The RPG Empire
Welcome to the RPG Empire.
Original actual-play podcasts, our own sci-fi western RPG, and tees for people who talk about TTRPGs too much.
Dust World RPG: Quick Start Guide
A fast-paced sci-fi western Powered by the Apocalypse and inspired by anime. 8 playbooks. One session to learn.
Full 380-page Dust World book in progress. Join the list for launch news.Two shows. Start with episode one.
Actual play, improvised at the table, produced like a show.
Dust World RPG
A post-apocalyptic sci-fi western. A crew of flawed drifters, the Boys, try to stop the mad dictator of Red Earth from taking what's left of this rock. Season 2 moves to Neon City.
Listen + characters
Strangers in the Pines
Monster of the Week in Pine Forge, Oregon. Four unusual high schoolers unravel what's brewing under the town. Gravity Falls meets Stranger Things meets Twin Peaks.
Listen + charactersWear your character.
Our t-shirt line. Rule of Cool, Rogue Life, DND Mom, Jesus is My Cleric, and the Dust World and Pines crews.
Creators, DMs and players. 20+ years at the table.
We come from screenwriting, acting and game design. Paul, our creative director, learned D&D in a college class taught by Dave Arneson, one of the two people who invented it. We make the stuff we wish existed: games that play fast, podcasts that feel like a show, shirts that find you your party.
What people are saying
"I fell in love with Strangers of the Pine after the first episode. The unique takes on the playbooks make me want to listen to more and find out more about the world."
Sean O'Dell, producer and GM, Dungeons and Pop"Strangers in the Pines is a lovingly-produced Monster of the Week foray into a world where Mulder, Scully, or any of the characters from Stranger Things would feel right at home... and has one of the most mellifluous GM voices in AP podcasting."
C. Patrick Neagle, host and GM, The Gothic Podcast"The Dust World RPG PBTA game is just about the coolest damn anime-themed game me and my group has ever played or heard on a podcast! The wealth of options and character growth is out of this world."
Jaylen W. and the Renegades of Red Mountain
Armed and Dangerous. A Monster of the Week mystery, free.
Waldo, Florida. Population 1,000. A shark attack in the frozen food aisle. That's just the hook. Sci-fi horror comedy, Weird Florida style.
- 21pages
- 10locations
- 19bystanders
- 4threats
3 to 5 hunters. Countdown, custom moves and a prep sheet included. Written by Paul Parnell.