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Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast
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Welcome new Bluesky members! Let's reintroduce ourselves. We're a #ttrpg #actualplay #podcast. We love indie RPGs; horror, sci-fi, and historical gaming; and playtesting new systems! We run mostly short campaigns and one-shots

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New One-Shot! Die Hard proved that only difference between a lone-hero action movie and a slasher flick is who you're cheering for. Same thing goes for a Shadowrun-style heist! Happy Halloween, Slasher Flick fans!
Slasher Flick - Fright Night — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast
In the grimdark shadow running, cyber punkish future of 2077, a group of mercs enter the 00 Casino and Resort, off strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. It's a fight night across town, and as a partner casino, ...
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November 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This is a super cool game, you should back it!
BITE THE HAND IS FUNDING NOW!!!
Today's the day! Pledge in the first 48 hours to get your free sticker, and listen to any of the actual plays linked on the project page to learn about what's in store for you!

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More info in the thread🧵
November 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
New Episode! Sometimes, all it takes to change a character's perspective is a simple world-shattering transcendental experience.
Reign - Nagalisitu - Agents of ALIS - Part 34 — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast
In this combined two parter, first, Silent Reading has gone... somewhere after messing around in the ruins. He's going to go on a bit of a journey of discovery. In the second part, the rest of the Age...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
New One Shot! It's a Trophy Dark game from @signalstation.bsky.social ! Sometimes you rob the grave, sometimes the grave robs you...
Trophy Dark - Die, Grave Robber, Die — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast
This playthrough will include body horror, desecration of corpses, (off screen) violence to animals, and mind control. Listener discretion is advised. In a Victorian-type era, a well regarded person ...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
New Episode! Borges imagined heaven would be a library. What would he have thought about a library that's made out of meat, run by a dragon, and highly addictive?
Heart - The Gorgon - Part 10 — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast
In the campaign we deal with themes of body horror, cosmic horror, cptsd and ptsd, war, depression, debt, and more. Listener discretion is advised. The delvers get ever closer to the dragon's library...
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October 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
New One Shot! We play a GREAT new cyberpunk game from @spellbookgaming.bsky.social! We are DEFINITELY biting some hands in this one!
Bite The Hand - Malpractice — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast
A group of mercenaries are hired for a gig. A medical company VP, accused of some heinous crimes, rarely ventures out. But tonight, he's at a nightclub. Can this quartet get in, get him alive, and get...
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October 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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I went on the @techdiffgp.bsky.social podcast to run the one-shot from the back of the Bite The Hand rulebook that goes surprisingly smoothly, until it very suddenly doesn't.

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Bite The Hand - Malpractice — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast
A group of mercenaries are hired for a gig. A medical company VP, accused of some heinous crimes, rarely ventures out. But tonight, he's at a nightclub. Can this quartet get in, get him alive, and get...
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October 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
New Episode, and New Campaign! Kind of - you can drop in on this one anywhere! It's Scum and Villainy, aka the good parts of Firefly and Star Wars. Crimes in space for money!
Scum and Villainy - Nightingale Part 1 - Operation OBSIDIAN HAWK Part 1 — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast
We're starting a new drop in drop out campaign! Laura wanted to play some Scum and Villainy for their birthday, and what started as planning for a one shot morphed into a campaign we can come to on sh...
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October 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
New One-Shot Episode! It's kids and a maybe-dead mech pilot in a charming game about peace and kindness! Yes, RPGs can be about peace and kindness!
ECH0 - Garrett & Barneyo's Adventure — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast
A mech war has been over for some time. The world is at peace. Two kids are playing in the wreckage when they find an ECH0 drive containing the backup of a mech pilot. Their last wish is to find the w...
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September 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Interview! Ben interviews Jacob Cordas, a professional GM on StartPlaying! You can find him here: startplaying.games/gm/jacweasel
(and find our interview below!)
Table Chatter - Interview with Jacob Cordas — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast
As part of his series of interviews with professional GMs, Ben talked with Jacob Cordas. They also talk about their love of Harlem Unbound and Red Markets, teaching D&D players new ways to play, a...
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September 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
New Episode! It's that wonderful feeling when all your pirate-hating, ass-kicking combat maniacs finally get to FIGHT SOME DAMN PIRATES
Reign - Nagalisitu - Agents of ALIS - Part 33 — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast
The Agents have been through a lot. They still have a lot to go. But, for now, they do get to focus and do the one thing they all love to do: Kill pirates. This campaign will touch on many themes, i...
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September 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
New Episode! What do we do when we're short one party member? We riot.
Heart - The Gorgon - Part 8 — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast
In the campaign we deal with themes of body horror, cosmic horror, cptsd and ptsd, dissociation, war, depression, debt, and more. Listener discretion is advised. After Dawn goes and vanishes, the rem...
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September 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Interview! Ben talks with Matt from Warlock's Sanctum about his professional GM work. Look forward to more GM interviews in the coming months!
Table Chatter - Interview with Matt from Warlock's Sanctum Games — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast
Ben invited Matt from Warlock's Sanctum Games to discuss his work as a professional GM and his experience on the platform StartPlaying . We talked about the ups and downs of professional GMing, runni...
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August 31, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Seventy hours left on this and don’t TELL me we can’t get one more backer for a cool #fantasy story. Just one more for a lovely round 100. It might fix me!

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Besko, Boss of the Barge
The next Borzhu novella delves into intrigue and resentment among the powerful alchemists who've survived on their barge.
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August 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
New Episode! Sometimes, the GM has prepped a whole thing -- maybe a dungeon, maybe a YA sci fi soap opera psychodrama -- and the players just skip it. So then the GM just takes the next session and forces the players into it. No skipping the good stuff this time!
Red Markets 2 Beta - 10k Lakes TNG, Episode 4 - The Signalers — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast
Freelance finds a pretty young guy urgently looking for workers for a job involving a lighthouse. While things seem suspicious, the Takers are always looking for work... Returning to our own origins,...
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August 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
We love this system! We had the good fortune to playtest it early, and now it's officially releasing!
I've finally released the first full edition of Fear and Panic! This is the most focused, streamlined version of a d100 horror system I could build, based on countless hours of playtesting and experience as a horror GM.
lymetime.itch.io/fear-and-panic
Fear and Panic by Lyme
Player-Friendly Horror Roleplaying
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August 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
New One Shot Episode! We thank our top patrons by letting them be...Soviet airwomen in WW2, risking their lives for a society that hates them? We don't our patrons' preferences. But We DO judge #NightWitches to be one of the best #PBTA games we've ever seen! Thanks @jasonmorningstar.bsky.social!
Night Witches - Patreon Backer Game — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast
This game will deal with themes of sexism and misogyny. Listener discretion is advised. During World War II, an all woman Russian division of bomber pilots go across enemy lines to do bombing runs. C...
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August 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Our friends are staring up a sweet new #TTRPG podcast! Our very own @tdtlc.bsky.social joins in on this intro episode! Check it out, it's a super cool concept!
Welcome to Hero with a Thousand Character Sheets a podcast examining RPG design from the lens of character creation. In our first session we have a round table discussion about writing character backstories while rolling up our first cipher character Kristina Nacar.

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Hero with a Thousand Character Sheets Session 0
We’re a ragtag group of friends that have come together to play some lesser known Tabletop Roleplaying Games and yammer on for your amusement.
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August 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
New Episode! We'd call this "downtime," but there's no such thing as downtime when every character is sprinting headlong into the jaws of doom.
Heart - The Gorgon - Part 7 — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast
In the campaign we deal with themes of body horror, cosmic horror, cptsd and ptsd, war, depression, debt, and more. Listener discretion is advised. The party reunites in Derelictus. After getting pai...
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August 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿
I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮
July 31, 2025 at 12:12 PM
New Episode! It's #RedMarkets Takers vs. high tech egg farming. Can they hatch a plan to crack this problem? Or will their chickens come home to roost? #ActualPlay
Red Markets 2 Beta - 10k Lakes TNG, Episode 3 - No Clucking Way — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast
A woman wants to get the device her father had created pre-Crash. Will Freelance be able to locate it and bring it back? Will another Red Markets mission related to chickens go horribly awry? Returni...
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July 31, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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ANNOUNCING: The "I Have 3 High Grounds" sale! ⚔️

To celebrate the 3rd anniversary of the release of this IPR-bestselling TTRPG 🎲 of banter, posturing, and cape by @jessfrom.online, get 33% off the game for just the next 3 days. 🎧 it played ⬇️🧵 & see the itch page for more!

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July 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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I had a blast listening to these! No you can, too. Something to make your morning commute more cheerful!
Looks like the fine folks at the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society have released a set of audio files to be used as player handouts with the Delta Green campaign "God's Teeth."

You're welcome.
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Audio Props: God's Teeth
Professionally recorded audio files bring props and handouts from God's Teeth for the Delta Green role playing game to thrilling life.
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July 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM