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Content Warnings/Trigger Warnings: Political themes

Show Notes

This week, Fiona is joined by David for \u2018Mars Colony\u2019, a sci-fi political roleplaying game about personal failure and government, written by Tim C Koppang and published by TCK roleplaying.

\u2018Mars Colony\u2019 is an RPG designed specifically for two players. One player takes on the role of the colony\u2019s appointed \u201csaviour,\u201d while the other is responsible for all the various problems that are plaguing the citizens of Mars. As the game progresses, the saviour will face a constant struggle between competence and failure, honesty and deception.

You can buy \u2018Mars Colony\u2019 and download game resources on the TCK roleplaying website.

Timestamps

• Content note: 00:00:00
• Episode start: 00:01:11
• Intro: 00:01:20
• Overview: 00:02:45
• Setup: Stage 1: Creating Fear Cards: 00:04:51
• Fear Card Creation: 00:05:19
• Setup: Stage 2: Creating political parties: 00:06:57
• Political parties creation: 00:07:34
• Setup: Stage 3: Creating key governor characters: 00:10:55
• Creating key governor characters: 00:11:27
• Set up: Stage 4: Tokens: 00:16:04
• Tokens: 00:16:35
• Set up: Stage 5: The saviour chooses a political party: 00:16:49
• The saviour chooses a political party: 00:16:59
• Set up: Stage 6: Creating Kelly\u2019s sympathy: 00:17:17
• Creating Kelly\u2019s sympathy: 00:17:44
• Set up: Stage 7: Creating colony health markers: 00:20:00
• Creating colony health markers: 00:20:20
• Start of \u2018Mars Colony\u2019 oneshot/Opening vignette: 00:21:56
• Framing scenes: 00:25:20
• Scene 1: Opposition scene 1: 00:26:21
• Progress scenes: 00:32:50
• Scene 2: Progress scene 1: 00:34:27
• Failure, deception, humiliation & scandal: 00:36:37
• First deception: 00:38:43
• Second deception: 00:41:36
• Scene 3: Personal scene 1: 00:44:36
• Scene 4: Opposition scene 2: 00:49:56
• Scene 5: Progress scene 2: 00:59:59
• Scene 6: Personal scene 2: 01:08:06
• Scene 7: Opposition scene 3: 01:13:32
• Scene 8: Progress 3: 01:22:06
• Outro and credits: 01:31:17

Credits

The 'What Am I Rolling?' podcast was created, recorded and edited by Fiona Howat.

The WAIR logo was created by Fiona Howat.

This episode\u2019s players were Fiona Howat and David T. Cox.

This episode\u2019s RPG one-shot was \u2018Mars Colony\u2019, a sci-fi political roleplaying game about personal failure and government, written by Tim C Koppang and published by TCK roleplaying. You can buy \u2018Mars Colony\u2019 and download game resources on the TCK roleplaying website.

The theme music was '8-bit march' by Twin Musicom (<a