Playing at the Hearth

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...

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 ★