We are adventurers.

We are adventurers.

We've been to every place anywhere in the world.

We are adventuring.

We are adventurers.

Hello heroes and welcome to another episode of One Shot, the Role Playing Podcast.

I'm your game master, James Damato.

This week we've got a show for you that admittedly we should have done in October.

We're going to be playing one of my all-time favorite role-playing systems.

And I know I say that a lot, but this time I really really mean it. It's called Dread. And if you've never heard of it before,

dread is very special, because it's not played with dice or even cards or the way you would naturally assume that a role-playing system would be played.

It's played with a Janga tower.

If a player wants to do something, they have to pull a brick the Jenga tower and stack it on top.

If they manage to pull the brick safely, they succeed.

And if they don't, they die.

Appropriately, Dread is a horror suspense role-playing system, and it has one of the most beautiful

metaphors that role-playing can possibly provide.

It's definitely a story-building engine. The tower in the center of the table is a looming reminder to the players that their eminent demise may come very soon and painfully.

It's one of the easiest systems for you to learn how to run horror, because it teaches you how

to build upon suspense, and it gives you training wheels because the suspense is literally a physical object that's manifested in the center of the table.

It's also a great system to teach people how to play role-playing games because it doesn't require any messy mechanics.

There are no special rules that you have to know to play Dread.

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