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Hello heroes and welcome to another exciting episode of One Shot. I'm James Damato, your game master.

Last week we started our remaster of Everyone is John.

And I wanted to take a minute to talk before we get to the episode about everyone is John and how it is a capital P problematic game.

You don't need any experience with mental illness to know that everyone is John is not an accurate portrayal of it.

It's cartoonish and easy to argue exploitative.

It plays into toxic ideas of mental illness that are deeply embedded in our culture.

I think everyone is John is a silly manners comedy that can be fun with a lot of groups,

but the theme is pretty bad. We wouldn't be having this introduction if it was called the Mr Bean

RPG or the alien in human skin tabletop experience, but it's not.

Originally I made the first series of everyone is John Lovecraft themed because I wanted it to be supernatural and far from the association with real life mental illness.

These days when I run the game I say John is possessed by demons or ghosts to take it even further away from offensive territory.

I'm sorry to any fans who are hurt by our featuring this game and bringing it back.

I can easily see where it would be exhausting to hear old bad ideas trotted out for the amusement of privileged people.

I still like the game we played.

I think Luke, John, and Mike took the premise to places that the origins could not possibly anticipate.

And I want folks to be able to explore the fun the game can be without

getting mired in the toxicity. The Lovecraft dressing approaches where the game needs to be but could

go farther. If we ever feature the game on one

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