Playing at the Hearth

The Monsters investigate the case of the murdered Manananggal and discover a plot to gentrify Manila. Also, infernal ruins written in mold, hiding surprises. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6Rgx3fUevc ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhXrciVRq3U ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Melkor romances a stranger who seems more than a little taken with his quiet composure and his compositions. For the entire group; time passes. Rough edges are sanded down. Before they know it, life in town has become like breathing. *** The adventurer’s life is tough. It’s time to call it quits. For years you stumbled through hostile lands, living off stale rations, and struggling to get a few ho...

Following a fierce combat with the Warsinger, the Caravan continue on their mission to rescue the captives, but a difficult encounter proves that trusting people in this new world is the most difficult thing... The Last Caravan is a cars and aliens tabletop role-playing game about a midwinter road trip in the wake of an alien invasion. Starting from the East Coast, you and your fellow travelers wi...

We conclude this run of Writers' Room with a dramatic finale! Death! Destruction! And finally... the show gets a title!? Here is a sheet with the final results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E91tPV_wZNvfju8Jn4VI7BPvl7a90ui8R6UTI4y9HGE/edit?usp=sharing Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcclao8eKps ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Reached the Black City in dead winter; foraged, traded, dodged metal-eating parasites. Albenegra got a fossilized soul; Skelly recovered pre-death memories; Fedrid’s offering was ignored. Watched the Stones ritual—wizard scored a null object. Observer’s prophecy: “Dragon blood will restore the necromancer’s love. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB8KpJ_GC7o ★ Support this podcast on...

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...

The Monster start their investigation in earnest and find out that there is, in fact, a lot that is wrong with this house. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpTVyjVivsE ★ 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...

Through the Dark Light Passage, met a machine-man seeking a soul; found a huge one but saved it for after winter. Into the Forest of Meat—gross but forageable. Found Betty the hot-rod autogolem; drag race chaos. Looted 15k coins. Cured plague. Reached the Black City. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsM6ngYt6ec ★ 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...

"Tellarite Tangles Pt 2" Litaal continues to try to bring together the two sides aboard the stalled Tellarite evacuation ship. But when two Jem'Hadar ships drop out of warp, the Kintsugi desperately moves to draw them off-- utilizing every trick they can muster. Captain Vate and his crew push their vessel to the limits in a battle which tests everyone as systems go awry and gambits fail... This is...

Prison Break! Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B20Xzc3zGg ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

A new monster joins the squad. An old acquaintance resurfaces. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arBl9O31mpQ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8T6-KkI1fw ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Alun R facilitates the first 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.co...

Nonius and Vern try to pry secrets from the ghost-blade duelist Robles, while Cass tries to find a way into the ship wreckers area. The captain encounters and old adversary and comes to an accord. Vern gets a cat, the Captain wrestles with his new leadership style, Cass makes a bargain, and Nonius has an unsatisfying attempt to remove a curse. This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can...

Maeve recalls a forgotten memory, tied to how Azure came to be her companion. The town has a few festival days a year, and they’re some of the busiest for A Fair Wind. The Proprieters prepare, despite a lack of sufficient supplies, competition with a neighbouring establishment and impromptu competitions and dances! *** The adventurer’s life is tough. It’s time to call it quits. For years you stumb...

We create the second season of this dark academia tv series. Death! Resurrection! A controversial season finale! Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHMMEgXs7Iw ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Our protagonists begin their second year with a lecture about the nature of self-identity, magic, and secrets. They also wrestle with their text books. They learn of the next semester event, a dangerous flora-based scavenger hunt. We move into the obligation and downtime phase, in which they begin to look into the forces affecting one of Damien's close friends. Next session Dec 2nd. This is part o...

The Caravan ventures into The Eerie, where the strange radio silence is broken by Roxanne's (their new alien songbird) twittering. Warily, they begin to follow the deciphered coordinates but bump into something overlooking the spot... The Last Caravan is a cars and aliens tabletop role-playing game about a midwinter road trip in the wake of an alien invasion. Starting from the East Coast, you and...

This week in the Ultraviolet Grasslands, the caravan crossed the Ivory Plain, dodged a raccoon-pig stampede, escaped proto-hunters with poetry, and dined with cannibals. Skelly practiced necromancy, Modon got a makeup tutorial, and we entered the Dark Light Passage. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo7NiIxFcXM ★ 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...

"Tellarite Tangles Pt 1" Litaal reflects on his time on the Kintsugi drawing to a close. As the ship runs drills and works on weapon system upgrades, he dispenses some last bits of advice. But a suddenly cut off distress call from a Tellarite colony sends the Kintsugi on a sudden rescue mission and a clash with a Cardassian Galor-class cruiser. This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can...

The Green Krayts go on a run and run into a Calanthe-shaped wall. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJh7pcPMhYI ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★