Sci-fi actual play with a long memory.
Sneak Attack! follows an original tabletop RPG adventure through character-driven sci-fi storytelling and loose, affectionate table comedy. Its later episodes also become a record of the group reflecting on old moments, unfinished arcs, and the graphic novel built to conclude Volume 2.
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Sneak Attack! is a long-running tabletop actual-play podcast centered on an original sci-fi adventure and the friendships built around it. Reid appears as the host and game master, guiding the table through campaign recaps, character beats, and escalating story turns. The world in the excerpts includes planet TA-0901, an innkeeper called Red Fred, a town protector named Oswald, an explorer ship landing in town, and half-organic augment creatures scanning the party. That is the adventure side. The other side is the table itself: loose jokes, sudden trivia contests, fan-submitted favorite clips, and cast members remembering how scenes actually happened. The pace is conversational and unpolished in a human way. People talk over one another, laugh at old bits, and stop to appreciate the listeners who kept the show going. The quarantine episodes change the texture without changing the core appeal. Remote recording brings audio hiccups and life updates, but it also creates space for reflection on character development, world building, and the way improvisation can accidentally make an ending feel right. The cast repeatedly returns to moments fans wanted to hear again, including introductions, deaths, awkward roleplay, and jokes that became table lore. Sneak Attack! also has a notable closing chapter outside the main feed. The updates for Sneak Attack Liberation describe a Kickstarter-backed graphic novel designed to continue from the place Volume 2 stopped and give that story a fuller ending. Mike Hegberg is discussed as a cast member connected to several characters and as a creative director for the project, while Adam Kovar is named as lead illustrator. Those updates make the show feel unusually transparent about creative process. It is not only a campaign recording; it is a chronicle of people trying to land a story with care after real life interrupted the usual format. The best fit is a listener who likes actual play with continuity, callbacks, and a table that can swing from nonsense to sentiment quickly. The show’s charm comes from that range: a sci-fi encounter can sit beside a Subway gift-card joke, then give way to a serious conversation about endings, community, and characters who still feel alive to the people who made them.
Made for: Best for actual-play listeners who enjoy homebrew sci-fi campaigns, cast chemistry, fan callbacks, and post-campaign reflection. It especially suits audiences who like jokes and sentiment sharing the same table.
What sets it apart: Sneak Attack! stands out for documenting not only the campaign, but the creative effort to complete an unfinished Volume 2 through Sneak Attack Liberation. The excerpts show a rare blend of table play, fan-clip commentary, quarantine-era reflection, and graphic-novel process notes.
Sneak Attack! is a homebrew actual play tabletop RPG podcast set in the world of Brannis, as well as the depths of outer space. While in season, new episodes release every Friday.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Sneak Attack! pairs improvisational character comedy with unusually thoughtful reflection on how shared roleplaying choices become lasting fiction.
Sneak Attack! builds its fiction through collaborative roleplaying, with Reed hosting a group willing to follow an improvised turn until it becomes part of the characters' shared history.
This is the campaign to choose when improvised nonsense becoming beloved lore is your ideal emotional arc.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A launch-day conversation that lays out the graphic novel, the Kickstarter, and the ending it is meant to deliver.
Reid and Mike use Sneak Attack!'s launch-day episode to frame Sneak Attack Liberation as a Kickstarter-backed graphic novel that is meant to finish Volume 2 by taking up the story where the podcast left off and carrying it toward an ending.
A candid goodbye that lets the show's best habits do the talking.
This episode feels like a plainspoken farewell. Reed notes the show has been away for about six months, that new family members and new babies have reshaped life around the production, and that Sneak Attack is reaching its close.
A fan-picked rewind that gets most of its charge from Colonel Sterling Biloxi's first entrance and the room's reaction to it.
Quarantine Content #6 is the sixth installment in the quarantine-content series, with Reid hosting Dan, Mike, and Josh as they revisit fan-picked favorite moments from earlier episodes.
A quarantine hangout that mixes baby news, trivia, and listener clips with easy charm.
Sneak Attack! plays as a loose, affectionate hangout, with Reed joined by Dan and Josh while Kelsey drops in with baby Diana. The conversation drifts through baby news, trivia, and listener-submitted clips, and the opening is sprawling enough to feel unfocused at moments, though…
A remote fan-selected hangout that keeps the hosts' chemistry front and center.
Sneak Attack! Quarantine Content #4 leans into the looseness of a remote, quarantine-era hangout, with Reid guiding Dan and Mike through fan-selected moments and setting expectations early for possible audio and video hiccups.
Messy monster hunts with table-side sparks.
Actual play with jokes, care, and table noise.
Scrappy D&D, sharp banter, real table chaos.
Chaotic dice, big fantasy fallout.
Waterdeep adventures with earned emotional fallout.
Chaotic friends, cosmic trouble, terrible plans.
The cast of Sneak Attack!
The cast celebrates their 200th episode with banter and gratitude, reflecting on their journey in this sci-fi actual play RPG podcast.
The gang explores an underground maze after repairing a mining machine in a sci-fi actual play RPG session.
Reid and Mike announce the launch-day Kickstarter for "Sneak Attack Liberation," a graphic novel designed to continue Volume 2 exactly where the podcast left off.
Reed says Sneak Attack has been offline for about six months because of COVID-19, new babies, and changing family life, and he announces that the podcast is coming to a close.
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The gang lands on a new planet and meets quirky characters, including a general with an antique shop and a town protector, before a giant ship lands and hostile half-organic half-augment creatures emerge.