The Roleplaying Exchange Podcast

Episode 24 - Welcome To The Dungeon

Sorry this isn’t our much-promised S&M episode; rather, it involves Adam and Patrick discussing how to help new game masters step up in an already established group.

Talking Points: Keeping your groups small, Prepping vs. Over-prepping, saying “yes” and “yes and…”, taking constructive criticism

Shouts outs:

Can’t get enough of that Appalachian accents?  Are you interested in leftist politics and issues concerning Appalachia?   Check out the Trillbillies Workers Party podcast.

 Narcosis is a survival horror title that strands players on the sea floor with little oxygen and sanity.

Rusty Lake and the Cube Escape Series are an eerie collection of point-click adventures set in the vein of shows like Twin Peaks.

Cthulhu Confidential is a game of Lovecraftian horror that utilizes the new Gumshoe One-2-One system that requires only a gamemaster and one player.   

Cthulhu City is a setting for Trail of Cthulhu that place investigators in a corrupted Arkham controlled by the mythos.  A must have for fans of dystopian and cosmic horror literature.

Actual Play - Red Markets 10K Lakes - Episode 17 - Moving Day

It’s a busy week for the Freelance crew. They’ve been tasked by the Crusaders of Operation Ellingson to escort a crew of new recruits from their main outpost to the Minnesota weapons testing facility. Believers have never been a stable lot, and those who’ve gone study sick are even more prone to... quirks. Here’s hoping no wrinkles are thrown their way.

 

Ian - Vapor - No sacrifice is too great for this taker to achieve their goals – but they don’t want to lose their soul.

Nick - Toss Up - Canadian demolitions expert caught on the wrong side of the fence but the right side of the nukes.

Aaron - Munchkin - Aaron's new character.  Child soldier archtype.  Don't get too attached, this is Aaron we are talking about. 

Sid - Prof. Bjorn - Visiting academic going on a hunting trip with his son when the crash hit

Raymond - Colt - Combat medic who can gun two ways.

Actual Play - Red Markets 10K Lakes - Episode 15 - Bike to Heaven

Freelance takes on a job to acquire vertical transportation bikes from a specialized warehouse.  If it were just an issue of getting the bikes, the job would’ve been a milk run.  Cue  "Low End's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day."

Ian - Vapor - No sacrifice is too great for this taker to achieve their goals - but they don’t want to lose their soul.

Aaron M. – Low End – The bass playing Taker.

Sean F. - Priceline - 

Actual Play: Lover In the Ice - PT 2

The organism that escaped the green box may have been stopped, but not before it managed to reproduce.  Following a trail of bodies, agents are in a race against time to contain the threat before it spreads beyond Lafontaine’s borders.

  

Korie – Alberto Rockshaw

Nick – Theodore Banning

Ben – Caleb Cartwright

Toni – Abend Rabe

 

Episode 23: Unknown Armies

Unknown Armies is “An occult game about broken people conspiring to fix the world. “Need more?  Well you’re in luck, the broken people over at the Roleplaying Exchange are here to help.  In this episode, we explore the setting and mechanics of Unknown Armies.

 

Areas of Discussion: Unknown Armies, The Cat Lady, Warriors, Flavortown,  Unknown Armies Statosphere

Actual Play – Red Markets 10K Lakes – Episode 13 – You Wouldn't Download a Car

Freelance brave treacherous weather to travel to Marconi Motors in search of schematics for a 3D printer.  However, things aren't quite a peaceful as the appear in the abandoned car plant.

Actual Play – Red Markets 10K Lakes – Episode 11 – Smurfing

The Crash affected everyone differently and just because you survived does not mean that you could cope with what your life had become. Add to it forced servitude under a Randian Cult and desperation can quickly follow. Freelance is hired by Doc Williams one of the indentured medical staff of Mayo to procure a sizable amount of lithium for him to produce “medications” as part of his eventual plans for escape.

Chris H – Operator – She’s totally not a Steward.

Adam T – Shears – Latent beautician tired of your mansplaining

Ian – Vapor – No sacrifice is too great for this taker to achieve their goals – but they don’t want to lose their soul.

Episode 21: Becoming A More Active Player/GM

Have you ever found your mind wandering while at the table?  Does your podcasting co-host constantly play with his fidget spinner while you’re recording?  If so then this is the RPX episode for you.  Join us as we discuss techniques to both plays and game master focus at the table.

Areas of Discussion: being an active player, note taking, including all player characters in on the action, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Evil Within 2 (and Noah’s Twitch stream), and a few other things we got distracted and forgot to mention.

Actual Play -Red Markets 10K Lakes – Episode 10 – Great American Dog Race

Roads have broken down 5 years after the Crash, meaning the residents of the 10k have to find alternate modes of travel. The folks at Kennel have hired Freelance for a simple delivery job – get three sleds with attached sled dogs to their clients over at Castle Danger. Surely, this will be a milk run.

Adam L. – Misty –  A dangerously detached debutante wielding a spear (that’s only a spear).

Laura B. – Woodsman – A former high school science teacher, wandering the Loss with a bow and dog. Somehow not dead yet.

Patrick – Catfish – A misguided youth that found himself lured and abandoned in the Lost.

Ian – Vapor – No sacrifice is too great for this taker to achieve their goals – but they don’t want to lose their soul.

Sean B – Gurney – East Coast EMT caught on the wrong side of the Recession.

Actual Play : Delta Green – Lover In the Ice Pt 1

An apocolyptic ice storm has crippled Lafontaine, Missouri. The Agents must secure a forgotten storage facility packed with artifacts of past Delta Green operations. They soon confront a horror that gruesomely invades and mutilates its victims. What is preying on the citizens of Lafontaine besides the weather? Can the Agents overcome the threat with decisive action, or will they doom everyone in the horror’s path?

Korie – Alberto Rockshaw

Nick – Theodore Banning

Ben – Caleb Cartwright

Toni – Abend Rabe

Adam – A cruel and uncaring world