Playing at the Hearth

Alun R facilitates a session in 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...). Come join us (https://www.patreon.com/openhe...

Through the Dark Light Passage, met a machine-man seeking a soul; found a huge one but saved it for after winter. Into the Forest of Meat—gross but forageable. Found Betty the hot-rod autogolem; drag race chaos. Looted 15k coins. Cured plague. Reached the Black City. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsM6ngYt6ec ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Nahual is a tabletop role-playing game about brujos nahuales, humans of mestizo and indigenous ancestry that have the power to shapeshift into an animal form. These nahuales hunt angels to make a living, running a changarro (a business) together to sell the products they make from the bodies of the angels they have killed. These are stories about underdogs, struggling to find their place in a Mexi...

"Tellarite Tangles Pt 2" Litaal continues to try to bring together the two sides aboard the stalled Tellarite evacuation ship. But when two Jem'Hadar ships drop out of warp, the Kintsugi desperately moves to draw them off-- utilizing every trick they can muster. Captain Vate and his crew push their vessel to the limits in a battle which tests everyone as systems go awry and gambits fail... This is...

Prison Break! Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B20Xzc3zGg ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

A new monster joins the squad. An old acquaintance resurfaces. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arBl9O31mpQ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8T6-KkI1fw ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Alun R facilitates the first session in 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...). Come join us (https://www.patreon.co...

Nonius and Vern try to pry secrets from the ghost-blade duelist Robles, while Cass tries to find a way into the ship wreckers area. The captain encounters and old adversary and comes to an accord. Vern gets a cat, the Captain wrestles with his new leadership style, Cass makes a bargain, and Nonius has an unsatisfying attempt to remove a curse. This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can...

Maeve recalls a forgotten memory, tied to how Azure came to be her companion. The town has a few festival days a year, and they’re some of the busiest for A Fair Wind. The Proprieters prepare, despite a lack of sufficient supplies, competition with a neighbouring establishment and impromptu competitions and dances! *** The adventurer’s life is tough. It’s time to call it quits. For years you stumb...

We create the second season of this dark academia tv series. Death! Resurrection! A controversial season finale! Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHMMEgXs7Iw ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Our protagonists begin their second year with a lecture about the nature of self-identity, magic, and secrets. They also wrestle with their text books. They learn of the next semester event, a dangerous flora-based scavenger hunt. We move into the obligation and downtime phase, in which they begin to look into the forces affecting one of Damien's close friends. Next session Dec 2nd. This is part o...

The Caravan ventures into The Eerie, where the strange radio silence is broken by Roxanne's (their new alien songbird) twittering. Warily, they begin to follow the deciphered coordinates but bump into something overlooking the spot... 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...

This week in the Ultraviolet Grasslands, the caravan crossed the Ivory Plain, dodged a raccoon-pig stampede, escaped proto-hunters with poetry, and dined with cannibals. Skelly practiced necromancy, Modon got a makeup tutorial, and we entered the Dark Light Passage. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo7NiIxFcXM ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Nahual is a tabletop role-playing game about brujos nahuales, humans of mestizo and indigenous ancestry that have the power to shapeshift into an animal form. These nahuales hunt angels to make a living, running a changarro (a business) together to sell the products they make from the bodies of the angels they have killed. These are stories about underdogs, struggling to find their place in a Mexi...

"Tellarite Tangles Pt 1" Litaal reflects on his time on the Kintsugi drawing to a close. As the ship runs drills and works on weapon system upgrades, he dispenses some last bits of advice. But a suddenly cut off distress call from a Tellarite colony sends the Kintsugi on a sudden rescue mission and a clash with a Cardassian Galor-class cruiser. This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can...

The Green Krayts go on a run and run into a Calanthe-shaped wall. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJh7pcPMhYI ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

A New Mystery starts. Virtus and Rhydian depart to Manila. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHn9dPLF3rg ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We set the scene for our four season dark academia series, including a cast of inquisitive students with secrets and tragedies in their past, ghosts, an underground maze city and more! Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1ukLmKUc4w ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The crew arrives in Horizon, the city of the Pirate Lords. They begin to explore, with Nonius choosing to make up for a slight his captain in an unorthodox way. Cass meets the Groom of another ship, Vern learns something of local cults, and the Captain invests in future projects. Later Nonius and Vern witness Robles, a duelist with a ghost blade. Finally the Captain meets with one of his former Pi...

Alun R facilitates the first session in 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...). Come join us (https://www.patreon.co...

Enchantments are volatile things, especially when they sit unused for long periods of time. You have to let go of your old equipment before it’s too late. The proprietors of A Fair Wind recall their adventuring days while decommissioning some old artefacts... *** The adventurer’s life is tough. It’s time to call it quits. For years you stumbled through hostile lands, living off stale rations, and...

This is part of a playtest for a new Series Playset for Girl by Moonlight, in which protagonists have been drafted into a school of magic which is trying to change, manipulate, and even destroy them. It is inspired by The Scholomance, The Magicians, Vita Nova, Harrow the Ninth, Babel, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and more. This session includes our series and character creation. This is part of Open...

This week in the Ultraviolet Grasslands, Adoron consulted with the Satraps at the Spectrum Palace, Phaedred got fired from Oenerics Unlimited, Skelly learned to raise the dead, and Modon accidentally created Spatula, a sentient bean-filled satrap suit. Also: lots of profit! Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Q6iB0wzqY ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

"Plague of Arias Pt 2" Commander Divelle returns to the Kintsugi, only to walk into the outbreak of an unknown plague. Together with Dr Pergral, they work to protect the crew and understand the connection to the Arias Plague. Meanwhile Litaal tracks down some logistical anomalies which ends up with him at disruptor point. Captain Vate tracks back to uncover the real reason behind Hephaestus Statio...