Horror actual play with the table left in.
How We Roll Podcast follows rotating tabletop campaigns through haunted-feeling villages, snake-threatened islands, strange hospital rooms, and other places where bad decisions gather quickly. The play is atmospheric but loose, with tense clues, sudden violence, rules chatter, jokes, and players openly working out what happens next.
PRESS PLAY
How We Roll Podcast is a long-running actual-play RPG show with a taste for horror, investigation, and campaigns that spiral from odd incidents into full supernatural trouble. Its episodes show a table comfortable with both atmosphere and interruption. A scene may open in Goodcliffe, a model village on the north coast of Cornwall in 1853, where winter is pressing down, people are missing from class, and a hospital visit feels wrong before anything openly monstrous appears. Then the players start asking what they can see, what they remember, what was in the box, and whether their character is brave enough to stay in the room. That openness is part of the appeal. The show does not sand away the tabletop texture. It lets uncertainty, jokes, corrections, and rule-of-the-moment decisions sit beside the fiction. Goodcliffe has a damp, claustrophobic mood: late evenings, cold rain, feverish patients, a frightened household, dead family memories, suspicious supervisors, and shadows moving against the logic of moonlight. The Two-Headed Serpent material is broader and more explosive. Snake Island brings wrecked planes, missing supplies, Caduceus operations, a giant snake, strange gates, and characters trying to explain why everything has gone wrong again. The tone can get grim quickly. People are hunted, possibly hypnotized, injured, interrogated, or pulled toward forces they do not understand. It rarely stays solemn for long. Someone will make a dry aside, question a detail, bring up a film, or turn a dramatic beat into a practical argument about boats, keys, shoes, or suspiciously nefarious figures. That mix gives the show its shape. It is not just a narrated horror story. It is collaborative play unfolding in public, with the players negotiating fear, comedy, tactics, character decisions, and consequences at the same time. The production has the stamina of a large archive and the feel of a table that knows how to keep moving. For listeners who like their actual play eerie but not precious, it offers plenty of rain, monsters, bad plans, and people talking themselves into worse ones.
Made for: Best for listeners who enjoy tabletop RPGs, Cthulhu-flavored horror, danger, and ensemble play where banter stays part of the experience. It especially suits people who like atmospheric scenes but still want to hear players think, joke, and argue through choices.
What sets it apart: The show balances strong scene-setting with an unvarnished table feel: the dread builds, but the practical chatter never disappears. Its horror lands because the players keep reacting like people around a game table, not like polished audio-drama characters.
Professionally produced, UK and Ireland based RPG Podcast, playing Call of Cthulhu 7e, D&d and currently AlienRPG
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
How We Roll Podcast pairs supernatural campaign storytelling with visible player choices, failed rolls and humor that never fully disperses the dread.
How We Roll Podcast turns tabletop play into fiction that keeps its dice visible. Plans are proposed, rolls go badly, and the narration converts those decisions into immediate consequences.
One bad roll puts you between a fever dream, a giant snake and your friends' terrible ideas.
Press play if you want
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Rain, dreams, and a house full of uneasy clues.
Goodcliffe settles into horror shaped by rain, bad timing, and the sense that something is already wrong. Davy's strange dream, Eamon waking him, and Verity's search in Goodcliffe House keep the story split in a way that sustains the dread without letting it wander.
Goodcliffe shifts from feverish dread to a tense hiding place under Good Cliff House.
Goodcliffe favors tight, uneasy spaces. The small hospital feels more like a sick bay, and Jago Pendrick's feverish state gives the shadows a voice of their own as he raves about a dark man or figure.
Snake Island fallout drives a caduceus warehouse fight and a terrified plea from Mu.
Snake Island keeps the momentum locked on survival, as Charles and Julian chase down belongings on the tarmac only to tumble into a caduceus operation. The Bart and Jane standoff with Dr.
A hospital bedside and an impossible shadow pull Goodcliffe's divided investigation onto colder, stranger ground.
Goodcliffe keeps its investigators moving on separate tracks. Amity and Eamon head to the village hospital, Davy works through the minehead offices for clues about the exploratory team's work, and Verity weighs a visit to Goodcliffe House after meeting Mary Chenoweth.
A winter art class turns a miner's clay figure and a string of absences into an uneasy investigation.
Goodcliffe feels cold, tired, and tightly managed as a worried Mary Chenoweth interrupts Miss Fidelia Newton's compulsory improvement art class. Mary works as Sarah Trevelyan's ladies' maid, and she has been warned that her services may no longer be needed.
Rain, a dream chase, and a box with a key and pendant keep Goodcliffe unsettled.
Rain and darkness give Goodcliffe a bruised, uneasy mood, and Davy's dreamlike chase after a small boy who seems to echo his dead younger brother deepens the unease.
A pyramid push turns into a map chase and a roar from below.
The episode drives the pyramid assault into another panic point: guns go off, the doors are blown in, the group holds together long enough to reunite with Argyle, and Bobby cuts down a couple of serpent people on the stairs with his new flame cannon.
Dice, divine mysteries, and the trouble with good intentions.
This episode continues a role-playing game session where Friedrich and Sherman ally with Dr.
This episode continues the story where Charles meets with Rose Meadham to discuss her father's plans to enslave humanity, receives a Haftarang device disguised as a bomb, and sets an explosive trap at her hotel.
This episode continues the Flotsam and Jetsam series, following investigators as they explore a sanatorium, with some faking an injury to meet Dr.
This episode continues the narrative of investigators exploring the Mud Lake Sanitarium, where Frida May and Sherman encounter Dr Clifford Gray and discuss survival strategies involving science and sorcery.
The group deals with a stolen motorbike containing weapons and a Haftarang device in Calcutta before flying to Brazil to pursue Joshua Meadham near Snake Island, with Charles modifying their plane along the way.
In this session of the Two-Headed Serpent campaign, the B Team reunites in a pyramid after chaotic events.
In the village of Goodcliffe, characters experience disturbing, shared dreams and visions.
Bart, Charles, Julien and Jane crash-land on Mu after the plane nosedives into the portal on Snake Island, and the session opens with luck refreshes and salvage rolls.
Goodcliffe is cold, wet, and running late.
The trouble starts in a sick bay.
Charles and Julian come back from Snake Island to find their belongings gone.
How We Roll Podcast's "004-Cthulhu Dark - Goodcliffe - Jago" splits the investigators between Jago Pendrick's hospital bed, Goodcliffe House, and Garen Poseth's cottage.
This episode continues a role-playing game adventure where characters investigate Snake Island after a plane crash caused by a giant snake, discover clues about Cadizius, and face supernatural shadow threats back in Santos.
How We Roll Podcast's '003-Cthulhu Dark - Goodcliffe - An Unwise Promise' opens in 1853 Goodcliffe, a Cornish tin-mining model village where winter and fatigue press on every worker.
Episode 143 of How We Roll's "Two Headed Serpent" campaign splits into two storylines: Charles and Julian on Snake Island, and Bart and Jane in the port of Santos.