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Did we just discover our setting's origin of the bogeyman...?
Ghouls (Vigil Backstage)
We create some more lore about ghouls, especially the specific one Cameron is bent on destroying.
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COMPERE: Matt Boothman
STARRING:
Christopher Starkey as Cameron Jarvis, the Wronged
Helen Stratton as Melody, the Constructed
Strat as Brier, the Monstrous
Vikki as Renko, the Flake
ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael Sands
MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst
SOUND DESIGN BY: Helen Stratton
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman
BRIER: I thought a problem shared was a problem halved.
PAUSE.
MELODY: You did not think that.
...is one of my favourite exchanges we've ever improvised.
Vigil: Quarry, Act 3
In which Brier plays both sides; the pull of blood works both ways; and things come to a head at Sherrydown Library.
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COMPERE: Matt Boothman
STARRING:
Christopher Starkey as Cameron Jarvis, the Wronged
Helen Stratton as Melody, the Constructed
Strat as Brier, the Monstrous
Vikki as Renko, the Flake
ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael Sands
MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst
SOUND DESIGN BY: Helen Stratton
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman
Finale finale finale!
Not that it's over...
Vigil: Quarry, Act 4
In which the Hunt is at bay; a hound bites its master; and a mentor has nothing more to teach.
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COMPERE: Matt Boothman
STARRING:
Christopher Starkey as Cameron Jarvis, the Wronged
Helen Stratton as Melody, the Constructed
Strat as Brier, the Monstrous
Vikki as Renko, the Flake
ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael Sands
MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst
SOUND DESIGN BY: Helen Stratton
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman
If you're the type who likes to watch for hints, listen out for the bits of this episode about other realms - they will pay off in the next Vigil production (which I'm editing right now!)
Disbanding (Vigil Backstage)
We look back at Vigil: Quarry. Did we truly stop the danger or just put it off until later?
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COMPERE: Matt Boothman
STARRING:
Christopher Starkey as Cameron Jarvis, the Wronged
Helen Stratton as Melody, the Constructed
Strat as Brier, the Monstrous
Vikki as Renko, the Flake
ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael Sands
MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst
SOUND DESIGN BY: Helen Stratton
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman
As this post mentions, I'm eligible for Best Game Master | Indie at the CRIT Awards! If you enjoy my GMing on @merelyroleplayers, I hope you'll consider honouring me with a nomination!
If you're feeling extra generous, my work is also eligible in the Best Supplement or third party content category. To tie in with Merely Roleplayers' Monster of the Week campaign, I've been releasing mysteries for Monster of the Week; these three all came out within the CRIT Awards eligibility period:
Sherrydown Enquirer 3: Tourist Trap https://merelymatt.itch.io/touristtrap
Sherrydown Enquirer 4: Bad Dog https://merelymatt.itch.io/baddog
Sherrydown Enquirer 5: Quarry https://merelymatt.itch.io/quarry
The CRIT Awards: for your consideration
The Creator Recognition in TTRPG (CRIT) Awards are open to nominations until 1 June!
Things released between 1 Jan 2022 and 31 Jan 2023 are eligible. In the case of Merely Roleplayers, that means:
Main House productions: Vigil: Quarry
(Vigil: All Aboard is also on the borderline, the final story act came out on 7 Feb 2023)
Studio productions: Monumental Exit & The Feed (series 1)
(The Lost Andromeda Ward Christmas Special is also on the borderline, it kicked off on 14 December 2021 but extended into the eligibility period)
See our Past Productions page for more about all those productions.
Here's the CRIT Awards nomination form.
It would mean the world to us if you considered nominating Merely Roleplayers in some or all of these categories:
Best TTRPGs, Supplements, APs, and Channels of this year
Best storyline | In a AP: Vigil: Quarry (Merely Roleplayers)
Best Series: Vigil (Merely Roleplayers) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCMIHyd_TMSpZ_HMrmThX2HcM_zP2yR5-
Best NPC: Ernie Bering, agent of DoOm (Merely Roleplayers: Vigil)
Best Villain: The Stranger (Merely Roleplayers: Vigil)
Best in their TTRPG Category
Best Game Master | Indie: Matt Boothman
Best Player | Indie: choose your fighter—
Natalie Winter (for either Gwynned in Vigil: All Aboard or Sue Sherpa in Monumental Exit)
Alexander Pankhurst (for Mike Sherpa in Monumental Exit)
Marta Da Silva (for Harper in Vigil: All Aboard)
(also eligible are Ellen Gould and Josh Yard for The Feed, and Helen, Strat, Vikki and Chris Starkey for Vigil: Quarry – but Nat, Alex and Marta are professional actors and a nomination could make a real difference to them!)
Best Podcast: Merely Roleplayers
Best Audio and Sound Design | Podcast: Merely Roleplayers
Artist Categories
Best Instrumental of the year by a musician in TTRPG: Vigil theme by Alexander Pankhurst https://youtu.be/KRsdcFLK0F4?t=104
Enter your nominations in the CRIT Awards form or find out more about the awards
And if you don't fancy nominating us for all these categories, hopefully you'll shower some nomination love on other podcasts in the community who are doing incredible work, like @realmspod, Interstitial AP by @revryebread, @monsterhourpod, @legendlarkpod and @campaignskyjacks. We can't nominate ourselves so we'll be putting all of these luvvies and more forward instead!
Vigil pretty much plans itself at this point – we have so many juicy plots bubbling that depending on who's in the session, the scenario usually just ... presents itself. In this one ... well, this demon's been lurking since Vigil: Playtime. It was time.
Act One of Five: In which Persephone Byron’s centuries-spanning cold war begins heating up for the final clash.
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COMPERE: Matt Boothman
STARRING:
Ellie Pitkin as Persephone 'Percy' Byron, the Exile
Dave as Mick, the Mundane
Strat as Brier, the Monstrous
Chris MacLennan as Kincaid, the Professional
ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael Sands
MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst
SOUND DESIGN BY: Matt Boothman
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman
Today: planned another Monster of the Week session for @merelyroleplayers
Tomorrow: planning a two-shot of Heart: The City Beneath for Actual Play UK
Wednesday: GMing my first session of Lancer (not for public consumption)
You give me a week off dayjob work and I fill it wall to wall with RPGs 😇
Working bank holiday with Cameron @merelyroleplayers Jarvis' player Chris today. Where by working day I mean
1 hour recording
2 hours in the pub talking about Dragon's Dogma II, FFVII Rebirth and our jobs
Yes! And A Horror Borealis' Keeper Alex Flanigan wrote a micro-RPG called WONDERS which we're playing on @merelyroleplayers next week!
Graphic by Cezar Capacle
All five issues of the Sherrydown Enquirer – each one of which is a combination Monster of the Week mystery and @merelyroleplayers: Vigil lore supplement – are part of this bundle, along with 60+ more spooky and supernatural RPGs!
In issue 1, Playtime, a teacher disappears during a rainy playtime at Sherrydown Primary, and all the kids say he was eaten by a shark
In issue 2, Cold Snap, something has awoken deep in the forest and now the seasons are all out of whack
In issue 3, Tourist Trap, the high street isn't the only thing that tacky new souvenir shop is killing
In issue 4, Bad Dog, rentacops are at war with the local teens and something savage is taking the chance to mark its territory
In issue 5, Quarry, the sound of hooves and the stain of blood herald the separation of the community into hunters and prey
Plus, each issue comes with details you can use to set your Monster of the Week games in middle England, instead of the game's default gun-totin' US setting!
Usually getting all 5 issues would set you back about £20; in the Supernatural bundle, $20 gets you all these and more than 60 other things, including lots of complete games.
birthday gift for a friend of their tabletop character from a MotW game i run. she's a Crooked, and her past catches up with her sometimes.
The Fae Mother
Got bored so I made a lil one page comic with some oc’s
Original post by @beckaboi
Monster of the Week OCs, Tarry (blonde one) is mine, Quinn (green one) belongs to @tiredandangry
Silly sketch of Goatman, whom I named George.
My favorite quirk from him: His nose scrunches when he smiles :)
Michelle by Sir Chloe sure is one of those songs that you whip up a nice mental animatic to
Birthday Party Summoning! What better to do with the neighborhood kids than to summon a demon!
Had a fun time drawing this with class and channeling my inner child in it ^^
Revenge for @muppetcos of their awful sheepsquatch boy Axel
for all you ttrpg lovers and OC lovers
heres my new monster of the week character
Illia Keep, what is she keeping you ask-
SECRETS
she has tea with mothman on tuesdays