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: 00:00:00Episode start: 00:01:11Intro: 00:01:20Overview: 00:02:45Setup: Stage 1: Creating Fear Cards: 00:04:51Fear Card Creation: 00:05:19Setup: Stage 2: Creating political parties: 00:06:57Political parties creation: 00:07:34Setup: Stage 3: Creating key governor characters: 00:10:55Creating key governor characters: 00:11:27Set up: Stage 4: Tokens: 00:16:04Tokens: 00:16:35Set up: Stage 5: The saviour chooses a political party: 00:16:49The saviour chooses a political party: 00:16:59Set up: Stage 6: Creating Kelly’s sympathy: 00:17:17Creating Kelly’s sympathy: 00:17:44Set up: Stage 7: Creating colony health markers: 00:20:00Creating colony health markers: 00:20:20Start of ‘Mars Colony’ oneshot/Opening vignette: 00:21:56Framing scenes: 00:25:20Scene 1: Opposition scene 1: 00:26:21Progress scenes: 00:32:50Scene 2: Progress scene 1: 00:34:27Failure, deception, humiliation & scandal: 00:36:37First deception: 00:38:43Second deception: 00:41:36Scene 3: Personal scene 1: 00:44:36Scene 4: Opposition scene 2: 00:49:56Scene 5: Progress scene 2: 00:59:59Scene 6: Personal scene 2: 01:08:06Scene 7: Opposition scene 3: 01:13:32Scene 8: Progress 3: 01:22:06Outro and credits: 01:31:17Credits
The 'What Am I Rolling?' podcast was created, recorded and edited by Fiona Howat.
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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 GallagherIf you want to find out more about the podcast, check out the 'What Am I Rolling?' podcast website: www.WAIRpodcast.com.
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