We are adventurers.

into every place anywhere in the world.

We are venturing.

We are venturing.

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

I'm James Damato, your host in GameMaster.

Heroes, this week I suspect we might have a few new people joining our audience,

so I want to take a moment at the top of the show to point out that one shot is a podcast where we play role-playing games, which are games that help players improvise a narrative together.

When you record games like that, the final result is something akin to an audio play,

which means what you're going to hear today is an improvised story.

And here at One Shot we are dedicated to trying out as many different role-playing systems as possible.

And this week I am so excited to tell you that we are playing a game that is right now

in the process of being created, by myself and my good friend Patrick Rothfus.

With the hopes that one day folks like you who are at home listening right now might be able to tell your own stories in the world of Temerant.

You're getting to hear this in part because last year, during the World Builders End of Year

Charity Drive, One Shot listeners, and King Killer Chronicle fans raised over $800,000 to fight extreme poverty through Heffer International.

And during that fundraising campaign, Pat and I promised to run a game exactly like this as a reward for your good work.

And frankly, everyone blew way the heck past that goal to the point where Pat and I are now

collaborating on an upcoming ongoing podcast based in the

world of Temorant. But since we promised you a story on one shot first, we're starting here.

And treating it as a bit of an experiment.

And I really like doing things in the open, even though most game design happens behind closed doors.

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