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.
Episodes
Act Five of Five: Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Can Mayor’s unspecified scandal derail historic property deal?
Coming next on 22 July – Post-credits scene (Vigil Backstage)
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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 5
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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 4
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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 2
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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 1
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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)
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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 5
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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 4
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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 3
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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 2
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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 t...
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 Sprouting
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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)
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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 3
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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)
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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 2
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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)
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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.
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