Alex Kelly
@voyager3.bsky.social
Theatre & games maker with Voyager 3.
Previously: Co-AD of Third Angel.
Espresso drinker.
Reader in Theatre & Performance at Leeds School of Arts.
Previously: Co-AD of Third Angel.
Espresso drinker.
Reader in Theatre & Performance at Leeds School of Arts.
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Alex Kelly
@voyager3.bsky.social
· Oct 14
GenFest 2025: The Investigations - Royal & Derngate
The Investigations is a performance-making game from Voyager 3, delivered by In Good Company. Exploring the details of everyday life, this is a ‘make a show in a day’ devising workshop, presented as a...
royalandderngate.co.uk
The ace @ingoodcompany.bsky.social are running my theatre-making-kit-meets-storytelling-game THE INVESTIGATIONS at @royalderngate.bsky.social as part of GenFest this year. You can take part and/or watch what they make with it:
royalandderngate.co.uk/whats-on/gen...
royalandderngate.co.uk/whats-on/gen...
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For anyone who wants to try out Sanction and create their own Community Content, you can pick up the Core Rules at a discount on @drivethrurpg.com:
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...
Or, grab the Bundle, which includes all the Genre Setups and adventures:
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...
Or, grab the Bundle, which includes all the Genre Setups and adventures:
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...
Sanction Genres [BUNDLE] - Just Crunch Games | Sanction | DriveThruRPG
This special bundle product contains the following titles:
A toolbox system for multi-genre challenge-driven role-playing games.
Battle through dungeons in the wake of a raging warrior god. Challenge...
www.drivethrurpg.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
For anyone who wants to try out Sanction and create their own Community Content, you can pick up the Core Rules at a discount on @drivethrurpg.com:
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...
Or, grab the Bundle, which includes all the Genre Setups and adventures:
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...
Or, grab the Bundle, which includes all the Genre Setups and adventures:
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...
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I'm enthralled by the great quality of the adventures that have sprung forth from The Raspy Raven organised competition.
Third Party Community Content Creation embraces all of Sanction, and I'm loving what's coming out of it.
www.sanctionrpg.com
www.thedeesanction.com/the-dee-sanc...
Third Party Community Content Creation embraces all of Sanction, and I'm loving what's coming out of it.
www.sanctionrpg.com
www.thedeesanction.com/the-dee-sanc...
November 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I'm enthralled by the great quality of the adventures that have sprung forth from The Raspy Raven organised competition.
Third Party Community Content Creation embraces all of Sanction, and I'm loving what's coming out of it.
www.sanctionrpg.com
www.thedeesanction.com/the-dee-sanc...
Third Party Community Content Creation embraces all of Sanction, and I'm loving what's coming out of it.
www.sanctionrpg.com
www.thedeesanction.com/the-dee-sanc...
I’ve been lucky enough to play this and run it, and had a blast both times. Recommended!
The Admiral's Compass is a short adventure for @paulbaldowski.bsky.social The Dee Sanction. Written for the Tales from the Raspy Raven competition, it's a tale set in the aftermath of the English Counter Armada.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
November 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I’ve been lucky enough to play this and run it, and had a blast both times. Recommended!
Really enjoyed this atmospheric folk horror show last night - if you can get along to Salford or Leeds then book in advance as it's selling out most venues.
👂 What was that, all shows are now on sale? Guess that means it’s time to Drop our official Birdwatching Northern Tour Poster!🪺
We encourage you to book in advance for this limited run🗓️
For all ticket links please visit the relevant venue website or visit our website 🎟️ tinyurl.com/45vccp5v
We encourage you to book in advance for this limited run🗓️
For all ticket links please visit the relevant venue website or visit our website 🎟️ tinyurl.com/45vccp5v
November 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Really enjoyed this atmospheric folk horror show last night - if you can get along to Salford or Leeds then book in advance as it's selling out most venues.
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I teach a field natural history course that’s very analog—a hand-written field journal, hands-on skill sessions, hours in nature each week. This very much tracks. My evals for that class emphasize the class’s impacts on how they think, and their mental health.
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I teach a field natural history course that’s very analog—a hand-written field journal, hands-on skill sessions, hours in nature each week. This very much tracks. My evals for that class emphasize the class’s impacts on how they think, and their mental health.
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Really pleased that my Bunker Talk about Playable Theatre is now up online. I talk about the crossover between boardgames, Tracker Gamebooks, #TTRPGs and my theatre making/story swapping practice, in particular my new project The Investigations.
www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/...
www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/...
Alex Kelly – Bunker Talk #154 – Manchester School of Art
www.art.mmu.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Really pleased that my Bunker Talk about Playable Theatre is now up online. I talk about the crossover between boardgames, Tracker Gamebooks, #TTRPGs and my theatre making/story swapping practice, in particular my new project The Investigations.
www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/...
www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/...
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Roll up, roll up - we’re teaching you how to cobble together a career in the arts! All the soft skills the neurotypicals just seem to know but nobody tells us? We’ve got you covered!
Save the date and sign up to our Patreon at any paid level to join in!
Save the date and sign up to our Patreon at any paid level to join in!
Employability skills in the arts virtual workshop - Sunday 26th October 6pm | The Daily Tism
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October 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Roll up, roll up - we’re teaching you how to cobble together a career in the arts! All the soft skills the neurotypicals just seem to know but nobody tells us? We’ve got you covered!
Save the date and sign up to our Patreon at any paid level to join in!
Save the date and sign up to our Patreon at any paid level to join in!
Really pleased that my Bunker Talk about Playable Theatre is now up online. I talk about the crossover between boardgames, Tracker Gamebooks, #TTRPGs and my theatre making/story swapping practice, in particular my new project The Investigations.
www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/...
www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/...
Alex Kelly – Bunker Talk #154 – Manchester School of Art
www.art.mmu.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Really pleased that my Bunker Talk about Playable Theatre is now up online. I talk about the crossover between boardgames, Tracker Gamebooks, #TTRPGs and my theatre making/story swapping practice, in particular my new project The Investigations.
www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/...
www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/...
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We had a lorra, lorra fun playing this.
My #Vaesen scenario, The Man Who Was Too Lucky is in the @drivethrurpg.com Halloween sale until the end of the month... Johannes Wallėn recruits the Society to investigate his suspiciously happy life.
tools.drivethrurpg.com/product/5262...
tools.drivethrurpg.com/product/5262...
Vaesen: The Man Who Was Too Lucky - Free League Publishing | Free League Work Shop | DriveThruRPG.com
The Society receive an enigmatic Invitation from a wealthy young businessman in the village of Olsnäs on the shores of
tools.drivethrurpg.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
We had a lorra, lorra fun playing this.
My #Vaesen scenario, The Man Who Was Too Lucky is in the @drivethrurpg.com Halloween sale until the end of the month... Johannes Wallėn recruits the Society to investigate his suspiciously happy life.
tools.drivethrurpg.com/product/5262...
tools.drivethrurpg.com/product/5262...
Vaesen: The Man Who Was Too Lucky - Free League Publishing | Free League Work Shop | DriveThruRPG.com
The Society receive an enigmatic Invitation from a wealthy young businessman in the village of Olsnäs on the shores of
tools.drivethrurpg.com
October 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
My #Vaesen scenario, The Man Who Was Too Lucky is in the @drivethrurpg.com Halloween sale until the end of the month... Johannes Wallėn recruits the Society to investigate his suspiciously happy life.
tools.drivethrurpg.com/product/5262...
tools.drivethrurpg.com/product/5262...
Reposted by Alex Kelly
The ace @ingoodcompany.bsky.social are running my theatre-making-kit-meets-storytelling-game THE INVESTIGATIONS at @royalderngate.bsky.social as part of GenFest this year. You can take part and/or watch what they make with it:
royalandderngate.co.uk/whats-on/gen...
royalandderngate.co.uk/whats-on/gen...
GenFest 2025: The Investigations - Royal & Derngate
The Investigations is a performance-making game from Voyager 3, delivered by In Good Company. Exploring the details of everyday life, this is a ‘make a show in a day’ devising workshop, presented as a...
royalandderngate.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 8:35 AM
The ace @ingoodcompany.bsky.social are running my theatre-making-kit-meets-storytelling-game THE INVESTIGATIONS at @royalderngate.bsky.social as part of GenFest this year. You can take part and/or watch what they make with it:
royalandderngate.co.uk/whats-on/gen...
royalandderngate.co.uk/whats-on/gen...
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with your help we can change this
People are always rightly pointing out that Warhammer contributes more to the British economy than the fishing industry, but the problem is that there just aren't very many folk songs about Warhammer
August 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
with your help we can change this
The ace @ingoodcompany.bsky.social are running my theatre-making-kit-meets-storytelling-game THE INVESTIGATIONS at @royalderngate.bsky.social as part of GenFest this year. You can take part and/or watch what they make with it:
royalandderngate.co.uk/whats-on/gen...
royalandderngate.co.uk/whats-on/gen...
GenFest 2025: The Investigations - Royal & Derngate
The Investigations is a performance-making game from Voyager 3, delivered by In Good Company. Exploring the details of everyday life, this is a ‘make a show in a day’ devising workshop, presented as a...
royalandderngate.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 8:35 AM
The ace @ingoodcompany.bsky.social are running my theatre-making-kit-meets-storytelling-game THE INVESTIGATIONS at @royalderngate.bsky.social as part of GenFest this year. You can take part and/or watch what they make with it:
royalandderngate.co.uk/whats-on/gen...
royalandderngate.co.uk/whats-on/gen...
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I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?
It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?
It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
October 8, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?
It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?
It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?
Reposted by Alex Kelly
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
October 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
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And yet - nothing about this is on the BBC main app.
It’s hidden under Welsh news.
Nothing in the Daily Mail, Express, The Sun, The Times.
Seems like Farage’s opinions on everything make front page news EXCEPT when one of his guys admits to taking Russian bribes….🤷🏼♀️
13/14
It’s hidden under Welsh news.
Nothing in the Daily Mail, Express, The Sun, The Times.
Seems like Farage’s opinions on everything make front page news EXCEPT when one of his guys admits to taking Russian bribes….🤷🏼♀️
13/14
September 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
And yet - nothing about this is on the BBC main app.
It’s hidden under Welsh news.
Nothing in the Daily Mail, Express, The Sun, The Times.
Seems like Farage’s opinions on everything make front page news EXCEPT when one of his guys admits to taking Russian bribes….🤷🏼♀️
13/14
It’s hidden under Welsh news.
Nothing in the Daily Mail, Express, The Sun, The Times.
Seems like Farage’s opinions on everything make front page news EXCEPT when one of his guys admits to taking Russian bribes….🤷🏼♀️
13/14
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Great fun talking to @irny.bsky.social about how to write system flexible scenarios, using the brilliant examples of her Darkened Hill & Dale and Terminus Kickstarters!
You can still late pledge for Terminus until 1st Oct, see www.kickstarter.com/projects/pat...
open.spotify.com/episode/6UTy...
You can still late pledge for Terminus until 1st Oct, see www.kickstarter.com/projects/pat...
open.spotify.com/episode/6UTy...
So you want to write a system flexible adventure
open.spotify.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Great fun talking to @irny.bsky.social about how to write system flexible scenarios, using the brilliant examples of her Darkened Hill & Dale and Terminus Kickstarters!
You can still late pledge for Terminus until 1st Oct, see www.kickstarter.com/projects/pat...
open.spotify.com/episode/6UTy...
You can still late pledge for Terminus until 1st Oct, see www.kickstarter.com/projects/pat...
open.spotify.com/episode/6UTy...
Reposted by Alex Kelly
Whether it’s paracetamol or something else, Trump and co are perpetuating the idea autism is wrong and disability is an individual’s responsibility to avoid. It’s anti-science but it’s deeply ableist at its core. The goal is for non-disabled to be afraid and disabled people to be ashamed.
September 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Whether it’s paracetamol or something else, Trump and co are perpetuating the idea autism is wrong and disability is an individual’s responsibility to avoid. It’s anti-science but it’s deeply ableist at its core. The goal is for non-disabled to be afraid and disabled people to be ashamed.
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DAAAAAAAAAMMMMNNNNN! 👏
“The USA, where you can pick up eggs, milk and lethal ammunition in the same supermarket run, in case you want to make a pancake and then shoot someone in the head, considers people who like trains a bit too much to be its society’s deadliest scourge.” 🤣
“The USA, where you can pick up eggs, milk and lethal ammunition in the same supermarket run, in case you want to make a pancake and then shoot someone in the head, considers people who like trains a bit too much to be its society’s deadliest scourge.” 🤣
Anti-autism campaigner, Karen Hoyland, 40, commented: “I love my child but I hate his autism. The other day I came home to find him lining up his guns, instead of playing with them like a normal kid.”
Country with bullet vending machines makes preventing autism a priority
Headline by Sarah Amero A country that distributes bullets like they’re chocolate bars has decided that eradicating autism is one of its top priorities, it has been reported. The USA, where you can p...
thedailytism.com
September 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
DAAAAAAAAAMMMMNNNNN! 👏
“The USA, where you can pick up eggs, milk and lethal ammunition in the same supermarket run, in case you want to make a pancake and then shoot someone in the head, considers people who like trains a bit too much to be its society’s deadliest scourge.” 🤣
“The USA, where you can pick up eggs, milk and lethal ammunition in the same supermarket run, in case you want to make a pancake and then shoot someone in the head, considers people who like trains a bit too much to be its society’s deadliest scourge.” 🤣
Great to see the excellent gobscure getting the recognition they deserve with this interview in The Guardian, alongside Jason Williamson.
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...
‘It’s a lot darker than Sleaford Mods’: Jason Williamson on acting, rejection and a radical portrait of street life
The frontman is realising his stage dreams by starring in Edgecity which draws on playwright gobscure’s experience of being homeless. The pair talk about an urgent, explosive show
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Great to see the excellent gobscure getting the recognition they deserve with this interview in The Guardian, alongside Jason Williamson.
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...
It's has been so rewarding to run #Vaesen for the last (nearly) 4 years. I started with a couple of the published scenarios to get a feel for it, then began writing my own stuff - which the rules really support. We'll come back to it - perhaps one of the other Societies - next year.
Another brilliant game of Vaesen run by @voyager3.bsky.social in which we managed to set up spinoffs to the mythic Britain and carpathia supplements
September 20, 2025 at 9:05 AM
It's has been so rewarding to run #Vaesen for the last (nearly) 4 years. I started with a couple of the published scenarios to get a feel for it, then began writing my own stuff - which the rules really support. We'll come back to it - perhaps one of the other Societies - next year.
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Some how this is suddenly 'this month'... Looking forward to talking to the brilliant Zodwa Nyoni for this Bunker Talk, 5.30pm on Tuesday 23rd September, at the Salutation pub in Manchester.
www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/...
www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/...
Alex Kelly – Bunker Talk #154 – Manchester School of Art
www.art.mmu.ac.uk
September 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Some how this is suddenly 'this month'... Looking forward to talking to the brilliant Zodwa Nyoni for this Bunker Talk, 5.30pm on Tuesday 23rd September, at the Salutation pub in Manchester.
www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/...
www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/...
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Should be fun and insightful, a few of us have converted and run Sarah's system agnostic Darkened Hill & Dale scenarios. They are wonderful and we have all pondered how you go about writing something without a specific system in mind... now we'll find out!
Link in my bio, then look under Events.
Link in my bio, then look under Events.
I'm talking about writing system-agnostic TTRPG scenarios over on @jwmuk.bsky.social's Raspy Raven Discord next week – 7pm UK time, Thurs 25th Sept.
Writing scenarios to be system-agnostic can create some interesting additional challenges; join us to hear about how I discovered this the hard way. 😅
Writing scenarios to be system-agnostic can create some interesting additional challenges; join us to hear about how I discovered this the hard way. 😅
September 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Should be fun and insightful, a few of us have converted and run Sarah's system agnostic Darkened Hill & Dale scenarios. They are wonderful and we have all pondered how you go about writing something without a specific system in mind... now we'll find out!
Link in my bio, then look under Events.
Link in my bio, then look under Events.
"Previously On..." but for the 800 page novel you haven't had a chance to pick up for two weeks.
September 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
"Previously On..." but for the 800 page novel you haven't had a chance to pick up for two weeks.
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Profoundly unhelpful and flat out untrue. No parent would endure the misery of the ECHP system unless they felt it was really necessary.
What's his evidence for this inflammatory claim? Can't see any reference to it in the story...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Send system 'hijacked' by parents, Reform UK's Richard Tice says
The Reform UK deputy leader says some children are receiving Send provision who do not need it.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Profoundly unhelpful and flat out untrue. No parent would endure the misery of the ECHP system unless they felt it was really necessary.