Merely Roleplayers

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.

Merely Roleplayers is a performing podcast hosted by Foggy Outline, with 300 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Foggy Outline hosts Merely Roleplayers, a performing show with 300 episodes published.

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  A to Z (Use Your Words Backstage)

  Mar 2, 202619 minS37

  <p >With what words they have left, the Rogue Linguists expound on their experiences of the Forbidden Library.</p><p >Coming up in the Main House – Vigil: The Long Night</p><p >Programme notes</p><p >This production contains strong language, choking sounds, violence (including gun violence) and gore, harm to children and animals, death and bereavement (including death of a parent figure), body shaming, and references to sex and drugs.</p><p >Credits</p><p >STARRING:</p><p >- Alexander Pankhurst as Jehova, the Knowledge Undoer; Harrison, the Wonky Xerox; Jaguar, Readers Unknown; and Courtney, the Overachieving User</p><p...

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  Use Your Words, Act III

  Feb 23, 202645 minS37

  <p >Act II of III: The False Librarian acquaints the Rogue Linguists with the red acid slap of their own words.</p><p >Coming next on 3 March – A to Z (Use Your Words Backstage)</p><p >Programme notes</p><p >This production contains strong language, choking sounds, violence (including gun violence) and gore, harm to children and animals, death and bereavement (including death of a parent figure), body shaming, and references to sex and drugs.</p><p >Credits</p><p >STARRING:</p><p >- Alexander Pankhurst as Harrison, the Wonky Xerox; J, R_ U_; and C, the O_ U_</p><p...

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  Lost for words (Use Your Words Backstage)

  Feb 16, 202620 minS37

  <p >Utterances deemed unpalatable by even the False Librarian. (The recording got giddy and I cut a lot out. Here some of it is.)</p><p >Coming next on 24 February – Use Your Words, Act III</p><p >Programme notes</p><p >This production contains strong language, choking sounds, violence (including gun violence) and gore, harm to children and animals, death and bereavement (including death of a parent figure), body shaming, and references to sex and drugs.</p><p >Credits</p><p >STARRING:</p><p >- Alexander Pankhurst as Jehova, the Knowledge Undoer and Harrison, the Wonky Xerox</p><p >- Na...

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  Use Your Words, Act II

  Feb 9, 20261h 1mS37

  <p >Act II of III: Words bleed meaning as False Librarian logophagy value extraction. Demonstration: yassified bakery explosion, lava (not hazardous), horizontal eruption, ceramic skullet</p><p >Coming next on 17 February – Lost for words (Use Your Words Backstage)</p><p >Programme notes</p><p >This production contains strong language, choking sounds, violence (including gun violence) and gore, harm to children and animals, death and bereavement (including death of a parent figure), body shaming, and references to sex and drugs.</p><p >Credits</p><p >STARRING:</p><p >- Alexander Pankhurst as Jehova, the Knowledge Undoer and H_, the W_ X_</p>...

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  Rogue Linguists (Use Your Words Backstage)

  Feb 2, 202625 minS37

  <p >The players scry and speak their Rogue Linguists into being. (You heard a speedrun of this bit in Act I. This is longer and sillier.)</p><p >Coming next on 10 February – Use Your Words, Act II</p><p >Programme notes</p><p >This production contains strong language, choking sounds, violence (including gun violence) and gore, harm to children and animals, death and bereavement (including death of a parent figure), body shaming, and references to sex and drugs.</p><p >Credits</p><p >STARRING:</p><p >- Alexander Pankhurst as Jehova, the Knowledge Undoer</p><p >- Natalie Winter as Ta...

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