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Now that a member of the Phantom Posse has shown up, things are very clearly getting out of hand, and some of the information that the team’s recovered points towards an even darker situation.  They should just get out of there, right?  That’s what smart people would’ve done, but no, instead, they decide to go poking around in the administrator’s home.  Surely nothing bad can happen there!
Episode 5/9

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Alcohol/Drug Use, Icky Stuff (rot), Profanity

Keeper of Arcane Lore is Roy
Enoch Eakins is John

Having finally arrived on the island, the Krew goes about getting set up, but finds a bunch of weird things that just keep getting weirder.  Not once, mind you, do they ever find the olive groves that were mentioned, but honestly?  There’s a lot more scary stuff on the island than just olives!
Episode 4/9

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Alcohol/Drug Use, Icky Stuff (bugs, rot), Profanity

Keeper of Arcane Lore is Roy
Enoch Eakins is John
Hyun Ku is Ames
Marco Proudfoot is Obie
Corinna Trench is Stev...

The Krew does what any reasonable person would do when they’re on a delightful spot right alongside the Mediterranean, they have a bit of a beach day!  After getting some relaxing in, Enoch ends up paying 50 bills for a faux pas on Marco’s part, but it’s not like anything’ll end up coming from that, right?  Just about time to go to that island!
Episode 3/9

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Alcohol/Drug Use, Profanity

Keeper of Arcane Lore is Roy
Enoch Eakins is John
Hyun Ku is Ames
Marco...

After getting settled in and making an initial foray into town, the Spektral Krew does a bunch more research, as well as a little bit of shopping, and witnesses the townspeople doing their best to ward off sickness.  Hope it works for them!
Episode 2/9

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Alcohol/Drug Use, Profanity

Keeper of Arcane Lore is Roy
Enoch Eakins is John
Hyun Ku is Ames
Marco Proudfoot is Obie
Corinna Trench is Steve

This actual play recording of Viral is a Real Play Games Podcast p...

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, Alcohol/Drug Use, Profanity

Keeper of Arcane Lore is Roy
Enoch Eakins is John
Hyun Ku is Ames
Marco Proudfoot is Obie
Corinna Trench is Steve...

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 Viral is a Real Play Games Podcast production.  Call of Cthulhu® is a registered trademark of Chaosium, Inc. This podcast uses trademarks and/or copyrights owned by Chaosium Inc/Moon Design Publ...

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 Podcast production.  Nightbane™, Nightlords™, Nightlands™, Hollow Men™, and other names and titles are trademarks owned by Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Boo...

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 Language, Adult Situations, Body Horror, Gore (harm to animals, mutilation), Profanity, Violence

Eileen Cisneros is Harm
Roger Canton is Roy
Ezra Heidelmann is Nathanael ‘NPC’ Cole
Ge...

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 Situations, Body Horror, Gore (harm to animals), Profanity, Violence

Eileen Cisneros is Harm
Roger Canton is Roy
Ezra Heidelmann is Nathanael "NPC" Cole
George Konstantinos is Ste...

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 Situations, Body Horror, Gore (crushing, dismemberment), Profanity, Violence

Eileen Cisneros is Harm
Roger Canton is Roy
Ezra Heidelmann is Nathanael 'NPC' Cole
George Konstantinos is Ste...

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), Profanity, Violence

Eileen Cisneros is Harm
Roger Canton is Roy
Ezra Heidelmann is NPC
George Konstantinos is Steve

This actual play recording of Nightbane - Dead Ringer is a Real Play Games Podcast...

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: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Gore (exploding bodies, hooks), Profanity

Eileen Cisneros is Harm
Roger Canton is Roy
Ezra Heidelmann is Nathanael 'NPC' Cole
George Konstantinos is Steve

This a...

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™, Nightlands™, Hollow Men™, and other names and titles are trademarks owned by Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Books* Inc.  Used with permission.  You can find out all about Nightbane™ and the rest of Palladium Books’ incredible role-pla...

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
Ames is Ames
Obie is Obie

This actual play podcast recording is a Real Play Games Podcast production; Melsonian Arts C...

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 Language, Adult Situations, Gore (, clubbing, impalement, stabbing), Gross Stuff (spit), Profanity, Violence

Peugot Rifter is Obie
Moonpie is Harm
Georgie Jameson is Ames

This actual play podcast re...

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, sticky stuff), Profanity, Violence

Stodge is Roy
Amelamenthana is Harm
Sir Grisl Peeorridge is Steve

Troika!, the other world’s favourite role-playing-game, is produced by Melsonian Arts Council, a wonderful independent publisher of f...

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 can find their full catalog of oddments and joys for purchase at www.melsonia.com!  If you’d like to purchase through them as well as support the show at no additional cost to...

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 Ams
Roy is Roy
Jake is Jake

This podcast production of Hard Times Beyond the Breach is a Real Play Games Podcast...

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!
Episode 13/14

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Gore (puncture wounds), Profanity, Violence

Anastasia Adams is Harm
Barty T. Badge is Steve
Celia Nettle is Ams

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 divinations, we can’t image how bad the other times were!
Episode 12/14

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Profanity

Anastasia Adams is Harm
Barty T. Badg...

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: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Profanity

Anastasia Adams is Harm
Barty T. Badge is Steve
Celia Nettle is Ams
James Pierce Haw...

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 10/14

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Profanity

Anastasia Adams is Harm
Barty T. Badge is Steve
Celia Nettle is Ams
James Pierce H...

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, Profanity

Anastasia Adams is Harm
Barty T. Badge is Steve
Celia Nettle is Ams
James Pierce Hawthorne III is Roy
Oswoldo Franc is Jake

T...

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 Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Gore (gunshots), Rough Topics (violence towards children), Profanity, Violence 

Anastasia Adams is Harm
Barty T. Badge is Steve
Celia Nettle is Am...

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 children), Profanity, Violence 

Anastasia Adams is Harm
Barty T. Badge is Steve
Celia Nettle is Ams
James Pierce Hawthorne III is Roy
Oswoldo Franc is Jake

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 is Harm
Barty T. Badge is Steve
Celia Nettle is Ams
James Pierce Hawthorne III is Roy
Oswoldo Franc is Jake

This podcast production of Hard Times Beyond the...

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 Situations, Profanity, Violence

Anastasia Adams is Harm
Barty T. Badge is Steve
Celia Nettle is Ams
James Pierce Hawthorne III is Roy
Oswoldo Franc...

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: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Profanity, Violence

Anastasia Adams is Harm
Barty T. Badge is Steve
Celia Nettle is Ams
J...

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 Language, Adult Situations, Profanity

Anastasia Adams is Harm
Barty T. Badge is Steve
Celia Nettle is Ams
James Pierce Hawthorne III is Roy
Oswol...

In the cyclopean sewers beneath the Southside Slums, the Fated find themselves hunting for the undead abominations who kidnapped their contacts via candlelight!  Bullets will fly, and quill pens will furiously write about said flying bullets.  Where did Oswold go?  Who can say?
Episode 2/14

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Gore (body horror, gunshots), Profanity, Violence

Anastasia Adams is Harm
Barty T. Badge is Steve
Celia Nettle is Ams
James Pierce Hawthorne III is Roy
Oswoldo Franc is Jake

This podcast production of Hard Times Beyond the Breach is...

Five souls, linked by an ineffable fate, all find themselves at the Southside Station waiting for the 10:15 from Edge Point.  Each is waiting for something different: information, money, or something else entire.  What they all have in common, besides being wet as heck from the driving rain, is that they're all about to find themselves in a situation they'd have preferred to avoid…
Episode 1/14

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Gore (gunshots), Profanity, Violence

Anastasia Adams is Harm
Barty T. Badge is Steve
Celia Nettle is Ams
James Pierce Hawthorne III is R...

Join Anastasia Adams, Barty T. Badge, Celia Nettle, James Pierce Hawthorne III and Oswoldo Franc for a tale of fates intertwining, set in a land accessible only through a rent in reality and filled with magic and danger!  1907 was never this exciting!

This podcast production of Hard Times Beyond the Breach is a Real Play Games Podcast production.  Malifaux is a trademark of Wyrd Miniatures, LLC.  Don’t forget to check out www.wyrd-games.net/through-the-breach for more information or even better, squizz on over to giveusyourmoneypleasethankyou-wyrd.com and buy it for yourself so you can also play...

There are hatches where hatches don’t belong, and Susanne, George, and Jaime are going to get to the bottom of it, unless it’s going to get them killed, at which point they’re all very reluctant to get to the bottom of it.  Still, once a thing is in motion, without the exertion of an outside force it is impossible for said thing to stop, and there’s no stopping what comes next, just making it out through the other side of things.

Episode 4 of 4

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

Once the lighting situation’s been handled in the Prescott home, an entirely new and different complication arises, and one with far more chilling implications!  Gather up the whole family and get somewhere safe, because death has come to Castle Kilmarnock, and it doesn’t care if you were already on your way out, nobody’s safe and anything could happen!

Episode 3 of 4

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Alcohol/Drug Use, Depictions of Injury, Gore, Profanity

George Prescott is Steve
Jaime Prescott is Roy
Susanne Prescott is Harm

This ac...

Intriguing family secrets are uncovered just before dinnertime, and of course, any event that gathers as many Prescotts together in one room as possible is going to go just about as well as you think that it would.  Susanne would look aghast if it was possible for her to have that range of facial movement!  And right when they’re at their most insufferable… things get darker.

Episode 2 of 4

Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Alcohol/Drug Use, Profanity

George Prescott is Steve
Jaime Prescott is Roy
Susanne Prescott is Harm

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...