Episodes - Party Of One

Jan

2025

437 – The Ultimate Fantasy Character Creator with Jeff Stormer (feat. Riley Hopkins)

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?

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Dec

2024

436 – Blood Yule with Brandon Leon-Gambetta

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!

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Dec

2024

435 – Last Tea Shop with Depthe

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.

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Nov

2024

434 – The Moon Fucking Hates You with Ryan Stevens

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.

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Nov

2024

433 – Mothership with Jess Parks

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!

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Nov

2024

432 – Worlds Without Harmony with Sean Foer

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.

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Nov

2024

431 – El Inmortal Unmasked in the Main Event (Acoustic Cover) with Michael Ornelas

Michael is the host of the Fine Dining podcast, where he deep dives into the histories of your favorite chain restaurants to fine the ultimate 5-out-of-10 “fine” dining experience. He’s also a huge wrestling fan, so it only felt natural that we lean into that with a game of El Inmortal Unmasked in the Main Event, telling the stories of the greatest rivalry in wrestling history.

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Oct

2024

430 – Ever Dream This Man? with Adam Vass

Adam Vass is one of my favorite game designers in the world, full stop. And I don’t say that lightly–look how many game designers have been on the pod. We sat down to play Ever Dream This Man?, a game about confronting the mysterious figure that haunts your dreams.

Part Two of the World Champ Late Night Double Feature Podcast Spectacular — check out part 1, Press Play with Eric Prister, also on the feed right now!

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Oct

2024

429 – Press Play with Eric Prister

Eric Prister is the producer and GM for Nature of My Game, a horror-themed story-focused Actual Play podcast. We sat down for (what else?) a spook-tacular session of Press Play, a found footage horror game about people recording their encounter with the supernatural, paired with the people doomed to watch the footage.

Part One of the World Champ Late Night Double Feature Podcast Spectacular — check out part 2, Ever Dream This Man? with Adam Vass, also on the feed right now!

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Oct

2024

428 – A Fool’s Errand with J Strautman

J is one of the Dungeon Masters for Planet Arcana, and the co-designer of A Fool’s Errand, a tarot-fueled science fantasy game set in a vibrant post-calamity world of Androids, Humans, and those in between. We sit down to build out characters and explore the world of the game, discovering a calamitous, world-shaking Big Oops along the way–and asking the question “what is life like for the people alive in its wake?”

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