Backwater Bastards: An Actual Play Podcast
A team of artists telling THE GREATEST BEST FRIEND STORY that the galaxy has ever seen!
While everybody else is out saving the world, we’re just trying to find the next best place to eat.
Join us on our haphazard adventure.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 83 minutes
- Episodes
- 155
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Midspace Newscast
This just in! The Bastards’ secret lair ain’t so secret anymore, so this week we’re tuning into the Midspace News to hear all about it!
Our trusty news casters head down into the streets to get the r…
00:41:54 |
Wed 28 Sep 2022
Lore Dive - Gear and equipment
We’re back with another Backwater Bastards Lore Dive and this week is all about THE EQUIPMENT AND THE GEAR!
Yeah we talked about places, but now we have to talk about STUFF. And not just any stuff- b…
01:32:36 |
Thu 22 Sep 2022
S2E31: Knock Knock
There’s somebody at the door? The Bastards have set up their secret underground lair, unloaded their bizarre spoils, and somehow they’ve been found anyway. An emissary of a certain princess has come …
01:43:55 |
Fri 16 Sep 2022
Lore Dive - MidSpace the inhabitants
We’re back with another Backwater Bastards Lore Dive and this week is all about THE ZONES AND INHABITANTS OF MIDSPACE.
Midspace station is so dang important that we had to come back and do a second …
01:26:00 |
Thu 01 Sep 2022
S2E30: Bobbys Gome Depot
After saving Midspace for the 310th time the Bastards are celebrating with some SHOPPING. Our victorious crew has an empty lair to fill and each one of them has a plan for how to do it. In the middle…
01:35:14 |
Thu 25 Aug 2022
SideArm - Hard Crust Bread Chat
This week we have a bonus episode for you all! This is one of our SideArm episodes, our Patreon exclusive content. We release two SideArm episodes a month, and if you like this type of ramble, laught…
00:36:28 |
Thu 18 Aug 2022
Lore Dive - MidSpace the place
We’re back with another Backwater Bastards Lore Dive and this week is all about MIDSPACE.
Located in the center of contested space and the beginning of the whole dang Bastard story, Midspace Station …
01:12:25 |
Thu 11 Aug 2022
S2E29: Suspended in sound
It’s time to find out what really waits at the bottom of the One True Leader’s water. After a suspended moment in time learning about Ze’s past, we return to our heroes suspended in the Leader’s very…
01:57:29 |
Thu 04 Aug 2022
Lore Dive - Psychic abilities
A lore dive with the Backwater Bastards. This week, psychic powers! From telepaths like Dr Z, telekinetics like the One True Leader or precognitive's like the Wraith Seers, the psychics of the Bastar…
01:16:34 |
Thu 28 Jul 2022
S2E28: Ze Day part 4: The Legacy Code
They say that The Originator rules in Synth space, but Zafrey Elektra and M8 know otherwise. Our heroes have reached the end of the line here on Gloria’s lonely treasure planet. They have seen unbeli…
01:55:22 |
Thu 14 Jul 2022
S2E27: Ze Day part 3: X marks the spot
Zafrey Elektra and M8 weren’t the only ones with a map to Gloria’s treasure. A new band of Atolla have allied with M8’s old crew! A first time meeting turns into a standoff as our young-old heroes at…
01:23:36 |
Fri 17 Jun 2022
S2E26: Ze Day part 2: Gloria's Treasure
Zafrey Elektra and M8 have commandeered a pirate starship! Still following the commands of their stony captain stand in (The Rock), they break out of the atmosphere together and program their way to …
01:46:59 |
Thu 02 Jun 2022
S2E25: Ze Day part 1: A jellyfish out of water
Zafrey Elektra is a soldier of the Atoll. He is the son of an invasive hive that jumps from planet to planet to harvest water for their sea. Whole worlds hear the Atolla Medusa's song when they come,…
01:47:35 |
Fri 20 May 2022
Rule Chat
It’s time we had a look at the numbers. As you know, the fates of our intrepid heroes are controlled by a few bad little dice. But who controls the dice?
Well we do- us and some RULES. The Orbital Re…
01:22:20 |
Thu 28 Apr 2022
S2E24: Stop hiding
Cleo and Dr. Ze started this mission with the intent to sew chaos and spread confusion. Maybe even to make a little damage. To cause a tiny moment of trouble! Fortunately they picked something they a…
01:08:42 |
Thu 14 Apr 2022
S2E23: Chaos sneaking
Cleo and Ze’s first stealth mission goes off with a BANG! In order to clear the way for D.E.E.T.Z.’s troops, they’ve agreed to take out a minimum of three enemy towers.. But hey, who’s counting? Cert…
01:31:46 |
Thu 31 Mar 2022
S2E22: Deus ex mushroom
It doesn’t take The Bastards long to get back into the fray. After putting together a tentative plan with D.E.E.T.Z. and the revolutionaries they are headed back into cultist lands. All that’s left i…
01:24:04 |
Thu 10 Mar 2022
S2E21: The Green Room
The Bastards are stuck between a rock and a hard place. After spending an explosive evening with the cultists Dr. Ze is on a mission to make an emergency alliance. Cleo is now sharing her braincase w…
01:02:24 |
Wed 23 Feb 2022
S2E20: Neapolitan ice cream
After the party there’s the afterparty! Or at least, after the party there’s dinner with a secret group of cultists in Night City? Cleo and Ze meet up with Randall’s contact, but it turns out nobody’…
01:24:29 |
Thu 10 Feb 2022
S2E19: Soft Lovings
The Bastards may have survived the mission- but will they survive this party? After an eye opening job that created more questions than answers- the Bastards are due back in town for a shindig with T…
01:33:19 |
Thu 27 Jan 2022
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