Four Short Reviews of Delta Green Actual Play Podcasts

 Role-Playing Public Radio

• It's RPPR, you've probably already listened to it.
• Veteran handler and players; Ross knows what he's doing.
• Probably the truest-to-table experience you'll find in actual plays.
• Usually one-shots, so not many home scenes or campaign features.
• The show to listen to if you want a good idea of how the game is run and played in practice.
• Not the show to listen to if you are looking for a story.
  
• Nowhere Lane and the current Impossible Landscapes AP are some of the best Delta Green content I have listened to, period. Impossible Landscapes bucks the RPPR trend by being a very character-focused campaign. Players are really into it and doing a fantastic job. Ross is spinning an absurd number of plates and none have crashed yet.
• Also that first run of Lover in the Ice, primo gross.
• Recommended for: I want Delta Green as it is played.
  

Pretending to Be People

• Absurdist & gross.
• Great soundtrack.
• Rules hybridized with Pulp Cthulhu.
• Basically no connection with the canon of Delta Green or the Mythos proper.
• Players have great report with each other.
• Players are good with character acting.
• Some truly pristine horror imagery.
• Lots of weird, memorable NPCs.
• Great sense of the heightened surreal-real. Things are fucking weird.
• Some occasionally aggravating obtuseness with the weird aspects.
  
• Players meander & spin their wheels sometimes; tabletalk rambling & bits sometimes go a bit long.
• I am under no illusions that the PCs are in any danger of dying in this game.
• The PCs are many things and 'competent investigators' is not among them.
• Recommended for: I want something very strange and very gross.
  

The Redacted Reports

• Most well-produced of the four.
• Least table-honest of the four.
  
• Very character-focused.
• Long narrative arcs with a lot of interconnected threads.
• Daisy-chains multiple published scenarios with original material.
• Handler can do some fantastic NPCs, scene-setting, and tension ramp-up
• The most 'canon' of the four.
• The 'nicest' of the four - you're not going to find that classic Delta Green panic spiral of bad people making increasingly bad choices here.
• A good deal is definitely planned beforehand; doesn't matter. it's well told, overall.
  
• Pacing can get painfully slow sometimes, especially in the most recent couple arcs which are more heavily-modified than the earlier ones.
• Not kidding we're talking like, 5-6 hour long episodes before weird shit starts happening in the last couple seasons. I hope you like Burning Man and subplots about California political lobbying.
• This combined with the nice factor leads to points where I, the listener, am going "get on with it" and/or "you are not panicking nearly as much as you should be in this scenario"
• Honestly this is a feather in the cap of DG as a game, how player metaknowledge translates into the "insanity" of the characters. I the listener know the tell-tale signs of an outbreak of the Yellow Sign, and my immediate gut reaction could only be described as insanity.
• They are definitely setting up a Carcosa season.
• Can't come too soon the current antagonist has an exaggerated vocal fry affectation and just because it's an act she's putting on in-fiction doesn't make it any more pleasant to listen to.
• Recommended for: I would like a Delta Green audio drama.
  

Sorry, Honey, I Have to Take This

• Generally feels pretty table-honest
• Feels like the players spin their wheels often
• Not as weird as PTBP, not as well-produced as RR, not as well-run as RPPR.
• Every episode has a minute-long music spot at the midway point and I don't know why it's so long.
• PCs are not immune to game-changing injury or death.
• Handler regularly makes choices I firmly disagree with (ex. Players did not realize that it was 3am instead of 3pm, Warden doesn't wind back the clock.) 
• I don't like the chosen scenarios all that much.
• I don't jive with the humor.
• Listened to three seasons, unlikely to return.
• Recommended for: I'm caught up on all the others and still want a DG AP.