Lovecraftian Horror RPG Actual Plays, Podcasts, and such

This is an alphabetical list of Lovecraftian Horror RPG podcasts/youtube channels/etc., some actual play, some discussion based, compiled because I keep losing track of them. These are just the ones I know of, and these aren’t endorsements as I have not tuned in to all of them.

Do contact me if you want one listed.

Control+F to find systems of interest: Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green, Cthulhu Dark, Trail of Cthulhu, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (honorary Lovecraftian RPG)

Actual Play Entertainment (Podcast, actual play)

Systems: Call of Cthulhu (Pulp Cthulhu), Delta Green

Adventures in Lollygagging (Podcast, YouTube, actual play)

Systems: Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green, others

Ain't Slayed Nobody (Podcast)

Systems: Call of Cthulhu, others

Apocalypse Players (Podcast, actual play)

Systems: Mostly Call of Cthulhu, others

Notes: My personal gold standard for Actual Plays. My preferred mix of humour to seriousness, roleplay to out-of-character banter, rule finagling and improvisation, and superb production. The Players are all theatre actors, and it very much shows (of course, up to you if that’s a pro or con, but I dig it!).

The Arkham Files (Podcast, YouTube, actual play)

Systems: Call of Cthulhu

Black Project Gaming (Podcast, actual play)

Systems: Delta Green

Notes: Play throughs of A Night at the Opera and Impossible Landscapes (and God’s Teeth via Mayday Roleplay’s Patreon)

The Chaos Engine Podcast (Podcast, actual play)

Systems: Call of Cthulhu (Down Darker Trails), Delta Green, other

Notes: Dark Thoughts is their Delta Green campaign, Haunted Trails is Down Darker Trails

Chaosium (YouTube, actual play, etc)

Systems: Call of Cthulhu

Notes: Call of Cthulhu-publisher Chaosium has a number of actual plays on its YouTube channel, ranging from the professionally produced Bookshops/Graveyards of Arkham, to more traditional ‘Zoom-call’ APs of their various published campaigns.

Chaotic Neutral (YouTube, actual play)

Systems: Call of Cthulhu, others

Notes: Often GM’d by Dominic Allen of the Apocalypse Players podcast.

Dead Channels (Podcast, paid, actual play)

Systems: Delta Green

Notes: The ‘official’ playtest actual play for Delta Green, hosted by Caleb Stokes. Only for paying members.

Dead Letter Bureau (Podcast, actual play)

Systems: Delta Green

Dungeons and Daddies (Podcast, actual play)

Systems: Call of Cthulhu, other

Notes: Mostly focused on That Fantasy RPG, but season 3 is Call of Cthulhu

The Fumbled Anthology (Podcast, actual play)

Systems: Call of Cthulhu

Glass Cannon Network (Podcast, Twitch, YouTube, actual play)

Systems: Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green, other

Notes: Time for Chaos is their run of Masks of Nyarlathotep, and Get in the Trunk is various published Delta Green scenarios and Impossible Landscapes

Good Friends of Jackson Elias (Podcast, discussion, not an actual play but it's something of a granddaddy of Lovecraftian gaming podcasts)

Systems: Call of Cthulhu, others

Notes: Covers various aspects of horror and weird fiction more generally, horror gaming more specifically, and often particularly Call of Cthulhu. The hosts are all veteran CoC writers.

The Great Dane Society (Podcast, actual play)

Systems: Call of Cthulhu

Notes: Full runs of Masks of Nyarlathotep, Children of Fear, and Horror on the Orient Express

The Green Box (Podcast, discussion)

Systems: Delta Green

Notes: Random discussions about Delta Green. Finished.

Green Box Gaming (Podcast, actual play)

Systems: Delta Green

Notes: Full run of Impossible Landscapes

Grizzly Peaks Radio (Podcast, actual play)

Systems: Call of Cthulhu, others

GUTTER (Podcast, actual play)

Systems: sort-of Delta Green

Handlers Only (Podcast, actual play)

Systems: Delta Green

Notes: Players are the GMs of many other Delta Green podcasts in this list, with random Handlers, hosted by the GM of Sorry, Honey I Have to Take This. Good way to find other podcasts to try out.

Hand on the Door (Podcast, actual play)

Systems: Delta Green

How We Roll (Podcast, actual play)

Systems: Call of Cthulhu, Cthulhu Dark, others

Into The Darkness (Podcast, YouTube, actual play)

Systems: Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green, others

Notes: Crossover cast with RPG Reanimators

The Kona Lodge (Podcast, YouTube, actual play)

Systems: Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green, other

Lightless Beacons (Podcast, actual play, discussion)

Systems: Call of Cthulhu

The Lovecraft Tapes (Podcast, actual play)

Systems: Call of Cthulhu

Mayday Roleplay (Podcast, YouTube, actual play, discussion)

System: Delta Green, other

Notes: Black Project Gaming’s run of God’s Teeth is on Mayday’s Patreon. The YouTube series ‘Dead Drop’ also covers Delta Green reviews and discussion.

Miskatonic Playhouse (Podcast, Twitch, Youtube, actual play)

Systems: Call of Cthulhu

Notes: Focuses on scenarios from the Call of Cthulhu’s community content program, the Miskatonic Repository. They’ve also run one of my scenarios, Cthulhu Dark Ages’ ‘Branches of Bone’, and I ran ‘The Chanting Sutra Network’ from ‘Japonism,’ the Japanese Call of Cthulhu scenario anthology I helped translate.

Miskatonic University Podcast (Podcast, discussion, not actual play)

Systems: Call of Cthulhu, others

Notes: Bridgett Jeffries is also the host of Symphony Entertainment.

Modern Mythos (Podcast, mostly discussion with some actual play)

Systems: Call of Cthulhu, others

Notes: Jon Hook is a veteran CoC writer, Seth Skorkowsky is of YouTube Seth Skorkowsky fame.

Mystery Quest (YouTube, actual play)

Systems: Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green, others

Notes: Cross overs with the Apocalypse Players, and they have also run one of my scenarios, Cthulhu Dark Ages’ Branches of Bone.

Negative Modifier (Podcast, YouTube, actual play, discussion, etc.)

Systems: Delta Green, other

9mm Retirement Radio (Podcast, actual play)

Systems: Delta Green

The Old Ways (Podcast, YouTube, actual play)

Systems: Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green, Trail of Cthulhu, others

Pretending to be People (Podcast, actual play)

Systems: Delta Green, Call of Cthulhu (Pulp Cthulhu)

Push the Roll with Ross Bryant (Podcast, actual play)

Systems: Call of Cthulhu

Notes: Improvised. Produced by the GM of Ain’t Slayed Nobody. Ross Bryant also appears across other podcasts, notably the Glass Cannon Network.

The Redacted Reports (Podcast, actual play)

Systems: Delta Green

Red Moon Roleplaying (Podcast, actual play)

Systems: Call of Cthulhu, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, others

RPG Reanimators (Podcast, Youtube, actual plays & reviews, etc)

Systems: Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green, others

Notes: I ran my Call of Cthulhu scenario, ‘Sell Yourself,’ and talked about my Flash Cthulhu series, with the cast. The hosts often appear on Into the Darkness as well.

Role Playing Public Radio (Podcast, actual play)

Systems: Delta Green, Fall of Delta Green, Call of Cthulhu, others

Notes: Full run of Impossible Landscapes, and notably the original God’s Teeth run by writer Caleb Stokes.

Skype of Cthulhu (Podcast, actual play)

Systems: Call of Cthulhu

Sleeping Low (Podcast, actual play)

System: Delta Green

Notes: Finished (imploded)

Sorry, Honey I Have to Take This (Podcast, actual play)

Systems: Delta Green

Stars are Right (Podcast, actual play)

Systems: Call of Cthulhu