Merely Roleplayers
By Foggy Outline
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.
Latest episode
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Vigil: Chief/Exec, Act 5
Act Five of Five: The appointed hour is nigh, for the humble and lowly to Attack and Dethrone Gods. -
Left behind (Vigil Backstage)
Not every bit of audio makes it to the higher plane of existence that is a full story act. But not everything left behind deserves to be forgotten. Which is a roundabout and thematic way of saying these are some out-takes and bloopers from Vigil: Chi… -
Vigil: Chief/Exec, Act 4
Act Four of Five: Canst it be truly a sin to destroy a God? For when God is no more, who remaineth to name the deed a sin? -
Replay: Codename Mosaic (Backstage)
Let’s head undercover to investigate the secret plots and machinations behind our globetrotting spy production, Codename: Mosaic. -
Vigil: Chief/Exec, Act 3
Act Three of Five: The Messenger, the King, the Queens, the armies, stand now all arrayed, their true faces revealed as the flames rise high. -
Dear Renko & co (Vigil Backstage)
Persephone Byron is gone from this time, but her words to her friends remain. -
Vigil: Chief/Exec, Act 2
Act Two of Five: And the King said unto the scurrying interlopers, Kneel before mine throne and let me know mine enemy. -
Org chart (Vigil Backstage)
Who’s in charge here? We figure out who’s related and who reports to whom among our main characters. -
Vigil: Chief/Exec, Act 1
Act One of Five: And lo, on the eve of the mayoral election, a messenger did appear to the good folk of Sherrydown. -
The wake (Queen's Dead Backstage)
The cast talks generational games and the joy of petty grudges. Matt talks to Ursidice, designer of Court of the Lich Queen, about what’s next for the game.
