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The Black Company Roleplaying Game is a fast-paced, deadly game of swords, sorcery, and soldiers, based on the novel series by Glen Cook. The all-too-mortal soldiers of the Black Company fight and die for an Empire ruled by wicked sorcerers with the powers of gods. In the city of Beryl, a squad of soldiers is sent out on a special mission…

Learn more about the Black Company RPG on its website!

Note that this was played with an earlier draft of the beta rules, so game mechanics may have changed by now.

Ross as Crabs
Ethan as Doorstop Dugal
Juicy Garland as Princess
Kara as Maude
Shane Ivey as the GM

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Weary travelers check into the Sleep Easy Inn, a 2.5 star hotel by the side of the highway. They wake up in an infinite labyrinth beyond imagination. As they search for a way out, they find horrific monsters and unearthly temptations. Can they escape?

If you like this scenario, you can run it yourself! The Night Clerk is available in print and PDF through IPR and PDF only on DTRPG and Itch.io.

Ethan and Greg are members of Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast. Check it out more RPG actual plays!

Ethan as Tanner McGrath
Greg as Cedar Mallory
Neil as Ellen Hargrave
David as Bob Hammersmith

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In Medieval Europe, the Black Death has taken countless lives. Some of its victims have arisen as the restless undead, killing any who fall in their grasp. The survivors huddle together in walled fortresses and towns, trying to eke a living. Some of the hardier survivors take mercenary work, no matter how dangerous it is. One such team has agreed to retrieve a spice chest from an abandoned fortress. What price will they pay to complete their mission?

This game was run by Ethan Cordray of Technical Difficulties podcast, using his beta version of Red Markets Black Death, a medieval hack of Red Markets.

Cast: Ross, Birk, Adam T (from RPX), and Greg B.

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In the decades before the Civil War, runaway slaves found refuge in the Great Dismal Swamp, an enormous expanse of forbidding wilderness on the border between Virginia and North Carolina. They were constantly pressed between the danger of capture and the extreme challenges of material survival in a landscape where even stone and metal were rarefied resources. To this day, only faint traces of their lives and communities can be found deep within the swamp. For one group of new fugitives in the 1850s, their struggles in the swamp are further complicated by a dark force offering an easy way out of their desperate circumstances. What will they choose to do with their hard-won freedom? Ethan adapted the Red Markets system for this scenario, adding some cosmic horror elements (as if economic horror weren’t bad enough). Check out technicaldifficultiespod.com for more!

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hallow-groundCivil War Cthulhu returns – now in the new Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition! Soon fter the Battle of Gettysburg, the Union decides to honor its fallen with a new national cemetery. But the task requires the disinterment, identification, and reburial of over 3,500 decomposing corpses from the battlefield. When rumors begin spreading of some irregularities in the project, President Lincoln summons a special group of investigators to discreetly look into things. But how wisely has he chosen his agents?

And check out Ethan’s other actual play podcast: ! They’ve got a Red Markets beta campaign, their own sessions of the Civil War Cthulhu games, Eclipse Phase, and more!

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