Merely Roleplayers

Four Service agents have survived a mission aboard the Consultancy’s marine hover-fortress. Now comes the real ordeal: surviving a conference call with the higher-ups.

Programme notes

This production contains reported violence.

Check out other games by Jeff Stormer, like Anyone Can Wear The Mask and When You’re Here You’re Family, at jeffstormer.com

Our promo this episode is for Sabotage the DM. Check out their regular Dungeons & Dragons: Dragon Heist campaign on Mondays at 19:00 UTC+1, and tune in from 17 May for a week of streams for the channel’s one year anniversary, all at twitch.tv/SabotageTheDM

Credits

COMPERE: Matt Boothman

STARRING:

Ellie Pitkin as Agent Pigeon

Vikki as Agent Anvil

Strat as Agent Tanktop

Helen Stratton as Agent Banks

ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Mission: Accomplished!, designed by Jeff Stormer

MUSIC BY: Matt Boothman and Alexander Pankhurst

EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman

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Matt and the hunters reflect on their first hunt together.

Programme notes

This production contains fantasy violence.

Our promo this episode is for Snyder’s Return, a UK based tabletop roleplaying game podcast featuring Dungeons & Dragons actual play (where a misfit band of ‘heroes’ take on adventures across the multiverse), interviews and Dungeon Master/player guides.

Dramatis personae and other definitions

Brier: a mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown’s Rosebrier Forest.

Gwynned: a former shieldmaiden of the triple goddess Morrigan. For the crime of saving a mortal man from the Morrigan’s cruel whim, the goddess exiled Gwyn to live as a duck, overlooked by mortals. Recently freed from the curse, Gwyn is trying to do good without attracting her mistress’s attention.

Cameron Jarvis: an intense young man, obsessed with monster hunting since his parents and sister were killed by ghouls while camping outside Sherrydown.

Jinny Greenteeth: proprietor of the Grove of Oddities, a tacky Sherrydown tourist attraction. In a past life, Jinny was branded a witch after a series of drownings in her Lancashire village.

Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.

Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.

Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Can be suppressed by concentration, mnemonic techniques, hypnosis, trauma, or the light of the full moon.

Credits

COMPERE: Matt Boothman

STARRING:

Strat as Brier, the Monstrous

Natalie Winter as Gwynned, the Divine

Chris Starkey as Cameron Jarvis, the Wronged

Josh Yard as Jinny Greenteeth, the Spellslinger

ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael Sands

MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst

SOUND DESIGN BY: Natalie Winter

EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman

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Imbued with divine flame and each carrying the mantle of the forest guardian, the hunters battle against the Winter King. Whatever happens, this isn’t going to be a quick thaw.

Programme notes

This production contains fantasy violence.

Coming soon:

CODENAME MOSAIC: GHOST RECALL opens in the Studio on 4 May! It’s a follow-up to Codename: Mosaic, one of our Blackshaw Saga productions, and uses Mission: Accomplished!, the roleplaying game of super-spies and office meetings by Jeff Stormer.

VIGIL: TOURIST TRAP opens in the Main House on 1 June! Follow us on Twitter @MerelyRoleplay to meet the characters before we raise the curtain.

Review Merely Roleplayers on Podchaser before 30 April and Podchaser will donate 25 cents to Meals on Wheels America.

Our promo this episode is for Snyder’s Return, a UK based tabletop roleplaying game podcast featuring Dungeons & Dragons actual play (where a misfit band of ‘heroes’ take on adventures across the multiverse), interviews and Dungeon Master/player guides.

Dramatis personae and other definitions

Brier: a mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown’s Rosebrier Forest.

Gwynned: a former shieldmaiden of the triple goddess Morrigan. For the crime of saving a mortal man from the Morrigan’s cruel whim, the goddess exiled Gwyn to live as a duck, overlooked by mortals. Recently freed from the curse, Gwyn is trying to do good without attracting her mistress’s attention.

Cameron Jarvis: an intense young man, obsessed with monster hunting since his parents and sister were killed by ghouls while camping outside Sherrydown.

Jinny Greenteeth: proprietor of the Grove of Oddities, a tacky Sherrydown tourist attraction. In a past life, Jinny was branded a witch after a series of drownings in her Lancashire village.

Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.

Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.

Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Can be suppressed by concentration, mnemonic techniques, hypnosis, trauma, or the light of the full moon.

Credits

COMPERE: Matt Boothman

STARRING:

Strat as Brier, the Monstrous

Natalie Winter as Gwynned, the Divine

Chris Starkey as Cameron Jarvis, the Wronged

Josh Yard as Jinny Greenteeth, the Spellslinger

ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael Sands

MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst

SOUND DESIGN BY: Natalie Winter

SFX INCLUDES: soaring clouds by bruce965; Ritual and Vulcan by Kevin MacLeod; and may include others made available to use without attribution.

EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman

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Meet Jinny: local business owner, devotee of the natural world, spellslinger. Jinny has had many names and has lived many lives. She uses her centuries of arcane knowledge to draw power from the earth beneath her feet, manipulate the elements, and fleece tourists for every penny they have. As owner and operator of the Grove of Oddities, Jinny is a well respected resident of Sherrydown and a true force of nature.

Join Josh as he fills in Jinny’s character sheet with help from compère Matt and fellow hunters Dave and Ellen.

Programme notes

This production contains fantasy violence.

Our promo this episode is for The DM’s Book Club, a weekly podcast where Fiona and Ryan read about some Dungeons and Dragons and discuss how they might include it in their roleplaying campaigns.

Dramatis personae and other definitions

Brier: a mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown’s Rosebrier Forest.

Gwynned: a former shieldmaiden of the triple goddess Morrigan. For the crime of saving a mortal man from the Morrigan’s cruel whim, the goddess exiled Gwyn to live as a duck, overlooked by mortals. Recently freed from the curse, Gwyn is trying to do good without attracting her mistress’s attention.

Cameron Jarvis: an intense young man, obsessed with monster hunting since his parents and sister were killed by ghouls while camping outside Sherrydown.

Jinny Greenteeth: proprietor of the Grove of Oddities, a tacky Sherrydown tourist attraction. In a past life, Jinny was branded a witch after a series of drownings in her Lancashire village.

Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.

Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.

Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Can be suppressed by concentration, mnemonic techniques, hypnosis, trauma, or the light of the full moon.

Credits

COMPERE: Matt Boothman

STARRING:

Strat as Brier, the Monstrous

Natalie Winter as Gwynned, the Divine

Chris Starkey as Cameron Jarvis, the Wronged

Josh Yard as Jinny Greenteeth, the Spellslinger

ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael Sands

MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst

SOUND DESIGN BY: Natalie Winter

EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman

Find us

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On Instagram @MerelyRoleplayers

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The Winter King is after a rematch. Our hunters prepare to take a stand and drive back an oncoming ice age.

Programme notes

This production contains fantasy violence.

Congratulations to Ben Newbon for spotting Ellie’s cameo in Act 4! Follow Ben on Twitter @BenNewbon.

Review Merely Roleplayers on Podchaser before 30 April and Podchaser will donate 25 cents to Meals on Wheels America.

Subscribe to Matt’s free monthly newsletter before Friday 9 April for previews of the next Studio production and the work in progress Upstaged! roleplaying game.

Our promo this episode is for The DM’s Book Club, a weekly podcast where Fiona and Ryan read about some Dungeons and Dragons and discuss how they might include it in their roleplaying campaigns.

Dramatis personae and other definitions

Brier: a mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown’s Rosebrier Forest.

Gwynned: a former shieldmaiden of the triple goddess Morrigan. For the crime of saving a mortal man from the Morrigan’s cruel whim, the goddess exiled Gwyn to live as a duck, overlooked by mortals. Recently freed from the curse, Gwyn is trying to do good without attracting her mistress’s attention.

Cameron Jarvis: an intense young man, obsessed with monster hunting since his parents and sister were killed by ghouls while camping outside Sherrydown.

Jinny Greenteeth: proprietor of the Grove of Oddities, a tacky Sherrydown tourist attraction. In a past life, Jinny was branded a witch after a series of drownings in her Lancashire village.

Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.

Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.

Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Can be suppressed by concentration, mnemonic techniques, hypnosis, trauma, or the light of the full moon.

Credits

COMPERE: Matt Boothman

STARRING:

Strat as Brier, the Monstrous

Natalie Winter as Gwynned, the Divine

Chris Starkey as Cameron Jarvis, the Wronged

Josh Yard as Jinny Greenteeth, the Spellslinger

ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael Sands

MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst

SOUND DESIGN BY: Natalie Winter

SFX INCLUDES: soaring clouds by bruce965; Virtutes Instrumenti, Dragon and Toast, and Ritual by Kevin MacLeod; Traveler’s Notebook by Rafael Krux; and may include others made available to use without attribution.

EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman

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Meet Gwynned: shieldmaiden, banished warrior, divine. Gwynned was a holy warrior, a trusted shieldmaiden of the triple-goddess Morrigan. After defying her mistress she was banished to a lifetime of the mundane (in a somewhat different form) and now uses her divine skills to protect her new home. But she’d better keep her head down so as not to risk catching the attention of the Morrigan once more.

Join Nat as she fills in Gwynned’s character sheet with help from compère Matt and fellow hunters Strat and Alex.

Programme notes

This production contains fantasy violence.

Our promo this episode is for Rendezvous with Destiny, an actual play podcast of Onyx Path's Scion, set in a fictionalised Washington, DC.

Dramatis personae and other definitions

Brier: a mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown’s Rosebrier Forest.

Gwynned: a former shieldmaiden of the triple goddess Morrigan. For the crime of saving a mortal man from the Morrigan’s cruel whim, the goddess exiled Gwyn to live as a duck, overlooked by mortals. Recently freed from the curse, Gwyn is trying to do good without attracting her mistress’s attention.

Cameron Jarvis: an intense young man, obsessed with monster hunting since his parents and sister were killed by ghouls while camping outside Sherrydown.

Jinny Greenteeth: proprietor of the Grove of Oddities, a tacky Sherrydown tourist attraction. In a past life, Jinny was branded a witch after a series of drownings in her Lancashire village.

Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.

Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.

Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Can be suppressed by concentration, mnemonic techniques, hypnosis, trauma, or the light of the full moon.

Credits

COMPERE: Matt Boothman

STARRING:

Strat as Brier, the Monstrous

Natalie Winter as Gwynned, the Divine

Chris Starkey as Cameron Jarvis, the Wronged

Josh Yard as Jinny Greenteeth, the Spellslinger

ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael Sands

MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst

SOUND DESIGN BY: Natalie Winter

EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman

Find us

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On Instagram @MerelyRoleplayers

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The hunters and National Trust bystanders take shelter in Brier’s tree. As the frost creature arrives memories of an ancient battle are rekindled and Gwynned attracts unwanted attention.

Programme notes

This episode contains fantasy violence and a brief mention of giant insects.

Save the date! Blackshaw Theatre’s next live production, Trouble At Sea: A Miss McSkimming Mystery, will be on Saturday 3 July as part of the Wandsworth Arts Fringe. It’s a sequel to Some Treachery: A Miss McSkimming Mystery, which you can enjoy for free on the Blackshaw Arts Hour podcast. Trailer includes The Show Must Be Go! by Kevin McLeod.

Our promo this episode is for Rendezvous With Destiny, an actual play of the Scion roleplaying game by Onyx Path, set in a strange new world where every myth and monster turns out to be real.

Dramatis personae and other definitions

Brier: a mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown’s Rosebrier Forest.

Gwynned: a former shieldmaiden of the triple goddess Morrigan. For the crime of saving a mortal man from the Morrigan’s cruel whim, the goddess exiled Gwyn to live as a duck, overlooked by mortals. Recently freed from the curse, Gwyn is trying to do good without attracting her mistress’s attention.

Cameron Jarvis: an intense young man, obsessed with monster hunting since his parents and sister were killed by ghouls while camping outside Sherrydown.

Jinny Greenteeth: proprietor of the Grove of Oddities, a tacky Sherrydown tourist attraction. In a past life, Jinny was branded a witch after a series of drownings in her Lancashire village.

Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.

Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.

Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Can be suppressed by concentration, mnemonic techniques, hypnosis, trauma, or the light of the full moon.

Credits

COMPERE: Matt Boothman

STARRING:

Strat as Brier, the Monstrous

Natalie Winter as Gwynned, the Divine

Chris Starkey as Cameron Jarvis, the Wronged

Josh Yard as Jinny Greenteeth, the Spellslinger

ADDITIONAL VOICES BY: Ellie Pitkin

ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael Sands

MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst

SOUND DESIGN BY: Natalie Winter

SFX INCLUDES: soaring clouds by kangaroovindaloo; Berserker by Alexander Nakarada; Ritual, Virtutes Instrumenti and Right Behind You by Kevin MacLeod; and may include others made available to use without attribution.

EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman

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Meet Brier: forest guardian, National Trust manager, monstrous. For as long as the Rosebrier Forest has existed, so has Brier. A shapeshifting fae guardian with a penchant for mischief, they are a generally benevolent fairy - just don’t accept a ride from them when they’re a horse.

Join Strat as he fills in Brier’s character sheet with help from compère Matt and fellow hunters Chris and Ellie.

Programme notes

This production contains fantasy violence.

Our promo this episode is for OMEN Investigations, a comedy horror podcast starring three secret agents as they travel the world fighting monsters, ghosts, aliens and other paranormal perils.

Dramatis personae and other definitions

Brier: a mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown’s Rosebrier Forest.

Gwynned: a former shieldmaiden of the triple goddess Morrigan. For the crime of saving a mortal man from the Morrigan’s cruel whim, the goddess exiled Gwyn to live as a duck, overlooked by mortals. Recently freed from the curse, Gwyn is trying to do good without attracting her mistress’s attention.

Cameron Jarvis: an intense young man, obsessed with monster hunting since his parents and sister were killed by ghouls while camping outside Sherrydown.

Jinny Greenteeth: proprietor of the Grove of Oddities, a tacky Sherrydown tourist attraction. In a past life, Jinny was branded a witch after a series of drownings in her Lancashire village.

Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.

Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.

Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Can be suppressed by concentration, mnemonic techniques, hypnosis, trauma, or the light of the full moon.

Credits

COMPERE: Matt Boothman

STARRING:

Strat as Brier, the Monstrous

Natalie Winter as Gwynned, the Divine

Chris Starkey as Cameron Jarvis, the Wronged

Josh Yard as Jinny Greenteeth, the Spellslinger

ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael Sands

MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst

SOUND DESIGN BY: Natalie Winter

EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman

Find us

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Our hunters become the hunted and a creature of ice and snow stalks ominously towards Brier’s tree. The race is on to beat it there, but it’s not going to be easy.

Programme notes

This production contains fantasy violence.

Save the date! Blackshaw Theatre’s next live production, Trouble At Sea: A Miss McSkimming Mystery, will be on Saturday 3 July as part of the Wandsworth Arts Fringe. It’s a sequel to Some Treachery: A Miss McSkimming Mystery, which you can enjoy for free on the Blackshaw Arts Hour podcast.

Our promo this episode is for OMEN Investigations, a comedy horror podcast starring three secret agents as they travel the world fighting monsters, ghosts, aliens and other paranormal perils.

Dramatis personae and other definitions

Brier: a mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown’s Rosebrier Forest.

Gwynned: a former shieldmaiden of the triple goddess Morrigan. For the crime of saving a mortal man from the Morrigan’s cruel whim, the goddess exiled Gwyn to live as a duck, overlooked by mortals. Recently freed from the curse, Gwyn is trying to do good without attracting her mistress’s attention.

Cameron Jarvis: an intense young man, obsessed with monster hunting since his parents and sister were killed by ghouls while camping outside Sherrydown.

Jinny Greenteeth: proprietor of the Grove of Oddities, a tacky Sherrydown tourist attraction. In a past life, Jinny was branded a witch after a series of drownings in her Lancashire village.

Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.

Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.

Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Can be suppressed by concentration, mnemonic techniques, hypnosis, trauma, or the light of the full moon.

Credits

COMPERE: Matt Boothman

STARRING:

Strat as Brier, the Monstrous

Natalie Winter as Gwynned, the Divine

Chris Starkey as Cameron Jarvis, the Wronged

Josh Yard as Jinny Greenteeth, the Spellslinger

ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael Sands

MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst

SOUND DESIGN BY: Natalie Winter

SFX INCLUDES: soaring clouds by bruce965; Floating in the Midnight Breeze by FoolBoyMedia; wolf & dog aggressive by EminYILDIRIM; Dragon and Toast by Kevin MacLeod; and may include others made available to use without attribution.

EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman

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Meet Cameron: orphan, trained hunter, wronged. Something terrible happened to Cameron as a young boy that left a scar too deep to fully heal. Now wherever he goes so does his trusty axe, and behind him he leaves a trail of slain enemies.

Join Chris as he fills in Cameron’s character sheet with help from compère Matt and fellow hunters Strat and Ellie.

Programme notes

This production contains fantasy violence.

Our promo this episode is for What Am I Rolling?, a twice-monthly roleplaying game one-shot podcast, hosted by gamemaster, Fiona. Every month, Fiona takes a brand new group of players and runs them through a one-shot adventure, testing out a different RPG style or system.

Dramatis personae and other definitions

Brier: a mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown’s Rosebrier Forest.

Gwynned: a former shieldmaiden of the triple goddess Morrigan. For the crime of saving a mortal man from the Morrigan’s cruel whim, the goddess exiled Gwyn to live as a duck, overlooked by mortals. Recently freed from the curse, Gwyn is trying to do good without attracting her mistress’s attention.

Cameron Jarvis: an intense young man, obsessed with monster hunting since his parents and sister were killed by ghouls while camping outside Sherrydown.

Jinny Greenteeth: proprietor of the Grove of Oddities, a tacky Sherrydown tourist attraction. In a past life, Jinny was branded a witch after a series of drownings in her Lancashire village.

Department of Omissions (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.

Sherrydown, Brackshire: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.

Omission effect: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Can be suppressed by concentration, mnemonic techniques, hypnosis, trauma, or the light of the full moon.

Credits

COMPERE: Matt Boothman

STARRING:

Strat as Brier, the Monstrous

Natalie Winter as Gwynned, the Divine

Chris Starkey as Cameron Jarvis, the Wronged

Josh Yard as Jinny Greenteeth, the Spellslinger

ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael Sands

MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst

SOUND DESIGN BY: Natalie Winter

EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman

Find us

On Twitter @MerelyRoleplay

On Instagram @MerelyRoleplayers

On Facebook at Merely Roleplayers

www.MerelyRoleplayers.com