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10 months ago
Actual Play UK: Heart
Part 1 16 Feb, Part 2 23 Feb, 8pm UK/ 2pm Central
Twitch.tv/actualplayuk

Matt - Merely Roleplayers
Zack - Realms of Peril & Glory
Fiona - What Am I Rolling?
Dan - Brit Twits
Maddy - Realms of Peril & Glory

The Vermissian Sages apologise for the delay, which was due to technical difficulties

The delayed Actual Play UK voyage to the City Beneath will now depart

this Friday at 8pm UK/2pm Central


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10 months ago

TODAY

I can't hang out in chat because while part 1 is airing, I'll be recording part 2. But join us for part 2 same time next week and I will be in chat gassing up this amazing cast!

Actual Play UK: Heart
Part 1 16 Feb, Part 2 23 Feb, 8pm UK/ 2pm Central
Twitch.tv/actualplayuk

Matt - Merely Roleplayers
Zack - Realms of Peril & Glory
Fiona - What Am I Rolling?
Dan - Brit Twits
Maddy - Realms of Peril & Glory

The Vermissian Sages apologise for the delay, which was due to technical difficulties

The delayed Actual Play UK voyage to the City Beneath will now depart

this Friday at 8pm UK/2pm Central


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10 months ago
A selfie of Matt by Matt. Mid thirties, white, with buzzed dark hair. Wearing a loose linen shirt and a spiked red leather bracer on one forearm, and clear-rimmed glasses. You can just about make out a kiss of eyeliner and a heart-shaped application of red lipstick.

A clearer look at my look for part 1 of Heart: The City Beneath, streamed on Actual Play UK the other week. In @merelyroleplayers I'm just a voice โ€“ since this game is on camera I thought I'd make more of an effort and try to match the feel of the setting!

The bracer is by Skinbound on Etsy; and I marshalled my extremely basic makeup skills into something that ended up too subtle for the camera, especially compared to Fiona and @maddyisabstract, who are, to be fair, consummate pros.

Lessons learned, and if you tune in for part 2 next Friday 8 March, you'll actually be able to tell I've done something with my face ๐Ÿ˜„

Heart part 2: 8th of March, 8pm UK/2pm Central, at twitch.tv/actualplayuk

Matt - Merely Roleplayers
Zack - Realms of Peril and Glory
Fiona - What Am I Rolling?
Dan - Brit Twits
Maddy - Realms of Peril and Glory

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8 months ago

Yes! And A Horror Borealis' Keeper Alex Flanigan wrote a micro-RPG called WONDERS which we're playing on @merelyroleplayers next week!

A photo of the aurora borealis at night over a snowy hill. The photo has been dimmed, with the title "A Horror Borealis" overlaid in a transparently textured white.

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7 months ago

Look, sometimes you improv something in the heat of the moment that doesn't make any sense, okay

Wait, what? Can anyone figure out Diane's travel plan here?


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6 months ago
Honoured To Be Part Of @realmspod Where Everybody's Gay.

Honoured to be part of @realmspod where everybody's gay.

Honoured To Be Part Of @realmspod Where Everybody's Gay.

Bonus NB version which @naomithinksit made for me ๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿค๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ–ค


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6 months ago

Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast is properly, fully out and available to buy as a physical book now! Here's me and a few of the @merelyroleplayers cast playing one of the early scenes as guests on What Am I Rolling?

It's a beautifully designed game by every measure, and reliably creates fantastic fun and tender moments, and is super easy to pick up and play.


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5 months ago

Helen thinks shoebill stork is the worst bird ๐Ÿ˜ฅ And Gundle is rumpled not very put-together shoebill stork type muppet โ€“ worst of the worst? ๐Ÿ˜ญ

Join us Backstage in the Studio

Kicking off character creation with the important question: what flavour of Labyrinth Muppet do we all want to be?

Coming next on 30 July โ€“ Labyrinth Untold, Act 2

Keep reading


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5 months ago
Chaosium brings actual play to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Rascal News
In partnership with Scottish institutions, the Call of Cthulhu publisher will host two shows at the famous avant-garde showcase.

Theatre luvvies ๐Ÿค RPG nerds

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (to give it its proper title ๐Ÿค“) is a place to get weird and experimental with performance, so if actual play takes off there ... here's hoping we could start seeing some experimentation with the format (get it on its feet? free the performers from behind the table? or stage it in the round with the players around a round table? put em on a lil revolve? refuse to accept static staging in live in-person actual play challenge 2024)


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4 months ago

I am delighted to find that I'm the episode sponsor for Piz/ZA Downtime. I haven't listened yet and I'm sure in reality there's violence and stress, but pizza downtime? That's a vibe, I'd support that sight unseen

Tomorrow is Piz/ZA's first downtime, but here's an audiogram preview of what they'll be getting up to in CalazCon!


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3 months ago

How charming! A finale!

Now playing in the Main House

Act 5 of 5: The Goblin Queenโ€™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 โ€“ Retracing our steps (Labyrinth Untold)

Programme notes

This 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 sci-fi, or playing Elodie Fogg in Roll Togetherโ€™s ongoing steampunk campaign, Chronicles of Aeodrun.

Vigil returns on 1 October, and the first 5 Vigil mysteries (Playtime, Cold Snap, Tourist Trap, Bad Dog, and Quarry) are part of the Supernatural TTRPG Bundle: $20 for 60+ spooky digital games by 50 independent roleplaying game creators, available until 21 September.

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 on 29 August. Or get all 12 episodes on 29 August by subscribing to Apollo+.

Credits

GOBLIN QUEEN: Natalie Winter

STARRING:

Helen Stratton as Linda

Ellie Pitkin as Sir Barold von Branwick

Strat as Winkle

Matt Boothman as Gundle

ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Jim Hensonโ€™s Labyrinth The Adventure Game by Ben Milton (adventure) and Jack Caesar (rules), published by River Horse

MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst

SEASON PLANNED BY: Natalie Winter

EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman


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3 months ago

People who listen to altogether too many podcasts: what are the arbitrary rules you make up for yourself? DO you make up rules about what you're "allowed" to listen to and when, or is that just me?

Rules like:

Podcasts are divided into Current (ones I'm caught up with), Catching up (ones where I'm working through the back catalogue), and Replay (ones I've heard all of but am listening to again because of love)

Current shows are for home, Catching up and Replay are for out and about

BUT if I have 10 or more unlistened Current episodes then I have to get that number under 10 before switching to Catching up or Replay, even if out and about

Only one Replay and one Catching up show can be active at any given time, I have to finish a whole season before making a different one active

It sounds like I'm forcing myself to eat my veggies here but honestly making up rules like this is the only way to not get overwhelmed and lost โ€“ if I didn't do this I'd constantly be starting shows and forgetting about them and then fretting that I'm 2 episodes into 15 different things


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