Chris is the author of the Fermi's Progress series, a darkly comic sci-fi adventure about a spaceship doomed to obliterate every planet it takes off from. The latest novel, Fermi's Wake 4. Overview Effect , just released, and you get it on sale now. We sat down for a delightfully horrifying Fermi- themed adventure in Disposable Bags of Meat , a horror TTRPG about unprepared, ordinary people surviving against impossible odds through luck, grit, and determination. CHRIS FARNELL: https://chrisfarne...
Jun 27, 2025•1 hr 39 min
Candlelight is a role playing game about the restless spirits of treasure hunters reckoning with their dark past and seeking hope in a haunted forest that wants to trap them there. I sat down with actor and TTRPG performer Felix Bishop to wander into the wood, and discover the fates that await our characters... CANDLELIGHT: https://glowingroots.itch.io/candlelight FELIX BISHOP: https://linktr.ee/withfatedbreath ALL MY FANTASY CHILDREN: http://www.allmyfantasychildren.com/ PARTY OF ONE DISCORD: h...
Jun 19, 2025•1 hr 24 min
The Invisible Labyrinth is a game about branching timelines, uncertain futures, and escaping what seems inevitable. Players take on the role of a small group of characters and nonlinearly create a web of timelines about their possible journeys, building a web of alternate timelines and "what if" futures. I sat down with the game's designer, Morgan Jackson, to experience the game in action. THE INVISIBLE LABYRINTH: https://wedidthetimewarpagain.itch.io/the-invisible-labyrinth THE INVISIBLE LABYRI...
Jun 13, 2025•1 hr 18 min
Laura is an award-winning Actual Play performer, known for her work with Queen's Court Games on a range of incredible shows, including The All-Night Society and Harlem Hellfighters Never Die . We sat down for some top-tier weird vampirism in a game of Elegy , a solo vampire RPG inspired by Ironsworn. ELEGY: https://miraclem.itch.io/elegy LAURA TUTU: https://lauratutu.com/ THE ALL-NIGHT SOCIETY: https://www.queenscourt.games/theallnightsociety HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS NEVER DIE: https://www.youtube.co...
Jun 06, 2025•1 hr 19 min
Our special two-part playthrough of Galactic continues, as our heroes stare down the Mandate and leap into battle! You can find the Galactic & Going Rogue crowdfunder on Kickstarter, live now through the end of June: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/galacticgoingrogue/galactic-and-going-rogue-two-ttrpgs-of-war-among-the-stars?ref=dwc59l This episode was produced and co-sound designed by Jess Levine ( @jessfrom.online on Bluesky) and edited, co-produced, and co-sound designed by satah ( @...
Jun 02, 2025•1 hr 40 min
Wandering Blades is a TTRPG inspired by Chinese wuxia media, Japanese animation, and action video games. Take on the roles of highly skilled martial artists who roam the lands seeking to redress wrongs, help the downtrodden, and free the innocent from oppression. I sit down with Daniel Kwan, designer of the game (and returning guest!), to discover why the game is "a love letter to violence." WANDERING BLADES: https://www.wanderingblades.com DANIEL KWAN: https://bsky.app/profile/danielhkwan.itch....
May 29, 2025•1 hr 31 min
Party of One is an improvised storytelling podcast about getting to know interesting people through the shared, universal experience of play. Guests featured include: Brennan Lee Mulligan Austin Walker Jeeyon Shim Jadzia Axelrod Kendo Jonathan Sims Pearlmania500 Rich Howard Mike Rugnetta Quinns Find new episodes, listening guides, and more, at partyofonepodcast.com . Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/party-of-one-podcast/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands...
May 26, 2025•1 min
Mike is a longtime writer, host, producer and sound designer, who has been working in digital media since 2007. Currently, he hosts Never Post , a member-supported, employee-owned podcast about and for the internet, and GMs Fun City Ventures , a fully sound designed cyberpunk narrative play RPG podcast set in a post climate catastrophe New York City, in the year 2102. We sat down to engage in the cat and mouse drama of a criminal and investigator in Catch Me If You Can , to try and answer the qu...
May 22, 2025•1 hr 15 min
INTRODUCING: A bonus two-part series (with a full group!) to coincide with the crowdfund campaign for Galactic and Going Rogue! I sat down with an incredible table of performers, including Ify Nwadiwe, Nala J. Wu, Dusty Hill, and Catrina Dennis to weave a story of rebellion and relationships in space. In part one, we make our characters and build our galaxy--stay tuned for part 2 on 6/2 where we see our heroes dive into action! You can find the Galactic & Going Rogue crowdfunder here on Kick...
May 19, 2025•59 min
Austin is the game master for Friends at the Table , an actual play podcast about critical worldbuilding, smart characterization, and fun interaction between good friends. He's also the designer of Realis, a science fantasy RPG powered by sentences published by Possible Worlds Games. We sat down to play Orbital Blues , a lo-fi space western roleplaying game about freelancers chasing down the intergalactic dream of freedom and success. It's Springsteen in space, you're going to love it. We also d...
May 15, 2025•1 hr 40 min
Between the Skies is a cosmic fantasy game of travel and exploration across endless worlds, packed with procedures, tables, and inspiration for hundreds of weird, wonderful adventures through the cosmos. I sat down with the game's author, Huffa, to explore what makes the game so special (through the eyes of professional wrestling heel turned cosmic crusader "The Guilty Pleasure" Desmond LeFleur. BETWEEN THE SKIES: https://huffa.itch.io/between-the-skies HUFFA: https://www.instagram.com/nervousfo...
May 08, 2025•1 hr 25 min
Third Person (Matt, Sara, and Xen) are the trio of writers/performers behind Midst , one of my actual favorite audio fiction shows of all time. I love Midst so much in fact, that we decided to turn Party of One into... Party of Three for an episode to get to share a table with them. We sat down to play See Issue X , a solo RPG about superheroes and the incredible absurdity of comic book continuity. Get ready for the epic showdown between Captain Cardboard, Mirror Man, and Humanity! MIDST: https:...
May 01, 2025•1 hr 54 min
Serenity is a cosplayer and TTRPG performer, who DMs the award-nominated AP series Tragedy of Theolosian, as well as Mass Effect: Mirage on FeyWildNOut. We both wanted to get deep in our feelings, so we dove into a game of You Know Me Still , and discovered the deeply toxic relationship between two warring fantasy spies, and the massive courts they represent. YOU KNOW ME STILL: https://sdonnelly.itch.io/you-know-me-still CLICKCLACKSNAC: https://bsky.app/profile/clickclacksnac.bsky.social ALL MY ...
Apr 25, 2025•1 hr 30 min
It Takes Two to Tango is a 2-player, rules-lite, GM-less tabletop RPG about rival spies sent on a mission together. Two rival spies. Two rival agencies. One major job. And unfortunately, one way through the door: Pretending to be a married couple. I sat down with the game's designer, Mark Vertlib, for a superheroic espionage-filled game to see how it all works. IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO: https://flockofwingeddoors.itch.io/it-takes-two-to-tango ALL MY FANTASY CHILDREN: https://moonshotpods.com/all-my...
Apr 16, 2025•1 hr 34 min
James is an actor and creative director of Quests & Chaos , and an avid fan of Treasure Planet-style fantasy adventures. We sat down to play The Wildsea , an award-winning, post-fall fantasy tabletop roleplaying game set in a rampant ocean of verdant green... Can we survive the experience? THE WILDSEA: https://www.myth.works/collections/the-wildsea-homepage JAMES AARON OH: https://www.jamesaaronoh.com/ QUESTS & CHAOS: https://www.youtube.com/@QuestsAndChaos/videos ALL MY FANTASY CHILDREN...
Apr 11, 2025•1 hr 18 min
Taylor, beyond being one of the funniest humans I know, has worked on some of my absolute favorite podcasts, including Worlds Beyond Number and Fun City . We sat down to play Scene Thieves by Possible World Games , telling the story of a band of 80s Cronenberg-esque shadowrunners stealing a top-secret super-drug the only way they can: By staging a Norman Lear-style message play about "Is It Possible to Forgive Someone for Selling Out?" SCENE THIEVES: https://possible-worlds-games.itch.io/scene-t...
Apr 04, 2025•1 hr 33 min
BONUS EPISODE! In honor of the game crowdfunding, we're re-sharing our 2023 game of A Land Once Magic, genuinely one of my favorite games ever made. We paired it with a special interview with Elliot Davis, who is publishing the game's new physical edition, about why ALOM (and its designer, noted enemy of the show Viditya Voleti) are so great. BACK A LAND ONCE MAGIC: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/moreblueberries/a-land-once-magic --- In the distant future, after magic and technology rose a...
Apr 01, 2025•1 hr 38 min
SPECIAL EPISODE! As we take a week to rest and recover from a busy schedule, enjoy this special live recording--the first in our monthly live showcase at Unity Java in Philadelphia, PA. GO BIRDS! For our first ever installement of Party of One Says GO BIRDS, I sat down with my dear friend and certified Coheed & Cambria superfan Dillin Apelyan (ONE SHOT, Patchwork Productions) for a game of The Dark Sentencer by Marn Lastname. We got a half hour into the episode before realizing I hadn't hit ...
Mar 27, 2025•1 hr 6 min
Rene is one of the founding members of DMs After Dark , and the host of Rene Plays Games , an actual play podcast focused on smaller published TTRPGs. (If you like the kinds of gameplay experiences we feature on this show, you'd really dig it.) We sat down to make something weird, joyful, and really special in a game of The Magical Year of a Teenage Witch . RENE PLAYS GAMES: https://reneplaysgames.podbean.com/ DMs AFTER DARK: https://dmsafterdark.podbean.com/ THE MAGICAL YEAR OF A TEENAGE WITCH:...
Mar 20, 2025•1 hr 31 min
Malcolm is the Creative Director at BRINK Media , and co-creator of This Is Propaganda , a narrative nonfiction podcast that breaks down the hidden influence of propaganda in our modern lives, and how propaganda (or as it would come to be known, Public Relations) have shaped our entire culture today. We sat down to play Blister City , a game about the bloody realities of Martian revolution, and about taking back the world from the fascists who control it. The folks who ruined Mars have names and...
Mar 13, 2025•1 hr 28 min
Steve is the host of Errant Adventures , an actual play podcast focused on singleplayer RPGs. Neither of us can pass up a good name pun, so we sat down to play Errant by friend of the show Christine Prevas. We told the story of a knight of the Feytouched Court, on a mission from peace... provided they reach their destination with their soul intact. Bonus: Head to the Errant Adventures feed to hear Steve and I set sail in Ironsworn: Sundered Isles! ERRANT ADVENTURES: https://www.errantadventuresp...
Mar 06, 2025•1 hr 26 min
BONUS EPISODE! Enjoy this special feed drop of our Patreon-exclusive side series, Party of One (Plus One), focused on sequel episodes, returning guests, and deeper dives into the games we feature on the show. Devin is the designer of Pale Dot, a collaborative storytelling game for 2-5 players about a crew of non-human cosmonauts leaving their planet to explore a strange solar system, finding threads to unravel the unknown along the way. He takes us through a session of the game, and we get real ...
Mar 04, 2025•1 hr 52 min
HOME is a mapmaking RPG of Kaiju vs. Mecha, in which pilots step into the shoes of colossal war machines to do battle with invading monsters. Can they survive the battle, or will the Kaiju tear their home to pieces? I sit down with the game's creator Nick Gralewicz to find out. HOME: https://deep-dark-games.itch.io/home A PERFECT ROCK: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deepdarkgames/a-perfect-rock FOLLOW NICK ON BLUESKY: https://bsky.app/profile/deepdark.games ALL MY FANTASY CHILDREN: https:/...
Feb 28, 2025•1 hr 39 min
Nala is an art director, award-winning illustrator, voice actor, sensitivity consultant, and Actual Play performer; you can hear them on the award-winning AP Itaewon By Night (one of my all-time faves!), as well as a million other shows across the Internet. We sat down to explore a town, those that left and came back, and those that returned in one of my all-time favorite RPGs, An Altogether Different River . Episode art by Nala J. Wu AN ALTOGETHER DIFFERENT RIVER: https://ehronlime.itch.io/an-a...
Feb 21, 2025•1 hr 55 min
Christian is an Award-Winning TTRPG performer, educator, and the organizer of The Force Within , a 50-person BIPOC Star Wars TTRPG streaming event. We sat down to play Clever Girl , a two-player game about the lone survivor a malfunctioning dinosaur theme park, and the roving band of raptors in hot pursuit. CLEVER GIRL: https://mr-matthew.itch.io/clever-girl CHRISTIAN: https://linktr.ee/AFluffyGoomba FOLLOW CHRISTIAN ON BLUESKY: https://bsky.app/profile/afluffygoomba.bsky.social THE FORCE WITHIN...
Feb 14, 2025•1 hr 35 min
Demonic Deals is a two-player TTRPG about a summoner, a demon, and a contract. You want something. The demon wants your soul. I sat down with the game's designer, Morgan Eilish, to get a taste of the game in action. DEMONIC DEALS: https://morganeilish.itch.io/demonic-deals MORGAN EILISH: https://bsky.app/profile/morganeilish.bsky.social ALL MY FANTASY CHILDREN: https://moonshotpods.com/all-my-fantasy-children/ YAZEBA’S BED & BREAKFAST: https://redcircle.com/shows/yazebas-bed-and-breakfast PA...
Feb 06, 2025•1 hr 5 min
Jen is one of the hosts of Roll Plus Heart , an anthology-style Actual Play podcast focused on queer, indie, emotional stories. We sat down to discover who was waiting for us in The Station : A GM-less worldbuilding game by Pidj Sorensen about a train, a station, and its people. ROLL PLUS HEART: https://www.rollplusheart.co.uk/ THE STATION: https://pidj.itch.io/the-station ALL MY FANTASY CHILDREN: https://moonshotpods.com/all-my-fantasy-children/ YAZEBA’S BED & BREAKFAST: https://redcircle.c...
Jan 30, 2025•1 hr 31 min
Aaron is the host and narrator of Even If It Kills Me , narrative documentary podcast, chronicling the lives of Jon, Ryan, Mac and Pete as they set out across the country and try to make it as rockstars in the bygone era of the ‘00s. We sat down to play Marvelous Mutations & Merry Musicians , a game about a Band of travelling mutant musicians in the post-post-Apocalypse, who travel from town to town, performing concerts and doing whatever it is they like to do besides that. EVEN IF IT KILLS ...
Jan 23, 2025•1 hr 33 min
Jeff is the author of The Ultimate Fantasy Character Creator, a collection of nearly 100 exercises to perfect your own fantasy character for online worlds, social videos, in-person meetups, self-published novels, and more. He is also the host of award-winning podcast Party of One, an actual play podcast focused on 2-player tabletop RPGs. (Shh, just go with it.) Guest host Riley Hopkins sits down with Jeff to run through some of the exercises in the book, and we finally learn the answer to the qu...
Jan 16, 2025•1 hr 18 min
It's Christmas Eve and you know that means--time for some holiday magic with my dear friend Brandon Leon-Gambetta. This year, we're fighting off evil holiday spirits in Blood Yule , a winter-themed expansion for Bar the Windows, Bolt the Doors. Can we survive murderous elves, robot toys, and The Toymaker? Listen and find out! BLOOD YULE: https://stoneshore.itch.io/blood-yule NATIONAL BAIL FUND NETWORK: https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-directory THEME SONG: The First Noel (Synth W...
Dec 24, 2024•1 hr 26 min
