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An actual play TTRPG podcast where GM John runs his friends through a variety of systems and genres. New episodes every Friday.

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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You either sink or you float out on that ocean www.realplaygamespod.com/1805131/epis...
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Island of Dagon Ep. 3 - This Dark Paradise - Real Play Games Podcast
As usual, things for the Tomlin kids are going from bad to worse, and gigantic sharks are the least of their concerns as they fend off assaults from the deep and finally arrive at their thought-mythic...
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Things're getting baa-d out on the ocean www.realplaygamespod.com/1805131/epis...
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Island of Dagon Ep. 2 - Gunshots and the Gentle Patter of Hooves on a Boat - Real Play Games Podcast
Things are getting tense aboard The Dream-Quest, as Coven and his daughter both seem to have their own agendas, and the other folks on board range from apathetic to very clearly in their patrons’ pock...
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ran Marvel Multiverse for the first time and it was a pretty smooth system, not for the pod, but man I'm exhausted after it. Might need a couple weeks of recuperation time from running stuff in a few months, glad our backlog never fucking ends!
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
All of our miniseries end up running like 50+% longer than they're supposed to when we play them and that's the Real Play Games Podcast difference that you can taste.
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We hit a pretty big milestone around the start of April this year and it's wild that we're already almost 20% of the way towards hitting it again because that first one took FIVE YEARS. Thanks to everyone who've listened thus far, or given us a boost or a shout-out. It means a lot.
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The weather st... wait, the weather was fine, actually, and the ship was big, so the whole theme song just doesn't work... www.realplaygamespod.com/1805131/epis...
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Island of Dagon Ep. 1 - No Three Hour Tour - Real Play Games Podcast
Embarked aboard the mega-yacht The Dream-Quest, Victor Coven and some of his associates are searching for the mythical Devil’s Drift in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle that will supposedly lead the...
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's GM John's birthday, he ain't doing shit
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Got a business email about something, checked the bottom and it said, "sent by an AI agent", blocked the sender and here we are. We don't do business with people who can't even be fucked to reach out to us directly like a human being does.
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Sequel time? Sequel time! www.realplaygamespod.com/1805131/epis...
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Island of Dagon Trailer - Real Play Games Podcast
In the summer of 2025, Victor Coven leads a group of those interested in the occult, as well as those whom he believes will help him demonstrate that his life-long delving into matters beyond the pale...
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Doing a 0 session for Fabula Ultima might've been one of the best zeros we've done in a hot minute.
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Boing-go www.realplaygamespod.com/1805131/epis...
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Viral Aftershow - Saved by the Power of Uppers - Real Play Games Podcast
Now that everything’s in the books, we talk about how and what we enjoyed from the adventure (the chat element was a big hit and scarring emotionally!).  While the characters are all busy coming ...
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Introduce yourself with five artists you've seen at least twice Deftones My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult GWAR Black Tape for a Blue Girl At the Drive In
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Run like Hell www.realplaygamespod.com/1805131/epis...
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Viral Ep. 8 - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out - Real Play Games Podcast
Betrayed by Emily and forced to confront the darkest portions of Isola de Malamente, the group does their best to push forward and find their wayward companions before whatever’s going to happen happe...
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Matthew 27:33 - And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull www.realplaygamespod.com/1805131/epis...
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Viral Ep. 7 - Golgotha - Real Play Games Podcast
Nothing’s more terrifying than exploring a creepy old hospital where a bunch of weird stuff was happening, right?  Totally wrong, things have gone from bad to worse for the Spektral Krew as they ...
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Didn't own a CD player for a hot minute so the first CD GM John ever got was the No Alternative compilation album where the Nirvana track Sappy was mislabeled Verse Chorus Verse
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Listened through the whole of "Is This It?" by The Strokes for the first time in like 20 years and damn, that album still holds up.
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Cut anyone you want out of your life, they can go eat shit
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Woke 2 is gonna be a real motherfucker because I just found all of my baby teeth that my Ma saved in a drawer and I'm gonna make a macuahuitl with 'em to smite the cancelled.
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Ironically, this is getting posted early because GM John had to pick someone up who got discharged from a hospital after midnight. www.realplaygamespod.com/1805131/epis...
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Viral Ep. 6 - Crankhaus - Real Play Games Podcast
Things just keep getting worse as the group continues exploring the old administrator’s building and discovers things that they absolutely didn’t want to see.  An inter-group conflict erupts and ...
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Gouge away www.realplaygamespod.com/1805131/epis...
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Viral Ep. 5 - Neither Kicking Nor Screaming - Real Play Games Podcast
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.  T...
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
We're recording the holiday special for '26 and goddamn, this one is anarchic even for us!
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Gonna grab some wrinkly fruits! www.realplaygamespod.com/1805131/epis...
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Viral Ep. 4 - Taking the Bridge to the Lemon Party - Real Play Games Podcast
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...
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
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Do You Ever Fantasize About Being Killed?
Alt: A red-haired punk woman with face makeup named Trash saying "Do You Ever Fantasize About Being Killed?" as she sits against a gravestone in a red, sleeveless vest.
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
We just backed Midnight Press: Ultimate Detective Noir TTRPG in Newspaper on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...
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Midnight Press: Ultimate Detective Noir TTRPG in Newspaper
📰Vintage newspaper you play as a game 🕵️Play 6 noir archetypes 🎥50+ 1940s slang terms 🎲Learn & setup in <20 minutes 🚫No AI art
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"He's snow angel-ing in his own blood" is one of my fave lines in a game thus far.
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Didn't think I was going to like Fabula Ultima as much as I do, it absolutely has helped me rebound from a little bit of fantasy burnout that I've been feeling as we push through chapter 1 of Kingmaker and it fills me full of ideas for other games to come.
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When the going gets tough, the tough buy drugs www.realplaygamespod.com/1805131/epis...
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Viral Ep. 3 - White Crosses and Rocket Fuel - Real Play Games Podcast
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!&nbsp; After getting some relaxing in, Enoch ends ...
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Is the heat index gonna be 107 today? Better be goddamn sure that's when the central A/C goes on the fritz! At least we have emergency room units but fuck, this is awful.
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Starting that 15 day countdown until they announce that Mitch McConnell is actually dead, considering making paper chains and everything.
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Just buy her damn necklaces already www.realplaygamespod.com/1805131/epis...
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Viral Ep. 2 - A Virile People and the Other Americans - Real Play Games Podcast
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 war...
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Made the last payment on college loans today. Hope they fucking cancel the debt on them for every other goddamn person in the country right now anyhow, my money's already gone but I won't be a little wiener baby about it.
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Really charging through that executive dysfunction today and making things happen
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
AI? More like, "'Ey, I don't give a fuck about your spicy Clippy, throw yourself down a fuckin storm drain"
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Will my players wander to the most dangerous part of the sandbox adventure tonight and get in a whole lot of trouble? Guess we'll find out tonight and you'll hear it in like a year LOL
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Got done cutting audio early this week and been prepping for the weekend game ever since because I don't know where these fuckers are gonna go and it's a big sandbox and they might poop in it.
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Every five years or so, we make John be a player in the game. We're trying to break his control issues. It's working! www.realplaygamespod.com/1805131/epis...
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Viral Ep. 1 - Big Dreams of Big Streams - Real Play Games Podcast
It’s late August, 2025, and the Spektral Krew has just landed in Perla, Sicily for their biggest investigation to date!&nbsp; Before they start to head off to the spooky, mysterious island, though, th...
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
We've been doing this podcasting/actual play stuff for five years exactly now, and it's been pretty wild seeing how we've grown with barely any advertising. Hope the next five is even better!
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Never have run a game I've hated more than Paranoia. Felt like a slog that was constantly urging me to do shitty things to player characters because they got along and worked well together. Glad I tried it so I know I'll never have to do it again though.
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
We finally tackle Viral by @gothnog and Bud Baird, and John's a player, Roy's the Keeper! It was so scary! Starts next Friday! www.realplaygamespod.com/1805131/epis...
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Viral Trailer - Real Play Games Podcast
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 par...
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Just ate a single Kit Kat that didn't have any wafers inside, wtf
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The story ended but the fun's not over, we talk about loving Nightbane and a bunch of other stuff! www.realplaygamespod.com/1805131/epis...
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Nightbane™ - After Dark Post-Game Show! - Real Play Games Podcast
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 6/6Content Warni...
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Happy Juneteenth!
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
It's all over but the crying www.realplaygamespod.com/1805131/epis...
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Nightbane™ - Dead Ringer Ep. 5 - Making the News, Not Knowing It - Real Play Games Podcast
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 s...
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Every time I see someone use 'holy' or 'sacred' or any other religious descriptor to refer to a sexist biological determinist who hung out with a guy who wrote a book that inspired a bunch of Neo Nazis, I know I can safely discard any opinion they have on anything in the future and ignore them.
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Turn your unwanted junk into SemTex! www.realplaygamespod.com/1805131/epis...
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Nightbane™ - Dead Ringer Ep. 4 - Dumpster Diving for Demolitions - Real Play Games Podcast
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.&nbsp; With the help of some clever ...
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Sometimes it takes 7 months between starting a game and running a second session for it, but that's why we record this shit!
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Spotify released this early yesterday for some reason but whatever, we just try to release on Fridays because most pods don't. Surely there's a demographic reason behind that but when has logic dictated anything we've done here? www.realplaygamespod.com/1805131/epis...
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Nightbane™ - Dead Ringer Ep. 3 - Jeux Sans Frontières - Real Play Games Podcast
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 B...
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Damn, thanks for all the incredible artwork and inspiration John Blanche. You were a real one, and one of the best!
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Make sure you get yourself a bunch of bigot teeth to hand over to the Pride Bunny at the month's end, don't care how you get 'em, Pride Bunny don't do means testing.
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Real Play Games Pod @realplaygamespod.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Got all excited to finish off an adventure last night, then realized that I had the date wrong and the game wraps next week instead, so finished Directive 8020 and it was pretty good!
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