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Early Access: Blades in the Dark: The Blind Eyes - Episode 5

The Blind Eyes must smuggle a self-aware hull into the city, but it has its own plans. Can they keep a curious hull from wandering off?

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After Hours: Inferno - Journey Through Malebolge Book One

Paul Elkmann returned to Hell after a 34 year sabbatical. Noah, Caleb, and Rob come with me to descend once again. Find out what the new version of Inferno holds for adventurers. From Styx mushrooms to the Tree of Good and Evil, there are a lot of new ways to TPK unwary parties. We slog through the diseases and marshlands of the netherworld for your entertainment!

If you like this episode and want us to finish the series PLEASE COMMENT AND LET US KNOW! 

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RPPR Illustrated: Eclipse Phase - Know Evil - Scum Swarm

The third tier of our first Eclipse Phase campaign has the Know Evil team visiting a scum swarm. From our artist Patsy: 

"Here we have the Swarm orbiting high over earth, with highlights on, left to right:

Faiyun  (am I finally spelling that right?) fresh from the rejuvenation vat,  rescues a resleeved SAIROC's ballet performance; graffiti relating to  the mysterious narrative entity Akaja; emotionally unstable  psychosurgeon DOCTOR MINDFUCK, Magda of the ...

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Early Access: Delta Green - Eldritch America

Baz ran a great one shot of Delta Green, the first in a series of scenarios he is working on. Why are random people in a small town dying of hepatitis? The Program sends in a team of agents to find out.  

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Early Access: Blades in the Dark: The Blind Eyes - Episode 4

RPPR campaigns gotta have dinner parties so guess what? Motherfucking. Dinner. Party. 

ENJOY

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Early Access: Eclipse Phase - Mediation on Iapetus

I ran this scenario originally on the RPPR Patreon and I liked the set up so much I decided to run it for the RPPR group. How do you get two groups of Firewall agents to agree on a solution? Turns out it involves messing with a TITAN artifact. 

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Early Access: Blades in the Dark: The Blind Eyes - Episode 3

The Blind Eyes turn their attention to community service! By that I mean they smuggle a cursed artifact used in a local sport. This sport has been banned by the government and has caused a significant amount of violence, but who can say no to the goat? 

Edit: Guess who forgot to cut out a break in the actual play where we read up on the rules? I've re-uploaded it with the break cut out

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After Hours: Judge's Guild Inferno - Part 2

Caleb, Rob, and Noah and I have delved back into hell for your entertainment! Picking up where we left off, we go through circles two through four, looking at more weird magic items, random encounters, and hell cake math. 

If you liked this episode, be sure to check out The Mixed Six
The Orpheus Protocol
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RPPR Illustrated: Eclipse Phase - Know Evil- Luna Tier

We continue on our Know Evil journey by exploring Luna! From the artist Patsy:

"The group's madcap adventures as interplanetary  gonzo journalists for RELEASE THE KRAKEN are sadly interrupted both by  the machinations of the Proxies, their Firewall masters, and by the  mind-shredding horror of the Exsurgent threats they're theoretically  meant to ...

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Early Access: Delta Green - The Last Flight of the Slim Crow

Noah ran a WW2 based one shot for us! Find out why I can never trust him again. 

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Early Access: Blades in the Dark: The Blind Eyes - Episode 2

Aaron's player character murders a dude with a needle full of poison in public in the first half of the episode, so you know this will be good. 

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Early Access: Over Arms - Yog-Sothoth's Pact

Over Arms is a new RPG inspired by anime and video games like Jojo's Bizarre Adventures and Persona. It's about characters who can summon unique magical beings with powerful abilities. I ran a one shot to try it out. Let's see how Baz, Tom, and Aaron did as they fight a powerful sorcerer who made a pact with Yog-Sothoth. 

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After Hours: Judge's Guild: Inferno - Part 1

We're going to Hell! Judge's Guild put out a module called Inferno in 1980, ostensibly based on Dante's Divine Comedy. It's a LOT. Caleb, Rob Stith (from the Orpheus Protocol) and Noah all followed me into this devilish scenario. We have so much to talk about that we are going to make a mini series of this journey as we could only get about halfway through the original module in this episode. There's also a 2014 remake of the scenario that completes the entire 9 circles of Hell! 

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Early Access: Blades in the Dark - The Blind Eyes - Episode 1

Our Blades in the Dark campaign has begun! Find out who the Blind Eyes are as they go about their first score.

Baz - Salty / Oberon Matias Declarmont the Spider

Birk - Audra the Whisper 

Aaron - Salvage the Leech

Caleb - Flake the Cutter 

Bill - Vimes/Seth the Slide

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Early Access: Dungeon Crawl Classics - Tremors and Dragons

After watching the most recent Tremors movie (now out on Netflix) I wanted to throw some players at the graboids. However, why kill 1 PC when you can kill 4? Thus, another peasant funnel. Find out what happens when the monsters of Tremors are introduced into a fantasy world. 

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RPPR Illustrated: Eclipse Phase - Know Evil - Venus Tier

Know Evil was such a long and complex campaign that no one image could include all of it. Instead, we're going with an illustration for each of the tiers, starting with Venus! We also have some of the images as close-ups. 

Clockwise from top, we have the Venusian pirates' aerostats burning as  our heroes make their escape; S.A.I.R.O.C., the multi-ton spider...

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Watch the Halloween Movie Marathon If you missed it live

Last night's marathon was a success and a lot of fun! Don't worry in case you missed it. You can watch it in two ways:

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The RPPR Halloween Movie Marathon begins soon!

The marathon begins at 2 pm CDT (7 pm UTC)! I have launched the stream early so you can all make sure you're set up for the marathon. We are streaming on Youtube this time to see if that improves latency and quality for everyone. 

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Early Access: Savage Worlds: Future Denied - Part 3

The finale of Kyle's Savage Tokusatsu mini campaign! Will vaporwave prevail over evil??? FIND OUT IN THIS THRILLING CONCLUSION :D

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Early Access: Monsters and Other Childish Things: Xtreme Tricks or Gnarly Treats

I ran a MAOCT game based on trick or treating in a shopping mall! It's very spoopy and a special reoccurring character shows up :D

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Early Access: Savage Worlds: Future Denied - Part 2

The new team of Sentai warriors begins their fight against the evil criminal cartel threatening the city! More hijinks and more transformation scenes! 

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After Hours: Left Behind and d20 Modern Rapture The Second Coming

I recently found a copy of Rapture: The Second Coming, a d20 modern setting book and realized we had to talk about it here. But in order to understand this...unique setting, some of the RPPR cast (Caleb, Aaron, and Birk) and I watched the Left Behind movies. What is the Rapture? You can learn the theological background to this belief system with a 2 hour documentary on Youtube from Renegade Cuts or you can just listen to us ...

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Early Access: Delta Green - Post Mortem

A documentary/true crime podcast crew investigates a decades old massacre at an isolated lodge up in the mountains. They soon uncover a cult and dark secrets...

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RPPR Illustrated: Call of Cthulhu - The Sense of the Sleight of Hand Man

A group of drug addicts are thrown into a strange world beyond their comprehension! Omri, Mitchum Cleary and a rotating cast of wanderers travel across Dreamlands looking for a way home. Listen to the campaign here if you missed it the first time.  

Thank you for supporting the RPPR Patreon! 

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October Streaming Dates for the RPPR Discord

This month we will be streaming extra spoopy and scary videos on the RPPR Discord! I'm posting the weekly schedule now so you all have advance warning this time. I will also pin the schedule to #main on the Discord. 

Also, for Halloween, I will be streaming a marathron of public domain horror movies with special segments! Maybe some live webcam sketches! WHO KNOWS??? This WILL be recorded so patrons who miss it can watch it later (not sure how I will host it - but I will make it av...

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Early Access: Savage Worlds - Future Denied Part 1

Kyle at Best Pal Brigade ran a 3 part game of Savage Worlds for us. It was originally broadcast on Twitch back in May but if you missed it, here's your chance! This adventure was written by Aaron :O

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Early Access: Unknown Armies - The Send Off

Claire and Calamity return to delve into the weird world of backyard wrestling! Hired by a promoter to draw full body portraits of two wrestlers, the duo realize the wrestlers have more going on than it seems. What dark secrets will they uncover?

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Early Access: Eclipse Phase 2E: The End (for now) - The Eighth Sea - Episode 17

Unfortunately due to Covid, I was unable to continue the campaign. I recorded this game before my trip to Australia and by the time I got back, we were all in lockdown. I have no immediate plans to finish it, but at some point, we will revisit it. 

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Early Access: Monster of the Week - Barracuda Arizona

We have a special guest GM for this one shot! Kat from Best Pal Brigade runs Aaron, David, Tom and I through an adventure using a monster from her new Kickstarter project, the Deck of Monsters. I'm playing a mall ninja! 

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After Hours: Just Mall Ninja Things

A discussion of tactical blowguns during a Blades in the Dark game got me thinking about mall ninjas. A mall ninja is a person who loves 'tactical' gear, weird knives and useless accessories for firearms. I got Birk, Noah, and Baz together to look through some Shadowrun and Cyber...

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