Playing at the Hearth

a courier arrives and a salon happens Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-w5IEkgqPU ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We meet another character: Andromeda of the Kingdoms. -Crossing Paths, as Andromeda receives Selenetta's embassy -Giving Chase, as Caravel evades Portia and Nerika aboard the Sky Ship-Mangrove 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 attac...

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 establish the minor factions, create our empertrix, define her history, create protagonist characters, select the imperial project, and begin our four PCs on stage at the Imperial Sena...

After a long holiday break, we finally get back to playing. We recap where we're at and play out the last of the downtime scenes. Then our students head out to confront the entity which has been drawing in their peer, Eugene. But shorthanded, they must face something they've only partially begun to understand... This is part of a playtest for a new Series Playset for Girl by Moonlight, in which pr...

Join the coven as they reach Silent Falls: Dahlia Grace the Apostle, who just wants this gig at the Dripping Dagger to go without a hitch. Cloud Redwood the Talismonger, who recognises the town even if they have no real memory of it. Rowan South the Wayfarer & Routeworker, who follows in her parents' footsteps. **** Wayfaring Strange is a diceless tabletop roleplaying game about hidden highway...

Survivors of the Bean Barge regroup in Tack Town, tending wounds, burying the captain, and laying false trails. A cloudling murderer joins the party. On the road east, spore-keeper bullies force a retreat. The group aids deserters, skirts danger, and camps beneath the Wall. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io19PwNR4l0 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We're exploring our first night phase with Dr. Swindrake exploring the Limehouse School, Mr. Pike going out for a drink and Mx Latimer having a leisurely stroll that leads to a quite exquisite private club. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o03FIx4Tpjc ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

a new apartment building and a shooting in a marketplace Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghfKI02Spjc ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

In the thrilling finale of the Manananggal Murders, the crew visits InstaVids tower to confront Tomoe. Awful consequences are mitigated by other awful consequences until Virtus strikes a deal. Also: Community efforts and the last thoughts of a dying woman. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozt1sNkyfzE ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We introduce our characters: Captain Caravel of the Legion, Portia of the Kingdoms, Nerika of the Wilds & Selenetta of the Rebellion. -Discover Something New, as Nerika discovers an ancient ship crashed in the Mire -Venture Forth, as Nerika leads Caravel & Portia to the wreck It has been twelve years since the Legion came down from the stars and began to colonise Athera, and a new generati...

A generational space epic ttrpg inspired by Dune, Foundation, Fading Suns, Coriolis, and more. This is the Session Zero for our playtest. Throne of Suns is an adaptation of Free from the Yoke/Legacy: Life Among the Ruins (UFO Press). In this session we get through setting building, creating the star map, faction building, and interrelations. Next time we'll finalize details on the Emperor, set up...

Session 1: We boarded the Bean Barge from Delta City bound for Tack Town as rumors spread of the Cloud Empress and an early Imago brood. The swarm hit mid-descent. Violence, escape pods, and hard choices followed. The barge crashed. Some survived. Many didn’t. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4LvtkEreRU ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The first scene of the full run of the Between, where Pike, the Factotum, Elinor the Mother and the Udeniable explore an opium den to find their first clues towards the mystery of the Limehouse Lurker. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_ryHK0o5Ik ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

It's our session zero where players finalize their characters and we work out their history together. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uwXYla2hw4 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Returning from the holiday break, the players struggle to remember their theory. Luckily, the theory was wrong anyway, so they come up with a new one. Rhydian dreams of Lady Baptiste (again) and Alecto dispenses justice (almost). Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N7JqOsbkL8 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Alun R facilitates Session Zero for next time's one-shot of Cold City 2nd Edition (Malcolm Craig, Handiwork 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...). Come join us (https://www.patreon.com/openhearthgaming.com). We create a Noir Berlin where nothing is free a...

Temple: Wulfrid the Veteran, Jor'ilt the Spellblade and Kai the Lieutenant arrive at the frontier of Trufast, but the gateway Temple there has been cruelly desecrated and their old comrades slain and defiled. The Sunless Ones: Trina the Water Dancer, Charlotte the Knight and Sovan the Creed Guard see Trufast finally, but greeting them is a parade of The Sunless Ones whom they faced in the cataclys...

Will romance be found amid movie sets, Christmas market cookies, pub food, and herpetology? Find out in this playthrough this holiday season, where characters compete in a holiday-movie tropefest for the affection of a love interest! Hometown Holiday by Nick Tourville is a tabletop roleplaying story game about holiday romance in a small town, TV-movie style. https://kidnick.itch.io/hometown-holida...

Content warnings: General horrors of Christmas, themes and descriptions of self-harm behavior, body horror, intra-elf slavery, harm to animals: reindeer. Ho ho...Oh No! Santa's been kidnapped, and the trail leads to the crass commercialized theme park NorthPoleLand, long abandoned. Will our Specialist Elves find him and Make Christmas Magical? Or will tradition be broken and the holidays never be...

This final week in the Ultraviolet Grasslands, the heroes spent months in the Black City (but only hours outside), rejoined the Rebuilder's body, soul, and spirit, silenced the Death-Facing Passage, settled old debts, found a flying egg, faced the void, and eventually settled in the House at the End of Time. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHxqCM4LVJ0 ★ Support this podcast on Patr...

Ruined: Xoti the Medic, Charlotte the Knight and Kai the Lieutenant are lost in a ruined city, the likes of which will swallow them into the mists of time if they do not find a way through soon. But all their ghosts have caught up with them, and that is their ruin... The Hungering One: Trina the Water Dancer, Hestia the Chef and Sovan the Creed Guard huddle around a roaring fire, refugees tell the...

"Matters of Family Pt 2" Sevari digs deeper into the ship and finds herself trapped. Jures meets up with Th'Vileq and then find themselves in a confrontation with the crew. Ward and Divelle, meanwhile, deal with issues from the wedding. But eventually all three groups must coordinate to stop the fallout from a psychically activate alien device and a hold full of unstable Gluon Torpedoes. This is p...

The Big Rumble and epilogues Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo7aOaRCtwE ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Alun R facilitates the finale of a series 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...). In the finale of our series, the apparent a...

Part two of a Daggerheart one-shot: Extracurricular Activities After investigating the library, the students head into the nearby Town to try and get to the bottom of the mystery. 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 https://www...