Backwater Bastards: An Actual Play Podcast

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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.

4 DAYS AGO · BONUS

A Hiatus Update: Help Shape the Show!

Over here at Bastard HQ, we are knee deep in dreams of the future. But we want to make sure it’s a cool future that everyone likes- so we made this survey to pick your brains. Here it is: https://forms.gle/RDckuVtWDMVpRcnU6 We’ve blasted this thing out to our discord, and a few of our socials, but there’s another group that we don’t want to miss, and that might be you. So if you've got some time, please consider sharing your thoughts. It's anonymous, and it means a lot to us. We’re working on getting this thing out in as many different places as possible- and when it’s all over we plan on sharing some of the results in our discord. If you’d like to see that, you can join us here: https://discord.gg/nfYHkbbJh9 Thank you again for being here, and for all of your help. The show wouldn’t be the same without you. We are grateful to have you on board, and we can’t wait to get back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7 min
JAN 9 · BONUS

Introducing: Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry | Goblin Mode

Hi Backwater Bastards listeners! This week, we're bringing you an episode of another show we think you'll love: Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode!! Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode is the latest actual play narrative fantasy series from Geek & Sundry in partnership with Realm. Using the popular TTRPG Dungeons & Dragons, Goblin Mode tells an ever-evolving improvised story full of magic, monsters, and mayhem. Goblin Mode is not your traditional fantasy story. These aren’t the mighty warriors who would be called to a tavern by a mysterious stranger. Rather, these characters would be mere crossbow fodder for a group of actual intrepid heroes. Lead by storyteller Amy Vorpahl and cast members Jason Nguyen, Danielle Radford, and Dan Casey, Goblin Mode tells the tale of a trio of hapless minions – a goblin and two skeletons – toiling their days away in the service of an evil necromancer. When a band of treasure-hungry “heroes” attack the dungeon they once called home, these poor unfortunate souls wind up trapped in a pit. By the time the dust settles, everyone they knew is dead, their old lives are gone, and their home is under new management. Will they seek vengeance? Will they realize there’s more to life than the Cave Allegory they lived in? Will they become the hope the world needs to stop its impending doom? Find out for yourself with the very first episode of Goblin Mode. Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and wherever fine podcasts are served. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1h 58m
11/13/2024 · BONUS

The Gang Goes on Hiatus (See you in 2025!)

The Bastards are taking a brief hiatus so that they can experiment, play, and recover from the tornado that was 2024. In the meantime, they will be hosting game nights in the Discord, pausing the Patreon for a month, and then releasing some hot, fresh SideArms. (Don't forget that you can speedbinge them on the 7 day free trial!) Our heroes will be BACK and ready for action in 2025, with a plan to get the whole gang back together... Or die trying. Ambiance sound support by Jamie Nord and Michaël Ghelfi Synth Music Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio Episode Edit / Sound design by Daniel Matthews Distributed by Realm - Send inquiries and fanart to backwaterbastards@gmail.com Support the show and gain access to extra content by joining our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Backwaterbastards If you love what you hear, share us with a friend! Find everything else on our website at www.backwaterbastards.com Join our Discord! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11 min
10/18/2024

Director of the Light

TW: Gore, Cannibalism, Blood. RWD presents - a Rendezvous with Bastards! Our friends find themselves trapped in the middle of a meltdown. Will they be able to escape this emergency, or will the mystery behind the walls prove just too tempting to ignore? Millicent practices first aid, Lucky smells the ground, Harrison shows off his criminal enterprise and Hank hits back. Backwater Bastards is a sci-fi comedy improv actual play podcast played by three international artists with an emphasis on slice-of-life style situational humour. This show features immersive sound design, its very own game system, Orbital Refuse- and a team of alien antiheroes that will choose each other over the universe every time. Tay and Dan are two of those aliens, and can be found anywhere that you find Backwater Bastards, or on twitter at @TAYvanbiljon and @deadtoothbrush. A Rendezvous With Destiny: A Bite Marks actual play podcast. New episodes every other Thursday! Find us on Twitter and Instagram @RWD_Pod, and join our Discord Server here: https://linktr.ee/RWD_POD A Rendezvous With Destiny: Outcast's theme music is written and performed by Chloe Elliott. Find it, and other original tracks here: https://soundcloud.com/user-914339386 The Shiver name, mechanics and lore are solely the property of Parable Games. We have no affiliation with Parable Games and in no way represent them or their views. Music: RWD: Outcast Theme :: Chloe Elliott Censor Beep Sound Effect :: Free Use - YouTube Phantom From Space:: Kevin Macleod Medusa :: Kevin Macleod Eating: Comedy - Masticating apple - 1967 (7C, reprocessed) :: BBC Sound Effects Archive Bells, Door Chimes And Buzzers - Electric door chimes rung at intervals. (Ding-dong note) :: BBC Sound Effects Archive Footsteps Across Sand - footsteps as man walks across sand on beach :: BBC Sound Effects Archive Hand Saw - close-up sound of hand saw being used to cut down side branch. Crack as branch breaks and falls. :: BBC Sound Effects Archive Footsteps: Mud - Footsteps, one person running in mud. : BBC Sound Effects Archive Lifts - Lift doors close, lift runs. : BBC Sound Effects Archive Martian Cowboy :: Keving Macleod Electronically Generated Sounds - Emergency alarm (with slight phasing). (Futuristic Spot Effect.) :: BBC Sound Effects Archive Wilhelm Scream - Free MP3 Download :: Sound Vault - YouTube Timecode: 00:00:00 - 00:00:26 - Intro 00:00:27- 00:05:33 – Government Mandated Banter 00:03:10- 01:10:39 – The Adventure 01:10:40 - 01:15:08 – Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1h 15m
10/10/2024

Closer to Heck

Episode 1: Closer to Heck Our good friends Chloe, Will, and Am are - A Rendezvous with Destiny - an actual-play podcast that immerses listeners in tabletop role-playing games where players explore mythological themes and narratives. They took us on this incredible adventure and it was so much fun! Thank you again to Chloe, Will, and Am and please go and check out their show where ever ya get your podcasts. RWD (A Rendezvous with Destiny ) presents - a Rendezvous with Bastards! Joined by the Ennie-nominated cast of Backwater Bastards, we descend into a spine-tingling game of Shiver. Our band of 20-somethings are invited to their mate Steve's debut at a local Haunted House. But is all as it seems? Harrison refuses to play taxi, Lucky rushes in, Millicent is millitant and Hank is left in the dark. A Rendezvous With Destiny: A Bite Marks actual play podcast. New episodes every other Thursday! Find us on Twitter and Instagram @RWD_Pod, and join our Discord Server here: https://linktr.ee/RWD_POD A Rendezvous With Destiny: Outcast's theme music is written and performed by Chloe Elliott. Find it, and other original tracks here: https://soundcloud.com/user-914339386 The Shiver name, mechanics and lore are solely the property of Parable Games. We have no affiliation with Parable Games and in no way represent them or their views. Music: RWD: Outcast Theme :: Chloe Elliott Martian Cowboy :: Kevin Macleod Phantasm :: Kevin Macleod Phantom From Space:: Kevin Macleod Censor Beep Sound Effect :: Free Use - YouTube Electronically Generated Sounds - Emergency alarm (with slight phasing). (Futuristic Spot Effect.) :: BBC Sound Effects Archive Wilhelm Scream - Free MP3 Download :: Sound Vault - YouTube Timecode: 00:00:00 - 00:01:00 - Intro 00:01:01- 00:06:17 – Government Mandated Banter 00:03:10- 00:58:43 – The Adventure 00:58:44 - 01:03:09 – Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1h 7m
09/13/2024

The split II - Dogs Breakfast

Trevor has returned and has brought news of Cleo, but she needs help. So now Ze and Boris must race to finish their business on Garcia station to get to her aid. But just one thing, that business is an intergalactic war. Starring: DM Dick Dynamite the Dungeon Master -- Richard Kimber-Bell Cleo deCap / M8 -- Taylor van Biljon Dr Ze/Doctor Zafrey Elektra -- Daniel Matthews Episode art by @georginalesaux Ambiance sound support by Jamie Nord and Michaël Ghelfi Synth Music Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio Episode Edit / Sound design by Daniel Matthews Distributed by Realm - Send inquiries and fanart to backwaterbastards@gmail.com Support the show and gain access to extra content by joining our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Backwaterbastards If you love what you hear, share us with a friend! Find everything else on our website at www.backwaterbastards.com Join our Discord! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1h 11m
08/29/2024

The split I

Trevor has returned and has brought news of Cleo, but she needs help. So now Ze and Boris must race to finish their business on Garcia station to get to her aid. But just one thing, that business is an intergalactic war. Starring: DM Dick Dynamite the Dungeon Master -- Richard Kimber-Bell Cleo deCap / M8 -- Taylor van Biljon Dr Ze/Doctor Zafrey Elektra -- Daniel Matthews Episode art by @georginalesaux Ambiance sound support by Jamie Nord and Michaël Ghelfi Synth Music Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio Episode Edit / Sound design by Daniel Matthews Distributed by Realm - Send inquiries and fanart to backwaterbastards@gmail.com Support the show and gain access to extra content by joining our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Backwaterbastards If you love what you hear, share us with a friend! Find everything else on our website at www.backwaterbastards.com Join our Discord! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1h 1m
08/14/2024 · BONUS

SideArm Offcuts

The bastards have been hit with the most ancient of foes, the scheduling big bad! and have lost. So this week instead of an episode we give you a tasty offcut. Please take this offering and grant us some extra time. Starring: DM Dick Dynamite the Dungeon Master -- Richard Kimber-Bell Cleo deCap / M8 -- Taylor van Biljon Dr Ze/Doctor Zafrey Elektra -- Daniel Matthews Ambiance sound support by Jamie Nord and Michaël Ghelfi Synth Music Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio Episode Edit / Sound design by Daniel Matthews Distributed by Realm - Send inquiries and fanart to backwaterbastards@gmail.com Support the show and gain access to extra content by joining our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Backwaterbastards If you love what you hear, share us with a friend! Find everything else on our website at www.backwaterbastards.com Join our Discord! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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TRAILER

Backwater Bastards Trailer

The Bastards are BACK, and officially in orbit! We know you’ve all had enough of being gravity-bound- so we’re kicking this joint for a new star system. Join the same motley crew for new stories, new characters, a brand new universe, and all-new game mechanics designed by our very own DM Dragon Daddy Dick Dynamite. So buckle your EVA suits to yer control decks- cause a bear and a jellyfish just landed in the station and this PILOT is taking you on a RIIIIIDE! - Ambiance sound support by Jamie Nord and Michaël Ghelfi Synth Music Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio Episode Edit / Sound design by Daniel Matthews - Send inquiries and fanart to backwaterbastards@gmail.com Support the show and gain access to extra content by joining our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Backwaterbastards If you love what you hear, share us with a friend! Find everything else on our website at www.backwaterbastards.com Join our Discord! Get bonus content on Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

04/07/2020

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1 min

Undertow is Realm’s premier showcase of original audio horror. Hosted by audio horror pioneer and creator Fred Greenhalgh, each season presents a spooky standalone story, so you can dive in anytime... if you dare! Current Season: Trio of Nightmares Three novellas from Maine-based creators of horror: Chris Bernier, Katherine Silva, and Morgan Sylvia. Brought to life by naturalistic performances and immersive sound design, this season will bring you to a funeral for the magical dead, an estate in Northern England haunted by an accursed art collection, and a world ravaged by unearthly beings after genetic experiments go wildly wrong. Craving More Frights? Explore Past Seasons: Season 1: Simpson Falls - A reporter awakens malevolent forces in his haunted hometown. Season 2: Blood Forest - Every 20 years, werewolves descend for a night of horror. Starring Jack Falahee. Season 3: Dark Tome - A teen unleashes a terrifying story from a spooky bookshop. Season 4: The Well - Family secrets resurface, setting loose horror from an old well. Season 5: The Pulse - A meteorite awakens animalistic instincts in a group of treasure hunters. Season 6: The Sisters - True events inspire a chilling tale of occult & possession. Starring Mae Whitman. Season 7: Last Call - A hustler gambles for his life against the Grim Reaper. Season 8: Narcosis - A rescue dive turns deadly beneath the waves. Season 9: The Harrowing - A barbaric crime heralds the rise of an ancient evil. Season 10: Hovering - A police officer is pulled into unimaginable circumstances when he starts investigating calls about an object in the sky. Binge Ad-Free & Early! Subscribe at realm.fm.

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Bodies are piling up in the strange town of Springfield, and forensic pathologist Jonathan Spacer intends to find out why. But, Jon isn’t without his own secrets… He can talk to the dead, for starters. A full-cast serial fiction podcast for mature audiences. Available now on all podcast apps. Find us on Patreon for premium content, including bonus episodes and early access: https://www.patreon.com/HowIDied

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Wonderful

03/05/2024

Estiviro

Fantastic show with wonderful editing and compelling stories that evolve with the cast.
Fun story, great antics

10/26/2023

kbbaus27

Season 2 is firing on all cylinders. The cast (including the DM) has such amazing chemistry and the story is engaging. And on top of that, they're all hilarious. I also love that most of the pop culture references and jokes seem perfectly tailored to me.
Voice acting

01/11/2024

Traelin10

I love humor, sci fi, short story format, and Realm in general. But these are some of the most annoying voice acting choices I’ve heard. Wouldn’t mind a remix that has the stories using voice actors in their natural tones, and not as if they’re in a Cartoon Network audition.
Awesome

05/17/2023

GreyJedi13579

Great show. Listen when driving when Cleo fell in the first episode I laughed till I tested up. Then on a distant toll episode when Ep came out the water to save the day I got misty eyed again. A roller coaster of emotions y’all. Keep it up