10
Oct
2024

426 – Friendly Neighborhood Superhero with AJ Ray

AJ is an Actual Play performer, video editor, cosplayer, and (like me) a wearer of many hats; you can most recently hear them on the latest arc of One Shot, playing Machine Impossible, and as a player on The Lurking Legends (a rotating GM, One Piece-inspired Actual Play series). We sat down for a game of Friendly Neighborhood Superhero, a game about superheroic action and protecting your community. We geek out SO MUCH about superheroes, y’all. It’s great.

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03
Oct
2024

425 – Ironsworn Starforged with Chris Colón

Chris is a voice actor, actual play producer, and founder of Taíno Tales, an award-nominated, queer latine-led TTRPG actual play channel. We sit down to play Ironsworn Starforged, and encounter a horrifying discovery and a dangerous showdown on a snow-blighted wasteland planet!

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26
Sep
2024

424 – Giant of Light with Evan McDevitt

Evan is the designer of Giant of Light, a love letter to tokusatsu media and Giant Hero shows like Ultraman! We chat about superheroes, MMA, aliens, the city of Philadelphia (Go Birds), and Street Fighter as we play through a session of the game.

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20
Sep
2024

423 – Pale Dot with Patrick Burke

Patrick is a Philadelphia-based performer and producer of THAWING, a solo show happening at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival this month. We sit down to play Pale Dot by Devin Nelson, and explore a strange alien cosmos with our… deeply odd crew of nonhuman cosmonauts!

For more Pale Dot, check out the newest episode of Party of One (Plus One) on the Patreon feed for a special session with the game’s designer, Devin Nelson!

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13
Sep
2024

422 – Desperation (The Isabel) with Jason Morningstar

Jason is the designer of Desperation: The Isabel, a haunting historical horror game of a doomed cod-fishing vessel on the Gulf of Alaska in 1888 (as well as Fiasco, Grey Ranks, and a tremendous number of other hugely influential games). We set sail on the Gulf to explore what happens to this doomed crew as a storm overwhelms them… and then Hell comes with it.

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23
Aug
2024

421 – Desperation (Dead House) with Sam Dunnewold

Sam is the host of Dice Exploder, an ENnie-nominated podcast where game designers break down the specific mechanics of their favorite TTRPGs (as well as an incredible game designer in his own right). We sat down to play Desperation (Dead House), a historical horror RPG, based on real history, about a small community in Kansas facing an oppressive, deadly winter. Who will survive being pushed to their limits?

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02
Aug
2024

418 – The Weaver’s Observatory with Austin Taylor

Austin is the host of Secret Histories of Nerd Mysteries, a podcast breaking down the untold stories behind questions such as “Why does Charles Entertainment Cheese love birthdays so much?” and “Why are Saturday Morning Cartoons such Toy Commercials?”, as well as one of the designers of Kids in Capes. We sit down to play The Weaver’s Observatory, an adventure about a desperate traveler climbing a tower to ask Fate for a holy boon!

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