Playing at the Hearth

Will romance be found amid movie sets, Christmas market cookies, pub food, and herpetology? Find out in this playthrough this holiday season, where characters compete in a holiday-movie tropefest for the affection of a love interest! Hometown Holiday by Nick Tourville is a tabletop roleplaying story game about holiday romance in a small town, TV-movie style. https://kidnick.itch.io/hometown-holida...

Content warnings: General horrors of Christmas, themes and descriptions of self-harm behavior, body horror, intra-elf slavery, harm to animals: reindeer. Ho ho...Oh No! Santa's been kidnapped, and the trail leads to the crass commercialized theme park NorthPoleLand, long abandoned. Will our Specialist Elves find him and Make Christmas Magical? Or will tradition be broken and the holidays never be...

This final week in the Ultraviolet Grasslands, the heroes spent months in the Black City (but only hours outside), rejoined the Rebuilder's body, soul, and spirit, silenced the Death-Facing Passage, settled old debts, found a flying egg, faced the void, and eventually settled in the House at the End of Time. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHxqCM4LVJ0 ★ Support this podcast on Patr...

Ruined: Xoti the Medic, Charlotte the Knight and Kai the Lieutenant are lost in a ruined city, the likes of which will swallow them into the mists of time if they do not find a way through soon. But all their ghosts have caught up with them, and that is their ruin... The Hungering One: Trina the Water Dancer, Hestia the Chef and Sovan the Creed Guard huddle around a roaring fire, refugees tell the...

"Matters of Family Pt 2" Sevari digs deeper into the ship and finds herself trapped. Jures meets up with Th'Vileq and then find themselves in a confrontation with the crew. Ward and Divelle, meanwhile, deal with issues from the wedding. But eventually all three groups must coordinate to stop the fallout from a psychically activate alien device and a hold full of unstable Gluon Torpedoes. This is p...

The Big Rumble and epilogues Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo7aOaRCtwE ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Alun R facilitates the finale of a series of Eotenweard (his own PbtA game in development of Dark Age Heroes protecting the innocent from a Darkness growing across the Old North). This session was organsied as part of The Open Hearth Gaming Community (https://openhearthgaming.com/ RPG) using our Gaming Calendar (https://app.playabl.io/communities/th...). In the finale of our series, the apparent a...

Part two of a Daggerheart one-shot: Extracurricular Activities After investigating the library, the students head into the nearby Town to try and get to the bottom of the mystery. This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.com Our audio version of these episodes can be found here: https://playingatthehearth.openhearthgaming.com/ Follow us on https://www...

Part one of a Daggerheart one-shot: Extracurricular Activities Four students of an adventuring academy begin to explore a mystery in the library on their day off. This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.com Our audio version of these episodes can be found here: https://playingatthehearth.openhearthgaming.com/ Follow us on https://www.tumblr.com/open-...

A Quiet Drink: Trina the Water Dancer, Jor'ilt the Spellblade and Dandaeus the Engineer stop by in a quiet in for a relaxing drink by the fire, but a foppish noble demands they escort him home (a not-inconsiderable detour) Desecration: Wulfrid the Veteran, Jor'ilt the Spellblade and Dandaeus the Engineer have gone off the beaten track to gather water for their company, when they see a column of be...

This week in Ultraviolet Grasslands, the heroes chatted with residents of the House at the End of Time, Alba Negra left her crystal body for a new bean-grown form, folks downed their Final Drink, struck deals with the Chaos of Possibility, and exited the Black City, for now. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltLcW3VSWsQ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

"Matters of Family Pt 1" Divelle worries about attending her brother's wedding on Risa, but a change of schedule pushes her into a new and dangerous mission, searching for a smuggled weapon aboard a galactic space cruise. While Vate and Divelle navigate the latter's family, Sevari and Jures go undercover bringing them into a collision with echoes of Bajor's history. This is part of Open Hearth Gam...

Cass and Nonius enter into the ship breakers cave, while the Captain and Vern go to speak with another of the 7 Pirate Lords. The pirate presses the Captain on his goals and forces him to confront his ambitions. Meanwhile Cass comes face to face with a demonic entity, forcing the Navigator to call on the powers of the pursuing ocean. A fight, a tidal wave, and Cass' death follows... This is part o...

Stealing a deck scanner from an Imp dumping ground Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdq5djlByzs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The monsters spend the session theorizing, only to find out they are wrong. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl4BLsfzc1A ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Alun R facilitates a session in a series of Eotenweard (his own PbtA game in development of Dark Age Heroes protecting the innocent from a Darkness growing across the Old North). This session was organsied as part of The Open Hearth Gaming Community (https://openhearthgaming.com/ RPG) using our Gaming Calendar (https://app.playabl.io/communities/th...). Come join us (https://www.patreon.com/openhe...

Keeping the Ember Alive: Xoti the Scarred Medic, Hestia the warm-Hearted Cook & Kai the Freshly-Promoted Lieutenant find another band of Lordsworn (of Lotyx the Eternal) recovering their dead and going through their funeral rites. What follows would be harrowing enough with their grief, but the shades of the long-departed gather around the pyre also... Oaths Sworn: Wulfrid the Grizzled Veteran...

This week in the Ultraviolet Grasslands: inside the living Black City, Skelly met Possibility, Phaedred debated reality with the city’s mind, and Alba Negra entered a wounded cosmic obelisk that whispered the city was the trap. Next: the house by the wine-dark sea. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJZnZ5EnSH4 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Crash takes the Ashpath and emerges a new person Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itlrjy_BWU0 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Virtus and Rhydian have an action packed afternoon of exploring their powers and shaking the foundations of the community. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCUPNx7VPZE ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Alun R facilitates a session in a series of Eotenweard (his own PbtA game in development of Dark Age heroes protecting the innocent from a Darkness growing across the Old North). This session was organsied as part of The Open Hearth Gaming Community (https://openhearthgaming.com/ RPG) using our Gaming Calendar (https://app.playabl.io/communities/th...). Come join us (https://www.patreon.com/openhe...

We meet the ragged company after cataclysmic battle. They have lost their God: Mavos, the Mighty, Goddess of Might, Warfare, Wisdom, and Fire. They have lost their Captain, the stern Kyon, who lived and died by his motto "Through Hardship we Ascend". But who amongst their meagre numbers will return to Trufast, will the rumblings of Mt Helphi and the quiet words of the blind Prophets guide them hom...

This week in the Ultraviolet Grasslands: the caravan entered the Black City through toxic dust. Alba Negra gained perfect welcome at the cost of self, Phaedred refused immortality, and Spatula became a real bean-person. The city whispered—it was always real, and everything else is not. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKZ8pcGO-PY ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Nahual is a tabletop role-playing game about brujos nahuales, humans of mestizo and indigenous ancestry that have the power to shapeshift into an animal form. These nahuales hunt angels to make a living, running a changarro (a business) together to sell the products they make from the bodies of the angels they have killed. These are stories about underdogs, struggling to find their place in a Mexi...

Cantina and a big sabacc game Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djw1r3Z2LYE ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★