nobody’s going to be able to hear you scream down there! Episode 2 / 6 Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Body Horror, Gore (crushing, dismemberment), Pro...

In the warming spring months of 2004, an Atlanta, GA-based cell of The Seekers, a group of Nightbane™, sorcerers, and other arcane-minded types attempting to thwart the Nightlords ™  through arcane means, stumble upon a horrible new threat that nobody in the area could possibly be prepared for.  Can they discover the true scope of the threat before succumbing to it? Episode 1 / 6 Content Warnings:...

Ever since the skies went black for a whole day, nothing's been the same.  Explore a world of dark conspiracy horror and bleak urban fantasy as we explore Nightbane ™  with our special guest, N. Philip Cole (NPC) from the tremendous podcast The Glitterbois (amongst others!) This actual play recording of Nightbane - Dead Ringer is a Real Play Games Podcast production.  Nightbane™, Nightlords™,...

The episode where we talk about how weird we got, and all the fun we had playing both official and unofficial Troika! adventures!  We combined both of these together because honestly, there's nothing exciting about waiting a week to get an episode under ten minutes! Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Profanity Harm is Harm and Harm GM John is GM John Steve is Steve Roy is Roy...

Three will enter, and ideally, the same amount will leave!  With a ticket for a free sample of Dr. Apollinaire's Custard Delights gripped tightly in their appendages, three brave souls enter (but do not work) together to achieve the goal of getting that goddamned custard.  One of them may or may not commit war crimes during the process, we're still unsure. Content Warnings: Adult Languag...

What do a poorly-made dwarf, a member of Miss Kinsey's Dining Club, and a parchment witch have in common?  Find out as these three traverse the perilous and dadaist halls (and lifts, and stairwells) of the Blancmange & Thistle.  Bring a vomit bag. Content Warnings: Adult Content, Adult Language, Butt Stuff, Gore (evisceration, stabbings), Gross Stuff (licking, revolting eating habits, sti...

A dish best served orange and bicycle, we play a couple of quick games of the other world's favourite RPG, Troika!  A grand time was had by all, and the mental scars prove it.  Enjoy two helpings starting April 24th! Troika!, the other world’s favourite role-playing-game, is produced by Melsonian Arts Council, a wonderful independent publisher of fantastic games and other diversions, and you...

The madness has subsided, at least for the moment, and we (as ourselves, not characters) sit and discuss our fondness for the Through the Breach 2E system and adventures, our love of westerns, our lack of understanding on various things, and plans for the future (hint: it involves playing more of this!) Episode 14/14 Content Warnings: Adult Language, Profanity Harm is Harm Steve is Steve Ams is Am...

With the group inside Appleton Manor, they find themselves needing to split up to get everything accomplished!  Annastasia gets a hand cramp really bad!  Barty stands a whole, whole lot until one very pivotal moment!  Celia is uncomfortable!  James does what James does best (at least if you ask the last couple of people he did it with)!  And Oswoldo skulks like crazy!  It all comes to this! Episod...

Fancy outfits and hidden weapons are the items of the evening as the Fated Five head towards the party at Appleton’s manor.  There’s schmoozing and boozing, and a wonderful reason to prompt a Carouse check while they’re at it.  But it looks like the situation with the previous break-in has complicated matters more than anyone could’ve foreseen.  If this is the most auspicious time based on divinat...

After Celia and Oswoldo’s bat-shit crazy experience at the Appleton Estate, the time’s come to get some fancy duds for the group and get all of their duckies in a row before the big to-do.  The Fated Five head over to Redchapel to touch base with some of their old clients, hoping for a discount.  If anything, at least they’ll get to have some finger sandwiches… Episode 11/14 Content Warnings: Adul...

Some days are lucky, and some days are decidedly not, but after taking a while to plot out a strategy, the team's contact with Edgar Harris pays off and he gets them set up with a meeting with Viktor Hirsch, who requests they retrieve his indenture contract from the Appleton Estate.  Turns out, that task is a lot harder than you'd think, much to Oswoldo and Celia's chagrins. Episode...

A trip to the Five Orchids Tea House in the Little Kingdoms district lands the group with an interesting job: retrieve a statue from the socialite, Margaret Appleton, and replace it with a different statue.  With a whole bunch of prep time and even money for their expenses, there’s no way the group could have trouble, right? Episode 9/14 Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Profanit...

Having finally managed to guilt Irving into assisting them, the group descends once more into the sewers beneath the city, and makes a plan that more or less falls apart on contact with the enemy, as all plans do.  Anastasia discovered a new respect for doorstops, and Oswoldo finds the absolute limit of his willingness to bring someone to justice outside of personal actions! Episode 8/14 Content W...

Having discovered some of the sinister ends towards which Elizabeth Irving plans on putting the children of the Dogsend Child Workhouse to, the Fated Five decide to intervene, and James come up with a wild distraction while the others do their best to make sure that Hazel stays safe! Episode 7/14 Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Gore (gut wounds), Rough Topics (violence towards...

It’s cold and oppressive out, and the man of shadows Oswoldo Franc finds himself shadowed instead!  A simple interaction can cause a chain reaction that leads to some disturbing discoveries.  Luckily, we know just the right people to get involved in something like this! Episode 6/14 Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Rough Topics (violence to children), Profanity Anastasia Adams i...

With all of the insanity of the auction and everything that happened afterward out of the way, it’s time to head to the Edge Point First Second Annul Fashun Show!  The crowds are packed, the competition is fierce, but our Fated five can surely put their best feet (and hats) forward and win this thing, provided nothing even crazier happens… Episode 5/14 Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situa...

An auction, an auction!  Marvel at the wonders from Breachside and Earthside alike as the Fated do their damndest to get a bunch of good stuff for their employers!  Of course, they’re not the only people bidding on the items, so they’ll have to figure out some way to get rid of the competition.  And after that, of course, they have to manage to keep what they’ve got! Episode 4/14 Content Warnings:...

Following their success with the train incident, Barty gets a lead on some potential work and gathers the gang back together.  They head to Redchapel, one of the most notorious areas of Malifaux City, to meet with a curious pair of haberdashers looking to revive their fortunes.  Just make sure you’re not there after dark.  You don’t want Seamus to say hello… Episode 3/14 Content Warnings: Adult La...