Party of One Podcast

I promise. It's a good show. I like it a lot. If you like TTRPGs, you will like it. You should check it out.

Party of One is an actual-play podcast focused on two-player roleplaying experiences. Every episode I sit down with a guest, we play a 2-player TTRPG, share some laughs, maaaaaybe a few tears, and tell a self-contained story in 90 minutes or so.

It's like an interview podcast wrapped in an audio drama wrapped in an actual play. It's neat and funny and sad and weird and there's not a lot quite like it in podcasts. There are hundreds of self-contained episodes, you can jump in everywhere, and some very cool people have been on the show (we've had Jonny Sims, and Jadzia Axelrod who wrote Galaxy: The Prettiest Star, and also wrestlers, and comic artists, and game designers, and one time we did an episode with a puppet).

You can find the podcast in all the podcast places, or on the website.

New Episode: Don't Kill A Bird With A Baseball, Feat. Tom Harrison (Anime Sickos Podcast)

Tom Harrison is one of the brain geniuses behind Anime Sickos, my actual favorite podcast in the world. The show is a dissection of the four pillars of modern misery (Anime, Gaming, Posting, and Jobs), and is honestly everything you could possibly want in a podcast. It’s funny, insightful, occasionally righteously angry, and genuinely makes me want to make podcasts.

We sat down to play Don’t Kill a Bird With a Baseball, an RPG where Randys Johnson from across the multiverse gather to stop our world’s Randy Johnson from killing a bird with a baseball.

You'll dig this episode if you like: Thinking about the time Randy Johnson killed a bird with a baseball.

New Episode: 1978: The Night They Came Home feat. Lachlan Watson

We're kicking off our Spring season with a bang!

Lachlan is an actor who you can see right now in Y2K, Chucky, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and more. We knew we wanted to explore some weird, messy horror, so I couldn't think of a better game than 1978: The Night They Came Home by World Champ Game Co.

It's Halloween night. Time for a showdown between survivor and killer.

You’ll dig this episode if you like: Halloween, haunted house thrillers, creepy killers, retro horror vibes

NEW EPISODE: MERGER WITH JOHN ROGERS

Creator, Leverage, The Librarians, Jackie Chan Adventures

PARTY OF ONE IS BACK! We're kicking off our 2026 season with a bang.

John is the creator of Leverage and Leverage: Redemption, as well as The Librarians, Jackie Chan Adventures and more. We sat down to play MERGER, a solo RPG about trying to survive in a world of living predatory corporations (which, in addition to being an apt way to describe living in 2026, is literal in this case–massive, soul-consuming eldritch horrors given flesh).

You’ll dig this episode if you like: Stories of criminal corporate capitalism gone wild, existential horror, Severance, morally corrupt protagonists, tentacle horrors

NEW EPISODE: TIME TO DROP WITH EMMA SHANNON

Emma is host of Unnatural Selection on the Moonshot Podcast Network, about film adaptations of books, the weird choices Hollywood makes, and what actually constitutes a “good” adaptation. He’s also a cast member on Interstitial Infinity (an Actual Play podcast about troubled pop culture teens on the Infinity Train) and Dead Teen House Party, a rewatch podcast of MTV’s Scream series.

We geared up, gathered our crew, and pulled the job of the century in fellow Moonshot podcast bestie Marn Lastname’s Time to Drop, a time loop heist game about a group of thieves forced to pull off the same job again… and again… and again… and again… and again… and again…

NEW EPISODE: THE CRYPTID SHOW WITH MIKE SCHUBERT

Mike is a longtime podcaster, and host of the show The Newest Olympian, which seeks to answer the question, "Has society been sleeping on the Percy Jackson series?". His new show, Professional Talkers, is a comedic advice podcast all about navigating life's awkward conversations with Sequoia Simone.

We wanted to talk about working in audio, and coming to the artform of podcasting, and so we sat down for a delightful game of The Cryptid Show, a two-player conversational RPG about a call-in radio show host answering a caller's questions about their recent supernatural experience. It was a DELIGHT.

You’ll dig this episode if you like: Cryptids, call-in radio, sports talk, tales of Central New Jersey, The Hat Man, Welcome to Night Vale

New Episode: Tapestry with Kaitlin Bruder

Kaitlin is one of the producers behind Thin Places Radio, an award-winning short-form fiction podcast in the shape of a radio show from nowhere, in which the mysterious Host comes responds to real voicemails from actual callers with supernaturally sentimental anecdotes and advice. She’s also a streamer, actual play performer, artist, and designer–a fellow wearer of many creative hats.

We sat down for a session of Kaitlin’s favorite game, Tapestry, an interpretive card-based RPG of weaving character’s stories together, and coming to witness the tanged, densely interconnected threads and patterns that result.

You'll dig this episode if you like: Tales From the Loop, The Venture Bros, The Tick, messy sibling relationships, superhero heartbreak

New Episode: Hunt(er/ed) with Cate Osborn

Cate is an author, podcaster, ADHD educator & advocate, kinkster and Shakespeare nerd. She hosts Sorry I Missed This, an everything guide to ADHD and relationships, and her new book, The ADHD Field Guide For Adults, drops in March. She's also running vampire games at literal Castle Dracula as one of the GMs of Danube of the Damned, which is one of the coolest sentences I've ever gotten to write.

We got deep in the weeds on backyard concerts, monsters, lost identities, and tense showdowns between hunter and hunted in HUNTER(ER/ED) by Dillin Apelyan and Meghan Cross.

You'll dig this episode if you like: Supernatural, backyard concerts, Mosh Pit Security Guards, magical crowbars, Daisy Jones & the Six

Anjali is a writer, producer, and actress in games (Borderlands 4, Overwatch), TV (Ms. Marvel), animation (Tales of the TMNT, X-Men ’97), and Actual Play (Critical Role, Faster, Purple Worm! Kill! Kill!). She’s currently a producer and guest player on the national tour of The Twenty Sided Tavern, and a player in the upcoming genre-bending AP Tales From Woodcreek, as well as the DM (Doggy Master) on the 2nd annual Puppy Roll, raising money for Petco Love.

We sat down to play one of Anajli’s favorite games of all time (and mine as well), the incredibly influential For the Queen. The Queen has a difficult journey ahead. She has chosen her most loyal subjects. But can they be trusted? And at the end of the day… can the Queen?

You'll dig this episode if you like: Dark fantasy, court intrigue, finding storytelling magic in the heart of the cards

Michael is one of the stars of World Gone Wrong, a fictional chat show about friendship at the end of the world, in which two best friends talk about life in a world of werewolves, humming kudzu, body snatchers, and a million other crises all at once. We sat down to play Against Time And Death, an epistolary roleplaying game of agents on opposite sides of a multiversal war, and the slowly developing forbidden relationship between them.

You'll dig this episode if you like: This Is How You Lose The Time War, Doctor Who, Forbidden Relationships, witnessing someone falling in love with TTRPGs for the first time

Kieron is the writer behind some of my favorite comics, including Young Avengers, Journey Into Mystery, and The Wicked + The Divine. His latest works include The Power Fantasy, about the six superpowered individuals with the power to singlehandedly destroy the planet, and Die Loaded, the sequel to his incredible comic book/RPG combo Die, about a dark fantasy roleplaying game come to life.

We sat down for some monstrous superhero mystery in Apocalypse Keys, about the demonic agents of a massive organization tasked with stopping the end of the world. DIVISION is calling, monsters. Do you answer? Or will you become the Harbinger youself?

NEW EPISODE: SHITTY ENSIGNS WITH DAN LUDWIG

Dan is one half of Breaking Mayberry, an anti-nostalgia podcast about watching old TV (starting with, as the title suggests, The Andy Griffith Show) and figuring out how it broke your grandparents’ brains.

After last week’s episode all about analyzing TV and talking about storytelling, we wanted to spotlight the fun and goofiness of old genre TV. And we couldn’t have found a better example than Shitty Ensigns, an RPG about poorly equipped Starfleet ensigns bumbling their way through missions.

You'll dig this episode if you like: Star Trek, Lower Decks, Booster Gold, Zapp Brannigan, Futurama, taking the piss out of beloved genre media properties, elaborate clone sagas

NEW EPISODE: LIGHTS OUT WITH MARTY SCHNEIDER

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 by @toomanyfeelings5, a game about the last day on set of a long running TV show.

You'll dig this episode if you like: You'll dig this episode if you like: Sam Malone saying "Sorry, we're closed"; Hank & Bobby grilling side by side; Mr. Monk going to the movies; Brendan Small breaking his camera and being okay

New Episode: Clash with Sabrina Hawthorne

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, @sabrinahawthorne, to see the game in action.

NEW EPISODE: ELEGY WITH LAURA TUTU

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.

You'll dig this episode if you like: Vampires, weird supernatural sci-fi stories, southside werewolf gangs, jacked JK Simmons, The Old Guard, good dogs

SPECIAL EPISODE: Galactic with Ify Nwadiwe, Nala J. Wu, Dusty Hill, and Catrina Dennis [Episode 2: Gameplay]

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 (@posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online on Bluesky). It uses music and SFX from Pond5, including creators ProSoundEffects, MellauSFX, PenroseAudio, LucorMusic, Colourman, and Talekeeper_Music. Guest performers on this episode include Ify Nwadiwe, Nala J. Wu, Dusty Hill, and Catrina Dennis! 

New Episode: Wandering Blades with Daniel Kwan

Wandering Blades is a TTRPG inspired by Chinese wuxia media, Japanese animation, and action video games. Players 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 Wandering Blades (and returning guest!), to experience the exquisite violence of the game in action.

You'll dig this episode if you like: Tense, tactical combat; Roadhouse (1989), jolly badasses, Shaw Brothers movies, the poetry of violence