Rotating game systems, live crowds, and dice math aloud.
Role To Cast is an actual play show that switches tabletop systems by season, with Cyberpunk 2020, Vampire The Masquerade, Pulp Cthulhu and Dune among them. Its live recordings, including Star Trek Adventures and a vampires-against-Nazis game of Eat The Reich, add a crowd that shouts back and dice math worked out loud.
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Role To Cast is a tabletop roleplaying show that changes its game with each season. The seasons named in its feed cover a lot of ground: Cyberpunk 2020 and Cyberpunk Red, Vampire The Masquerade in 'Adelaide By Night', Pulp Cthulhu, Kids On Bikes, The Witcher RPG, Avatar Legends, Starfinder, DIE RPG and Dune. That spread is the main reason to seek it out. A listener who has always wondered how Starfinder or DIE RPG plays can hear a full season of one, then move on to something that works completely differently. Alongside the seasons sit multi-part live recordings, and these show a noisier side of the table. The Eat The Reich show, released in parts titled 'Drink Hitler's Blood - Eat The Reich Live Show', is led by Ellen Graham, who introduces themself as host, MC and game master. The player characters are vampires loose in a Europe stripped bare by looting. One gets teeth snapped off by a rifle butt mid-bite. Another, a cowboy, draws a pair of guns named Betsy and Maurice. In Paris, the vampires watch soldiers throw paintings onto a bonfire, and the table takes on the job of rescuing the art. The trail leads to Hitler's Zeppelin, an absurdly lavish airship stuffed with stolen marble, silk, gold and mahogany and hung with portraits of the man, described as having no artistic merit. Hitler himself is given no dignity at all. The Star Trek Adventures show, 'These Violent Delights - Star Trek Adventures Live Show', runs on a different engine. It starts with a check that the front row can see over an unusually large GM screen, thanks to the crowd for giving up a hot Saturday evening, and a warning that there will be swearing. Then come the transporter room, a Ferengi character pitching a book during a counselling session, and a party heading for a blow-up. What ties the two live shows together is how openly the rules get played. Players ask how a focus works, count successes aloud and weigh whether to spend momentum, and in the Eat The Reich show, drinks handed to the game master get traded into the objective and threat tallies. At one point a stray die lands on 20, only for the rest of the handful to knock it down to a 2, and the table groans. The audience takes part as well: asked who should go next, the crowd shouts for the cowboy. The episodes carry a mature-audiences warning, and it is earned, with strong language, gruesome violence played for laughs and plenty of bawdy jokes. Part I of either live show is a good entry point for the show at its loudest, and anyone after a particular system can go straight to that season.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants to hear how systems such as Star Trek Adventures, Eat The Reich or Vampire The Masquerade actually run at the table, and who is comfortable with strong language and irreverent, bawdy humour.
What sets it apart: Instead of staying with one game, it rotates systems by season, and its live recordings keep the rules talk, the dice counting and an audience that answers back right there in the audio.
An Australian actual play podcast with trained actors, original music & homebrew campaigns. Each season explores a new TTRPG. Listen to a season of your favourite tabletop rpg or experience a game you haven't tried yet! Season 1 - Cyberpunk 2020 - 'Going Mainstream' Season 2 - Vampire The Masquerade - 'Adelaide By Night' Season 3 - Cyberpunk Red - 'Feed The Beast' Season 4 - Pulp Cthulhu - 'Ambrosia Island' Season 5 - Kids On Bikes - ‘Mystery Down Under’ Season 6 - The Witcher RPG - ‘The Bloodsoaked Rose’ Season 7 - Avatar Legends - 'Homeland' Season 8 - Starfinder - 'Among the Dust' Season 9 - DIE RPG - 'When The Party's Over' Season 10 - Dune - 'Shifting Sands' Hosted on Acast. See acast.c…
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A grisly Zeppelin confrontation mixes lavish stolen scenery with fast, ragged table improvisation.
The episode sends a battered roleplaying crew into Hitler's Zeppelin, where a failed hunt for lost dynamite turns into a face-to-face encounter with Hitler.
A vampire art rescue runs headlong into tequila, Nazi bonfires, and a cursed table roll.
This single-episode review follows a Dungeons & Dragons table into a vampire art-rescue job set against a Nazi bonfire in Paris. The mission is simple enough on paper: get priceless European art out intact while armed infantry and an armored car keep feeding paintings into the…
A live Itzreik game where bat teeth, named pistols, and audience prompts keep the Nazi-killing chaos moving.
Roll to Cast turns a live game of Itzreik into a rowdy Nazi-killing romp, with Ellen Graham juggling host, MC, and game master duties as the room feeds in prompts, interruptions, and momentum.
A turbo-encavulator roll pushes a science-fiction shotgun wedding further into Shakespearean chaos.
The episode recasts a Shakespearean wedding plot as science-fiction actual play, moving from a crowded street into a church where a shotgun wedding becomes the spark for tabletop invention.
A transporter-room standoff where one lucky die gives Worf's anger a new direction.
Roll to Cast moves the group into the transporter room, where a surly Klingon named Worf is stuck as the transporting engineer and trying very hard not to punch someone.
Dice, divine mysteries, and the trouble with good intentions.
A group of actors roleplay characters in a cyberpunk speakeasy, searching for a contact named Vespa.
A group of actors play a tabletop RPG called Shadow Scar, beginning a new mission with a GM and player characters.
A group of actors play a tabletop RPG called Shadow Scar, with the GM narrating a chaotic car chase involving a distracted nun and her students.
Role To Cast's live show drives a vampire crew from scavenging jokes into a Paris assault on Hitler's Zeppelin above the Eiffel Tower.
Role To Cast centers on Chris spending blood on `Pitch black`, rolling nine dice, and firing a bazooka at Nazis in the catacombs.
Role To Cast stages Eat the Reich in Paris in 1943, with Ellen Graham serving as MC/game master and Phil, Sean, Chris, and guest Matt playing the vampire crew.
Role To Cast's 'These Violent Delights - Star Trek Adventures Live Show, Part III' turns Jungus Mungus 3 into a Romeo-and-Juliet problem, with a white-light director, dilithium, and a live Star Trek Adventures table all colliding.
Role To Cast's "These Violent Delights - Star Trek Adventures Live Show, Part II" sends the crew to Chungus Mungus 3 after dilithium and a local party become the mission.
Role To Cast performs a live Star Trek Adventures 2nd Edition game aboard the USS Delight, with Sean as game master and an improvised crew including a Romulan security officer, a duplicated Betazoid scientist, a Ferengi counsellor, and a dentistry-specialist Vulcan doctor.
Role To Cast’s “Perils of the Warp” follows a live Dark Heresy encounter with a Chaos priest empowered by Tzeentch, Slaanesh, Nurgle, and Khorne.
Role To Cast’s “Perils of the Warp - Warhammer 40K Live Show, Part II” follows Phil, Sean, and Ellen as their characters fight a servitor and navigate a failing ship.
Role To Cast presents "Perils of the Warp - Warhammer 40K Live Show, Part I" as a three-hour Roach Cast Live improvisational game of Dark Heresy.
Role To Cast continues its live Blade Runner scenario as Jacob and Mickey search the EyeLight club for Vesper, a silver-haired talkative figure linked to replicant-rights intellectuals.
This episode is the start of a mini-season of the actual play podcast Role To Cast, playing the Shadow Scar TTRPG, with the GM calling agents to action.