Ross Payton

RPPR Actual Play

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Role Playing Public Radio presents a weekly Actual Play podcast of tabletop role playing game sessions. We play a wide variety of RPGs, from popular classics like Dungeons and Dragons and Call of Cthulhu to indie hits like Red Markets and Fate. Some of our episodes are stand-alone scenarios and we also feature ongoing campaigns in games like Delta Green, Eclipse Phase, and Base Raiders. Give us a listen if you want to hear a great gaming crew fight evil, try outrageous plans to save the day and joke about it.

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Ross Payton

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Jul 9, 2026

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Episodes

Eclipse Phase: Duality episode 10 25.01.2015

The Jovian Republic chapter of Duality begins! A group of sentinels has been sent into Republic to find and stop a cell of exhuman terrorists. Posing as new immigrants or as hypercorp consultants, the team must make contact with a local cell of Firewall agents, and investigate leads while avoiding both the exhumans and the Jovian police. This all must done with basic morphs and limited weapons and...

Trail of Cthulhu – The Dream Factory – Part 2 21.01.2015

The secrets of Hollywood have never been so dark! After experiencing missing time, the private investigators discover a secret cult operating within Los Angeles. Their cryptic allies have told them the cult owns a weapon that can destroy the cursed mirror in their possession, but what is it? Even if they find the weapon, their mission to rescue the actress from the clutches of the cult will be no...

Call of Cthulhu: Shanghaied 16.01.2015

Prepare for adventure on the high seas and in distant lands in this special double length episode of Call of Cthulhu! It begins with a group of would-be gold prospectors in 1848 as they arrive in San Francisco. The trio enter the wrong bar and wind up on a merchant ship on its way to Shanghai. First off, the ship will travel to Rook island to load up on spices. The new sailors try to adapt to life...

Eclipse Phase: The Shepherd – Duality episode 9 10.01.2015

The Jovian chapter of Duality begins! As we learned from Erasure Squad, a group of exhuman terrorists plan to reenact the Fall in the Jovian Republic. But before Firewall can send in a team of sentinels to investigate and stop the exhumans, we turn the narrative to Shepherd station, a small military habitat. It is a refueling and repair depot for the Jovian Fleet and occasionally renders aid to da...

Trail of Cthulhu – The Dream Factory – Part 1 04.01.2015

Picking up from Shanghai Bullets, a group of investigators has possession of a deadly mythos artifact as they return from China to America. Unfortunately it also appears to be indestructible. They research methods of destroying the cursed thing and soon find themselves embroiled in investigating the supernatural full time, including bouts of missing time and encounters in the Dreamlands. This even...

Fate Core: Save Game – Castlevania 28.12.2014

Save Game is a setting for the Fate Core RPG about old school video games. Specifically, it's about a group of heroes in the video game universe fighting the evil glitches that are infecting and corrupting everything and everyone. One such group of heroes has been tasked with traveling to Castlevania and determining which of the major characters in that game is secretly infected with the glitch. I...

Eclipse Phase: The Outside Context Problem 22.12.2014

Proxy Cogburn, leader of the Firewall presence on exoplanet Minerva 4, is personally leading a team of agents to explore a possible X-threat on Wormwood, an infamous gatecrashing site. Wormwood is nothing but a massive tunnel network stretching out for hundreds of kilometers in all directions from its gate. It is believed to be an asteroid, but no one has found a way out yet and the tunnels have y...

Trail of Cthulhu: Shanghai Bullets 16.12.2014

News: RPPR B-Sides volume 2 is out! Click here to check it out! We have playtests of Call of Cthulhu scenarios, games of Fiasco, and a whole lot more! Synopsis: Guns-blazing danger portends and international intrigue unfurls in the city of conspiracy, the licentious, opium-infused Berlin of the East. In the shadow struggle between nations, no weapon is more fiercely coveted than the star mirror. I...

Dungeon World: Inverse World – The Sky Adventure Begins! 10.12.2014

Inverse World is a setting for Dungeon World that adds a lot of new material to the game like skyships and robots. Of course, we had to give it a shot. In this one shot, an adventurous skyship crew finds themselves in trouble in regards when a certain Eternal Majestic Bastion of the Perfect Congress of the Lighted Legion...malfunctions. Can the adventurers save the day despite the explosions, angr...

Eclipse Phase: Duality episode 8 04.12.2014

The Firewall team has found the secret lab controlled by the Jante corporation, but can they get its secrets without being killed? Private military contractors are trying to contain the exsurgent infection, which is not yet under control. In order to get the data they need, the team must deal with both the heavily armed mercenaries and the deadly exsurgent-infected abominations.  Of course, the la...

5E Dungeons and Dragons: The Dissidents of Darland 29.11.2014

In our very first game of 5E Dungeons and Dragons, Sean tries GMing for the first time! Fortunately, this turned out less train-wreckish than the Haunting. After a long war, a formerly powerful nation struggles to rebuild. The switch from monarchy to a republic form of government has also raised tensions between the various political factions. In other words, this is the fantasy Weimar Republic. T...

Trail of Cthulhu: The Final Revelation – The Rending Box 24.11.2014

News: Base Raiders is currently part of the Bundle of Holding! Pick up the Fate +2 Bundle to get many great Fate system games! In an antiques shop in North London, there is a box. Inside the box is an ancient creature, seeping through into the world. It will show the Investigators the universe as it really is. The Rending Box is the final Purist adventure for Trail of Cthulhu. The previous scenari...

Eclipse Phase: Duality episode 7 18.11.2014

The Firewall agents have set up a honey pot operation in order to learn more about the connection between the Tongs and Loren Kristol. Even if their high stakes deception works, how long can they operate before they are detected? The Titanian Commonwealth seems peaceful, but dark forces lurk in the shadows. New Quebec may be as dangerous as the frigid wilderness of Titan!

Call of Cthulhu: He Calls Me By The Thunder 14.11.2014

At the end of the Civil War, two wounded Confederate veterans stumble through the wreckage of central Georgia, trying to get the passes they need to safely return home. When they arrive at an abandoned Union garrison at a remote plantation, they soon  realize that there may be worse things than Yankees lurking in the wake of Sherman's march, and their war might not quite be over. Or maybe they'll...

Trail of Cthulhu: The Final Revelation – The Dance in the Blood 08.11.2014

There are monsters beneath the earth. You cannot fight them. You cannot run from them. And they are closer than you think. In a forgotten corner of Northern England, between the rolling hills and tranquil dales nestles a village plagued by terrible secrets and subterranean horrors. Every 119 years the village of Manesty is torn apart, its inhabitants massacred. It happened in 1697. It happened in...

Eclipse Phase: Duality episode 6 02.11.2014

The Firewall team tasked with finding Loren Kristol have farcast to the Titanian Commonwealth in order to pursue a lead they found on Ceres. Orienting themselves to New Quebec results in a bit of culture shock but they have no choice. Kristol formed a conspiracy with the Tongs and a mysterious corporation. Furthermore, a few of the nomadic Hulder seem to be involved. The Commonwealth prides itself...

Monsters and Other Childish Things: Five Nights at Freddy’s 29.10.2014

Five Nights at Freddy's is a scary video game about a creepy restaurant with even creepier animatronic robots. In other words, it is a perfect fit for Monsters and Other Childish Things. A group of kids visit Freddy's and get very special prizes that grant them strange new powers (and a very special friend!). Unfortunately for them, it also teleports them into Freddy's after the restaurant closes....

Kerberos Club: The Grandfather Paradox 24.10.2014

The Kerberos Club, that great pile of mouldering stone in the otherwise respectable Square of Saint James, is refuge for the Empire's monsters and broken heroes. It is sanctuary and sometimes home to those who have gazed too long into the darkness and those who have been touched by the Strange. Occasionally members of the club join together to confront threats to the unsuspecting peoples of the Em...

Trail of Cthulhu: The Final Revelation – The Watchers In The Sky 18.10.2014

News: Last 48 hours for the RPPR Kickstarter for Boiling Point! Thanks to everyone who backed it. The Friday Group continues their investigation into the supernatural. They uncover documents related to an avian threat that another group of investigators tried to tackle. A madman feeds the birds, paranoid they are watching him. Later, the same strange birds stare from the rooftops, warping the laws...

Eclipse Phase: The Spa 14.10.2014

News: Please support our latest Kickstarter, Boiling Point! We have less than a week to go. Please help support RPPR by backing it. Synopsis: a group of technicians work at the Spa, a remote lab hidden in the remote Titanian wilderness. Unfortunately for them, one of the samples shipped to the lab has escaped, which happens to be infected with the exsurgent virus. The workers soon learn that isn't...

Base Raiders: Boiling Point – part 2 07.10.2014

News: Please support our latest Kickstarter, Boiling Point! This is the conclusion of the RPPR playtest of the adventure and if you contribute to the Kickstarter, you will get a chance to playtest it as well. Synopsis: Professor White and his band of base raiders have found a network of underwater bases off the coast of New York, now populated with a race of alien shark people known as the Selachi...

Trail of Cthulhu: The Final Revelation – The Dying of St Margarets 04.10.2014

News: There's a little over two weeks left on Boiling Point, a new adventure for Base Raiders. Please support RPPR by contributing to this project. Synopsis:The Final Revelation gives your Investigators the opportunity to play through a Purist campaign set in the United Kingdom of the 1930s where there is no escape, no comfort and no salvation when faced with the Mythos. Your Investigators are pow...

Eclipse Phase: Duality episode 5 28.09.2014

News: We have a Kickstarter up for an adventure for Base Raiders. Please support RPPR by backing this project :D Synopsis: The gatecrashers turned Firewall agents have infiltrated the Hidden Concern, a powerful organized crime group of octopus uplifts. They must find out as much about Loren Kristol's plan as possible. To do so, they must navigate the treacherous underworld, both figuratively and l...

Base Raiders: Boiling Point – part 1 22.09.2014

News: Please support our latest Kickstarter, Boiling Point! It's a brand new adventure for Base Raiders and stretch goals will include a death trap focused supplement by Caleb! A group of base raiders are forewarned of a threat to the world, somewhere off the coast of New York. They soon realize it must come from an abandoned underwater base, the home of a missing superhero named Hot Water. The ra...

Call of Cthulhu: The Sense of the Sleight of Hand Man episode 7 17.09.2014

News: We have a new Kickstarter up for an adventure for Base Raiders. Check out Boiling Point! The journey of the dreamers has finally reached its end. They have returned to the waking world, but their nightmares have only begun. For one, they awake in a mental asylum far from home. It soon becomes clear that the dreamers must return to the start of their journey, to the Peach Blossom Restaurant i...

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