Playing at the Hearth

A generational space epic ttrpg inspired by Dune, Foundation, Fading Suns, Coriolis, and more. Throne of Suns is an adaptation of Free from the Yoke/Legacy: Life Among the Ruins (UFO Press). In this playtest session establish the minor factions, create our empertrix, define her history, create protagonist characters, select the imperial project, and begin our four PCs on stage at the Imperial Senatorial Assembly. UFO Press: https://ufo-mina.itch.io/This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.comOur audio version of these episodes can be found here: https://playingatthehearth.openhearthgaming.com/Follow us on https://www.tumblr.com/blog/open-hearth-rpghttps://bsky.app/profile/openhearthrpg@openhearthrpg@dice.campYou can support my channel and website at patreon/ageofravensFor more APs subscribe to the channel. For more on gaming in general, check out my site at ageofravensgames.comOriginal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMuBsc2ZrCA ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

After a long holiday break, we finally get back to playing. We recap where we're at and play out the last of the downtime scenes. Then our students head out to confront the entity which has been drawing in their peer, Eugene. But shorthanded, they must face something they've only partially begun to understand...This is part of a playtest for a new Series Playset for Girl by Moonlight, in which protagonists have been drafted into a school of magic which is trying to change, manipulate, and even destroy them. It is inspired by The Scholomance, The Magicians, Vita Nova, Harrow the Ninth, Babel, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and more. This session includes our series and character creation. This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.comOur audio version of these episodes can be found here: https://playingatthehearth.openhearthgaming.com/Follow us on https://www.tumblr.com/blog/open-hearth-rpghttps://bsky.app/profile/openhearthrpg@openhearthrpg@dice.campYou can support my channel and website at patreon/ageofravensFor more APs subscribe to the channel. For more on gaming in general, check out my site at ageofravensgames.comOriginal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFiQMi7JEAg ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Join the coven as they reach Silent Falls:Dahlia Grace the Apostle, who just wants this gig at the Dripping Dagger to go without a hitch.Cloud Redwood the Talismonger, who recognises the town even if they have no real memory of it.Rowan South the Wayfarer & Routeworker, who follows in her parents' footsteps.****Wayfaring Strange is a diceless tabletop roleplaying game about hidden highways, folk magic, urban legends, and the concept of liminality in America. The characters who populate the world of Wayfaring Strange have fallen between the cracks of society, often unseen because the rest of the world chooses to ignore their existence. These Wayfarers have formed transient communities that depend on one another for survival.America is ripe with untold power; like a river or stream, there are places where it pools and directions that it flows. People have been tapping into these channels of power for centuries, and eventually someone thought to map US highway routes on top of them. Wayfarers using the Hidden Highways can bend distance and time, build Waystations that possess protective or healing properties, or use their Wayfaring abilities to track, hide or elude pursuit.In Wayfaring Strange, you play one of these Wayfarers; traveling the Hidden Highways and coming in contact with the Strange, the magical and the otherworldly. If you're a fan of American Gods, Alice Isn't Dead, or Gravity Falls, then Wayfaring Strange might be the game for you....Wayfaring is by Joie Martin. Find me on itch.io: https://donogh.itch.io or on Mastodon: https://dice.camp/@donoghFind the Open Hearth gaming community: https://openhearthgaming.com/#ActualPlay #TTRPG #OpenHearthOriginal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2GXYtNCMs4 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Survivors of the Bean Barge regroup in Tack Town, tending wounds, burying the captain, and laying false trails. A cloudling murderer joins the party. On the road east, spore-keeper bullies force a retreat. The group aids deserters, skirts danger, and camps beneath the Wall.Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io19PwNR4l0 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We're exploring our first night phase with Dr. Swindrake exploring the Limehouse School, Mr. Pike going out for a drink and Mx Latimer having a leisurely stroll that leads to a quite exquisite private club.Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o03FIx4Tpjc ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

a new apartment building and a shooting in a marketplaceOriginal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghfKI02Spjc ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

In the thrilling finale of the Manananggal Murders, the crew visits InstaVids tower to confront Tomoe. Awful consequences are mitigated by other awful consequences until Virtus strikes a deal. Also: Community efforts and the last thoughts of a dying woman.Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozt1sNkyfzE ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We introduce our characters: Captain Caravel of the Legion, Portia of the Kingdoms, Nerika of the Wilds& Selenetta of the Rebellion.-Discover Something New, as Nerika discovers an ancient ship crashed in the Mire-Venture Forth, as Nerika leads Caravel & Portia to the wreckIt 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 Accord. The Legion has been attacking towns again. The Kingdoms are sending out dance invitations. And the Tangled Woods have been getting stranger and stranger. You, the princesses and warriors of factions at odds, will fight, quarrel, and flirt in your efforts to sway Athera in your favor. For The Honor is an anthology game inspired by She-ra and the Princesses of Power. It's based on the Firebrands Framework by Vincent Baker and Meguey Baker. It's by Quinn Vega and is available here https://crtgirl.itch.io/for-the-honorFind me on itch.io: https://donogh.itch.io or on Mastodon: https://dice.camp/@donoghFind the Open Hearth gaming community: https://openhearthgaming.com/#ActualPlay #TTRPG #OpenHearthOriginal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxplprcDgwE ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

A generational space epic ttrpg inspired by Dune, Foundation, Fading Suns, Coriolis, and more. This is the Session Zero for our playtest. Throne of Suns is an adaptation of Free from the Yoke/Legacy: Life Among the Ruins (UFO Press). In this session we get through setting building, creating the star map, faction building, and interrelations. Next time we'll finalize details on the Emperor, set up Faction Protagonists, and get to actually playing. UFO Press: https://ufo-mina.itch.io/This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.comOur audio version of these episodes can be found here: https://playingatthehearth.openhearthgaming.com/Follow us on https://www.tumblr.com/blog/open-hearth-rpghttps://bsky.app/profile/openhearthrpg@openhearthrpg@dice.campYou can support my channel and website at patreon/ageofravensFor more APs subscribe to the channel. For more on gaming in general, check out my site at ageofravensgames.comOriginal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVcCQptVSb8 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Session 1: We boarded the Bean Barge from Delta City bound for Tack Town as rumors spread of the Cloud Empress and an early Imago brood. The swarm hit mid-descent. Violence, escape pods, and hard choices followed. The barge crashed. Some survived. Many didn’t.Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4LvtkEreRU ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The first scene of the full run of the Between, where Pike, the Factotum, Elinor the Mother and the Udeniable explore an opium den to find their first clues towards the mystery of the Limehouse Lurker.Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_ryHK0o5Ik ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

It's our session zero where players finalize their characters and we work out their history together.Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uwXYla2hw4 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Returning from the holiday break, the players struggle to remember their theory. Luckily, the theory was wrong anyway, so they come up with a new one. Rhydian dreams of Lady Baptiste (again) and Alecto dispenses justice (almost).Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N7JqOsbkL8 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Alun R facilitates Session Zero for next time's 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).We create a Noir Berlin where nothing is free and everything has a price; where violence is never far away and 'innocence' negotiable; where double lives and dark pasts leave 'the truth' unclear. It is a Berlin of Cabaret Bars, U-Bahn Stations, Industrial Wastelands ravaged by war, Waterways and Bridges. The agents' priority is to hunt surviving Nazis and what they created but they face opposition from the intelligence services of the nations ostensibly cooperating in that very hunt.We meet Josephine Martine, the compromised French spy, Katya Turgenev and NKVD Officer haunted by her exposure to 'border science', Jack Babb, the cockney Flight Sergeant resentful of what happened when the rest of his squadron 'disappeared', and American surgeon, Dr O'Rourke, traumatized by his experiences in the Spanish Civil War but determined to find out why certain evidence was excised from Nuremberg Trial statements.Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fazf5rFGJ7Y ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Temple: Wulfrid the Veteran, Jor'ilt the Spellblade and Kai the Lieutenant arrive at the frontier of Trufast, but the gateway Temple there has been cruelly desecrated and their old comrades slain and defiled.The Sunless Ones: Trina the Water Dancer, Charlotte the Knight and Sovan the Creed Guard see Trufast finally, but greeting them is a parade of The Sunless Ones whom they faced in the cataclysmic battle, bearing trophies of the slain Gods and forcing the locals to bow down to them.Epilogue: the remaining members of the Company see the future that awaits them and look to the healing that must take place...You rode to war at the call of your God, swore yourself to Their divinity as the drums of war beat from every corner of the Pantheon. Standing beside your divinity, Their purpose so clear and noble, you felt immortal. Beside your fellow Lordsworns, you felt your victory a certainty, battle but a trivial formality.Now They lay dead before you, Their Godblood flowing into the dirt. Already the world lurches in distress, twisting at the loss of a God, one of many to die this day. Your Captain, too, lies broken, entrusting the survivors of your Company to the you. Of the thousands who rode out, you are all that remains of your Company.Your God is dead. You only have each other now.LORDSWORN is a GMless TTRPG for 1-4 players of tragic, fragile stories of desperate survival and comradery at the end of the world. it is by Marren MacAdam and is available here https://marrensmusings.itch.io/lordsworn00:00:00 Introductions00:02:20 Temple00:31:55 The Sunless Ones00:56:10 EpilogueFind me on itch.io: https://donogh.itch.io or on Mastodon: https://dice.camp/@donoghFind the Open Hearth gaming community: https://openhearthgaming.com/#actualplay #TTRPG #OpenHearthYou rode to war at the call of your God, swore yourself to Their divinity as the drums of war beat from every corner of the Pantheon. Standing beside your divinity, Their purpose so clear and noble, you felt immortal. Beside your fellow Lordsworns, you felt your victory a certainty, battle but a trivial formality.Now They lay dead before you, Their Godblood flowing into the dirt. Already the world lurches in distress, twisting at the loss of a God, one of many to die this day. Your Captain, too, lies broken, entrusting the survivors of your Company to the you. Of the thousands who rode out, you are all that remains of your Company.Your God is dead. You only have each other now.LORDSWORN is a GMless TTRPG for 1-4 players of tragic, fragile stories of desperate survival and comradery at the end of the world. it is by Marren MacAdam and is available here https://marrensmusings.itch.io/lordsworn00:00:00 Introductions00:02:20 Temple00:50:10 The Sunless Ones01:04:00 EpilogueFind me on itch.io: https://donogh.itch.io or on Mastodon: https://dice.camp/@donoghFind the Open Hearth gaming community: https://openhearthgaming.com/#actualplay #TTRPG #OpenHearthOriginal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zm1rwbSgBc ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Will romance be found amid movie sets, Christmas market cookies, pub food, and herpetology?Find out in this playthrough this holiday season, where characters compete in a holiday-movie tropefest for the affection of a love interest!Hometown Holiday by Nick Tourville is a tabletop roleplaying story game about holiday romance in a small town, TV-movie style. https://kidnick.itch.io/hometown-holidayThis game was played with Open Hearth Gaming Community members and follows Open Hearth's Code of Conduct https://openhearthgaming.com/code-of-conductAlex Sharpington - SabineHenry Whitlock - RodLucky the Cat - PuckettThe Director - MadelancholyDice rolls shown were done on Witch Dice, a cute online dice roller https://witchdice.com/Opening credits done by Madelancholy, using video clip and song from Artlist.io ("Turtle Doves" by Jeremy Chontow)Recorded on December 19, 2025Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIUE-RkfMSg ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Content warnings: General horrors of Christmas, themes and descriptions of self-harm behavior, body horror, intra-elf slavery, harm to animals: reindeer.Ho ho...Oh No! Santa's been kidnapped, and the trail leads to the crass commercialized theme park NorthPoleLand, long abandoned. Will our Specialist Elves find him and Make Christmas Magical? Or will tradition be broken and the holidays never be the same?NorthPoleLand is a Rooted in Trophy incursion by Ember and Ash. You can find it here: https://byemberandash.itch.io/northpolelandTrophy Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game of dark forests and doomed treasure-hunters by Jesse Ross. https://trophyrpg.com/This game was played with members of the Open Hearth Gaming Community, with understanding of the Open Hearth Community Code of Conduct. https://openhearthgaming.com/code-of-conductHolly - GwenPepper - KimGimbel - SabineKeeper - MadelancholyRecorded December 16, 2025Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_LtgjntigY ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This final week in the Ultraviolet Grasslands, the heroes spent months in the Black City (but only hours outside), rejoined the Rebuilder's body, soul, and spirit, silenced the Death-Facing Passage, settled old debts, found a flying egg, faced the void, and eventually settled in the House at the End of Time.Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHxqCM4LVJ0 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Ruined: Xoti the Medic, Charlotte the Knight and Kai the Lieutenant are lost in a ruined city, the likes of which will swallow them into the mists of time if they do not find a way through soon. But all their ghosts have caught up with them, and that is their ruin...The Hungering One: Trina the Water Dancer, Hestia the Chef and Sovan the Creed Guard huddle around a roaring fire, refugees tell them of something out in the woods that is consuming their kind whole. And then the screaming starts!You rode to war at the call of your God, swore yourself to Their divinity as the drums of war beat from every corner of the Pantheon. Standing beside your divinity, Their purpose so clear and noble, you felt immortal. Beside your fellow Lordsworns, you felt your victory a certainty, battle but a trivial formality.Now They lay dead before you, Their Godblood flowing into the dirt. Already the world lurches in distress, twisting at the loss of a God, one of many to die this day. Your Captain, too, lies broken, entrusting the survivors of your Company to the you. Of the thousands who rode out, you are all that remains of your Company.Your God is dead. You only have each other now.LORDSWORN is a GMless TTRPG for 1-4 players of tragic, fragile stories of desperate survival and comradery at the end of the world. it is by Marren MacAdam and is available here https://marrensmusings.itch.io/lordsworn00:00:00 Introductions00:02:00 Ruined00:50:10 The Hungering OneFind me on itch.io: https://donogh.itch.io or on Mastodon: https://dice.camp/@donoghFind the Open Hearth gaming community: https://openhearthgaming.com/#actualplay #TTRPG #OpenHearthOriginal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecJe0ErXiw8 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

"Matters of Family Pt 2" Sevari digs deeper into the ship and finds herself trapped. Jures meets up with Th'Vileq and then find themselves in a confrontation with the crew. Ward and Divelle, meanwhile, deal with issues from the wedding. But eventually all three groups must coordinate to stop the fallout from a psychically activate alien device and a hold full of unstable Gluon Torpedoes. This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.comOur audio version of these episodes can be found here: https://playingatthehearth.openhearthgaming.com/Follow us on https://www.tumblr.com/blog/open-hearth-rpghttps://bsky.app/profile/openhearthrpg@openhearthrpg@dice.campYou can support my channel and website at patreon/ageofravensFor more APs subscribe to the channel. For more on gaming in general, check out my site at ageofravensgames.comOriginal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxxbp12smCk ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★