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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 307
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Her crimes (Many Masks Backstage)
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
PROGRAMME NOTES
Thi…
00:30:08 |
Tue 21 Jan 2025
Her Many Masks, Act 2
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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00:37:33 |
Tue 14 Jan 2025
Her Majesty (Many Masks Backstage)
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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00:18:29 |
Tue 07 Jan 2025
Her Many Masks, Act 1
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 NOTES
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00:36:34 |
Tue 31 Dec 2024
Guest artist: I Need A Miracle
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 scrip…
00:13:52 |
Tue 17 Dec 2024
Unpicking (Vigil Backstage)
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 1
PROGRAMME NOTES
This production contains strong language, drug u…
00:25:43 |
Tue 03 Dec 2024
Vigil: Tailor Made, Act 5
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 NOTES
This production contains strong language, drug use,…
00:47:58 |
Tue 26 Nov 2024
Vigil: Tailor Made, Act 4
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 5
PROGRAMME NOTES
This produc…
00:53:29 |
Tue 12 Nov 2024
Vigil: Tailor Made, Act 3
Act Three of Five: As the innocents evacuate, hostilities escalate. The walls are closing in.
Coming next on 12 November – Vigil: Tailor Made, Act 4
PROGRAMME NOTES
This production contains strong …
00:45:18 |
Tue 29 Oct 2024
Peggy, the Crooked (Vigil Backstage)
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 3
PROGRAMME NOTES
Thi…
01:08:38 |
Tue 22 Oct 2024
Vigil: Tailor Made, Act 2
Act Two of Five: Search this house from bottom to top!
Coming next on 22 October – Peggy, the Crooked (Vigil Backstage)
PROGRAMME NOTES
This production contains strong language, drug use, gunfire, …
00:41:55 |
Tue 15 Oct 2024
Woven together (Vigil Backstage)
The cast work out how everyone’s connected to Ellie’s new character.
Coming next on 15 October – Vigil: Tailor Made, Act 2
PROGRAMME NOTES
This production contains strong language, drug use, gunfir…
00:29:01 |
Tue 08 Oct 2024
Vigil: Tailor Made, Act 1
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)
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00:56:48 |
Tue 01 Oct 2024
Retracing our steps (Labyrinth Backstage)
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 1
PROGRAMME NOTES
This produ…
00:27:30 |
Tue 17 Sep 2024
Labyrinth Untold, Act 5
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 (L…
00:40:57 |
Tue 10 Sep 2024
Clangers untold (Labyrinth Backstage)
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 5
PROGRAMME NOTES
This production contain…
00:20:02 |
Tue 03 Sep 2024
Labyrinth Untold, Act 4
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 NOTES
This production …
00:54:25 |
Tue 27 Aug 2024
Coming soon: I Need A Miracle
Can any world survive a benevolent god? I Need A Miracle premieres on 29 August.
Coming next on 27 August – Labyrinth Untold, Act 4
Programme notes
Every episode is a prayer. Some prayers are answe…
00:03:08 |
Tue 20 Aug 2024
Labyrinth Untold, Act 3
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 Miracle
PROGRAMME NOTES
This production contains memory loss and dead…
00:43:53 |
Tue 13 Aug 2024
Traits and flaws (Labyrinth Backstage)
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 3
PROGRAMME NOTES
This production contains mem…
00:14:58 |
Tue 06 Aug 2024
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