Ross Payton

RPPR Patreon Actual Play: Atomic Robo - Edison's Array

Synopsis: It's the mystery of the new century for the Fightin' Scientists of Tesladyne! A thief (or team of thieves) is targeting the collected works of Thomas Edison, stealing documents and exhibited inventions from around the country. The only clue to the perpetrators is a broken robot, seemingly reversed-engineered from Edison's designs and a single tarot card stained with blood.  Now the agents of Tesladyne must find out why Edison's tech is being stolen and re-created before it is used...

Early Access: Red Markets Beta - The Brutalists - Episode 9

ALL BRUTALISTS ALL THE TIME

Also kickstart the game if you haven't already

RPPR Patreon Actual Play: Base Raiders - Return of the Robot Assassin

Streamed live on Sep 27, 2015

While looking into the increased activities within the NYC criminal rings, the hero inventor Iconoclast discovers two disturbing facts. One, there seems to be a rise in casualties on all sides that the gangs are not talking about, specifically with Luytein refugees that have been "recruited" as specialized enforcers.  And two, it appears that these Luytein enforcers have had the majority of their cybernetic ...

Early Access: RPPR Actual Play: Red Markets Beta - The Brutalists - Episode 8

The Red Markets Kickstarter is live! Check it out. WOOOOOOOOOO :D

RPPR Patreon Actual Play: Base Raiders - Cosplay

Streamed live on Sep 20, 2015

An ancient evil known as the Darkness that Dwells has resurfaced in America. A group of heroes in Japan known as the Elemental Sabers fought them before Ragnarok. Recently, one of the Sabers, Saber Antimony, has been seen leading a team of base raiders. 

Information on the Darkness is minimal and Antimony may be the world's only remaining expert. Someone wants to pay to find out what she knows but others want to find h...

Early Access: Delta Green - God's Teeth - episode 05

Working Group M organizes a raid against a heavily armed and fortified mythos-aware criminal organization. What could go wrong?

The RPPR Patreon now charges upfront

Minor bit of news: Patreon now allows creators to charge new patrons upfront and I have enabled that. The details are explained below:

New Patrons:

New

Patrons will be charged on the day they pledge. They will be charged on the 1st of the month for their next charge and all following charges.

Example:

A patron pledges to Jack (a Patreon creator) on February 25th for $10 per month. They will be charged $10 on the day they pledge, February 25th...

Early Access: Red Markets Beta - The Brutalists - Episode 7

Dirty cops! Fashion! Drugs! Weaponized Architecture! WE GOT IT ALL BABY

WoD The Heck: Changeling the Dreaming

Shaun, Faust, and I discuss the winner of the White Wolf "One thing is not like the others" contest, Changeling the Dreaming. Learn about fancy points, how rational flat earthers are, and how many types of dreaming there are. Faust gained several points of banality from this episode, so enjoy!

Music: catacombs by Chinese Hackers.

Patreon Actual Play: Eclipse Phase - Forced Retirement

You have all woken up in a sleeving facility. An AI named Factotum has told you that you are on an exoplanet in a secret site built by Firewall. The rest of the facility has gone dark. You are to assess the situation and retake the site for Firewall. Additional briefing info will be made available during the mission.

Originally run on Aug 16, 2015 for Patreon backers.

RPPR Illustrated: Delta Green - Inheritance part 1

A meeting between a team of agents and an emissary of a mysterious tribe, the climax of Inheritance part 1.

Thanks to Patsy McDowell for the art

Early Access: Dungeon Crawl Classics - They Served Brandolyn Red

Still haven't figured out schedule for the entire month yet, so get a one shot DCC until I do.

RPPR After Hours: Vaporhack - Hacking the Wave

We have mentioned vaporwave time and time again on RPPR, but we haven't really talked about in. Now is the time! Tom, Aaron, Shaun, and I listen to various vaporwave songs and critique them. We also talk about the cinematic masterpiece that is 'Double Down' by Neil Breen. Of course, we also review THREE RPG books:

Savagery of the Spider-Men for Legendquest (couldn't find a relevant link)
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Tabletop Tales Preview episodes

Episodes 5 through 8 of the Dresden Files campaign! Please do not share this link. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7NXfhINqdwIT1lJeVZSYXVZeWc

Thanks for your support of the RPPR Patreon!

Early Access: RPPR Actual Play: Delta Green - God's Teeth - episode 04

WORKING GROUP MASTICATE BACK IN BUSINESS

TIME TO FIGHT CRIME

(MYTHOS CRIME)

btw the Delta Green Agent Handbook is out.

Free AP Download: Call of Cthulhu - Delta Green - Cascadia

Originally run for Patreon backers on July 23, 2015.

You are cordially invited to a night at the opera.

Dr. Charles Curtis, a professor of geology at Washington State University has been found dead. His lab has been ransacked and certain samples of interest to the Group are now missing. Find out who killed him and why.

Early Access: RPPR Actual Play: Red Markets Beta - The Brutalists - Episode 6

The Brutalists attempt to finish their latest job, fulfilling justice in a dark wasteland. WILL THEY PULL IT OFF?

Early Access: : Base Raiders - Saurian Solutions - part 2

WHAT POSTING A TWO PART GAME IN CONSECUTIVE ORDER

WHAT

deal w it

Tabletop Tales now online!

Check it out! I plan to post a new episode every Thursday. The preview episodes should go up in the next day or so.

RSS Feed: http://tabletoptales.roleplayingpublicradio.com/feed/podcast/

itunes link: 2016-04-13 01:03:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Early Access: Base Raiders - Saurian Solutions part 1

TOM RAN BASE RAIDERS WITHOUT ME WTF nah jk that was awesome we got so many games going on now I won't even be part of all them.

RPPR After Hours: Zack Snyder's Airlords of the Ozarks

In this episode we review Blood in the Slave Pits, an adventure for Legendquest, which apparently was the RPG for people that wanted a game that makes sense. We also look at Twilight 2000 and Airlords of the Ozarks, the only Ozarks themed adventure in RPG history about fighting white supremacists in blimps.

There's also discussion about the cinematic genius that is Zack Snyder and think about what films he could reinvent with his unique and brilliant style.

2016-04-08 23:49:55 +0000 UTC View Post

Early Access: RPPR Actual Play: Red Markets Beta - The Brutalists - Episode 5

The Brutalists are back! This was a fun episode if a bit unusual. You guys should enjoy it! WOOOOOO

WoD The Heck: Hunter the Reckoning

In this episode, we cover Hunter the Reckoning, because I personally own the entire game line.  We will eventually cover every game line before we dive into specific books but I wanted to touch on that first. Hunter is kind of a hot mess but one I enjoyed back in the day. I even found a PDF chronicling my campaign of H:TR back in the day. It's also attached to this post. 

Song: 一人で_ｄ...

RPPR Illustrated: Dungeon Crawl Classics - Steal Dracula's Gold

Inspired by this one shot of DCC that I ran a while back. Those peasants had a tough time stealing Dracula's gold!

Thanks to Patsy McDowell for the artwork!

Early Access: Bullwinkle and Rocky Role Playing Party Game

As you know, we only play serious, grim, and dark role playing games, so we have continued this legacy with a daring indie storytelling game of a moose and squirrel hunted by a rogue government assassin and a femme fatale. Find out the truth behind the secret of the 'jet fuel' that some are willing to kill to get.

Current state of RPPR Web Sites and Podcasts

Progress has been made but we are not out of the woods yet.  The URLs of every RPPR Actual Play podcast episode have been fixed.  We have finished transferring from Bluehost to Lithium hosting, but it seems their shared hosting plans are still not enough. I have created a new milestone at $2050 to upgrade our web hosting service to a managed VPS - which should dramatically improve the quality of our service. I am doing what I can do to optimize our websites but it seems like there are ...

Workaround for downloading podcast episodes

We are currently moving web hosts and I cannot make changes to the site until the move is done. There is a workaround if you know the file location - add /podcasts/ before the file name.

so http://media.blubrry.com/rpg_actual_play/p/actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/RPPR-Eclipse-Phase-Forced-Retirement.mp3

becomes 2016-03-26 18:32:17 +0000 UTC View Post

RPPR News: What's going on with our websites

As you probably have realized, All of the RPPR websites are unreliable and unavailable most of the time. On Monday, our hosting service, Bluehost, decided to add new limitations to the RPPR account, reducing the amount of server resources available for our sites.  Keep in mind, the shared business pro account should have 'unlimited' bandwidth and storage, but that doesn't really mean anything apparently. They started CPU throttling us, which meant that most processes could not be completed....

Early Access: Trail of Cthulhu - General Order #11

I am making this post public so everyone can download it while RPPR is down. My host, Bluehost, has been unable to fix the server that RPPR runs on for several days now. Hopefully they will fix it soon.

Synopsis: Amidst the chaotic guerrilla warfare of Civil War Missouri, a small force of Union militia troops is tasked with carrying out General Order No. 11, the expulsion of all civilians from four counties on the Kansas-Missouri border. But each soldier has his own motivations, not all of...

Early Access: Delta Green - Inheritance - Part 2

A sequel to the one shot scenario, Inheritance. This takes place decades after the original game. In other words, they get to clean up the mess they left last time.  I'm sure it will be fine :D