Playing at the Hearth

The Emerald Krayts try to steal a package from their rivals... and it doesn't go too well. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGeKdmLMcKo ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The monsters confront the harbinger - a eye-fetus from the dreamworld. And - being the monsters that they are, proceed to kick it. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNanSaabs_8 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

A Fair Wind opens with its new staff of recently retired adventurers: Ogrim Stormbane, the ex-Fighter (now Lookout) Melkor the Gray, the ex-Bard (now Crafter) Lucia, the ex-Swashbuckler (now Chef) Meave, the ex-Ranger (now Hunter) We discover a little more about them, and how they have begun to settle in and find their feet in these new lives, and then an old friend visits them and they have a cha...

The Caravan leaves Portland in the midst of fresh alien activity, fleeing westwards. First stop, a tyre dealership to upgrade to make better work of the snow and off-road route ahead of them... 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 will navigate a sha...

"Testing Protocols Pt 1" The Kintsugi docks at Starbase 14, as more bad news from the Dominion War continues to come in. Acting Captain Ward meets with Starfleet Command and receives news of a new observer assigned to the ship, Commander Litaal, now with the office of the Inspector General. The Kintsugi is dispatched when a secret Federation weapons development facility drops out of contact. They...

This week in the Ultraviolet Grasslands: the caravan left the Rose Towers with new bodies, bright loot, and stranger plans. Skelly raced the necro-wagon and climbed coral spires for glowing orbs; a hundred lake-folk hunters rose singing from the water but were fooled by dust and moonlight. At Red Bear, Adoron shed their old flesh and built anew while the crew bartered orbs, cured a dragon’s sneeze...

M.A.C.E. - Mission Adaptive Combat Ensemble A S.H.I.E.L.D. special ops team built from the best of the best from around the world. These soldiers will be deployed against supervillain and alien threats, and to rise to the occasion, they will have limited access to superpowers to fight the good fight! Utilizing the Harvest protocol, M.A.C.E. team members will have limited access to a variety of met...

In this session of Writers' Room Indiana Jones meets Leverate as we create an anti-colonialist action adventure show about repatriating stolen artifacts. Here's the sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pQftPFwh9hCgRPC_wI5LcOpELZji7YBO4R1GbhKe3N8/edit?usp=sharing Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8mnjLT6wR4 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Session Zero - world and character creation for our Swoop Gangs series! Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFQBEDaWDqU ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

A bad dream and a heart-to-heart. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlt4VXr-zdM ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

If you can find the remains of the Godwin expedition on the tallest mountain and return his body to his family with proof, then they'll make you wealthier than you can possibly imagine… but while the money's a powerful motivation, it's not the only reason you made the arduous journey to base camp, ready to go up into the white. Please be aware that this game verges into horror, with mentions of sh...

"Rise & Fall PT 1" Captain Escarra is sent to the Thulsa System to conclude a treaty for dilithium mining rights. Commander Moreno is left in charge of the Tempest which suddenly comes under attack when a mysterious alien sphere appears in orbit and begins manipulating the planet's weather and tectonics. Lt Commander T'Venn is forced to deal with an increasingly strange malady caused by the sp...

Part of our community's Shared Hearth Open Gaming Convention. We play a one-shot of Gordie Murphy's Mythomorphosis, a game which "explore(s) the relationship between a society’s history and one of its dominant cultural stories, creating and changing a myth over the course of generations." We look at the creation myth for a coastal settlement in a low-fantasy setting. You can see a copy of the Goog...

The crew continues their leave at Kosret Landing, meeting new folks and deepening relations with others. The Witches' maneuvers ashore make everyone nervous. But they opt to continue on-- heading inland to meet a scholar who may be able to point them to the next step on their journey of revenge. This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.com Our audio v...

The offer is simple: break the curse, awaken the princess, gain a kingdom. Are you worthy enough to brave the briar-choked castle and its dangers to succeed? Or will you fall to the curse and join the rest forever trapped on its grounds? The Lovely Somnolent is a Rooted in Trophy incursion written by Mads Turley. An one-shot version is available here: https://madelancholy.itch.io/ Trophy Dark by J...

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 will navigate a shattered North America. You’ll explore landscapes transformed by xenoflora, search abandoned towns and crashed spaceships, discover the otherworldly technology called Harmonics, negotiate with new...

The assault on the Iron Aegis begins. As the Captain pushes Cass to interdict the forces ashore, he leads a party to board the enemy vessel and wreak bloody havoc. Meanwhile Nonius climbs aboard quietly in an effort to find the Oracle's face before being discovered-- but he has brought along unwanted assistance... This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgam...

"Old Friends" The team prepares to head to the megastructure and enter the rupture into fluidic space, but tensions still remain. They dive in to find the lost crew, but face a dangerous foe and a lost relic of another age. Shared Hearth Open Gaming Weekend https://openhearthgaming.com/shared-hearth (Oct 2 to Oct 5 2025) This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhe...

"Hunters of Old PT 2" The crew of the Tempest discover that some kind of creature has destroyed the transport and may be heading towards more populated space. They follow the trail to a now-destroyed monitoring station where they're set upon by another also pursing their quarry. Now the ship must decide how they will handle this mission, as former officers begin to push their own agenda. This is p...

"Hunters of Old PT 1" The Tempest is tasked with taking three veterans of the Federation-Klingon War to an anniversary ceremony. All three served on the Tempest and all have tangled histories with present members of the crew. But when the ship is diverted to look into a missing cargo transport, the situation becomes more complicated and old grudges rear their head. This is part of Open Hearth Gami...

This week in the Ultraviolet Grasslands, the caravan met the astral lizard-inhabited shell of the Rebuilder, commissioned a new one from the ancient autofac below, and forged a new body for Adoron before returning to Red Bear. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t__PNK0SlzQ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The King of Otwan demands the retrieval of his daughter from a failed sacrifice ritual - the adventurers are tasked with this mission, and if they find treasure along the way and possibly earn the princess's hand in this rescue, so be it... This game was played for the Shared Hearth online gaming event https://openhearthgaming.com/shared-hearth and follows the Open Hearth Community Code of Conduct...

Mercury Orbit, 2188 An underfunded and overworked research team aboard the United Mining and Development observation and research facility. Stretched to their limits, so close to a breakthrough they can taste it. A single terrible mishap precipitates the end of the crew, the station, and their precious research. Some may survive, but not without great sacrifice. As Toffet Station breaks apart, the...

Mike Ferdinando facilitates the GM-less story-game "Batman: The Final Rogue" for Blake and Tea. A dozen villains from Gotham City's "rogues gallery" assemble on the night of the Gotham Museum Gala to pull off the crime of the century! But Batman puts a stop to it and captures all but one: The Final Rogue! Our villains: Black Mask, Captain Cold, Catwoman, Harley Quinn, Inque, Kite Man, Man-Bat, The...

GM Mike Ferdinando runs a one-shot of R'lyehwatch for Dominik, Guy, Peter, and Steph for Open Hearth Gaming's Shared Hearth annual online convention. Four professional lifeguards head out to the scene of a fire aboard fading yacht rock star Eric Zahn's pleasure-boat... only to find that Zahn is up to something very fishy! 0:00 - Introductions 9:48 - CATS and Safety 23:45 - Rules Overview & Cha...