Playing at the Hearth

the grand finale Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITV-5unDhJM ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

GM Mike Ferdinando runs Swords of the Serpentine, the GUMSHOE RPG of swords and sorcery. Players are: Adam, Eliot, Sean, and Vyrrk. "Corpse Astray - Part Three" The party uses the sewers and Undercity to sneak into the necromancer's townhouse for a final confrontation. But what they find is even more disturbing than what they'd imagined! The conclusion to this short series. Original video: https:/...

Alun R facilitates the first session of a short series of Grimwild (Oddity Press). This session was organised as part of The Open Hearth Gaming Community (https://openhearthgaming.com) using our Gaming Calendar (https://app.playabl.io/communities/the_open_hearth/overview) In the aftermath of the shocking events of the last episode, Valeria and Sir Windemir comfort the innkeeper and discover a lead...

Alun R facilitates the finale of a series of 'The Cluster', his own PbtA space opera game. 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.... The Crew worry that the damage the Razor took while responding to last session's distress signal will put them on the back foot as th...

With the Elder Onagen becoming more like himself, the Caravan steers towards the northern Rockies, where it seems the alien mothership Nayana crash-landed. They struggle with supplies and fuel, coming perilously close to running on empty before meeting with an Answer expedition... The Last Caravan is a cars and aliens tabletop role-playing game about a midwinter road trip in the wake of an alien i...

Cloud Empress Session 11: The crew explores a dead giant used as a living machine—workers harvesting “sense poetry,” a captive freed, and a ritual gone horribly wrong. Oola tries to body-hop into the giant’s heart… and things spiral. Horns makes a desperate choice, the system breaks, and something new rises in his place. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0kF_3Og01I ★ Support this po...

Pike and Mx. Latimer visit the St. James's Street and find a ghost. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpd5L5IbdFY ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Cyclones, snipers and gang fights Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEB8gC0KQjQ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

GM Mike Ferdinando runs Swords of the Serpentine, the GUMSHOE RPG of swords and sorcery. Players are: Adam, Eliot, Sean, and Vyrrk. "Corpse Astray - Part Two" After learning about a dark plot involving the collection of human corpses, our heroes investigate strange goings-on in The Tangle... and find that a disinherited scion of a noble family is involved in necromancy! This game was organized thr...

The caravaners find a bookshop where they can pick up some material to help fill in the gaps of Ree's education, there they meet an interesting figure from The Answer, but their thoughts that everything can't be this perfect are unhappily answered. 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 C...

The crew ventures deeper into the thick wood in Session 10 of Cloud Empress. After a tense encounter with a wealthy hunting party, they uncover a strange reflecting pool that leads through the mysterious “slip”—a dangerous, disorienting pathway between places. Naas follows the trail alone and finds Tooth the Clown alive, but getting back proves far from simple. When the group reunites, they discov...

An actual play of Nick Bate's Stealing the Throne - Three Thieves steal an ancient, impossibly powerful mech. Not all of them survive. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TDmsOwtkJ4 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

exploring Sarnac aftermath Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boY1FwEOWQ4 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

GM Mike Ferdinando runs Swords of the Serpentine, the GUMSHOE RPG of swords and sorcery. Players are: Adam, Eliot, Sean, and Vyrrk. This is the first play session of the series. This game was organized through Open Hearth Gaming: https://openhearthgaming.com Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgaNg8ulqFI ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Alun R facilitates the next session in a series of 'The Cluster', his own PbtA space opera game. 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/the_open_hearth/overview). The Crew make good use of some lead time to find out as much as they can about the Mercenary Job they have...

The group briefly regroups at the library with Cloud and Skull. Horns experiments with their new incorporeal abilities, while Ruse—the apprentice magician—begins forming a tentative friendship with Cloud. Meanwhile the party debates their next move: relocating the library to a safer location, exploring Rust Bucket for rumored artifacts, or heading north to resolve the mystery of Tooth the Clown, a...

Alun R facilitates the first session of a short series of Grimwild (Oddity Press). This session was organsied as part of The Open Hearth Gaming Community (https://openhearthgaming.com) using our Gaming Calendar (https://app.playabl.io/communities/the_open_hearth/overview) Merle the Balladeer decides to take sides in Gaelen's mayoral race and the heroes make an enemy. That same enemy's rhetoric wak...

With the Limehouse Lurker vanquished, the hunters decide to stay home for the night and explore the music room. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuLTGuH0_sc ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Sith arrival and a confrontation that ends very badly. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6sNEMI3iN8 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Alun R facilitates the next session in a series of 'The Cluster', his own PbtA space opera game. 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/the_open_hearth/overview). In the aftermath of the successful ambush Gort & Kyle check the bodies and discover a surprise survivor...

Alun R facilitates the next session in a series of 'The Cluster', his own PbtA space opera game. 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/the_open_hearth/overview). On their initial reconnaissance Gort & Serena find evidence of settlement on the edge of the nearest 'h...

Alun R facilitates a one-shot of Action Movie World as part of the Open Hearth Gaming Community's MECHA MARCH. This session was organsied as part of The Open Hearth Gaming Community (https://openhearthgaming.com) using our Gaming Calendar (https://app.playabl.io/communities/the_open_hearth/overview) In this season's biggest blockbuster: - Anya Brozyna IS Lena Kowalski the hard charging MMA champio...

Finding some friendly faces to point them in the right direction (along with some alien domesticated animals) the Caravan arrive in The Rez, under the wings of a great Aernian Pod and speak with some leaders there about some big ideas. 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...

Alun R facilitates the first session of a short series of Grimwild (Oddity Press). This session was organsied as part of The Open Hearth Gaming Community (https://openhearthgaming.com) using our Gaming Calendar (https://app.playabl.io/communities/the_open_hearth/overview) We flashback to a time when Pherdo the Monk, Sir Windermir the Paladin & Valeria the Warlock rescued a kidnapped merchant f...

We start back at the breeding grounds, right as Prince Bug is lifting the battlefield into the air. Bodies, debris, everything is spiraling up toward him. The fear checks go poorly. Stormmy basically freezes and is lost in the chaos. Rook falls back and prepares to defend. Nagi makes their entrance by animating a corpse and, in true form, immediately tries to pick Rook’s pocket in the middle of al...