The Roleplaying Exchange Podcast

Actual Play - Eclipse Phase - Acrimony - EP 1

Ten days ago Firewall lost contact with Chi on the Kongyùn habitat. Restored from backup, Chi and a team of Firewall sentinels travel to the back to Kongyùn to investigate the disappearance and settle an old debt. Sounds easy enough, but with one agent missing this is far from an easy job.

 

Geoff – Amal – Brinker Security Specialist

 

Laura – Svafa -  Titanian Science Police Inspector

 

D – Chi -  Mindhacker / Social Networker

 

No One   – Njal – Anarchist Hacker / Pilot 

Episode 34 - Fan Generated Content, Hacks, and Google Plus

In a topic that originally started as raiding the sinking ship that is Google Plus for great fan content; Patrick, Noah, and Adam discuss fan generated content and hacks for tabletop rpgs.

  

Areas of Discussion: 

· Masks Google Plus

· A Nocturne (Blades Transhuman Sci-fi)

· Our Lonely Words (Blades Persona-esque mental exploration)

· Wardens In The Iron Garden (Blades - Playing overseers of a dictatorship)

· Remnants of War

· Monster of the Week Roadhouse

· The Fairfield Project

· Night at the opera Reddit

· Blades in the Dark Score Generator

· Dogs In the Bark (Light-hearted, playing street dogs)

· Copperhead County (Small town Deep South crime)

· A Fistful of Darkness (Weird West)

Other Items:

• Savage Tokusatsu 
• BestPalBrigade Twitch Channel 
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• Resident Evil 2

Episode Music:   Simultaneous Eon by Fascinating Earthbound Objects

Actual Play - Deadlands Reloaded - The Hell Outta Dodge

In an odd turn of events, three siblings from the Dodge clan find themselves reunited on a riverboat. However, their reunion is cut short when a group of armed river pirates set their eyes on the what the Pinkertons have stored in the cargo hold.

  

Chris – Billy Dodge – Simple young man with big dreams that may be a wizard.

Aaron – Jeb Dodge – Elder brother of the Dodge clan tasked with keeping his siblings out of trouble.

Nathan – Emily Dodge – Eldest of the Dodge siblings fleeing east to escape ‘relationship’ problems.

Darth – Jane Red – Bounty hunter looking to inflict a little pain.

Adam – Jasper Finch – Confederate deserter wearing the identity of a dead priest. 

Episode 33- Time Travel

Time travel can be tricky. Being a game master where players can travel to virtually any time or place can also be tricky but rewarding if your players manage to punch a Nazi T-Rex in the face.  In this episode we sit down to discuss and compare TimeWatch and Continuum and the dos and don’ts of time travel.

 

Areas of Discussion:  Current RPX campaigns being ran as well as our upcoming pilot episodes.

Topics of discussion: Time travel, TimeWatch, Continuum, Behind Enemy Times (campaign), Aaron’s Masks campaign, why Chris hates time travel, pilot episodes.

Actual Play - TimeWatch- Year Without Summer

A robot uprising in 24th century New York city has TimeWatch agents scrambling back in time to uncover the source. Will uplifted Soviet silverback gorilla Albert and Detective Baker overcome their differences to save humanity? Can Colonel Blood put aside his vices long enough to fix the time stream? Tune in to find out! 

 

 Aaron    – Rick Baker        – America n detective from the 1970s. 

 

Darth – Colonel Thomas Blood – Sixty-year-old Irish  ne’er do well and confidence man from 1678. He once stole the crown jewels.

 

 Ethan    – Albert                  –Former Russian spy / silverback gorilla. 

Actual Play - Red Markets 10K - Episode 39- Big Bad Wolves

Gregory Wells just needed a little closure. Reaching out to Freelance from behind the Recession, Wells contracts the takers to finally put his dear son to rest.

Aaron – Munchkin - Child soldier archetype. Yeah, we’re surprised she’s lasted this long too.

Chris – Allensworth – A combat medic who has gunned two ways.

Greg – NRG - A hustling mechanic with a husband, adopted son, and crippling debt.

Matt – Angus - The Scottish woodsman just trying to make his way through the Loss

Actual Play - Unknown Armies - Jingle Allmart the Way

Per a conversation we had on the latest episode of Beyond the Wall of Patreon, Chris has devised a surreal Jingle All the Way UA scenario.

 

 ‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all thru the mart, not a customer was stirring, despite discount Paul Blart. The Day Shift had a truly busy day, true, but this left Darby, Ann and Mike with nothing to do. The night forecast to be nothing more than a bore, but then three strange customers entered the store... 

 

Aaron - Abe - Beloved gutter mage from a yet to be published UA campaign.

Adam - Mike -  Optimistic prosthetic wearing All-Mart employee trying to contain the store's weirdness.  

Ian - Darby - Works at the All-Mart to uncover what caused her college friend's death.

Vince - Ann - Ann took up a job at the All-Mart in the hopes that she might find her creator (psst Ann is a robot)

Episode 32 - Termination Shock Kickstarter

Acclaimed game designer and author Greg Stolze drops in to discuss his newest RPG projects, Termination Shock which is currently kickstarting through December 25^th, and a standalone version of Arc Dream’s Grim War.

Please swing by the Kickstarter page and check out Termination Shock.

Also, check out the Stolze’s actual play podcast campaign of Termination Shock.   

Actual Play - Red Markets -Where's The Beef - Patreon Game 1

Special thanks to Brownie, Joe, Micah, and Randy for their support and being awesome gamers.  We had a blast.

 

In our first ever Patreon backer game, the poor fools willing to give us money return to the RPX Red Markets setting, the Conda. Johnny Mop and the Buckets have been tasked with rustling cattle from the Turner Bison Service. But Montana’s a big state, and times have changed since the Crash. And Chris is running.

  

Adam – Nihilist – Immune face character who likes dogs (totally not Chris)

Brownie – Scarecrow – Outdoors-man (totally not Adam) 

Joe – Mall Cop – Former cop (totally not Paul Blart or Sean)

Micah – Cradic - Immune with tattoos posing as a latent (see tattoos)

Randy – Johnny Mop – Post Apocalypse janitor.

 

Actual Play - Delta Green - Fishing Hole

Note:  This scenario's creation was based on a creepy pasta story.  When this episode posts on the main feed, it will be accompanied with a link to an episode of Al Dente Rigamortis.  In this recording Adam will be discussing the creepy pasta  "My Uncle's Bizarre Encounter in a US Intelligence Agency", which this scenario was loosely inspired by.

 

When a publicly disgraced mother turns to the program with claims of both military service and knowledge of Delta Green, neither of which are documented, agents are tasked with investigating the validity of her claims.  

 

Jeremy- Agent Catlit

 

Patrick - Agent Poprdan

 

Vince - Agent  Breiner