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Terrific Tabletop Tales

A curated podcast list by
Gavin Gaddis

Creation Date May 21st, 2020
Updated Date Updated November 27th, 2020
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Actual Play podcasts that take dice rolling and roleplay to the next level to create encapsulating worlds.

  1. Fun City

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    A narrative play RPG podcast set in post-climate catastrophe New York City, in the year 2101. With Jenn de la Vega, Nick Guercio, Shannon Odell, and Bijan Stephen. GM'd by Mike Rugnetta with troublemaker Taylor Moore.
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    Gavin Gaddis

    Mike Rugnetta and Taylor Moor's team efforts create a cyberpunk version of New York that fires the imagination and refuses to let go, structuring the first heist in such a way the players are consistently visiting locations that spark evokative imagery. It's rare when a TTRPG show makes its setting as equally interesting and fleshed-out as the player characters, Fun City pulls this off in spades. Also the show's choice to have a player at the table who's effectively a deputy game-master in charge of playing antagonists and passive NPCs who can get the players in trouble is a masterstroke. There's also multiple out-of-character mentions of chili, so if you like chili do be prepared for the fact you're gonna want a bowl at multiple points of the campaign.

  2. Critical Bits

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    Critical Bits is a new comedy RPG actual play podcast featuring Joel Ruiz as the GM and Paul Byron, Shannon Struuci, and Shelby Lee as the players. It has a bi-weekly Tuesday release schedule and uses the Masks system with the Powered by the Ap
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  3. The End of Time and Other Bothers

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    An improvised fantasy roleplaying game set in the world of Alba Salix, Royal Physician. We use the Dungeon World roleplaying system and improv to weave a tale of flightless fairies, half-demons and cafeteria line workers, dystopian empires, mag
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  4. Rude Tales of Magic

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    Branson Reese and his jester's retinue, Christopher Hastings, Carly Monardo, Tim Platt, Joe Lepore, and Ali Fisher, buck and bumble through the magical backwater world of Cordelia. One hopes you enjoy both japes AND scrapes, because honestly, i
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    Gavin Gaddis

    It's difficult to phrase what makes Rude Tales of Magic work without launching into a list of the confounding things that seemingly are beamed into Branson Reese' brain directly from a team of ornery, potentially inebriated muses. Like an R-rated Willy Wonka he unleashes NPCs on his players that only someone with a genuine comedic rapport can. A lesser crew would flounder by the end of the first episode. If you aren't enchanted by the time you meet Cheddar, I don't know how to help you.

  5. Join the Party

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    Join the Party is a collaborative storytelling and roleplaying podcast, powered by the rules of Dungeons and Dragons. That means a group of friends create a story together, chapter by chapter, that takes us beyond the tabletop to parts unknown.
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    I must sheepishly admit I'm somewhere four or five episodes back from the finale of season one and have yet to touch the second season - an entirely different campaign - out of latent guilt from having not finished the first. What I CAN say is the spirit of what makes Multitude work as a podcast collective is housed inside JtP. From DM Eric Silver acting as an eternal font of excitement and glee to the bittersweet journey of Grugle's warforged, every square inch of JtP is dedicated to something someone in the crew genuinely cares about, and it shows.

  6. Lakeshore & Limbo

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    Lakeshore & Limbo is an improvised occult-noir detective series podcast, told using tabletop roleplaying game rules.
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