Merely Roleplayers

Act One of Five: If you don’t cast a shadow, are you really there? Not a riddle: we’re about to find out.Coming next on 27 May – Other selves (Vigil Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, gunfire, and references to child abduction.Find Matt at UK Games Expo, 30 May–1 June at the NEC in Birmingham. He’s running some roleplaying game sessions you can sign up to join.Dram...

The cast of Vigil: Ill Wind talk about the parts of the story that came out in the wash, and the parts that might stink up the Main House for a while to come.Coming next on 20 May – Vigil: Shadowfall, Act 1Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, retching sounds, toxic friendship, and betrayal.Dramatis personae and other definitionsRenko: A DoOm agent assigned to Sherrydown, furlo...

Act Five of Five: To save Sherrydown from its own waste, someone’s going to have to get their hands dirty.Coming next on 29 April – Lingering effects (Vigil Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, retching sounds, toxic friendship, and betrayal.Dramatis personae and other definitionsRenko: A DoOm agent assigned to Sherrydown, furloughed since the office closed.Gwynned,...

Act Four of Five: Did the Tailors cause all this? Yes. Can they fix it? Also yes. But maybe they’re not the only ones.Coming next on 22 April – Vigil: Ill Wind, Act 5Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, retching sounds, toxic friendship, and betrayal.Want to reduce waste so it can’t come blobbing through town, dissolving everything in sight? Matt’s Dad is organising a clothes...

Act Three of Five: An old friend invites Peggy to get drunk. Gwynned holds her nose and flies to the rescue.Coming next on 8 April – Vigil: Ill Wind, Act 4Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, retching sounds, toxic friendship, and betrayal.Camera Obscura is Matt’s new actual play of Outliers, a single-player roleplaying game of weird science by Samantha Leigh. Read a new chapt...

Act Two of Five: Gwynned seeks out eyewitnesses (and nose-, foot- and tail-witnesses). Graham and Renko follow their noses.Coming next on 25 March – Vigil: Ill Wind, Act 3Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, retching sounds, toxic friendship, and betrayal.The Re: Dracula team’s audio drama adaptation of Carmilla, the classic vampire novel by J Sheridan Le Fanu (Sherrydown’s na...

Act One of Five: Something’s rotten in the county of Brackshire. Peggy has some rotten luck and Graham smells a rat.Coming next on 11 March – Vigil: Ill Wind, Act 2Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, retching sounds, toxic friendship, and betrayal.Free exhibition Tarot: Origins and Afterlives is at the Warburg Institute, London until 30 April.Dramatis personae and other defin...

While you wait for the next Vigil production in the Main House, here’s a sample of The Sprouting by our friends at Blighthouse Studio.The Sprouting is an eldritch horror of a Call of Cthulhu actual play podcast, set in an apocalyptic future where plants have taken over, magical bargains twist the fabric of reality and each survivor struggles to trust their own senses.Coming next on 25 February – V...

Which questions did we decline to answer and why? The cast discusses the end of their beloved Queen’s journey.Coming next on 11 February – Guest artist: The SproutingProgramme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, murder, and eye damage.CreditsSTARRING:- Alexander Pankhurst- Marta Da Silva- Josh Yard- Ellie Pitkin- Matt BoothmanROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: For The Queen, second edition, by A...

Act 3 of 3: The Queen is under attack. After all she’s done, who of her retinue will defend her?Coming next on 4 February – Her end (Many Masks Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, murder, and eye damage.CreditsSTARRING:- Alexander Pankhurst- Marta Da Silva- Josh Yard- Ellie Pitkin- Matt BoothmanROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: For The Queen, second edition, by Alex Roberts,...

Blooper reel or pooper reel? From all the material Matt cut from the recording emerges a very tonally different parallel story.Coming next on 28 January – Her Many Masks, Act 3Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, murder, and eye damage.Luvvie alert! We simply must introduce you to The Thorne Files. They just aired Dead On Arrival, a two-part miniseries using a one-page game de...

Act 2 of 3: The road behind is as perilous as the one ahead, each strewn with seeds that could prove the Queen’s undoing.Coming next on 21 January – Her crimes (Many Masks Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, murder, and eye damage.Luvvie alert! We simply must introduce you to The Thorne Files. They just aired Dead On Arrival, a two-part miniseries using a one-page g...

Our Queen will emerge through play, but what’s her starting vibe? We moodboard an aesthetic with the help of For The Queen’s beautiful art cards.Coming next on 14 January – Her Many Masks, Act 2Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, murder, and eye damage.Luvvie alert! We simply must introduce you to Legend of the Bones, a hybrid of solo old school Dungeons & Dragons actual...

Act 1 of 3: The Queen sets out through wrack and ruin with her retinue, each of whom loves her in their own way.Coming next on 7 January 2025 – Her Majesty (Many Masks Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, murder, and eye damage.Luvvie alert! We simply must introduce you to Legend of the Bones, a hybrid of solo old school Dungeons & Dragons actual play, and dark f...

While you wait for Her Many Masks to open in the Studio, here’s a sample of I Need A Miracle, another podcast Foggy Outline released this year, written by Matt.I Need A Miracle is an original scripted audio drama where each episode is a prayer, some prayers are answered, and a prayer granted can upend the whole world.CreditsEpisode 1, A dream come true, stars David Holt as Michel Kildress, the Art...

What chambers of the Queen’s Labyrinth did we leave unexplored? Join us backstage for a look back at this production.Coming next on 1 October – Vigil: Tailor Made, Act 1Programme notesThis production contains memory loss and dead animals.CreditsGOBLIN QUEEN: Natalie WinterSTARRING:Helen Stratton as LindaEllie Pitkin as Sir Barold von BranwickStrat as WinkleMatt Boothman as GundleROLEPLAYING GAME S...

Act 5 of 5: The Goblin Queen’s Castle. Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, we have fought our way here to take back what was stolen.Coming next on 17 September – Retracing our steps (Labyrinth Untold)Programme notesThis production contains memory loss and dead animals.Goblin Queen Natalie Winter also plays Dungeons & Dragons and other games on Twitch with Roll Together! Find her a...

Follow us around a few of the wrong turns, blind alleys and dead ends that we cut from this production.Coming next on 10 September – Labyrinth Untold, Act 5Programme notesThis production contains memory loss and dead animals.CreditsGOBLIN QUEEN: Natalie WinterSTARRING:Helen Stratton as LindaEllie Pitkin as Sir Barold von BranwickStrat as WinkleMatt Boothman as GundleROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Jim He...

Act 4 of 5: The Goblin City. Shadows are illegal and opera is mandatory. Just don’t make a scene.Coming next on 3 September – Clangers untold (Labyrinth Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains memory loss and dead animals.Matt wrote a new show called I Need A Miracle, where each episode is a prayer, some prayers are answered, and a prayer granted can upend the world. Episode 1 premieres...

Can any world survive a benevolent god? I Need A Miracle premieres on 29 August.Coming next on 27 August – Labyrinth Untold, Act 4Programme notesEvery episode is a prayer. Some prayers are answered. And a prayer granted can upend the world.I Need A Miracle is the first scripted podcast series from Foggy Outline, created and written by Merely Roleplayers’ Matt Boothman, and produced by multi-award...

Act 3 of 5: The Land of Yore. Between a pot and a fart place. Stink forever or stay forever.Coming next on 20 August – I Need A MiracleProgramme notesThis production contains memory loss and dead animals.Goblin Queen Natalie Winter also plays Dungeons & Dragons and other games on Twitch with Roll Together! Find her as the Dungeon Master of Nexus and Nexus Revolutions, using fantasy to send up...

Character creation continues: what about each of our denizens could help or hinder us on our journey?Coming next on 13 August – Labyrinth Untold, Act 3Programme notesThis production contains memory loss and dead animals.CreditsGOBLIN QUEEN: Natalie WinterSTARRING:Helen Stratton as LindaEllie Pitkin as Sir Barold von BranwickStrat as WinkleMatt Boothman as GundleROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Jim Henson’...

Act 2 of 5: The Hedge Maze. This topiary can only be described as wild.Coming next on 6 August – Traits and flaws (Labyrinth Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains memory loss and dead animals.Goblin Queen Natalie Winter also plays Dungeons & Dragons and other games on Twitch with Roll Together! Find her as the Dungeon Master of Nexus and Nexus Revolutions, using fantasy to send up...

Kicking off character creation with the important question: what flavour of Labyrinth Muppet do we all want to be?Coming next on 30 July – Labyrinth Untold, Act 2Programme notesThis production contains memory loss and dead animals.CreditsGOBLIN QUEEN: Natalie WinterSTARRING:Helen Stratton as LindaEllie Pitkin as Sir Barold von BranwickStrat as WinkleMatt Boothman as GundleROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM:...

Act 1 of 5: The Stone Walls. The Goblin Queen is displeased to find four of her denizens outside the Labyrinth.Coming next on 23 July – Kin (Labyrinth Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains memory loss and dead animals.Goblin Queen Natalie Winter also plays Dungeons & Dragons and other games on Twitch with Roll Together! Find her as the Dungeon Master of Nexus and Nexus Revolutions,...