Penance RPG
Penance RPG is a homebrew style of RPG podcast created out of the belief that actual play storytelling should allow for not only free player choice for any and every decision but equal consequences to these decisions. We believe this allows for an organic style of storytelling rarely seen anywhere else whilst still retaining a deep love for fantastical tales of castles and characters.
As all bard’s tales should, we work to not only tell our own tales of heroism and heretics, but also blend our own ideas with tales that have passed around the fires many times over to create fresh blood for older stories, telling them in such a manner that breathes new life and a different style to a tale that some of you may have heard more than 956877 times before....
We offer lovable characters, dastardly villains, dangerous scenery and chaotic situations all in an attempt to bring you something different from your standard dungeon crawl.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 84 minutes
- Episodes
- 481
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Dark Tide 51. Bears on Fire
Getting out the boat is tricky when the pier is on fire. Plan B? Another landing spot ofc!
(Our annual 24hr stream raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support just finished, you can catch up on the f…
Dark Tide 50. The Rules Of Challenge
Travelling over water is usually quite a peaceful time, but a jetty with a strange mechanism and net blocks the way. What weirdness is afoot this time?
(PS. when Dragon discovers who was sitting to…
Dark Tide 49. Flee To The Sea
A blockaded village, with a barrier of furniture? Were the locals keeping people out? Or preventing something from leaving... Will our Grey Wardens find a haven? Perhaps by fleeing, or racing, to th…
Dark Tide 48. Counting Contracts
After the creepy command to sleep, presumably from the skull they were transporting, our Wardens awake in an unexpected place...
This is our first streamed non-DnD TTRPG campaign, watch on Sunday 2.3…
Dark Tide 47. The "Fabulous" Fade Wizard
When strange things start happening, they always wonder about a wizard...
This is our first streamed non-DnD TTRPG campaign, watch on Sunday 2.30pm UK at https://www.twitch.tv/penancerpg or catch up …
Dark Tide 46. The Return to Orzammar
Finally, our Grey Wardens are back in Orzammar! Doubtless, they will find or create chaos!
This is our first streamed non-DnD TTRPG campaign, watch on Sunday 2.30pm UK at https://www.twitch.tv/pena…
Dark Tide 45. Apparitions and Ascension
Following their negotiations with the Dalish, our group start to head back towards Orzammar, on the border of Felrelden.
This is our first streamed non-DnD TTRPG campaign, watch on Sunday 2.30pm UK…
Ramblecast 28: The Old WoW Players' Home
This week we bring you another extended collection of tangents, questions and bizarre situations from the cutting room floor of Penance RPG episodes from some point in the past year or few.
Featuri…
The Varlastan Circle Season 3 Pre-Finale Catch Up
Have you been enjoying our The Varlastan Circle series?
As Sillik awakes, Mal and Ari-ah update him on the happenings since he was bespelled in Gl'th.
This usefully works as a catch up for our viewe…
Dark Tide 44. The "Dalish" from Denerim
A confusing battlefield confronts our Grey Wardens, some of the fallen resemble Dalish, and others, dwarves?
This is our first streamed non-DnD TTRPG campaign, watch on Sunday 2.30pm UK at https://…
Dark Tide 43 Feathery Fiends
As our brave novice Grey Wardens travel on, they meet an oncoming rush of evacuating villagers
"He's done it again, he's done it again"...?
This is our first streamed non-DnD TTRPG campaign, watch …
Ramblecast 27: Speedboats, Swords & "lovely" Smelling Fingers
This week we bring you another extended collection of tangents, questions and bizarre situations from the cutting room floor of Penance RPG episodes from some point in the past year or few.
Featuri…
Dark Tide 42. Clicks, Whistles, Flares & Dust
Conflicting orders require some juggling by our novices, and strange noises abound!
This is our first streamed non-DnD TTRPG campaign, watch on Sunday 2.30pm UK at https://www.twitch.tv/penancerpg …
Ramblecast 26: Bananas, Necks and Pickles
This week we bring you another extended collection of tangents, questions and bizarre situations from the cutting room floor of Penance RPG episodes from some point in the past year or few.
Featuri…
Dragonmeet 2023: More Fever Dreams - Attorneys at Jaw & Other Chaos
Is it truly Dragonmeet if we havent found a oneshot, not looked at it at all before recording starts and then it all descends into a fever dream? In 2023 we tried "Attorneys at Jaw" and other homebr…
Dark Tide 41. Benjamin
Its the return of Dark Tide!!
Rejoin our intrepid Grey Wardens as they struggle to survive and fight back Dark Spawn in this alternate timeline!
This is our first streamed non-DnD TTRPG campaign, wa…
Dragonmeet 2024: The Fever Dreams Of A Vampire Cowboy Alien Festival...
Is it truly Dragonmeet if we havent found a oneshot, not looked at it at all before recording starts and then it all descends into a fever dream? This year we tried 2... Hopefully you enjoy! Both …
"Dark" 6. Live from Dragonmeet 2024
Its the return of Dark! You begin in an unknown place with no light, no memory and no idea who or what you are... To keep things suitably random we incorporated some of our favourite storytelling ai…
Halloween 2024: Ep.09 - Tales of the 20 Sided
Welcome to our ninth episode from this year's annual #OpenTheDungeon Halloween series.
This year we kept the "choose your location" style from previous years and created a new tale of the weird & wo…
Halloween 2024: Ep.08 - Cosmopunk
Welcome to our eighth episode from this year's annual #OpenTheDungeon Halloween series.
This year we kept the "choose your location" style from previous years and created a new tale of the weird & w…