Playing at the Hearth

Play the sons and daughters of warlords, mafia bosses, monopolist media houses and your favorite corporate hegemony. That’s right! Be born Filthy Rich! PBTA styled gameplay where you define the world of money and power, and play being the ones on top of it, with Co-GMing and meta story techniques. You can write a story of hope or maybe tragedy. Follow character strings and be pulled back and forth...

Alun R facilitates the 2nd (and final) session of a 2-shot of his own game, Alien Dark (with some potential 2ed modifications). 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...) The Alfa's crew divides up to reach Eng...

Meeting a croc, wandering in dreams, a legal threat, dragon building, consultations, gifts, and more-- and then planning begins for the pantheon to begin their walk into the mythic realm. This session is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.com. Follow us on Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/blog/open-hear... BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/openhearthrp... S...

The second half of a two part series of Pressure, a new industrial sci-fi ttrpg from Osprey. Our team heads to get material for their engine, but encounter a distress call from the station. But when they arrive they find things not as they expect. This session is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.com. Follow us on Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/blog/ope...

The circle starts pulling the threads of their investigation more tightly-- encountering persons both helpful and malign. An attempted ritual fails and the group decides that they must enter into the lion's den-- only to discover that the horrors are closer at hand than they thought. This is the opening session of a Trail of Cthulhu quarterly of Pelgrane Press's campaign framework, Fearful Symmetr...

This is a playtest of a new game in development; AKA is a espionage focused action thriller game inspired by the TV show Alias. We follow the career of a young intelligence officer, discovering that the agency she works for is a front for a criminal organisation, balancing professional and personal commitments while maintaining her cover as a double agent. (Photo by Andrey Zvyagintsev on Unsplash)...

Set during the beginning of the New Republic era, Anders starts a new story with a new crew using new rules! Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Pk0Qf-opc ★ 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 the first session of a 2-shot of his own game, Alien Dark. 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...) The crew of the USCSS Alfalfa (a military surplus UPP cargo hauler sold into commercial U...

The first half of a two part series of Pressure, a new industrial sci-fi ttrpg from Osprey. We set up characters and drop the team into a really, really bad situation. This session is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.com. Follow us on Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/blog/open-hear... BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/openhearthrp... Substack https://open...

Today on Hora de Roleo we play The Mecha Hack! A game about the pilots of House Selina fighting to get Aurelia, their planet, back from the terrible Ares Collective. The team waits at Node's farm for the group that Madonna has sent after them. Here waiting for the battle they share stories and dig deeper and deeper into the mysteries of Aurelia. By the early morning they are in combat and meet one...

Today on Hora de Roleo we play The Mecha Hack! A game about the pilots of House Selina fighting to get Aurelia, their planet, back from the terrible Ares Collective. The pilots head back into the jungle to look for the teens that went missing hoping against hope that they made trough the night. Looking for them they find themselves in a Kaiju nest and the colorful fauna that dwells there. Español...

A complete session of The Hunted, ."..a folk horror storytelling game for 3-5 players that blends together mechanics from  Forged In The Dark, Powered By The Apocalypse, and Belonging Outside Belonging games to create a lean chimera of a game unlike anything you have ever played." "Players take on the role of a group of friends on an expedition who become cut off from civilisation as they are hunt...

This is a folk-horror game, with mentions of isolation, shifting reality, being underground, ritual sacrifice, being stalked. Listener discretion is advised. A fossil hunt in a cave takes strange and sinister turns...Join us for this playthrough of The Hunted, with hints of the movies The Ritual and The Descent, among other folk-horror vibes. The Hunted is a folk-horror tabletop roleplaying game b...

Fickle Fey Fortune Powered by the Apocalypse TTRPG RPG 2015 The Rockies Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExpupbBua8k ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The pantheon looks to decide on next steps, as we see each god interact with NPCs and more. This session is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.com. Follow us on Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/blog/open-hear... BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/openhearthrp... Substack https://openhearthrpg.substack.com/ DiceCamp @openhearthrpg@dice.camp You can support my...

We're playing "Against the Monster," a story game about a monster hunt, the good of the monster, and the monstrosity of the hunters. The game was written by Jasmin Neitzel and Andrea Rick and will be published in 2024 by Plotbunny Games. (There's a slight mismatch between image and sound for one of the players in parts of the first half of the video. Things match again after the break!) 00:00:00 I...

The second half of a two part series of Tomorrow City, a new dieselpunk ttrpg from Osprey. Our heroes develop, reject, and settle on what could loosely be called a plan. We spend some time with the characters before they execute their dangerous mission-- where nothing goes exactly as hoped. This session is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.com. Follow...

The circle continues their investigation of the happenings at Convivial House. Talking to locals they begin to put together a picture of events happening in the two Quintons. Richard remains at the house overnight and has a vision of the hungry darkness lying to the north. Eventually they begin to piece together a picture of the sinister events surrounding Bradbury House and the grove which lies u...

Chargen, Bonds, and Rebellion generation Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m444Q318W2I ★ 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...

Dodgy Deals Delivery Powered by the Apocalypse TTRPG RPG Modern Supernatural Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEGQ0dS8Gas ★ 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...

In the aftermath of their defeat of the Angels, the pantheon considers what to do with Neeharik and the nation of Geznya as a whole. Ransom and Ivesro work to calm and organize the citizenry, and then look to the wild sorcery schools. Darius begins to find their place in all of this. Threadless constructs on several levels. Tasos tries to organize his found family and begins to extends the dreamsc...

The first half of a two part series of Tomorrow City, a new dieselpunk ttrpg from Osprey. We set up characters, jump into the action, and afterwards give the crew their new assignment. This session is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.com. Follow us on Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/blog/open-hear... BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/openhearthrp... Subs...