Dillin Apelyan

One Shot

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One Shot is a podcast about role playing games. Every month, host and Game Master Dillin Apelyan leads a group of players on a self-contained adventure. Every adventure will be wrapped up in 4-5 episodes in time for a new story, in a new system, with new players the following month. One Shot will explore every RP system possible to give listeners a sampling of the possibilities in the wide, world of roleplaying.

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Dillin Apelyan

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61. Feng Shui 2 Part 1 17.09.2014 1:02:26

Two years after busting up the Cobra run drug gang in New York, Inspector Jackie (Chris Sims) is visited by his brother Ray, his niece Angela (Kat Murphy), and notable street tough Tommy Euphrates (John Patrick Coan.) A lot has changed for our heroes in two years, but somethings never change as a policeman's ball turns into a deadly hostage crisis. The shadow of doom looms over our rag tag team as...

Season 1 Bloopers 12.09.2014 35:14

All the great stuff that didn't make it to air in season 1! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

60. Protocol 08.09.2014 1:10:16

This week Brandon Shockney returns and brings Jonathon Pernisek from the "How Rude!" Full House podcast to play a game of Protocol with James. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

59. Crazy Anniversary Partiers 4 25.08.2014 1:48:40

With hearts of steel and skin of stone the Crazy Partiers descend into the wicked depths of the Underdark where an ancient evil awaits their arrival. What will they find in the inky cavers so far from the warm embrace of the sun? The final boss? Monsters that are not appropriately scaled to 5e? Exactly what Kat predicated? Love? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

58. Crazy Anniversary Partiers 3 25.08.2014 1:31:24

This week the party charges into unknown situations head first and one of them pays for it with his life! There will be rope bridges! There will be discussion of rock formations! There will be creatures lurking in the darkness! Be sure to listen to this cliffhanger-tastic episode of ONE SHOT! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gencon Special 22.08.2014 1:39:50

James and Kat are joined by their good friend Sam Kaye to play Dungeon World with David Ewalt, editor at Forbes Magazine and Author of "Of Dice and Men." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

57. Crazy Anniversary Partiers 2 18.08.2014 53:27

The partiers meet an old acquaintance after a battle reveals a terrifying truth about their opponent. Also Cob gets WAY weirder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

56. Crazy Anniversary Partiers 11.08.2014 1:19:22

Prepare to get totally Cray Cray! ONE SHOT has been on the air for a whole year and to celebrate we are bringing back your favorite band of dysfunctional adventurers, The Crazy Partiers. A lot has happened since the first year. Inwe went back to school. Remy drank his way into retirement. Aldove left the church and got engaged. Cob... Cob got arrested for bathing with a pony. Darkness is on the ri...

55. All thing Truly Wicked PART 2 04.08.2014 1:08:43

Scott, Logan, and Billy square off against the fairies in a deadly game and their lives are the prize. Can these ten year old boy fend off the might of the unseely court with only their wits and James' near encyclopedic knowledge of fairies? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

54. All Things Truly Wicked 28.07.2014 1:29:22

Three ten year old friends find the mutilated body of one of their classmates, and to their horror, no one will believe them. They realize, if they want to know that is going on, they will have investigate on their own. As they get deeper into this mystery they discover that they are trapped in a dark fairy tale that probably doesn't have a happy ending. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...

53. One Last Job Part 3 21.07.2014 1:15:53

It comes down to a high stakes performance as our team of rag tag magicians plots to steal the unicorn tapestry which is apparently a very important cultural treasure. There will be explosions, there will be a wedding, someone pulls a Hamlet, someone makes a U2 pun, and it all comes together with some close up magic, the dessert of magics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch...

52. One Last Job Part 2 14.07.2014 1:14:24

Two Words: Dennis. Rodman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

51. One Last Job 07.07.2014 55:40

This week James D'Amato, Patrick Winegar (Brandon Lightening aka Myserique), Kat Murphy (Trixie LaRoux), John Patrick Coan (Leon Kameilski aka The Chameleon), and Alex Nichols (Larry "Lefty" LaRoux) get together for ONE LAST JOB. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

50. Police Cops- Brooklyn Alaska Part 2 30.06.2014 1:14:29

The Villainous machinations of Tom Frankle get even worse as we discover the President is visiting. Can Brookln's (Alaska) finest defeat Rick Moranis and his band of Newfie thugs in time!? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

49. Police Cops- Brooklyn Alaska 23.06.2014 1:12:43

James asked friend of the show Dan Stauffer, newcomer Brian Moody, and special guest General Ironicus to play Police Cops! is a pulpy action based police procedural game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

48. Time Watch Part 3 16.06.2014 1:13:48

It's save the universe time as the brave agents of Time Watch discover the dark meaning behind the Seven Wonders of the world. The fate of the current timeline is with them. Can our heroes save the earth? Can Carmen San Diego be trusted? Is Mace Hunter/Skegg going to be a thing!? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

47. Time Watch Part 2 09.06.2014 1:12:28

The plot thickens as the team heads to the great wall of china to investigate the remaining wonders of the world before they are lost to history forever! There they come face to face with the dastardly villain behind this plot, but is she friend or foe? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

46. Time Watch Part 1 06.06.2014 1:05:53

This week James and the board of the Chicago Loot Drop charity play the beta edition of Time Watch! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

45. Princesses and Palaces Part 2 26.05.2014 54:00

The royal hijinks continue as the princesses discover the gates to the lost castle in the kingdom of adventure. What sort of horrors await them inside? Skeltons? Litches? BOYS!? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

44. Princesses and Palaces Part 1 19.05.2014 48:49

This week James, Kat Murphy, Courtney Crary, and Justine Kruger embrace their inner ten year old girl to play Princesses and Palaces. Created by two parents to introduce role playing to their daughter P&P combines high adventure with girlish fun. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

43. Gangland 12.05.2014 1:08:33

This week James invited Alex Manich, Maggie Dempsey, and special guest cartoonist Kevin Budnik over to play Gangland. This game is special to James because he designed it. As you can imagine, being a James D'Amato system, it is gloriously dumb. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

42. Lasers and Feelings Part 2 05.05.2014 1:09:07

The Otherworld Theater Company is back! Captain Sheniqua Andromeda, sexy Space Doctor James Ambros III, and Bio-droid companion B.E.N.N.U. 4208 must investigate a quantum tunnel in order to save the galaxy from space zombies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

41. Lasers and Feelings Part 1 28.04.2014 1:20:55

This week James is Joined by members of Chicago's Otherworld Theater company for some high melodrama space adventure run in the truly delightful, Lasers and Feelings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

40. Call Of Cthulhu Pulp Heroes Part 2 25.04.2014 2:15:49

Batman, Indiana Jones, James Bond, Tom Riddle, and The Doctor chase down the mysterious doctor Faust to recover the necromonicon. Their chase leads them to a conspiracy that could end up threatening the world, space time, and most importantly, AMERICA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

39. Pulp Cthulhu Part 1 21.04.2014 1:59:59

In order to support our boys fighting over seas Wayne Industries has organized a charity auction to raise money for war bonds. The auction will rent antiquities from the Wayne private collection, as well as a few on loan from the nearby Miskatonic University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices