What Am I Rolling?

Episode #54: Mars Colony Pt. 2

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Content Warnings/Trigger Warnings: Political themes

Show Notes

This week, Fiona is joined by David for ‘Mars Colony’, a sci-fi political roleplaying game about personal failure and government, written by Tim C Koppang and published by TCK roleplaying.

‘Mars Colony’ is an RPG designed specifically for two players. One player takes on the role of the colony’s appointed “saviour,” while the other is responsible for all the various problems that are plaguing the citizens of Mars. As the game progresses, the saviour will face a constant struggle between competence and failure, honesty and deception.

You can buy ‘Mars Colony’ and download game resources on the TCK roleplaying website.

Timestamps

  • Content note: 00:00:00
  • Episode starts: 00:01:11
  • Intro: 00:01:20
  • Recap and gameplay overview: 00:01:48
  • Restart of 'Mars Colony' one-shot/Scene 9: Personal scene 3: 00:06:44
  • Scene 10: Opposition scene 4: 00:09:44
  • Scene 11: Progress scene 4: 00:15:57
  • Complete failure: 00:16:53
  • Scene 12: Progress scene 5: 00:17:51
  • New health marker: 00:27:14
  • Scene 13: Opposition scene 5: 00:28:20
  • Scene 14: Progress scene 6: 00:31:16
  • Third deception: 00:41:35
  • Scene 15: Personal scene 4: 00:47:33
  • New health marker: 00:49:24
  • Scene 16: Personal scene 5: 00:50:01
  • Scene 17: Opposition scene 6: 00:55:23
  • Scene 18: Progress scene 7: 00:58:32
  • Scandal/Opposition scene 7: 01:01:30
  • Scene 19: Progress scene 8: 01:05:40
  • Complete failure: 01:08:08
  • Scene 20: Progress scene 9: 01:09:13
  • Fourth deception: 01:09:52
  • Fifth deception: 01:14:56
  • Sixth deception: 01:17:12
  • Endgame: Closing vignettes: 01:22:14
  • Closing vignettes: 01:22:47
  • Outro and credits: 01:29:00 

    • Credits

    The 'What Am I Rolling?' podcast was created, recorded and edited by Fiona Howat.

    The WAIR logo was created by Fiona Howat.

    This episode’s players were Fiona Howat and David T. Cox.

    This episode’s RPG one-shot was ‘Mars Colony’, a sci-fi political roleplaying game about personal failure and government, written by Tim C Koppang and published by TCK roleplaying. You can buy ‘Mars Colony’ and download game resources on the TCK roleplaying website.

    The theme music was '8-bit march' by Twin Musicom (twinmusicom.org), licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 License.

    Additional music in this episode:

    • ‘Fortress Europe’ by Dan Bodan
    • ‘Lord of the Dawn’ by Jesse Gallagher

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