Playing at the Hearth

Tired of waiting for the New Republic to take down Imperial Warlord Zsinj, an exiled noble uses their fortune to hire a crack team to take down the Imperial Governor who rules their home - to assassinate that sleemo and free their planet again. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syWa9Ppc0XY ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The physician Yin Tiankong arrives by airship to the capital city of Xanjing, charged with the care of Lei Zhelan's former rival in love. Golden Twilight tries to win Yin Tiankong's heart and demonstrate competence as an imperial leader while Lei Zhelan attempts to uncover the true allegiance of Copper Moon, last in line to the throne. This is the sixth of eight sessions of Hearts of Wulin using t...

More play for the new quarterly series of Masks: A New Generation, set in a world where most of the supers have vanished in the wake of a strange event. This series is inspired by Base Raiders, Planetary, and Young Justice. This series is part of the Open Hearth Gaming Community openhearthgaming.com This session is just one of many APs on this channel. To see more about that- as well as blog posts...

We continue play for a new series of Mountain Home, a Forged in the Dark game of dwarven settlement building. Our characters are Founders, setting out from an existing settlement to excavate and restore a fallen metropolis-- uncovering secrets, building their community, and dealing with neighboring factions. This session is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthg...

Alun R facilitates a session of Fate of the Quadrant Accelerated (his Fate hack for play in the Star Trek Universe). 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...) This 'bottle episode' used a different set of rule...

The Round Table is sundered. Twisted shadows of once noble heroes stalk the wretched land, victims of the Graal's malevolence. The Quest for the Holy Graal was a success, but Arthur and his companions failed to understand its true power. The Graal deceived them and plunged Albion into a growing darkness. This is a demon-haunted landscape where grotesque forms of legendary creatures and mythic warr...

Alun R facilitates a session of Agaisnt the Sith Conspiracy (a hack of Against the Dark Conspiracy by Alun Rees). 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 last episode ended with the team being escorted a...

Alun R facilitates a session of Against the Sith Conspiracy, a hack of Against the Dark Conspiracy by Alun Rees. 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 team decide they need to know more about the stea...

Second of eight sessions of a Monsterhearts 2 run in the Open Hearth Gaming Community. May 2023 Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foGFDDdbrCs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Above the Law is an action RPG of superheroism, where you play one of the world’s greatest defenders, taking whatever actions you deem necessary to preserve order and hold back chaos. You might draw your powers from almost any source, but what really makes you tick are the maxims you live by, the principles that are your reason for standing up and fighting. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/...

Above the Law is an action RPG of superheroism, where you play one of the world’s greatest defenders, taking whatever actions you deem necessary to preserve order and hold back chaos. You might draw your powers from almost any source, but what really makes you tick are the maxims you live by, the principles that are your reason for standing up and fighting. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/...

A nifty Dungeon World hack for Star Wars! Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnJzsA9Jk6s ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Ninth Raven's royal heritage is revealed to the worst possible rival, Lei Zhelan forms a dangerous relationship with the second heir to the throne, and Golden Twilight's secret identity is marked for death by her own father. This is the fifth of eight sessions of Hearts of Wulin using the Courtly Wuxia variant rules. For more on Hearts of Wulin, see: https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/hearts-of-wulin.ht...

The Galactic Empire under Emperor Palpatine grows more and more oppressive. They are opposed by a diverse collection of rebels, anarchists, resistance fighters, and idealists, each group fighting in their own way. This is the story of one such group. This game is part of the "May the 4th be with You" mini-con. It is set concurrent with the Andor tv show but will not involve any of the characters f...

The Galactic Empire under Emperor Palpatine grows more and more oppressive. They are opposed by a diverse collection of rebels, anarchists, resistance fighters, and idealists, each group fighting in their own way. This is the story of one such group. This game is part of the "May the 4th be with You" mini-con. It is set concurrent with the Andor tv show but will not involve any of the characters f...

More play for the new quarterly series of Masks: A New Generation, set in a world where most of the supers have vanished in the wake of a strange event. This series is inspired by Base Raiders, Planetary, and Young Justice. This series is part of the Open Hearth Gaming Community openhearthgaming.com This session is just one of many APs on this channel. To see more about that- as well as blog posts...

We continue play for a new series of Mountain Home, a Forged in the Dark game of dwarven settlement building. Our characters are Founders, setting out from an existing settlement to excavate and restore a fallen metropolis-- uncovering secrets, building their community, and dealing with neighboring factions. This session is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthg...

A rogue captain is in the process of stealing an alien artifact which will terraform a planet. Our crew has a limited amount of play time to stop them. (A single hour, in fact!) Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5f-fBotuRM ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Alun R facilitates the final session in a series of Starforged by Shawn Tomkin. 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 Ironsworn enter the confusing organic maze of the Precursor Vault breached by unsus...

Errant is a two player roleplaying game about a knight errant alone on a Quest from their Lord. One player takes the role of the Knight, taking on their sworn chivalric code and attempting to complete the Quest given to them; the other player takes the role of the Landscape, providing obstacles, challenges, and setbacks for the Knight as they pursue their Quest. Inspired by The Green Knight, it te...

The second half of a mission for a quarterly series of Star Trek Adventures. Aboard the USS Kintsugi, built with salvage from the battle of Wolf 359, our crew heads out into a Federation still coming to terms with those events. New ships have been rushed out or pulled from mothballs with green crews and officers called back to duty, regardless of record. While the Chief Engineer & acting First...

Lei Zhelan, Ninth Raven, and Golden Twilight must move decisively to intercept an imperial assault on a Shua temple. Flying shock troopers, steam trains, and flamethrowers all make an appearance. This is the fourth of eight sessions of Hearts of Wulin using the Courtly Wuxia variant rules. For more on Hearts of Wulin, see: https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/hearts-of-wulin.html. This session is part of...

A nifty Dungeon World hack for Star Wars! Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asJ2SVqayTw ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The Galactic Empire under Emperor Palpatine grows more and more oppressive. They are opposed by a diverse collection of rebels, anarchists, resistance fighters, and idealists, each group fighting in their own way. This is the story of one such group. This game is part of the "May the 4th be with You" mini-con. It is set concurrent with the Andor tv show but will not involve any of the characters f...

First of eight sessions of a Monsterhearts 2 run in the Open Hearth Gaming Community. May 2023 Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCZvuwwLnBY ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★