Podcast
One Shot
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.
- Games chart
- #155
- Episodes
- 703
- Releases
- Weekly
- Typical length
- 1 hr 3 min
- On air since
- 2013
- Latest episode
- 1 week ago
Episodes
703 episodes, newest first
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1 hr 7 min
The House Edge, Episode 1
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EPISODE SUMMARY
The Vegas Four track their worst enemy, Nobody, to a mysterious blue door and blindly follow him inside in search of loot and revenge.
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Sean Ireland - The Referee
Dillin Apelyan - Acey Deucey
Drakoniques - Razz
Candace McAfee - Suicide King
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Music Used in This Episode
Frantic by Tide Electric
Program Change by Tide Electric
Editing and sound design by Dillin Apelyan
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50 min
Fetch My Blade
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Years into the future of Coghaven City, the hero returns to confront her former teammates, and Tink, the clockwork dog sets off to gather their weapons.
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Dillin Apelyan - Dillin Apelyan
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Clockmaker, CJ0
Editing and sound design by Shaghik Manè.
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1 hr 12 min
The Cryptid Show
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Dillin deals with the strange happenings in the One Shot studio by calling in to, and bothering, a late-night radio host.
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Dillin Apelyan - Dillin Apelyan
Robin Ekberg - Noah
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Music Used in This Episode
New York Strut, Braeden Rangno
Ghostfire, Alsever Lake
Honey, marigolde
More Than One Way To Go Home, Amherst
Never Be The Same, Shells By The Sea
Editing and sound design by Shaghik Manè.
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1 hr 5 min
A Fool’s Errand, Episode 3
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Our characters follow the star into the darkest place they can think of to try to complete the prophecy and bring a little bit of sin back to the world.
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Joystick, Ian Kelosky
Driftwood, Transmuter
Editing and sound design by Shaghik Manè.
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56 min
A Fool’s Errand, Episode 2
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A prophecy has been received that paves the way to bring indulgence and enjoyment back into the world for the first time since the Big Oops happened, and our characters set out to try to bring it to fruition.
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Joystick, Ian Kelosky
Cache Car, Transmuter
In the Mood, Reveille
Editing and sound design by Shaghik Manè.
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1 hr 27 min
A Fool’s Errand, Episode 1
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EPISODE SUMMARY
Using a deck of Tarot cards and the collaborative world-building section of A Fool’s Errand, we create our Big Oops and its fallout.
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Help Restore a Village in North Gaza
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Joystick, Ian Kelosky
Cache Car, Transmuter
Editing and sound design by Shaghik Manè.
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58 min
Monsters Ate My Homework, Episode 3
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With all the clues gathered and the monster behind the school’s trouble discovered, the student sleuths make a plan to bring it down for good.
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Cassandra Apelyan
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Help Restore a Village in North Gaza
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Music Used in This Episode
Always Something, Fantoms
Break it, Spouss
Editing and sound design by Shaghik Manè.
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55 min
Monsters Ate My Homework, Episode 2
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Having encountered strange monsters in the past, this group of students know something supernatural is infecting the behavior of their peers and attempt to track the source.
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Cassandra Apelyan
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Northfield Supporting Neighbors
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Always Something, Fantoms
Editing and sound design by Shaghik Manè.
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56 min
Monsters Ate My Homework, Episode 1
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EPISODE SUMMARY
A group of regular students notice strange behavior from their classmates and teachers and attempt to uncover the reasons why in Monsters Ate My Homework by Amaan HK.
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Cassandra Apelyan
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Music Used in This Episode
Always Something, Fantoms
The Tale of the Jack O Lantern, MaterialGurl
Editing and sound design by Shaghik Manè.
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39 min
Band-Aids & Bullet Holes, Episode 3
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The ridiculous conclusion of Band-Aids & Bullet Holes featuring some guests from around the Many Sided Network!
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Northfield Supporting Neighbors
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Music Used in This Episode
Heart of Stone, Todd Tran
Jazz Express, Fabio Poian
Drinks At Ten, Monarch Trio
Spoken Word, Renderings
Editing and sound design by Shaghik Manè.
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41 min
Band-Aids & Bullet Holes, Episode 2
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This John Wick-inspired deck builder has players switching roles and escalating the chaos with simple, fast-paced mechanics. One thing is for certain, we GOTTA kill Barf.
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Heart of Stone, Todd Tran
Drinks At Ten, Monarch Trio
Jazz Express, Fabio Poian
Editing and sound design by Shaghik Manè.
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58 min
Band-Aids & Bullet Holes, Episode 1
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EPISODE SUMMARY
This John Wick-inspired deck builder has players switching roles and escalating the chaos with simple, fast-paced mechanics. Come listen to a bunch of folks from around the Many Sided Media network play this chaotic roleplaying game!
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VOTE FOR ONE SHOT: LAST TRAIN TO BREMEN (Best Streaming Content)
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1 hr 9 min
Rom Com Drama Bomb, Episode 2
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Janice Aunty commits a lot of fraud while trying to get Maddie and Alice together and destroy her nephew’s wedding.
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Music Used in This Episode
Waverunner, Shanek Becker
Falling Leaves, Ends of the Earth
Editing and sound design by Shaghik Manè.
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1 hr 12 min
Rom Com Drama Bomb, Episode 1
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EPISODE SUMMARY
A story of unrequited love, overbearing family, and a literal ticking time bomb.
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Waverunner, Shanek Becker
Wicked Curiousities, Dresden The Flamingo
Midnight Warrior, Lunareh
Editing and sound design by Shaghik Manè.
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1 hr 3 min
Force of Extinction, Episode 3
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New York wasteland survivors confront the Rat King in his lair.
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Ultimate RPG Villain Backstory Guide
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Music Used in This Episode
Absynth, Elision
Rewired, Wicked Cinema
Born Every Minute, Neon Beach
Snow, Luca Severino
Editing and sound design by Shaghik Manè.
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1 hr 5 min
Force of Extinction, Episode 2
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Three survivors traverse the dangerous wasteland of New York City in search of the Tree of Life.
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Absynth, Elision
Rewired, Wicked Cinema
High Octane, Rhythm Scott
Editing and sound design by Shaghik Manè.
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49 min
Force of Extinction, Episode 1
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Guest GM and Game Designer Edward Spence leads us through character and world creation for Force of Extinction!
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Absynth, Elision
Frantic, Hill
High Octane, Rhythm Scott
Antenna's Racket, Sam Barsh
Editing and sound design by Shaghik Manè.
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54 min
This Wretched House, Episode 2
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EPISODE SUMMARY
Dillin is more and more convinced that the One Shot studio is legitimately haunted, and gets closer and closer to the ghosts as his tower becomes unstable.
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Abandoned Places, Material Gurl
Big Band Twelve Days of Christmas, Ryan Saranich
Editing and sound design by Shaghik Manè.
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52 min
This Wretched House, Episode 1
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EPISODE SUMMARY
The One Shot studio is deeply haunted and Dillin is stuck inside alone with nothing but a Jenga tower to keep them company.
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Abandoned Places, Material Gurl
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42 min
Anamnesis
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Dillin plays Anamnesis, a game about recovering lost memories, to explore the past of Eloise, from the Realis One Shot.
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Music Used in This Episode
Collapse Into Obscurity, Dr Delight
Tempest, Falls
Hunter, Falls
Runner, Falls
Mysterious Grove, Cast Of Characters
The Diary, CJ0
Editing and sound design by Shaghik Manè.
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