[LFP] Song of Ice and Fire Role Play actual play podcast to start in January

Hi all, I am going to start recording an SIFRP/Game of Thrones actual play podcast in January and I'm looking for players who would be interested in taking part. Some background: I'm aiming to get three groups of 3-5 players. Experience with the system or with role-playing in general is not necessary but interested players would need to be able to record themselves and would need to feel comfortable role playing. I intend to be "realistic" in the sense that if your character is not there for a conversation, you as a player won't be listening to it either. You only know what your character knows. I'll be running with perma-death and you will only get one character! We will be recording all three groups simultaneously and there will be the capacity for interaction between the groups should you cross paths. I will be cutting the recordings together and the final version will have episodes featuring all three groups. I'm planning to edit out a lot of the dice-rolling and mechanical gameplay, so it will really focus on the story and the role-playing aspects of the game and be more interesting for non-players to listen to as well. If you have any more questions about this or if you think you might be interested, feel free to reply to this post or message me privately. Edit: I should have specified but I’m based in the UK and so will be working on GMT. I’ll generally to be available to play most evenings and weekends and I’m pretty flexible to work around other people! Also, I am planning for this to be a “season” of, between 10 and 20 episodes, very much like the TV show. If it all goes well, I’d be happy to create a second season, and so on. I do have an overarching story planned as well as other shorter events that will happen throughout, depends on the wants and objectives of each character. The campaign will be set around a year before the beginning of the TV show/books and is an alternate timeline, so anything goes! Second edit: just some more clarifications. I'm not expecting players to have high-quality professional microphones. I just want each person to record as best they can so we get the highest quality possible for the final show. However you record it, it's going to sound better there than it would through Skype or Discord, etc. I will be recording the show on my PC as a back-up in case things go wrong. We'll arrange specific days and times once we have all the players together, but I think it makes sense generally to group people together based on availability. If you specifically want to play with people from a certain geographical area, that shouldn't be an issue though! To clarify about the "realistic" aspect of the game, if the party were to split into two groups, we would record each of those groups separately until the players were to come back together. I wouldn't necessarily kick people out of the call for every private conversation that a subset of players wanted to have. We would either leave the other players listening in and not participating, and then enforce a "no meta-gaming" rule, or we would record the conversation separately at a later date. If you have any further questions, please get in touch! Thanks Chris

Ahh this awesome. My very first roleplaying experience was with SIFRP and since then i've gone on to try many different systems but SIFRP always sticks in my mind as one of my favorites.  So I take it these sessions are recorded live and then edited in post or is each participating player recording themselves individually? did I read that wrong?  Also just out of curiosity, what kind of time schedule were you hoping to have.  I'm from the UK you see so i'm running on GMT+1 and can play between the hours of 1pm-11pm.  I do hope you'll get back to me. 

Hello, hello, Chris!  I've also played SIFRP with one of my tabletop groups in the past though I've had a taste of quite a few worlds ones over the years.  (Systems played include: D&D 5E, D&D 3.5E, World of Darkness (Vampire, Werewolf and Mage), AMP: Year One and Star Wars: Edge of the Empire.) My question follows on the tails of Robbie's with when you'd be wanting to run. Feel free to just edit your post to include what timezone you're in and what days/times you were open to running! (I think that'll help most for any future responses.) As for my other little curiosities: What program would you like to use for the players to assemble? (Discord? Zoom? etc.)  Would you be choosing players after talking with them or more of a "jump in we'll see how it goes" kind of set up?

Hello Chris, I am a player who has minor experience with this system and extensive experience in many other systems. (These systems include: WoD, all editions of D&D, AFMBE, Pathfinder, and a variety of other games that are less well known such as Traveller.) Your campaign sounds like something I would enjoy as I am a fan of roleplay heavy games, and honestly the idea of three different groups being in the same world is such an interesting idea to me. The fact we may even be able to entertain some viewers only improves the excitement to me. I'm an EST based player in southern Canada, and a fan of the Game of Thrones universe. If you have room I would very much like to join. I hope to hear from you soon. -Ace

I could absolutely be down for this. I have quite the experience with the system as i've played in a campaign that lasted for more than a year, I've also played many other systems, Dnd 3.5, 5e, Star Wars EotE, AMP, Godbound, OtherDust etc. The Idea of a podcast game sounds fun and i could absolutely contribute to this. The only question is the time, I am a player from Poland, Europe. My timezone is gmt+1 so i all depends on when you'd like to get this show  going ;) I'll keep an eye out for this topic, message me if you need additional info

Hi Robbie, thanks for your interest! I haven’t actually tried recording anything yet - we’ll have at least one practice session before we start the actual live podcast and one character- and house-creation session so we’ll see what works best at the time, but I think it will sound best if we are speaking live and each recording ourselves, then I’ll take all of the individual recordings and edit them all together. As I touched upon in my initial post, I’m expecting the final version to be fairly heavily edited to sound as smooth and streamlined as possible, even if it wasn’t actually like that! I’ve edited my initial post now but I’m also in the UK so I’m sure the times won’t be a problem. I do work full-time 8-4 or 9-5 but I’m fairly flexible outside of those hours. If this all sounds good to you, send me a private message with your contact details so I can contact you again nearer the time! Cheers Ahh this awesome. My very first roleplaying experience was with SIFRP and since then i've gone on to try many different systems but SIFRP always sticks in my mind as one of my favorites.  So I take it these sessions are recorded live and then edited in post or is each participating player recording themselves individually? did I read that wrong?  Also just out of curiosity, what kind of time schedule were you hoping to have.  I'm from the UK you see so i'm running on GMT+1 and can play between the hours of 1pm-11pm.  I do hope you'll get back to me. 

Hi Lilly, thanks for your interest! I’ve now edited my original post to be a bit clearer about times! Let me know if you have any concerns! I’m quite open and flexible as regards the program used - I have used Discord in the past but the games I’m currently playing use Skype, so I think we would just have a practice session or two to see what works best. As long as everyone is recording themselves, I don’t think it’ll be too much of an issue because I’ll edit them all together afterwards. I think I’ll get a good idea of what people are like over the next couple of months and if I have any concerns, I’ll let you know. As long as everyone is role-playing and not trying to be an alpha gamer or meta-game, I don’t think there’ll be any problems! If this sounds good to you, just drop me a private message with your contact details and I’ll be in touch! Cheers Hello, hello, Chris!  I've also played SIFRP with one of my tabletop groups in the past though I've had a taste of quite a few worlds ones over the years.  (Systems played include: D&D 5E, D&D 3.5E, World of Darkness (Vampire, Werewolf and Mage), AMP: Year One and Star Wars: Edge of the Empire.) My question follows on the tails of Robbie's with when you'd be wanting to run. Feel free to just edit your post to include what timezone you're in and what days/times you were open to running! (I think that'll help most for any future responses.) As for my other little curiosities: What program would you like to use for the players to assemble? (Discord? Zoom? etc.)  Would you be choosing players after talking with them or more of a "jump in we'll see how it goes" kind of set up?

Hi Ace, thanks for your interest! That all sounds good to me! I’ve made a couple of edits to my original post to clear up some questions. If that all sounds good to you, feel free to drop me a private message with your contact details and I’ll be in touch nearer the time! Cheers Hello Chris, I am a player who has minor experience with this system and extensive experience in many other systems. (These systems include: WoD, all editions of D&D, AFMBE, Pathfinder, and a variety of other games that are less well known such as Traveller.) Your campaign sounds like something I would enjoy as I am a fan of roleplay heavy games, and honestly the idea of three different groups being in the same world is such an interesting idea to me. The fact we may even be able to entertain some viewers only improves the excitement to me. I'm an EST based player in southern Canada, and a fan of the Game of Thrones universe. If you have room I would very much like to join. I hope to hear from you soon. -Ace

Hi Marek, thanks for your interest. I’ve edited my initial post now to make it clearer so please have a look through that. To answer your question, I’m in the UK, so I don’t think we’d have a problem with timezones! If this all sounds interesting to you, feel free to drop me a private message with your contact details and I’ll be in touch nearer the time. Cheers I could absolutely be down for this. I have quite the experience with the system as i've played in a campaign that lasted for more than a year, I've also played many other systems, Dnd 3.5, 5e, Star Wars EotE, AMP, Godbound, OtherDust etc. The Idea of a podcast game sounds fun and i could absolutely contribute to this. The only question is the time, I am a player from Poland, Europe. My timezone is gmt+1 so i all depends on when you'd like to get this show  going ;) I'll keep an eye out for this topic, message me if you need additional info

To answer a couple of the other questions I've had recently: I want to end up with a podcast which kind of matches the TV show. So there'll be a "season" of somewhere between 10 and 20 episodes, each around an hour long, with practically all of the dice-rolling and discussion cut out, and the actual role-playing being the main focus. I want to make it something that someone who likes Game of Thrones and isn't really bothered about RPGs could listen to and enjoy. As I mentioned in my original post, players will only really know what their characters know, so they wouldn't hear the episodes until they're pretty much done and ready to be released! Before we start recording, there will be a session 0 and any decisions as to the exact composition of the group can be made then. And as for the actual recording, you just need to record yourself and then send me the recording afterwards. I'll be in charge of all of the editing and post-production. There are still plenty of spaces for more players so feel free to get in touch! We've still got a couple of months to go before we start recording Thanks Chris

Hey all, so we still have a couple of spaces left if anyone else would be interested? Cheers Chris