April 29, 2020

RPPR Episode 176: Running and Playing Online Games

1 hour 2 minutes

News: Night Clerk Radio is now available! Birk and I have created a new music review podcast focusing on vaporwave, dark ambient, and other haunted genres of music. Listen today on your podcasting app of choice or on Youtube.

Synopsis: Running and playing tabletop games online has become extremely popular lately so Birk, Kyle (from Best Pal Brigade featured in our episode art) and I discuss our experiences. There are many platforms to play games but choosing one is not the only challenge. Learning the differences between online and IRL games is essential to having a great time.

Promo: Thinking Too Hard About Anime, a new podcast from friends of RPPR!

Shout Outs

Murderbot Diaries: Rogue Protocol – the third book in the Murderbot series and quite fun!

The Bizarre Modern Reality of Sonic the Hedgehog: a cool video explainer about the weirdness of the fandom

Hunt Showdown: An excellent multiplayer video game with an original horrific setting

Song of Horror: A survival horror video game

World of Horror: a pixel art investigative horror game

In Praise of Shadows: a book on Japanese aesthetics

Ironsworn: a new fantasy RPG with a lot of interesting mechanics

One 2 One Gumshoe: Games for 1 player and 1 GM

Ghosts of my Life: A book of essays about culture and hauntology

Song: Miles to Midnight. Listen to our review of the album on Night Clerk Radio.