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One Shot

644. The Session Zero System, Episode 1

One Shot

Dillin Apelyan

Games, Leisure, Comedy

4.8908 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

EPISODE SUMMARY Using the Session Zero System, we create unique characters and build a world for them to live in. SHOW NOTES Session Zero System One Shot News & Updates One Shot Patreon One Shot TWITCH ULTIMATE RPG VILLAIN BACKSTORY GUIDE SUPPORT A WHOLE NEW WORLD Follow the cast here! Dillin Apelyan Poorna Valiant Dorian Aaron Catano-Saez Armaan Babu ----------------------------------------------------- Know Your Rights Toolkits Find and call your representatives and be heard (US) Find and call your members of Parliament and be heard (Canada) Find and call your members of Parliament and be heard (UK) ---------------------------------------------------- Music Used in This Episode Path of Purposes, Cody Martin Editing and sound design by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Shaghik Manè. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, heroes, James here to tell you about a new podcast from Friend of the Network, Gabriel Urbania.

0:05.8

The Harbingers. Adam and Amy always had a complicated relationship. They met in grad school and became

0:12.7

bitter rivals, ideological opposites. They were driven together because they were both obsessed

0:19.2

with the same dead language and long-lost culture.

0:23.3

Then they became the first two people in thousands of years capable of doing magic.

0:29.8

Now, the first two magicians of the modern world must uncover the truth of their powers

0:34.9

and the inescapable bond that ties them together.

0:38.9

And yes, they went on one date, but they'd really preferred if everyone would stop bringing

0:42.4

that up. The Harbingers is perfect for people who are fans of Battlestar Galactica, the West Wing,

0:48.4

and one of my favorites, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. You can find The Harbingers wherever you

0:53.9

get your podcasts.

0:55.3

Episodes come out biweekly on Thursdays, and you can learn more at audacious machine creative.com.

1:02.5

Magic is real, and it's coming back.

1:05.7

We are adventuring. We are venturers.

1:16.4

What's up, Heroes? It's me, your host Dylan, back with another episode of One Shot and a brand new game and brand new cast.

1:22.3

This is a little bit of a special one and a little bit of an experiment. We have a new show coming to the network soon,

1:28.2

hosted by the amazing Val and Pornah, who are featured in this series, where they will be bringing

1:33.6

game designers on to build custom worlds, custom game systems, and then play one-shots within those

1:40.3

new systems and world. To be clear, we did not do that on this series, but we wanted to try to

1:46.1

have a little miniature taste of that experience. So, we played a game that I've played maybe

1:51.7

500 times because I used to work the booth for them for like three years in a row, the session

1:57.1

zero system by Elise Resendez, and then we play a little scenario in a hastily cobbled

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