Push The Roll with Ross Bryant | Call of Cthulhu Improv TTRPG Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Hey there. Welcome to Push the Roll with Ross Bryant, an improvised Call of Cthulhu podcast shaped entirely by suggestions you submit on our Patreon. This quick trailer is our way of setting the stage and inviting you into our delightfully weird storytelling space. Each episode is spontaneous and bursting with cosmic horror, strange intrigue, and plenty of laughs. No scripts or limits, just your ideas and our improvised roleplaying. Join us, because anything can happen when we Push the Roll.

Narrated by Ross Bryant

Produced and designed by cuppycup.

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Welcome to Push the Roll with Ross Bryant, our improvised comedy horror actual play podcast. We use Call of Cthulhu to tell stories that are as unpredictable as they are unsettling.

This episode is our “what the heck is this show?” moment. If you’re new here or just want to hang out with Ross, Paula, and cup while we talk about what makes PTR tick, this is for you. We explain how Patreon-suggested titles become the heart of each tabletop roleplaying series, what happens when we “push the roll” midway through, and why we think this show will keep you guessing and laughing all the way through. Near the end, we even roll for a listener suggested title to show you how the openings of these episodes work.

If you like what you hear and want to help shape future episodes, join our Patreon! You can submit your own weird titles, get bonus content, and peek behind the scenes.

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New to Call of Cthulhu? This TTRPG rules primer will help you follow along with Push the Roll with Ross Bryant. We cover the basics you’ll hear in play. Character sheets, skill rolls, pushing the roll, spending luck, sanity loss, and what combat really means when you’re just a fragile human in a world of cosmic horror. Using our improvised boarding school scenario The House of Inner Children, we demonstrate the rules in action with Ross Bryant, Paula Deming, cuppycup, Bridgett Jeffries, and Scott Dorward.

Content Warnings: Harm to children, Self-harm, Body horror, Fluids entering body/nose/mouth, Sanity and mental breakdown mechanics, Suffocation, Violence, Profanity

Transcript at https://pushtheroll.com/transcript-episode-2-call-of-cthulhu-and-you-a-rules-primer

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In this improv horror episode, fire spreads and choices spiral out of control in this actual play one-shot finale. Dreams blur with reality as allies and enemies both reveal unexpected sides. Will everyone make it back out, and if so will they be happy living with the forbidden knowledge of cosmic horrors?

Content Warnings: self-harm, body horror, psychological horror, depictions of violence and gore, themes of body image insecurity, drowning, unsettling imagery, profanity

Featuring

Ross Bryant as Keeper of Arcane Lore

Paula Deming as Anna St. Clair

Scott Dorward as Jasper Bastian

Virginia Lee as Claire Windby

cuppycup as Silas Watson

Dialogue Editing by Victoria Cheng and cuppycup

Sound and Music Design by cuppycup

Produced by cuppycup

Transcript at https://pushtheroll.com/transcript-episode-5-the-obverse-of-the-mirror-part-3

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In this actual play episode, the group goes all in on a séance, but things don’t exactly go as planned . The mirror has its own secrets, and soon enough, they’re up against eldritch horror they can barely comprehend.

Content Warnings: psychological horror, depictions of violence and gore, drug use, smoking, unsettling imagery, profanity

Featuring

Ross Bryant as Keeper of Arcane Lore

Paula Deming as Anna St. Clair

Scott Dorward as Jasper Bastian

Virginia Lee as Claire Windby

cuppycup as Silas Watson

Dialogue Editing by Victoria Cheng and cuppycup

Sound and Music Design by cuppycup

Produced by cuppycup

Transcript at https://pushtheroll.com/transcript-episode-4-the-obverse-of-the-mirror-part-2

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In this Call of Cthulhu TTRPG one-shot, the group dives into a story set in Victorian England. A croquet champion, an occult shopkeeper, a Pinkerton agent, and a decadent artist find themselves drawn into the orbit of a strange aristocrat with a disturbing new acquisition. What begins as witty banter over beauty and decadence soon takes a darker turn into psychological horror when the artifact is unveiled.

Content Warnings: psychological horror, depictions of violence and gore, themes of body image insecurity, unsettling imagery, profanity

Featuring

Ross Bryant as Keeper of Arcane Lore

Paula Deming as Anna St. Clair

Scott Dorward as Jasper Bastian

Virginia Lee as Claire Windby

cuppycup as Silas Watson

Dialogue Editing by Victoria Cheng and cuppycup

Sound and Music Design by cuppycup

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The cast dives headfirst into an improvised TTRPG romantic comedy. What starts as quirky New Yorkers juggling careers and love lives begins to spiral. Maybe, just maybe, the universe has bigger plans than anyone expects in this Call of Cthulhu one-shot game.

Content Warnings: drug and alcohol use, sexual innuendo, animal endangerment, profanity

Featuring

Ross Bryant as Keeper of Arcane Lore

Rashawn Scott as Pamela Forge

Paula Deming as Lucy Flowers

Scott Dorward as Marty Shell

cuppycup as Jordan Benning

Dialogue Editing by Victoria Cheng and cuppycup

Sound and Music Design by cuppycup

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In this actual play episode, our Call of Cthulhu investigators step into the gleaming halls of Keystone Tower. Strange architecture blurs the line between reality and illusion in this cosmic horror scenario. Nothing about this visit goes quite as planned.

Content Warnings: drugging, sexual innuendo, profanity

Featuring

Ross Bryant as Keeper of Arcane Lore

Rashawn Scott as Pamela Forge

Paula Deming as Lucy Flowers

Scott Dorward as Marty Shell

cuppycup as Jordan Benning

Dialogue Editing by Victoria Cheng and cuppycup

Sound and Music Design by cuppycup

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In this actual play episode, we’re back in a scary place where the angles don’t make sense and neither do our choices. Luck just keeps running out inside the weird geometry of Keystone Tower. Feelings get messy and something impossible squeezes its way into the night in our Call of Cthulhu one-shot finale.

Content Warnings: body horror, violence, gunshot SFX, sexual innuendo, profanity

Featuring

Ross Bryant as Keeper of Arcane Lore

Rashawn Scott as Pamela Forge

Paula Deming as Lucy Flowers

Scott Dorward as Marty Shell

cuppycup as Jordan Benning

Dialogue Editing by Victoria Cheng and cuppycup

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Paris, 1890-something? The Moulin Rouge burns bright with music, lust, and secrets. Our investigators tumble through the velvet haze of Montmartre. An ex-dancer, an eccentric poet, a music box artisan, and a guy named Bill Buckaroo. What begins as backstage chaos soon drips into something much darker.

Content Warnings: gore, violence, sexual references, gaslighting, profanity, alcohol and smoking

Featuring

Ross Bryant as Keeper of Arcane Lore

Abubakar Salim as Bill Buckaroo

Josephine McAdam as Margot Abadie

Scott Dorward as Henri Roi

cuppycup as Marcel Dubois

Dialogue Editing by Scott Dorward and cuppycup

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Produced by cuppycup

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