Orbital is a sci-fi game of precarious spaces and interstellar war. It gives us airlocks and control panels, pensive faces looking out into the cosmos, improvised fixes for critical systems, military-sponsored subterfuge, warm embraces in the cold vacuum, frantic struggles in zero-gravity and unknowable ancient technology, asking WHAT DO YOU DO NEXT? This Belonging Outside Belonging game is by Jack Harrison and is available here https://mouseholepress.itch.io/orbital 00:00:00 Intros 00:02:20 Cre...
Mar 12, 2024•2 hr 14 min
Having made their made into the Bradbury estate-- the circle realizes the threat is both more dire and more immediate than they thought. After wrestling with various plans and consciences, they split up-- with Isabel and Richard trying to find Flora and the grove while Wilford and the Doctor try to see what they can do with Mrs. Bradbury and her impending delivery. Things do not go well. They go messily. Very messily. This is the opening session of a Trail of Cthulhu quarterly of Pelgrane Press'...
Mar 11, 2024•2 hr 3 min
Set during the beginning of the New Republic era, Anders starts a new story with a new crew using new rules. First mission done, but many tangles. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84agS0ZNwLY ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Mar 10, 2024•2 hr 7 min
Fellowship is a game for 3-6 players about going on an adventure, in the same vein as Lord of the Rings or Wakfu or Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders. The system is loosely based on the Apocalypse Engine. In Rebellion is an expansion book for Fellowship. The Empire is an alternative to the Overlord playbook. Rather than stop an evil overlord from destroying the world as we know it, the Empire has already conquered the world(s). They succeeded. The fellowship must work as a rebel allia...
Mar 10, 2024•1 hr 48 min
Play the sons and daughters of warlords, mafia bosses, monopolist media houses and your favorite corporate hegemony. That’s right! Be born Filthy Rich! PBTA styled gameplay where you define the world of money and power, and play being the ones on top of it, with Co-GMing and meta story techniques. You can write a story of hope or maybe tragedy. Follow character strings and be pulled back and forth to maintain the current world order. Would you? Would you not? What are the consequences, what woul...
Mar 09, 2024•2 hr 12 min
Alun R facilitates the first session in a short 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...). Cola the Hunter, Izold the Storyteller & Gwylog the Revenant arrive at the village of Tarham to find a settlement recovering from a ...
Mar 07, 2024•2 hr 10 min
The first half of a journey into the mythic plane-- the crossing of the threshold, a journey across the ocean of souls, and a challenge atop a mammoth lotus flower. 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... DiceCamp @openhearthrpg@dice.camp You can support my channel and website at https://www.patreon.com/ageofravens For more APs...
Mar 07, 2024•1 hr 38 min
We meet our heroes coming off of a job is Los Angeles which cost them dearly. They're called to San Francisco where they must board a cruise liner headed for Shanghai. Their task: locate the person who has taken possession of some stolen occult relics. But things turn nasty quickly with one person murdered and another vanished. 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 ...
Mar 06, 2024•2 hr 23 min
This is a playtest of a new game in development; AKA is a espionage focused action thriller game inspired by the TV show Alias. We follow the career of a young intelligence officer, discovering that the agency she works for is a front for a criminal organisation, balancing professional and personal commitments while maintaining her cover as a double agent. (Photo by Andrey Zvyagintsev on Unsplash) Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HP6xB66FgQ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★...
Mar 04, 2024•57 min
Set during the beginning of the New Republic era, Anders starts a new story with a new crew using new rules. It's our first Job! Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLiBd3vtsvY ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Mar 03, 2024•2 hr 29 min
Fellowship is a game for 3-6 players about going on an adventure, in the same vein as Lord of the Rings or Wakfu or Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders. The system is loosely based on the Apocalypse Engine. In Rebellion is an expansion book for Fellowship. The Empire is an alternative to the Overlord playbook. Rather than stop an evil overlord from destroying the world as we know it, the Empire has already conquered the world(s). They succeeded. The fellowship must work as a rebel allia...
Mar 02, 2024•2 hr 4 min
Play the sons and daughters of warlords, mafia bosses, monopolist media houses and your favorite corporate hegemony. That’s right! Be born Filthy Rich! PBTA styled gameplay where you define the world of money and power, and play being the ones on top of it, with Co-GMing and meta story techniques. You can write a story of hope or maybe tragedy. Follow character strings and be pulled back and forth to maintain the current world order. Would you? Would you not? What are the consequences, what woul...
Mar 02, 2024•1 hr 57 min
Alun R facilitates the 2nd (and final) session of a 2-shot of his own game, Alien Dark (with some potential 2ed modifications). 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/openhearthgam...) The Alfa's crew divides up to reach Engineering and the Bridge in the hope of re-starting the Omega's FTL drive and getting her back to the...
Feb 29, 2024•2 hr 34 min
Meeting a croc, wandering in dreams, a legal threat, dragon building, consultations, gifts, and more-- and then planning begins for the pantheon to begin their walk into the mythic realm. 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 cha...
Feb 29, 2024•2 hr 18 min
The second half of a two part series of Pressure, a new industrial sci-fi ttrpg from Osprey. Our team heads to get material for their engine, but encounter a distress call from the station. But when they arrive they find things not as they expect. 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.c...
Feb 29, 2024•2 hr 20 min
The circle starts pulling the threads of their investigation more tightly-- encountering persons both helpful and malign. An attempted ritual fails and the group decides that they must enter into the lion's den-- only to discover that the horrors are closer at hand than they thought. This is the opening session of a Trail of Cthulhu quarterly of Pelgrane Press's campaign framework, Fearful Symmetries-- a game of warring magicians, sinister folkways, and William Blake. Touchstones for this includ...
Feb 29, 2024•2 hr 36 min
This is a playtest of a new game in development; AKA is a espionage focused action thriller game inspired by the TV show Alias. We follow the career of a young intelligence officer, discovering that the agency she works for is a front for a criminal organisation, balancing professional and personal commitments while maintaining her cover as a double agent. (Photo by Andrey Zvyagintsev on Unsplash) Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvvQ7ZBPs8I ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★...
Feb 26, 2024•2 hr 10 min
Set during the beginning of the New Republic era, Anders starts a new story with a new crew using new rules! Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Pk0Qf-opc ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Feb 25, 2024•1 hr 45 min
Fellowship is a game for 3-6 players about going on an adventure, in the same vein as Lord of the Rings or Wakfu or Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders. The system is loosely based on the Apocalypse Engine. In Rebellion is an expansion book for Fellowship. The Empire is an alternative to the Overlord playbook. Rather than stop an evil overlord from destroying the world as we know it, the Empire has already conquered the world(s). They succeeded. The fellowship must work as a rebel allia...
Feb 24, 2024•1 hr 54 min
Alun R facilitates the first session of a 2-shot of his own game, Alien Dark. 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/openhearthgam...) The crew of the USCSS Alfalfa (a military surplus UPP cargo hauler sold into commercial United American use) and their passenger are heading to a Weyland-Yutani 'shake'n'bake' colony in the...
Feb 22, 2024•2 hr 10 min
The first half of a two part series of Pressure, a new industrial sci-fi ttrpg from Osprey. We set up characters and drop the team into a really, really bad situation. 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 ...
Feb 22, 2024•2 hr 27 min
Today on Hora de Roleo we play The Mecha Hack! A game about the pilots of House Selina fighting to get Aurelia, their planet, back from the terrible Ares Collective. The team waits at Node's farm for the group that Madonna has sent after them. Here waiting for the battle they share stories and dig deeper and deeper into the mysteries of Aurelia. By the early morning they are in combat and meet one of Madonna's Aces Español Hoy en Hora de Roleo, otra partida en inglés, jugamos The Mecha Hack! Un ...
Feb 21, 2024•2 hr 37 min
Today on Hora de Roleo we play The Mecha Hack! A game about the pilots of House Selina fighting to get Aurelia, their planet, back from the terrible Ares Collective. The pilots head back into the jungle to look for the teens that went missing hoping against hope that they made trough the night. Looking for them they find themselves in a Kaiju nest and the colorful fauna that dwells there. Español Hoy en Hora de Roleo, otra partida en inglés, jugamos The Mecha Hack! Un juego sobre los pilotos de ...
Feb 21, 2024•2 hr 32 min
A complete session of The Hunted, ."..a folk horror storytelling game for 3-5 players that blends together mechanics from Forged In The Dark, Powered By The Apocalypse, and Belonging Outside Belonging games to create a lean chimera of a game unlike anything you have ever played." "Players take on the role of a group of friends on an expedition who become cut off from civilisation as they are hunted by an unknown entity. As the game continues the players will tell their own stories about the thin...
Feb 18, 2024•3 hr 21 min
This is a folk-horror game, with mentions of isolation, shifting reality, being underground, ritual sacrifice, being stalked. Listener discretion is advised. A fossil hunt in a cave takes strange and sinister turns...Join us for this playthrough of The Hunted, with hints of the movies The Ritual and The Descent, among other folk-horror vibes. 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 with ...
Feb 18, 2024•3 hr 27 min
Fickle Fey Fortune Powered by the Apocalypse TTRPG RPG 2015 The Rockies Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExpupbBua8k ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Feb 18, 2024•2 hr 12 min
The pantheon looks to decide on next steps, as we see each god interact with NPCs and more. 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 channel. F...
Feb 15, 2024•2 hr 27 min
We're playing "Against the Monster," a story game about a monster hunt, the good of the monster, and the monstrosity of the hunters. The game was written by Jasmin Neitzel and Andrea Rick and will be published in 2024 by Plotbunny Games. (There's a slight mismatch between image and sound for one of the players in parts of the first half of the video. Things match again after the break!) 00:00:00 Introductions 00:01:45 Game intro and set-up 00:27:11 Now the story begins 02:21:36 Stars & (not ...
Feb 13, 2024•2 hr 29 min
The second half of a two part series of Tomorrow City, a new dieselpunk ttrpg from Osprey. Our heroes develop, reject, and settle on what could loosely be called a plan. We spend some time with the characters before they execute their dangerous mission-- where nothing goes exactly as hoped. 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....
Feb 13, 2024•2 hr 28 min
The circle continues their investigation of the happenings at Convivial House. Talking to locals they begin to put together a picture of events happening in the two Quintons. Richard remains at the house overnight and has a vision of the hungry darkness lying to the north. Eventually they begin to piece together a picture of the sinister events surrounding Bradbury House and the grove which lies upon its grounds. This is the opening session of a Trail of Cthulhu quarterly of Pelgrane Press's cam...
Feb 11, 2024•2 hr 38 min
