Ross Payton

RPPR Illustrated: Revelations

A scene from Cthulhu Dark: Revelations - an early playtest of Revelations from No Security. Enjoy and thanks for supporting the RPPR Patreon.

Early Access: Trail of Cthulhu - Masks of Nyarlathotep - interlude - episode 13

Omg special interlude adventure with a special guest player :O :O :O

This is late because Patreon's upload is buggy yet again. YAAAAAAAY

Behind The Scenes: Tribes of Tokyo final campaign notes

I was going to split this into 2 blog posts, but I got so caught up on other stuff that I fell behind on my schedule. So here's both posts at once. Enjoy!

Early Access: RPPR Actual Play: Monsters and Other Childish Things - To Get Home, We Leave Things Be

Dan's playtest of his MAOCT scenario for Gen Con. Woooooo!

Bonus AP: Unspeakable! Delta Green - The Last Equation at Gen Con 2015

Listen to this demo of the new Delta Green system recorded at Gen Con this year. Shane Ivey and Greg Stolze in the same game!

Early Game Access: Atomic Robo - the Fighting Scientists of Tesladyne - episode 1

Aaron's campaign is finally here! GO SCIENCE

Early Access: Trail of Cthulhu - Masks of Nyarlathotep episode 12

Mountain of the Black Wind or bust!

Behind the Scenes: The History of Sparkles The Unicorn

Sparkles, everyone's favorite unicorn from Base Raiders will soon be out as a PDF supplement. This history describes his back story. This is a rough draft, so if you see any typos or errors, let me know.

Sparkles The Unicorn

The Circle and the Spring of Immortality

Before recorded history began, gods, spirits, and all kinds of magical beings lived amongst humanity. Some demanded worship from humans, while others tried to guide and protect h...

RPPR After Hours: Critical Grimdark Failures

Aaron, Dan, Tom, and I discuss an adventure for Rogue Trader. It's called Soul Reaver and Aaron has no knowledge of the 40k setting, which makes him the perfect reviewer for this adventure. We then devolve into madness, thanks to random roll tables in Mutant Chronicles, System Failure, Immortal: The Invisible War, and fan-created critical hit tables for Warhammer Fantasy.

Music: Evil is Coming by Azgard

Early Access: Call of Cthulhu - The Iconoclasts

Welp, this is an...unusual CoC game. The player characters are all Western ISIS members in Iraq, looking for antiquities in an old man's house. The players mostly try to 'sprint towards death' as Caleb put it.

Early Access: Eclipse Phase - Duality - Episode 21

The last session of the campaign! Shit so real your backup won't even believe. Aaron's Atomic Robo campaign begins next.

RPPR Illustrated: Cyberpunk - Lady Gaga 2.0

A depiction of Lady Gaga's crew in our infamous one shot in the Cyberpunk 2020 system. Thank you for your support of RPPR! We have a lot of content for you this month, thanks to Gen Con, so stay tuned.

Art by Patsy McDowell

Early Access: Trail of Cthulhu - Masks Of Nyarlathotep episode 11

Patreon post system kind of buggy, but in new and different ways! Anyway, enjoy Aaron joining the group as Nails Nelson as the group safaris to the Mountain of the Black Wind. You get this way early because I leave for Gen Con tomorrow morning and there's no way to schedule posts in Patreon yet.

Behind The Scenes: Strangers at the Door - an Eclipse Phase campaign setting

This is an Eclipse Phase campaign setting/PDF release I pitched to Posthuman years ago. They didn't bite and I eventually took some parts of it for my EP campaign, Duality.  

Strangers at the Door: A Jovian Conspiracy Alternate Setting

Overview: The Jovian Republic prides itself on the purity of its citizens, guarding them from corrupting technology and knowledge. But a conspiracy of exhumans within Amalthea threatens the entire habitat. Ca...

Behind the Scenes: Memorial - short horror fiction

I wrote this in March 2009, for a writing contest, I think. I don't remember now. Anyway, enjoy:

Memorial

by Ross Payton

I kissed my wife goodbye. The sickness embraced her. The furnance took what was left.

I huddled on one side, still giving her most of the comforter. House was cold. Her voice came to me, a single sigh against my ear. The bed warmed and I tried to roll over, to feel her breath on my cheek again. A weight bore ...

Early Access: Call of Cthulhu - Delta Green - Cascadia

In a bold experiment, I ran a one shot for the RPPR group then ran it again for RPPR Patreon backers. This is why this AP is late. Sorry!

Bonus AP! Call of Cthulhu - Fall Without End Playtest

Buy the scenario here: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/117193/The-Fall-Without-End

This is the original playtest for Fall Without End. Listen as the RPPR crew tries to tackle mountain climbing and sanity rending horror. A fun time was had by all.  This scenario is a free download for everyone, whether you're a backer or not. Enjoy!

Our story takes pl...

Bonus AP! Call of Cthulhu - The Red Tower playtest

This is the original playtest for the horror scenario.  It was originally a bonus for backing the No Security Kickstarter, but I never got around to posting the AP. Now everyone can enjoy it.

Capone’s reign has ended, and it remains to be seen how much of Chicago’s corrupt infrastructure will be dragged down with him. As two-bit criminals scramble to establish themselves in the power vacuum, the exposed corruption presents an opportunity for muckraking socialist...

Early Access: Eclipse Phase - Duality episode 20

The finale begins! Shit getting so real you gotta make a WIL x 3 just to make it through this episode

Early Access: Trail of Cthulhu - Masks of Nyarlathotep episode 10

More KENYA adventures in KENYA

Behind the Scenes: Tribes of Tokyo campaign notes sessions 4-9

As the campaign went on, I generally took fewer notes. Of course, that changed for session 10 for obvious reasons. Anyway, enjoy!

Early Access: Trail of Cthulhu - The Mystery of Brighton Lodge

This is Melissa's first time as GM running an Agatha Christie style mystery using the Trail of Cthulhu rules. It's pretty awesome guys.

RPPR After Hours: Fuck the Goddamn Batmobile - episode 6

We review Judge's Guild Journal #18, d20 Kazakhstan, Atlas Shrugged #3, and Arkham Knight's goddamn shitty motherfucking batmobile. 

Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JFpkUgFeYE

RPPR Illustrated: The Play's The Thing - Macbeth

Based on this AP episode: http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/2015/05/genre/fantasy/the-plays-the-thing-macbeth/

Thanks to Patsy McDowell for the art!

Also, Magpie Games has given us a coupon code for The Play's The Thing. Get 20% off your order of a print...

Early Access: Eclipse Phase - Duality - Episode 19

Sorry this is a tiny bit late. Caleb and I recorded a new RPPR episode today. It should go up soon. Going to record July's After Hours episode very soon. 

Anyway, enjoy more Eclipse Phase!

Patreon backer game: Call of Cthulhu - Subi Reef

I had an idea for a Call of Cthulhu scenario. It was set on an artificial island on Subi Reef in the South China sea. All characters are Chinese contractors or military personnel stationed on the island. A storm isolates the island and people begin to disappear. Then voices call out on the radio. Strange voices...

This game is freely available to everyone, thanks to the Patreon backers.

Behind the Scenes: The Heroes Of New Arcadia Campaign notes

When I was running the Heroes of New Arcadia campaign, I wrote a bunch of notes. Most (or all) of this material was posted to the RPPR forums but I figured a lot of you missed it the first time so I'm posting it all at once.

Early Access: Trail of Cthulhu: Masks of Nyarlathotep episode 9

Kenya chapter begins! This is a day late because I'm a monster and I took a day off because I got back from a trip. Sorry! Horrible monster, etc.

Behind the Scenes: Tribes of Tokyo session 2 and 3 game notes

Yeah, I'm breaking up the campaign notes into multiple posts instead of ginormous post. Read all of it at once might be a little overwhelming for some backers, plus the less time I have to generate blog posts for this, the more time I have for Base Raiders, Ruin, and the podcast.

Anyway, you'll get some insight into parts of the campaign the players never really touched on, plus my notes for what they did so I could keep track of everything.

Early Access: 13th Age - Shadows of Eldolan - part 1

This was going to be a one shot, but it took too long to finish in one session, so here we are.