Actual Play & Podcasts

Dungeon Master's Block is a premier resource podcast dedicated to the most important person at the table: the Dungeon Master. Recognized as a "gym for the mind," the show is designed to inspire, challenge, and equip GMs. From those prepping their very first session to veterans of twenty years to "Keep On Dungeon Mastering."  The podcast moves beyond simple rule explanations, diving deep into the creative philosophy of world-building, monster design, and player management. Through recurring segments like "DM-Nastics" (mental exercises for GMs) and the "Mailbag of Holding," hosts Neal Powell (DM Neal) and Derrick (DM Derrick) provide actionable advice, narrative inspiration, and a supportive community for the "only person at the table capable of playing god." Links spotify.com  - Spotify feed podcasts.apple.com  - Apple Podcasts feed youtube.com  - Youtube channel

Are you tired of only hearing about Dungeons and Dragons? Would you like to learn about the plethora of other games out there? Well, so did we! 4 nerds try out a plethora of Tabletop Roleplaying Games! We got action! We got comedy! We got games you haven't even heard of! Stop on by, maybe you'll find your new favourite game! New Actual Play episodes every other Sunday at 22:00 EEST! Character Creation and Post-Mortem episodes are uploaded outside of the regular schedule. Links spotify.com - Spotify feed youtube.com - Youtube channel discord.gg - Discord server

That RPG Podcast is a podcast about tabletop roleplaying games and the art of game mastery, where we create roleplaying game adventures on the fly from prompts submitted by our listeners. We each have a story to tell. Sometimes all it takes is a single idea to kick off a great adventure. Join us as we embark on a monthly quest to bring your stories to life. That RPG Podcast is about tabletop roleplaying games and the art of game mastery, where we create roleplaying game adventures on the fly from prompts submitted by our listeners. At the heart of That RPG Podcast is Adventure Hook!, a tried-and-true method for building RPG adventures with only a kernel of an idea. Each month we take a listener prompt and help it blossom into a fully-realized adventure you can use in your games. Links thatrpgpodcast.com - Official website youtube.com - Youtube playlist spotify.com - Spotify feed podcasts.apple.com - Apple Podcasts feed patreon.com - Patreon page discord.gg - Discord server

The Analog Dungeon is a podcast exploration of the weird, punishing, and hilarious world of old school Dungeons & Dragons. In each episode, host Russell Jones or Jeramy Pappas presents a dungeon module or adventure from the storied history of D&D and they make jokes about it. Links analogdungeon.com - Official website and episode archive youtube.com - Youtube channel patreon.com - Patreon page

A podcast that takes classic Role Playing Game adventures and rules sets and looks at renovating them for a ”modern” game design perspective. Links thisoldungeon.podbean.com - Podcast feed spotify.com - Spotify feed

The topical TTRPG podcast you were destined to encounter no matter what choices you made. Join Jorbin of Elder Goblin Games and his ever-changing round table of guests as they explore casual TTRPG topics and put the FUN back in FUNgeon! Get it...? Because Dungeons... and Quantum Ogres... idk just listen if you like roleplaying games... Links youtube.com - Podcast playlist

The BastardQuest podcast brings together four friends from over ten years of improv and sketch comedy, indie filmmaking, and pop culture podcasts. Forged in the small town obscurity of western Kentucky, BastardQuest takes a unique approach to the world of actual play podcasts, with a format based around ridiculous narrative setups, colorful character acting, balanced crunch, and the art of improvisation. Over time, our show has also grown to include a healthy dose of lesser-known tabletop roleplaying games, shining a spotlight on exciting new releases, uniquely fascinating systems, and independent developers and publishers. Links bastardquest.com - Official website youtube.com - Youtube channel patreon.com - Patreon channel

3d6 Down the Line is the most criminally under-watched actual play series on the internet. We're a group of friends who enjoy playing and showcasing a variety of independent tabletop roleplaying games. Our mission is to inspire both new and veteran players through our "community-first" approach to published content. Links 3d6downtheline.com - Official website youtube.com - Youtube channel discord.gg - Discord server patreon.com - Patreon page

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. DDA's roots were cultivated and nursed to life through the glorious game systems of Dungeons and Dragons, AD&D, Pathfinder, Starfinder, Shadowrun, Twilight: 2000, Delta Green, and the most beloved... Hero Quest Shows Two Past Midnight DDA's actual play campaign of Twilight 2000 4th edition game system. Twilight: 2000 is a role playing game about a "World War III that never was". Our character's begin the campaign lost and stranded in a war torn Poland during the year 2000. Join us each week to hear how they keep body and soul intact as they search for a way home. The balloon has gone up and the clocks have stopped, but time marches on... Rogues of Vättern Dork Day Afternoon heads to Sweden where we'll be taking a "deep dive" into "Hostile Waters", Free League's rules and setting supplement, and to see how 2nd Marine Division has faired in the post apocalyptic world of Twilight: 2000.  Join us as we follow a small group of intrepid Leathernecks from small crafts platoon to see how they navigate the fjords of Sweden and the turbulent waters of the new political landscape. Will they complete their mission? Can they make it back home? Will they improvise, adapt and overcome or will they be doomed to the icy deep? Oorah! Encore of the Lost DDA's play through of the Extinction Curse adventure path written for the Pathfinder Second Edition game system, published by Paizo, Inc. Join us as we gracefully stumble through circus crowds and the Pathfinder Second Edition rules. Our intrepid adventurers put on a show...while putting on a show...while trying to unravel ancient mysteries. Links dorkdayafternoon.com - Official website youtube.com - Youtube channel patreon.com - Patreon page

Professional actors playing unprofessional TTRPG characters. Professionally. Super heroes? Ok. A gang of babies? ...sure. Wait, Shia LeBeouf? And WTF is a Drimbus? Using traditional TTRPG mechanics to tackle non-traditional scenarios, join our cast of professional idiots as they try to roll their way out of the most ridiculous situations. Links drimbus.com - Official website spotify.com - Spotify feed patreon.com - Patreon page

A FFG Star Wars RPG Actual Play - Meet Kiinon, Shay, Mott, and Ragro as they begin their journey together through Coruscant’s underbelly, navigating savage pirates, an ancient relic, and lost secrets. This Edge of the Empire story follows a Human, Twi’lek, Wookiee, and Toydarian navigating the criminal underworld of Coruscant in the aftermath of Return of the Jedi. It’s an anti-hero style adventure where the four chase clues of a mysterious artifact, fight for a seat of power against the other syndicates, and deal with the demons from their past that refuse to stay buried. Links youtube.com - Podcast playlist spotify.com - Spotify page

Role Playing Public Radio presents a weekly Actual Play podcast of tabletop role playing game sessions. It is run by Ross Payton, a tabletop RPG writer and podcaster.The cast rotates for different games, but our regular players include Caleb Stokes, Aaron Carsten, Tom Church, Maddy Gibbons, and Thaddeus Stoklasa. We play a wide variety of RPGs, including Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green, Blades in the Dark, Eclipse Phase, Dungeon Crawl Classics, Heart: The City Beneath, and Monster of the Week. We alternate between full campaigns and one shot adventures. Links actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com - Official website podcasts.apple.com - Apple Podcasts feed

Actual Play Entertainment (APE) is an independent RPG network that is dedicated to bringing you quality, well produced, actual play podcasts. Our games have a combination of being fun, tense, and exciting, with a dash of improvised humor that will make you laugh-out-loud. You might even cry! Who knows? Games in the works: Alien the RPG, Traveler 2nd Edition, Dungeons and Dragons 5E, Delta Green, Call of Cthulhu (Pulp and 7th edition), and more. Campaigns Operation: Blackstar Set in 1997, this Delta Green campaign begins with a trip to the forgotten town of Groversville, Tennessee. What starts as a simple investigation unravels into alien abductions, government lies, and the Mi-Go’s terrifying experiments. A slow descent into paranoia, body horror, and conspiracy — where every choice risks pulling the agents deeper into the shadows of the Blackstar project. The Two-Headed Serpent A rip-roaring Pulp Cthulhu campaign of action, intrigue, and cosmic menace. The heroes work for the Caduceus Foundation, battling disease and disaster across the globe — but their missions hide a secret war against ancient serpent people bent on reclaiming the Earth. From lost jungles to frozen wastes, to the ruins of Mu itself, the adventure explodes with two-fisted action, pulpy science, and occult horrors beyond imagination. Links youtube.com - Youtube channel spotify.com - Spotify feed actualplayentertainment.com - Official website

Dead Letters is a podcast about tabletop role playing games. Sam, Misha, and Walid are game designers and academics committed to doing the readings. Rulebooks, adventures, blogposts, articles, and everything in between. Tune in for your weekly dose of RPG discourse every Thursday! If you’re interested in being a part of the conversation, Dead Letters holds a book club every bi-monthly at boshi's place in NYC. Visit boshis.place and join the discord for updates on the next meeting. Links spotify.com - Spotify feed

Red Moon Roleplaying is an actual play podcast that stays in-character and focuses on immersion and atmosphere, using dark ambient background music to get the feeling right. The show was created by a team of Swedish and British roleplayers and won the Silver ENnie for ”Best Podcast” at GenCon 2019 as well as the Silver ENnie for “Best Podcast” at the online ENnie Awards in 2020 . It has also won the Fenix award for ”Best Podcast” in both 2018 and 2019 at GothCon, and ranked 7th in the Actual Play category of EN World’s audience poll of “Favorite RPG Podcasts of 2018”, 9th in 2019, 7th in 2020, 6th in 2021 and 4th in 2022. Links redmoonroleplaying.com - Official website youtube.com - Youtube channel podcasts.apple.com - Apple Podcasts feed patreon.com - Patreon page

At Session Zero Heroes we believe in the power of storytelling through tabletop roleplaying games and use a wide variety of systems to create these stories which we share through the podcast medium. From hilarious to emotional our stories and themes come in all shapes and sizes and help us to create amazing series and one-shots for your listening pleasure! Our first show: Benders & Brews: An Avatar Legends Actual Play is the one that started it all! In this series, we jump into the world of Avatar the Last Airbender as a group of teens fight back against rival tea shops and the occasional run-in with pirates and the Fire Nation in order to save their own tea shop: The Blissful Brew. Our other, a Dungeons & Dragons series called Criminals of Isla Numus where a group of characters are thrown into a deity's pocket dimension with the goal of making 1,000,000 gold in the span of a year’s time. Will they be able to overcome a variety of obstacles and struggles and accomplish their task? Links sessionzeroheroes.com - Official website youtube.com - Youtube channel discord.gg - Discord server

Tabletop Time is a YouTube channel, podcast, and livestreaming phenomenon devoted to collaborative storytelling through tabletop roleplaying games, as well as miniatures and other somewhat "nerdy" hobbies. It was created by Jazza and his brother Shad to utilize the TTRPG system they invented, Cogent Roleplay. The initial run lasted two years, but due to Jazza's increasingly busy schedule, a four year hiatus was necessary. Now it's back with a vengeance and a new cast. Links youtube.com - Youtube channel spotify.com - Spotify feed podcasts.apple.com - Apple Podcasts feed twitch.tv - Twitch channel patreon.com - Patreon page itstabletoptime.fandom.com - Tabletop Time wiki

We are Hearthfire Tales, we're from Ireland and we do D&D and TTRPG Related things! We tell stories that are mostly comedic, until they're not, and punch you in the feels. Sorry (not sorry)! Our Main adventure is audio only and set in Lethuan, the land of Might, Magic, and Metal, where strange monsters are appearing and it is up to roaming "bands" of adventurers to tour the land and save the day. But why is the Hootsman, so called protector of the land, nor his special police force, the Hootsforce, doing anything about it, and why is it up to a Punk Rock Ranger and Dad Rock Ex-Paladin to save the day?! We also have horror games, light hearted and heartwarming adventures, oneshots, a campaign we streamed on twitch, and lots of Live shows from conventions across Ireland. Links hearthfiretales.com - Official website youtube.com - Youtube channel spotify.com - Spotify feed discord.gg - Discord server patreon.com - Patreon page

Tales from the Shelf is two gamers, one American who started with D&D, and an English person...who did not. We take on the campaigns we run, the systems we use, the things we learn. With deep dives in on specific books, gaming advice and RPG history. Links podcastaddict.com - Podcast feed

This is the podcast show of the The RPG Gazette. Here you will find our interviews and sometimes discussions between staff members on all manner of TTRPG related topics! Links spotify.com - Spotify feed

"Ludonarrative dissonance" is a term from game-design commentary, describing a moment when the game mechanics pull in one direction but the game story pulls in another, creating dissonance. The ‘Ludonarrative Dissidents’ are three game designers, reviewers and commentators, veterans in the field of ludic narrative, who have come together to discuss the art, science and craft of RPG design by vivisecting game systems and seeing what makes them run.  Your hosts are Ross Payton, Greg Stolze and James Wallis. Ethos Every episode of Ludonarrative Dissidents is built around four pillars: What does this game do? How does it do that? How do people play it? Why do they play it that way? (and how well does it succeed?) We examine games from all angles: mechanical, ludic, narrativist, historical, cultural, structural, whether or not it’s fun, and Greg complains about its use of the future-conditional tense. We look at its influences and pedigree, its narrative engine, its world-building, its book-design, and James reveals that he dated the designer’s sister, or something like that. In season 2 we have added episodes that look at specific aspects of RPGs, such as initiative systems, metacurrencies and diceless games. Origins The idea behind Ludonarrative Dissidents came from a Twitter discussion in early 2021. Someone was looking for RPG designers to work on a project, someone else suggested Greg and James, and after the two of them politely declined, a third person opined that a podcast with the two talking about games and game design would be quite a thing. Greg and James exchanged a virtual glance across the Atlantic, Greg mentioned the idea to Ross, the three of them filled a Google document with ideas, and the project was born. Links ludonarrativedissidents.com - Official website spotify.com - Spotify feed podcast.apple.com - Apple Podcasts feed discord.gg - Discord server ko-fi.com - Ko-Fi page

This podcast is about tabletop role-playing games around the world. In every episode, I interview RPG enthusiasts and professionals from a non-English speaking country about what games they play, what unique RPGs exist in their country, and how new people get into the hobby. Interviewees include regular gamers, club organizers, game shop owners, creators of actual play videos, RPG authors, and gaming studios.  While some places are known for their large role-playing scene and have a lot of local RPG systems, other regions of the world have smaller scenes and might not even have a single RPG in the local language. Every regular episode ends with a teaser for the next country – an excerpt from an actual play recording in that country’s language. The aim of this podcast is to broaden our horizon and find out about RPGs from all over the world. Enjoy! Links letscast.fm - Feed and show notes spotify.com - Spotify feed podcasts.apple.com - Apple Podcasts feed

Welcome to Weird Games and Weirder People, my name is Diogo Nogueira and I will be your host in a series of interviews or chats I am having with creators and artists from the tabletop RPG scene, especially the weird “Indie” people, who creates more personal and, why not, weirder games, weirder, art, weirder fiction, and so on. That’s the stuff I crave, and I think many of us do as well. Weird Games and Weirder People is a podcast about role playing games and the weird wonderful people bedim them. This is the show where we welcome the weirdness both inside and outside each and everyone of us, and talk about how we harness its power to our creations. Links spotify.com - Spotify feed podcasts.apple.com - Apple Podcasts feed ko-fi.com - Ko-Fi Page

A podcast by Power Word Spill and friends where we chat about D&D and TTRPGs in variety show style segments! If you're looking for recommendations for interesting TTRPG systems, 5e compatible modules, 5e character builds based on pop culture characters, and other inspiration for running and playing D&D and other TTRPGs, this is the place for you! Links spotify.com  - Spotify feed podcasts.apple.com - Apple Podcasts feed youtube.com  - Youtube channel patreon.com - Patreon page