Party of One Podcast | Creative Interviews Through Tabletop RPG Actual Play

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439 - The Station with Jen Blundell Jan 30, 2025

Show notes

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.com/shows/yazebas-bed-and-breakfast

PARTY OF ONE DISCORD: https://discordapp.com/invite/SxpQKmK

SUPPORT JEFF ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/jeffstormer

THEME SONG: Mega Ran feat. D&D Sluggers, “Infinite Lives,” RandomBeats LLC, www.megaran.com

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438 - Marvelous Mutations and Merry Musicians! with Aaron Joy Jan 23, 2025

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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 ME: https://www.evenifitkillsmepodcast.com/

MARVELOUS MUTATIONS AND MERRY MUSICIANS!: https://wendiy.itch.io/marvelous-mutations-merry-musicians

AARON JOY: https://www.instagram.com/pianofight/

ALL MY FANTASY CHILDREN: https://moonshotpods.com/all-my-fantasy-children/

YAZEBA’S BED & BREAKFAST: https://redcircle.com/shows/yazebas-bed-and-breakfast

PARTY OF ONE DISCORD: https://discordapp.com/invite/SxpQKmK

SUPPORT JEFF ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/jeffstormer

THEME SONG: Mega Ran feat. D&D Sluggers, “Infinite Lives,” RandomBeats LLC, www.megaran.com

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437 - The Ultimate Fantasy Character Creator with Jeff Stormer (Feat. Riley Hopkins) Jan 16, 2025

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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 question: Who is on Brenda from Scenes From an Italian Restaurant's enemies list?

THE ULTIMATE FANTASY CHARACTER CREATOR: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ultimate-Fantasy-Character-Creator/Jeff-Stormer/9781507222676

JEFF STORMER: https://jeffstormer.com/

PARTY OF ONE: https://www.partyofonepodcast.com/

RILEY HOPKINS: https://goodfuckinpodcasts.com/

FOLLOW RILEY ON BLUESKY: https://bsky.app/profile/badfuckinpodcasts.com

ALL MY FANTASY CHILDREN: https://moonshotpods.com/all-my-fantasy-children/

YAZEBA’S BED & BREAKFAST: https://redcircle.com/shows/yazebas-bed-and-breakfast

PARTY OF ONE DISCORD: https://discordapp.com/invite/SxpQKmK

SUPPORT JEFF ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/jeffstormer

THEME SONG: Mega Ran feat. D&D Sluggers, “Infinite Lives,” RandomBeats LLC, www.megaran.com

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436 - Blood Yule with Brandon Leon-Gambetta Dec 24, 2024

Show notes

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 Wave) by Holizna; https://holiznacc0.bandcamp.com/

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FEED DROP: Sidequesting - 3.3 Trouble Causing Trousers Dec 18, 2024

Show notes

Another holiday treat for you, Party People--a second feed drop of a show I truly love! Sidequesting is an award-winning scripted fiction podcast about avoiding the main plot and doing sidequests instead. If you love stories of helping people out, and finding the real adventure along the way, you'll love it.

Check out Sidequesting at https://sidequestingpod.com/

Episode description:

which Rion helps a man protect an invention and a wizard make a deal.

Transcript here.

This episode was written by Draco Aleksander and produced by Tal Minear, with dialogue editing by Brad Colbroock. Old Man Johnson was voiced by Brody Linton, Osric the Mage was voiced by Max Kriesky, the Helpful Passerby was voiced by Aubrey Lima, and the Disgruntled Worker was voiced by Ezra J. Wayne. The voice of Rion was Tal Minear.

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FEED DROP: I Seduce the Dragon, Season 2, Episode 1, New Season, New Holes Dec 11, 2024

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Party People, something extra special for you while you wait for our 2025 Season to kick off: A special Feed Drop of the season 2 premiere of I Seduce the Dragon! You heard GM Jess on our recent Mothership episode, playing a crew directly based on the IStD players--now check out the whole show.

Tohri is covered in blood, not clothing. Gentry has some new followers to protect. And Erastus has a fun sexy new face tentacle.

Content warning: violence and plenty of profanity

Links:

Website
Patreon
Instagram
Email us: iseducethedragonpod@gmail.com

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435 - Last Tea Shop with Depthe Dec 05, 2024

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Depthe is an actual play performer and designer, who you can hear on Total Party Kiss, as well as a myriad other places across the Internet. We sat down for a truly lovely game of Last Tea Shop, a solo journaling RPG about a witch managing a tea shop on the border of the living and the dead. This one gets real emotional, y'all.

LAST TEA SHOP: https://springvillager.itch.io/last-tea-shop-complete

DEPTHE: https://chaoticbonney.carrd.co/

ALL MY FANTASY CHILDREN: https://moonshotpods.com/all-my-fantasy-children/

YAZEBA’S BED & BREAKFAST: https://redcircle.com/shows/yazebas-bed-and-breakfast

PARTY OF ONE DISCORD: https://discordapp.com/invite/SxpQKmK

SUPPORT JEFF ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/jeffstormer

THEME SONG: Mega Ran feat. D&D Sluggers, “Infinite Lives,” RandomBeats LLC, www.megaran.com

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434 - The Moon Fucking Hates You with Ryan Stevens Nov 28, 2024

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Ryan is a writer, playwright, director, and one of the hosts of Nation of Animation, a cartoon book club podcast for all ages! We sat down to play The Moon Fucking Hates You, a game about the Moon, and You, and how the Moon fucking hates you.

THE MOON FUCKING HATES YOU: https://hollycrown.itch.io/tmfhy

NATION OF ANIMATION: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nation-of-animation/id1547101103

RYAN STEVENS: https://www.ryangstevens.com/

ALL MY FANTASY CHILDREN: https://moonshotpods.com/all-my-fantasy-children/

YAZEBA’S BED & BREAKFAST: https://redcircle.com/shows/yazebas-bed-and-breakfast

PARTY OF ONE DISCORD: https://discordapp.com/invite/SxpQKmK

SUPPORT JEFF ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/jeffstormer

THEME SONG: Mega Ran feat. D&D Sluggers, “Infinite Lives,” RandomBeats LLC, www.megaran.com

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433 - Mothership with Jess Parks Nov 21, 2024

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Jess is a Hollywood sound professional and DM of I Seduce the Dragon, a D&D AP podcast in which rocket scientist, a cowgirl, a pornstar, and a mom walk into a dungeon ... and those are just the players. We blast off to the horrifying reaches of the unknown in Mothership, the award-winning sci-fi horror RPG!

I SEDUCE THE DRAGON: https://www.istdpod.com/

MOTHERSHIP: https://www.tuesdayknightgames.com/pages/mothership-rpg

MOTHERSHIP MONTH: https://www.backerkit.com/c/collections/mothership-month

ALL MY FANTASY CHILDREN: https://moonshotpods.com/all-my-fantasy-children/

YAZEBA’S BED & BREAKFAST: https://redcircle.com/shows/yazebas-bed-and-breakfast

PARTY OF ONE DISCORD: https://discordapp.com/invite/SxpQKmK

SUPPORT JEFF ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/jeffstormer

THEME SONG: Mega Ran feat. D&D Sluggers, “Infinite Lives,” RandomBeats LLC, www.megaran.com

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

432 - Worlds Without Harmony with Sean Foer Nov 14, 2024

Show notes

Sean is a professional Game Master, video creator, and INCREDIBLE advocate for the world of TTRPGs. We sat down to play a faction-filled game of Worlds Without Harmony, a game of ideological conflicts, unanswerable questions, and the people caught up in them.

You'll dig this episode if you like: Superheroes (specifically, the NBC masterpiece Heroes), inventive worldbuilding, folk heroes, and big emotional swings.

WORLDS WITHOUT HARMONY: https://www.logbook-project.com/store/worlds-without-harmony

SEAN FOER: https://www.seanfoer.com/

SEAN'S START PLAYING GAMES PROFILE: https://startplaying.games/gm/scene_four

ALL MY FANTASY CHILDREN: https://moonshotpods.com/all-my-fantasy-children/

YAZEBA’S BED & BREAKFAST: https://redcircle.com/shows/yazebas-bed-and-breakfast

PARTY OF ONE DISCORD: https://discordapp.com/invite/SxpQKmK

SUPPORT JEFF ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/jeffstormer

THEME SONG: Mega Ran feat. D&D Sluggers, “Infinite Lives,” RandomBeats LLC, www.megaran.com

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands