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
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.
Coming next on 29 August – Replay: Codename Mosaic (Back…
00:46:40 |
Tue 22 Aug 2023
Dear Renko & co (Vigil Backstage)
Persephone Byron is gone from this time, but her words to her friends remain.
Coming next on 22 August – Vigil: Chief/Exec, Act 3
PROGRAMME NOTES
This production contains fantasy violence, drug use…
00:07:25 |
Tue 15 Aug 2023
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.
Coming next on 15 August – Dear Renko & co (Vigil Backstage)
PROGRAMME NOTES
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00:48:57 |
Tue 08 Aug 2023
Org chart (Vigil Backstage)
Who’s in charge here? We figure out who’s related and who reports to whom among our main characters.
Coming next on 8 August – Vigil: Chief/Exec, Act 2
PROGRAMME NOTES
This production contains fant…
00:33:55 |
Tue 01 Aug 2023
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.
Coming next on 1 August – Org chart (Vigil Backstage)
PROGRAMME NOTES
This produc…
00:46:37 |
Tue 25 Jul 2023
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.
Coming up in the Main House on 25 July – …
00:58:50 |
Tue 18 Jul 2023
The Queen's Dead, Act 3
The day of the prophesied Dawn is at hand. As light and life threaten the Lich Queen’s dominion, her dread courtiers must stand together – or fall apart.
Coming next on 18 July – The wake (Queen’s D…
00:44:26 |
Tue 11 Jul 2023
The Queen's Dead, Act 2
Tension builds between the Lich Queen’s dread courtiers as their realms crumble around them. The Wraithlight Dominion proposes a quest.
Coming next on 11 July – The Queen’s Dead, Act 3
PROGRAMME NO…
00:48:43 |
Tue 27 Jun 2023
Bad blood (Queen's Dead Backstage)
A tourist’s guide to the realms of death, and a brief history of the debts and grudges that make sessions at court so lively.
Coming next on 27 June – The Queen’s Dead, Act 2
PROGRAMME NOTES
This p…
00:31:15 |
Tue 20 Jun 2023
The Queen's Dead, Act 1
One year before the Dawn prophesied to end the reign of death, the Lich Queen’s dread courtiers make plans to prevent it – even though it might mean working together.
Coming next on 20 June – Bad bl…
00:45:24 |
Tue 13 Jun 2023
Burning questions (Vigil Backstage)
We look back over the bridges we’ve burned and the unexplored waters that await us.
Coming next on 13 June – The Queen’s Dead, Act 1
PROGRAMME NOTES
This production contains violence (including gun…
00:19:02 |
Tue 06 Jun 2023
Vigil: The Great Fire, Act 5
Act Five of Five: In which the full might of the Great Fire, the Searing Tongue, the Smothering Haze, is unleashed on Sherrydown.
Coming next on 6 June – Burning questions (Vigil Backstage)
PROGRAM…
00:48:23 |
Tue 30 May 2023
Vigil: The Great Fire, Act 4
Act Four of Five: In which Percy discovers that even the best laid plan never survives contact with the enemy.
Coming next on 30 May – Vigil: The Great Fire, Act 5
PROGRAMME NOTES
This production c…
00:47:15 |
Tue 16 May 2023
Replay: Let's Get Gideon (Backstage)
Join us for an incredulous look back at the arts of crime, business and seduction, as we remind ourselves why we first said: hey. Let’s Get Gideon.
PROGRAMME NOTES
Replay is a Backstage strand where…
00:47:15 |
Tue 09 May 2023
Vigil: The Great Fire, Act 3
Act Three of Five: In which the hunters take a pawn or two, and move into position for checkmate.
Coming next on 9 May – Replay: Let's Get Gideon (Backstage)
PROGRAMME NOTES
This production contain…
00:39:45 |
Tue 02 May 2023
Vigil: The Great Fire, Act 2
Act Two of Five: In which Percy names the battlefield, and Mick marshals his strength for a skirmish.
Coming next on 2 May – Vigil: The Great Fire, Act 3
PROGRAMME NOTES
This production contains vi…
00:44:14 |
Tue 18 Apr 2023
Kindling (Vigil Backstage)
We rub our characters together to create some sparks.
Coming next on 18 April – Vigil: The Great Fire, Act 2
PROGRAMME NOTES
This production contains violence (including gun violence), possession, …
00:30:14 |
Tue 11 Apr 2023
Vigil: The Great Fire, Act 1
Act One of Five: In which Persephone Byron’s centuries-spanning cold war begins heating up for the final clash.
Coming next on 11 April – Kindling (Vigil Backstage)
PROGRAMME NOTES
This production …
00:42:33 |
Tue 04 Apr 2023
Sentencing (Falling Cadence Backstage)
The cast rounds up the loose ends of this convoluted case.
PROGRAMME NOTES
This production contains violence, intimidation by police, and offscreen murder.
Our promo this episode is for What Am I R…
00:15:29 |
Tue 28 Mar 2023
Falling Cadence, Act 3
Cadence Fairchild, PI, finds herself at the centre of a devious house of cards. Can she bring it all down without falling along with it?
PROGRAMME NOTES
This production contains violence, intimidati…
00:50:02 |
Tue 21 Mar 2023
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