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It has taken me SO long to respond to this because I really want to give a comprehensive answer so HERE GOES:

First, One Shot is a podcast that's been on the air for over 10 years, showcasing a different tabletop RPG, very often by indie designers, in self-contained one-shots with a rotating cast of performers from the Actual Play, Voice Acting, and Improv worlds. It was created and hosted by James D'Amato, until I took over the host position just over 2 years ago.

If you are already into games, one way you can decide where to start is to start with a game you find interesting (or one that hones in on a genre you really like). Our episode titles are the game titles (with rare exception) so this is an easy way to search our feed. You can also try to pick a series to start with by checking out episodes with performers you already know you like.

For instance, if you love Persephone Valentine OR love star-crossed lovers, check out You Know Me Still. If you love Amelia Som OR pastoral horror, check out Under the Autumn Strangely. If you like Christian Divyne or raucous teen comedy, check out Slugblaster. etc etc

If you aren't terribly familiar with a lot of games or names though, you here are my recommendations for One Shots that are just really great. (They're all pretty great, but these are just some offhand favorites.)

Bloodbeam Badlands

Vampires in an apocalypse where the sun never sets. The game is such a unique take on vampires, and is completely unlike the more popular vampire games, with deeply original setting-specific character types. Features the game's designer, Viditya Voleti, and two of the best Vampire the Masquerade players on earth - Josephine McAdam and Laura Tutu.

Husband Daddy Protector Hero

A true beer & pretzels, best friends around the table nonsense game wherein my best friends and roommates play a game I wrote high as a fucking kite. We get full Tim Allen Santa Claus'd. Part One features game designers Viditya Voleti, Elliot Davis, and Robin Ekberg, and in Part Two we add in games journalist Rowan Zeoli.

Under The Autumn Strangely

An eerie pastoral horror game where two people embody The Terror, two embody The Arcadians (or the world itself) and one is the Traveler, the protagonist being affected by the others as they wander through a disturbing wood. Features Amelia Som as the protagonist, Apollo Pierce and Fiona Howatt as The Terror, and myself and Brian Flaherty as The Arcadians.

Campanions

If you've ever played games like Mass Effect, Dragon Age, or Baldur's Gate and wondered "what are the rest of my companions doing back at the ranch?" This game answers this question in such a fun way. We told a very steampunk tale of adventurers who were tossed aside by their leader in favor of her latest favorites. Featuring voice actor Candace McAfee, Robin Ekberg, and Kai Ferreira.

The Time We Have

A two-player game about brothers in the zombie apocalypse. One has been infected, the other hasn't, and you play on opposite sides of a closed door during the infected brother's final days. I play my first in-person One Shot recording with the game's designer and one of my best friends, Elliot Davis.

Last Train to Bremen

A fully improvised MUSICAL (including the singing and musical accompaniment). The game at base follows a four-piece band who made a deal with the devil for their success, on the run as he finally comes to collect. I partnered with the cast of RPG Major, an improvised musical Actual Play, and flew to their studio to record such a uniquely special One Shot - which is the only One Shot to have it's own album on streaming and Bandcamp.

VOID 1680 AM (aka One Shot 100.1 OSN)

My ambitious 100th episode celebration, playing the radio show-inspired RPG VOID 1680 AM. Guests from my 2 year run hosting the show returned, playing their characters calling into my radio show to speak with me. Me, me. Not characters I've played. Truly one of the most magical pieces of actual play I've ever made, and I am bragging about it.

Classic Adventures: Typical One Shot Adventures, our characters discover their mission and jump into the action, a healthy mix of roleplay and combat.

Story Driven: Playing games that are mechanically centered around a specific story or emotional beat, usually with a more serious tone.

Beer & Pretzels: Light mechanics and heavy on the goofs. Friends at the table vibes. There's for sure a story, but it's not exactly the point.

World-Building: Playing games that are specifically about world-building, character creation, and collaborative brainstorming. There may also be story, but the building is the center point.

I will say that ALL of these overlap in some way in at least one other section - Slugblaster is also pretty classic adventure, All's Fair is also story-driven, Rise, Wizards! is very much a Beer & Pretzels. But I sorted them based on what I feel stands out the most.

In addition to this helpful "which One Shot should I listen to" guide, I'm adding a new segment called "which One Shots are the gayest"! Now, are there queer elements to lots of One Shots? Yeah, because I'm the host and my rotating roster has like 2 token cishet performers in total. But these are the shining rainbow stars.

I Have the High Ground - two washed up, old space-knight men with a grudge fight, but secretly want to touch each other through their slutty little space armor.

HUNT(er/ed) - A lonely man in love with the sea itself is a lot of things but I know for certain that it isn't straight.

GODKILLER - A repressed town where gender and sexuality would be open and fluid if not for a controlling God who suppresses all emotion that does not flow toward him, until one person uses her favor with him against him.

You Know Me Still - YEARNING. YEARNING AND REGRET AND REVOLUTION AND YEARNING. Exes on opposite sides of a war and did I mention yearning.

Can You Host? - Literally a bunch of queers trying to hook up at a gay club while being interrupted by a straight girl's bachelorette party. Subtext abandoned.

Last Train to Bremen (Broadside's All That Remains) - Toxic lesbians and an evil bisexual in a band together goes very wrong. Mostly because they made a deal with the literal devil but the toxic lesbian and evil bisexual thing definitely help.

I played VOID 1680 AM, a solo RPG where you host a radio show. But 27 guests from across two years of RPGs revived their characters and called in with their unfinished business. We have original music by the fictional band from our improvised musical One Shot, commissioned music from 14 musical artists, and it was truly a magical thing to make but a more magical thing to listen to.

ID: A digital drawing of Gable from Skyjacks leaning against the railing of the ship, their arms propped up on the rigging. They have white freckled skin with many different tattoos and sparse facial hair. Their short gray hair is in a half-updo, turned black and gold at their temples and the top of their hairline. They're shirtless and wearing a pair of black trousers with detailed gold embroidery along the sides and a set of suspenders done up on one side. The fly of the trousers are fully unbuttoned, the half not held up by the suspenders falling down completely. They are staring off into the middle distance with a neutral expression on their face. End ID.

Also you get to hear Aly, Mel, James and I worldbuild wildly and play about 1000 characters!!

We’re improvisers, actors, writers and Actual Players that have been doing this for over a decade! It’s a blast

Can’t get enough?! You can binge all of season 1 of the show on the OSN Patreon at the $5 level.

Regardless, you’re in for a wild ride, star child.

Me, I run the lighthouse

Propaganda

Chine (Friends at the Table: Sangfielle):

”Look at how they grow ‘em here in Blackwick. God damn.”

taz fandom i'm begging to you please listen to fatt: sangfielle and experience chine please duck is an extended bit about wayne newton and he doesn't even try to blow up a carnival to upset mother nature and force a random town to forever be attendants to the aforementioned eternal carnival please oh please...

If Chine eating a mattress has a million fans, I am one, etc. etc.

just LOOK AT HIM

and he can turn into a shrew monster

this guy has great tits, this guy is a monster, this guy is nonbinary and all the bugs love them!! he's a dad, a writer, a macrame artist?? they're a goofball, they're deadly serious, they're shockingly competent! he's a vessel of the chaos of nature itself!! he's an animal control guy that sides with the animals, he's the living embodiment of adhd with a side of depression, and weirdly suspicious of the color yellow?? they swing a rusty poll-ax, they know how to read music and are completely comfortable singing with their co-workers..... which is to say:

vote for chinel <3

Vote for chine hes a wereshrew and morally ambiguous and easily lusted for

CHINE IS A BIG HAIRY EXOTERRORIST WOODSY FAILDAD WERESHREW DOG-GUY DOG-BOY... THEY ATE A WHOLE MATTRESS TO ESCAPE PRISON AND HE ATE A LIGHTBULB TO TOUCH THE GENIUS OF CREATION... AND HE'S REALLY GAY. THEY/HE LEGEND (AS IN ACTUAL LEGEND, PEOPLE ARE SCARED OF THEM)

GO MY PSIONIC WARRIORS!!!!!!!!

Tryst Valentine (Campaign: Star Wars):

Hot shot pilot/smuggler that will hit on anything that moves, but the best possible version of that character in almost a satirical way while also being super genuine. Too sexy to be able to read, to stubborn to admit they can't.

Han Solo but worse! A very funny little scoundrel stuck with a clone trooper and a mercenary (by choice). Mostly spends his time flirting, but gets serious when he needs to.

you know its trystan valentine i know it's trystan valentine what are we doing here? genderqueer freak of a man (the most positive voice in the world)

I wrote the first paragraph of Tryst propaganda. He's "oh no, I'm going to have to sleep with this idiot" sexy. He knows it makes you look bad for thinking he's hot and he uses that power for evil.

I'm one of the project heads for reviving the episode transcription and fan wikipedia projects. If you would like to be a part of creating episode transcriptions of Campaign Skyjacks (As well as Courier's Call, Campaign SW, etc.) or writing for the wikipedia this is a call to action!

Landing page and style guide for episode transcriptions (link here)

One Shot Network Wikipedia (link here)

We have a discord for both projects (link here) and would love to have you aboard! Take flight, we hope to see you in the air.