Ross Payton

RPPR Illustrated: Revelations

A scene from Cthulhu Dark: Revelations - an early playtest of 2015-09-05 18:16:50 +0000 UTC View Post

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 kn...

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 de...

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 Cale...

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...

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 b...

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.  

2015-07-28 05:59:22 +0000 UTC View Post

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...

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

2015-07-23 00:23:05 +0000 UTC View Post

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 ...

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: 2015-07-03 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post

RPPR Illustrated: The Play's The Thing - Macbeth

Based on this AP episode: http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.c...

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 ...

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 isla...

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...

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 bl...

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.