The Barmy Balladeers

Ted, Elias, Billy and Kit
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Four amateur writers and professional university students gather cautiously in whatever room is available so that they might tell tales of woe, legend and general silliness. Graduation looms, but through the magic of TTRPG systems (how original), we have countless stories to unleash from their parchment prisons. It's how they did it in the old days my pilgrims, but with a lot more dice and mathematics. Our first campaign: "Tales of Tanamai" stars Billy Nicholls as Gwerxos, Kit Oliver as Possibly Mortimer, Elias Weaver as Mabel Mortimer and Ted Collins as the Storyteller.

  1. 4d ago

    Tales of Tanamai #17: "Welcome to Karavu, kid."

    Out of luck. Out of options. Out of time. The Mortimers are back for a new season of The Barmy Balladeers podcast. Featuring Kit Oliver as Possibly Mortimer, Elias Weaver as Mabel Mortimer, Billy Nicholls as Gwerxos and Ted Collins as Journeyman Lam. Scoring and sound design provided by the Standard License libraries over on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.zapsplat.com/⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://pixabay.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠ (billy wuz here)

  2. Jul 11 ·  Bonus

    Is Anybody Listening?

    All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. All minds as one. The Barmy Balladeers podcast returns on Saturday the 8th of August. This promotional clip features Elias Weaver as Petyr and Ted Collins as Andrej. It was edited using the free-to-use standard license libraries on ZapSplat and Pixabay.

  3. Jun 13 ·  Bonus

    Join The Rebellion

    "This message from the Stone's Throw network was recorded and archived by Doctor Amber Solari during her time as a student and provided 15 years after the fact, admitting her involvement in the events of 548 in the since dismantled Salidawn Conservatoire. Fronted by controversial rebel figure and alleged terror activist, Mabel May Mortimer, this message was recorded circa the 3rd-5th of Remember. Sometime between the occult disappearance of Possibly Mortimer and the catastrophic events that followed in the incurring week. Such events led to the establishment of numerous rebel cells, the murder of a prominent city official and the mass psychic event known most simply to historians as The Joining. How a slim span of seven days could create such lasting ramifications on the world as we know it is maddening to consider. But, as I'm sure you are all well aware, the Mortimers do not handle history with safety gloves. They handle it with hammers." - An Audio-Visual History of the Dispersion and its Ramifications. Curated by Archivist Isaac Payne and displayed in 578 at the Tramelite Museum of Arinaris-Ro.

    Join The Rebellion

  4. 12/14/2025 ·  Bonus

    Talkback of Tanamai Arc 1: The DM's Interview

    Esteemed writer and interviewer Tolly Johnson grills local D&D podcast host about his political beliefs, religious ideals, glaring continuity errors and the very nature of storytelling itself. They also happen to be dear friends. This special episode of The Barmy Balladeers podcast is hosted by writer, director, filmmaker and Dungeon Master Samuel Ptolemy Johnson. It also features DM of The Barmy Balladeers podcast Ted Collins. The episode was edited by Kit Oliver, with sound design and music provided by the wonderful Standard License libraries over at Zapsplat and Pixabay. Intro and Outro track "The Britons" by Kevin Macleod

  5. 11/29/2025 ·  Bonus

    Talkback of Tanamai Arc 1: The Players' Interview

    The king is dead. Ted has been deposed, slain, exiled, abdicated, anything that can or must be done. Now the players remain, eager in their malice and treachery to spill those terrible secrets of the realm upon the cairn stones of your favourite podcasting app. Rise, Bilberforth of Nicholls, Kristofer of Oliver, and Elias Weaver of local hobbycraft shops. Your time is now. Sic Semper Tyrannis. This special episode of The Barmy Balladeers podcast is hosted by writer, director, Dungeon Master and friend Samuel Ptolemy "Tolly" Johnson. It features Elias Weaver as Elias Weaver, Kit Oliver as Kit Oliver and Billy Nicholls as Billy Nicholls. Editing and sound design by Kit Oliver, provided by free-to-use open source libraries. We sincerely hope you enjoy. Intro and Outro track "The Britons" by Kevin Macleod

  6. 10/31/2025

    Tales of Tanamai #16: "The Battle of Silver & Fair"

    "How deep into the mirror do your darkest fears lie? Are they there upon your face, or just behind the eyes? Do they rest in boxes long forgotten, covered in dust and elm wood rotten? Some day, the running will end and you will see that the mirror is nothing but glass. Perhaps by then, you will know yourself. Perhaps by then, I will know myself. I hope. I hope. I hope. One day I will tell this tale for the last time and the Mortimers will know that every triumph was a tragedy in waiting, and every tragedy a triumph of fate. One day, they will know as much as I do, and I shall know as much as them. I hope - as always - that she will remember me. But until that day... a cardinal flies overhead. The streets smell like rain. My old hands are the youngest they will ever be. There are beautiful things to write about. At times like this, the joy is not so misty." - From the diaries of the poet Lorenzo.

  7. 10/14/2025

    Tales of Tanamai #15: "Through The Putrid Glass"

    Part 1 of a Grand Season Finale. Once upon a time, there was a woman called Ilse, and she - much to her despair - had fallen terribly in love with a man. Once upon a time, there will be a bard called Lorenzo, and he - much to his delight - is falling terribly in love with a woman. But those are just are just fairytales from long ago and far away, Tomorrow and Yesterday. For now, it is the age of a family they called The Mortimers whose fates bore a terrible hand. For now, it is the story of a shattered Glass, and the hungry hate that feeds him. For now, The Mortimers are a dead family walking. For now, The Mortimers are blind to the enormity of the lives they will one day lead. For now... it starts here - as the historians say - in The Undercroft, fifteen years after the Dispersion when everything went wrong. When a group of adventurers dared to ask - against all their better judgement and the amassed forces of evil that would stand in their way - Where. Is. Valeria. Pfeiffer?

  8. 09/25/2025 ·  Bonus

    BONUS: Previously on Arc One

    Steel yourself, prepare your spells, check all circuits available to you. Here is a compilation of everything you may have forgotten that will set you up for EPISODE 14: "Mabel", EPISODE 15: "Blind as a Looking Glass" and EPISODE 16: "The Battle of Silver & Fair" as Arc 1 of The Barmy Balladeers draws to a close.

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Four amateur writers and professional university students gather cautiously in whatever room is available so that they might tell tales of woe, legend and general silliness. Graduation looms, but through the magic of TTRPG systems (how original), we have countless stories to unleash from their parchment prisons. It's how they did it in the old days my pilgrims, but with a lot more dice and mathematics. Our first campaign: "Tales of Tanamai" stars Billy Nicholls as Gwerxos, Kit Oliver as Possibly Mortimer, Elias Weaver as Mabel Mortimer and Ted Collins as the Storyteller.

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  • Creator
    Ted, Elias, Billy and Kit
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    23
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Ted, Elias, Billy and Kit
  • Show Website
    The Barmy Balladeers