One Shot

This week PK Sullivan shows off the his Fate creation: The Three Rockteers. Combining swashbuckling with Jetpacks should be exciting enough but we also got John Patrick Coan, Alex Manich, and James Dugan to return and join James in showing off the game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kimimila, Three Heron, Falti, and Juho have stumbled on to an emergence hole. Shivers pour from the earth to poison the land and bring ruin to the remaining humans on the steppe. Only our heroes can stop this, but they must use every resource at their disposal. Up to and including THE POWER OF DANCE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An investigation turns into a desperate bid for survival as the sun starts to set on our mostly well intentioned heroes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week James is joined by Kat, Jim Hepplewhite, and Brittany Yantos of Geek Bar, to play Ehdrigohr run by its creator Allen Turner. In a post cataclysmic world where the night is ruled by horrors brave souls from the scattered tribes of humanity must band together to face the dark of night. Hilarity ensues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Allen Turner gives us an overview of Fate and Ehdrigor. In twenty minutes you'll Have all the information you need to play. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Robo Force head to MIT to see if they can discover the whereabouts of a missing action scientist. Danger awaits them there and possibly other places. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

RO-BO! Kids, I hope you have your cereal ready because game designer Mike Olsen is about to kick off Fate month by introducing us to his setting for the Atomic Robo rpg: ROBO FORCE! If the much beloved Atomic Robo comic and GI Joe had a beautifully weird baby, this would be it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Spirit Snatchers finally make it inside Boeing head quarters where they find it is perhaps a little more haunted than they anticipated. Will thier steam based equipment win the day? Or do they not have the ghost of a chance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you seen something you... can't explain? Did you witness something... beyond explanation? Did something you beheld... defy explanation? You need to call Mark Summers (Alex Manich), Dillon Crackbacker (James Dugan), and Felix "Flex" Cockhammer (JPC)- the Spirit Snatchers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vlad Dracula finally makes an appearance in this last entry in our Dracula Dossier series.Unfortunately only two agents happen to be around.Will this be the end of our intrepid hunters, or will they introduce him to two barrels of Christ's peacemaker? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Things are quiet on the Danube, too quiet. While our operatives are unraveling the tangled clues leading to Dracula a thick fog rolls in to surround the party boat. It's probably nothing though.​ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The would be vampire hunters make their way aboard the party boat and onto the Danube. To find Dracula our heroes must acquaint themselves with the different figures involved in the Belgrade cigarette snuggling ring and the city's "cultural elite."Also they might want to check out the mysterious coffin in the cargo hold. Just sayin'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Dracula Dossier is launching on Kickstater today! We will have a Night's Black Agents play-through on Monday. For now enjoy Kenneth Hite explaining some of the things that make the game special. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week James is joined by game designer, horror writer, and guest GM Kenneth Hite to preview the up coming Dracula Dossier by Pelgrane Press. To help out James got his old game master Zach Weber, fellow podcaster General Ironicus, and game designer Nathan Poletta. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week James brings Johnny O'Mara, Spencer Hamilton, and Patrick McDonald on the show to celebrate the creepening of Halloween. In this game of Dread the boys get the chance to audition for SNL and it goes just about as badly as an audition could possibly go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our heroes have finally reached the top of Buro Tower where their enemies new and old await a final, glorious confrontation. Who know what wicked ends the Cobra Commander, agent of the Ascended has for Hong Kong? And what of the mysterious head of the Buro Corporation? Is he the maniacal tyrant that Battlechimp Potemkin warned our heroes about? All that is hidden shall be made manifest on this episode of ONE SHOT! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After finally reaching the Cobra Commander our heroes face down the return of three conspicuous dressed ninjas. Then it's time to send this adventure rocketing full throttle into the future. In the world of Feng Shui the future is Bananas and it takes all of Inspector Jackie's willpower to stop himself from going ape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our heroes begin to ascend the tower, however this journey brings them perilously close to the venomous jaws of the cobra! Can our heroes outwit the conniving commandos? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two years after busting up the Cobra run drug gang in New York, Inspector Jackie (Chris Sims) is visited by his brother Ray, his niece Angela (Kat Murphy), and notable street tough Tommy Euphrates (John Patrick Coan.) A lot has changed for our heroes in two years, but somethings never change as a policeman's ball turns into a deadly hostage crisis. The shadow of doom looms over our rag tag team as they face down an old enemy. Can they prevail? Listen in and find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the great stuff that didn't make it to air in season 1! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Brandon Shockney returns and brings Jonathon Pernisek from the "How Rude!" Full House podcast to play a game of Protocol with James. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With hearts of steel and skin of stone the Crazy Partiers descend into the wicked depths of the Underdark where an ancient evil awaits their arrival. What will they find in the inky cavers so far from the warm embrace of the sun? The final boss? Monsters that are not appropriately scaled to 5e? Exactly what Kat predicated? Love? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week the party charges into unknown situations head first and one of them pays for it with his life! There will be rope bridges! There will be discussion of rock formations! There will be creatures lurking in the darkness! Be sure to listen to this cliffhanger-tastic episode of ONE SHOT! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James and Kat are joined by their good friend Sam Kaye to play Dungeon World with David Ewalt, editor at Forbes Magazine and Author of "Of Dice and Men." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The partiers meet an old acquaintance after a battle reveals a terrifying truth about their opponent. Also Cob gets WAY weirder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prepare to get totally Cray Cray! ONE SHOT has been on the air for a whole year and to celebrate we are bringing back your favorite band of dysfunctional adventurers, The Crazy Partiers. A lot has happened since the first year. Inwe went back to school. Remy drank his way into retirement. Aldove left the church and got engaged. Cob... Cob got arrested for bathing with a pony. Darkness is on the rise and it will take our bad of heroes getting back together to save the day! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scott, Logan, and Billy square off against the fairies in a deadly game and their lives are the prize. Can these ten year old boy fend off the might of the unseely court with only their wits and James' near encyclopedic knowledge of fairies? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Three ten year old friends find the mutilated body of one of their classmates, and to their horror, no one will believe them. They realize, if they want to know that is going on, they will have investigate on their own. As they get deeper into this mystery they discover that they are trapped in a dark fairy tale that probably doesn't have a happy ending. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It comes down to a high stakes performance as our team of rag tag magicians plots to steal the unicorn tapestry which is apparently a very important cultural treasure. There will be explosions, there will be a wedding, someone pulls a Hamlet, someone makes a U2 pun, and it all comes together with some close up magic, the dessert of magics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two Words: Dennis. Rodman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week James D'Amato, Patrick Winegar (Brandon Lightening aka Myserique), Kat Murphy (Trixie LaRoux), John Patrick Coan (Leon Kameilski aka The Chameleon), and Alex Nichols (Larry "Lefty" LaRoux) get together for ONE LAST JOB. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Villainous machinations of Tom Frankle get even worse as we discover the President is visiting. Can Brookln's (Alaska) finest defeat Rick Moranis and his band of Newfie thugs in time!? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James asked friend of the show Dan Stauffer, newcomer Brian Moody, and special guest General Ironicus to play Police Cops! is a pulpy action based police procedural game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's save the universe time as the brave agents of Time Watch discover the dark meaning behind the Seven Wonders of the world. The fate of the current timeline is with them. Can our heroes save the earth? Can Carmen San Diego be trusted? Is Mace Hunter/Skegg going to be a thing!? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The plot thickens as the team heads to the great wall of china to investigate the remaining wonders of the world before they are lost to history forever! There they come face to face with the dastardly villain behind this plot, but is she friend or foe? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week James and the board of the Chicago Loot Drop charity play the beta edition of Time Watch! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The royal hijinks continue as the princesses discover the gates to the lost castle in the kingdom of adventure. What sort of horrors await them inside? Skeltons? Litches? BOYS!? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week James, Kat Murphy, Courtney Crary, and Justine Kruger embrace their inner ten year old girl to play Princesses and Palaces. Created by two parents to introduce role playing to their daughter P&P combines high adventure with girlish fun. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week James invited Alex Manich, Maggie Dempsey, and special guest cartoonist Kevin Budnik over to play Gangland. This game is special to James because he designed it. As you can imagine, being a James D'Amato system, it is gloriously dumb. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Otherworld Theater Company is back! Captain Sheniqua Andromeda, sexy Space Doctor James Ambros III, and Bio-droid companion B.E.N.N.U. 4208 must investigate a quantum tunnel in order to save the galaxy from space zombies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week James is Joined by members of Chicago's Otherworld Theater company for some high melodrama space adventure run in the truly delightful, Lasers and Feelings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Batman, Indiana Jones, James Bond, Tom Riddle, and The Doctor chase down the mysterious doctor Faust to recover the necromonicon. Their chase leads them to a conspiracy that could end up threatening the world, space time, and most importantly, AMERICA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In order to support our boys fighting over seas Wayne Industries has organized a charity auction to raise money for war bonds. The auction will rent antiquities from the Wayne private collection, as well as a few on loan from the nearby Miskatonic University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After finding the Flamingo and Black Mask dead at the hands of Deathstroke our heroes still have no idea what happened to Batman. Meanwhile the Joker and Mad Hatter are missing from Arkham, and army of hypnotized teens in red hoods is doing dirty work all over the city, and as if that wasn't bad enough, someone has actually broken IN to Black Gate. When it rains it pours, and in Gotham it is monsoon season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dedicated heroes might recognize Flight of the Robins from one of ONE SHOT first posts on P&HS. Flight of the Robins is one of James' gencon traditions, it is also a Shadowrun 4th edition module that is available for download right here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week as part of our month long C2E2 celebration, James invites John Patrick Coen, Chuck Pettitt, and Luke Null to climb in tide the head of the Clown Prince of Crime to bring some mayhem to Gotham City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alex changes the plot of the entire game with an off handed remark, Collin learns not to make people endure their greatest fears, Maggie has to soothe the heart of a frightened beast with a song, and Jessa gets closer to her god. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, we invite Brandon Shockney, Rich Alfonzo, and special guest Matt D Wilson to play Fiasco. We are using a playset written by Sam Kaye and James D’Amato that is available for download right here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week our party makes a deal with Lucifer the trustworthy after recovering the fabled “Audio Codex.” The gang learns about the customary drinks of the region they wandered into. And Collin has fun turning into various animals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a spiritual sequel to The Crazy Partiers, James leads Alex Manich, Maggie Dempsey, Collin Cunningham, and Jessa Eden-Quinn on another madcap fantasy romp. Apart from Jessa, everyone is new to RPGs and ready to learn! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices