Episodes

  • SWS Saleucami Session 8

    SWS Saleucami Session 8
    Feb 28 2026
    Historical revelations and a culling.

    Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYhgX1CaMUs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    2 hrs and 17 mins
  • The Last Caravan: Rezurrection (Session 7)

    The Last Caravan: Rezurrection (Session 7)
    Feb 24 2026
    Making their way across the vast expanses of the Dakotas, the newly enlarged Caravan make hunting for supplies their main task. The veterans get to know their new companions a little, while getting into scrapes and encountering new alien lifeforms.


    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=cFaD3HO1DiU ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    1 hr and 43 mins
  • Throne of Suns (Playtest): Session Three

    Throne of Suns (Playtest): Session Three
    Feb 24 2026
    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 experience our first Zoom In: looking more closely on the moves of two protagonists as they travel to a planet of heretics, both with very different agendas.

    UFO Press: https://ufo-mina.itch.io/

    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/

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    Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbVAbRmgMik ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    1 hr and 47 mins
  • Throne of Suns (Playtest): Session Two

    Throne of Suns (Playtest): Session Two
    Feb 24 2026
    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 we see the first moves by the various factions and how those play out in the lives of the protagonists.

    UFO Press: https://ufo-mina.itch.io/

    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/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?v=_K0eZifrwOI ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    2 hrs and 30 mins
  • Cloud Empress Q1 2026 session 7 - Slaughter at the Eastern Feeding Grounds

    Cloud Empress Q1 2026 session 7 - Slaughter at the Eastern Feeding Grounds
    Feb 24 2026
    This week in Cloud Empress, Rook dueled Lord Flag for Horn, the group sought chalk fluid to save Neus, mangled and sickened soldiers littered the breeding grounds, the Imago prince whipped up a surreal battlefield, and Skull and Cloud sought refuge at the library with Neus.

    Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzX6HkEMQ5M ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    2 hrs and 38 mins
  • Alien Dark: World Still Falling 02

    Alien Dark: World Still Falling 02
    Feb 23 2026
    Alun R facilitates the first of a two-shot of his own game. Alien Dark (available free from https://gallusgames.itch.io).
    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).
    Evans is transforming into 'something else', Willis has been thrown across the diner, and Nyx has seen some of the froth on Evans' chin running 'into' her skin. Pvt. Quinn remains surprised when her round to Evans' centre of mass doesn't have the expected effect, while the LT observes from a discrete distance. That's when Mick separates Evans from Nyx, Willis begins to exhibit similar symptoms to Evans, and the LT calls for an orderly retreat before Sgt. Basket ('Basket Case' to the squad) puts a grenade through the diner's window. Evans survives and disappears into the blizzard while the squad gets the civvies into the colony sewer system. There, Nyx takes an ill-advised opportunity for a breather, there are questions about the chain of command, and plenty of grenades go down range! Then 'fungus' growing in the reactor's cooling system, a strange, slimy polymer on the walls, and marines who'd prefer to be dead. Finally, survival beckons in the form of the beanstalk ... but Nyx experiences a change, a black container begins to froth, and everything goes to shit ...

    Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8CtyNrND9k ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    2 hrs and 41 mins
  • The Between 2026 - Session 6 - Blood and Tea

    The Between 2026 - Session 6 - Blood and Tea
    Feb 22 2026
    Mr. Pike goes to the tailor and has a good cuppa tea. Dr. Swindrake takes a look at a superior craftperson's handywork. In the evening: an intimate moment.

    Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZvUe5zFyqo ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    2 hrs and 9 mins
  • SWS AW 3rd - Saleucami Session 7

    SWS AW 3rd - Saleucami Session 7
    Feb 21 2026
    More Salon interactions and problems

    Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvoi_jlppAI ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    2 hrs and 17 mins