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
  • Alien Dark: World Still Falling

    Alien Dark: World Still Falling
    Feb 15 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).
    Lieutenant Knack leads their marine squad back to base when the threat of a UPP attack prompts an evacuation order. Pvt. Nyx 'Cargo' Compton is all about the job until they get stuck babysitting the corporate rep travelling with the squad; Pvt Zeera Quinn is itching for action and 'Mick', the squad's Medic, is more concerned with what might go wrong.
    There's a broken down civilian truck and a medical emergency; an ambush and a rocket propelled grenade; and a pair of marines in need of help. Then, the squad takes shelter in an abandoned gas station, tensions surface, and an argument between friends reveals that a rat bite has turned bad ... really bad ...

    Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGCRlfuZ8r0 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    2 hrs and 40 mins
  • SWS AW 3rd - Saleucami Session 6

    SWS AW 3rd - Saleucami Session 6
    Feb 14 2026
    Temple Surrounded!

    Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ofpIFEukjw ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    2 hrs and 15 mins
  • For the Honor: Search and Rescue & Talking it Over (Session 5)

    For the Honor: Search and Rescue & Talking it Over (Session 5)
    Feb 13 2026
    -Search & Rescue: Sprout, a Warrior of the Wilds has captured Caravel after the Captain claimed the mountain forest for the Legion. Andromeda rescues him.
    -Talking it Over: as Selenetta visits Sprout to talk to Caravel.


    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=_r_7p7M0vNA ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    51 mins
  • The Last Caravan: The Crossing (Session 6)

    The Last Caravan: The Crossing (Session 6)
    Feb 12 2026
    Arriving at a small compound on the shores of Lake Superior, the Caravan meet The Crossers, a small group helping others to cross the lake. Here they help out with some medical needs, woodcutting and such before they spy an enormous alien life-form in the distance (and it spies back...)

    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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    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 #ForgedInTheDark

    Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJryLRFrQ2o ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    2 hrs and 11 mins
  • The Cluster: The Recovery Job (Session 1)

    The Cluster: The Recovery Job (Session 1)
    Feb 12 2026
    Alun R facilitates the first full session 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).
    Serena makes a low-G leap to help the others reach the breach in the missing mining ship; Gort is first in and discovers that the mainframe has been trashed by the impact that caused the breach; Jade agrees to head up to the bridge in search of the MGF1N device they are supposed to recover; and Keil is keen to head 'down-ship' in search of survivors. There's the result of sloppy protocols during an explosive decompression; no sign of the device; evidence that what the miners were looking for is hazardous; and a temporary comms snafu. Then, valuable salvage, signs of violence, and a surprise welcome from an over-matched survivor ... before ... a leaky container threatens contamination ...

    Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoa7cdCnH-o ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    2 hrs and 37 mins