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** Averted in the use of [[InstantSedation chloroform to solve every problem]]. Rendering people usefully unconscious without killing them is basically a superpower, and it's not clear whether the troupe's constant use of completely unmeasured amounts of chloroform to sedate people instantly is a [[RunningJoke running joke]], an [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality acceptable break from reality]] or a [[CriticalResearchFailure failure to do the research.]]
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** Averted in the use of [[InstantSedation chloroform to solve every problem]]. Rendering people usefully unconscious without killing them is basically a superpower, and it's not clear whether the troupe's constant use of completely unmeasured amounts of chloroform to sedate people instantly is a [[RunningJoke running joke]], an [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality acceptable break from reality]] or a [[CriticalResearchFailure failure to do the research.]]
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* {{Corpsing}}: Caleb really can't help but corpse over the player shenanigans in [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/2011/11/genre/horror/cthulhu-dark-revelations/ Revelations]].
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* FiveManBand:
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--> TheLancer: Tom
--> TheSmartGuy: Caleb
--> TheBigGuy: David
--> TheHeart: Aaron
--> TheLeader: Ross
--> TheLancer: Tom
--> TheSmartGuy: Caleb
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--> TheHeart: Aaron
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** [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique "I'll turn that frown upside down."]] [[SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker "Let's put a]] ''[[ColdBloodedTorture smile]]'' [[Film/TheDarkKnight on that face."]]
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** [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique "I'll turn that frown upside down."]] [[SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker [[ComicBook/TheJoker "Let's put a]] ''[[ColdBloodedTorture smile]]'' [[Film/TheDarkKnight on that face."]]
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* D-Raptor here your YOMV but thanks to recent things RPPR can seem to be all over with there frankly everything
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* Literature/CandleCove
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* NonResidentialResidence: One of their ''TabletopGame/RedMarkets'' campaigns is based out of an Enclave built in a mall called "Grapevine". The derelict cars in the parking lot have been assembled into a makeshift wall to keep zombies out and those who can't afford the rent on one of the ex-stores live in tents out in the emptied lot.
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* EmbarrassingFirstName: Iroquoi Johnson from the Brutalists, RedMarkets campaign. His family was both progressive and traditional.
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* AnArmAndALeg: Cross in the ''first session'' of the Red Markets campaign "[[http://tabletoptales.roleplayingpublicradio.com/tag/grapevine/ The Grapevine]]". The arm thanks to an unfortunate encounter with a Vector, the leg from the [[MadScientist Crusader]] doctor they hired to treat him after discovering he was TheImmune.
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* HurlItIntoTheSun: Early in the ''Base Raiders'' campaign Gate Nine the party were given the opportunity to recreate a pre-Ragnarok EnergyBeing superhero, they decided to shoot him into the sun instead.
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* {{Homage}}: Ross runs three (to ''VideoGame/Prototype', ''VideoGame/LoneSurvivor'', and ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami''), Aaron runs one (to ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH''). Caleb has run a ''WildMadGuessing'' version of ''TheGreatGatsby'' directly lifted from brilliant navelgazing by students in a high school English class he taught.
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* {{Homage}}: Ross runs three (to ''VideoGame/Prototype', ''VideoGame/LoneSurvivor'', and ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami''), Aaron runs one (to ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH''). Caleb has run a ''WildMadGuessing'' version of ''TheGreatGatsby'' ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'' directly lifted from brilliant navelgazing by students in a high school English class he taught.
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* TheSlenderManMythos
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* GladiatorGames: Tom's character, [[TheStoic a]] [[{{Badass}} centurion]], participates in an underground match.
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* HurricaneOfPuns: Bill is fond of these, but the whole party join in on “We Cannot Hallow These Grounds”
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** Someone, usually Tom, playing a character who is a celebrity.
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** In addition, Ross seems to really like ''Literature/TheKingInYellow'', writing at least three scenarios based on it.
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* SpecialGuest: On occasion game writers, such as A. Scott Glancy, Greg Stolze, and Shane Ivey have played or ran games with the usual RPPR players.
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* PlotTailoredToTheParty: ''Operate Heavy Machinery'' was a Call of Cthulhu scenario designed to facilitate the use of the skill of the same name, being set in a slaughterhouse with construction equipment around, after several prior episodes have them mention how that skill goes unused. [[spoiler: As it turns out, the party never thinks of operating any heavy machinery.]]
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* {{Homage}}: Ross runs two (to ''VideoGame/LoneSurvivor'' and ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami''), Aaron runs one (to ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH''). Caleb has run a ''WildMadGuessing'' version of ''TheGreatGatsby'' directly lifted from brilliant navelgazing by students in a high school English class he taught.
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* {{Homage}}: Ross runs two three (to ''VideoGame/LoneSurvivor'' ''VideoGame/Prototype', ''VideoGame/LoneSurvivor'', and ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami''), Aaron runs one (to ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH''). Caleb has run a ''WildMadGuessing'' version of ''TheGreatGatsby'' directly lifted from brilliant navelgazing by students in a high school English class he taught.
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A podcast by Role Playing Public Radio which features actual people, actually playing TabletopGames -- mainly [[TabletopRPG Tabletop RPGs]]; mainly ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' one-shots and an ongoing ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' campaign recently. Listen to it [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/ here]].
'''Players include:'''
* [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/tag/ross/ Ross]] [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/tag/ross-plays/ Payton]] (main blog [[http://www.slangdesign.com/ here]])
* [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/tag/tom/ Tom Church]]
* [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/tag/caleb/ Caleb]] [[http://hebanon.blogspot.com/ Stokes]]
* [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/tag/aaron/ Aaron Carsten]]
* [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/tag/jason/ Jason]]
* [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/tag/thad/ Thad]]
* [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/tag/drew/ Drew]]
* [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/tag/david/ David]]
* [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/tag/rj/ RJ]]
* [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/tag/dan/ Dan]]
* [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/tag/cody/ Cody Walker]]
* [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/tag/bill/ Bill]]
'''Games played include:'''
* ''TabletopGame/AllFleshMustBeEaten''
* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu''
** ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen''
* ''Cthulhu Dark''
* ''[[TabletopGame/DontRestYourHead Don't Rest Your Head]]''
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''
* ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase''
* ''Fear Itself''
* ''{{TabletopGame/Fiasco}}''
* ''{{TabletopGame/GURPS}}''
* ''TabletopGame/LittleFears''
* ''TabletopGame/MonstersAndOtherChildishThings''
* ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness''
* ''TabletopGame/WildTalents''
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!!Tropes:
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[[folder: New World of Darkness ]]
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler: Alex]], after returning from the Hedge.
* DarthWiki/CandleCove
* ChurchMilitant: Sister Mary Michael's order apparently involves combat training.
* CrowdSong: Common amongst the players. So far there have been performances of "Don't Stop Believing" and TLC's "No Scrubs".
* {{Jerkass}}: Connor's handler, Teresa/Natalie. Whenever he calls her, she makes sure to passive-aggressively remind him that she has more important things to be doing. Granted, he did tell her to "enjoy [her] passionless night of passion with [her] androgynous husband", but you'd think she'd get over it.
* OvertOperative: Connor will never live down the time he gave someone his ''business card''.
--> "Hi, I'm Connor with Project Valkyrie. If you have a Project Valkyrie-related disturbance you'd like to talk to me, Connor, agent of Project Valkyrie--"
-->"DON'T ASK ME, DON'T-- WAIT, NEVER MIND, WAIT, SCRATCH THAT, HOW DO I DELETE THIS, HOW DO I DELETE THIS!?"
** [[CallBack Many, many games later:]]
---> '''Tom''': DON'T GIVE HIM YOUR BUSINESS CARD!
* SwordCane: Sister Mary Michael's (non-supernatural) weapon of choice (it also serves as an actual cane). At one point she uses it to deal [[GroinAttack 8 damage to a guy's junk]].
* TheSlenderManMythos
* TimeSkip: The Slender Man campaign takes place 5/6 years after the Candle Cove one.
* WackyCravings: Once [[spoiler: Alex]] comes back from the Hedge, he starts craving animal carcases.
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!!General Tropes:
* BaitAndSwitchComparison: Thad in the [[TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu Cthulhu]] [[AncientRome Invictus]] episode, hamming it up for all it's worth and managing to make ''everything'' hilariously dirty. When discussing a chariot team:
--> Mmm, yes, some fine beasts on that team -- and the horses are good too!
* CastingGag: Ish. In a [[MindScrew Mind Screw-y]] twist, Drew's next character in [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/2011/11/genre/horror/cthulhu-dark-revelations/ Cthulhu Dark: Revelations]] turns out to be...
--> '''Drew''': Local writer and game runner ''Ross Payton''!
--> '''Caleb''': ''Nice''. What's your motivation in life?
--> '''Drew''': Getting published!
* ContinuityNod: Caleb loves to throw a reference or two to a previous game into a new one: referencing "Bryson Springs" both in "Lover In the Ice" and his ''Eclipse Phase'' campaign, for instance.
* CreepyChild: In [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/2011/02/systems/call-of-cthulhu/call-of-cthulhu-bryson-springs/ "Bryson Springs"]]. "She's singing a [[IronicNurseryTune song]] about ''[[CreepyDoll puppets]]!''"
* CreepyMonotone: Tom employs this quite often (just listen to his centurion character in Cthulhu Invictus).
* {{Corpsing}}: Caleb really can't help but corpse over the player shenanigans in [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/2011/11/genre/horror/cthulhu-dark-revelations/ Revelations]].
* DeadpanSnarker: [[SnarkToSnarkCombat Just about]] ''[[SnarkToSnarkCombat everyone]]'' has their moments.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Unintentionally in Cthulhu Invictus.
--> '''Jason''': "Illegal matches are illegal"?
--> '''Ross''': I know, yeah, thanks. Ross can't talk. Yay.
* EldritchLocation: The [[HellHotel hotel]] in "The Night Clerk".
** Many of Ross' oneshots deal with the idea of Carcosa as a surreal prison space. There's little continuity between any two, but it's a fair bet a Ross Call of Cthulhu oneshot will have players trapped in weird cities or non-Euclidian complexes.
* EpunymousTitle: The book titles Tom and Ross made up.
--> '''Ross''': ... ''[[Literature/ParadiseLost Paradise Lost: Make a Spot Hidden Check to Find It]]''... ''[[Film/GoneWithTheWind Gone With the Wind and a Fly Spell]]''... ''[[Literature/CatchTwentyTwo Catch-22D12]]''... ''[[Literature/WarAndPeace War or Peace: Make a Diplomacy Check]]''...
* FiveManBand:
--> TheLeader: Ross
--> TheLancer: Tom
--> TheSmartGuy: Caleb
--> TheBigGuy: David
--> TheHeart: Aaron
* GladiatorGames: Tom's character, [[TheStoic a]] [[{{Badass}} centurion]], participates in an underground match.
* TheGreatDepression: Caleb's ''[[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/159466030/no-security-horror-scenarios-in-the-great-depressi No Security]]'' horror scenarios are set in this period.
* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: 18th Century Prussian Peasants
* GroundhogDayLoop: The denouement of [[spoiler: Cthulhu Dark: Revelations]]. BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor.
* {{Homage}}: Ross runs two (to ''VideoGame/LoneSurvivor'' and ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami''), Aaron runs one (to ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH''). Caleb has run a ''WildMadGuessing'' version of ''TheGreatGatsby'' directly lifted from brilliant navelgazing by students in a high school English class he taught.
** In addition, Ross seems to really like ''Literature/TheKingInYellow'', writing at least three scenarios based on it.
* ICallItVera: Dave's character's tommy gun, Lucille.
* IntrepidReporter: "Sheldon Baykah, ace reportah." "Talk exactly like that, Ross, please."
* KillItWithFire: Aaron's defence against a [[ScaryScarecrows Scary Scarecrow]]. It ([[{{Pun}} ahem]]) backfires when the orange grove around him burns up.
--> '''Aaron''': I start backing away from it --
--> '''Caleb''': [[DeadpanSnarker Towards the fire you started?]]
--> '''Aaron''': ([[{{Beat}} beat]]) [[OhCrap Uh]] --
** This is usually part of an even more extreme kill it attempt on the near-indestructible antagonists in Ross' Night's Black Agents campaign.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Tom's and Ross's characters mercilessly beat a rapist to a pulp.
* LiteralGenie: When Yog-Sothoth [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor answers a priest's wishes to live in a time of biblical truth]] and [[spoiler: Ross's wish for things to [[GroundhogDayLoop "go back to the way they were yesterday"]]]].
* MurderousMannequin / PerversePuppet: Artists' marionettes in "Bryson Springs". (As illustrated by Ean Moody [[http://hebanongames.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/mannequin_smallterior-21.jpg here]] and [[http://moodyillustrator.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/marionette_1.jpg here]].)
* OutOfTheInferno: Aaron's character, against all odds. See KillItWithFire above.
* OutWithABang: [[spoiler: How many of the victims in "Lover in the Ice" died.]]
* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: "''Why'' is your toga off?" "Why isn't yours?"
* PoliceBrutality: The cop in "Bryson Springs" [[LaserGuidedKarma gets his comeuppance.]]
* PornStash: Made ''horrifying'' to the point of inducing SAN loss in "Lover In the Ice". See RoomFullOfCrazy below.
** Better Angels: No Soul Left Behind features an especially exciting version. [[spoiler: A man capable of making copies of himself with a demonic Xerox machine travels with VHS tapes of a dozen copies of himself getting it on.]] Some might consider the fact that this is used to ruin his reputation and life problematic. But it's explicit in the text that the guy is also a horrible murderer, so it can also be interpreted as a comment on the hypocrisy of [[MoralGuardians conservative media culture]].
* PreAsskickingOneLiner: Plenty of them.
** In "The White Stairs", Aaron [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]]:
--> '''Gang member (NPC)''': Hey, nice car. Let us borrow it.
--> '''Aaron's character''': I'd like to, but there's a problem with the bloodstains. '''PUNCH''' ''(Knocks the punk out.)''
** In "Lover In the Ice" Jason gets an ''epic'' one-liner when fighting an old woman with an alien entity's appendage covered with serrated bone [[BodyHorror protruding out of her mouth]].
--> '''Jason''': I go, [[spoiler: "Granny... what big teeth you have."]]
--> '''Caleb''' (over players' uproarious laughter): I'll say you kill her outright with that. You kill her with ''wit''.
--> '''Thad''': That was not rapier wit. That was fully automatic wit.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: In Caleb's [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/2011/05/systems/call-of-cthulhu/call-of-cthulhu-delta-green-lover-in-the-ice/ "Lover In the Ice"]]. As the crew enters a suspect's house...
--> '''Ross''': [[SarcasmMode His interior decoration! AAAAH!]]
--> '''Caleb''': Pretty much. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer I'm not lying.]]
* RunningGag:
** Someone, usually Tom, playing a character who is a celebrity.
** A player complaining about losing immersion or the podcast's long, ''long'' backlog.
** Tom's amazing luck with dice.
---> "Tom Church, ladies and gentlemen."
** Aaron playing a techie.
* ShoutOut: Saying "a lot" would be an understatement. See also EpunymousTitle above.
** "[[RuleNumberOne First rule]] of [[Film/FightClub Gladiator Club]] is..."
** "He's like [[{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}} Kif]], like, 'the jackass wants to see you now...'"
** "[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus He has ceased to be! He is no more!]]"
** "I'm [[Film/TheBourneSeries Jason Bourne]]. I'm his dad. Or his granddad."
** "It seems that it's [[BiggerOnTheInside bigger on the inside]] -- " ''[[Series/DoctorWho WHIRRRRRR]]''
** In Caleb's latest Halloween special, "Preemptive Revenge", the antagonist's getup at the prom scene includes elements [[Film/TheMatrix from]] [[Film/VForVendetta loads]] [[Film/SayAnything of]] [[Film/TheDarkKnight films]], [[spoiler:[[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadowing]] at its true nature.]]
---> '''Aaron''': Oh my God, all the memes have collapsed into one.
** "[[ComicBook/JudgeDredd I AM THE LAW!]]"
** Thad on Ross's fightmaster's voice: "My God, it's like [[Creator/SeanConnery Sean Connery]] ''ate another Sean Connery''."
** "Wait 'til he [[Series/CSIMiami puts on his sunglasses!]] 'Deal with it. [[Music/TheWho YEEEEAAAAH]] -- '"
** "[[BowtiesAreCool Bow ties]] [[Series/DoctorWho are cool.]]"
** [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique "I'll turn that frown upside down."]] [[SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker "Let's put a]] ''[[ColdBloodedTorture smile]]'' [[Film/TheDarkKnight on that face."]]
* ShownTheirWork: The amount of research Caleb did for "Revelations" is pretty dang impressive.
** Averted in the use of [[InstantSedation chloroform to solve every problem]]. Rendering people usefully unconscious without killing them is basically a superpower, and it's not clear whether the troupe's constant use of completely unmeasured amounts of chloroform to sedate people instantly is a [[RunningJoke running joke]], an [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality acceptable break from reality]] or a [[CriticalResearchFailure failure to do the research.]]
*** Although as of games published in 2014, probably as a result of this particular troper's mumbling in the comments, Caleb has started calling for medicine checks on chloroforming. Both times, the subject has died.
* TheStoic: Often Tom, usually combined with HeroicComedicSociopath, CreepyMonotone, and MadeOfIron.
* TookALevelInBadass: Aaron is generally regarded as having done this. See also PreAsskickingOneLiner above.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: "Though [[EldritchAbomination the lure is alien, offensive to his eyes,]] [[WeirdnessCensor the fish sees food, and bites,]] and dies a death beyond his imagining."
* YourMom: "Your face is stupid." "Your ''mom's'' face is stupid." "Ooh, ''snap''."
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A podcast by Role Playing Public Radio which features actual people, actually playing TabletopGames -- mainly [[TabletopRPG Tabletop RPGs]]; mainly ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' one-shots and an ongoing ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' campaign recently. Listen to it [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/ here]].
'''Players include:'''
* [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/tag/ross/ Ross]] [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/tag/ross-plays/ Payton]] (main blog [[http://www.slangdesign.com/ here]])
* [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/tag/tom/ Tom Church]]
* [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/tag/caleb/ Caleb]] [[http://hebanon.blogspot.com/ Stokes]]
* [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/tag/aaron/ Aaron Carsten]]
* [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/tag/jason/ Jason]]
* [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/tag/thad/ Thad]]
* [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/tag/drew/ Drew]]
* [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/tag/david/ David]]
* [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/tag/rj/ RJ]]
* [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/tag/dan/ Dan]]
* [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/tag/cody/ Cody Walker]]
* [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/tag/bill/ Bill]]
'''Games played include:'''
* ''TabletopGame/AllFleshMustBeEaten''
* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu''
** ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen''
* ''Cthulhu Dark''
* ''[[TabletopGame/DontRestYourHead Don't Rest Your Head]]''
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''
* ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase''
* ''Fear Itself''
* ''{{TabletopGame/Fiasco}}''
* ''{{TabletopGame/GURPS}}''
* ''TabletopGame/LittleFears''
* ''TabletopGame/MonstersAndOtherChildishThings''
* ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness''
* ''TabletopGame/WildTalents''
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!!Tropes:
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* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler: Alex]], after returning from the Hedge.
* DarthWiki/CandleCove
* ChurchMilitant: Sister Mary Michael's order apparently involves combat training.
* CrowdSong: Common amongst the players. So far there have been performances of "Don't Stop Believing" and TLC's "No Scrubs".
* {{Jerkass}}: Connor's handler, Teresa/Natalie. Whenever he calls her, she makes sure to passive-aggressively remind him that she has more important things to be doing. Granted, he did tell her to "enjoy [her] passionless night of passion with [her] androgynous husband", but you'd think she'd get over it.
* OvertOperative: Connor will never live down the time he gave someone his ''business card''.
--> "Hi, I'm Connor with Project Valkyrie. If you have a Project Valkyrie-related disturbance you'd like to talk to me, Connor, agent of Project Valkyrie--"
-->"DON'T ASK ME, DON'T-- WAIT, NEVER MIND, WAIT, SCRATCH THAT, HOW DO I DELETE THIS, HOW DO I DELETE THIS!?"
** [[CallBack Many, many games later:]]
---> '''Tom''': DON'T GIVE HIM YOUR BUSINESS CARD!
* SwordCane: Sister Mary Michael's (non-supernatural) weapon of choice (it also serves as an actual cane). At one point she uses it to deal [[GroinAttack 8 damage to a guy's junk]].
* TheSlenderManMythos
* TimeSkip: The Slender Man campaign takes place 5/6 years after the Candle Cove one.
* WackyCravings: Once [[spoiler: Alex]] comes back from the Hedge, he starts craving animal carcases.
[[/folder]]
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!!General Tropes:
* BaitAndSwitchComparison: Thad in the [[TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu Cthulhu]] [[AncientRome Invictus]] episode, hamming it up for all it's worth and managing to make ''everything'' hilariously dirty. When discussing a chariot team:
--> Mmm, yes, some fine beasts on that team -- and the horses are good too!
* CastingGag: Ish. In a [[MindScrew Mind Screw-y]] twist, Drew's next character in [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/2011/11/genre/horror/cthulhu-dark-revelations/ Cthulhu Dark: Revelations]] turns out to be...
--> '''Drew''': Local writer and game runner ''Ross Payton''!
--> '''Caleb''': ''Nice''. What's your motivation in life?
--> '''Drew''': Getting published!
* ContinuityNod: Caleb loves to throw a reference or two to a previous game into a new one: referencing "Bryson Springs" both in "Lover In the Ice" and his ''Eclipse Phase'' campaign, for instance.
* CreepyChild: In [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/2011/02/systems/call-of-cthulhu/call-of-cthulhu-bryson-springs/ "Bryson Springs"]]. "She's singing a [[IronicNurseryTune song]] about ''[[CreepyDoll puppets]]!''"
* CreepyMonotone: Tom employs this quite often (just listen to his centurion character in Cthulhu Invictus).
* {{Corpsing}}: Caleb really can't help but corpse over the player shenanigans in [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/2011/11/genre/horror/cthulhu-dark-revelations/ Revelations]].
* DeadpanSnarker: [[SnarkToSnarkCombat Just about]] ''[[SnarkToSnarkCombat everyone]]'' has their moments.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Unintentionally in Cthulhu Invictus.
--> '''Jason''': "Illegal matches are illegal"?
--> '''Ross''': I know, yeah, thanks. Ross can't talk. Yay.
* EldritchLocation: The [[HellHotel hotel]] in "The Night Clerk".
** Many of Ross' oneshots deal with the idea of Carcosa as a surreal prison space. There's little continuity between any two, but it's a fair bet a Ross Call of Cthulhu oneshot will have players trapped in weird cities or non-Euclidian complexes.
* EpunymousTitle: The book titles Tom and Ross made up.
--> '''Ross''': ... ''[[Literature/ParadiseLost Paradise Lost: Make a Spot Hidden Check to Find It]]''... ''[[Film/GoneWithTheWind Gone With the Wind and a Fly Spell]]''... ''[[Literature/CatchTwentyTwo Catch-22D12]]''... ''[[Literature/WarAndPeace War or Peace: Make a Diplomacy Check]]''...
* FiveManBand:
--> TheLeader: Ross
--> TheLancer: Tom
--> TheSmartGuy: Caleb
--> TheBigGuy: David
--> TheHeart: Aaron
* GladiatorGames: Tom's character, [[TheStoic a]] [[{{Badass}} centurion]], participates in an underground match.
* TheGreatDepression: Caleb's ''[[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/159466030/no-security-horror-scenarios-in-the-great-depressi No Security]]'' horror scenarios are set in this period.
* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: 18th Century Prussian Peasants
* GroundhogDayLoop: The denouement of [[spoiler: Cthulhu Dark: Revelations]]. BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor.
* {{Homage}}: Ross runs two (to ''VideoGame/LoneSurvivor'' and ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami''), Aaron runs one (to ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH''). Caleb has run a ''WildMadGuessing'' version of ''TheGreatGatsby'' directly lifted from brilliant navelgazing by students in a high school English class he taught.
** In addition, Ross seems to really like ''Literature/TheKingInYellow'', writing at least three scenarios based on it.
* ICallItVera: Dave's character's tommy gun, Lucille.
* IntrepidReporter: "Sheldon Baykah, ace reportah." "Talk exactly like that, Ross, please."
* KillItWithFire: Aaron's defence against a [[ScaryScarecrows Scary Scarecrow]]. It ([[{{Pun}} ahem]]) backfires when the orange grove around him burns up.
--> '''Aaron''': I start backing away from it --
--> '''Caleb''': [[DeadpanSnarker Towards the fire you started?]]
--> '''Aaron''': ([[{{Beat}} beat]]) [[OhCrap Uh]] --
** This is usually part of an even more extreme kill it attempt on the near-indestructible antagonists in Ross' Night's Black Agents campaign.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Tom's and Ross's characters mercilessly beat a rapist to a pulp.
* LiteralGenie: When Yog-Sothoth [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor answers a priest's wishes to live in a time of biblical truth]] and [[spoiler: Ross's wish for things to [[GroundhogDayLoop "go back to the way they were yesterday"]]]].
* MurderousMannequin / PerversePuppet: Artists' marionettes in "Bryson Springs". (As illustrated by Ean Moody [[http://hebanongames.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/mannequin_smallterior-21.jpg here]] and [[http://moodyillustrator.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/marionette_1.jpg here]].)
* OutOfTheInferno: Aaron's character, against all odds. See KillItWithFire above.
* OutWithABang: [[spoiler: How many of the victims in "Lover in the Ice" died.]]
* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: "''Why'' is your toga off?" "Why isn't yours?"
* PoliceBrutality: The cop in "Bryson Springs" [[LaserGuidedKarma gets his comeuppance.]]
* PornStash: Made ''horrifying'' to the point of inducing SAN loss in "Lover In the Ice". See RoomFullOfCrazy below.
** Better Angels: No Soul Left Behind features an especially exciting version. [[spoiler: A man capable of making copies of himself with a demonic Xerox machine travels with VHS tapes of a dozen copies of himself getting it on.]] Some might consider the fact that this is used to ruin his reputation and life problematic. But it's explicit in the text that the guy is also a horrible murderer, so it can also be interpreted as a comment on the hypocrisy of [[MoralGuardians conservative media culture]].
* PreAsskickingOneLiner: Plenty of them.
** In "The White Stairs", Aaron [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]]:
--> '''Gang member (NPC)''': Hey, nice car. Let us borrow it.
--> '''Aaron's character''': I'd like to, but there's a problem with the bloodstains. '''PUNCH''' ''(Knocks the punk out.)''
** In "Lover In the Ice" Jason gets an ''epic'' one-liner when fighting an old woman with an alien entity's appendage covered with serrated bone [[BodyHorror protruding out of her mouth]].
--> '''Jason''': I go, [[spoiler: "Granny... what big teeth you have."]]
--> '''Caleb''' (over players' uproarious laughter): I'll say you kill her outright with that. You kill her with ''wit''.
--> '''Thad''': That was not rapier wit. That was fully automatic wit.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: In Caleb's [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/2011/05/systems/call-of-cthulhu/call-of-cthulhu-delta-green-lover-in-the-ice/ "Lover In the Ice"]]. As the crew enters a suspect's house...
--> '''Ross''': [[SarcasmMode His interior decoration! AAAAH!]]
--> '''Caleb''': Pretty much. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer I'm not lying.]]
* RunningGag:
** Someone, usually Tom, playing a character who is a celebrity.
** A player complaining about losing immersion or the podcast's long, ''long'' backlog.
** Tom's amazing luck with dice.
---> "Tom Church, ladies and gentlemen."
** Aaron playing a techie.
* ShoutOut: Saying "a lot" would be an understatement. See also EpunymousTitle above.
** "[[RuleNumberOne First rule]] of [[Film/FightClub Gladiator Club]] is..."
** "He's like [[{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}} Kif]], like, 'the jackass wants to see you now...'"
** "[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus He has ceased to be! He is no more!]]"
** "I'm [[Film/TheBourneSeries Jason Bourne]]. I'm his dad. Or his granddad."
** "It seems that it's [[BiggerOnTheInside bigger on the inside]] -- " ''[[Series/DoctorWho WHIRRRRRR]]''
** In Caleb's latest Halloween special, "Preemptive Revenge", the antagonist's getup at the prom scene includes elements [[Film/TheMatrix from]] [[Film/VForVendetta loads]] [[Film/SayAnything of]] [[Film/TheDarkKnight films]], [[spoiler:[[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadowing]] at its true nature.]]
---> '''Aaron''': Oh my God, all the memes have collapsed into one.
** "[[ComicBook/JudgeDredd I AM THE LAW!]]"
** Thad on Ross's fightmaster's voice: "My God, it's like [[Creator/SeanConnery Sean Connery]] ''ate another Sean Connery''."
** "Wait 'til he [[Series/CSIMiami puts on his sunglasses!]] 'Deal with it. [[Music/TheWho YEEEEAAAAH]] -- '"
** "[[BowtiesAreCool Bow ties]] [[Series/DoctorWho are cool.]]"
** [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique "I'll turn that frown upside down."]] [[SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker "Let's put a]] ''[[ColdBloodedTorture smile]]'' [[Film/TheDarkKnight on that face."]]
* ShownTheirWork: The amount of research Caleb did for "Revelations" is pretty dang impressive.
** Averted in the use of [[InstantSedation chloroform to solve every problem]]. Rendering people usefully unconscious without killing them is basically a superpower, and it's not clear whether the troupe's constant use of completely unmeasured amounts of chloroform to sedate people instantly is a [[RunningJoke running joke]], an [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality acceptable break from reality]] or a [[CriticalResearchFailure failure to do the research.]]
*** Although as of games published in 2014, probably as a result of this particular troper's mumbling in the comments, Caleb has started calling for medicine checks on chloroforming. Both times, the subject has died.
* TheStoic: Often Tom, usually combined with HeroicComedicSociopath, CreepyMonotone, and MadeOfIron.
* TookALevelInBadass: Aaron is generally regarded as having done this. See also PreAsskickingOneLiner above.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: "Though [[EldritchAbomination the lure is alien, offensive to his eyes,]] [[WeirdnessCensor the fish sees food, and bites,]] and dies a death beyond his imagining."
* YourMom: "Your face is stupid." "Your ''mom's'' face is stupid." "Ooh, ''snap''."
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