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One Shot

397. Trial Part 1

One Shot

Dillin Apelyan

Games, Leisure, Comedy

4.8908 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Dominique Dickey guides James, Ali Barthwell, and CJ Tuor through their courtroom storytelling RPG: Trial. We show you the over-the-top case of Bruce Orson, a Black man on trial for the murder of Abigail Burke, a white woman. We start off with the testimony of Clayton Mosely, the arresting officer. To put things generously, he is not very good at his job. CONTENT NOTEAlthough this game is capable of going to some very sensitive and nuanced places, we elected to play a lighter game.  Get Trial! Prepare for Tomorrow on Revelation III Get the Ultimate Micro RPG Book Now! 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 venturers.

0:10.0

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

0:13.8

I'm James Damato, your host in GameMaster.

0:16.8

Heroes, at the end of last week's episode, I said that we were going to be running a green hour for this week.

0:22.4

While we will still feature a green hour, it's

0:25.7

going to have to wait because we ran into a major technical problem that made us have to shift

0:31.1

it back one series.

0:32.7

Instead, we're going to be bringing you trial by Dominique Dickie.

0:37.0

If you're a fan of the campaign Skyjacks podcast,

0:39.8

you already know a little bit about Dominique Dickie

0:42.4

because they helped us as a cultural consultant

0:44.8

for one of the issues we ran into producing that show.

0:48.0

In addition to being an accomplished cultural consultant, Dominique is also an incredible game designer as well.

0:53.3

And Trial, the game they brought us for this week, is really special.

0:56.8

It's a story game for playing out a legal drama.

1:00.0

I say drama in loose terms because it also, as you're going to find out, works very well for comedy.

1:05.6

Made for groups of four to six players, it has rules for telling the story of Bruce Orson,

1:10.5

a 23 year old black man who is on trial for the murder of Abigail Burke, a 33-year-old white woman.

1:17.0

For every game, Miss Burke was last seen with Mr Orson at the Yellowjacket on the evening of Friday April 26th.

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