Episodios

  • The Last Caravan: Retail Therapy (Session 9)

    The Last Caravan: Retail Therapy (Session 9)
    Mar 18 2026
    The caravaners find a bookshop where they can pick up some material to help fill in the gaps of Ree's education, there they meet an interesting figure from The Answer, but their thoughts that everything can't be this perfect are unhappily answered.


    The Last Caravan is a cars and aliens tabletop role-playing game about a midwinter road trip in the wake of an alien invasion. Starting from the East Coast, you and your fellow travelers will navigate a shattered North America. You’ll explore landscapes transformed by xenoflora, search abandoned towns and crashed spaceships, discover the otherworldly technology called Harmonics, negotiate with newly-formed factions both human and alien, outrun hostile pursuers, and fight for the future of your world.

    Your story is about normal people finding heroism under extraordinary pressures. It’s about relationships tested by a crisis, and rediscovering what matters when the world is ending.

    Your people need you. Will you join the caravan?

    The Last Caravan is by Ted Bushman and is available here https://tedbushman.itch.io/the-last-caravan-a-cars-and-aliens-roleplaying-game

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    Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oNzBRNwtQQ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    1 h y 47 m
  • Stealing the Throne - Abel, Panda, Charles, and the South Wind

    Stealing the Throne - Abel, Panda, Charles, and the South Wind
    Mar 16 2026
    An actual play of Nick Bate's Stealing the Throne - Three Thieves steal an ancient, impossibly powerful mech. Not all of them survive.

    Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TDmsOwtkJ4 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    47 m
  • SWS Saleucami Session 10

    SWS Saleucami Session 10
    Mar 14 2026
    exploring Sarnac aftermath

    Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boY1FwEOWQ4 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    1 h y 53 m
  • The Cluster: Distress Signal (Session 5)

    The Cluster: Distress Signal (Session 5)
    Mar 12 2026
    Alun R facilitates the next session in a series of 'The Cluster', his own PbtA space opera 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/the_open_hearth/overview).
    The Crew make good use of some lead time to find out as much as they can about the Mercenary Job they have accepted. However, they receive a distress signal from a different asteroid base. There's a careful approach, plans to seal an atmosphere leak, and the Crew divide their focus. Then ... a warning, a surprise, and all hell breaks loose ...

    Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvWufZKq4mk ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    2 h y 39 m
  • Cloud Empress 2026 Q1 Session 9 - Sellswords

    Cloud Empress 2026 Q1 Session 9 - Sellswords
    Mar 10 2026
    The group briefly regroups at the library with Cloud and Skull. Horns experiments with their new incorporeal abilities, while Ruse—the apprentice magician—begins forming a tentative friendship with Cloud. Meanwhile the party debates their next move: relocating the library to a safer location, exploring Rust Bucket for rumored artifacts, or heading north to resolve the mystery of Tooth the Clown, a job that still hangs over Naas.

    While resting in Yanni’s Plaza, a band of sellswords arrives to investigate the ruins below. Initially the encounter is tense but peaceful. Naas speaks with the group’s leader, Truth, and shares information about the dangerous elevator and the ruins below. The sellswords begin exploring the underground complex to salvage machinery.

    Everything unravels when Nagi secretly tries to poison the sellswords. The attempt fails, exposing the betrayal. Suspicion erupts, weapons are drawn, and the fragile peace collapses. The party negotiates a temporary truce but is forced to abandon the plaza. During the retreat, Skull and Cloud slip away into the city unnoticed.

    Later, scavenging the nearby battlefield, the party discovers the corpse of Sleepy Renault, leader of the Cloudling expedition. Rook uses his strange organ-granted ability to crack open the corpse and consume the brain, gaining memories of the expedition’s downfall. The expedition had attempted to destroy the Imago breeding grounds and capture the missing Empress, but the assault turned into a massacre after Prince Bug arrived. Renault was ultimately murdered by his own squire.

    Naas accidentally witnesses Rook’s grisly ability, leading to a tense confrontation. Rook explains that the organ allows him to absorb memories from the dead. The two reach an uneasy understanding and agree that the others should eventually know the truth.

    While scavenging, Horns and Nagi bond over their unusual circumstances—Horns as a Wanderling discovering newfound freedom and Nagi as a body-hopper who barely remembers past lives.

    Continuing north in search of Tooth the Clown, the party enters the Thickwood, an ancient forest filled with Imago and strange magic. There they encounter Dove, a brood-monk caretaker sheltering a group of elderly magicians who have succumbed to chalk addiction and magical decay. After sharing food and conversation, the party receives healing and rest.

    Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHAKgAi5qTo ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    2 h y 50 m
  • Grimwild - Gaelenvale (Session 2)

    Grimwild - Gaelenvale (Session 2)
    Mar 9 2026
    Alun R facilitates the first session of a short series of Grimwild (Oddity Press).
    This session was organsied as part of The Open Hearth Gaming Community (https://openhearthgaming.com) using our Gaming Calendar (https://app.playabl.io/communities/the_open_hearth/overview)
    Merle the Balladeer decides to take sides in Gaelen's mayoral race and the heroes make an enemy. That same enemy's rhetoric wakes Valeria the following morning and Sir Windemir takes a different approach to the rising tensionsin the town. Meanwhile, Pherdo visits the Watch House just in time for an argument whihc turns into a negotiation. There's screaming, a horrific murder in broad daylight, and an assassin spotted. Then, Windemir and the victim, Valeria and Merle and the crowd, and Pherdo and the washing lines ... until, finally ... a revelation no one was expecting ...

    Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2tmwdzMvSA ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    2 h y 37 m
  • SWS Saleucami Session 9

    SWS Saleucami Session 9
    Mar 7 2026
    Sith arrival and a confrontation that ends very badly.

    Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6sNEMI3iN8 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    1 h y 58 m