Playing at the Hearth

-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...

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).As a marine squad ferries a Weyland-Yutani Rep around the oil fields of Ariarcus th...

While Madam Doctor Swindrake spends the day at Hargrave House's new library, Mr. Pike goes to the Limehouse Lurker's Lair. There he has some near-death experiences that reward all of us with new insight into his past. Meanwhile, Mx. Latimer consorts with Fanny and the Man in the Sun Mask and is invited to a secret party at Catherine's. All in a day's work. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/w...

A shootout at the salon Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jCd-AtRx4w ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

...in which the monsters descend into the depths of Base 0001 and uncover disturbing secrets about DIVISION and one another. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBjj5RuKwTM ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Alun R facilitates a 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). With a new, largely unknown, colleague the Agents begin their mission at C...

The party entered the ruined city of Rustbucket and found ancient systems still grinding along long after their builders were gone. Mechanical figures hunted animals, rendered bodies into wax and candles, and fed towering light pylons that once illuminated the streets. Birds in the ruins warned of nearby dangers: a toxic lake where nothing survived, underground complexes called “the god’s tunnels,...

Mr. Pike goes to Whitechapel to investigate Mrs. Yarbrough's apartment. Mx Latimer meets the Dapper Boy and Madam Doctor Swindrake helps the sick and the poor (and the small). Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y_D4qrg0Vw ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

A showdown over a box and a revelation of another box. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYXQc1vJwLo ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The Monsters travel to [redacted] to help Alecto's old friend Gorimel protecting the first (!) door. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgvHPTj_sjI ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The streams begin to cross, as: -Mincing Words, Selenetta's trades barbs with the undercover Captain Caravel as he listens to her play music -Taking the Dance Floor, as Andromeda surprises Caravel with a request to dance and her direct manner, as he wonders where the spy he is meant to meet is... It has been twelve years since the Legion came down from the stars and began to colonise Athera, and a...

Dahlia and Cloud investigate the mystic car alarm going off, confronting someone who desperately wants something in their car. Back in the bar, they delve deeper into the lighthouse keeper's past and his future. But eventually the gig wraps up on a triumphant note, the only discordance coming with the mysterious Steiner who offers something too enticing to reject outright... **** Wayfaring Strange...

The group woke near the Wall low on supplies and were soon joined by Moss, a courier recently pushed out of Acorn Village by cloudling pressure. Tears reunited with Momma after surviving the Bean Barge wreck, and Moss was folded into the group’s eastward plan: reach salvage, avoid expeditions, stay alive. They chose to pass through Fort Snek, a cloudling-held gate in the Wall crowded with displace...

As we finish our first Night Phase, Ms Swindrake meets the Lurker. Mr. Pike gets into a scuffle and they all meet up at breakfast and compare notes Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3NHPfdrLxQ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★