Ross Payton

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...

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, t...

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...

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, s...

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 moun...

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 ...

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/

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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. St...

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.

A...

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.