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Playing at the Hearth

Playing at the Hearth

By: The Open Hearth Gaming Community
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 Audio recordings of online gaming sessions organized through the Open Hearth Gaming Community. To join us in playing games like these or for more information about our community, please visit openhearthgaming.com.© 2026 The Open Hearth Gaming Community
Episodes
  • For the Honor: Meeting Hand to Heart & Stand United (Session 6)

    For the Honor: Meeting Hand to Heart & Stand United (Session 6)
    Feb 19 2026
    -Meeting Hand to Heart: after Andromeda's rescue of Caravel...
    -Stand United: as Selenetta brings an airship to relieve the Flickering Isle from a Legion armada!


    It 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-honor

    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 #Firebrands

    Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BHXWSywYdo ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • The Cluster: A Debt Repaid? (Session 3)

    The Cluster: A Debt Repaid? (Session 3)
    Feb 19 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).
    Picking up from last session's cliffhanger, the Crew agree to disagree about the demand from the Guild of the Metal Flower rep. There's the threat of pursuit and fallout but also the offer of a job. Gort gets them there; Beckett gets them in; and Serena stimulates a distraction to get them out. Nothing goes entirely to plan, but they begin to pay off Gort's debts. Then Ring Space, manual labour, and a tricky job offer involving a planet wracked by endless war and the consequences of an ancient nuclear holocaust ...

    Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRP7BaVS1es ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    2 hrs and 51 mins
  • Cloud Empress Q1 2026 session 6 - Oregano's Plaza

    Cloud Empress Q1 2026 session 6 - Oregano's Plaza
    Feb 17 2026
    The group followed Vanni, a decaying proxy of the factory-god Oregano, into a buried complex beneath Rustbucket. At the entrance they encountered disposables—blank, obedient humanoids tending storage boxes filled with Oregano’s preserved organs. The disposables treated the components as sacred cargo and followed simple rituals, easily misled by confident authority and routine.

    To descend, the party entered Little Oregano, a strange, living elevator that spoke, listened, and reacted emotionally to them. It carried them down into the depths of the complex, where they finally met Oregano itself—an ancient biomechanical intelligence that asked them to help it die by removing the organs sustaining it.

    Returning above, the group distracted the disposables and retrieved the organs from storage. Mama, Rook, and Neus chose to implant them, while Stormy refused.

    Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-3NsKEwz7E ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    2 hrs and 57 mins
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