Playing at the Hearth

Historical revelations and a culling. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYhgX1CaMUs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Making their way across the vast expanses of the Dakotas, the newly enlarged Caravan make hunting for supplies their main task. The veterans get to know their new companions a little, while getting into scrapes and encountering new alien lifeforms. 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...

A generational space epic ttrpg inspired by Dune, Foundation, Fading Suns, Coriolis, and more. Throne of Suns is an adaptation of Free from the Yoke/Legacy: Life Among the Ruins (UFO Press). In this playtest session experience our first Zoom In: looking more closely on the moves of two protagonists as they travel to a planet of heretics, both with very different agendas. UFO Press: https://ufo-min...

A generational space epic ttrpg inspired by Dune, Foundation, Fading Suns, Coriolis, and more. Throne of Suns is an adaptation of Free from the Yoke/Legacy: Life Among the Ruins (UFO Press). In this playtest session we see the first moves by the various factions and how those play out in the lives of the protagonists. UFO Press: https://ufo-mina.itch.io/ This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Communit...

This week in Cloud Empress, Rook dueled Lord Flag for Horn, the group sought chalk fluid to save Neus, mangled and sickened soldiers littered the breeding grounds, the Imago prince whipped up a surreal battlefield, and Skull and Cloud sought refuge at the library with Neus. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzX6HkEMQ5M ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Alun R facilitates the first of a two-shot of his own game. Alien Dark (available free from https://gallusgames.itch.io). 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). Evans is transforming into 'something else', Willis has been thrown across the din...

Mr. Pike goes to the tailor and has a good cuppa tea. Dr. Swindrake takes a look at a superior craftperson's handywork. In the evening: an intimate moment. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZvUe5zFyqo ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

More Salon interactions and problems Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvoi_jlppAI ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

-Meeting Hand to Heart: after Andromeda's rescue of Caravel... -Stand United: as Selenetta brings an airship to relieve the Flickering Isle from a Legion armada! It has been twelve years since the Legion came down from the stars and began to colonise Athera, and a new generation of princesses are beginning to see the need for another Accord. The Legion has been attacking towns again. The Kingdoms...

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). Picking up from last session's cliffhanger, the Crew agree to disagree about the demand from the Guild of t...

The group followed Vanni, a decaying proxy of the factory-god Oregano, into a buried complex beneath Rustbucket. At the entrance they encountered disposables—blank, obedient humanoids tending storage boxes filled with Oregano’s preserved organs. The disposables treated the components as sacred cargo and followed simple rituals, easily misled by confident authority and routine. To descend, the part...

Alun R facilitates the first of a two-shot of his own game. Alien Dark (available free from https://gallusgames.itch.io). 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). Lieutenant Knack leads their marine squad back to base when the threat of a UPP at...

Temple Surrounded! Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ofpIFEukjw ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

-Search & Rescue: Sprout, a Warrior of the Wilds has captured Caravel after the Captain claimed the mountain forest for the Legion. Andromeda rescues him. -Talking it Over: as Selenetta visits Sprout to talk to Caravel. It has been twelve years since the Legion came down from the stars and began to colonise Athera, and a new generation of princesses are beginning to see the need for another Ac...

Arriving at a small compound on the shores of Lake Superior, the Caravan meet The Crossers, a small group helping others to cross the lake. Here they help out with some medical needs, woodcutting and such before they spy an enormous alien life-form in the distance (and it spies back...) The Last Caravan is a cars and aliens tabletop role-playing game about a midwinter road trip in the wake of an a...

Alun R facilitates the first full session 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). Serena makes a low-G leap to help the others reach the breach in the missing mining ship; Gort is first...

Arriving at a small compound on the shores of Lake Superior, the Caravan meet The Crossers, a small group helping others to cross the lake. Here they help out with some medical needs, woodcutting and such before they spy an enormous alien life-form in the distance (and it spies back...) The Last Caravan is a cars and aliens tabletop role-playing game about a midwinter road trip in the wake of an a...

The group remained at Jal’s ruined library outside Rustbucket and discussed what establishing a long-term base there might require: scouting, hunting, water access, and fortifications. A courier named Creepy Gro arrived to trade chalk, a spyglass, and a dart pipe in exchange for salvaged thopter parts and plasteel. Gro showed interest in the archive’s books, but Jal shut that down immediately, whi...

AAlun R facilitates the final session of a two-shot of his own game. Alien Dark (available free from https://gallusgames.itch.io). 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). Wynne convinces the LT that what they found at the club means they have t...

William the Limehouse Lurker comes for a visit to Hargrave House and Mx Latimer visits an underground party. Also: Pigs. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rL0a0400W8 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Vise grippping tighter Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G7qa7uOQbs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

GM Mike Ferdinando runs Swords of the Serpentine, the GUMSHOE game of swords and sorcery. Players are: Adam, Brandon, Eliot, and Vyrrk. This is a Session Zero, where the players learn about the game and go through character creation. Game organized through Open Hearth Gaming: https://openhearthgaming.com/ 0:00 - Introductions 6:53 - CATS: Concept, Aim, Tone & Subject Matter 12:25 - Safety Disc...

Leaving their friend Angie behind with the Remnants, the caravan continues, tracing their way across one lake before realising they need a guide across the next one. They meet one of the Crossers who promises them help, though with a price... 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,...

Alun R facilitates session zero 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/the_open_hearth/overview). We create our Cluster, it's Societies, signficant Factions, Crew and their Ship. Then we play to find out what...

The stakes rise as: -Crossing Paths, as Andromeda and Portia reacquaint themselves on a voyage, ruminating on past attempts to bring the Flickering Isles into the Rebellion. -Meeting Blade to Stave, as Selenetta blocks Caravel's entrance to the lair of the Dark Sorcereress! It has been twelve years since the Legion came down from the stars and began to colonise Athera, and a new generation of prin...