Party of One Podcast

Marty is one of the hosts of Breaking Mayberry, an anti-nostalgia podcast focused on watching old TV (starting with, as the title suggests, The Andy Griffith Show) and assessing what holds up and what caused permanent damage to the psyche of an entire generation.

We wanted to talk TV, and storytelling, and the weird politics of creating collaborative art, and so we sat down with Lights Out, a game about the last day on set of a long...

CLASH! Shonen Battle Roleplay is a Tabletop Roleplaying Game love letter to shonen anime such as Bleach, One Piece, and Naruto in which big, bombastic characters grapple with dramatic fights and the dramatic emotions those fights represent.

I sat down with the game's designer, Sabrina Hawthorne, to see the game in action.

CLASH!: https://sabrinahawthorne.itch.io/clash-playtest-materials

SABRINA HAWTHORNE: https://sabrinahawthorne....

Velvet is an actual play performer and cast member on Athraplay, a tabletop RPG AP podcast exploring the lesser-trod paths of JRR Tolkien's Middle-Earth through play (and aso, a literal dragon). We embarked on a winding journey of our own through the doomed landscapes of K Ramstack's Bound Together, a game about exploring two people's relationships as they outrun the end of the world.

ATHRAPLAY: https://www.athrabethnetw...

Jess is an award-winning writing director, streamer, sensitivity consultant, and designer of some tremendous games, including Just Gals Being Comrades, Oops! All Draculas, and And They Were Dortermates. We sat down to play Badger + Coyote, a wonderful asymmetrical duet RPG about animal buddies running schemes together.

BADGER + COYOTE: https://pandiongames.itch.io/badger-and-coyote

JESSICA MARCRUM: https://www.jessicamarcrumwrites.co...

Mirror Match is a role-playing game love letter to fighting games. Players create warriors based on shared themes and origins before facing off in arena combat. Inspired by two-player fighting games, sessions see new characters constantly enter the fray and the game provides scaffolding to create your own universe of mad ninja, shotgun-toting wizards, dragon-gods, and more. All of those characters will face off in the viscera-soake...

SPECIAL EPISODE! We're taking a week off from the show, so in the meantime, enjoy the first issue of our Patreon-exclusive podcast, produced in collaboration with Marn Lastname and the Moonshot Podcast Network!

TERROR AT 11:11AM! A string of suspiciously timed deaths suggest someone--or SOMETHING--is on a killing spree across the city. Can Batman solve the case before he... runs out of time?

Batman: Bump in the Night is a playgro...

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 th...

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...

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:/...

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/theallni...

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 (...

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.wand...

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.

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...

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!

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 suc...

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:/...

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 bet...

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

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