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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

Urban Shadows 2E: S8

Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMt6WcOiQc8 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Jun 04, 20242 hr 13 min

Urban Shadows 2E: S7

Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOo_giKe1bQ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Jun 04, 20242 hr 19 min

Urban Shadows 2E: S6

Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDeV4UuJqY0 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Jun 04, 20242 hr 27 min

Urban Shadows 2E: S5

Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDiJMFnr7Wo ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Jun 03, 20242 hr 24 min

Urban Shadows 2E: S4

Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMG27yQy8x0 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Jun 03, 20241 hr 29 min

Girl by Moonlight: Danger! Unexploded Spell (Session Zero)

Session Zero- series setup and character creation for Girl by Moonlight using the Danger! Unexploded Spell series playset. it is a campaign of magical defenders and a city under siege. In DUXS drafted unacceptable mages protect their city from arcane air raids and bombings while trying to survive and create a community. You can pick up the playset here: https://bit.ly/Girl_by_Moonlight_DUXS This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.com Our audio vers...

Jun 02, 20241 hr 59 min

Girl By Moonlight: Divine Engines Session 13

The penultimate session and the final mission. The fate of the Bastion will be decided. This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.com. Check out our podcast channel at https://playingatthehearth.openhearthgaming.com/ You can support my channel and website at https://www.patreon.com/ageofravens For more APs subscribe to the channel. For more on gaming in general, check out my site at ageofravensgames.com. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

May 30, 20242 hr 29 min

Imperium Maledictum: 3 Cycles from Retirement (Session 3)

The town of cultists finally pulls back the curtain, threatening to strap the Tech Priest into their sacrificial device. With Octus out tracking down heretics, the other three have to take on mobs, a leader, and a psyker mutant. This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.com. Our audio version of these episodes can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbjJpOWZQZGg2cGt5WWExbHVTQzFZUXg0WXp6UXxBQ3...

May 28, 20241 hr 43 min

Silent Falls - Bump in the Dark: They That go Down to the Sea in Ships (7 of 7)

This is part of a new series, prequel to a series of Alice is Missing & Monsterhearts 2 & sequel to the subsequent series of A Town Called Malice. The Pact check out They That go Down to the Sea in Ships Thrilling, gritty, and utterly human, Bump in the Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game about a group of people who’ve dedicated their lives to hunting and dealing with monsters. There are gruesome attacks, tense investigations, nasty cryptids, nefarious factions, powerful demons, action-p...

May 28, 20242 hr 30 min

Hearts of Wulin: Three Mountains, One Heart S5 (Finale)

The group considers their next steps in dealing with Peerless Zhelan, as our Fox Spirit has a vision. Da Ming discovers a betrayal at the heart of his school while heartless lets loose not one but two dragons. It all leads to a deadly confrontation as the cultivator schools battle in the streets. This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.com. You can pick up Hearts of Wulin on itch.io or DTRPG. https://age-of-ravens-games.itch.io/hearts-of-wulin Our ...

May 28, 20242 hr 45 min

Godkiller (4 of 12)

Newbridge is reeling from the revelations of Wal's actions, but when she wakes from her ordeal it seems that things are changing for the worse already in the town - will Wal cut and run again, or make a stand? **** GODKILLER: First Blood Edition is a holypunk PbtA (Powered by the Apocalypse) game for one player, the Godkiller, and one Game Master, the god of gods. Together, the two of you will weave a mythic, violent, and transformative tale about the only mortal in existence with the power to s...

May 27, 20242 hr 10 min

Fearful Symmetries: Arc Two S12 (Finale)

The magicians finally move to face Portmore. But they discover a darker secret at the heart of their enemy's estate-- a threat to Albion and England. To stop it, one of them will have to pay the ultimate price. This is a session of an ongoing 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 include The Devil Rides Out, Children of the Stones, The Owl Service, From Hell, ...

May 26, 20242 hr 21 min

SWS Fellowship Finale

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...

May 25, 20242 hr 35 min

Eotenweard: The Growing Dark (Session 3)

Alun R facilitates a final session of 3 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 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...) ... Their Fae companion mysteriously disappears as the other Heroes head up into the Nort...

May 23, 20242 hr 36 min

Imperium Maledictum: Plausible Deniability (Session 2)

With one of the three targets located, the team questions the goon they captured, revealing the Fixer's plan to put them in harms way. Stymied when the try to find out answers at the prison, they call on their patron's influence to get info from the Administratum. This uncovers larger forces at play, leading them to a daring raid on an experimental Adeptus Mechanicius lab... This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.com. Our audio version of these ep...

May 22, 20242 hr 36 min

Imperium Maledictum: 3 Cycles from Retirement (Session 2)

The team deals with a group of cultists attacking their living quarters. In the aftermath, they follow them back to their nest in the woods, but they aren't the ones behind the Inquisitor's disappearance. They return to the town where a confrontation with the so-called witch reveals more about the situation. This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.com. Our audio version of these episodes can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=vid...

May 22, 20242 hr 18 min

Hearts of Wulin: Three Mountains, One Heart S4

Caught before the Cultivator gathering, the Fox reveals things to the Celestial and then manages a cover story. Ming Da brings his brother to ask for Flickering Breath's assistance, with consequences. Peerless Zhelan appears and a fight ensues. A Fox is captured, escapes, and then a bloodied body appears. Some of the threats have been unmasked and now the heroes must decide who they will face... This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.com. You can ...

May 21, 20242 hr 41 min

Silent Falls - Bump in the Dark: They That go Down to the Sea in Ships (6 of 7)

This is part of a new series, prequel to a series of Alice is Missing & Monsterhearts 2 & sequel to the subsequent series of A Town Called Malice. The Pact check out They That go Down to the Sea in Ships Thrilling, gritty, and utterly human, Bump in the Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game about a group of people who’ve dedicated their lives to hunting and dealing with monsters. There are gruesome attacks, tense investigations, nasty cryptids, nefarious factions, powerful demons, action-p...

May 21, 20242 hr 24 min

Godkiller (3 of 12)

GODKILLER: First Blood Edition is a holypunk PbtA (Powered by the Apocalypse) game for one player, the Godkiller, and one Game Master, the god of gods. Together, the two of you will weave a mythic, violent, and transformative tale about the only mortal in existence with the power to slay a god, rising against the challenges of the divine. Which gods will you kill to shape the realm — and which gods will you spare? GODKILLER: First Blood is by Connie Chang and is available here https://byconniech...

May 19, 20241 hr 34 min

Fearful Symmetries: Arc Two S11

The magicians close a deal with an ancient. They search through the city and neutralize the strange fruit left by Portmore's men. In exchange, the Ghoul Lord lets them into the Labyrinth beneath Winchester. But more trials lie ahead in the travel, their own magical consciences, and the foes they face at the end. And then Merlin's Prophecy comes true and with it horrific devastation... This is a session of an ongoing Trail of Cthulhu quarterly of Pelgrane Press's campaign framework, Fearful Symme...

May 19, 20242 hr 32 min

SWS: Fellowship 12

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...

May 18, 20242 hr 10 min

Silent Falls - Bump in the Dark: Interlude (5 of 7)

This is an interlude session of our series of Bump in the Dark, prequel to a series of Alice is Missing & Monsterhearts 2 & sequel to the subsequent series of A Town Called Malice. Thrilling, gritty, and utterly human, Bump in the Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game about a group of people who’ve dedicated their lives to hunting and dealing with monsters. There are gruesome attacks, tense investigations, nasty cryptids, nefarious factions, powerful demons, action-packed showdowns, and re...

May 16, 20241 hr 20 min

Girl By Moonlight: Divine Engines Session 12

The group deals with the successful mission, but wonders what has happened to Team Arcturus. The learn of the events in this Sandahl's home dimension, where Radiant and their Engine Lyra killed everyone else. The Bishop reveals that Bastion cannot no long make warp jumps-- and now they must await the coming of the Leviathans. But things are happening behind the scenes-- and the pilots are told they cannot be told what is coming. Despite that, Sia pushes forward: leading to an explosion which des...

May 16, 20242 hr 44 min

Fearful Symmetries: Arc Two S10

The group heads south to Winchester to interfere with Portmore's plans. They meet with a strange figure who tells them of two kings in that city. The investigation leads them to Roman tunnels, an American Revival meeting, a local antiquarian and more. Also: Ghouls! This is a session of an ongoing 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 include The Devil Rides Ou...

May 15, 20242 hr 12 min

Imperium Maledictum: Plausible Deniability (Session 1)

We bring our character together with their patron, who assigns them the task to hunting down a trio of former starship crewmembers from an impounded ship. This takes them to a Hive World where they find foes already there before them... This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.com. Our audio version of these episodes can be found here: https://playingatthehearth.openhearthgaming.com/ Follow us on Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/blog/open-hearth-rpg Bl...

May 15, 20242 hr 17 min

Imperium Maledictum: 3 Cycles from Retirement (Session 1)

We get rolling on our short series of Imperium Maledictum, a ttrpg of WH40K rogues and agents. The group is tasked by their Patron to locate a wayward inquisitor on a remote Agri-Planet. But, of course, nothing is as it seems. This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.com. Our audio version of these episodes can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbjJpOWZQZGg2cGt5WWExbHVTQzFZUXg0WXp6UXxBQ3Jt...

May 14, 20242 hr 15 min

Godkiller (2 of 12)

GODKILLER: First Blood Edition is a holypunk PbtA (Powered by the Apocalypse) game for one player, the Godkiller, and one Game Master, the god of gods. Together, the two of you will weave a mythic, violent, and transformative tale about the only mortal in existence with the power to slay a god, rising against the challenges of the divine. Which gods will you kill to shape the realm — and which gods will you spare? GODKILLER: First Blood is by Connie Chang and is available here https://byconniech...

May 13, 20242 hr 11 min

Dragonbane (2) Smells like mean spirit

Dragonbane (2) Smells like mean spirit Fantasy tabletop Roleplaying Game Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tPVvyIyDJw ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

May 12, 20242 hr 21 min

SWS: Fellowship 11

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...

May 11, 20242 hr 13 min

Eotenweard: The Growing Dark (Session 2)

Alun R facilitates a 2nd 0f 4 sessions 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 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...) ... As morning breaks Seren the Black rises early to praise God while Althea seeks out the...

May 08, 20242 hr 39 min
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