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It’s Christmas Eve 2005, and the Prescott family has gathered for the presumed last Christmas celebration of family patriarch Douglas Prescott, former MP and a man of vast wealth and influence.  Predominantly out of a sense of obligation (or unwillingness to get cut out of Dougie’s will), they’ve decided that they’re willing to put up with one another for a whole weekend before they’ll scatter back out into the world.  Question is: will all of them live to see the end of it?

Episode 1 of 4

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Alcohol/Drug...

In a manor house built like a castle just off the coast of British Columbia, the Prescott family has gathered together for decades.  Now, they gather on Christmas Eve of 2005 as family patriarch Douglas Prescott faces a losing battle with terminal brain cancer.  Is that going to stop each and every one of his relations and friends from being absolute pieces of human garbage?  Wouldn't be on it!  Come spend Christmas with the worst family possible!

This actual play production of ‘The Sins of the Father’  is a Real Play Games Podcast production.  Call of Cthulhu® is a registere...

The story of the dimensionally-displaced reality stars from First Camp is over, at least for now, and we delve into some of the questions that the players had for GM John, reveal some background info, and talk about some things that ended up getting scrapped as the time projected for this game went way, way longer than anticipated!
Episode 11/11

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Profanity

Rocco Larga is PJ
Nora Nickels is Harm
Wren Muller is Ames
Gene Campbell is Obie

Dead Reign®, Phase World®, Megaverse® and RIFTs® are...

Things have been absolutely crazy for the six Earthlings who’ve found themselves magically transformed and landed on a gateway to potentially unlimited worlds, so what’re they going to do?  What every other sad fuck in any galaxy has to do, they’re gonna go to work!  At least the healthcare is better, and the TV too!
Episode 10/11

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Body Horror (transformation, weirdness), Profanity

Rocco Larga is PJ
Nora Nickels is Harm
Wren Muller is Ames
Gene Campbell is Obie

Dead Reign®, Phase World®, M...

Even if you’re not in love with your ex anymore, you can still hope that they get good gas mileage!  The group gets results of their testing, as well as preliminary offers from prospective employers, and everybody gets a little overwhelmed.  At least nobody’s beating themselves bloody in this one!
Episode 9/11

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Body Horror (transformation, weirdness), Profanity

Rocco Larga is PJ
Nora Nickels is Harm
Wren Muller is Ames
Gene Campbell is Obie

Dead Reign®, Phase World®, Megaverse® and RIFTs® are © Copyright and Registe...

What’s more fun than tests?  More tests!  Involved tests!  Definitely not poisoning someone you’re very close with like some kind of sadist or something!  Wren’s no swimmer, but Gene sure is, much to the staff’s chagrin, and Rocco’s looking pretty good wet too.

Episode 8/11

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Body Horror (weirdness), Profanity, Suicidal Ideation

Rocco Larga is PJ
Nora Nickels is Harm
Wren Muller is Ames
Gene Campbell is Obie

Dead Reign®, Phase World®, Megaverse® and RIFTs® are © Copyright and Registered Trademarks owned by...

Time has a way of moving funnily in the Three Galaxies, but it always seems to move slower when you’re dealing with medical stuff, right?  Rocco discovers some more things about his ability to create a duplicate of himself and maybe takes away some stuff that he shouldn’t, while Nora enquires into a problem with Gene and Wren goes hardcore gamer mode!

Episode 7/11

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Body Horror (weirdness), Profanity

Rocco Larga is PJ
Nora Nickels is Harm
Wren Muller is Ames
Gene Campbell is Obie<...

It’s a fact-finding mission and a meal at the very same time!  With her little tendrils racing, Nora starts getting the lay of the galaxies for the rest of the group while everyone else just tries to figure out what to have for dinner!

Episode 6/11
Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Body Horror (weirdness), Profanity

Rocco Larga is PJ
Nora Nickels is Harm
Wren Muller is Ames
Gene Campbell is Obie

Dead Reign®, Phase World®, Megaverse® and RIFTs® are © Copyright and Registered Trademarks owned by Palladium Books.  Used with perm...

The interdimensional cast-aways find themselves presented with an entirely new group of people who've found themselves somewhat in the same boat as them!  Wren gets really damn good at playing Hologram Fighter XVII, while Nora surveys some weird things their new friends can do, Gene hangs tough, and Rocco goes for a walk... well, one of him does, anyhow.  And they get tablets!

Episode 5/11

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Body Horror (weirdness), Profanity

Rocco Larga is PJ
Nora Nickels is Harm
Wren Muller is Ames
Gene Campbell is Obie

While Rocco pulls some clone hijinks to cheer up Terry after her rough bout of magical mutation, Nora does a whole bunch of digging, Wren laments over her situation and tries to fix it, and Gene?  Gene’s just cool as Hell, person who’s listening to this, he’s chilling out and doing fine!

Episode 4/11

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Profanity
Rocco Larga is PJ
Nora Nickels is Harm
Wren Muller is Ames
Gene Campbell is Obie

Dead Reign®, Phase World®, Megaverse® and RIFTs® are © Copyright and Register...

Under the ministrations of UWW medical support staff from the College of Applied Arcana, the transformed crewmates start getting their bearings as to where they are in a far bigger universe than they’d ever imagined, and start fooling around with some of the things they’ve found themselves newly capable of, with mixed results!

Episode 3/11
Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Profanity

Rocco Larga is PJ
Nora Nickels is Harm
Wren Muller is Ames
Gene Campbell is Obie

Dead Reign®, Phase World®, Megaverse® and RIFTs® are © Copyright and Registere...

That was one Hell of a storm, huh?  Unsurprisingly, this group of sexy singles have also found themselves wildly out of their depth and no longer on their own world, but this ain’t no fairytale, that’s for damn sure.  The walls are blue, the floors are blue, but are the castmates going to be blue with how things have turned out for them?  You’ll have to see!

Episode 2/11

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Body Horror (transformation), Profanity

Rocco Larga is PJ
Nora Nickels is Harm
Wren Muller is Ames

Three more sexy singles are squadded up on a beautiful island off the coast of Mexico, set to rough it as a tribe while they prepare to meet other groups of available singles.  Two and a half months of filming means there's plenty of time for these beach-side cast members to find themselves in a steamy relationship... or a few! You already know there's going to be a twist to this one, unless you didn't listen to the first Surviving Love, which is totally okay.  It's not like it matters, right?
Episode 1/11

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Things are starting to get grim, but hope isn’t lost yet!  The group has found themselves at least a few seconds to breathe before the next problem arises, but will they make decisions that help them in the long run, or will they set themselves up for failure?  And who will survive the night?
Episode 4/4

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Gore, Profanity, Violence

Steve is Johnny Streiner
Ru is Barbara Streiner
Roy is Tommy Wayne Keith
PJ is Benjamin ‘Ben’ Hardman
Harm is Judith “Judy” Rose Eastman

 This au...

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!
Episode 3/4

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Gore, Profanity, Violence

Steve is Johnny Streiner
Ru is Barbara Streiner
Roy is Tommy Wayne Keith
PJ is Benjamin ‘Ben’ Hardman
Harm is Judith “Judy” Rose Eastman

 This audio podcast performance of Night of the Living Dea...

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, Gore, Profanity, Violence

Steve is Johnny Streiner
Ru is Barbara Streiner
Roy is Tommy Wayne Keith
PJ is Benjamin ‘Ben’ Hardman
Harm...

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, Profanity, Violence

Steve is Johnny Streiner
Ru is Barbara Streiner
Roy is Tommy Wayne Keith
PJ is Benjamin ‘Ben’ Hardman
H...

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 Living Dead Reign is a Real Play Games Podcast production.  Dead Reign© is a copyright of Palladium Books Inc. and Kevin Siembieda.  Used with permission. You ca...

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?
Episode 3/3

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Extreme Violence, Gore (biting, corpse abuse, head trauma, immolation, impalements) Profanity

Handy Hank H...

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.
Episode 2/3

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Drug References/Use, Extreme Violence, Gore (electrocution, gunshot wounds, immolation, impalement), Profanity

Handy Hank Hammerstein is Roy

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 #iHunt account and get a job killing some piece-of-shit squatters who happen to have fangs and an insatiable thirst for blood!
Episode 1/3

Content Warnings: Adult Lan...

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 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/. #iHunt: Dollars $ Draculas is published by Machine Age Dreams, and you can fin...

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?!
Episode 4/4

Content Warnings: Adult Situations, Adult Language, Alcohol References, Big Bummer Stuff (Gunfire deaths, being stuck in a repeating Hell loop), Profanity, Violence

Sydney Shackles is Ha...

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: Adult Situations, Adult Language, Difficult Esoteric Concepts, Profanity

Sydney Shackles is Harm
Rainey Real is Ames
Simon Richards is Steve

T...

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/Frightening Stuff (big naked men, thalassophobia), Profanity, Violence

Sydney Shackles is Harm
Rainey Real is Ames
Simon Richards is Steve

This actual play recording of WHPA13 Fairhaven is a Rea...

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 Situations, Adult Language, Gross Stuff (fatphobia/overeating, mesiness), Profanity, Weird Depictions of the Elderly

Sydney Shackles is Harm
Rainey Real is Ames
Simon Richards i...

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 Rabbi Menachem has been moved to Wednesdays at 8pm.

 Weird Heroes of Public Access is written by the good Reverend Joey Royale and the other incredible folks at Get Haun...

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 people talking about the fake people we pretended to be!  It's Harm, Ames, and John.

This audio playthrough of Cozy Caverns Mysteries II is a...

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, Gore (Dissolution, Impalement, Limb Loss), Violence

Ames plays Jordan "Dani" D'Amore
Harm plays Jasmine "Jazz" D'Amore 

This audio playthrough of Cozy Caverns Mysteries II is a Rea...

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

Ames plays Jordan "Dani" D'Amore
Harm plays Jasmine "Jazz" D'Amore 

This audio playthrough of Cozy Caverns Mysteries II is a Real Play Games Podcast production. Palladium Books® and Megaverse® are ©...

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

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Violence

Ames plays Jordan "Dani" D'Amore
Harm plays Jasmine "Jazz" D'Amore 

This audio playthrough of Cozy Caverns My...

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, Adult Situations, Violence

Ames plays Jordan "Dani" D'Amore
Harm plays Jasmine "Jazz" D'Amore 

This audio playthrough of Cozy Caverns Mysteries II is a Re...

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.
Episode 12/17

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations

Ames plays Jordan "Dani" D'Amore
Harm plays Jasmine "Jazz" D'Amore 

Thi...

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 Crusade (created by Mike Franchina) and his philosophy of producing games accessible to people regardless as to the size of their wallets!  We also discuss the potential ramifications of...

After a very long night, an even longer morning!  After talking with the Doc a bit about the wolf situation, the sisters finally bring their good pal Dana in on the situation, and Dana gets down to doing what Dana's good at, and what the sisters are not very good at: making a plan.  As the girls try to 'live their lives like nothing's happening', they find out some intriguing developments, and is that someone stalking Jazz?
Episode 11/17

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations

Ames plays Jordan "Dani" D'Amore
Harm plays Jasmine "Jazz" D...

After making it through an explosive fight in the Mesquite Room, the sisters are left answering some questions (to the cops) and then answering some questions on their own (through communication and light breaking/entering).  The heat is getting turned up in the Cozy Caverns summertime, and if the twins don't get a handle on the situation soon, everything could potentially boil over!
Episode 10/17

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Icky Stuff (vermin infestations), Violence

Ames plays Jordan "Dani" D'Amore
Harm plays Jasmine "Jazz" D'Amore 

This audio playthrough of Cozy Caverns My...

Everything's out in the open, at least as far as what the gals have been investigating, and Hassan's a little shell-shocked, but with security in mind, the group decides to prep for an all-nighter, making some very strange requests when they order some pizzas from O Fortuna and trying to figure out if it's the person's religion, or the vampire's religion, that dictates whether crosses hurt vampire, or if maybe just vampires don't like plus signs.  And at the last minute, things start to get REAL WILD
Episode 9/17

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Violence

Things're feeling a little spicier than usual in Cozy Caverns, and even as the morning begins with the two sisters having a discussion with one another, and despite a turbulent day, ends up with a romantic getaway for one couple, and some spicy touching for another?!?! What's going on in this town?
Episode 8/17

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations

Ames plays Jordan "Dani" D'Amore
Harm plays Jasmine "Jazz" D'Amore 

This audio playthrough of Cozy Caverns Mysteries II is a Real Play Games Podcast production. Palladium Books® and Megaverse® are © Copyright and Regi...

Being the civic-minded citizens that they are, the sisters do the tiniest bit of digging to find out where they can go to check up on the folks from Bon Temps when the bakery isn't open; what ensues is a whole lot of awkwardness, followed up by a whole lot of research, some more awkwardness, more research, and revelations!  For not going very far, the sisters sure do a lot of legwork!
Episode 7/17

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations

Ames plays Jordan "Dani" D'Amore
Harm plays Jasmine "Jazz" D'Amore 

This audio pl...

It's another delicious meal to start the gals off on this one, and naturally, having to conversate instead of just eating means that one or the other of them are going to get themselves in trouble!  Things are getting stranger and stranger throughout town, from the sudden disappearance of the town's newest business superstars to the weird meteorological phenomena that're happening!  If only Jazz and Dani knew how to investigate things a little better!
Episode 6/17

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations

Ames plays Jordan "Dani" D'Amore
Harm plays Jasmine "Jazz" D'Amore 

Thi...