Playing at the Hearth

Alun R facilitates another session of 'The Cluster', his hack-that-might-be-a-game bringing together aspects of Uncharted Worlds (by Sean Gomes), Starforged (by Shawn Tomkin), Rust Hulks (by Sam Sorensen), and Diaspora (by Murray, Marshall, Dyke & Kerr).... This session was organised as part of The Open Hearth Gaming Community (https://openhearthgaming.com/ RPG) using our Gaming Calendar (http...

Step into the era of the New Republic, where the Empire may be defeated, but its remnants still lurk in the shadows, and the galaxy is far from at peace. You and your crew are about to embark on a high-stakes journey through the Tapani Sector - a system where the gilded halls of noble houses clash with the gritty starports full of rogues, smugglers, and daring pilots. This is a place of glamour an...

The first of two sessions trying out Sword Opera, a ttrpg of action, melodrama, swords, and romance. It's a new adaptation of Forged in the Dark to cover a variety of genres. The Kickstarter runs through Feb 11, 2025. You can check that out here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mythicgazetteer/sword-opera/ This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming...

This is an interlude session of our series of Bump in the Dark, prequel to a series of Alice is Missing & Monsterhearts 2 & sequel to the subsequent series of A Town Called Malice. Thrilling, gritty, and utterly human, Bump in the Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game about a group of people who’ve dedicated their lives to hunting and dealing with monsters. There are gruesome attacks, tense...

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We see some of the debrief and fallout from the team's previous mission, and meet the newest operative. Then the group is dispatched to Barcelona to look into a series of mysterious floral deaths at a seminary which houses a facility for Returners, people stolen away by monsters but who managed to escape back to this world. This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at ope...

Cathy sets out to investigate Cleopatra's lair. Maximus and special guest star Vicente agree to help each other out, but both find their promises more challenging than they expected. This session is part of the Open Hearth Gaming Calendar. For more see https://openhearthgaming.com/ or join our discord at https://discord.gg/xRjXYXQq. Our audio version of these episodes can be found here: https://pl...

Step into the era of the New Republic, where the Empire may be defeated, but its remnants still lurk in the shadows, and the galaxy is far from at peace. You and your crew are about to embark on a high-stakes journey through the Tapani Sector - a system where the gilded halls of noble houses clash with the gritty starports full of rogues, smugglers, and daring pilots. This is a place of glamour an...

I use the Lavender Hack to create a four-person adventuring party along with the town they're operating out of. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0SjeOPkB68 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We go through character creation, culture creation, and town creation for the Lavender Hack. If you want to view the final results, the character keeper (sans rules support) is available here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17RGb6Y_qUkgm7fx4WxlmBwKe5RGExrcJd5TjrEHCBxQ/edit?usp=sharing (Note that the CK we were using was in the early stages of development, which clearly shows.) Original vid...

This is part of a new series, prequel to a series of Alice is Missing & Monsterhearts 2 & sequel to the subsequent series of A Town Called Malice. The Pact make a Final Checkout, Thrilling, gritty, and utterly human, Bump in the Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game about a group of people who’ve dedicated their lives to hunting and dealing with monsters. There are gruesome attacks, tense in...

Our team from The Department of Control proceed into the strange factory facility, finding evidence of their having previously been there. In the bowels of the place they find a lab, meet a damaged on-site staffer, and get the first hints of the object of power, leading to revelations about their lost operative. This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgamin...

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It's London in the late 60s and a new world is being born—but there are old powers who'll do anything to maintain their control. In this session we meet the recently deceased Cathy, worried about her widower's new relationship with a vampire assassin; Maximus the Younger, agent of a fractious wizard council on the trail of a faerie drug ring; and Regis, who just doesn't want to deal with any of th...

Step into the era of the New Republic, where the Empire may be defeated, but its remnants still lurk in the shadows, and the galaxy is far from at peace. You and your crew are about to embark on a high-stakes journey through the Tapani Sector - a system where the gilded halls of noble houses clash with the gritty starports full of rogues, smugglers, and daring pilots. This is a place of glamour an...

The protagonists split into two groups. Lily and Marrow head off to check the graveyard where the dream bullet assassin fired from. They meet ghosts, talk to a new witch faction, and get hints of Immortal involvement. On the other side Aldo and Mr. Suit go to check on an island associated with the missing Taken cadre and run into some chaos. Well, actually a lot of chaos. This is a modern urban fa...

This is part of a new series, prequel to a series of Alice is Missing & Monsterhearts 2 & sequel to the subsequent series of A Town Called Malice. The Pact make a Final Checkout, Thrilling, gritty, and utterly human, Bump in the Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game about a group of people who’ve dedicated their lives to hunting and dealing with monsters. There are gruesome attacks, tense in...

Content Warning: fake memories, bodily infestation, maggots. This is a one-shot, prequel to a series of Alice is Missing & Monsterhearts 2 & taking place in between subsequent series of A Town Called Malice & Bump in the Dark. A group of friends has decided to spend a night in the woods, camping. They gathered around the campfire to talk about their dreams and goals. However, the chatt...

The group follows up on details from the Goblin Market Murder, and also pursues their own agendas. Marrow briefs the Hand of his Court, while Mr. Suit makes a play for a new responsibility in his. Aldo learns more about the Immortals and Lily tracks down an outsider Sunken who knows more about the murder than he lets on. This is a modern urban fantasy PbtA game inspired by Changeling the Lost, The...

Wickedness is a peculiar tabletop game written for exactly three players and one tarot deck, with no dice and no GM. Together, you'll form a coven between three mystical archetypes (the innocent and gentle Pure Heart, the volatile, revelrous Wild Spirit, and the uptight, scholarly Old Soul) and try to keep your world of magic and mystery in balance with the mundane world, in spite of its ignorance...

We gather our heroes in the Violet City: - Sirena, the vampire bio-barista - Yilis "O" Orloko, the narco-engineer holy diver - Chaz, the timelost leisure maximizer - Phaedred Outani, the Emerald City advertising engineer After some carousing, catnip drug drips, and market research, we're ready to set of for the Steppe of the Lime Nomads with our gorilla accountant and sentient donkey! Original vid...

Alun R facilitates a one-shot of 'A Warning to the Curious' (from Scott at Trollish Delver Games). This session was organised 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/openhearthgam...). It's January 1901 and Professors Ward, Hussey & Barrow are join...

A new series of Apocalypse Keys, featuring The Department of Control from the Doomsday Delights supplement. This features our session zero character creation and DIVISION framework building. We then flash to the prologue for our first mission...or is it? 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...

We play the Poppleton Mall playset using the classic rules. Fiasco is a game where you engineer and play out stupid, disastrous situations, usually at the intersection of greed, fear, and lust. It’s like making your own Coen brothers movie, in about the same amount of time it’d take to watch one. Tell cinematic tales of small time capers gone disastrously wrong – inspired by films like Blood Simpl...

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