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Merely Roleplayers
By Foggy OutlinePerforming Arts
Merely Roleplayers episodes
- Deja Vu, Act Eight
The third ensemble have been waiting in the wings. Now that they’ve finally made their entrance, they must bring themselves back to reality to have any hope of saving it.
Programme notes
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Black Lives Matter protests, petitions and other resources
Friends in the UK, write to your MPs and councillors to defend racial justice and the right to protest
Our promo this episode is for The GM & Me, fellow member of the UK & Ireland Tabletop RPG Podcasters community. It’s a one-player, one-gamemaster podcast showcasing a variety of roleplaying games.
Season credits
STARRING Ellie Pitkin, Alex Pankhurst, Josh Yard and Dave; Chris Starkey, Chris Buxey and Chris; Helen Stratton, Ellen Gould, Natalie Winter and Strat as themselves (sort of) (various)
SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCES BY Ellie Pitkin as Nia and The Space Jam Continuum podcast’s Chris MacLennan as CANDICE
GAME DESIGNED AND RUN BY Matt Boothman, using the Powered by the Apocalypse engine
MUSIC BY Matt Boothman
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY Matt Boothman
IN ASSOCIATION WITH Blackshaw Theatre Company
Find us
On Twitter @MerelyRoleplay
On Facebook at Merely Roleplayers
www.MerelyRoleplayers.com
37 min - Vikki, A Retrospective (Deja Vu Backstage)
A look back at Vikki’s past appearances on Merely Roleplayers, in Ariadne, Five Stage a Rescue, Codename: Mosaic, Parallax Converging, Parallax Inverted and Prospero & Viola.
Programme notes
Our promo this episode is for The Prestige, an in-depth movie discussion programme on Kaiju FM.
Season credits
STARRING Ellie Pitkin, Alex Pankhurst, Josh Yard and Dave; Chris Starkey, Chris Buxey and Chris; Helen Stratton, Ellen Gould, Natalie Winter and Strat as themselves (sort of) (various)
SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCES BY Ellie Pitkin as Nia and The Space Jam Continuum podcast’s Chris MacLennan as CANDICE
GAME DESIGNED AND RUN BY Matt Boothman, using the Powered by the Apocalypse engine
MUSIC BY Matt Boothman
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY Matt Boothman
IN ASSOCIATION WITH Blackshaw Theatre Company
Find us
On Twitter @MerelyRoleplay
On Facebook at Merely Roleplayers
www.MerelyRoleplayers.com
12 min - Deja Vu, Act Seven
The company seek an audience with a higher power. The fate of everything they’ve ever known rests on their performance. And one of them’s let a heckler in…
Programme notes
PodUK Goes Digital is happening on Saturday 30 May, at 12-8pm UK time on Twitch, Discord and other venues. Look out for our trailer as part of the virtual Podcasters’ Promenade! Full details at podcastconvention.uk.
Our promo this episode is for The Prestige, a Kaiju FM show discussing movies in depth from a production and academic appreciation point of view.
Season credits
STARRING Ellie Pitkin, Alex Pankhurst, Josh Yard and Dave; Chris Starkey, Chris Buxey and Chris; Helen Stratton, Ellen Gould, Natalie Winter and Strat as themselves (sort of) (various)
SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCES BY Ellie Pitkin as Nia and The Space Jam Continuum podcast’s Chris MacLennan as CANDICE
GAME DESIGNED AND RUN BY Matt Boothman, using the Powered by the Apocalypse engine
MUSIC BY Matt Boothman
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY Matt Boothman
IN ASSOCIATION WITH Blackshaw Theatre Company
Find us
On Twitter @MerelyRoleplay
On Facebook at Merely Roleplayers
www.MerelyRoleplayers.com
51 min - Starkey, A Retrospective (Deja Vu Backstage)
A look back at Starkey’s past appearances on Merely Roleplayers, in Five Stage a Rescue, Parallax Inverted, The Cloudskipper’s Captain and Prospero & Viola.
Programme notes
Our promo this episode is for Dames and Dragons, a tale about banding together with your friends to battle gods who are terrible people, told using Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition.
Season credits
STARRING Ellie Pitkin, Alex Pankhurst, Josh Yard and Dave; Chris Starkey, Chris Buxey and Chris; Helen Stratton, Ellen Gould, Natalie Winter and Strat as themselves (sort of) (various)
SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCES BY Ellie Pitkin as Nia and The Space Jam Continuum podcast’s Chris MacLennan as CANDICE
GAME DESIGNED AND RUN BY Matt Boothman, using the Powered by the Apocalypse engine
MUSIC BY Matt Boothman
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY Matt Boothman
IN ASSOCIATION WITH Blackshaw Theatre Company
Find us
On Twitter @MerelyRoleplay
On Facebook at Merely Roleplayers
www.MerelyRoleplayers.com
16 min - Deja Vu, Act Six
When the curtain closes, will the company be left to watch the world unravel, or in a position to weave something new?
Programme notes
Check out Blackshaw Theatre Company’s audio drama productions at the Wandsworth Arts Fringe In Your Living Room festival:
Some Treachery: A Miss McSkimming Mystery by Richard Stratton
Audience with the Ghost Finder by M. J. Starling (that’s an old pen name of Matt’s!)
The Final Adventure of Frankie Fightwell by Chris Buxey
Black Shuck by Duncan Hands
Great Expectations, adapted from Charles Dickens’ novel in association with Cyphers Theatre
Our promo this episode is for Dames and Dragons, a tale about banding together with your friends to battle gods who are terrible people, told using Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition.
Season credits
STARRING Ellie Pitkin, Alex Pankhurst, Josh Yard and Dave; Chris Starkey, Chris Buxey and Chris; Helen Stratton, Ellen Gould, Natalie Winter and Strat as themselves (sort of) (various)
SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCES BY Ellie Pitkin as Nia and The Space Jam Continuum podcast’s Chris MacLennan as CANDICE
GAME DESIGNED AND RUN BY Matt Boothman, using the Powered by the Apocalypse engine
MUSIC BY Matt Boothman
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY Matt Boothman
IN ASSOCIATION WITH Blackshaw Theatre Company
Find us
On Twitter @MerelyRoleplay
On Facebook at Merely Roleplayers
www.MerelyRoleplayers.com
44 min - Chris, A Retrospective (Deja Vu Backstage)
A look back at Chris’s previous appearance on Merely Roleplayers, in Let’s Get Gideon.
Programme notes
Our promo this episode is for The Space Jam Continuum, with past player and compere Chris MacLennan. Along with Cal Noble, Chris has committed to constructing a cohesive cinematic universe out of something that was never meant to be one: Looney Tunes, from the early 20th century all the way to Space Jam.
Season credits
STARRING Ellie Pitkin, Alex Pankhurst, Josh Yard and Dave; Chris Starkey, Chris Buxey and Chris; Helen Stratton, Ellen Gould, Natalie Winter and Strat as themselves (sort of) (various)
SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCES BY Ellie Pitkin as Nia and The Space Jam Continuum podcast’s Chris MacLennan as CANDICE
GAME DESIGNED AND RUN BY Matt Boothman, using the Powered by the Apocalypse engine
MUSIC BY Matt Boothman
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY Matt Boothman
IN ASSOCIATION WITH Blackshaw Theatre Company
Find us
On Twitter @MerelyRoleplay
On Facebook at Merely Roleplayers
www.MerelyRoleplayers.com
14 min - Deja Vu, Act Five
The curtain is open. On the other side, an audience awaits with the ones who wrecked the world. But from the moment their pods land, the new ensemble faces fierce competition.
Programme notes
Check out The Isolation Sessions on the Ragged Scratch podcast.
Review us on Podchaser - for every review you write on the site until 20 April, Podchaser will donate 25 cents to Meals on Wheels.
Our promo this episode is for The Space Jam Continuum, a Kaiju FM show where Chris and Cal try to make a cohesive cinematic universe out of something that was never meant to be one: Looney Tunes.
Season credits
STARRING Ellie Pitkin, Alex Pankhurst, Josh Yard and Dave; Chris Starkey, Chris Buxey and Chris; Helen Stratton, Ellen Gould, Natalie Winter and Strat as themselves (sort of) (various)
SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCES BY Ellie Pitkin as Nia and The Space Jam Continuum podcast’s Chris MacLennan as CANDICE
GAME DESIGNED AND RUN BY Matt Boothman, using the Powered by the Apocalypse engine
MUSIC BY Matt Boothman
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY Matt Boothman
IN ASSOCIATION WITH Blackshaw Theatre Company
Find us
On Twitter @MerelyRoleplay
On Facebook at Merely Roleplayers
www.MerelyRoleplayers.com
50 min - Dave, A Retrospective (Deja Vu Backstage)
A look back at Dave’s past appearances on Merely Roleplayers, in Five Go Adventuring, Crash Bang Wallop What a Heist, Parallax Core, Parallax Converging and The Survival Island. That’s definitely what they were called.
Programme notes
Our promo this episode is for What Am I Rolling, a twice monthly roleplaying game one-shot podcast and fellow member of the UK & Ireland TTRPG Podcasters community.
Season credits
STARRING Ellie Pitkin, Alex Pankhurst, Josh Yard and Dave; Chris Starkey, Chris Buxey and Chris; Helen Stratton, Ellen Gould, Natalie Winter and Strat as themselves (sort of) (various)
SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCES BY Ellie Pitkin as Nia and The Space Jam Continuum podcast’s Chris MacLennan as CANDICE
GAME DESIGNED AND RUN BY Matt Boothman, using the Powered by the Apocalypse engine
MUSIC BY Matt Boothman
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY Matt Boothman
IN ASSOCIATION WITH Blackshaw Theatre Company
Find us
On Twitter @MerelyRoleplay
On Facebook at Merely Roleplayers
www.MerelyRoleplayers.com
15 min - Deja Vu, Act Four
Embattled and desperate aboard the Air Errol, the company race to send their friends on to safety.
Programme notes
Watch the National Theatre’s production of Jane Eyre on Youtube until Thursday 16 April
Watch the Globe Theatre’s production of Hamlet on Youtube until Sunday 19 April
Look out for weekly new monologues by Philip Ridley on Tramp Theatre’s Youtube channel
Find audio dramas like Some Treachery: A Miss McSkimming Mystery by Richard Stratton and The Final Adventure of Frankie Fightwell in the Blackshaw Arts Hour podcast feed
Check out The Isolation Sessions on the Ragged Scratch podcast
Our promo this episode is for Seasons of Skyrend, a weekly custom Dungeons & Dragons podcast and fellow member of the UK & Ireland TTRPG Podcasters community.
Season credits
STARRING Ellie Pitkin, Alex Pankhurst, Josh Yard and Dave; Chris Starkey, Chris Buxey and Chris; Helen Stratton, Ellen Gould, Natalie Winter and Strat as themselves (sort of) (various)
SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCES BY Ellie Pitkin as Nia and The Space Jam Continuum podcast’s Chris MacLennan as CANDICE
GAME DESIGNED AND RUN BY Matt Boothman, using the Powered by the Apocalypse engine
MUSIC BY Matt Boothman
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY Matt Boothman
IN ASSOCIATION WITH Blackshaw Theatre Company
Find us
On Twitter @MerelyRoleplay
On Facebook at Merely Roleplayers
www.MerelyRoleplayers.com
44 min - Alex, A Retrospective (Deja Vu Backstage)
A look back at Alex’s past appearances on Merely Roleplayers, in Ariadne, A Town Called Amnesty, Parallax Converging, The Cloudskipper’s Captain and Prospero & Viola.
Programme notes
Our promo this episode is for What Am I Rolling, a twice monthly roleplaying game one-shot podcast and fellow member of the UK & Ireland TTRPG Podcasters community.
Season credits
STARRING Ellie Pitkin, Alex Pankhurst, Josh Yard and Dave; Chris Starkey, Chris Buxey and Chris; Helen Stratton, Ellen Gould, Natalie Winter and Strat as themselves (sort of) (various)
SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCES BY Ellie Pitkin as Nia and The Space Jam Continuum podcast’s Chris MacLennan as CANDICE
GAME DESIGNED AND RUN BY Matt Boothman, using the Powered by the Apocalypse engine
MUSIC BY Matt Boothman
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY Matt Boothman
IN ASSOCIATION WITH Blackshaw Theatre Company
Find us
On Twitter @MerelyRoleplay
On Facebook at Merely Roleplayers
www.MerelyRoleplayers.com
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About Merely Roleplayers
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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.