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Act Four of Five: What happens when you mix ancient Albion's divine magic with the gray psyche of the urban USA? Not a riddle: we're about to find out.Coming next on 15 July – Vigil: Shadowfall, Act 5Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, gunfire, and references to child abduction.Matt played Coiled Spæce with Maddy Searle on A Game Of One's Own.Dramatis personae and other definitionsMelody Bantham: The owner of Melodies, the cosy cafe and vinyl shop on Market Street. Melody is an ageless patchwork person animated by music, who fled her creator ages ago and has owned a music shop on this spot ever since.Harper: A US exchange student trying to sever her ties to the Shadow realm she sometimes enters through revolving doors.Gwynned, the Shieldmaiden: A former shieldmaiden of the triple goddess Morrigan, exiled to live as a duck for the crime of saving a mortal man from her mistress' cruel whim, now freed from her curse and elevated to a third of the godhead herself.Brier: A mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown's Rosebrier Forest.Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Recently lifted.CreditsCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:Helen Stratton as Melody Bantham, the ConstructedMarta Da Silva as Harper, the SearcherNatalie Winter as Gwynned, the DivineStrat as Brier, the MonstrousROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSOUND DESIGN BY: Matt BoothmanSFX AND INCIDENTAL MUSIC INCLUDES: Pigeons taking off by Glaneur de sons on freesound.org (CC BY 4.0); and may include others made available to use without attribution.EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @MerelyRoleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act Three of Five: The library is a gateway to knowledge and, since they installed the revolving door, to dark places too.Coming next on 1 July – Vigil: Shadowfall, Act 4Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, gunfire, and references to child abduction.Matt's Mum interviews him about Merely Roleplayers in the next edition of Professional Relations, the Foggy Outline newsletter, dropping into inboxes on Friday 27 June.Dramatis personae and other definitionsMelody Bantham: The owner of Melodies, the cosy cafe and vinyl shop on Market Street. Melody is an ageless patchwork person animated by music, who fled her creator ages ago and has owned a music shop on this spot ever since.Harper: A US exchange student trying to sever her ties to the Shadow realm she sometimes enters through revolving doors.Gwynned, the Shieldmaiden: A former shieldmaiden of the triple goddess Morrigan, exiled to live as a duck for the crime of saving a mortal man from her mistress' cruel whim, now freed from her curse and elevated to a third of the godhead herself.Brier: A mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown's Rosebrier Forest.Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Recently lifted.CreditsCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:Helen Stratton as Melody Bantham, the ConstructedMarta Da Silva as Harper, the SearcherNatalie Winter as Gwynned, the DivineStrat as Brier, the MonstrousROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSOUND DESIGN BY: Matt BoothmanSFX AND INCIDENTAL MUSIC INCLUDES: Pigeons taking off by Glaneur de sons on freesound.org (CC BY 4.0); and may include others made available to use without attribution.EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @MerelyRoleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act Two of Five: In the deepest darkest basement, the former Mayor has a lead that could go all the way to the top.Coming next on 17 June – Vigil: Shadowfall, Act 3Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, gunfire, and references to child abduction.In chapter 3 of Camera Obscura, Matt's actual play of Outliers by Samantha Leigh, the RAs do battle with a dæmon-haunted server.Dramatis personae and other definitionsMelody Bantham: The owner of Melodies, the cosy cafe and vinyl shop on Market Street. Melody is an ageless patchwork person animated by music, who fled her creator ages ago and has owned a music shop on this spot ever since.Harper: A US exchange student trying to sever her ties to the Shadow realm she sometimes enters through revolving doors.Gwynned, the Shieldmaiden: A former shieldmaiden of the triple goddess Morrigan, exiled to live as a duck for the crime of saving a mortal man from her mistress' cruel whim, now freed from her curse and elevated to a third of the godhead herself.Brier: A mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown's Rosebrier Forest.Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Recently lifted.CreditsCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:Helen Stratton as Melody Bantham, the ConstructedMarta Da Silva as Harper, the SearcherNatalie Winter as Gwynned, the DivineStrat as Brier, the MonstrousROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSOUND DESIGN BY: Matt BoothmanSFX AND INCIDENTAL MUSIC INCLUDES: Pigeons taking off by Glaneur de sons on freesound.org (CC BY 4.0); and may include others made available to use without attribution.EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @MerelyRoleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
The Shadowfall cast check the status of their characters' relationships, and check Matt's fit for clues.Coming next on 3 June – Vigil: Shadowfall, Act 2Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, gunfire, and references to child abduction.Dramatis personae and other definitionsMelody Bantham: The owner of Melodies, the cosy cafe and vinyl shop on Market Street. Melody is an ageless patchwork person animated by music, who fled her creator ages ago and has owned a music shop on this spot ever since.Harper: A US exchange student trying to sever her ties to the Shadow realm she sometimes enters through revolving doors.Gwynned, the Shieldmaiden: A former shieldmaiden of the triple goddess Morrigan, exiled to live as a duck for the crime of saving a mortal man from her mistress' cruel whim, now freed from her curse and elevated to a third of the godhead herself.Brier: A mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown's Rosebrier Forest.Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Recently lifted.CreditsCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:Helen Stratton as Melody Bantham, the ConstructedMarta Da Silva as Harper, the SearcherNatalie Winter as Gwynned, the DivineStrat as Brier, the MonstrousROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSOUND DESIGN BY: Matt BoothmanEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @MerelyRoleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act One of Five: If you don't cast a shadow, are you really there? Not a riddle: we're about to find out.Coming next on 27 May – Other selves (Vigil Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, gunfire, and references to child abduction.Find Matt at UK Games Expo, 30 May–1 June at the NEC in Birmingham. He's running some roleplaying game sessions you can sign up to join.Dramatis personae and other definitionsMelody Bantham: The owner of Melodies, the cosy cafe and vinyl shop on Market Street. Melody is an ageless patchwork person animated by music, who fled her creator ages ago and has owned a music shop on this spot ever since.Harper: A US exchange student trying to sever her ties to the Shadow realm she sometimes enters through revolving doors.Gwynned, the Shieldmaiden: A former shieldmaiden of the triple goddess Morrigan, exiled to live as a duck for the crime of saving a mortal man from her mistress' cruel whim, now freed from her curse and elevated to a third of the godhead herself.Brier: A mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown's Rosebrier Forest.Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Recently lifted.CreditsCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:Helen Stratton as Melody Bantham, the ConstructedMarta Da Silva as Harper, the SearcherNatalie Winter as Gwynned, the DivineStrat as Brier, the MonstrousROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSOUND DESIGN BY: Matt BoothmanSFX AND INCIDENTAL MUSIC INCLUDES: Pigeons taking off by Glaneur de sons on freesound.org (CC BY 4.0); and may include others made available to use without attribution.EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @MerelyRoleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
The cast of Vigil: Ill Wind talk about the parts of the story that came out in the wash, and the parts that might stink up the Main House for a while to come.Coming next on 20 May – Vigil: Shadowfall, Act 1Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, retching sounds, toxic friendship, and betrayal.Dramatis personae and other definitionsRenko: A DoOm agent assigned to Sherrydown, furloughed since the office closed.Gwynned, the Shieldmaiden: A former shieldmaiden of the triple goddess Morrigan, exiled to live as a duck for the crime of saving a mortal man from her mistress' cruel whim, now freed from her curse and elevated to a third of the godhead herself.Graham: The demon equivalent of an accountant, summoned to Earth in error and now trying to make the best of it. He is destined to bring about the Apocalypse.Peggy Tailor: The prodigal daughter of a local family that dabbles in fey frolicking and organised crime, back in town to lay low after a grift gone horribly wrong.Jess Butterworth: A twenty-something shift worker, Sherrydown born and bred. While working the tarot tent at Amazement Park, she was approached by Kit, a being claiming to be her spirit guide.Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Recently lifted.CreditsCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:Vikki as Renko, the FlakeNatalie Winter as Gwynned, the DivineAlexander Pankhurst as Graham, the SummonedEllie Pitkin as Peggy Tailor, the Crookedwith Ellen Gould as Jess ButterworthROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSOUND DESIGN BY: Matt BoothmanEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @MerelyRoleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act Five of Five: To save Sherrydown from its own waste, someone's going to have to get their hands dirty.Coming next on 29 April – Lingering effects (Vigil Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, retching sounds, toxic friendship, and betrayal.Dramatis personae and other definitionsRenko: A DoOm agent assigned to Sherrydown, furloughed since the office closed.Gwynned, the Shieldmaiden: A former shieldmaiden of the triple goddess Morrigan, exiled to live as a duck for the crime of saving a mortal man from her mistress' cruel whim, now freed from her curse and elevated to a third of the godhead herself.Graham: The demon equivalent of an accountant, summoned to Earth in error and now trying to make the best of it. He is destined to bring about the Apocalypse.Peggy Tailor: The prodigal daughter of a local family that dabbles in fey frolicking and organised crime, back in town to lay low after a grift gone horribly wrong.Jess Butterworth: A twenty-something shift worker, Sherrydown born and bred. While working the tarot tent at Amazement Park, she was approached by Kit, a being claiming to be her spirit guide.Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Recently lifted.CreditsCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:Vikki as Renko, the FlakeNatalie Winter as Gwynned, the DivineAlexander Pankhurst as Graham, the SummonedEllie Pitkin as Peggy Tailor, the Crookedwith Ellen Gould as Jess ButterworthROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSOUND DESIGN BY: Matt BoothmanEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @MerelyRoleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act Four of Five: Did the Tailors cause all this? Yes. Can they fix it? Also yes. But maybe they're not the only ones.Coming next on 22 April – Vigil: Ill Wind, Act 5Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, retching sounds, toxic friendship, and betrayal.Want to reduce waste so it can't come blobbing through town, dissolving everything in sight? Matt's Dad is organising a clothes swap to reduce clothing waste in the Settle, North Yorkshire area, for Action on Climate Climate Emergency.Dramatis personae and other definitionsRenko: A DoOm agent assigned to Sherrydown, furloughed since the office closed.Gwynned, the Shieldmaiden: A former shieldmaiden of the triple goddess Morrigan, exiled to live as a duck for the crime of saving a mortal man from her mistress' cruel whim, now freed from her curse and elevated to a third of the godhead herself.Graham: The demon equivalent of an accountant, summoned to Earth in error and now trying to make the best of it. He is destined to bring about the Apocalypse.Peggy Tailor: The prodigal daughter of a local family that dabbles in fey frolicking and organised crime, back in town to lay low after a grift gone horribly wrong.Jess Butterworth: A twenty-something shift worker, Sherrydown born and bred. While working the tarot tent at Amazement Park, she was approached by Kit, a being claiming to be her spirit guide.Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Recently lifted.CreditsCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:Vikki as Renko, the FlakeNatalie Winter as Gwynned, the DivineAlexander Pankhurst as Graham, the SummonedEllie Pitkin as Peggy Tailor, the Crookedwith Ellen Gould as Jess ButterworthROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSOUND DESIGN BY: Matt BoothmanSFX AND INCIDENTAL MUSIC INCLUDES: Pigeons taking off by Glaneur de sons on freesound.org (CC BY 4.0); and may include others made available to use without attribution.EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @MerelyRoleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act Three of Five: An old friend invites Peggy to get drunk. Gwynned holds her nose and flies to the rescue.Coming next on 8 April – Vigil: Ill Wind, Act 4Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, retching sounds, toxic friendship, and betrayal.Camera Obscura is Matt's new actual play of Outliers, a single-player roleplaying game of weird science by Samantha Leigh. Read a new chapter every month at foggyoutline.com/serialsDramatis personae and other definitionsRenko: A DoOm agent assigned to Sherrydown, furloughed since the office closed.Gwynned, the Shieldmaiden: A former shieldmaiden of the triple goddess Morrigan, exiled to live as a duck for the crime of saving a mortal man from her mistress' cruel whim, now freed from her curse and elevated to a third of the godhead herself.Graham: The demon equivalent of an accountant, summoned to Earth in error and now trying to make the best of it. He is destined to bring about the Apocalypse.Peggy Tailor: The prodigal daughter of a local family that dabbles in fey frolicking and organised crime, back in town to lay low after a grift gone horribly wrong.Jess Butterworth: A twenty-something shift worker, Sherrydown born and bred. While working the tarot tent at Amazement Park, she was approached by Kit, a being claiming to be her spirit guide.Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Recently lifted.CreditsCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:Vikki as Renko, the FlakeNatalie Winter as Gwynned, the DivineAlexander Pankhurst as Graham, the SummonedEllie Pitkin as Peggy Tailor, the Crookedwith Ellen Gould as Jess ButterworthROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSOUND DESIGN BY: Matt BoothmanSFX AND INCIDENTAL MUSIC INCLUDES: atmos small pub 10 people by v_hazard on freesound.org; and may include others made available to use without attribution.EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @MerelyRoleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act Two of Five: Gwynned seeks out eyewitnesses (and nose-, foot- and tail-witnesses). Graham and Renko follow their noses.Coming next on 25 March – Vigil: Ill Wind, Act 3Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, retching sounds, toxic friendship, and betrayal.The Re: Dracula team's audio drama adaptation of Carmilla, the classic vampire novel by J Sheridan Le Fanu (Sherrydown's namesake), is in progress over on the Re: Dracula podcast feed.Dramatis personae and other definitionsRenko: A DoOm agent assigned to Sherrydown, furloughed since the office closed.Gwynned, the Shieldmaiden: A former shieldmaiden of the triple goddess Morrigan, exiled to live as a duck for the crime of saving a mortal man from her mistress' cruel whim, now freed from her curse and elevated to a third of the godhead herself.Graham: The demon equivalent of an accountant, summoned to Earth in error and now trying to make the best of it. He is destined to bring about the Apocalypse.Peggy Tailor: The prodigal daughter of a local family that dabbles in fey frolicking and organised crime, back in town to lay low after a grift gone horribly wrong.Jess Butterworth: A twenty-something shift worker, Sherrydown born and bred. While working the tarot tent at Amazement Park, she was approached by Kit, a being claiming to be her spirit guide.Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Recently lifted.CreditsCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:Vikki as Renko, the FlakeNatalie Winter as Gwynned, the DivineAlexander Pankhurst as Graham, the SummonedEllie Pitkin as Peggy Tailor, the Crookedwith Ellen Gould as Jess ButterworthROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSOUND DESIGN BY: Matt BoothmanSFX AND INCIDENTAL MUSIC INCLUDES: pigeons taking off by Glaneur de sons on freesound.org; Virtutes Instrumenti by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons By Attribution 3.0 License; and may include others made available to use without attribution.EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @MerelyRoleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act One of Five: Something's rotten in the county of Brackshire. Peggy has some rotten luck and Graham smells a rat.Coming next on 11 March – Vigil: Ill Wind, Act 2Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, retching sounds, toxic friendship, and betrayal.Free exhibition Tarot: Origins and Afterlives is at the Warburg Institute, London until 30 April.Dramatis personae and other definitionsRenko: A DoOm agent assigned to Sherrydown, furloughed since the office closed.Gwynned, the Shieldmaiden: A former shieldmaiden of the triple goddess Morrigan, exiled to live as a duck for the crime of saving a mortal man from her mistress' cruel whim, now freed from her curse and elevated to a third of the godhead herself.Graham: The demon equivalent of an accountant, summoned to Earth in error and now trying to make the best of it. He is destined to bring about the Apocalypse.Peggy Tailor: The prodigal daughter of a local family that dabbles in fey frolicking and organised crime, back in town to lay low after a grift gone horribly wrong.Jess Butterworth: A twenty-something shift worker, Sherrydown born and bred. While working the tarot tent at Amazement Park, she was approached by Kit, a being claiming to be her spirit guide.Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Recently lifted.CreditsCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:Vikki as Renko, the FlakeNatalie Winter as Gwynned, the DivineAlexander Pankhurst as Graham, the SummonedEllie Pitkin as Peggy Tailor, the Crookedwith Ellen Gould as Jess ButterworthROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSOUND DESIGN BY: Matt BoothmanEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @MerelyRoleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
While you wait for the next Vigil production in the Main House, here's a sample of The Sprouting by our friends at Blighthouse Studio.The Sprouting is an eldritch horror of a Call of Cthulhu actual play podcast, set in an apocalyptic future where plants have taken over, magical bargains twist the fabric of reality and each survivor struggles to trust their own senses.Coming next on 25 February – Vigil: Ill Wind, Act 1 of 5The Sprouting: Prequel for Lark, Sully and RalphDear listener, welcome to The Cradle. My name is Anori and I will be recounting the story of The Sprouting.Before we set off on this tale together, it is only right that we meet the people integral to this story: Lark, Sully and Ralph.Enjoy.Support The SproutingEmail: sprouting@blighthouse.studioWebsite: https://linktr.ee/thesproutingSupport: http://www.Patreon.com/blighthouseDiscord: https://discord.gg/vtgnVAZY44This is a Blighthouse Studio production
Which questions did we decline to answer and why? The cast discusses the end of their beloved Queen's journey.Coming next on 11 February – Guest artist: The SproutingProgramme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, murder, and eye damage.CreditsSTARRING:- Alexander Pankhurst- Marta Da Silva- Josh Yard- Ellie Pitkin- Matt BoothmanROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: For The Queen, second edition, by Alex Roberts, published by Darrington PressMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstCOVER ART INCLUDES:Royal crown silhouette by Timplaru Emil on VecteezyCarnival mask silhouette by Muhammad Fathurrahman on VecteezySkull silhouette by Carlos Avila on VecteezyEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn InstagramOn Tumblrwww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act 3 of 3: The Queen is under attack. After all she's done, who of her retinue will defend her?Coming next on 4 February – Her end (Many Masks Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, murder, and eye damage.CreditsSTARRING:- Alexander Pankhurst- Marta Da Silva- Josh Yard- Ellie Pitkin- Matt BoothmanROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: For The Queen, second edition, by Alex Roberts, published by Darrington PressMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstCOVER ART INCLUDES:Royal crown silhouette by Timplaru Emil on VecteezyCarnival mask silhouette by Muhammad Fathurrahman on VecteezySkull silhouette by Carlos Avila on VecteezyEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn InstagramOn Tumblrwww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Blooper reel or pooper reel? From all the material Matt cut from the recording emerges a very tonally different parallel story.Coming next on 28 January – Her Many Masks, Act 3Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, murder, and eye damage.Luvvie alert! We simply must introduce you to The Thorne Files. They just aired Dead On Arrival, a two-part miniseries using a one-page game designed by the show's own Danny, that centres around c-list supervillains being given their 15 minutes of fame (inspired by The Secret Six and The Suicide Squad). And season two of their main Monster of the Week game starts soon!CreditsSTARRING:- Alexander Pankhurst- Marta Da Silva- Josh Yard- Ellie Pitkin- Matt BoothmanROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: For The Queen, second edition, by Alex Roberts, published by Darrington PressMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstCOVER ART INCLUDES:Royal crown silhouette by Timplaru Emil on VecteezyCarnival mask silhouette by Muhammad Fathurrahman on VecteezySkull silhouette by Carlos Avila on VecteezyEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn InstagramOn Tumblrwww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act 2 of 3: The road behind is as perilous as the one ahead, each strewn with seeds that could prove the Queen's undoing.Coming next on 21 January – Her crimes (Many Masks Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, murder, and eye damage.Luvvie alert! We simply must introduce you to The Thorne Files. They just aired Dead On Arrival, a two-part miniseries using a one-page game designed by the show's own Danny, that centres around c-list supervillains being given their 15 minutes of fame (inspired by The Secret Six and The Suicide Squad). And season two of their main Monster of the Week game starts soon!CreditsSTARRING:- Alexander Pankhurst- Marta Da Silva- Josh Yard- Ellie Pitkin- Matt BoothmanROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: For The Queen, second edition, by Alex Roberts, published by Darrington PressMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstCOVER ART INCLUDES:Royal crown silhouette by Timplaru Emil on VecteezyCarnival mask silhouette by Muhammad Fathurrahman on VecteezySkull silhouette by Carlos Avila on VecteezyEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn InstagramOn Tumblrwww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Our Queen will emerge through play, but what's her starting vibe? We moodboard an aesthetic with the help of For The Queen's beautiful art cards.Coming next on 14 January – Her Many Masks, Act 2Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, murder, and eye damage.Luvvie alert! We simply must introduce you to Legend of the Bones, a hybrid of solo old school Dungeons & Dragons actual play, and dark fantasy audio drama. A story where the roll of the bones determines all. None shall escape the destiny of bone.CreditsSTARRING:- Alexander Pankhurst- Marta Da Silva- Josh Yard- Ellie Pitkin- Matt BoothmanROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: For The Queen, second edition, by Alex Roberts, published by Darrington PressMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstCOVER ART INCLUDES:Royal crown silhouette by Timplaru Emil on VecteezyCarnival mask silhouette by Muhammad Fathurrahman on Vecteezy Skull silhouette by Carlos Avila on VecteezyEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn InstagramOn Tumblrwww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act 1 of 3: The Queen sets out through wrack and ruin with her retinue, each of whom loves her in their own way.Coming next on 7 January 2025 – Her Majesty (Many Masks Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, murder, and eye damage.Luvvie alert! We simply must introduce you to Legend of the Bones, a hybrid of solo old school Dungeons & Dragons actual play, and dark fantasy audio drama. A story where the roll of the bones determines all. None shall escape the destiny of bone.CreditsSTARRING:- Alexander Pankhurst- Marta Da Silva- Josh Yard- Ellie Pitkin- Matt BoothmanROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: For The Queen, second edition, by Alex Roberts, published by Darrington PressMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstCOVER ART INCLUDES:Royal crown silhouette by Timplaru Emil on VecteezyCarnival mask silhouette by Muhammad Fathurrahman on VecteezySkull silhouette by Carlos Avila on VecteezyEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn InstagramOn Tumblrwww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
While you wait for Her Many Masks to open in the Studio, here's a sample of I Need A Miracle, another podcast Foggy Outline released this year, written by Matt.I Need A Miracle is an original scripted audio drama where each episode is a prayer, some prayers are answered, and a prayer granted can upend the whole world.CreditsEpisode 1, A dream come true, stars David Holt as Michel Kildress, the Artist (they/them), with additional voices from the season 1 castWritten and created by Matt BoothmanDirected by Robert ValentineMusic by Katharine SeatonSound design by Sarah BuchynskiCasting by Fiona ThrailleRecorded at Jukebox StudiosBroadcast assistance from Teresa MilewskiCover art by Dionysis LivanisProduced by Sarah Golding of Wireless Theatre for Foggy OutlineTranscriptA dream come true transcriptSupport I Need A MiracleIf you enjoyed this episode, in your benevolence, I entreat you to:Buy me a cuppa to fuel development of season 2Follow I Need A Miracle @inyourbenevolence on TumblrFollow I Need A Miracle @in.your.benevolence on InstagramReview I Need A Miracle on Apple Podcasts or PodchaserComment on this episode on SpotifyShare the I Need A Miracle homepage www.foggyoutline.com/ineedamiracle
The cast look back at Peggy's debut. Was this the grossest Vigil yet?Coming up in the Studio on 31 December – Her Many Masks, Act 1Programme notesThis production contains strong language, drug use, gunfire, and gory fantasy violence.Dramatis personae and other definitionsPeggy Tailor: The prodigal daughter of a local family that dabbles in fey frolicking and organised crime, back in town to lay low after a grift gone horribly wrong.Calistarius Softbinding: A local horror writer with a cult following, who sponsored the construction of a whole new wing of Sherrydown's library. Calistarius Softbinding is a nom de plume.Ed Kincaid: A once promising, now disgraced MI5 agent assigned to investigate the more … esoteric threats reported to the national security hotline.Jinny Greenteeth: Proprietor of the Grove of Oddities, a tacky Sherrydown tourist attraction. In a past life, Jinny was branded a witch after a series of drownings in her Lancashire village.Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Recently lifted.CreditsCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:Ellie Pitkin as Peggy Tailor, the CrookedChris Buxey as Calistarius Softbinding, the ExpertChris MacLennan as Ed Kincaid, the ProfessionalJosh Yard as Jinny Greenteeth, the Spellslingerwith Chris Starkey as Cameron JarvisROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @MerelyRoleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act Five of Five: One's home is one's castle. Who's the king of this one?Coming next on 3 December – Unpicking (Vigil Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains strong language, drug use, gunfire, and gory fantasy violence.Meet actual play podcasters and see some live recordings at the Dragonmeet PodcastZone in London on 30 November.Back the Slayers Survival Kit and Hunter's Journal, two new Monster of the Week books.Luvvie alert! We simply must introduce you to OMEN Investigations, a comedy horror podcast starring three secret agents as they travel the world fighting monsters, ghosts, aliens and other paranormal perils.Dramatis personae and other definitionsPeggy Tailor: The prodigal daughter of a local family that dabbles in fey frolicking and organised crime, back in town to lay low after a grift gone horribly wrong.Calistarius Softbinding: A local horror writer with a cult following, who sponsored the construction of a whole new wing of Sherrydown's library. Calistarius Softbinding is a nom de plume.Ed Kincaid: A once promising, now disgraced MI5 agent assigned to investigate the more … esoteric threats reported to the national security hotline.Jinny Greenteeth: Proprietor of the Grove of Oddities, a tacky Sherrydown tourist attraction. In a past life, Jinny was branded a witch after a series of drownings in her Lancashire village.Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Recently lifted.CreditsCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:Ellie Pitkin as Peggy Tailor, the CrookedChris Buxey as Calistarius Softbinding, the ExpertChris MacLennan as Ed Kincaid, the ProfessionalJosh Yard as Jinny Greenteeth, the Spellslingerwith Chris Starkey as Cameron JarvisROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSOUND DESIGN BY: Matt BoothmanSFX AND INCIDENTAL MUSIC INCLUDES: Dragon and Toast by Kevin MacLeod; and may include others made available to use without attribution.EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @MerelyRoleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act Four of Five: Test your smoke alarms and check your boiler regularly. Otherwise your home can really hurt you.Coming next on 26 November – Vigil: Tailor Made, Act 5Programme notesThis production contains strong language, drug use, gunfire, and gory fantasy violence.Meet actual play podcasters and see some live recordings at the Dragonmeet PodcastZone in London on 30 November.Back the Slayers Survival Kit and Hunter's Journal, two new Monster of the Week books.Luvvie alert! We simply must introduce you to OMEN Investigations, a comedy horror podcast starring three secret agents as they travel the world fighting monsters, ghosts, aliens and other paranormal perils.Dramatis personae and other definitionsPeggy Tailor: The prodigal daughter of a local family that dabbles in fey frolicking and organised crime, back in town to lay low after a grift gone horribly wrong.Calistarius Softbinding: A local horror writer with a cult following, who sponsored the construction of a whole new wing of Sherrydown's library. Calistarius Softbinding is a nom de plume.Ed Kincaid: A once promising, now disgraced MI5 agent assigned to investigate the more … esoteric threats reported to the national security hotline.Jinny Greenteeth: Proprietor of the Grove of Oddities, a tacky Sherrydown tourist attraction. In a past life, Jinny was branded a witch after a series of drownings in her Lancashire village.Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Recently lifted.CreditsCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:Ellie Pitkin as Peggy Tailor, the CrookedChris Buxey as Calistarius Softbinding, the ExpertChris MacLennan as Ed Kincaid, the ProfessionalJosh Yard as Jinny Greenteeth, the Spellslingerwith Chris Starkey as Cameron JarvisROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSOUND DESIGN BY: Matt BoothmanSFX AND INCIDENTAL MUSIC INCLUDES: Mirage by Kevin MacLeod; and may include others made available to use without attribution.EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @MerelyRoleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act Three of Five: As the innocents evacuate, hostilities escalate. The walls are closing in.Coming next on 12 November – Vigil: Tailor Made, Act 4Programme notesThis production contains strong language, drug use, gunfire, and gory fantasy violence.Nominate your favourite podcasts for the 2024 Discover Pods Awards. Merely Roleplayers is eligible under Fiction and I Need A Miracle, the scripted audio drama Matt wrote, is eligible for Best New Podcast of 2024.Luvvie alert! We simply must introduce you to The Thorne Files, a fellow Monster of the Week actual play podcast detailing the exploits and mysteries explored by agents of Thorne Investigations, a paranormal investigations agency, in 1952.Dramatis personae and other definitionsPeggy Tailor: The prodigal daughter of a local family that dabbles in fey frolicking and organised crime, back in town to lay low after a grift gone horribly wrong.Calistarius Softbinding: A local horror writer with a cult following, who sponsored the construction of a whole new wing of Sherrydown's library. Calistarius Softbinding is a nom de plume.Ed Kincaid: A once promising, now disgraced MI5 agent assigned to investigate the more … esoteric threats reported to the national security hotline.Jinny Greenteeth: Proprietor of the Grove of Oddities, a tacky Sherrydown tourist attraction. In a past life, Jinny was branded a witch after a series of drownings in her Lancashire village.Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Recently lifted.CreditsCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:Ellie Pitkin as Peggy Tailor, the CrookedChris Buxey as Calistarius Softbinding, the ExpertChris MacLennan as Ed Kincaid, the ProfessionalJosh Yard as Jinny Greenteeth, the Spellslingerwith Chris Starkey as Cameron JarvisROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSOUND DESIGN BY: Matt BoothmanSFX AND INCIDENTAL MUSIC INCLUDES: Dragon and Toast by Kevin MacLeod; and may include others made available to use without attribution.EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @MerelyRoleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Meet Peggy: grifter, scion, Crooked. Ellie builds her new character along with an identity parade of supernatural villains.Coming next on 29 October – Vigil: Tailor Made, Act 3Programme notesThis production contains strong language, drug use, gunfire, and gory fantasy violence.Dramatis personae and other definitionsPeggy Tailor: The prodigal daughter of a local family that dabbles in fey frolicking and organised crime, back in town to lay low after a grift gone horribly wrong.Calistarius Softbinding: A local horror writer with a cult following, who sponsored the construction of a whole new wing of Sherrydown's library. Calistarius Softbinding is a nom de plume.Ed Kincaid: A once promising, now disgraced MI5 agent assigned to investigate the more … esoteric threats reported to the national security hotline.Jinny Greenteeth: Proprietor of the Grove of Oddities, a tacky Sherrydown tourist attraction. In a past life, Jinny was branded a witch after a series of drownings in her Lancashire village.Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Recently lifted.CreditsCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:Ellie Pitkin as Peggy Tailor, the CrookedChris Buxey as Calistarius Softbinding, the ExpertChris MacLennan as Ed Kincaid, the ProfessionalJosh Yard as Jinny Greenteeth, the Spellslingerwith Chris Starkey as Cameron JarvisROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @MerelyRoleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act Two of Five: Search this house from bottom to top!Coming next on 22 October – Peggy, the Crooked (Vigil Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains strong language, drug use, gunfire, and gory fantasy violence.Luvvie alert! We simply must introduce you to The Thorne Files, a fellow Monster of the Week actual play podcast detailing the exploits and mysteries explored by agents of Thorne Investigations, a paranormal investigations agency, in 1952.Dramatis personae and other definitionsPeggy Tailor: The prodigal daughter of a local family that dabbles in fey frolicking and organised crime, back in town to lay low after a grift gone horribly wrong.Calistarius Softbinding: A local horror writer with a cult following, who sponsored the construction of a whole new wing of Sherrydown's library. Calistarius Softbinding is a nom de plume.Ed Kincaid: A once promising, now disgraced MI5 agent assigned to investigate the more … esoteric threats reported to the national security hotline.Jinny Greenteeth: Proprietor of the Grove of Oddities, a tacky Sherrydown tourist attraction. In a past life, Jinny was branded a witch after a series of drownings in her Lancashire village.Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Recently lifted.CreditsCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:Ellie Pitkin as Peggy Tailor, the CrookedChris Buxey as Calistarius Softbinding, the ExpertChris MacLennan as Ed Kincaid, the ProfessionalJosh Yard as Jinny Greenteeth, the Spellslingerwith Chris Starkey as Cameron JarvisROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSOUND DESIGN BY: Matt BoothmanEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @MerelyRoleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
The cast work out how everyone's connected to Ellie's new character.Coming next on 15 October – Vigil: Tailor Made, Act 2Programme notesThis production contains strong language, drug use, gunfire, and gory fantasy violence.Dramatis personae and other definitionsCalistarius Softbinding: A local horror writer with a cult following, who sponsored the construction of a whole new wing of Sherrydown's library. Calistarius Softbinding is a nom de plume.Ed Kincaid: A once promising, now disgraced MI5 agent assigned to investigate the more … esoteric threats reported to the national security hotline.Jinny Greenteeth: Proprietor of the Grove of Oddities, a tacky Sherrydown tourist attraction. In a past life, Jinny was branded a witch after a series of drownings in her Lancashire village.Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Recently lifted.CreditsCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:Ellie Pitkin as ???Chris Buxey as Calistarius Softbinding, the ExpertChris MacLennan as Ed Kincaid, the ProfessionalJosh Yard as Jinny Greenteeth, the Spellslingerwith Chris Starkey as Cameron JarvisROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @MerelyRoleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act One of Five: Welcome to Tailors' Haunt. Everyone who should live here is gone, and everyone you might want gone can't leave.Coming next on 8 October – Woven together (Vigil Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains strong language, drug use, gunfire, and gory fantasy violence.Dramatis personae and other definitionsCalistarius Softbinding: A local horror writer with a cult following, who sponsored the construction of a whole new wing of Sherrydown's library. Calistarius Softbinding is a nom de plume.Ed Kincaid: A once promising, now disgraced MI5 agent assigned to investigate the more … esoteric threats reported to the national security hotline.Jinny Greenteeth: Proprietor of the Grove of Oddities, a tacky Sherrydown tourist attraction. In a past life, Jinny was branded a witch after a series of drownings in her Lancashire village.Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Recently lifted.CreditsCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:Ellie Pitkin as ???Chris Buxey as Calistarius Softbinding, the ExpertChris MacLennan as Ed Kincaid, the ProfessionalJosh Yard as Jinny Greenteeth, the Spellslingerwith Chris Starkey as Cameron JarvisROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSOUND DESIGN BY: Matt BoothmanEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @MerelyRoleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
What chambers of the Queen's Labyrinth did we leave unexplored? Join us backstage for a look back at this production.Coming next on 1 October – Vigil: Tailor Made, Act 1Programme notesThis production contains memory loss and dead animals.CreditsGOBLIN QUEEN: Natalie WinterSTARRING:Helen Stratton as LindaEllie Pitkin as Sir Barold von BranwickStrat as WinkleMatt Boothman as GundleROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Jim Henson's Labyrinth The Adventure Game by Ben Milton (adventure) and Jack Caesar (rules), published by River HorseMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSEASON PLANNED BY: Natalie WinterEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn InstagramOn Tumblrwww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act 5 of 5: The Goblin Queen's Castle. Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, we have fought our way here to take back what was stolen.Coming next on 17 September – Retracing our steps (Labyrinth Untold)Programme notesThis production contains memory loss and dead animals.Goblin Queen Natalie Winter also plays Dungeons & Dragons and other games on Twitch with Roll Together! Find her as the Dungeon Master of Nexus and Nexus Revolutions, using fantasy to send up sci-fi, or playing Elodie Fogg in Roll Together's ongoing steampunk campaign, Chronicles of Aeodrun.Vigil returns on 1 October, and the first 5 Vigil mysteries (Playtime, Cold Snap, Tourist Trap, Bad Dog, and Quarry) are part of the Supernatural TTRPG Bundle: $20 for 60+ spooky digital games by 50 independent roleplaying game creators, available until 21 September.Matt wrote a new show called I Need A Miracle, where each episode is a prayer, some prayers are answered, and a prayer granted can upend the world. Episode 1 premieres on 29 August. Or get all 12 episodes on 29 August by subscribing to Apollo+.CreditsGOBLIN QUEEN: Natalie WinterSTARRING:Helen Stratton as LindaEllie Pitkin as Sir Barold von BranwickStrat as WinkleMatt Boothman as GundleROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Jim Henson's Labyrinth The Adventure Game by Ben Milton (adventure) and Jack Caesar (rules), published by River HorseMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSEASON PLANNED BY: Natalie WinterEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn InstagramOn Tumblrwww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Follow us around a few of the wrong turns, blind alleys and dead ends that we cut from this production.Coming next on 10 September – Labyrinth Untold, Act 5Programme notesThis production contains memory loss and dead animals.CreditsGOBLIN QUEEN: Natalie WinterSTARRING:Helen Stratton as LindaEllie Pitkin as Sir Barold von BranwickStrat as WinkleMatt Boothman as GundleROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Jim Henson's Labyrinth The Adventure Game by Ben Milton (adventure) and Jack Caesar (rules), published by River HorseMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSEASON PLANNED BY: Natalie WinterEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn InstagramOn Tumblrwww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act 4 of 5: The Goblin City. Shadows are illegal and opera is mandatory. Just don't make a scene.Coming next on 3 September – Clangers untold (Labyrinth Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains memory loss and dead animals.Matt wrote a new show called I Need A Miracle, where each episode is a prayer, some prayers are answered, and a prayer granted can upend the world. Episode 1 premieres on 29 August. Or get all 12 episodes on 29 August by subscribing to Apollo+.Goblin Queen Natalie Winter also plays Dungeons & Dragons and other games on Twitch with Roll Together! Find her as the Dungeon Master of Nexus and Nexus Revolutions, using fantasy to send up sci-fi, or playing Elodie Fogg in Roll Together's ongoing steampunk campaign, Chronicles of Aeodrun.CreditsGOBLIN QUEEN: Natalie WinterSTARRING:Helen Stratton as LindaEllie Pitkin as Sir Barold von BranwickStrat as WinkleMatt Boothman as GundleROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Jim Henson's Labyrinth The Adventure Game by Ben Milton (adventure) and Jack Caesar (rules), published by River HorseMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSEASON PLANNED BY: Natalie WinterEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn InstagramOn Tumblrwww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Can any world survive a benevolent god? I Need A Miracle premieres on 29 August.Coming next on 27 August – Labyrinth Untold, Act 4Programme notesEvery episode is a prayer. Some prayers are answered. And a prayer granted can upend the world.I Need A Miracle is the first scripted podcast series from Foggy Outline, created and written by Merely Roleplayers' Matt Boothman, and produced by multi-award winning Wireless Theatre.Listen and follow at foggyoutline.com/ineedamiracleCreditsThe trailer features the voices of:– Annette Badland– David Holt– Matt BoothmanMusic by Katharine SeatonSound design by Sarah BuchynskiCover art by Dionysis Livanis
Act 3 of 5: The Land of Yore. Between a pot and a fart place. Stink forever or stay forever.Coming next on 20 August – I Need A MiracleProgramme notesThis production contains memory loss and dead animals.Goblin Queen Natalie Winter also plays Dungeons & Dragons and other games on Twitch with Roll Together! Find her as the Dungeon Master of Nexus and Nexus Revolutions, using fantasy to send up sci-fi, or playing Elodie Fogg in Roll Together's ongoing steampunk campaign, Chronicles of Aeodrun.CreditsGOBLIN QUEEN: Natalie WinterSTARRING:Helen Stratton as LindaEllie Pitkin as Sir Barold von BranwickStrat as WinkleMatt Boothman as GundleROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Jim Henson's Labyrinth The Adventure Game by Ben Milton (adventure) and Jack Caesar (rules), published by River HorseMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSEASON PLANNED BY: Natalie WinterEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn InstagramOn Tumblrwww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Character creation continues: what about each of our denizens could help or hinder us on our journey?Coming next on 13 August – Labyrinth Untold, Act 3Programme notesThis production contains memory loss and dead animals.CreditsGOBLIN QUEEN: Natalie WinterSTARRING:Helen Stratton as LindaEllie Pitkin as Sir Barold von BranwickStrat as WinkleMatt Boothman as GundleROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Jim Henson's Labyrinth The Adventure Game by Ben Milton (adventure) and Jack Caesar (rules), published by River HorseMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSEASON PLANNED BY: Natalie WinterEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn InstagramOn Tumblrwww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act 2 of 5: The Hedge Maze. This topiary can only be described as wild.Coming next on 6 August – Traits and flaws (Labyrinth Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains memory loss and dead animals.Goblin Queen Natalie Winter also plays Dungeons & Dragons and other games on Twitch with Roll Together! Find her as the Dungeon Master of Nexus and Nexus Revolutions, using fantasy to send up sci-fi, or playing Elodie Fogg in Roll Together's ongoing steampunk campaign, Chronicles of Aeodrun.CreditsGOBLIN QUEEN: Natalie WinterSTARRING:Helen Stratton as LindaEllie Pitkin as Sir Barold von BranwickStrat as WinkleMatt Boothman as GundleROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Jim Henson's Labyrinth The Adventure Game by Ben Milton (adventure) and Jack Caesar (rules), published by River HorseMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSEASON PLANNED BY: Natalie WinterEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn InstagramOn Tumblrwww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Kicking off character creation with the important question: what flavour of Labyrinth Muppet do we all want to be?Coming next on 30 July – Labyrinth Untold, Act 2Programme notesThis production contains memory loss and dead animals.CreditsGOBLIN QUEEN: Natalie WinterSTARRING:Helen Stratton as LindaEllie Pitkin as Sir Barold von BranwickStrat as WinkleMatt Boothman as GundleROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Jim Henson's Labyrinth The Adventure Game by Ben Milton (adventure) and Jack Caesar (rules), published by River HorseMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSEASON PLANNED BY: Natalie WinterEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn InstagramOn Tumblrwww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act 1 of 5: The Stone Walls. The Goblin Queen is displeased to find four of her denizens outside the Labyrinth.Coming next on 23 July – Kin (Labyrinth Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains memory loss and dead animals.Goblin Queen Natalie Winter also plays Dungeons & Dragons and other games on Twitch with Roll Together! Find her as the Dungeon Master of Nexus and Nexus Revolutions, using fantasy to send up sci-fi, or playing Elodie Fogg in Roll Together's ongoing steampunk campaign, Chronicles of Aeodrun.CreditsGOBLIN QUEEN: Natalie WinterSTARRING:Helen Stratton as LindaEllie Pitkin as Sir Barold von BranwickStrat as WinkleMatt Boothman as GundleROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Jim Henson's Labyrinth The Adventure Game by Ben Milton (adventure) and Jack Caesar (rules), published by River HorseMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSEASON PLANNED BY: Natalie WinterEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn InstagramOn Tumblrwww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
The cast look back at the fever dream that was Dream Big and consider the consequences they've inflicted on the next set of players.Coming next – Labyrinth Untold, an odyssey in 5 actsProgramme notesThis production includes a natural disaster, fantasy violence, blood, and dismemberment (the dismemberment is not bloody).Luvvie alert! We simply must introduce you to Of Dice and Them, where Jack, Ralph, Lou, Tove and Bambi laugh in each other's faces and try to get through a session where no one beefs it. Contains frustrated swearing, light-hearted DM bullying, and far too much owl-based combat.Dramatis personae and other definitionsMick Mason: Sherrydown's favourite builder and bricklayer. His life has been getting weirder since he dug too deep and hit a leyline.Melody Bantham: The owner of Melodies, the cosy cafe and vinyl shop on Market Street. Melody is an ageless patchwork person animated by music, who fled her creator ages ago and has owned a music shop on this spot ever since.Brier: A mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown's Rosebrier Forest.Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Can be suppressed by concentration, mnemonic techniques, hypnosis, trauma, or the light of the full moon.CreditsCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:Dave as Mick Mason, the MundaneHelen Stratton as Melody Bantham, the ConstructedStrat as Brier, the MonstrousROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSOUND DESIGN BY: Matt BoothmanEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @MerelyRoleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act Four of Four: Who should inherit the power of giants? The giant of ambition or the giant of heart?Coming next on 25 June – Dream diary (Vigil Backstage)Programme notesThis production includes a natural disaster, fantasy violence, blood, and dismemberment (the dismemberment is not bloody).Luvvie alert! We simply must introduce you to Of Dice and Them, where Jack, Ralph, Lou, Tove and Bambi laugh in each other's faces and try to get through a session where no one beefs it. Contains frustrated swearing, light-hearted DM bullying, and far too much owl-based combat.Dramatis personae and other definitionsMick Mason: Sherrydown's favourite builder and bricklayer. His life has been getting weirder since he dug too deep and hit a leyline.Melody Bantham: The owner of Melodies, the cosy cafe and vinyl shop on Market Street. Melody is an ageless patchwork person animated by music, who fled her creator ages ago and has owned a music shop on this spot ever since.Brier: A mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown's Rosebrier Forest.Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Can be suppressed by concentration, mnemonic techniques, hypnosis, trauma, or the light of the full moon.CreditsCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:Dave as Mick Mason, the MundaneHelen Stratton as Melody Bantham, the ConstructedStrat as Brier, the MonstrousROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSOUND DESIGN BY: Matt BoothmanSFX AND INCIDENTAL MUSIC INCLUDES: Ritual by Kevin MacLeod; and may include others made available to use without attribution.EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @MerelyRoleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Persephone Byron is gone from this time, but her words to her friends remain.Coming next on 18 June – Vigil: Dream Big, Act 4Programme notesThis production includes a natural disaster, fantasy violence, blood, and dismemberment (the dismemberment is not bloody).Luvvie alert! We simply must introduce you to Realms of Peril & Glory. Journey through hilarious galaxies, adventure-filled worlds and mysterious continents! Experience thrilling tales weaved at the table using a variety of roleplaying game systems, by a rotating panel of Game Masters and Players!Dramatis personae and other definitionsMick Mason: Sherrydown's favourite builder and bricklayer. His life has been getting weirder since he dug too deep and hit a leyline.Melody Bantham: The owner of Melodies, the cosy cafe and vinyl shop on Market Street. Melody is an ageless patchwork person animated by music, who fled her creator ages ago and has owned a music shop on this spot ever since.Brier: A mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown's Rosebrier Forest.Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Can be suppressed by concentration, mnemonic techniques, hypnosis, trauma, or the light of the full moon.CreditsCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:Dave as Mick Mason, the MundaneHelen Stratton as Melody Bantham, the ConstructedStrat as Brier, the MonstrousROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSOUND DESIGN BY: Matt BoothmanEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @MerelyRoleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act Three of Four: Mick has a new rival for the giant's favour, and she's got something shocking planned.Coming next on 11 June – Dear Mick & co (Vigil Backstage)Programme notesThis production includes a natural disaster, fantasy violence, blood, and dismemberment (the dismemberment is not bloody).Luvvie alert! We simply must introduce you to Realms of Peril & Glory. Journey through hilarious galaxies, adventure-filled worlds and mysterious continents! Experience thrilling tales weaved at the table using a variety of roleplaying game systems, by a rotating panel of Game Masters and Players!Dramatis personae and other definitionsMick Mason: Sherrydown's favourite builder and bricklayer. His life has been getting weirder since he dug too deep and hit a leyline.Melody Bantham: The owner of Melodies, the cosy cafe and vinyl shop on Market Street. Melody is an ageless patchwork person animated by music, who fled her creator ages ago and has owned a music shop on this spot ever since.Brier: A mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown's Rosebrier Forest.Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Can be suppressed by concentration, mnemonic techniques, hypnosis, trauma, or the light of the full moon.CreditsCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:Dave as Mick Mason, the MundaneHelen Stratton as Melody Bantham, the ConstructedStrat as Brier, the MonstrousROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSOUND DESIGN BY: Matt BoothmanSFX AND INCIDENTAL MUSIC INCLUDES: Ritual by Kevin MacLeod; and may include others made available to use without attribution.EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @MerelyRoleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Meet Mick: bricklayer, neighbour, Mundane … and now Chosen. Mick started life as an everybloke; can he stay down-to-earth as the champion of giant-kind?Coming next on 4 June – Vigil: Dream Big, Act 3Programme notesThis production includes a natural disaster, fantasy violence, blood, and dismemberment (the dismemberment is not bloody).Luvvie alert! We simply must introduce you to Snyder's Return, a UK based tabletop roleplaying game podcast featuring actual play, content creator interviews and game master/player guides.Dramatis personae and other definitionsMick Mason: Sherrydown's favourite builder and bricklayer. His life has been getting weirder since he dug too deep and hit a leyline.Melody Bantham: The owner of Melodies, the cosy cafe and vinyl shop on Market Street. Melody is an ageless patchwork person animated by music, who fled her creator ages ago and has owned a music shop on this spot ever since.Brier: A mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown's Rosebrier Forest.Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Can be suppressed by concentration, mnemonic techniques, hypnosis, trauma, or the light of the full moon.CreditsCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:Dave as Mick Mason, the MundaneHelen Stratton as Melody Bantham, the ConstructedStrat as Brier, the MonstrousROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSOUND DESIGN BY: Matt BoothmanEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @MerelyRoleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act Two of Four: The owner of the severed arm is in town hoping to witness something earth-shattering.Coming next on 28 May – Mick, the Mundane Chosen (Vigil Backstage)Programme notesThis production includes a natural disaster, fantasy violence, blood, and dismemberment (the dismemberment is not bloody).Nominations are open for the CRIT Awards 2024!In case you'd like to nominate us but you're not sure what we've done that's eligible, here's a post that lists it all, along with any links you'll need for your nominations.Luvvie alert! We simply must introduce you to Snyder's Return, a UK based tabletop roleplaying game podcast featuring actual play, content creator interviews and game master/player guides.Dramatis personae and other definitionsMick Mason: Sherrydown's favourite builder and bricklayer. His life has been getting weirder since he dug too deep and hit a leyline.Melody Bantham: The owner of Melodies, the cosy cafe and vinyl shop on Market Street. Melody is an ageless patchwork person animated by music, who fled her creator ages ago and has owned a music shop on this spot ever since.Brier: A mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown's Rosebrier Forest.Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Can be suppressed by concentration, mnemonic techniques, hypnosis, trauma, or the light of the full moon.CreditsCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:Dave as Mick Mason, the MundaneHelen Stratton as Melody Bantham, the ConstructedStrat as Brier, the MonstrousROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSOUND DESIGN BY: Matt BoothmanSFX AND INCIDENTAL MUSIC INCLUDES: Ritual by Kevin MacLeod; and may include others made available to use without attribution.EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @MerelyRoleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Brier's new crew gatecrashes the usual chat about how the main characters know each other.Coming next on 21 May – Vigil: Dream Big, Act 2Programme notesThis production includes a natural disaster, fantasy violence, blood, and dismemberment (the dismemberment is not bloody).Luvvie alert! We simply must introduce you to The Thorne Files, a fellow Monster of the Week actual play podcast detailing the exploits and mysteries explored by agents of Thorne Investigations, a paranormal investigations agency, in 1952.Dramatis personae and other definitionsMick Mason: Sherrydown's favourite builder and bricklayer. His life has been getting weirder since he dug too deep and hit a leyline.Melody Bantham: The owner of Melodies, the cosy cafe and vinyl shop on Market Street. Melody is an ageless patchwork person animated by music, who fled her creator ages ago and has owned a music shop on this spot ever since.Brier: A mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown's Rosebrier Forest.Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Can be suppressed by concentration, mnemonic techniques, hypnosis, trauma, or the light of the full moon.CreditsCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:Dave as Mick Mason, the MundaneHelen Stratton as Melody Bantham, the ConstructedStrat as Brier, the MonstrousROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSOUND DESIGN BY: Matt BoothmanEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @MerelyRoleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act One of Four: Mick struggles to wake from a nightmare, and the earth under Sherrydown shakes.Coming next on 14 May – Dream team (Vigil Backstage)Programme notesThis production includes a natural disaster, fantasy violence, blood, and dismemberment (the dismemberment is not bloody).Nominations are open for the CRIT Awards 2024! Merely Roleplayers is eligible for Best Podcast, Matt Boothman for Best Podcast Host and Best Game Master – Indie, and the following series are eligible for Best Series (which also means the characters in these series are eligible for Best NPC or Best Villain, and the players are all eligible for Best Player – Indie):- Main House: Vigil: The Great Fire, Vigil: Chief/Exec, Vigil: Fear Itself- Studio: Falling Cadence, The Queen's Dead, The Office PartyLuvvie alert! We simply must introduce you to The Thorne Files, a fellow Monster of the Week actual play podcast detailing the exploits and mysteries explored by agents of Thorne Investigations, a paranormal investigations agency, in 1952.Dramatis personae and other definitionsMick Mason: Sherrydown's favourite builder and bricklayer. His life has been getting weirder since he dug too deep and hit a leyline.Melody Bantham: The owner of Melodies, the cosy cafe and vinyl shop on Market Street. Melody is an ageless patchwork person animated by music, who fled her creator ages ago and has owned a music shop on this spot ever since.Brier: A mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown's Rosebrier Forest.Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Can be suppressed by concentration, mnemonic techniques, hypnosis, trauma, or the light of the full moon.CreditsCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:Dave as Mick Mason, the MundaneHelen Stratton as Melody Bantham, the ConstructedStrat as Brier, the MonstrousROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSOUND DESIGN BY: Matt BoothmanEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @MerelyRoleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
It's only going to take one song to get everyone to stand up and take notice, and then your career will open wide in front of you. You all work so perfectly together. How hard can it be?Coming next on 7 May – Vigil: Dream Big, Act 1Programme notesThis episode contains strong language, underage drinking, references to drugs, and friend group infighting.Throw us a rose emoji on Instagram or Tumblr if you enjoyed this production! Or leave us a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.For behind the scenes updates (including what's coming up after Vigil: Dream Big), subscribe to the Foggy Outline newsletter.CreditsFACILITATOR: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:On vocals, Matt Boothman as Skinny SteveOn lead guitar, Strat as Jimmy DangerOn the keys, Ellie Pitkin as Pixie DustOn rhythm guitar, Josh Yard as SludgeOn the bass, Natalie Winter as Spacy StacyROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Wonders by Alex Flanigan, published in The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book, edited by James D'AmatoMUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst, inspired by Horse ElevatorSEASON PLANNED BY: StratEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @merelyroleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Before getting thrown face-first into school, cling to your final summer break with family and defend your childhood fort from dangers that are definitely not allegories for adulthood!Coming next on 23 April – Wonders, a microgameProgramme notesThis episode contains child endangerment and harm to children (not described in detail), themes of growing up, and divorce.CreditsFACILITATOR: Natalie WinterSTARRING:Natalie Winter as Max, aged 10 ¾Strat as Billy, aged 10 ½Ellie Pitkin as Cara, aged 12Josh Yard as Sam, aged 14Matt Boothman as Ani, aged 8ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Summer Break by Joey Barranco, published in The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book, edited by James D'AmatoMUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst, inspired by Horse ElevatorSEASON PLANNED BY: StratEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @merelyroleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Go inside the writers' room of your favourite canine adventure show, then join four lost dogs as they trick, trial and treat their way home.Coming next on 16 April – Summer Break!, a microgameProgramme notesThis episode contains strong language, animal endangerment, and animal attacks.CreditsFACILITATOR: StratSTARRING:Ellie Pitkin as KevinJosh Yard as EnzoNatalie Winter as PeppercornMatt Boothman as WallabyROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Hero Dog Saves Town by Alex Roberts and Wild Rovers by Shanna Germain, published in The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book, edited by James D'AmatoMUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst, inspired by Horse ElevatorSEASON PLANNED BY: StratEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @merelyroleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Some of the galaxy's (best?) event planners have gathered to plan the celebration for the Gantrofax's final moulting. Of course, we have limited time and budget. Everything is fine, though. Happy moulting!Coming next on 9 April – Good Dogs, a microgame duoProgramme notesThis episode contains strong language, workplace burnout, and speculation about a fictional genocide (that does not happen).CreditsFACILITATOR: Ellie PitkinSTARRING:Ellie Pitkin as Madame FluxJosh Yard as Chef Octo-RamseyNatalie Winter as Dee-mar the Vee-sparStrat as DJ CloroxMatt Boothman as Gravalax the Living CompanyROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Event Planning in Zero G by Jenn Martin, published in The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book, edited by James D'AmatoMUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst, inspired by Horse ElevatorSEASON PLANNED BY: StratEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @merelyroleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
It's time to push the boundaries of modern medicine, and maybe to make out with a bitter rival in the on-call room!Coming next on 2 April – Event Planning in Zero G, a microgameProgramme notesThis episode contains medical situations, medical malpractice, gross medical mouth noises, drug misuse, gun violence, and bawdy British humour of the knickers-down variety.CreditsFACILITATOR: Josh YardSTARRING:Josh Yard as Dr Artery Hartwell and PennyNatalie Winter as Dr Miranda Anderson and Steph O'ScopeStrat as Dr Henry Mole and Chris WandsworthEllie Pitkin as Dr Cynthia Cutting and Marjorie HartwellMatt Boothman as Dr Achilles Miles and Jonathan BlackheadROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Heartbeats by Keith Baker and Jenn Ellis, published in The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book, edited by James D'AmatoMUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst, inspired by Horse ElevatorSEASON PLANNED BY: StratEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn Instagram @merelyroleplayersOn Tumblr @merelyroleplayerswww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
The staff and customers pool their talents to rid the Coffee Shop Hey, You! of the rowdy Suits.Coming next on 26 March – Heartbeats, a microgameProgramme notesInterstitial, 2nd edition is on KickstarterCreditsCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:Alexander Pankhurst as Morgana Le FayNatalie Winter as Jemima Puddle-DuckStrat as Tom ThumbROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Interstitial: Our Hearts Intertwined by Riley HopkinsMUSIC: In The Dark – Flashes by Bix Beiderbeck, performed by Jess Stacy, provided by the Open Music ArchiveRECORDED AND ENGINEERED BY: Kristian Mitchell-DolbyEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanCOMMISSIONED BY: Mira Manga and Fiona KT Howat for the Dragonmeet Podcast Zone 2023Find usOn InstagramOn Tumblrwww.MerelyRoleplayers.com
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