Merely Matt

@merelymatt.bsky.social

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I make I Need A Miracle, a divine audio drama, and Merely Roleplayers, a podcast where theatrical people play roleplaying games. Find me at www.foggyoutline.com

Tonight's listening party livestream is postponed because I can't plug in my laptop in case it catches fire New laptop arrives Weds so ... listening party Friday night? Look at that bulge (the laptop battery has swollen enough to start to crack the bottom of the casing)
MerelyMatt's July 2026 reads: Absolute Green Lantern 2, Chainsaw Man 6, Mick Herron: Joe Country, Absolute Wonder Woman 2, Witch Hat Atelier 4, Chainsaw Man 7, Ghost in the Shell, Anais Mitchell: Working on a Song, Douglas Adams: The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul, Chainsaw Man 8, Witch Hat Atelier 5, Chainsaw Man 9, Claire North: Slow Gods
Tabletop roleplaying miniatures representing a young martial aritst woman squaring off with a narsty decomposing shark creature with a human skull in its mouth, its guts out, and boathooks in his hands
Star Trek Voyager title card with the text "a radiation wave hit and I got shot through a wormhole"
The Home Sick Pilots trash talking the Nuclear Bastards
The spine of a hardback book. It's bare cardboard with letters faintly embossed on it
Hardback of Slow Gods by Claire North with the dust cover on
A living room set up for a powerpoint party, with presenter's laptop on the ironing board and a partying powerpoint logo on the tv
Offerings arranged on the floor by the back door: an empty Live Laugh photo frame, baby products, fluffy cat face, two plastic flowerpots, squeezy tubes of suncream or something
Selfie by Keeper Matt of players around the roleplaying table, including co-Keeper Alex looking incredibly pleased with himself
Merely Roleplayers Studio Use Your Words, an actual play of Bibliocalypse
Behind the game master's screen for a game of Heart the City Beneath
A collage of black and white drawings and engravings of towering buildings. One square is colourised hot pink and has an illustrated eye in the middle.
Paint, roller, and rolling tray all prepped on a dust sheet
Merely Roleplayers Studio Use Your Words, an actual play of Bibliocalypse
Sweep the squeaky puppet dog is showing us Sweep's Master Plan For More Attention
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Copers Cope Road
Merely Roleplayers Studio Use Your Words: an actual play of Bibliocalypse
Merely Roleplayers Studio Use Your Words: an actual play of Bibliocalypse
Merely Roleplayers Studio Use Your Words: an actual play of Bibliocalypse
The End A fan favorite! I Need A Miracle "As a person allergic to religion, I had my doubts. I was wrong. It's fab. Great writing and acting, made even better by stellar production. And don't be scared off by it not being "full cast." For this show, it doesn't need to be." - Evo Terra
The I Need A Miracle podcast cover art: the title in dark text on a red background, with a medieval looking engraving of a bird with a fish head
Storygraph wrap-up 2025 for merely matt. First and last books read: The Yellow Wallpaper, Dictionary of Fine Distinctions. Longest: Absolution by Jeff Vandermeer. Shortest: Bisclavret by Marie de France. 50 books. 11,805 pages. Top genres: fantasy, classics, sci fi, comics, short stories. Top authors: Marjorie M Liu, Mick Herron, Isaac Asimov.
Merely Roleplayers Studio: Use Your Words, an actual play of Bibliocalypse
My top five podcasts according to Poclet Casts: Midnight Burger, Party of One, My Brother My Brother and Me, Hwat?! Weekly, Spycast
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Four roleplaying game zines - Enter the Whalefall by Yanahn, Nemesis Retribution by Kayla Dice, Court of the Lich Queen by Ursidice, and 52 Card Dungeon by Sam Armstrong - and the Dragonmeet 2025 programme
A Celtic cross of face down Spindlewheel cards on a black tablecloth
Selfie of Matt in a black bandanna with teeth on it, red waistcoat, and red spiked wrist bracer
Merely Roleplayers - Studio It Feeds on Fire, an actual play of The Silt Verses RPG
The massive and beautifully illustrated Mileships hardback by Ian McQue
Merely Roleplayers Studio Tipping Point, an Apocalypse World actual play
Merely Roleplayers Studio It Feeds on Fire, an actual play of The Silt Verses RPG
Merely Roleplayer Studio It Feeds on Fire, an actual play of The Silt Verses RPG
Merely Roleplayers Studio It Feeds on Fire, an actual play of The Silt Verses RPG
Matt, Ben and Marta on stage at Audio Drama Hubfest
Merely Roleplayers Studio It Feeds on Fire An actual play of The Silt Verses RPG
Shadwell station at night
Audio Drama Hubfest 2025 itinerary. Riverside Club, High Wycombe, 1 November, 10:30 to 21:30. Main Room: 10:30 keynote speakers, 11:05 speed networking, 11:40 voice actor comedy workshop, 12:30 voice acting panel, 14:30 physical voice acting with Susie Riddell of The Archers, 15:25 competition judging, 16:00 game voice masterclass with Harry Myers, 17:00 worldwide voice acting chat, 18:45 live shows - Audio Drama Done Dashingly Quirky Quick, I Need A Miracle, Baked Off/Am I Old Yet, Beyond Shakespeare, Inspector Murder Inspects, 21:30 event end. Workshop room sponsored by Wireless Theatre, Rusty Quill and The Podcast Host: 11:05 sedate speed networking, 12:15 finding character voices with Flloyd Kennedy, 13:15 auditioning 101, 14:15 beginner remote recording with Fiona Thraille and Sarah Golding, 15:15 directing and acting masterclass with Nicolette Chin, 16:15 improvised and creature voices for actual plays with Jess Jewell, 17:15 horror voice acting masterclass with Erika Sanderson. Tickets now £40, £30 in person, £25 live stream, £10 after 6pm for live shows and £10 for workshops.
Merely Roleplayers Studio It Feeds on Fire An actual play of The Silt Verses RPG
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Foggy Outline presents I Need A Miracle A bold deep red background with charcoal text
A mechanical corkscrew, a ratchet screwdriver, a metronome, a tingsha
Audio Drama Hubfest 2025 itinerary. Riverside Club, High Wycombe, 1 November, 10:30 to 21:30. Main Room: 10:30 keynote speakers, 11:05 speed networking, 11:40 voice actor comedy workshop, 12:30 voice acting panel, 14:30 physical voice acting with Susie Riddell of The Archers, 15:25 competition judging, 16:00 game voice masterclass with Harry Myers, 17:00 worldwide voice acting chat, 18:45 live shows - Audio Drama Done Dashingly Quirky Quick, I Need A Miracle, Baked Off/Am I Old Yet, Beyond Shakespeare, Inspector Murder Inspects, 21:30 event end. Workshop room sponsored by Wireless Theatre, Rusty Quill and The Podcast Host: 11:05 sedate speed networking, 12:15 finding character voices with Flloyd Kennedy, 13:15 auditioning 101, 14:15 beginner remote recording with Fiona Thraille and Sarah Golding, 15:15 directing and acting masterclass with Nicolette Chin, 16:15 improvised and creature voices for actual plays with Jess Jewell, 17:15 horror voice acting masterclass with Erika Sanderson. Tickets now £40, £30 in person, £25 live stream, £10 after 6pm for live shows and £10 for workshops.
Jesse from the Fast Show coming out of his shed to tell us what he has been mostly doing
The full Audio Drama Hubfest 2025 itinerary, including I Need A Miracle listed as one of the Live Shows from 18:45 to 21:15
Merely Roleplayers Studio: It Feeds on Fire, an actual play of The Silt Verses RPG
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Foggy Outline presents I Need A Miracle
Two slightly overlapping Spindlewheel cards: The Fallen (a sheep fleeced, a chump bamboozled, a chronically unlucky sucker/a would-be martyr with delusions of sainthood, a powder keg in want of a spark) and Message in a Bottle (hi stranger! this is my cat. write back if you can! or reversed, only the truly desperate would leave their trust in the uncaring sea)
A hand of Spindlewheel cards topped by Arachne: bulbous-bodied, long-limbed, gossamer snares stronger than steel/a quiet weaver, pride of the town, awed gossip outshone by marvellous deeds
A stack of Spindlewheel cards: Siren, under Laughing Mimic, under Darkness: shadows cast on the cave wall, or reversed, a curtain thicker than the absence of light
A hand of Spindlewheel cards topped by Unicorn: beautiful and territorial, horn dripping with poacher's blood/rare and wondrous, skittish frame stilled with a calm touch
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