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Episode 38: “Won-Ton Violence!” (All Souls Night, D&D5e)

What can we say? We can’t resist a pun, either in the podcast or as an episode title. It’s kind of a throwaway joke in the episode, but it really tickled us all over again in editing. Lucia has been doing a fine job keeping up with the editing; Harold has not done such a great job entering the episodes into this journal. This episode is the last from our October 2019 recording session of the Dungeon in a Box D&D 5e adventure, “All Souls Night.”

We’ve really been enjoying the whole Dungeon in a Box campaign, and as Lucia likes to point out, “the authors really have a thing for goats and sheep.” While it will be hard to part with these beloved characters Sid Onoso (the Greenwold’s Greatest Detective), Min Dalrin, Dyrah Tanner, and Gulan Navluv eventually…you won’t have to do without them anytime soon, as the adventure continued into November 2019 with our next recording session. So there’s still several episodes to go with the “Mystery of the Muttonwood’s Prized Cheeseman!”

Speaking of goats and sheep and other sometimes-innocuous, sometimes-inimical animals, what have been some of your favorite opponents in All Ages RPG? Who do you think is the most despicable villain so far on our podcast: Lorenal, the Elvish leader; Steeev Ganalon, the dragonborn fugitive (both from Guardians of Indir); the Pumpkin Monster (from Mirror of Mystery); or the Black Ram Clan (from All Souls Night)? Or are there others that you love to boo even more?

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Episode 37: “I’m an investigator, not an exterminator!” (All Souls Night, D&D5e)

With this episode, we conclude our first recording session of the Dungeon in a Box one-shot, All Souls Night. More episodes featuring Sid Onoso, the Greenwold’s Greatest Detective, and her friends Min, Gulan, and Dyrah will follow soon as they continue their search for Piotr Fromanchen, the celebrated cheese genius of the Muttonwood.

This is a case where you set out, expecting that the adventure will just be a one-session one-shot: simple, straightforward, short. Right? But when the players are this invested in their characters, they spread out to fill the space, and so this brief adventure spanned multiple sessions. How have one-shots gone for you in the past? Aside from running games at conventions or organized play events (such as Adventurers League or the Pathfinder Society) – in which you don’t know who is going to play and you have to finish the entire game within a strict time limit – have you had one-shots that spanned more than one session?

As we’ve written previously, we have another one-shot – the first non-D&D RPG we recorded for All Ages RPG, in fact – that also surprised our GM in that it went way over time, and we had to break before the story resolved (or even before the PCs had Blossomed, which is a game feature of that particular RPG, called “The Taint”). We haven’t posted episodes of that recording session yet, because we still haven’t played/recorded a second session of the game. In this case, we haven’t played it again because, at first, the players were more excited to resume the Guardians of Indir campaign, and then later two of the players in that game decided that their priorities had shifted and they couldn’t play with us anymore.

Have you had similar experiences? We’d love to hear about your one-shots, any issues you had with running one-shots, and how you coped with those issues.

Thanks for listening.