"The Trials of Damocles" The crew recovers and checks over the results of the first leg of the race as well as the impact of the Experimental Impulse Drive module. After a somewhat tense reception with the captains of the other vessels, the second leg of the race begins. But things escalate quickly, beginning with a freak radiation burst knocking out controls on the Lyran vessel and rising as a hyper-vegetation incident threatens the Kintsugi itself. This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community,...
Apr 29, 2025•2 hr 31 min
In the Ultraviolet Grasslands this week, the caravan spent a month at the Stele of the Pierced Blossom: Phaedred translating ancient poetry and trading with time-slipped ghosts, Modan training with a bear, and Adoron getting mind blasted and ba-synced with The Rebuilder. Totally fine. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdJU0v4gT-o ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Apr 29, 2025•2 hr 15 min
Introducing a new ghost, Mirage! During this session, Mirage and The Witch encounter conflict in the basement, a drifter with the ability to perceive the supernatural appears, Autumn loses her arm, and a haunted painting offers terrible revelations. This is the second of six sessions of Our Haunt by Rae Nedjadi. For more on Our Haunt, visit https://temporalhiccup.itch.io/our-haunt This session is part of the Open Hearth Gaming Calendar. To find out more about the Open Hearth gaming community, ch...
Apr 27, 2025•1 hr 54 min
Step into the era of the New Republic, where the Empire may be defeated, but its remnants still lurk in the shadows, and the galaxy is far from at peace. You and your team are about to embark on a high-stakes journey through the Tapani Sector - a system where the gilded halls of noble houses clash with the gritty starports full of rogues, smugglers, and daring pilots. This is a place of glamour and deception, where every handshake hides a dagger and every smile could spell betrayal. As members o...
Apr 26, 2025•2 hr 2 min
Content Warning: aftermath of a bloody massacre. This is a prequel to a series of Alice is Missing & Monsterhearts 2 & taking place during the 80s in between subsequent series of A Town Called Malice & Bump in the Dark. COME ON IN is a role-playing game about a grisly murder case that rocks the small coastal Louisiana town of Bon Soleil and unravels a conspiracy that cuts into the depths of the night. Two homicide detectives of the Louisiana State Police Department experience certain...
Apr 23, 2025•2 hr 25 min
Character and setting creation followed by a quick opening scene in our six-session run of Rae Nedjadi's Belonging Outside Belonging game "Our Haunt." We are introduced to our four ghosts, a Betrayed ghost called "The Witch," a haunted doll named Autumn, a Faceless ghost named Elle, and a ghost returned from heaven (or something like it) named Sienna. This is the first of six sessions of Our Haunt by Rae Nedjadi. For more on Our Haunt, visit https://temporalhiccup.itch.io/our-haunt This session ...
Apr 23, 2025•2 hr 1 min
In the Ultraviolet Grasslands this week, Triumph Ventures gets back on the road, opening a totally safe dull-way portal at Waystone, finding a thousand lost soles at the Mausoleum of Wire, and inviting the wise bear Ottokar to join the caravan. Onward to Fallen Umber! Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8GTlHgaSRE ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Apr 22, 2025•3 hr 8 min
"The Trials of Damocles" En route to deliver a shipment of rare botanical samples to a conference at Babel, the Kintsugi is retasked to assist in an experiment/demonstration involving a radical new impulse drive modification. However on arrival the crew discovers fighting vessels from there alien worlds in a stand-off, plans for a space race, and an eccentric but brilliant Gorn scientist. This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.com Our audio versio...
Apr 21, 2025•2 hr 41 min
Step into the era of the New Republic, where the Empire may be defeated, but its remnants still lurk in the shadows, and the galaxy is far from at peace. You and your team are about to embark on a high-stakes journey through the Tapani Sector - a system where the gilded halls of noble houses clash with the gritty starports full of rogues, smugglers, and daring pilots. This is a place of glamour and deception, where every handshake hides a dagger and every smile could spell betrayal. As members o...
Apr 19, 2025•1 hr 1 min
This is a prequel to a series of Alice is Missing & Monsterhearts 2 & taking place during the 80s in between subsequent series of A Town Called Malice & Bump in the Dark. COME ON IN is a role-playing game about a grisly murder case that rocks the small coastal Louisiana town of Bon Soleil and unravels a conspiracy that cuts into the depths of the night. Two homicide detectives of the Louisiana State Police Department experience certain events supernatural in nature while in pursuit o...
Apr 15, 2025•2 hr 6 min
In the Ultraviolet Grasslands this week, our caravan finishes out the winter in the Last Serai, get visits from the Butcher Bank and Oenerics Unlimited, settles some debts, listens to some rumors, and gets ready to set back out on the trail come spring... Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YafHON1qfJc ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Apr 15, 2025•2 hr 41 min
The away team rushes to uncover the truth behind the plague affecting a pre-contact world: is the Federation research team to blame for the outbreak? Meanwhile the Kintsugi tries to evade the Jem'Hadar ship, leading Captain Vate to a radical move... 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 https://www.tumblr.com/blog/open-hearth-r...
Apr 13, 2025•2 hr 27 min
Content Warning: vampirism, ritual murder, gore This is a prequel to a series of Alice is Missing & Monsterhearts 2 & taking place during the 80s in between subsequent series of A Town Called Malice & Bump in the Dark. COME ON IN is a role-playing game about a grisly murder case that rocks the small coastal Louisiana town of Bon Soleil and unravels a conspiracy that cuts into the depths of the night. Two homicide detectives of the Louisiana State Police Department experience certain ...
Apr 08, 2025•1 hr 33 min
Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po5XxLKasv8 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Apr 08, 2025•2 hr 35 min
We begin a new quarterly series exploring the voyages of the Challenger-Class USS Kintsugi. In this new season we see characters new and old as the Federation enters into war with the Dominion. Finishing up a search and rescue mission, the Kintsugi is called to check on a lost scientist on a pre-warp world. But the situation is made complicated by the arrival of a Jem'Hadar attack ship. This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.com Our audio version ...
Apr 07, 2025•2 hr 25 min
Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2S-gdCHKmw ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Apr 01, 2025•2 hr 6 min
Regis and Vicente share an intimate moment, while Cathy and Maximus break into Cleopatra's lair. For more about the Open Hearth, check out https://openhearthgaming.com/ Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQbnmhux-NA ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Mar 30, 2025•1 hr 51 min
Step into the era of the New Republic, where the Empire may be defeated, but its remnants still lurk in the shadows, and the galaxy is far from at peace. You and your crew are about to embark on a high-stakes journey through the Tapani Sector - a system where the gilded halls of noble houses clash with the gritty starports full of rogues, smugglers, and daring pilots. This is a place of glamour and deception, where every handshake hides a dagger and every smile could spell betrayal. As crew memb...
Mar 29, 2025•2 hr 4 min
Alun R facilitates the finale of a series of 'The Cluster' his own game in development. 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 Fortitude travel to the Ancient Artefact that Dr Rillisk knows as the 'Steel Moon'. They use a cover provided by McPatrick's contact in the Horizon to dock and...
Mar 26, 2025•2 hr 21 min
The group goes after the College of Architects which two goals, leading them to split into two parallel missions. Despite unexpected challenges their preparations and bribes to the dice gods pay off, but the final result is a volatile and explosive mixing of dreams, desires, and vengeance. We used the City Builder Toolkit https://bit.ly/4goY0eZ and the Faction Builder Toolkit https://bit.ly/42ywRD4 to build the setting. This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openh...
Mar 24, 2025•2 hr 18 min
Lee returns and learns about the fallout from the last mission. The group gets an offer which they won't refuse since it connects up to their desires, questions, and goals. But how much of a trap is this? We used the City Builder Toolkit https://bit.ly/4goY0eZ and the Faction Builder Toolkit https://bit.ly/42ywRD4 to build the setting. 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://playing...
Mar 24, 2025•2 hr 3 min
In this penultimate (?) session, Cathy confronts her murderer and the characters come together with an ambitious plan to defeat their most powerful adversary. For more about the Open Hearth, check out https://openhearthgaming.com/ Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTgC5Q1JTcQ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Mar 22, 2025•1 hr 36 min
Step into the era of the New Republic, where the Empire may be defeated, but its remnants still lurk in the shadows, and the galaxy is far from at peace. You and your crew are about to embark on a high-stakes journey through the Tapani Sector - a system where the gilded halls of noble houses clash with the gritty starports full of rogues, smugglers, and daring pilots. This is a place of glamour and deception, where every handshake hides a dagger and every smile could spell betrayal. As crew memb...
Mar 22, 2025•2 hr 19 min
A one-shot of Ben Robbins' In This World, a GMless storygame of world building and seeing alternate possibilities. We collaboratively build two sets of worlds around distinct topics: Ecological Disasters and Superheroes 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 https://www.tumblr.com/blog/open-hearth-rpg https://bsky.app/profile/op...
Mar 18, 2025•2 hr 22 min
Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5zrHuy7UXE ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Mar 18, 2025•2 hr 29 min
Step into the era of the New Republic, where the Empire may be defeated, but its remnants still lurk in the shadows, and the galaxy is far from at peace. You and your crew are about to embark on a high-stakes journey through the Tapani Sector - a system where the gilded halls of noble houses clash with the gritty starports full of rogues, smugglers, and daring pilots. This is a place of glamour and deception, where every handshake hides a dagger and every smile could spell betrayal. As crew memb...
Mar 15, 2025•1 hr 54 min
Step into the era of the New Republic, where the Empire may be defeated, but its remnants still lurk in the shadows, and the galaxy is far from at peace. You and your crew are about to embark on a high-stakes journey through the Tapani Sector - a system where the gilded halls of noble houses clash with the gritty starports full of rogues, smugglers, and daring pilots. This is a place of glamour and deception, where every handshake hides a dagger and every smile could spell betrayal. As crew memb...
Mar 15, 2025•20 min
The group heads to the island to deal with the threat of the ritually created Homeland. But Mr Suit vanishes, leading to him confronting an old and a new threat in Tinfoil Venice. Meanwhile the remaining three explore the Mirrored House and find the secrets of a looping jungle. This is a modern urban fantasy PbtA game inspired by Changeling the Lost, The Magicians, DIE, isekai, and more. Hearts of Yokai is a placeholder title for this forthcoming game. This session is part of Open Hearth Gaming ...
Mar 15, 2025•2 hr 23 min
The team pulls together the keys and clues they have, leading to the revelation of an ancient evil hiding in someone they trusted. 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 https://www.tumblr.com/blog/open-hearth-rpg https://bsky.app/profile/openhearthrpg @openhearthrpg@dice.camp You can support my channel and website at patreon/ag...
Mar 15, 2025•1 hr 41 min
Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VRrjohv1Ck ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Mar 11, 2025•2 hr 42 min
