Playing at the Hearth

Dragonbane (2) Smells like mean spirit Fantasy tabletop Roleplaying Game Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tPVvyIyDJw ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Fellowship is a game for 3-6 players about going on an adventure, in the same vein as Lord of the Rings or Wakfu or Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders. The system is loosely based on the Apocalypse Engine. In Rebellion is an expansion book for Fellowship. The Empire is an alternative to the Overlord playbook. Rather than stop an evil overlord from destroying the world as we know it, the...

Alun R facilitates a 2nd 0f 4 sessions 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/openhear...

We do set up, safety discussion, patron creation, and character creation for our short series of Imperium Maledictum, a ttrpg of WH40K rogues and agents. 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 Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/blog/o...

We do set up, safety discussion, patron creation, and character creation for our short series of Imperium Maledictum, a ttrpg of WH40K rogues and agents. 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 Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/blog/o...

The Station is a GMless worldbuilding game where players take turn answering prompts about a train, a station and the people. The Station explores how places shape people and people shape places in the vein of i'm sorry did you say street magic by Caro Asercion and The Quiet Year, by Avery Alder. The Station is by Pidj Sorensen and is available here https://pidj.itch.io/the-station Original video:...

The heroes regroup to consider what they've learned, but also try to recover from the previous day and deal with their own personal business. Our Fox Spirit discovers more than he bargained for when he tries to extricate his sister. Misunderstandings occur and cosmic heartbreak is sung out. Heartless finally makes her way to the dragon, but she may be too late... This is part of Open Hearth Gaming...

Alun R facilitates a session of Hit the Sith - Save the Galaxy, his hack of "Hit the Streets - Save the Block" (by Rich Rogers), a game of local supers protecting their neighbourhood. This session was organsied as part of The Open Hearth Gaming Community's Star Wars Saturday Mini-Con (https://openhearthgaming.com/ RPG) using our Gaming Calendar (https://app.playabl.io/communities/th...). Come join...

GODKILLER: First Blood Edition is a holypunk PbtA (Powered by the Apocalypse) game for one player, the Godkiller, and one Game Master, the god of gods. Together, the two of you will weave a mythic, violent, and transformative tale about the only mortal in existence with the power to slay a god, rising against the challenges of the divine. Which gods will you kill to shape the realm — and which god...

This game is part of this year's 'May the 4th be with You' Mini-Con' with the Open Hearth Butterflies and Hurricanes is a sci-fi rpg about nostalgia, broken promises, uncertain futures, and goodbyes. Inspired by the works of Makoto Shinkai, it aims to deliver an emotional and cathartic experience. You and your friends will play as a group of school friends in a near-future sci-fi world. All of you...

Dragonbane - Forest Trek Fantasy TTRPG by Free League Sound and Music by Syrinscape Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUUwDcgdtQ0 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

A Star Wars Saturday long game which reskins Before the Storm (from Pelgrane's Seven Wonders Collection). This is the first part of the double-length session. In this storygame heroes face a final showdown with a deadly foe. On the eve of the battle we flash back to how they got here, explore old relationships, and deal with unresolved tensions. Through play we will find out if they can emerge vic...

A Star Wars Saturday long game which reskins Before the Storm (from Pelgrane's Seven Wonders Collection). This is the last part of the double-length session. We pick up from the break in the last video, finishing up the questions and moving to the final battle. In this storygame heroes face a final showdown with a deadly foe. On the eve of the battle we flash back to how they got here, explore old...

A Star Wars Saturday long game which reskins Before the Storm (from Pelgrane's Seven Wonders Collection). This is the second part of the double-length session. *NOTE: THE CONNECTION CUT OUT, SO IT STOPS ABRUPTLY. WE PICK UP IN PART THREE* In this storygame heroes face a final showdown with a deadly foe. On the eve of the battle we flash back to how they got here, explore old relationships, and dea...

A one-shot murder mystery for our Star Wars Minicon. The Jedi Temple on Devoc is a place for the lost, fallen, and broken. There the Jedi Council dispatc those who have come too close to the dark side, who have had their faith broken, or struggle to maintain contact with the Force. You are one of the Jedi sent there to recover, but the serenity of this place is about to be broken by a murder. Can...

Alun R facilitates a session 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/openhearthgam...)...

Our protagonists undertake an escort mission with little preparation or intelligence. They desperately fight a trio of Leviathans, but even once they've delivered their charges to the location, they must still battle their way back...which leads to strange events. This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.com. Check out our podcast channel at https://p...

Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQHhMV28sg8 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

A game about the tragic struggles and defiant triumphs of a group of magical girls resisting an oppressive society. Girl by Moonlight explores the heartbreak of denying who you really are, and the transcendent power of relationships and community. Mecha pilots struggle on a Sea of Stars against extinction at the hands of the Leviathans. Girl by Moonlight is a Forged in the Dark ttrpg by Andrew Gil...

Our heroes encounter friends, allies, and strangers as the arrive at the convocation for the three Cultivation Societies. But there are hidden dangers here, including a brother/sister duo involved with monster hunters, a fox spirit sibling, and a dragon in human form with a stolen heart.  This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.com. You can pick up H...

The group returns to Oxford following events at Mathers Hall and the dedicated of the Dunwich font. But they have to contend with fallout from those events, leading to Dr. Whitewood finding himself involuntarily committed. The others meet with various allies and maybe allies as they prepare to deal with Portmore and his fascists. Richard invokes the power of dreaming to aid the doctor in his conva...

Set during the beginning of the New Republic era, Anders starts a new story with a new crew using new rules. Throwing the Black Sun off our trail Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtWl0kROotg ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Fellowship is a game for 3-6 players about going on an adventure, in the same vein as Lord of the Rings or Wakfu or Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders. The system is loosely based on the Apocalypse Engine. In Rebellion is an expansion book for Fellowship. The Empire is an alternative to the Overlord playbook. Rather than stop an evil overlord from destroying the world as we know it, the...

We begin the second half of this Girl by Moonlight series. This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.com. Check out our podcast channel at https://playingatthehearth.openhearthgaming.com/ Follow us on Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/blog/open-hear... BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/openhearthrp... DiceCamp @openhearthrpg@dice.camp You can support my cha...

Start of a new short, fantastic series for Hearts of Wulin, leaning more into elements of xianxia, cultivation, and mythic destiny. We do character creation for the first half and then meet our four heroes on the road as they travel to a convocation of the sects from the three holy mountains. This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.com. You can pick...