Podcast appearances and mentions of ross payton

After the success of Jaws it only made sense that Giant Animals Attack movies would become all the rage in Hollywood, and with the recent passing of it's leading alligator actor Morris, it only seems fitting that Now is the time for Good Brews Bad Views watches Alligator. Notable reptile expert/podcaster extraordinaire Ross Payton joins Max, Ryan, and James to find out what happens when you flush an alligator into the sewer and then have it eat growth hormone infused lab animals.Death Roll your way to 1:32:57 for the post movie wrap up on all things Alligator, accompanying beers, and our personal favorite Giant Animals Attack movies.Check out Ross' Linktree for his many podcasts and projects. 

With the Darkfield Memo in hand, the Moments with Mothman crew return to La Fontainne Street to discover just deep the corruption runs, and if they will be able to stop it...Cast:Connor - Dyllon Flemming, ProducerDan - Derek "DC" Chesterson, VideographerClaire - Bethany Fuller, HostMax - HandlerOpening: Audioinsmusic - DarkscapeGet a copy of Darkfield by joining the Patreon of our good friend Ross Payton! 

Youtube cryptid sensations, Moments with Mothman, receive an anonymous submission about an unknown and undiscovered creature spotted in La Fontaine, Missouri. Is this the show's opportunity to take their operation to the next level?Cast:Connor - Dyllon Flemming, ProducerDan - Derek "DC" Chesterson, VideographerClaire - Bethany Fuller, HostMax - HandlerOpening: Audioinsmusic - DarkscapeGet a copy of Darkfield by joining the Patreon of our good friend Ross Payton!Check out Every Party Needs a Healer: The Baltimore Street Medic Bundle 

Good Brews Bad Views determines if there really is no fate but what they make by tuning into Terminator Salvation, is it as bad as they remember? Are the designs cool? Can they escape the movie, or are James, Ryan, Max and special guest Ross Payton doomed to fend off killer cyborg movies for all time?Tune your newly repaired audio listening device to 1:53:15  for the post movie wrap up on all things Terminator Salvation, Beer from a distant land, and a lengthy discussion on the diminishing returns of iconic 80s sci-fi franchises.  Check out Ross' Linktree for all of his excellent projects.Tickets to our screening of Surf II on May 31st at Planet Ant in Hamtramck, MI available hereLike what we're doing? Want to choose future episodes? Want to ensure we don't become thralls to undead aristocrats? Check out our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/goodbrewsbadviewsOpening theme: Tha Silent Partner – Prohibition Brew and Pork Chops

Support Night Clerk Radio on PatreonIn this episode, we're digging into Utopia District's 2023 Year In Review, a feature highlighting some of the best vaporwave (and associated genres) albums of 2023 as suggested by the community. Including our own Ross Payton! This kind of curation and highlighting the work of artists is so important. We had a blast checking out the 17 albums on the list that we had not previously covered.Come join us and find yourself some great music!The ArticleUtopia District's Features: 2023 A YEAR IN REVIEWTracks SamplesPlaque from my last whispers are the worst goodbyes by Machina PensantForgive Yourself from Forgive Yourself by Luxury NoiseCreditsMusic by: 2MelloArtwork by: Patsy McDowellRoss on TwitterBirk on TwitterNight Clerk Radio on TwitterNight Clerk Radio on InstagramNight Clerk Radio on Bluesky

Can the LOOTERS bounce?www.looterspodcast.comDiscord: https://discord.gg/Sn9PaVSRzdhttps://twitter.com/LOOTERSpodcasthttps://www.instagram.com/looterspodcast/https://www.tiktok.com/@looterspodcastCast:Ardi - Andrew GaltelandEl Capitan - Diana NúvalLevi - Ian OvertonEveryone Else - Mathew AberlyTheo - Melinda MacklemProducer: Nicolle GaltelandArt: Jordan JordanThis podcast is recorded under a SAG-AFTRA Collective Bargaining AgreementCheck out Role Playing Public Radio - a weekly actual play podcast of tabletop role playing game sessions. It is run by Ross Payton, a tabletop RPG writer and podcaster! You can find it wherever you're listening to us or at actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com

Can the LOOTERS expand their fleet?www.looterspodcast.comDiscord: https://discord.gg/Sn9PaVSRzdhttps://twitter.com/LOOTERSpodcasthttps://www.instagram.com/looterspodcast/https://www.tiktok.com/@looterspodcastCast:Ardi - Andrew GaltelandEl Capitan - Diana NúvalLevi - Ian OvertonEveryone Else - Mathew AberlyTheo - Melinda MacklemProducer: Nicolle GaltelandArt: Jordan JordanThis podcast is recorded under a SAG-AFTRA Collective Bargaining AgreementCheck out Role Playing Public Radio - a weekly actual play podcast of tabletop role playing game sessions. It is run by Ross Payton, a tabletop RPG writer and podcaster! You can find it wherever you're listening to us or at actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com

We're back for another episode! I found a bottle of Blanton's bourbon and to celebrate my discovery, we recorded a new episode. Spencer even has a new food rating system! Back The Night Clerk zine! A modern horror RPG scenario from Ross Payton! We're talking about a wide range of topics – check it out: […]

We're back for another episode! I found a bottle of Blanton's bourbon and to celebrate my discovery, we recorded a new episode. Spencer even has a new food rating system! Back The Night Clerk zine! A modern horror RPG scenario from Ross Payton! We're talking about a wide range of

Experience Points are a common game mechanic in tabletop role playing games, but what are they? From Dungeons and Dragons to the World of Darkness, a wide variety of games use experience points to measure character progression and improvement. We discuss how these mechanics affect play and brainstorm ideas for alternative progression systems. Check out The Night Clerk, a RPG scenario zine, written by Ross Payton, now on Backerkit! Get full show notes at our website! Discuss this episode on the LND Discord!

Max and Claire are joined by Ross Payton of Role Playing Public Radio, Night Clerk Radio, and Ludonarrative Dissidents to talk about The Night Clerk, a systemless architectural horror zine scenario being crowd funded on BackerKit. Hear the origin story of the scenario, the challenges of writing a scenario not tied to a RPG system, why Zines and architectural horror are having a moment, and why capitalism is to blame for all of this, among many other thrilling topics. Check out The Night Clerk on Backerkit until September 28th!Find Everything Ross does in one handy location at his LinktreeMax and Claire are on BlueSky, find them there and bug Claire to start a page for the podcast!Intro: Kirk Osamayo - Late Night Study Session

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we're talking to James Wallis about his forthcoming book Everybody Wins. It's a fantastic book that charts the recent history of board games through the lens of the forty-three winners of the German Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) award, from 1979 to 2022. We also talk a little bit about RPGs as well — how could we not, as James was behind Hogshead Publishing and their New Style series of RPGs (we're going to have him back to talk at length about The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen, promise). * * * Everybody Wins is in stores on March 14 — pre-order it now on Amazon (and pretty much everywhere else, too). You can also check out the Everybody Wins Podcast. James has a couple other audio/visual projects of interest. Ludonarrative Dissidents, with Greg Stolze and Ross Payton, is a podcast that looks at a different RPG every episode, while Inside the Rookery, is a weekly stream on RPG and storytelling in geek spaces.  You can further interface with James on Twitter, on Mastodon, through his outdated website or on Drive-Thru.

For both seasons of Ross Payton, Greg Stolze, and James Wallis' RPG podcast Ludonarrative Dissidents, Tech Diff has supported their Kickstarter. Because of this, we were able to sit down with James and Greg for a game. For season one, James ran a game for Greg and Ethan, of an in development RPG called Nancy Drow.Unfortunately there were hiccups with James' audio, but we had a lovely time regardless. And, as this is a playtest, it takes some time to get going as we go through character generation on mic.A pair of youths in a world of fantasy heroism have to live without any super powers or fighting skills. What seems like a simple purse-snatching turns into a much bigger problem...Nancy Drow is still in development. James can be found at his website, and Ludonarrative Dissidents can be found via their podcast.James - GMEthan - Jimmy Stonecutter, DwarfGreg - Hounmar Alden, Orc

If there's one thing Good Brews Bad Views loves, it's Jean-Claude Van Damme and movies featuring professional wrestlers, and Universal Soldier: The Return manages to combine both of these within 90 minutes.  JCVD expert Ross Payton  joins James, Ryan, and Max in what may be one the most 90s movie featured on the podcast. Set your cerebral implant to 1:23:53 for the post movie wrap up on Universal Soldier, the beers, and high points of Jean-Claude Van Damme's cinematic career worth checking out. Check Out the many things Ross does via his Linktree  Like what we're doing? Want to choose future episodes? Gain access to bonus episodes? Check out our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/goodbrewsbadviews Opening theme: Tha Silent Partner – Prohibition Brew and Pork Chops

Das zweite Szenario, das 2018 durch die FHTAGN-Redaktion bearbeitet wurde, nennt sich "Bestow" und ist wie das erste auch aus der Feder von Ross Payton. Julia und Volker beleuchten die Übersetzung und sprechen über die Ergänzungen gegenüber dem Original. Links: https://fhtagn-rpg.de/ https://www.deutschelovecraftgesellschaft.de/rollenspiel/ https://twitter.com/rosspayton https://www.delta-green.com/ http://fairfieldproject.wikidot.com/ https://fairfieldproject.fandom.com/

Richie and Ross go over what we know about One Dungeons and Dragons so far. Ross Payton is the host of Role Playing Public Radio, a RPG discussion podcast https://slangdesign.com/rppr/ and RPPR Actual Play, a weekly AP podcast https://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/ You can also find both podcasts by searching for the titles on your podcasting app. RPPR covers a variety of indie RPGs like Delta Green, Eclipse Phase, Fate, and more!  Ross Payton wrote Base Raiders, a Fate powered, superheroic dungeon crawling RPG, and Zombies of the World, a field guide to the undead. You can find him on Twitter https://twitter.com/rosspayton  He also hosts Night Clerk Radio, a vaporwave and haunted music review podcast https://www.nightclerkradio.com/  More Full Metal RPG https://linktr.ee/fullmetalrpg

Mit dieser Episode erhält das frisch gebackene dLG-Radio eine kleine, neue Reihe: Die FHTAGN Fragmente. Julia und Volker besprechen das erste Szenario, dass sich die FHTAGN-Redaktion Ende 2017 zur Bearbeitung vornahm. Es handelt sich um eine Delta Green Übersetzung namens "Burner" von Ross Payton. Links: FHTAGN - Lovecraft. Horror. Rollenspiel Deutsche Lovecraft Gesellschaft e. V. (Rollenspiel) Ross Payton (Twitter) Delta Green The Farfield Project The Farfield Project 2

We are excited to have with us  the internationally acclaimed and award-winning game designer and podcaster,  Ross Payton He is here to talk about his best-selling FATE Core system game, Base Raiders! Learn more about Ross' games and Podcasts at: http://www.baseraiders.com/ And: http://slangdesign.com/rppr/ Follow us: Curious to see the video version of this interview?  it's on our website too! www.storycomic.com www.patreon.com/storycomic www.facebook.com/storycomic1 https://www.instagram.com/storycomic/ https://twitter.com/storycomic1 For information on being a guest or curious to learn more about Storycomic? Contact us at info@storycomic.com   Thank you to our Founders Club Patrons, Marek Bennett and Matt & Therese Check out their amazing work at: https://marekbennett.com/ https://www.hexapus-ink.com/

Base Raiders is a Fate powered superhero RPG about dungeon crawling in abandoned villain and hero bases. Characters find super power sources in bases or buy them from the black market. It was written by Ross Payton and published in 2014. Buy Base Raiders here. Our season 1 finale, an actual play of Dueling Fops of VIndamere, is coming next week. After that, our Kickstarter for Season 2! Stay tuned!

More Like Guidelines returns with the first public playtest of Big King Wizard, a new competitive narrative card game by Don't Hurt Birds.We're really excited to be bringing Big King Wizard to life and your support is what makes it possible. You can back the project now over at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/storybox/big-king-wizard-a-competitive-roleplaying-card-gameYou can find Role Playing Public Radio over at https://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/ - check it out! Ross in on Twitter at https://twitter.com/rosspaytonAnd more of Ross' works are on Patreon, over at https://www.patreon.com/RPPRJoin the official DHB Discord to chat about TTRPGs, games, and all kinds of DHB projects hereCheck out our Patreon if you'd like to help us continue the show! Any support is super appreciated and we're planning to introduce some really cool rewards including shoutouts on the show https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirdsAll music in this episode is from the Anonymous Jinglesmith, contact them through Hello@Donthurtbirds.comSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/more-like-guidelines.

Ludonarrative Dissidents is a new podcast series from Ross Payton, Greg Stolze, and James Wallis. Check out the Kickstarter to help fund this project and get unique rewards! In each episode, we plan to focus on a particular RPG, looking at its mechanics, setting, and everything else to see what Support Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPR/ The post Ludonarrative Dissidents: Apocalypse World – Episode 0 appeared first on Role Playing Public Radio.

For our festive winter special we are joined by Ross Payton, creator of Role Playing Public Radio, to play a 'The Witcher' themed hack of Honey Heist. It gets real fucking weird.You can find Ross:On Twitter at https://twitter.com/rosspaytonRole Playing Public Radio can be found here: http://slangdesign.com/rppr/RPPR is on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPRHoney Heist is game by Grant Howitt (https://twitter.com/gshowitt) and this 'The Witcher' hack is by Cat_Elm on Twitter (https://twitter.com/cat_elm)Sorry Candel's audio is a little wonky for this episode!For updates or just to say hi, find us on Twitter @DHB_GamesJess is @Jessica_CrimesCandel is @CandelanternGoji is @Gojiberry_BBQJester is @ListsexualAnd Ben just kinda does his own thing.You can find The Carving Bones at thecarvingbones.com.Check out our Patreon if you'd like to help us continue the show! Any support is super appreciated and we're planning to introduce some really cool rewards including shoutouts on the show https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirdsOur theme music is by Anonymous Jinglesmith, contact them through Hello@Donthurtbirds.comContent warnings:Alcohol abuseReference to masturbationReference to pet deathPoisoningSupernatural enslavementLight tortureEmotional manipulation

For our festive winter special we are joined by Ross Payton, creator of Role Playing Public Radio, to play a 'The Witcher' themed hack of Honey Heist. It gets real fucking wierd.You can find Ross:On Twitter at https://twitter.com/rosspaytonRole Playing Public Radio can be found here: http://slangdesign.com/rppr/RPPR is on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPRHoney Heist is game by Grant Howitt (https://twitter.com/gshowitt) and this 'The Witcher' hack is by Cat_Elm on Twitter (https://twitter.com/cat_elm)Sorry Candel's audio is a little wonky for this and the next episode!For updates or just to say hi, find us on Twitter @DHB_GamesJess is @Jessica_CrimesCandel is @CandelanternGoji is @Gojiberry_BBQJester is @ListsexualAnd Ben just kinda does his own thing.You can find The Carving Bones at thecarvingbones.com.Check out our Patreon if you'd like to help us continue the show! Any support is super appreciated and we're planning to introduce some really cool rewards including shoutouts on the show https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirdsOur theme music is by Anonymous Jinglesmith, contact them through Hello@Donthurtbirds.comContent warnings:Alcohol abuseKidnappingCeltic Impulse by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3484-celtic-impulseLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseGalway by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3795-galwayLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

In the dead of night, gunfire blazes in a Connecticut office building requiring the quiet help of a new agent. Join Tilmann as he plays Kevin Wilson, a crime scene specialist whose job is about to take an unexpected turn, and Adam as the handler in this Delta Green Duet.  Under New Management is a Delta Green Shotgun scenario created by Ross Payton, a submission in 2017.   If you would like to support the podcast stop by our Patreon https://www.patreon.com/TwinCitiesbyNight Come by and visit our Discord! https://discord.gg/T9zeN9p Check us out on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/twin-cities-by-night/id1246523585?mt=2 Find us on Twitter! https://twitter.com/Twin_Cities_VtM Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TwinCitiesByNight/ Find us on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBUyj7h-xIhwsM3kHK56SRA For more White Wolf RPGs game play and media please check out https://www.facebook.com/groups/862703457198327

In the dead of night, gunfire blazes in a Connecticut office building requiring the quiet help of a new agent. Join Tilmann as he plays Kevin Wilson, a crime scene specialist whose job is about to take an unexpected turn, and Adam as the handler in this Delta Green Duet.  Under New Management is a Delta Green Shotgun scenario created by Ross Payton, a submission in 2017.   If you would like to support the podcast stop by our Patreon https://www.patreon.com/TwinCitiesbyNight Come by and visit our Discord! https://discord.gg/T9zeN9p Check us out on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/twin-cities-by-night/id1246523585?mt=2 Find us on Twitter! https://twitter.com/Twin_Cities_VtM Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TwinCitiesByNight/ Find us on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBUyj7h-xIhwsM3kHK56SRA For more White Wolf RPGs game play and media please check out https://www.facebook.com/groups/862703457198327

In the dead of night, gunfire blazes in a Connecticut office building requiring the quiet help of a new agent. Join Tilmann as he plays Kevin Wilson, a crime scene specialist whose job is about to take an unexpected turn, and Adam as the handler in this Delta Green Duet.  Under New Management is a Delta Green Shotgun scenario created by Ross Payton, a submission in 2017.   If you would like to support the podcast stop by our Patreon https://www.patreon.com/TwinCitiesbyNight Come by and visit our Discord! https://discord.gg/T9zeN9p Check us out on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/twin-cities-by-night/id1246523585?mt=2 Find us on Twitter! https://twitter.com/Twin_Cities_VtM Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TwinCitiesByNight/ Find us on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBUyj7h-xIhwsM3kHK56SRA For more White Wolf RPGs game play and media please check out https://www.facebook.com/groups/862703457198327

Note:  Special thanks to Ross Payton and Aaron Carsten of Role Playing Public Radio for donating this Star Trek series to RPX.    When the USS Mercury picks up a distress call from a Federation ambassador, the crew find themselves in the battling a mysterious outbreak while simultaneously preventing two warring factions from engaging in … Continue reading "Actual Play – Star Trek: Mercury – Episode 1" The post Actual Play – Star Trek: Mercury – Episode 1 appeared first on The Roleplaying Exchange.

Note:  Special thanks to Ross Payton and Aaron Carsten of Role Playing Public Radio for donating this Star Trek series to RPX.    When the USS Mercury picks up a distress call from a Federation ambassador, the crew find themselves in the battling a mysterious outbreak while simultaneously preventing two warring factions from engaging in … Continue reading "Actual Play – Star Trek: Mercury – Episode 1" The post Actual Play – Star Trek: Mercury – Episode 1 appeared first on The Roleplaying Exchange.

Join Ivan (Chris), Kaxius (Shanice), Glynperios (Zack), Phange (Heather), Rin (Mike), and Gorok (Gage) as they try to survive in the new world. The campaign is being run using the supplements created by Ross Payton of Role Playing Public Radio. And can be found here.    

Join Ivan (Chris), Kaxius (Shanice), Glynperios (Zack), Phange (Heather), Rin (Mike), and Gorok (Gage) as they try to survive in the new world. The campaign is being run using the supplements created by Ross Payton of Role Playing Public Radio. And can be found here.

Join Ivan (Chris), Kaxius (Shanice), Glynperios (Zack), Phange (Heather), Rin (Mike), and Gorok (Gage) as they try to survive in the new world. The campaign is being run using the supplements created by Ross Payton of Role Playing Public Radio. And can be found here.

Ross Payton is a podcast producer and freelance game writer. He's worked on content for Eclipse Phase, Delta Green, Red Markets, and more. He's the producer of Role Playing Public Radio and all their affiliated shows, as well as The Mixed Six! Ross Payton is someone I've always wanted to interview and I'm so grateful I finally got to speak with him. And I'm excited to share it with you! Find Ross on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rosspayton And get Ross' shows here: http://slangdesign.com/rppr/

While Origins 2019 is quickly becoming a distant memory, you too can recreate this magical experience. First, have four great days of fun playing board games and tabletop RPGs. Next, get a star-studded cast of special guests such as Role Palying Public Radio's  Ross Payton, Ethan and Greg from Technical Difficulties, and Birk – podcast … Continue reading "Episode 38 – Origins 2019 Wrap-up" The post Episode 38 – Origins 2019 Wrap-up appeared first on The Roleplaying Exchange.

The group gets ready to make their way to the ancient City of Stone, overrun by the scaled ones, what horrors will they fight along the way? Join Ivan (Chris), Kaxius (Shanice), Glynperios (Zack), Phange (Heather), Rin (Mike), and Gorok (Gage) as they try to survive in the new world. The campaign is being run using the supplements created by Ross Payton of Role Playing Public Radio. And can be found here.

The Group is joined by a member of the Grey Fangs Tribe Gorok (Gage) only as there already tense becomes worse. Join Ivan (Chris), Kaxius (Shanice), Glynperios (Zack), Phange (Heather), Rin (Mike), and Gorok (Gage) as they try to survive in the new world. The campaign is being run using the supplements created by Ross Payton of Role Playing Public Radio. And can be found here.

Ross Payton and I focus our minds on Scum and Villainy as we dive into the move Attune. From telekinetic powers to psychic visions to handling dangerous artifacts, this move offers a mechanical basis for a vast array of mental powers as well as narrative reward and consequence for opening your mind to the Way. We also discuss questions the GM can ask to help keep things flowing given the breadth of possibilities. You can follow Ross on Twitter at twitter.com/rosspayton and check out Role Playing Public Radio at patreon.com/rppr Content featured in this episode is from Scum and Villainy by Stras Acimovic and John LeBoeuf-Little. For more information, visit evilhat.com Music is by Nick Gravelyn. You can find more of his work at nickgravelyn.com You can follow the show on Twitter at twitter.com/thehardmove Support the show at patreon.com/thehardmove and subscribe to The Hard Move on iTunes or your podcast platform of choice. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thehardmove/support

I was fortunate to talk to Ross Payton of RPPR, the Mixed Six, and Base Raiders in addition to lots of freelance writing on everything from Red Markets and Eclipse Phase to Monsters and Other Childish Things and probably more. Ross can be found at @RossPayton on Twitter and here. Music is God Told Me To by Gumbel  Licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.

RPPR presents a panel on game design, hosted by Ross Payton, Jeff Barber, & Shane Ivey. We discuss our latest projects, thoughts on making games, & answer questions from the audience. I also talk about my latest ideas for Ruin, the architectural horror RPG I’ve been working on for a while. Support Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPR/ The post Game Design Workshop Panel at Gen Con 2017 appeared first on Role Playing Public Radio.

We're chatting with Ross Payton of RPPR. Role Playing Public Radio (RPPR) is an Ennie Award winning tabletop gaming podcast that offers advices for gamemasters and players, reviews, interviews with game designers, anecdotes, and more! It is hosted by Ross Payton and Tom Church. RPPR covers a wide variety of games and genres, from popular fantasy classics like Dungeons and Dragons to new sci-fi games like Eclipse Phase. http://slangdesign.com/rppr/ http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/ https://twitter.com/rosspayton https://www.facebook.com/groups/10556964513 https://www.patreon.com/RPPR https://www.amazon.com/Ross-Payton/e/B0054S6SAY/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1487160951&sr=1-2-ent Theme music created by Brett Miller http://www.brettmillermusic.net/

HP Lovecraft is undoubtedly a driving force in the ever-changing face of horror in the modern age.  While but one of a movement, his works changed the basic inspirations of horror from a universe of divine punishment doled out by monsters to a universe that couldn't be bothered to care if you lived or died.  His talk of ancient powerful beings from worlds beyond the stars and the insignificance of mankind were fantastical and horrifying in ways the stories of vengeful monsters couldn't be.  In the modern age, Lovecraft's work is still highly influential, but the original stories are a bit lacking in modern sensibilties.  We discuss those who took inspiration from Lovecraft and made horror exceptionally weird. Matt and Ross Payton from Role Playing Public Radio hosted this panel at Gen Con 2016.  Travis was supposed to lead this panel, but due to personal issues he was not able to make it to the con.

At Gen Con 2016, Dennis Detwiller ran his scenario “The Sentinels of Twilight” for James Causey, Patrick Harkin, Shane Ivey and Ross Payton. Guest appearance by [REDACTED], helpful wait staff at the Columbia Club. Something is taking people from national parks, and it…Read more →

Patreon is a popular crowdfunding website that allows creators to earn money from their supporters and fans on a regular cycle. This gives creators new opportunities and new challenges. Ross Payton from Role Playing Public Radio, Faust Kells from The Third Wheel, and Matt Campen from the Drunk and Ugly podcast all have experience using… Support Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPR/ The post Patreon for Creators at Gen Con 2016 appeared first on Role Playing Public Radio.

Gen Con 2015: Matt Campen and Ross Payton sat down and talked about their shared experiences designing, publishing, and producing roleplaying games. Game Design is a long and tedious process. Turning a pile of notes into a book can seem nearly impossible. There’s a phrase in journalism that all the mayonnaise in the world can’t turn chicken crap into chicken salad; nevertheless, you have to do it over and over each time. This panel explores the essential steps to consider when looking at your loose-chicken-parts collective of ideas and a formula to turn it into some chicken salad goodness. The post Indie Design the Chicken Salad Way at Gen Con 2015 appeared first on The Drunk and The Ugly.

Gen Con 2015: Matt Campen and Ross Payton sat down and talked about their shared experiences designing, publishing, and producing roleplaying games. Game Design is a long and tedious process. Turning a pile of notes into a book can seem nearly impossible. There's a phrase in journalism that all the mayonnaise in the world can't turn chicken crap into chicken salad; nevertheless, you have to do it over and over each time. This panel explores the essential steps to consider when looking at your loose-chicken-parts collective of ideas and a formula to turn it into some chicken salad goodness.

Ross Payton interviews Kenneth Hite, co-author of Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game and the Pelgrane Press role-playing game The Fall of Delta Green. Ross and Ken talk about playing Delta Green in the Sixties in The Fall of Delta Green,…Read more →

Ross Payton interviews Gil Trevizo, Delta Green scholar and author of the upcoming sourcebook Delta Green: Operational History. It was recently funded at the Kickstarter for Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game. Ross and Gil talk about the fun and challenges in…Read more →

In a seminar at Gen Con 2015, Adam Scott Glancy, Shane Ivey, and Greg Stolze discuss the challenges of Delta Green scenario design. Audio produced by Ross Payton. 0:00:00 — “This seminar is radically disorganized.” What are your favorite or least favorite…Read more →

Join us as Ross Payton stops in to talk with Travis about RPG Design, Social Contracts, Space Whales, and Rifts! Links to the wide and dazzling array of topics covered are below the cut. LINKS BELOW THE CUT RPPR’s The Haunting Pelgrane Press’s DramaSystem SRD RPPR’s Rifts: The Eliminators Kennith Hite Robin Laws F**k Yeah Space Whales The post Interview with Ross Payton appeared first on The Drunk and The Ugly.

The CarpeGM Interview Series - Episode 3 - Ross Payton     Notes -  I sat down with writer, game designer, and Ennie award winning podcaster, Ross Payton for a nice discussion about the ins and outs, and tips and tricks of running horror RPGs. We also spend some time discussing Ross's past and present projects, including, Base Raiders - a game of  super hero dungeon crawling that, at the time of this recording, is a live Kickstarter project.   (:20) What's on your geek card? (13:54) How do you run a horror game? (18:48) What do you do to promote player buy-in? (23:25) How do you determine what style of pacing to use? (25:07) How much control do you have over the game? (28:18) How do you keep mechanics out of the way of immersion? (32:52)What game systems work best for horror? (39:35) What are some of your inspirations from pop culture? (45:13) What's your favorite locale for a horror game? Media -  Role Playing Public Radio RPPR Actual Play The Unspeakable! Podcast Base Raiders (Kickstarter) Call of Cthulhu (RPG) Eclipse Phase (RPG) Wild Talents (Arc Dream Publishing) Curriculum of Conspiracy Road Trip Zombies of the World Delta Green Killsplosion! Unknown Armies (RPG) Ian MacLean (artist) Concept Art.org Invasive Procedures (RPG) Gum Shoe System (RPG) Fate (RPG) World of Darkness The King in Yellow (Archive.org) Night Floors Tokyo G-Cans Project (Wikipedia) BLDGBLOG Project Ice Worm (BLDGBLOG) Monsters and Other Childish Things (RPG) Little Fears (RPG) Grimm (RPG) Costume Quest (Steam) Ross Supported -The SCP Foundation SCP 173 The SCP - Top Rated Pages

It’s Monsters Friday again, bringing you an oldie from the early days of The Drunk and the Ugly, through a ransom event with RPPR’s own Ross Payton.  It through these games that we ended up bringing in Sam and Charlie eventually. In this adventure, following their victory over the Ur-Monster in the summer road trip, the daring Jimmy McPherson and Roy Ackerman receive an invitation to visit Cal Novelties, a wonderful toy factory whose owner has just passed and named them the successors to his toy throne, allowing them to become testers and designers. PLAYERS Bob (DracoStrife) – Jimmy McPherson.  Little 10-year-old person of becoming a famous comic book artist.  Comes up with brilliant plans and not-so-great execution. Chris (Wooberman) – Mr. Smacky. Mixed Martial Artist from hell, literally.  Has a giant orange body made completely from muscle.  Both hands are big red boxing gloves and wears matching Boxing Gloves.  Simple minded and fairly kind-hearted. Charlie – Roy Ackerson.  A wealthy boy born to a rich family whose parents were lost in a tragic train crash.  One night a bat flew in his window and he knew at that point that he had to become a necromancer to resurrect them. Matt – Nanaho Yoneda.  A kindly old Japanese ghost summoned accidentally by Roy when he tried to bring his parents back from the dead.  Very quiet and shy and acts as Roy’s protector whenever possible.  Sometimes she gets angry. The post MaOCT – Requiem for a Toy Factory with Ross Payton appeared first on The Drunk and The Ugly.

A vessel is making its way across the ocean, filled with a band of intrepid explorers. They have a dinner party with destiny in their future. This isn’t a game played by the Drunk and Ugly! Ross Payton of Role Playing Public Radio was kind enough to run a playtest of Sordid Dystopia for the RPPR group. Needless to say, madness ensued. It was fantastic. PLAYERS Tom – Kristoff, a Xexorian pirate and thief.  Constantly stealing everything that isn’t bolted down. Caleb – McShanahan Cumbersnatch, a New-age Naturalist, going to connect political ties with Vontier.  Incredibly lucky. Sara – Clockwork Octavia, a noble Xexorian farmer. Jason – Jean-Claude, a Vontais pirate. Drew – Takashi, a Cizok Aristocrat and Hunter.  Eager to claim land for his proud country. Aaron – Winthrop, a Xexorian miner.  Has dynamite. Thad – Ares, a tribal outlander.  Talks like Clint Eastwood. David – Maximillian McManus, an aristocrat who owns a Menagerie of Monocles. The post Sordid Dystopia – The Ship of More Fools appeared first on The Drunk and The Ugly.

And the Frieda’s Season Premiere continues with Part 2: Middle School. Spring Crescent is, on the surface, perfectly normal. Normal things happen, normal teachers conduct utterly normal classes, and no one gets sucked into a Lovecraftian alien’s spaceship. Secrets lurk below the surface, of course. Secrets that hide behind walls and coat closets, secrets that want to spread and steal and hurt. Emma, Scott, and Jingles are dropped directly into this tangled mess. Joined by the psychic girl Molly, who survived her own ghost story, our plucky Middle Schoolers will face down evil. Spring Crescent draws upon the source material in Ross Payton’s Curriculum of Conspiracy, which can be found at http://arcdream.com/. Side chatter PLAYERS Hannah – Jingle-Heimer Schmitt Matt – Scott Valle (the Eagle Boy) Nate – Emma Vaerbond Sam – Molly Weits The post Mrs. Frieda’s Session 28 – “You Can’t Have Any Pudding!” appeared first on The Drunk and The Ugly.

Hello there, Internet!  Somewhat long time, and, uh. . . infinitely no see.  One of these days we should do a webcam thing so that we can rectify that.  UNTIL THEN, though, you will have to make due with our wondrous vocal patterns.  Listen to these MP3s while looking at the spectral view.  It’ll blow your mind, seriously. Wow, that got off-topic fast.  In any case, do we have some news for you: First and foremost, the Sordid Dystopia Kickstarter is doing amazingly well.  I applaud all of you who are backing us presently.  I never expected us to reach our initial funding goal in under a day, or twice our funding goal in under a week, and I never expected us to be talking about reaching almost triple our funding goal before this project ended.  Seriously, you guys are the best. Second, Nate and I did a roundtable discussion of Monsters and Other Childish Things with one Ross Payton.  He apparently does a roleplaying podcast too.  We’re going to be in their 70th Episode “There’s Monsters in the School, Tom.”  The episode isn’t yet out, but it should be out shortly after this episode goes live.  I figured I just needed to get the word out on this Role Playing Public Radio show Ross and his friend Tom do. Thirdly, Nate got us all into the Little Fears Nightmare Edition recently.  We’ve played 8 sessions of a campaign composed of prefab adventures from the books, the Campfire Tales series, and things that we’ve written ourselves.  It’s shaping up to be a pretty rad set of things and hopefully it’ll be totally awesome when it gets posted here eventually.  What this means for your right now is that we have a whole bunch of Little Fears goodies for every one of our listeners: Nate recently wrote a scenario for a contest run by Little Fears superfan Jack O’Tears.  The theme of the contest was Duality, and Nate wrote a whole adventure about a Monster and a child who complete each other.  You can get the adventure here or go to the Little Fears Facebook Group and take it from there.  It had to be fairly short, so be prepared to improv or write a couple things and make it your own for your group.  He also ran a quick playtest of it and we will be posting the AP to our […] The post The Drunk and the Newsies – 2-14-2012 appeared first on The Drunk and The Ugly.

Recently, members of the Drunk and Ugly (joined by RPPR listener Patrick) got to play a game of Road Trip run by Ross Payton himself, as part of their Killsplosion Kickstarter! Welcome to Sunny Vale, a beautiful city that finds itself in the grips of constant monster attacks. The only thing standing in the way of Sunny Vale’s total destruction are the Sentai Rangers – martial artists and ninjas with a fondness for brightly colored outfits. Sunny Vale’s protectors are not all they seem, however – secrets hide behind the masks of the Sentai Rangers, secrets that must be uncovered at any cost. PLAYERS Patrick – Tommy Mezlowski.  A quiet kid who likes to act out. Sam – Flytrap Joe. Tommy’s monster, a giant fractal flytrap with infinite heads. Charlie  – Ralph “Dog” Jones.  A street-smart homeless kid who doesn’t like people to know his secret Matt – Mister Whispers.  Dog’s monster, a giant swarm of rats that wants to know ALL THE SECRETS. The post MaOCT – Sunny Vale with Ross Payton appeared first on The Drunk and The Ugly.

Picture in your mind a far off time ago:  Before the AP Site,  the Podcast, and even back before this group existed.  Way, way back in December of 2010, Sean and I were playing Minecraft together, and he told me that he was interested in playing Monsters and Other Childish things.  At the time, I was running the Road Trip campaign for my friends nearby, and I had written a few side scenarios that I wanted to test out.  I told Sean about these, and he sounded interested.  He contacted his friend Nate and got him somewhat interested. At the same time, I met Alex through another Minecraft server and asked him if he’d like to play along in some short games with Sean and his (at the time) unknown friend.  Over the coming week, I would talk to each person about the characters they’d want to make, and by the end, we had Max Chang (the asian mathelete extraordinare), Daniel Kerington (the hero with as much courage as he has not-brains), and Charlie Bale (the lovable douchebag).  In the discussion portion of the first game, we also talked up BattlePet Network, a stupid little TV show about training monsters and saving the world through card games. As for the full setting, we’re playing Ross Payton’s Road Trip, which is basically a Summer Road Trip to save the world from an evil cult.  This setting is wildly different from the standard Monsters and Other Childish Things setting in a lot of ways: It’s set during the summer, so no one has to go to school It’s a series of adventures all around the country Less imperative is placed on the “being a kid” aspect, and more on over-the-top goofy action and fun It is very story-driven One of the reasons that I loved Road Trip when I was starting out with Monsters is that it’s a fully-written campaign.  If you don’t know what your player-base is, Monsters is kind of a bear to write for.  Road Trip simplifies things a lot by basically being a D&D campaign set in the Monsters Universe.  It’s a series of small adventures all around the country which add up to stopping a big bad evil guy.  And it’s a whole lot of fun. Why is this session called “Session 0”?  Because this entire adventure is non-canon.  As I said, I wanted to playtest some […] The post Road Trip Session 0 – Ed’s Diner appeared first on The Drunk and The Ugly.

Zombies of the World: a web series from RPPR co-host Ross Payton. Visit the Zombies of the World website and tell your friends about it! The Codex of War: A New World Campaign PDF ransom is up! Donate now to make sure we meet the goal! Synopsis: Running a mystery based game is far different… Support Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPR/ The post RPPR Episode 41: The Smoking d20 appeared first on Role Playing Public Radio.

Opening music: I’m Dungeons You’re Dragons by the Alligators Hosted by Ross Payton and Tom Church Promos: Rpgpodcasts.com and The Tome Podcast Brand new: Join the RPPR Facebook group! Synopsis: Sooner or later, your favorite game is going to become old and tired. The players will read every sourcebook, the GM will run every written… Support Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPR/ The post RPPR Episode 12: Everything Old is New Again appeared first on Role Playing Public Radio.

Performed by Ross Payton and Tom Church Synopsis: Every gamer has been in a game that has imploded. Why do some games fall apart? We look at how bad GMing can cause a game to not only fail but implode by looking at some of the games we’ve been in. Also, a new Letter from… Support Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPR/ The post RPPR Episode 02: When Games Implode appeared first on Role Playing Public Radio.