Ross Payton

@rosspayton

Podcaster and writer. I focus mostly on tabletop RPGs, and obscure electronic music. Host of Role Playing Public Radio, Ludonarrative Dissidents, and Night Clerk Radio. (he/him) - linktree

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Ross Payton@rosspayton· 11d

#gencon is going great!

Ross Payton@rosspayton· 16d

I've created a new podcast mini-series on the RPPR Patreon: Dungeon Realtor! We look at dungeon as though they were zillow listings. Things heat up when a dragon @valtarra.bsky.social and her warforged companion @thaddeus.zone look at a cloud fortress for sale! www.patreon.com/RPPR/posts/d...

Ross Payton@rosspayton· 16d

Role Playing Public Radio is going to #Gencon this year! We are hosting panels on RPG system design, scenario writing, freelancing, Delta Green, The Black Company RPG, Red Markets 2E, and a RPPR live episode recording! Get more details here gencon.eventdb.us/keyword.php?...

Ross Payton@rosspayton· 19d

When you lose SAN in a Delta Green game

Ross Payton@rosspayton· 22d

just saw this review of RPPR's actual plays of @deltagreen.bsky.social and it made my day! From throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2023/08/four... and throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2026/07/even... - thanks again @valtarra.bsky.social and @hebanongames.bsky.social for running DG on RPPR!

Role-Playing Public Radio

It's RPPR, you've probably already listened to it.
Veteran handler and players; Ross knows what he's doing.
Probably the truest-to-table experience you'll find in actual plays.
Usually one-shots, so not many home scenes or campaign features.
The show to listen to if you want a good idea of how the game is run and played in practice.
Not the show to listen to if you are looking for a story.
Nowhere Lane and the current Impossible Landscapes AP are some of the best Delta Green content I have listened to, period. Impossible Landscapes bucks the RPPR trend by being a very character-focused campaign. Players are really into it and doing a fantastic job. Ross is spinning an absurd number of plates and none have crashed yet.
Also that first run of Lover in the Ice, primo gross.
Recommended for: I want Delta Green as it is played.

RPPR: The Labor of Dogs

The only one of these I am actively listening to at time of writing: this one's an all-timer. Not just the name (which is an all-timee in and of itself), but in just how good the component missions are - I think we're done with 3/5 at this point, and each one has been a very distinctly 2020s flavor of awful and weird. Like I would almost call it cringe horror? It's leaning into the ripped-from-the-headlines reality of "sorry, the villains here are evil and stupid and their vapidity is matched only by their temporal power and they will combine the two into lethal danger for everyone around them in an attempt to squeeze a bit of profit they don't need from a source they don't understand." That's the good shit. The real danger isn't Cthulhu, it's some C-suite trying to exploit Cthulhu in stupid ways.

Ross Payton@rosspayton· Jun 15

I've written a free scenario for Mothership and it's now on DTRPG www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... - Check out the Oblivion Broadcast, a paranoid murder mystery set on an isolated space station.

Ross Payton@rosspayton· Jun 15

After the Raid came out, I compared everything I saw to it. The Furious is the new benchmark for martial arts action cinema. It's as good as the hype says it is. Go see it in theaters if you can.

Ross Payton@rosspayton· Jun 7

Fuck you I won't do what you tell me

Ross Payton@rosspayton· May 31

what did he mean by this

kane parsons with subtitles reading "there's all sorts of ways to get programs"

Ross Payton@rosspayton· May 30

Trying out some focus stacking today at the cops and robbers cafe #photography #macrophotpgraphy

Ross Payton@rosspayton· May 27

Got a review copy of a new horror rpg, Frogfather, from Tuesday Knight Games. Looks great! Eager to dive in

Ross Payton@rosspayton· May 23

I think this @deltagreen.bsky.social scenario idea has potential

Star Trek DS9 intro image with the text "Stephen Alzis sends the agents to DS9 as a joke"

Ross Payton@rosspayton· May 18

Discussing the types of RPG maps and why we need them with Joe from Heroic Maps in the latest RPPR episode www.patreon.com/posts/158613...

Ross Payton@rosspayton· May 11

Not according to Tim Kask

Ross Payton@rosspayton· May 9

Do you know the answer?

Ross Payton@rosspayton· May 6

Local bookstore opened up a video rental section. I rented some movies and the clerk asked if I knew how it worked. Younger customers have never experienced this before. Slight out of body experience for me.

Ross Payton@rosspayton· May 5

Caleb, Baz, and I tackle the latest video game to become a TTRPG - Tom Clancy's The Division! www.patreon.com/posts/tom-cl...

Ross Payton@rosspayton· May 3

This is one hell of a recommendation. Thanks @hebanongames.bsky.social

"Ross Payton is the progenitor AP podcaster: a fecund incubator in the woods from whose loins have sprung a thousand APs. He was the first to send us spilling over the RPG scene as a great, inescapable tide of imitators. The source! Father! Mother! Ia! Ia!"

Ross Payton@rosspayton· May 1

Getting ready to start recording the next RPPR campaign - Shadowdark, using the Ave Nox campaign setting! I'm very excited to throw the RPPR cast and a rotating group of guest players through this megadungeon.

Ross Payton@rosspayton· Apr 28

Virtual tabletop sessions can be just as fun as regular tabletop RPG sessions

Ross Payton@rosspayton· Apr 28

Behold the Hoarder, a powerful boss in Gunpla Island, a scenario I wrote for Mausritter. The Hoarder is a hermit crab who uses broken gunpla parts to build up his shell. You can listen to the actual play and get the scenario as a PDF www.patreon.com/posts/114642...

a hermit crab with a shell made out of broken gunpla and warhammer bits

Ross Payton@rosspayton· Apr 24

Working on a new project for the RPPR Patreon - a new sci-fi horror scenario with complete maps. Follow www.patreon.com/RPPR for all the updates

Ross Payton@rosspayton· Apr 13

If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh.

Ross Payton@rosspayton· Apr 8

the correct attitude to playing @deltagreen.bsky.social

Ross Payton@rosspayton· Mar 30

Ross Payton@rosspayton· Mar 29

It's been a pain in the butt to keep the RPPR websites running instead of switching to podcast hosting but t's rewarding at times when I get a new comment or linkback on an older episode - like this one on Cthulhu Dark: Revelations actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/2011/11/genr...

On: November 22, 2011
In: Cthulhu Dark, Horror
Tagged: caleb, cthulhu mythos, drew,

it was fascinating, watching the adventure unravel. made me want to create a whole adventure using the Failure Die for PvP – perhaps for a group of cultists who steal a powerful relic together but then only the one who maintains their sanity to the last will possess it’s full power…
weronika
March 27, 2026

Ross Payton@rosspayton· Mar 24

New RPPR scenario newsletter! I talk about picking good locations for a dungeon and the coolest things I've found recently. I also have a full scenario write up for patrons. Learn about Occult Con, the Convention of the Damned! www.patreon.com/posts/rppr-s...

Ross Payton@rosspayton· Mar 20

Things are going great in @valtarra.bsky.social 's Delta Green campaign, the Labor of Dogs - episode 4 - listen to the full episode actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/2026/03/genr...

Ross Payton@rosspayton· Mar 20

We're looking at Rift's Dimension book 11: Dyval in the newest After Hours episode! How many random weather tables does Hell need? A lot apparently. www.patreon.com/posts/rifts-... - Thanks to @j-k.games for exploring the nether realms with me!

Ross Payton@rosspayton· Mar 20

current mood