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Playing at the Hearth

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Audio recordings of online gaming sessions organized through the Open Hearth Gaming Community. To join us in playing games like these or for more information about our community, please visit openhearthgaming.com.
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Episodes

MCUS MACE Corps 04

A S.H.I.E.L.D. special ops team built from the best of the best from around the world. These soldiers will be deployed against supervillain and alien threats, and to rise to the occasion, they will have limited access to superpowers to fight the good fight! Utilizing the Harvest protocol, M.A.C.E. team members will have limited access to a variety of metahuman abilities. However, the stress of these powers will take a toll on their bodies and minds. It's all in a day's work for our heroes! Origi...

Nov 26, 20232 hr 2 min

SWS: Pew Pew 02

Pew Pew! Bounty Hunters in Space is a one-shot tabletop RPG for up to seven players (and one GM). It uses the same system (lightly modified) from Havoc Brigade by Grant Howitt. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClMVOC0I1PY ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Nov 25, 20232 hr 11 min

Eotenweard: Northumbria (Session 7)

Alun R facilitates a session in a longish series of Eotenweard, his own PbtA game-nearing-the-end-of-development of Dark Age Heroes protecting the innocent from a growing Darkness. 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...). Encountering a group of Saxons on the road into the Kingdom of Rheged, the Heroes discover a friend of theirs is being hunted, while Cadoc, th...

Nov 24, 20232 hr 29 min

Star Trek: Fate of the Quadrant (Session 9)

Alun R facilitates a session of his own Fate hack inspired by Star Trek Adventures (STA from Modiphius). This session was organized 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/posts). Arriving at the Bajoran colony of Free Haven the crew of the Montgomery find it in the grip of a fast moving and deadly infection. There's a Romulan insurg...

Nov 22, 20232 hr 21 min

MCUS MACE Corps 03

A S.H.I.E.L.D. special ops team built from the best of the best from around the world. These soldiers will be deployed against supervillain and alien threats, and to rise to the occasion, they will have limited access to superpowers to fight the good fight! Utilizing the Harvest protocol, M.A.C.E. team members will have limited access to a variety of metahuman abilities. However, the stress of these powers will take a toll on their bodies and minds. It's all in a day's work for our heroes! Origi...

Nov 19, 20232 hr 22 min

SWS: Pew Pew 01

Pew Pew! Bounty Hunters in Space is a one-shot tabletop RPG for up to seven players (and one GM). It uses the same system (lightly modified) from Havoc Brigade by Grant Howitt. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjgZ9w-fmG4 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Nov 18, 20231 hr 57 min

Impossible Landscapes: The End (14 of 12)

The agents discover a shortcut through the madness of Carcosa and arrive at a masquerade ball where rival factions each hope to install their chosen heir to the throne, with the fate of the world in the balance. Content note: this session included a scene involving suicide. This series was organised as part of the Open Hearth Gaming Community. For more information, check out https://openhearthgaming.com/. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-6dQ_-RQQU ★ Support this podcast on Patre...

Nov 18, 20232 hr 2 min

Eotenweard: Northumbria (Session 6)

Alun R facilitates a session in a longish series of Eotenweard, his own PbtA game-nearing-the-end-of-development of Dark Age Heroes protecting the innocent from a growing Darkness. 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 Heroes discover why Teleri is ashamed and how being branded Caicaester's sin-eater can break a person. There's villagers rescued, a Lord s...

Nov 17, 20232 hr 38 min

Girl By Moonlight: Divine Engines Session 5

We do downtime and prep for the third mission, with the characters launching out to recover an engine. This session is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.com. Follow us on Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/blog/open-hear... BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/openhearthrp... Substack https://openhearthrpg.substack.com/ DiceCamp @openhearthrpg@dice.camp You can support my channel and website at https://www.patreon.com/ageofravens For more APs subscribe to the...

Nov 16, 20232 hr 13 min

Star Trek: Fate of the Quadrant (Session 8)

Alun R facilitates a session of his own Fate hack inspired by Star Trek Adventures (STA from Modiphius). This session was organized 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/posts). The Away Team begins to explore the apparently dead Breen frigate on the far side of the 'anti-energy' front, and finds aggressive survivors, potential all...

Nov 15, 20232 hr 23 min

Eotenweard - Northumbria (Session 5)

Alun R facilitates a session in a longish series of Eotenweard, his own PbtA game-nearing-the-end-of-development of Dark Age Heroes protecting the innocent from a growing Darkness. 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 Heroes arrive at Caicaester just as a solar eclipse turns day into twilight. They find the settlement in chaos, as villagers take refuge i...

Nov 14, 20232 hr 32 min

Vow of the Knight-Aspirants: The Gloaming Rite (at Shared Hearth Open Gaming Weekend)

Four squires weather a bandit ambush, and then confront something dark and ancient that has taken over the village of Harrowdale. Griffin tries to make peace, and Kaldwyr nobly gets stabbed as a result. Nimrei shows off her swordplay skills and offers to train her compatriots. Malgwyn uses diplomacy, up until he needs to draw his blade against true evil... Technical note: Tech difficulties cause me to drop out of the game around 50 minutes in. I sorted things out, and we resume play around 1:08:...

Nov 14, 20233 hr 24 min

Trophy Dark - Butter Princess 2023-11-11

Mike Ferdinando runs the Trophy Dark incursion "Butter Princess" by Brian Sago for Cassidy, Chris, Mads, and Rob. Our characters have gone to the Minnesota State Fair on a daring heist: Steal the bust of this year's Butter Princess carved from 90 pounds of butter. This will not end well. This game was part of the Shared Hearth online RPG convention by the Open Hearth Gaming Community. More information about Open Hearth Gaming is at: https://openhearthgaming.com 0:00 - Introductions 5:40 - CATS D...

Nov 13, 20233 hr 15 min

Under the Autumn Strangely, a pastoral horror one-shot for Shared Hearth

Wandering down the lonely road to find mechanical help for their car, two brothers find themselves roaming different aspects of the Never Was...and perhaps remembering aspects of their own selves, that were and could be... Under the Autumn Strangely is a storytelling game of pastoral horror by Graham Gentz. You can find it here https://grahamgentz.itch.io/under-the-autumn-strangely This game was played during the Shared Hearth Open Gaming Weekend, with members of the Open Hearth Gaming Community...

Nov 13, 20233 hr 1 min

The Hunted RPG, a one-shot playthrough for Shared Hearth

Four friends take a weekend trip, finding themselves lost near a supposed abandoned property with a history...and darkness within. Join us for this playthrough of The Hunted, reminiscent of the movie The Ritual with other folk-horror vibes. CW: mention of suicide The Hunted is a folk-horror tabletop roleplaying game by Chris Bissette. You can find it here https://loottheroom.itch.io/hunted This game was played during the Shared Hearth Open Gaming Weekend, with members of the Open Hearth Gaming C...

Nov 13, 20233 hr 16 min

Paranormal Inc: Haunted Holidays, a one-shot for Shared Hearth

The annual holiday party is underway, and somehow some of the ghosts got out of the containment unit! Can our ragtag investigators find out the cause and get the wayward ghosts back before they eat all the canapes and wreak havoc outside of the office? Paranormal Inc. is a game of mystery and paranormal investigation by Alicia Furness. Haunted Holidays is a mystery written for Paranormal Inc. by Alicia Furness, found in the supplement Bust More Ghosts. You can find them here https://afurness.itc...

Nov 13, 20232 hr 44 min

Hearts of Wulin: Wedding of Vengeance & Hope

A one-shot of this PbtA game of wuxia romance and melodrama. This session was run as part of Shared Hearth, a free online ttrpg event as part of the Open Hearth Gaming Community Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbwQ6lpAsRc ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Nov 12, 20233 hr 29 min

MCUS MACE Corps 02

A S.H.I.E.L.D. special ops team built from the best of the best from around the world. These soldiers will be deployed against supervillain and alien threats, and to rise to the occasion, they will have limited access to superpowers to fight the good fight! Utilizing the Harvest protocol, M.A.C.E. team members will have limited access to a variety of metahuman abilities. However, the stress of these powers will take a toll on their bodies and minds. It's all in a day's work for our heroes! Origi...

Nov 12, 20232 hr 13 min

World Building: Collaboration & Beyond

A recording of a talk by me about handling world building and collaborative elements. This session is part of Shared Hearth, the Open Hearth Gaming Community free ttrpg weekend. We discuss: Reasons for a shared approach How existing games handle this Online tools and techniques Managing collaborative building ...and more. This was a mixed discussion and Q&A. We talked about adapting a more fixed setting, like Duskvol from Blades in the Dark, and make it into one with even more interesting pl...

Nov 11, 20231 hr 9 min

SWS: CUSC one-shot

SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY… (abbreviated CUSC) is a tabletop roleplaying game for 3-6 players set in outer space where the players create characters called Outlaws: bounty hunters who fly across the galaxy in search of their next payday. You create situations where they land in hot water, manipulate people, and start blaster fights, all while dealing with their debt and trauma. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4yqm2quKB0 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★...

Nov 11, 20231 hr 56 min

Hearts of Wulin: Wedding of Ice and Fire

A one-shot of this PbtA game of wuxia romance and melodrama. This session was run as part of Shared Hearth, a free online ttrpg event as part of the Open Hearth Gaming Community Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JeXjnPvdz8 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Nov 11, 20233 hr 26 min

SHARED HEARTH - Against the Dark Conspiracy

Alun R facilitates a one-shot of his own supernatural thriller game, Against the Dark Conspiracy (https://gallusgames.itch.io/). This session was organsied as part of The Open Hearth Gaming Community's 'Shared Hearth', free online gaming weekend (https://openhearthgaming.com/ RPG). You can find our calendar of upcoming games here: https://app.playabl.io/communities/th.... Come join us (https://www.patreon.com/openhearthgam...) ... We meet Root a teen tech wiz-kid sick of working for Decioma Tech...

Nov 11, 20232 hr 56 min

Old-School Essentials: Halls of the Blood King (Shared Heart 2023)

This are the Halls of the Blood King, a module of Old-School Essentials about vampires and their mysterious origin, as well as characters venturing into the manor to find unexpected truths. This game was played as part of the Shared Heart 2023 event, the open community event for The Open Heart role playing online community. You can learn more at https://openhearthgaming.com/ --- Hora de roleo is an actual play show by Anya Reyes The adventurers are: David and Dominik Game mastered and produced b...

Nov 10, 20233 hr 4 min

Hearts of Yokai: Session 4

We continue play for this modern urban fantasy PbtA game inspired by Changeling the Lost, Grimm, and more. This session is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.com Shared Hearth, our open gaming weekend, November 10-12th (signups begin October 24th) https://openhearthgaming.com/shared-h... Follow us on Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/blog/open-hear... BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/openhearthrp... Substack https://openhearthrpg.substack.com/ DiceCamp @o...

Nov 09, 20232 hr 13 min

Free from the Shadow: Samurai Fantasy Session 4

The clans attempt to progress the Emperor's project and complete their own agendas. Asuka deals with the outcome of the last session and the characters interact before the next Winter Court. This is an adaptation of Free from the Yoke for samurai fantasy play. This session is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.com Shared Hearth, our open gaming weekend, November 10-12th https://openhearthgaming.com/shared-hearth More on this hack: https://www.ageofrav...

Nov 08, 20232 hr 31 min

Star Trek: Fate of the Quadrant (Session 7)

Alun R facilitates a session of his own Fate hack inspired by Star Trek Adventures (STA from Modiphius). This session was organized 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/posts). A routine planetary survey in the Delera Sector is disrupted when a Ferengi navigation beacon stops broadcasting. The USS Montgomery investigates only to f...

Nov 08, 20232 hr 10 min
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