Ross Payton

Behind the Scenes: Ann's notes for Masks of Nyarlathotep - part 1

One of our players for the Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign, Ann, took great notes. GREAT notes. 13 pages worth by the end of the campaign in fact. Here's the first four pages - in low and high contrast versions.

RPPR Early Access: Eclipse Phase - Duality episode 18

Shit seems to be working now. Anyway, this is the start of the Ultimates chapter. Let the celebrations begin!

RPPR After Hours: The Schlock Singularity

In this episode, we review three RPG source books: Tarlkin's Landing from Judge's Guild, Earthshaker from TSR, and The Nightlife RPG by Stellar Games. We also discuss the gradual merging of bad movies like Samurai Cop and the Room into a schlock singularity and the future of bad-good movies.

RPPR Illustrated: The Repairer of Reputations

The shocking finale of our actual play of the Repairer of Reputations. Listen to the game here: http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/2015/05/genre/horror/trail-of-cthulhu-the-repairer-of-reputations/

Thanks again for supporting RPPR!

Art by Patsy McDowell 2015-06-04 22:32:51 +0000 UTC View Post

Early Access: Trail of Cthulhu - Masks Of Nyarlathotep episode 8

WOOO LET'S SEE IF PATREON LETS ME UPLOAD A FILE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Behind the Scenes: Fiction - Excavation

This is a short story I wrote years ago. It could work as a scenario seed for Call of Cthulhu, Unknown Armies, or any modern horror game.

RPPR Early Access: The Play's the Thing - Macbeth

Welp, let's try this new Patreon posting system and hope it works. It already ate the first draft of this post but hey we got shit like this

Early Access - RPPR Actual Play: Eclipse Phase - Duality 17 - REPOST

WTF PATREON - reposting the mp3 because it didn't show up in the last post

Early Access - RPPR Actual Play: Eclipse Phase - Duality 17

I'm leaving tomorrow morning for Comicpalooza so you get a SUPER early access AP. Don't get used to it.

Early Access - RPPR Actual Play: Trail of Cthulhu - Masks of Nyarlathotep 7

More London antics and by that I mean killing cultists in the streets

RPPR Patreon AP: Call of Cthulhu - Die High

Aaron ran a CoC scenario from The Unspeakable Oath #22 - listen to the game on Insert Quest Here: https://insertquesthere.wordpress.com/2015/05/18/call-of-cthulhu-die-high-online-game/

Behind the Scenes: Ritual of the Masked Hero

Another idea I wrote up years ago but did nothing with it. This is a continuation of the ideas I started with in Age of Masks.

New benefit for $10 and higher backers - Vote on the next one shot AP to be posted!

We play a lot of great games and we're in the fortunate position to have an embarrassment of riches right now. As you may know, I post games in the following order: Campaign A Campaign B One Shot Obviously, the campaign games are set so they can't be altered. However, I have total discretion over the one shot APs and we have so many good ones available right now, I can't decide what order to post them! I will make a post viewable only to the $10 and higher backers that lists our current queue...

Early Access - RPPR Actual Play: Trail of Cthulhu - Repairer of Reputation

Bill ran a great one shot based on the Repairer of Reputation, a canonical KiY story.

Behind the Scenes: Pregens for Dr. Nova's Going Away Party

No stats because I'm lazy but I did write up their back stories. The AP is here btw: http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/2014/02/systems/ore-system/a-dirty-world/a-dirty-world-dr-novas-going-away-party/

RPPR After Hours: Omniboob - deadEarth and Roar - Part 2

We discuss deadEarth's setting and starting adventure, Caleb shares his thoughts on the game, and we talk about Roar, the craziest goddamn movie ever made. Music: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Apache_Tomcat/Whats_Later/12_Rockin_In_The_Jungle Image: Caleb's notes during our discussion of deadEarth.

Early Access - RPPR Actual Play: Eclipse Phase - Duality 16

Extropia WOOOOOO

RPPR After Hours: Omniboob - deadEarth and Roar - Part 1

Tom, Aaron, and I went up to St. Louis to catch the live Night Vale show. Before that though, we went through character creation in deadEarth. The hotel's fridge was on for the first time, so there's a bit of background noise. If it bothers you all, I can go back and try to remaster it but I figured you guys would want to hear the nuances of chargen in this gem of a rpg. Learn more about deadEarth here: 2015-05-07 17:51:55 +0000 UTC View Post

Early Access - RPPR Actual Play: Trail of Cthulhu - Masks of Nyarlathotep 6

Stuff in London happens. Enjoy!

RPPR Illustrated: The Night Clerk

A memorable scene from http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/2011/10/systems/call-of-cthulhu/call-of-cthulhu-the-night-clerk/ Thanks for supporting RPPR!

Behind the Scenes: Campaign Notes for Tribes of Tokyo - part 2

More notes about Tribes of Tokyo. This covers the front organizations and the first session. If you've listened to the APs, then you can see that I didn't follow everything in these notes and the players missed some plot lines. As always, feel free to ask questions, if you have any.

Early Access - RPPR Actual Play: Dungeon Crawl Classics - Sailors on the Starless Sea

The peasant meat grinder was a helluva game.

Behind the Senes: Deathpact - Horror RPG Proposal

Years ago, I had an idea for a different kind of horror RPG. Deathpact was meant to solve 2 common problems in horror games: death of PCs as a failure mode and the monster mash. In other words, throwing lots of monsters in a game just because you can.In Deathpact, the players are immortal but cursed humans fated to slay a single unique monster. They cannot escape or find peace until it is dead. The monster is a singularly powerful being. If a PC dies, they lose memories and other parts of themse...

Early Access - RPPR Actual Play: Eclipse Phase - Duality 15

Extropia chapter begins! Let's see if the upload fucks up again.

Repost: Patreon AP: Eclipse Phase - Jacques

Jacques is an isolated brinker habitat hidden in the depths of Neptune. We know very little else about it. Firewall has recently found out that it has gone silent. You are to farcast to Mushroom, a nearby brinker habitat and find a way to egocast into Jacques. We believe this may connect to an ongoing investigation of an exsurgent vector. This session had 5 patron players and a good time was had by all. You can either download the mp3 of the game here or listen to it via Youtube here: 2015-04-22 03:20:34 +0000 UTC View Post

RPPR Patreon AP: Eclipse Phase - Jacques

MP3 eaten again please go to https://www.patreon.com/creation?hid=2249631

Early Access - RPPR Actual Play: Trail of Cthulhu - Masks of Nyarlathotep 5

The London chapter begins! Guess which NPC they visit first. Hint: It's not the best choice. This is a repost because Patreon ate the mp3 the first time.

RPPR Illustrated: Sunset of the King

From this AP: http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/2013/06/systems/call-of-cthulhu/call-of-cthulhu-tsunset-of-the-king/ Thanks again to Patsy McDowell for the fine art! Check out his art blog here: http://residentmedieval.tumblr.com/

Early Access - RPPR Actual Play: Call of Cthulhu - Last flight of 0237 - Part 2

Here's the conclusion to Tom's adventure. Sorry it's a bit late!

Online Game Announcement: April 20 - Eclipse Phase - Jacques

Jacques is an isolated brinker habitat hidden in the depths of Neptune. We know very little else about it. Firewall has recently found out that it has gone silent. You are to farcast to Mushroom, a nearby brinker habitat and find a way to egocast into Jacques. We believe this may connect to an ongoing investigation of an exsurgent vector. Time: April 20th at 5 PM CST. Characters: Any pregen with reasonable investigative skills and outer system background is allowable. No Direct Action Mercenar...