Playing at the Hearth

The Gathering Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uswqahYu2U8 ★ 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 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) Arriving at the village...

In which we meet four unusual spiritualists on the cusp of initiation into mysteries they cannot yet imagine. Fearful Symmetries by Steve Dempsey is a campaign for Trail of Cthulhu. We're playing a pretty heavily house-ruled version. This game was organised through the Open Hearth Gaming Calendar. You can find out more at https://openhearthgaming.com/. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch...

Four chambermaids make a pact together one night; to find out why their friend Marga has disappeared and who is behind it! While performing their everyday duties they investigate the goings-on, go out to the mysterious forests of Silent Falls which surround the hotel and wonder who their friend really was... The Girls of the Genziana Hotel are the chambermaids who serve what few guests sleep in th...

Michelangelo DeAcosta a profiler and Nathalie Abad an occultist are with The Oroboro - a consultancy group who help out law enforcement with strange and devilishly difficult cases - they're called in to investigate a grisly murder in Seattle, the Maritime City on the brink... Dive into the shadows of the '90s in this occult serial killer investigation TTRPG - Midnight of the Century is a mid-'90s...

"Impact Preservation PT 1" We return to the Tempest as the head out to deliver a scientific organization to an abandoned Federation listening post near the Romulan border. But both Moreno and Escarra butt heads with the science group's leader. On arrival at the planet, they pick up an anomaly, but focus on securing the site. This becomes more complicated when the initial transport down forces them...

In our first session of Mutant Year Zero, we built the Ark as a ruined mall with hotel elements. The Elder and the Dawn Vault were placed in the old Spencer Gifts. Johammed claimed the lower level and the food court. Marlotte held the upper level. The Ark’s clean water came from a single fountain fed by a jury-rigged underground line, and the group set its starting stats at Food 2, Culture 2, Tech...

Dr. Swindrake takes an interest in Mx. Latimer's Health. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK2IhFUylmw ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Character creation, a spar, and a vision Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3ogfNcsHLI ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Deep inside the giant, tensions finally break. Plans are made, alliances are tested, and the group is forced into a series of hard, irreversible choices. What starts as a focused objective quickly spirals into chaos—panic, pursuit, and desperate improvisation. This session leans hard into everything the campaign has been building toward: unstable identities, dangerous magic, and the cost of pushin...

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) The tense face-off between the townsfolk and bandits is disturbed by the sudden appearance of Brother Odell; a Disciple of Dark...

Mx. Latimer and Pike visit a free health clinic. Latimer looses face and Pike saves a maiden. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y-7ymRhGI8 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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 ★