Voices at play

The start of this particular adventure will be deeply familiar to anyone who has ever played The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

Em, our GM for this one shot, takes their players to the land of Hyrule where the Princess Zelda is awaiting with a mission to save their imperilled land.

Leaning heavily into the spirit of Interstitial, Em successfully composes their own take on the "world of Hyrule" which NONE OF THE PLAYERS ARE FAMILIAR WITH. This produces some really fantastic dynamics, proving that even in a fictional setting your players don't know the way you do, as a GM, taking inspiration from (or even lifting directly) your favourite fictional places, is an easy recipe for success.

You can order your own copy of Interstitial here;

https://revryebread.itch.io/interstitial-our-hearts-intertwined

Voices at play is brought to you by the generosity and support of our patrons on https://patreon.com/VoicesAt without whom, this wouldn't be possible. You can learn more about our project and what we're working towards, on our website at https://ttrpg-voices.com

This episode is played by Em, Cass, AJ and Amr

Em, an avid cosplayer can be found on twitter and instagram @sketchmouse

Cass, a game designer can be found on twitter

https://twitter.com/CassKdesigns

AJ is on twitter at

https://twitter.com/whensthey

Amr can be found on twitter too!

https://twitter.com/ammourazz

The teenage adventures continue as Jackie, Josh and Annie learn more about the Sorting World. Don't forget, a completely new story with a whole new cast of characters and players will be coming next week!

You can order your own copy of Interstitial here;https://revryebread.itch.io/interstitial-our-hearts-intertwined

Voices at play is brought to you by the generosity and support of our patrons on https://patreon.com/VoicesAt without whom, this wouldn't be possible. You can learn more about our project and what we're working towards, on our website at https://ttrpg-voices.comCast

Sarah as Annie

https://twitter.com/Heart_Of_Time

Pidj as Jackie

https://twitter.com/Teayl

https://twitter.com/Dear_Cassiopeia

Thai as Josh

https://twitter.com/SatanSaysHaiAlexis as GMhttps://twitter.com/GameSeizure

Welcome to the sorting world; the place where everyone goes after they reach their time. Alexis' original setting and one shot has our players causing trouble for a strange group of individuals who work in the afterlife. I'm not entirely sure these kids know the meaning of "Wait here"...

You can order your own copy of Interstitial here;https://revryebread.itch.io/interstitial-our-hearts-intertwined

Voices at play is brought to you by the generosity and support of our patrons on https://patreon.com/VoicesAt without whom, this wouldn't be possible. You can learn more about our project and what we're working towards, on our website at https://ttrpg-voices.comCast

Sarah as Annie

https://twitter.com/Heart_Of_Time

Pidj as Jackie

https://twitter.com/Teayl

https://twitter.com/Dear_Cassiopeia

Thai as Josh

https://twitter.com/SatanSaysHaiAlexis as GMhttps://twitter.com/GameSeizure

 

For a lot of people, playing TTRPGs is about coming up with new characters

then seeing what stories you can tell with your friends. Despite the emphasis on ‘Living out your wildest fan fiction’ (which might be offputting, to some), Interstitial’s diverse range of playbooks allow for all sorts of characters to be made for play, including completely unique and original characters.

In Episode two of our run of Interstitial one shots, join Alexis, Sarah, Pidj and Thai as they take an altogether calmer approach to gaming.

Alexis takes her players (as a group of young teenager characters) to an original setting in which their school vacation takes an altogether unexpected turn.

You can order your own copy of Interstitial here;

https://revryebread.itch.io/interstitial-our-hearts-intertwined

 

Voices at play is brought to you by the generosity and support of our patrons on https://patreon.com/VoicesAt without whom, this wouldn’t be possible. You can learn more about our project and what we’re working towards, on our website at https://ttrpg-voices.com

 

This episode is played by Sarah, Alexis, Pidj and Thai;

 

Sarah and her fantastic comics, NPCTea can be found on twitter at https://twitter.com/Heart_Of_Time

 

Pidj can be found on twitter at https://twitter.com/Teayll and the Audio Drama they’ve been working on can be found at https://twitter.com/Dear_Cassiopeia

 

Thai can be found on twitter at https://twitter.com/SatanSaysHai

 

Alexis can be found on twitter at https://twitter.com/GameSeizure

 

Hello dear listeners; I'm Ray, one of the many voices behind Voices at play, my pronouns are he/him and I'm here to introduce you to who we are and what we do.

Our project, which is organised on a not-for-profit basis, aims to fund, promote and create content around tabletop roleplaying games, designed and produced by Marginalised creators.

This podcast is produced as part of that content and features the crew behind the project, a group of incredibly diverse people from a variety of marginalised backgrounds. More than half of our revolving cast are People of colour, several are Members of the LGBT2QIA+ community, we also have people with disabilities, both physical and mental, fat people, thin people, you name it and there's a chance they're represented here. Many involved come from a number of those groups, all at once.

As you may have realised, representation is at the core, of what we do. If you'd like to learn more about the individuals behind the voices, check out the members page of our website on ttrpg-voices.com.

So what are tabletop roleplaying games? The one you are most likely to be familiar with, is D&D or, Dungeons and dragons, to give it its full title. You won't hear us playing that one though. Our goal is to make it possible for marginalised creators of less known work, to reach a wider audience and by extension, become more prevelant!

Tabletop roleplaying games are a form of collaborative, narrative fiction, governed by a specific set of rules. Most often, you'll sit down with some friends, create characters together based on the rules of your chosen game and then start telling a story together. It's that simple!

This might be in the form of a pre-written adventure or scenario with plot hooks and goals to accomplish. It might simply be something that someone or everyone at the table comes up with on the fly.

As you can imagine, this can lead to a lot of chaos. What do you do when you encounter conflict? When the outcome of someone's decision isn't something they can simply decide? That's where the rules of the game come in, often focused around dice rolls and a player taking the helm as your game facilitator, often referred to as a GM. These introduce aspects of randomness that take your stories places you never could have imagined.

At the heart of them, tabletop roleplaying games are an experience and a very human one at that. The people you play with, their lives and perspectives. All of these things will influence the outcome and flow of your story.

The Voices at play podcast is gameplay and round table discussion focusing on a number of games, created by marginalised people. Each new game system will see the groups reshuffled, with new players taking on the role of GM to demonstrate the ways in which different people and different games influence both play style and story together.

So that's us! That's what we're here to do and I hope that sounds interesting to you. We are Voices at play, making space at the table, for everyone.

This podcast is brought to you by the support and generosity of our Patrons at https://patreon.com/VoicesAt

As our "heroes" face some tough decisions, things come to a dramatic head; lessons are learned and old wounds prove to be less than healed.

If you've enjoyed this one shot; you can order your own copy of Interstitial here

https://www.linksmithgames.com/games/preorder-interstitial-our-hearts-intertwined-pdf 

Voices at play is brought to you by the generosity and support of our patrons on https://patreon.com/VoicesAt without whom, this show wouldn't be possible. Join our community for as little as $1 a month!

You can learn more about our project and what we're working towards, on our website at https://ttrpg-voices.com

Cast

Ray as James, of Team Rocket

https://twitter.com/DarkDragonsInn

https://twitter.com/VoicesAt 

Algie as Lapis Lazuli 

https://twitter.com/eleventhirds 

https://equalseleventhirds.tumblr.com 

Marquez as GM

https://twitter.com/MarquezTheGM

The adventure continues as our heroes explore the 'world' of the muppets and things begin to take a turn for the worse as they learn of some mysterious changes happening to the people they've met. A villain is revealed and his dastardly plot unfurls.

If you've enjoyed this one shot; you can order your own copy of Interstitial here

https://www.linksmithgames.com/games/preorder-interstitial-our-hearts-intertwined-pdf 

Voices at play is brought to you by the generosity and support of our patrons on https://patreon.com/VoicesAt without whom, this show wouldn't be possible. Join our community for as little as $1 a month!

You can learn more about our project and what we're working towards, on our website at https://ttrpg-voices.com

Cast

Ray as James, of Team Rocket

https://twitter.com/DarkDragonsInn

https://twitter.com/VoicesAt 

Algie as Lapis Lazuli 

https://twitter.com/eleventhirds 

https://equalseleventhirds.tumblr.com 

Marquez as GM

https://twitter.com/MarquezTheGM

 

For the first ever episode of Voices at Play, our first creator in focus is Riley Hopkins of Linksmith Games!

We’re playing their game Interstitial: Our Hearts Intertwined, a powered by the apocalypse driven game, inspired by Kingdom Hearts.

The game comes with its own in depth setting (not used in this episode). Interstitial is just recently released!

You can order your own copy here

https://revryebread.itch.io/interstitial-our-hearts-intertwined

Voices at play is brought to you by the generosity and support of our patrons on https://patreon.com/VoicesAt without whom, this wouldn’t be possible. You can learn more about our project and what we’re working towards, on our website at https://ttrpg-voices.com

This episode is played by Marquez, Algie and Ray;

Ray can be found on twitter, under his podcast, Tails from the Dark Dragons Inn https://twitter.com/DarkDragonsInn and is the primary management behind this show’s twitter too at; https://twitter.com/VoicesAt

Algie can be found on Twitter and Tumblr;

 https://twitter.com/eleventhirds

 https://equalseleventhirds.tumblr.com 

 

Marquez, Host and GM for this episode, can be found on twitter;

https://twitter.com/MarquezTheGM 

And he’s also representing the podcast which he is also a GM for, Tabletop Potluck!