This campaign will touch on many themes, including slavery, racism, specism, harm to children, and mental health issues, among others. Especially in this episode. Listener discretion is advised.The crew of the Hypatia are in the midst of a raiding attack to take hostages. They will go after the missing, and as they go after them they will find out what exactly is taking these people, and the grave task ahead of them...Agents of ALIS is based on the campaign framework Nagalisitu by Caleb Stokes, for

For both seasons of Ross Payton, Greg Stolze, and James Wallis' RPG podcast Ludonarrative Dissidents, Tech Diff has supported their Kickstarter. Because of this, we were able to sit down with James and Greg for a game. For season one, James ran a game for Greg and Ethan, of an in development RPG called Nancy Drow.Unfortunately there were hiccups with James' audio, but we had a lovely time regardless. And, as this is a playtest, it takes some time to get going as we go through character generation on

As we close out the year we'll start posting a new campaign! It's time for us to bring Harlem Unbound to the table! Join Ethan as he leads Ben, Dan, and Laura through char gen for Chris Spivey's Ennie award winning scenarios!Harlem Unbound is by Chris Spivey for Darker Hue Studios & Chaosium, and can be found as both a pdf for the systemless 1st Edition version at Darker Hue's website, and as a pdf or physical book for the Call of Cthulhu 2nd Edition at Chaosium.

July 2000. Three weird teens are part of weird families that have been friends for generations. They've graduated and are about to move forward with their lives. There is something that they need to do before the end of the month. Whether time, procrastination, or real life, this is the last possible day to do it.The day, of course, great Aunt Mildred is hosting her annual all day Christmas in July party.Aaron, as always, can be found at Kame House Party or Thinking Too Hard About Anime.Greg -

Rina joins us once again, from The Old Ways and Ain't Slayed Nobody podcasts, for another round of terror in Call of Cthulhu! Several investigators are hired to look into a medium, renowned for her seances. Things seem odd, but once the ritual begins there's no stopping...Rina can be found on The Old Ways Podcast and Ain't Slayed Nobody. On The Old Ways Rina is currently tackling both Horrors on the Orient Express in CoC and Blood Moon Rising, a San Francisco by Night campaign in Vampire 5e. The

The campaign begins! The crew of the Hypatia are secretly members of ALIS, the Alexandrian Library's... "Acquisitions" division. They look into various problems and mysteries across the galaxy to help retain and expand this wealth of galactic knowledge. They are called onto an assignment, as vanishings are occurring on a planet that are inexplicable. The crew knows that things will not be so simple...Agents of ALIS is based on the campaign framework Nagalisitu by Caleb Stokes, for Reign second

A Drow house is renowned for being hunters. Thus, they actually love the place, and have a luxurious hunting lodge down there. They hire a set of delvers to lead them on a great hunt...Ben - GMAdam - Ynneth Danarian, The Junk MageDan - Lynd Vassail, The WitchDavid - Gethin Bayn, The Hound

While we've gotten our characters ready, we still need a bit of warm up and a bit more info on them, so please enjoy our Session 0 for Agents of ALIS!

In the settlement of North Wind near the top of the Heart, a beast is terrorizing the populace. A trio of strange delvers are hired to deal with it, if they can find it in this brackish nightmare...The Terror of North Wind is an original scenario with additional rules from a monster hunting 5E zine called They Cried Monster from Feral Indie Studio, available on itch.io.Ben - GMDan - Lynd Vassail, Heartsong-Called WitchEthan - Tenacity Malrich - Adventurer HereticGreg - Blackmane, Gnoll

As we've mentioned here and there, we're embarking on a campaign of Caleb Stokes' Nagalisitu in Reign. Unlike the original campaign framework from the book or as heard in RPPR, we decided to mix it up, changing the setting to a Science Fiction / Fantasy setting rather than Medieval / Fantasy. Join us as we start prepping our characters for a harrowing campaign!

In another wacky Grant Howitt oneshot RPG, Our... protagonists are a trio of, well, are sexy battle wizards, members of The College Errant who roam the world and solve problems... technically. They've heard of a problem in The Library of Torts and go rushing in. Will they be able to save the day? ...do people want them to?Sexy Battle Wizards is another of Grant Howitt's one page RPGs, and is available as pay what you want on his itch.io page.Ben - GMDan - Ankhbayar Van RompayEthan - The Magnificent

Once again the intrepid physicians of Hippocrates General have been assigned a new patient with a mystery ailment. Will our noble- er, principled- er, ... doctors succeed, or is their patient doomed?Greg - Arnold Novak, wealthy patientBen - Dr. Megalith, a sentient stone with googly eyesEthan - Master Laurentius, definitely not a character from a certain gothic FromSoftware game.

A crew gets called in because they specialize in finding people that don't want to be found. A drug dealer has gone missing in Pathfinder City, as well as their product. But as the investigation proceeds, not everything is so simple...Binge is a Nano Op pregen scenario for Eclipse Phase 2nd Edition. It is available on Posthuman's website as well as DTRPG.Adam - GMBrownie - Pivo, Neo-Octopus ScavengerDan - Berk, Synth EnforcerVince - Amaru Timoti, Exalt FixerXantar - Qi, Dragonfly Synthmorph

The Takers of ESR are now engaged in life or death combat, and Jesus' Son has lost it. Can the rest of the team save the job and save their lives? Will things ever be the same after this?Jason can be found at RPPR, and on Twitch at GrayTTV_.Jason - GMAdam - Clank - A hippy motorcycle mechanic who just has his dog Ratchet, Clank is very technically minded and good with land based vehicles.Ben - Moses - The team's hacker, a former Tragedy Tracker, Moses is very skilled with computers and computer

The Cowboys of G Cell continue their thorough investigation of this cult, but faced with how to tackle interference they start racing to their fate...Ben's custom scenario Nova is based on Light's Out, a scenario from Stygian Fox's Fear's Sharp Little Needles.Ben - GMDan - Clyde Golliday, SoldierEthan - Kelsey Kraven, Federal AgentGreg - Liliana Bowle, Federal Agent

Ethan is joined by Rob Leigh of Isolation games to talk about the Kickstarter for a print edition of his game When The Moon Hangs Low! When The Moon Hangs Low is a game where hunters are Marked, which give them powerful abilities yet powerful curses as they hunt the creatures in the darkness of a city. The KS will be to get a print edition of the book available, as well as more art and a soundtrack for the game.When The Moon Hangs low is currently available in PDF form on DriveThruRPG. The

We are joined by Rina, from The Old Ways and Ain't Slayed Nobody podcasts, for some good ol' Call of Cthulhu! An expedition already begins awry when the investigators wake up in mysterious environs...Rina can be found on The Old Ways Podcast and Ain't Slayed Nobody. On The Old Ways Rina is currently tackling both Horrors on the Orient Express in CoC and Blood Moon Rising, a San Francisco by Night campaign in Vampire 5e. The podcast also features Masks of Nyarlothatep and a variety of one shots

Dan leads us through a game where... magical kitties save the day, I mean, c'mon. Their humans are missing, and for whatever reason, they seem to have gone to the library and have not returned. The three cats band together to find out what's going on...Magical Kitties is a RPG by Atlas Games designed for all ages.Dan - GMAdam - SylvesterBen - ReesesBrownie - Stompy

With one member of the crew "on autopilot", the rest of Exit Stage Right make their way to their next job site, but how can they hope to find what they're looking for...?Jason can be found at RPPR, and on Twitch at GrayTTV_.Jason - GMBen - Moses - The team's hacker, a former Tragedy Tracker, Moses is very skilled with computers and computer programming. He is curious in investigating but willing to do anything to keep his family safe.Dan - Squirrel - The team's sniper and security expert. A great

G Cell is called in to a small town in Vermont near the border with Quebec. A historic church burned to the ground at 3 am. Inside it's reported that 12 people died in an occult ritual. With the news breaking, there's no time for any additional intel as these Cowboys get sent into the field...Ben's custom scenario Nova is based on Light's Out, a scenario from Stygian Fox's Fear's Sharp Little Needles.Ben - GMDan - Clyde Golliday, SoldierEthan - Kelsey Kraven, Federal AgentGreg - Liliana Bowle,