Galactus has challenged the people of Earth to a tournament of dodgeball. Only an unlikely team of misfits stands in the way of Earth’s total destruction. Sound like the new Bruckheimer movie? Naw. It’s our Actual Play one shot using the free action RPG Wushu.

The Player:
Tom: A sapient raptor/actor tired of being stereotyped as a vicious man eating dinosaur
Drew: Henry from the TV Show Eureka, a NASA engineer turned auto mechanic.
Linton: The fat guy from Hot Fuzz and he’s a cylon.
Jason: Ahnuld the Governator
Cody: Former President Martin Van Buren - with electricity, liquid and portal powers.

No, I’m not kidding. That’s what they played.

 

 Actual Play: Wushu Dodgeball [131:29m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Posted by Ross at 9:13pm
Tags: action, ahnuld, Comedy, dinosaur, dodgeball, hot fuzz, martin van buren, wushu
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“Just being in here is a humbling experience for me, because you’re looking through all these records and it’s sort of like a big pile of broken dreams…Whether you want to admit it or not, 10 years down the line you’ll be in here. So keep that in mind when you start thinking like, ‘I’m invincible and I’m the world’s best,’ or whatever. Because that’s what all these cats thought.” DJ Shadow

In this episode, we focus on looting the pile of broken dreams that is the bargain bin of your friendly local game store. Many times you can find a hidden diamond in the rough or at least something you can exploit for a game in the system of your choice. By going over some of the bargain we’ve enjoyed like Little Fears, Waste World, Mutazoid, Teenagers from Outer Space, and Hunter the Reckoning, you can begin to see what lurks in the used game shelf. Plus, a letter from Tom and anecdotes! Oh and you must watch Common Law Wife. As always, post your comments on our forum and we appreciate donations. Also, if you are an artist, Tom wants a werewolf drawing or something like that. I think. He’ll pay like five bucks for it. Listen to the episode if you want the details. Also, this thread in the Something Awful forums is hilarious and disturbing.

NEWS: Some of our listeners love the actual play sessions. Some don’t. IF you do NOT want to get Actual Play sessions in your RSS feed, then please switch your feed to this new one. http://slangdesign.com/rppr/feed?cat=-12 It has everything EXCEPT Actual Play sessions. The main feed still has everything. If you like the Actual Play sessions you are fine. Nothing needs to be changed.

Shout Outs:

• Wushu: A free and open RPG of fast action-Great for a one shot game when you have no time to prep.
• Operation Darkness: A crazy alternate history WW2 RPG for the Xbox 360 where you fight Nazi vampires with Allied Werewolves. Seriously.
• George Carlin: All My Stuff. A big ole collection of Carlin’s work. If you’re a fan, you need this box set. Well, you don’t but it is a goddamn lot of stuff.
• The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra: If you like Mystery Science Theater 3000, cheesy movies from the 50s and 60s or B movies in general, then you must watch this movie. Tom used the Skeleton as a villain in a Mutants and Masterminds game because his players demanded it after seeing the movie.

Music: Nuclear War by Los Podankos - a Russian street punk band with no homepage and this is all I could find. Oi!

 

 RPPR Episode 17: Bargain Bin Bonanza [56:52m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Posted by Ross at 11:30pm
Tags: bargain bin, cyberpunk, hunter the reckoning, little fears, mutants and masterminds, mutzaoid, teenagers from outer space, the lost skeleton of cadavera, used games, wasteworld
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In a world..Our world…Everything is true. Every story you’ve read, every movie you’ve seen, every game you’ve played actually happened. At least those that take place in the here and now. This is the first session of a GURPS 4th edition campaign premised on taking the Alan Moore comic The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and making the concept contemporary. Anything that takes place in the ‘here and now’ is true. James Bond, Half-Life, Ghostbusters, Hannibal Lector, the X-Files, annoying sitcoms and Freddy Krueger all co-exist in the same world. In this first adventure, the PCs must break into the HQ of Ghostbusters Inc. to retrieve the data of Project Miskatonic before it is too late…

Players:
Jason - Dean Winchester from the TV Show Supernatural
Tom - Basically a pre-med student version of the Lizard
Bob - A Highlander French aristocrat
Drew - Kabuki the ninja assassin babe
RJ - Firestarter age 25
Aaron - An employee of Ghostbusters Inc.

 

 RPPR Actual Play: Modern League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Episode 1 [131:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Posted by Ross at 12:26am
Tags: Actual Play, firestarter, genre, ghostbusters, GURPS, highlander, horror, kabuki, league of extraordinary gentlemen, lizard, lol no one reads tags, mashup, movies, spiderman, supernatural, what am i doing, wtf
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While most of our shows so far have focused on running a great game, we thought we would give some advice for the other side of the GM Screen. In other words, the players. Of course, we talk about D&D 4th Edition, the death of Erick Wujcik, recent games we played, Raillery, my awesome new comedy video podcast and more. Tom was too lazy to write a letter, so instead we review The Happening and Machine Girl and tell a few anecdotes. I have a brand spanking new anecdote from playing D&D 4E and listener Eternal Green sent in a few. Don’t forget to check out our new forums!

Shout Outs:

• Colonial Gothic: A new horror RPG set in colonial America. Great research into the period and it’s a fresh idea for a horror setting. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, anyone?
• Let’s Play: An archive of playthroughs of video games, both old and new. This video from the Darkseed 2 is all you need to understand how great this is.
• Iron Age Sourcebook for Mutants and Masterminds: In the 80s and 90s, superheroes fought crime to the MAXX and by Maxx I meant that they murdered their enemies. It was pretty cool although Rob Liefield can’t draw a human body worth a shit.

Hosted by Ross Payton and Tom Church
Music: A new song from Vitamins and Minerals of Death that I will use in the next Raillery video.

 

 RPPR Episode 16: Help me to Help You [79:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Posted by Ross at 12:07am
Tags: advice, colonial gothic, Dungeons and Dragons, erick wujcik, mutants and masterminds, player, raillery
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Ethan Haas was right, at least according to David Carter, Earl Fischl and Tom McLaughlin, the team behind Alpha Omega the new post apocalyptic science fantasy RPG from Mind Storm Labs. In the future, the world is ravaged by war and disasters while alien races wage war. Of course, dumb old humanity mistook these aliens for angels and demons thousands of years ago. Plus, there are robots. What more could you want in a game? Magic? There’s that. Mutants? But of course. Ninjas? The ninjas are so sneaky in this game, they aren’t even mentioned. But they’re there. And they will kill you in the night if you doubt their existence. That’s how bad ass they are.

In the interview, we discuss how Alpha Omega was created, the Ethan Haas Alternate Reality Game viral marketing campaign and its connection to Cloverfield, upcoming products for the game, the art of Alpha Omega, game design and more. Be sure to check out the New World Science and Engineering Commission site, mentioned in the interview.

 

 Interview with the Alpha Omega Team [61:05m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Posted by Ross at 12:23am
Tags: alpha omega, alternate reality game, arg, cloverfield, david carter, earl fischl, ethan haash, game design, mind storm labs, rpg, tom mclaughlin, viral marketing
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Based loosely on Kinji Fukusaku’s Battle Without Honor or Humanity film series and the Akira Kurosawa film Stray Dog, this game takes placed in Hiroshima Japan, 1946. The players are members of the Yamagata Yakuza clan, the newest and smallest family in the city, vulnerable to foreign gangs and larger Yakuza families. A confrontation with a rival gang turns deadly and an American .45 automatic is the key to a deadly mystery…

GM: Ross Payton
System: GURPS 4th edition, 50 point characters.

Players: Tom Church and Jason Ariciu

 

 Actual Play: GURPS Yakuza [157:44m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Posted by Ross at 9:10pm
Tags: Actual Play, battle without honor or humanity, crime, GURPS, kinji fukusaku, yakuza
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I have launched a second podcast: Raillery. I plan to release one new video a week, each as hilarious as this one: Oregon Trail 13. Don’t worry, Tom and I will continue RPPR and I will not put every raillery podcast on this feed. However, since Oregon Trail 13 started here, I thought all of you might enjoy it here.

Written by Ross Payton
Voiced by Ross Payton and Chris Farmer
Mixed by Chris Farmer
Animated by KC Green

 

 Raillery and RPPR Present: Oregon Trail 13 [3:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Posted by Ross at 7:03pm
Tags: Comedy, kc green, oregon trail, podcast, raillery, video
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