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England's just not made for car chases.
Strat as Brier, the Monstrous Dave as Mick, the Mundane Chosen Helen as Melody, the Constructed Matt as Narrator/Diane
Animated by Karen Boothman
Audio from Vigil: Dream Big, Act 2. Listen to the whole production on the Merely Roleplayers podcast.
A podcast where theatrical people play roleplaying games. The compere sets the scene, each player roleplayers one of the main characters, im
Audio Drama Sunday is for questioning who governs
🤖 Metropolis by @luxradium. "Every city is built on top of a sewer." What a great first episode. I love stories about cities, especially ones that aren't what they want you to think they are. I'm also a sucker for when a character encourages someone to live up to their potential and it gets them into trouble, maybe killed – but maybe they went out doing what they were really born to do!! Plus, just look at that cover art (by Michael Hirshon).
🐉 World Gone Wrong from Audacious Machine. They just keep nailing it with this show. I think because it's the feeling of being an ordinary person in strange times that they're trying to capture. This is an election episode, and the exaggeration of a literal dragon running for office is wryly funny, but what really works is the exhaustion of just not even having the capacity to be outraged or weirded out any more. Plus the idea of voting as choosing which final boss you'd rather fight is inspired.
And what's new from me and @foggyoutline this week?
Also an episode about how you get the people in power to do the right thing – I'm deliberately referencing stuff like 5calls.org but I didn't deliberately schedule it for US election season, that part just sort of happened.
We got to give Dédé Davi her audio drama debut – she'd done ad and corporate voiceover before but not acting. If you like her performance, she's looking for more parts in audio drama, so go cast her!
And Backstage on @merelyroleplayers, we're doing character creation, with the slight twist that it's a new character coming into an eatablished setting, played by an established player who retired her first character. It changes the maths a little bit – there's a lot of rules and lore there already that you're slotting into (not that Ellie doesn't add plenty more of her own in this episode! 🧛♀️)
The Audio Drama Sunday after spooky night
I finished The Mask of Inanna just in time for Alicia Goranson's new series to start. This week, Jenny goes round 2 with Hunger, the reality warping godling that will try every manipulative trick in the book to get you to walk willingly into its mouth.
I did not expect to get so fired up by a description of a handshake, but this is a handshake between the two most competitive jousters in Spèir. It's Liz Anderson describing her character guarding their food from all the flying debris kicked up by the handshake shockwave that really did it for me.
It's the Audio Drama Sunday after spooky night, so here's the spooky special I enjoyed the most this week – Beef and Dairy's first guest-written episode, which gets deep into the mythos of milk.
And here's what's out from me this week
More by luck than judgement, one of the darkest episodes of the season dropped on Hallowe'en. When everyone – everyone – has a direct line to the divine, the world is not going to be all sunshine and rainbows.
And in the midpoint episode of Tailor Made, Cal concentrates on getting the residents out of the house while Peggy delves deeper in.
Audio Drama Sunday lets the curtain fall
Episodes that grabbed me this week
An exiled trans supervillainess has summoned a forbidden goddess to get back in the game. Things will not go well.
A season finale! With as much betrayal and sacrifice as you could hope to find in one.
A murder mystery in neon utopia. An audio drama, by Lux Radium. While ace reporter Nan Kanally and the rest of the world struggle through
This one really sends Nan far into the soaring heights and lightless depths of emotion. We get to see her on a roll, riding high on good instincts and good fortune that bring unexpected breakthroughs in her investigation – and capsized by despair, as one of the fundamental assumptions allowing her to go up against the Metropolis establishment without fear is ripped away.
Brennan Lee Mulligan, Erika Ishii, Aabria Iyengar, and Lou Wilson hang out together and use games to make stories. It's pretty good.
Everybody still using Dungeons & Dragons in your actual play podcasts, listen to this episode. This is how hard your editor has to work to make D&D combat good to listen to. Love to see people setting new bars just by caring that much about telling a good story.
And new from me and @foggyoutline this week:
Where theatrical people play roleplaying games. Each season our players part-improvise a story in a new genre, with roleplaying game rules p
Another season finale! Again – betrayal. Or is it still betrayal if you only met the person today? Maybe it's just a state agent doing their job, and it's your fault for thinking he'd do otherwise. Also, Jinny retraumatises a postman and walks backwards into hell.
If a vampire offered to make you immortal, using this specific phrasing, what would you do?
From Merely Roleplayers – Vigil: Ill Wind
Ellie as Peggy
@merelymatt as Val
Animated by Karen from @foggyoutline
Cam's out for blood. Can Renko prevent a bloodbath?
Chris Starkey as Cameron Jarvis, the Wronged Vikki Weston as Renko, the Flake Animated by Karen Boothman
Audio from Vigil: Quarry, Act 4. Listen to the whole production on the Merely Roleplayers podcast.
A podcast where theatrical people play roleplaying games. The compere sets the scene, each player roleplayers one of the main characters, im
And buy the mystery for your Monster of the Week group!
A Monster of the Week mystery based on the Merely Roleplayers production
Coming soon:
Vigil animated
LIFE'S A GAME. THE WORLD'S A STAGE. AND WE'RE ALL MERELY ROLEPLAYERS. Merely Roleplayers is an improvised ensemble audiodrama - emphasis on
Look out for these creachers in future Vigil productions
Which of these are monsters we'd have to fight, and which ones are just lil guys who hang around with Brier?
