Episodes

  • Hometown Holiday, a story game one-shot with Open Hearth Gaming

    Hometown Holiday, a story game one-shot with Open Hearth Gaming
    Dec 25 2025
    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-holiday
    This game was played with Open Hearth Gaming Community members and follows Open Hearth's Code of Conduct https://openhearthgaming.com/code-of-conduct

    Alex Sharpington - Sabine
    Henry Whitlock - Rod
    Lucky the Cat - Puckett
    The Director - Madelancholy

    Dice 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, 2025

    Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIUE-RkfMSg ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    2 hrs and 25 mins
  • NorthPoleLand (Trophy Dark) with Open Hearth Gaming

    NorthPoleLand (Trophy Dark) with Open Hearth Gaming
    Dec 25 2025
    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/northpoleland
    Trophy 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-conduct

    Holly - Gwen
    Pepper - Kim
    Gimbel - Sabine
    Keeper - Madelancholy

    Recorded December 16, 2025

    Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_LtgjntigY ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    2 hrs and 39 mins
  • Ultraviolet Grasslands session 44

    Ultraviolet Grasslands session 44
    Dec 23 2025
    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 ★
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    2 hrs and 32 mins
  • Lordsworn: Ruined & The Hungering One (Session 4)

    Lordsworn: Ruined & The Hungering One (Session 4)
    Dec 23 2025
    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/lordsworn

    00:00:00 Introductions
    00:02:00 Ruined
    00:50:10 The Hungering One

    Find me on itch.io: https://donogh.itch.io or on Mastodon: https://dice.camp/@donogh
    Find the Open Hearth gaming community: https://openhearthgaming.com/
    #actualplay #TTRPG #OpenHearth

    Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecJe0ErXiw8 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    1 hr and 25 mins
  • Star Trek Adventures 2e: Kintsugi S8 Season 3

    Star Trek Adventures 2e: Kintsugi S8 Season 3
    Dec 22 2025
    "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.com

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    Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxxbp12smCk ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    2 hrs and 27 mins
  • SWS Swoop Gangs Ashmorai 09

    SWS Swoop Gangs Ashmorai 09
    Dec 20 2025
    The Big Rumble and epilogues

    Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo7aOaRCtwE ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    1 hr and 49 mins
  • Eotenweard: The Looming Dark (Session 6)

    Eotenweard: The Looming Dark (Session 6)
    Dec 20 2025
    Alun R facilitates the finale of a series 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...).
    In the finale of our series, the apparent absence of the entire population of the pagan marsh village of Cefnwahl presents the Heroes with a mystery that requires a different approach! There's an oppressive atmosphere, distant pipe music, and very strange animal behaviour. Then, the Stinking Bog stinks, a crow offers a warning, and a 'snake' offers more. Soon the Heroes head into the Bog in pursuit of the haunting music but are misled; they risk the stench and try again; and find more than music. Then, pipes are revealed, a musician wakes, and a nemesis is revealed ...

    Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MThBg_ThTVc ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    2 hrs and 30 mins
  • Daggerheart: Extracurricular Activities (Part 2)

    Daggerheart: Extracurricular Activities (Part 2)
    Dec 19 2025
    Part two of a Daggerheart one-shot: Extracurricular Activities

    After investigating the library, the students head into the nearby Town to try and get to the bottom of the mystery.

    This is part of Open Hearth Gaming Community, you can find out more at openhearthgaming.com

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    Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_iI2g8O0UY ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    3 hrs and 10 mins