250. Star Crossed Part 1

One Shot

Dillin Apelyan

Games, Leisure, Comedy

4.8 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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An alien scientist studying earth as part of an effort to initiate first contact with humanity. Unfortunately for her she's not a diplomat, and welcoming a new species into the cosmos is daunting work. Things start to get way out of hand when the humans assign a psychologist to work with her after they notice she is stressed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week's episode of One Shot is brought to you by Drunken Gaming on Kickstarter.
0:03.9	We are adventurers.
0:05.9	Kick into every place anywhere in the world.
0:09.9	We are adventuring.
0:11.9	We are adventuring. Vanturin!
0:14.0	Hello Heroes and welcome to the 250th episode of One Shop.
0:18.0	I'm James Damato, your host and GameMaster.
0:21.0	This week we celebrate 250 episodes with a game that I'm excited about for so many reasons.
0:27.0	Bully Pulpit, the company that brought us games like fiasco, Night Witches, and Ghost Court, is kick-starting a new game called Starcrossed.
0:35.2	Starcrossed is a two-player game of forbidden love about characters who really, really want
0:40.0	to be together but probably shouldn't.
0:42.4	It uses a Jenga tower to represent romantic tension between characters along with rules that affect how much your
0:48.0	characters can express in a given scene making each session intense and rewarding.
0:52.6	Long time heroes know that I love romance in games,
0:55.4	so it might not come as a surprise when I say that Starcrossed is my current new favorite game.
1:00.4	Perhaps the most exciting thing about this game is that it was designed by One Shot Network's own Alex Roberts.
1:06.5	Alex put the lessons she learned, talking to guests on backstory and playing games through a long gaming career into a true work of art.
1:14.5	And we had so much fun playing it together for this episode.
1:17.3	I can't wait to share it with you all.
1:19.1	But before we get to that, some announcements.
1:21.8	Coming up this week on the one-shot
1:23.1	twitch stream on Monday or tonight if you're listening to this the day the
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