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One Shot

344. Descent into Midnight Part 1

One Shot

Dillin Apelyan

Games, Leisure, Comedy

4.8908 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Taylor LaBresh joins James and his guests Mel D'Amato, Darcy Ross, and Cory O'Brien to lead them through a session of Descent into Midnight. It's an atmospheric speculative fiction RPG with wild worldbuilding and sci-fi marine biology. Everyone builds mind-boggling characters and their strange little world. Back Descent into Midnight! Learn more about Designing Games That Matter 2020! Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

We are adventurers.

0:02.0

into every place anywhere in the world.

0:06.0

We are venturing.

0:08.0

We are venturing.

0:10.0

Hello Heroes and welcome to another exciting episode of One Shot.

0:13.4

I'm James Damato, your host in GameMaster.

0:16.3

And Heroes, this week we have a real treat for you because we're going to be presenting

0:20.9

Descent into Midnight.

0:23.2

Now this game was designed by friends of the show,

0:26.3

Rich Howard and Ritzkruz Landry.

0:28.6

In addition to that, it has an amazing development team.

0:31.4

For those that don't know, Rich Howard has been a dear friend of mine

0:34.8

for years and years and was an extremely early supporter of the One Shot Network

0:39.8

generally and one of the things that really gives me joy about this game is seeing him find so much success within the gaming industry.

0:46.3

He's an unbelievably kind and enthusiastic person.

0:49.4

The other thing, Rich, is a marine biologist, and the game that he and Rich Grut Slandry put together... The premise behind Descente into midnight is that you're playing as under

0:55.0

the premise behind dissent into midnight is that you're playing as

1:00.8

undersea creatures on an alien planet that has had no contact with Earth

1:05.9

and probably will never have any contact with Earth.

1:08.7

So the type of life forms that you create just as part of character creation are truly inventive and bizarre.

1:15.7

And one of the things that really drives the joy in a game of Descented to Midnight

1:19.8

is feeling empathy for something that is so impossibly unlike you,

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