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Psychic chaos in Neon City.
Dust World RPG is an actual-play story set in Neon City, where powered misfits chase mysteries through hospitals, gang territory, psychic spaces, and combat arenas. The table balances action set pieces with loose comedy, character bickering, and dice-driven consequences.
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Dust World RPG is a superpowered actual-play serial that turns Neon City into a pressure cooker of psychic fallout, cyberpunk spectacle, and post-apocalyptic trouble. The city feels overbuilt and unstable. Smog hangs over hovercars, spires radiate danger, and everyday interiors can collapse into labs, spirit encounters, gang territory, or surreal psychic layers. The recent arc follows Clarence Wells, Silent Monday, Wolf, Doc Miller, and their circle as they recover from one ordeal only to walk into another. Rest never lasts. Doc wakes in the Wayne Center under the name Andrew Miller, locked in a room with bars on the window and missing equipment. Silent Monday gains a strange mark tied to energy, fighting power, and old martial traditions. Clarence is pulled toward spirits, doubles, and the deeper parts of a psychic landscape. The group also has to contend with the Leer, a sentient bandage experiment that absorbs energy and becomes a towering humanoid threat. That kind of menace is typical here. A monster can be grotesque, a plan can be half-formed, and a character can still pause to argue about whether an arena fighter called Dewey Decimator has ever read a book. The comedy is not decorative; it is part of how the table moves through danger. Paul Purnell, identified in the show as the DM, keeps scenes brisk and permissive, giving players room to riff while still making failures matter. The Powered by the Apocalypse influence shows in hard choices, partial successes, and consequences that widen rather than stop the story. The result is a campaign with pulpy momentum and a lived-in ensemble rhythm. It works best for actual-play listeners who enjoy messy character loyalties, improvised banter, supernatural sci-fi threats, and serialized reveals. Neon City is not a clean heroic playground. It is a place where contracts, family history, experiments, gangs, psychic marks, and old enemies all keep resurfacing at the worst possible time.
Made for: Built for actual-play fans who like serialized sci-fi campaigns with character comedy, weird powers, and dramatic table consequences. It especially suits listeners who enjoy cyberpunk danger mixed with supernatural strangeness.
What sets it apart: The show blends Powered by the Apocalypse pacing with a dense original setting where psychic danger, arena spectacle, street factions, and improvised comedy collide in the same scene. Its strength is the rapid shift from absurd banter to real danger.
An improvised show using science fiction and dice to tell comedic and dramatic stories after the apocalypse. Dust world RPG Podcast is an improv show following superpowered nomads in a post-apocalyptic sci-fi western a few hundred years after a great war burned the earth and a virus called white horse dissolved most organic matter into dust creating the wastelands. Season 1: Follows the exploits of Gage Thane, a dust-casting swordsman, Clarence Wells, a weird psychic child run away and Kevin Wolfkin, a fox mutant, sharpshooting Bounty Hunter. Together, these three, along with a slew of interesting allies seek to stop Red Earth a power-mad dictatorship bent on domination of the desolate remai…
A sentient bandage grows twenty-five feet tall, and your group chat suddenly seems underprepared.
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A spirit's plea, a Decimator match, and Xello's return pull Neon City toward deeper danger.
Clarence Wells opens on a plea from a spirit and a strange encounter with Tanisnova near the door, setting up an episode where supernatural dread keeps brushing against wary comedy.
A strange mark, an anti-gravity match, and a familiar face disturb Neon City's uneasy calm.
Neon City uses Miller's return from an abduction to open a new mystery rather than close an old wound. As the night crew weighs revenge, Clear's alarm at seeing Tannis Blaine beside Clarence Wells gives the episode its sharpest early jolt.
A keyblade rescue spins into a messy fight before Clarence spots Tanis Blaine.
Neon City's rescue attempt works best as a tight sample of Dustworld's elastic combat style. Silent Monday rushes the water bubble trapping Clarence, spends a key to shape a keyblade, and uses Schwartz wave to shove him free.
Ziggy's flashy fix turns a psychic disaster around the Lear even stranger.
A contract job tips into psychic crisis as Silent Monday and Clarence Wells confront a manifold where a 25-foot mass shaped like the Lear blocks out the light, deep red eyes fixed on them.
A sentient bandage becomes a towering threat as the heroes weigh contracts, property damage, and whether to run.
A failed experiment made of sentient bandages turns a lab emergency into an impressively poor workplace choice. As the creature draws bluish energy into itself, grows two huge arms, and drags its body up a 25-foot manifold, the threat stays satisfyingly tactile.
Actual-play chaos with real table momentum.
Old monsters, carefully inspected.
Crunchy Pathfinder chaos with table-side rules insight.
Old-school RPG talk from the messy table.
Rules text turned into table advantage.
Actual play with sharp, chaotic table talk.
Clarence Wells starts the episode chasing a ghost problem, and Casanova answers with a hidden-safe bracelet that can dampen his powers.
Clarence becomes a beacon for ghosts after his psychic-plane rolls go wrong, so the crew has to handle spirits, ki, and a Purple Dragons hit at the same time.
Dustworld Neon City episode 59 opens with a recap of hundreds of sentient bandages forming a humanoid mass and a symbol that gets injected into a hand.
Dust World RPG: Neon City, Episode 58: The Symbol, opens with a 25-foot Lear humanoid made of sentient bandages blocking an intake manifold and swallowing Clarence Wells's body.
A 25-foot Leer made of bandages blocks the manifold, with red eyes, tendrils, and blue energy being pulled into its body.
Clarence warns Silent Monday that the Leer, a creature made of living bandages, grows by absorbing the energy used against it.
Paul Purnell runs Dust World RPG: Neon City, where Clarence Wells and Silent Monday head to the Wayne Rehabilitation Center for Dr.
In this episode of Dust World RPG: Neon City, the crew escapes as Honeycomb emerges from a hole and lights a cigarette, setting up a mysterious scene.
Paul Pernell from the RPG Empire makes announcements about joining the Discord server, telling a friend about the podcast, and buying the Dust World RPG quick start guide.
Paul Pernell from the RPG Empire makes announcements about joining the Discord community, telling a friend about the podcast, and buying the Dust World RPG quick start guide.
Paul Pernell from the RPG Empire makes announcements about joining the Discord community, telling a friend about the podcast, and buying their Dust World RPG quick start guide.
Paul Pernell from the RPG Empire makes announcements about joining the Discord community, telling a friend about the podcast, and buying the Dust World RPG quick start guide.