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Merely Roleplayers

Where theatrical people play roleplaying games. Each season our players part-improvise a story in a new genre, with roleplaying game rules providing surprising twists and turns. Jump in at the start of any season! The story continues every other Tuesday; on the Tuesdays in between, Backstage episodes shed light on the game and storytelling mechanics behind the scenes.

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25:43

Unpicking (Vigil Backstage)

Merely Roleplayers ·

2024/12/03

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

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47:58

Vigil: Tailor Made, Act 5

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2024/11/26

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

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53:29

Vigil: Tailor Made, Act 4

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2024/11/12

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

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45:18

Vigil: Tailor Made, Act 3

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2024/10/29

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

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01:08:38

Peggy, the Crooked (Vigil Backstage)

Merely Roleplayers ·

2024/10/22

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

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41:55

Vigil: Tailor Made, Act 2

Merely Roleplayers ·

2024/10/15

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

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29:01

Woven together (Vigil Backstage)

Merely Roleplayers ·

2024/10/08

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

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56:48

Vigil: Tailor Made, Act 1

Merely Roleplayers ·

2024/10/01

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

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27:30

Retracing our steps (Labyrinth Backstage)

Merely Roleplayers ·

2024/09/17

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),

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40:57

Labyrinth Untold, Act 5

Merely Roleplayers ·

2024/09/10

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

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20:02

Clangers untold (Labyrinth Backstage)

Merely Roleplayers ·

2024/09/03

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

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54:25

Labyrinth Untold, Act 4

Merely Roleplayers ·

2024/08/27

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

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03:08

Coming soon: I Need A Miracle

Merely Roleplayers ·

2024/08/20

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

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43:53

Labyrinth Untold, Act 3

Merely Roleplayers ·

2024/08/13

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

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14:58

Traits and flaws (Labyrinth Backstage)

Merely Roleplayers ·

2024/08/06

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

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47:00

Labyrinth Untold, Act 2

Merely Roleplayers ·

2024/07/30

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

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27:29

Kin (Labyrinth Backstage)

Merely Roleplayers ·

2024/07/23

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

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01:04:36

Labyrinth Untold, Act 1

Merely Roleplayers ·

2024/07/16

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,

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33:01

Dream diary (Vigil Backstage)

Merely Roleplayers ·

2024/06/25

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

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48:31

Vigil: Dream Big, Act 4

Merely Roleplayers ·

2024/06/18

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

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