Ross Payton

Online Game Announcement for February 2024

Mork Borg: Stain the Bastion with Blood

Time: Saturday February 17th at 12 pm central time

Players:2 to 5 - character generator here https://scvmbirther.makedatanotlore.dev/ or post your own

Synopsis: The horde is on the march. A murderous horde of vile scum, eager to kill everyone in their path. You can't outrun them. The only way ...

Early Access: Savage Rifts - Symphony of the End - Episode 5

What campaign is complete without a prison break scenario? The Tomorrow Legion has to break out the muse of outlaw country music from a coalition prison! 

Early Access: Delta Green - Lethe

A team of agents are sent out on a routine mission to retrieve a tome from an estate before it goes up for auction. Then the shit hits the fan.

This is my shotgun scenario entry for the 2023 contest. Enjoy! 

Early Access: Savage Rifts - Symphony of the End - Episode 4

The Tomorrow Legion heads to a shopping mall to rescue a muse and discover a sentient nuclear missile. Can they protect the mall from an impending Coalition attack?

Mega Dungeon Meandering - Episode 3 - Stonehell - Level 2

Enter the Reptile House! Tom is back because one quadrant of this level is focused on reptilian creatures, so we had to get an expert. We also look at the other quadrants: The Asylum, Without Doors, and the Hobgoblin Redoubt. Join us in our expedition as we delve ever deeper into Stonehell! 

Check out Chris' video essays on Youtube about video games. They're extremely good!  

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Early Access: Delta Green: Puppet Shows and Shadow Plays - Part 2

The agents must track down a ruthless killer in the desert before he strikes again. But even if they catch him, can they stop him?

RPPR Illustrated: Labyrinth of Lost Futures - Suburban Frequencies

This is the second playtest scenario I've made for Labyrinth of Lost Futures. It's an open-ended investigation where the PCs have to find the hidden source of an evil broadcast signal. My goal is to post some playtest actual plays later this year and hopefully start a campaign. Next month, we'll have a hint about the nature of the campaign! 

After Hours: Far West - Part 3 - Setting

We're back on our journey to the Far West! This time Noah, Aaron and I look through the setting material to figure out what you actually do in Far West. What do adventurers do in this game? Let's find out.

Check out Noah's podcast, Thinking Too Hard About Anime!  

Early Access: Savage Rifts - Symphony of the End - Episode 3

The Tomorrow Legion sends in a team to rescue the Heavy Metal muse as they face off demons in the Federation of Magic! 

Online Game and Consulting for January 2024

RPG Consultations

I have three slots open for $10  patrons and higher available this month for RPG design consultations! If  you have any RPG project or design question you want to discuss, I am  happy to help! I've helped patrons with scenarios, campaigns, full  games, and outlining projects so far and it's been a lot of fun for us!  To sign up, please post a comment on this post and I'll message you to  arrange a time.

I plan to o...

Early Access: Delta Green: Puppet Shows and Shadow Plays - Part 1

Thirteen people have vanished along Highway 70 in the Arizona desert.  That stretch of road—the press already calls it the “Devil’s  Highway”—runs through the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. Tribal  police and state investigators are at a loss. Now the FBI steps in. It  sends your agents. They may find a trail of terror that leads far from  Arizona and a deeper evil than they can hope to overcome.

Early Access: Savage Rifts - Symphony of the End - Episode 2

The Tomorrow Legion team jumps into the Classical Music Realm to learn more about the muses! 

Early Access: Fate Condensed: Fallout - Radioactive Dreams

In the grim dark future of Fallout New Vegas, a crook on parole is given a chance to get out of the system - solve a case of theft. To keep an eye on him, an experimental robotic parole officer is assigned to work as his partner. Can this unlikely duo crack the case? 

(I wanted to do a buddy cop thing set in Fallout New Vegas - Chris and David are the buddy cops!)

RPPR Illustrated: Labyrinth of Lost Futures - Saint of Late Nights

I am working on a new standalone RPG tentatively called Labyrinths of Lost Futures. It's a hauntological themed RPG.  Adventures are themed after physical media - VHS tapes, novels, records, video games and so forth. Rules light, player facing, d20 based, a bit like Mork Borg but we'll see how it goes. I've playtested it a few times and I plan to playtest it a LOT next year. This is the first playtest adventure - an action movie dungeon crawl in a skyscraper. 

Mega Dungeon Meandering - Episode 1 - Stonehell - Level 1

Chris and I descend the stairs down to level 1! Each level of Stonehell is divided into 4 quadrants, each with a different theme. In this episode we'll meet an evil leper hermit who just wants to be left alone, lots of undead, a sphinx, and the friendliest kobolds you'll meet in an OSR dungeon! 

Check out Chris' video essays on Youtube about video games. They're extremely good!   

Early Access: Savage Rifts - Symphony of the End - Episode 1

Our first Savage Worlds campaign begins! We're using Savage Rifts to run a custom made campaign about the power of music! 

Online Game Announcements for December 2023

Two games this month! Next month, I'll put a poll up for an AP scenario conversion.

Delta Green: Bleak Dawn

Time: Thursday, December 21 at 6 pm CST

Players: 2 to 5 - pregens available. One PC is a DG agent and the others are friendlies who live near the agent and have worked with them before. The DG agent must take the damaged veteran option - any work. This can be applied to a pregen.

Synopsis: The agent lives in a ...

Early Access: Monsters and Other Childish Things - Vermis

Two friends discover a rare video game called Vermis and play it for their livestream. Little do they know that the game is mystically cursed! 

Early Access: Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes - Part 16 - Midnight

    Camilla: You, sir, should unmask.

    Stranger: Indeed?

    Cassilda: Indeed, it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.

    Stranger: I wear no mask.

    Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda) No mask? No mask!

AP Scenario: Post Mortem Version 2

I updated the text of Post Mortem (formerly the Actual Play adventure Delta Green Post Mortem) to include advice on running the scenario. I also changed references to Delta Green to make it more generic so it's easier to run this scenario in other systems.

Next mo...

Early Access: Subsurface - The Backrooms

Subsurface is a rules light action horror RPG themed around underground labs filled with monsters. I modified it a bit to fit the Backrooms. 

FIST: Reflection in Tears

A citizen’s group in Hong Kong contracted FIST for a search and destroy mission in Kowloon Walled City. They received a warning from a whistle blower in Modular Synergy, a corporation dabbling in...unwise research. They’re conducting field tests of the Temporal Energy Angular Reflector inside the enclave. This cannot be allowed. You need to find it and shut it down. An open-ended exploration scenario with light puzzle-solving elements. Investigate the different components of the machine an...

After Hours: Far West Part 2 - Character Creation

Before I can run Far West, we have to make characters for it! Aaron, Baz, Noah, and I make characters for the adventure and see if we can understand the rules. Kung Fu is an attribute! Aspects exist! Plus, an unexpected secret guest star jumps in the episode! 

Early Access: Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes - Part 15 - Carcosa

    Along the shore the cloud waves break,

    The twin suns sink behind* the lake,

    The shadows lengthen

    In Carcosa.

    Strange is the night where black stars rise,

    And strange moons circle through the skies

    But stranger still is<...