Bored Ghost

Bored Ghost

making stories playing games Bored Ghost uses tabletop roleplaying games to create stories. Each week we release half of a tale born out a play. From independently published collaborative storytelling games to traditional Role-Playing Games, we try it all to tell stories. These tales and games are experiments.

Episodes

February 17, 2020 57 mins

“... a man needs no camel to ride to hell, yea, nor horse, nor mule; a man may ride into hell on his tongue...”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

A pair of desperados meet on the caboose of a train bound for damnation.

The Great Soul Train Robbery is designed by Alexi Sargeant as part of Cloven Pine Games. You can preview the base game on Cl...

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Grady:
"Where you goin'?"

Lane:
"Where the hell do you suppose? To rob a train!"

Jesse:
"Rob a train?"

Grady:
"It's something to do!"

-The Train Robbers, 1973

A pair of desperados meet on the caboose of a train bound for damnation.

The Great Soul Train Robbery is designed by Alexi Sargeant as part of Cloven Pine Games. You can preview the base game on Cloven Pine's Itchi-io page. You can get the expanded game from his kickstarte...

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February 8, 2020 54 mins

“Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.”
― Lloyd Alexander

A young magic wielder takes a tome of power and looks to unlock its mysteries.

The Wizard's Grimoire is designed by Meguey & Vincent Baker you can find it here.

The Wizard:

Yelene - (Zack Norton).

The Narrators:

Ken Breese & John Holt

Find Zach’s work on his portfolio site and on Ma...

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October 16, 2019 69 mins

“Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

A young magic wielder takes a tome of power and looks to unlock its mysteries.

The Wizard's Grimoire is designed by Meguey & Vincent Baker you can find it here.

The Wizard:

Yelene - (Zack Nor...

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October 9, 2019 46 mins

“Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them.
"If one were to sting me," He thought "I should swell up as big as I am!” 
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit or There and Back Again

A Valley where the people and the insects have a tentative arrangement.

Companion’s Tale was successfully kickstarted and is now available for purchase. Learn more on the designer’...

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October 2, 2019 26 mins

“One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees…”
― Leo Tolstoy

A Valley where the people and the insects have a tentative arrangement.

Companion’s Tale was successfully kickstarted and is now available for purchase. Learn more on the designer’s page Sweet Potato Press. Check out our rules primer here.

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September 25, 2019 68 mins

“A crown of kisses to the queen of dreams.” 
― Albert Camus

A retinue from the rose kingdom travel to seek an alliance and peace.

For the Queen is available now. We have a primer episode up here.

The Queen: 

A woman at home in the natural wonders of her Kingdom.

More on the Designer:
Find Alex on her website at helloalexroberts.com and on twitter @muscularpikachu

Her amazing podcast, Backstory 

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September 18, 2019 48 mins

“And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even the dust.” 
― Queen Elizabeth I

A retinue from the rose kingdom travel to seek an alliance and peace.

For the Queen is available now...

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September 11, 2019 25 mins

“In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.” 
― Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places: Stories

A woman from the 1920s finds herself falling for a space captain in the far future, but their love may take a back seat to the stability of the space-time continuum.

To learn more about how Star Crossed is played check out our primer ep...

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September 4, 2019 36 mins

“What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order.” 
― Kurt Vonnegut

A woman from the 1920s finds herself falling for a space captain in the far future, but their love may take a back seat to the stability of the space-time continuum.

To learn more about how Star Crossed is played check out our primer episode.

The Lead:

The Traveler, a jazz singer from the 1920s (Ken Breese)

The Follo...

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August 28, 2019 68 mins

“Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.” 
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothin...

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August 21, 2019 50 mins

“And down I went to fetch my bride:
But, Alice, you were ill at ease;
This dress and that by turns you tried,
Too fearful that you should not please.
I loved you better for your fears,
I knew you could not look but well;
And dews, that would have fall'n in tears,
I kiss'd away before they fell.” 
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

You are cordially invited to the wedding of Regina & Hunter.

To learn more abou...

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August 14, 2019 72 mins

“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
― John Keats

Three kids and a harried coach find a being of legend.

To learn more about how Home By Dark is played check out our primer episode.

The characters for this game:

Coach Dan Clover (John Holt) - Older brother a...

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August 7, 2019 107 mins

“But looking back on the next day, I can tell you that happy endings are possible, even in situations as fraught with complications as this one was.”
― James Howe

Three kids and a harried coach find a being of legend.

To learn more about how Home By Dark is played check out our primer episode.

The characters for this game:



Coach Dan Clover (John Holt) - Older brother and caretaker for D...

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July 31, 2019 48 mins

"If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember."
— Terry Pratchett

The kingdom of cats rules their floating island of luxury with the iron claws of fashion.

To learn more about how Kingdom is played check out our primer episode.

The characters for this game:

Rabbi Rainbow (Lucian Khan) - The Perspective

The Honorable Judge Butter Cup (John Holt) - The ...

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July 24, 2019 77 mins

"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
— Winston S. Churchill

The kingdom of cats rules their floating island of luxury with the iron claws of fashion.

To learn more about how Kingdom is played check out our primer episode.

The characters for this game:

Rabbi Rainbow (Lucian Khan) - The Perspective

The Honorable Judge Butter Cup (John Holt) - The Power

Narcissa the Lean (D G...

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July 17, 2019 44 mins

“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”
― Jacques-Yves Cousteau

The island is blissfully unaware of the approaching darkness. The protectors can feel their dark selves looming.

To learn more about how Dialect is played check out our primer episode.

The characters for this game:

Pulla (Ken Breese) - The Explorer

Pit / The Discar...

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July 10, 2019 45 mins

“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

The island is blissfully unaware of the approaching darkness. The protectors can feel their dark selves looming.

To learn m...

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July 3, 2019 35 mins

“I became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I'd been in a band called the Iguanas. And when this boss wanted to embarrass and demean me, he'd say, 'Iggy, get me a coffee, light.'" - Iggy Pop

 

The record store is in trouble, the boss is keeping it afloat cause music is still his passion, but today will make all the difference.

To learn more about how Damn the Man Save the...

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June 26, 2019 54 mins

“The record store was a place of escape. It was a library and a clubhouse” - Cameron Crowe

The record store is in trouble, the boss is keeping it afloat cause music is still his passion, but today will make all the difference.

 

To learn more about how Damn the Man Save the Music is played check out our primer episode.

The characters for this game:

Aaron (Christopher McFarland) - The Aspiring Poet.

Afrodieter (Ken Breese)...

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