Shared Hearth 2025

<t:1759410000:F> Twenty years have passed since the Enemy was defeated and its armies vanquished. Twenty years since a small group of heroes rose from obscurity to become the stuff of legends, turning the tide of battle. But now there are rumors that the Enemy has returned. Death of Legends is a GM-less fantasy game that uses simple dice mechanics to allow players to construct a rich backstory for their characters, and then narrate scenes depicting a desperate struggle against a returning foe. Designed to be played in a single session split into 3 acts. The first 2 acts establish the characters, the bonds between them, and their heroic efforts during the prior conflict. The final act depicts the terrible return of the ancient enemy, and the heroes attempts to defend the Free Territories, while tracking rumors of a great weapon of power, capable of destroying the enemy once and for all. The rules will be taught during the session. We will, of course, be playing within the Open hearth Community Code of Conduct.

<t:1759694460:F> Mercury Orbit, 2188 An underfunded and overworked research team aboard the United Mining and Development observation and research facility. Stretched to their limits, so close to a breakthrough they can taste it. A single terrible mishap precipitates the end of the crew, the station, and their precious research. Some may survive, but not without great sacrifice. As Toffet Station breaks apart, the rest find only ruin, delirium, and the burning cold of the void. In the end, was it all worth it? Toffet Station is a storytelling game about the inevitable descent of a United Mining and Development observation and research facility orbiting Mercury in 2188, and the regrettably unavoidable fates of its research team. A terrible mishap will mean the end of the crew, the station, and their work. The project is overtasked and underfunded, stretched to the limits of safety and reason, and so close to a breakthrough they can taste it. Toffet station is a dark, lyrical science fiction game set in the not-too-distant future about people pushing themselves too far. Toffet Station runs on the Desperation Engine by Bully Pulpit Games.

<t:1759514400:F> It's 3 a.m. in the morning and you are about to run out of gas driving through banjo country. Highway 666 was supposed to be a short cut, shave hours off your trip. In the distance like an orange moon in the starless sky you see a gas station. Thank god, you think, maybe your luck is starting to turn around. The Gas Station is an RPG about a desolate gas station in the middle of nowhere. The player characters, stranded, will have to venture into the gas station and find a way to get their car up and runin' before something else stumbles upon 'em. ---------------------------- No prior experience is required. Rules will be taught during play. A character keeper and an online dice roller will also be available. Players will receive an email a week before the one-shot takes place to confirm attendance and acquire play materials. CONTENT WARNING: Death, violence, gore, harm to animals, trapped, time & reality distortion, psychological horror SAFETY: This game will be held under the Open Hearth Community Code of Conduct and use the Open Door policy, X-Card, and Lines & Veils. DURATION: Up to 4 hours with a 5-10 minute break approximately every hour. PLATFORM: We will be using StreamYard & Google Sheets.

MULTIPLE SESSIONS Request I would like to offer this game to different players first before filling with repeat players. INTRO Overview With a new headmaster in charge and La Ladrona Infinita still prowling, the fate of La Casa del Atomo remains uncertain... La Academia de Yaguez is special. A school devoted to helping "las alteradas," people with special powers and requirements. A home for these unique individuals, where they share what they have learned and band together to make a difference. And a place of rivalry, rage, and romance. This perfect manor, with its elegantly laid out gardens and fountain, its beautiful facade, and its picturesque nearby forest, holds secrets and conflicts galore within its walls. Hidden passages reveal new chambers— perfect for trysts or for experiments, alike. A simple gymnasium becomes a training chamber for a team of battle-hardened heroes... and a great way to vent frustrations. The faculty members of this Academia are their own greatest allies, and their own bitterest enemies. It is among this place of science, of power, of beauty, and of simmering tension that our story unfolds, the secrets kept by the building itself standing as nothing against the secrets within the burning hearts of these heroes. The Show Now 70 episodes into its run, La Casa del Átomo has been beloved for focusing on a superhero drama in all the right ways—fewer mind- numbing clashes, more kissing. Over the years, the show wove a complex mythology, to the point that almost no viewer is entirely clear on what is going on. The rivalry between Doctor Carlos Yaguez and his old foe (and perhaps...more?) Enrique Leonforte has been the beating heart of the show—but now, everyone believes Doctor Yaguez is dead, killed at the hands of a figure only known as La Ladrona Infinita! In his absence, Enrique Leonforte has taken up stewardship of the school, much to the chagrin and mistrust of Yaguez's faculty! And last episode, we still saw the armored gauntlet of La Ladrona Infinita gripping one of the mansion's balustrades... REVIEW SCHEDULE: Take 5-10-min break every hour; agenda: select and modify characters (if possible beforehand using a character keeper, otherwise 20-30 min), character intros (10 min), review situation in media res (10 min), gameplay (1.5 hrs+), cliffhanger/epilogues (10-min), stars & wishes (10 min); debrief (remaining 30 min) SAFETY: This game will be held under the Open Hearth Community Code of Conduct. Safety tools available are [List the safety tools you are using: OH players usually default to X-card, Open Door policy, and Lines and Veils - if you need more resources, check out the TTRPG Safety Toolkit here https://i.4pcdn.org/tg/1583202183294.pdf] XP: No experience necessary, rules will be taught in game. A character keeper will be provided, and an online dice roller will be available [or whatever you will provide ahead of time for info, like reference sheets] PLATFORM/RECORDING: We will most likely use StreamYard, and I will be recording sessions for facilitator improvement and as a memory tool, with consent to be requested for posting on YouTube. The link will be shared by Discord beforehand. CHARACTER KEEPER: The link will be shared by Discord beforehand. CATS Content: It's a game of superhero melodrama. Aim: To run through the game as far as we get with a cliffhanger and/or epilogues as needed. Priorities of Focus for the GM: 1 Fun, 2 characters, 3 sharing narration and GMing, 4 mechanics. Tone: The tone can range from more serious to semi-serious; avoiding slapstick. Romance is possible. Subject Matter: X-Men, New Mutants, and the like are a direct inspiration (watch X-MEN '97 animated series if you like); however, experience with comics is not required.

<t:1759410000:F> Concept You are technicians aboard the Adamant Lapis, a cargo hauler running routine sample pickups. Something alien and unstoppable is aboard, and its presence will slowly tear the ship apart. This is a one-shot survival horror story of escalating disaster in deep space. Aim We are here to experience a tense survival scenario together. There is no “winning” in the traditional sense — survival is uncertain, and everyone might die. The aim is to explore how ordinary people face extraordinary horror, to struggle against overwhelming odds, and to see what moments of bravery or despair emerge. Tone Bleak, claustrophobic, and tense. The story is serious, not comedic or gonzo. Expect dread and desperation punctuated by moments of frantic action. Think Alien or Event Horizon rather than Starship Troopers. Subject Matter We will be dealing with body horror, gore, suffocation, infection, paranoia, radiation hazards, confinement, and inevitable loss of safety. Themes of helplessness and isolation are central. These are not meant to shock gratuitously, but to create tension and horror. We’ll use safety tools (Lines & Veils, Open Door, X-card equivalents) to ensure that content is handled respectfully and that everyone feels safe at the table. This game may be recorded (with everyone's explicit consent). We’ll use a layered set of safety tools including Lines & Veils, Open Door, and X-card equivalents. The Open Hearth Code of Conduct applies. We play respectfully and inclusively.

You are aspiring knights in a world of kings and wizardry, venturing into the realms of Castony on a quest to prove yourselves worthy and discover the elusive Tower Perilous. What wrongs will you right and lessons will you learn along the way? In the seaside town of Lyddsham, our questers discover a festival marred by ominous fog and disturbing rumors. Who is the Drowned Knight? And can anything save the townsfolk he has dragged off into the mist? ___________ Vow: Tales of the Knight-Aspirants is a PbtA (Powered by the Apocalypse) tabletop roleplaying game of fantasy adventure, inspired by Arthurian legends, fairy tales, and classics of YA literature. It is in-development from Cloven Pine Games (that's me, Alexi). Learn more about Vow here: https://sites.google.com/view/vow-knight-aspirants-rpg/home ___________ I plan to record this one-shot session but will confirm with all players before uploading the video. We will use Streamyard for our session. I’ll email all players about a week before with the necessary links. The session will run up to four hours. The Open Hearth Code of Conduct will be in play and we will use Lines & Veils and the X-Card for safety tools. If you sign up and your availability changes, please remember to drop from the site and give me a heads up.

Shared Hearth: <t:1759600800:F> A one-shot of Swords Without Master. Come seek high adventure in a world of swords and sorcery! Show us how you paint a vivid fantasy world and achieve mighty feats of wits and brawn! Plunge into glum depths and soar to jovial heights! Concept: A collaborative fiction-writing system where the challenge comes from describing and creating a short story on the fly. The dice tell you only the tone of narration...until they turn against you with a twist! No experience or familiarity with genre needed. The title "Cut Fire" and image are just a seed of inspiration - the characters and content will be up to the players. Aim: We'll tell a complete short story in 4 hours or less. You may bring a previously-created Rogue to this session if you've played before. Otherwise we'll create characters together before starting our tale. We'll play over the Open Hearth Discord with voice, video optional. We'll use a Google Sheet as a character keeper and shared notes. Tone: Generally light adventure fantasy, although it can range from gritty to philosophical to goofy, depending on what the players bring out. Subject matter: Expect some descriptions of violence and injury (not too gory) in keeping with adventure fantasy. The Open Hearth Community Code of Conduct is in effect. For safety and content, we'll use Lines and Veils at the top, the X-card throughout, and the Open Door policy. You'll get an email from me with the links you'll need for the game. Expect it about a week beforehand, or within a day in case you sign up later or come off the wishlist. Art by Jabari Weathers / Worlds Without Master

<t:1759590000:f> What's the game you've wanted to get to the table but haven't been able to? What's the campaign premise you've considered but don't know how to make it work? What's the rpg that just couldn't actually function if you tried to run it online? What's the wild concept that you know would crash-out but it amuses you just the same? This will be a chat/discussion group about all of this and more. Host Lowell Francis will bring his own selection of "White Whales" but more importantly you should bring your brilliant failures and sky-high concepts. We will be opening up the discussion to the table. This will be recorded for future posting, but folks are welcome to come and lurk with camera and/or microphone off. This talk will follow the Open Hearth Code of Conduct.

Battle Warriors 3000 AD! (yes, the exclamation point was part of the title) is one of the many forgotten cartoon series of the 1980s. It still has its fans, enough that there was a live action movie adaptation in 1997, and the last few years there's been talk of a reboot... This is a series of three connected games of Writers' Room, my game of creating a tv show or other fictional narrative. It's perfectly fine to sign up for just one session! After all, we're making multiple adaptations spanning 40 years - there's going to be different writing teams for each one. For this series, we will first create one season of the original cartoon, then the 1997 live action movie adaptation, and finally the first season of the 2025 reboot. No prior rules knowledge is necessary. (If you want to get the game, it's going to be part of the Palestinian Children's Relief Bundle on itch.io.) This game is part of the Shared Hearth event run by the Open Hearth community. We will use a series of safety tools, including Lines & Veils, the X-Card, the Open Door Policy, and the Open Hearth Code of Conduct. If everyone consents, the sessions will be recorded and shared.

<t:1759514400:F> Thirsty Sword Lesbians is a TTRPG for telling queer stories with friends. Love angsty disaster lesbians with swords? You have come to the right place. You’ve arrived at the Academy’s annual fencing invitational representing the Union Alliance. Nominally you and athletes from the Imperium Core and the Free Nations are there for a friendly sporting competition.  In reality, this is the latest front in the long-running cold war and your job is to build alliances with the athletes from the Free Nations and prevent them from siding with the Imperium Core.  Will you be able to sway any of the Free Nations fencers to your cause? Or even redeem some from the Imperium Core? You'll have to play to find out... We'll be using lines & veils, the X-Card and open table. Expect flirting but note that sex will be (at least) veiled.

<t:1759618800:f> High Magic Lowlives is lightweight, flavorful Post-Dungeon Fantasy Tabletop RPG about wizard school dropouts who get into trouble with the Immortal Aristocracy to make coin and build their #brand. Sling spells, pull heists and stream the whole thing to build clout. The airship Achilles, owned by House Cindermoth of the Immortal Aristocracy, has something on it you really, really want. You and your crew have managed to find your way aboard... but since then absolutely nothing has gone according to plan. No experience with the system needed & we'll build characters together at the start of session. We'll be using lines & veils, the X-Card and open table.

Eotenweard is my Pbta game-in-apparently-endless-development of Dark Age Heroes protecting the innocent from the Darkness that increasingly pervades the Land. Guy Milner & SabineV will be pre-seated for this session. This session will be recorded and permission sought to publish in support of the Community's profile. This is intended to be a gritty, low fantasy, 'historical', game set in version of Northumbria and its surrounding kingdoms during the latter half of the 6th Century: 200 years after the departure of Rome, and 200 years before the 'Age of Vikings'. The BBC's ‘Last Kingdom’ and Prime's ‘Vikings’, provide reasonable touchstones for the look and feel of the setting, as does Bernad Cornwell's 'Warlord Chronicles' trilogy. The players will take the roles of heroes identified by their god(s) and other supernatueral patrons as 'Guardians against the Darkness'. We will begin by creating characters and the Settlement to which they have been drawn by their patrons. Then we'll play to find out what form the Darkness that looms over the settlement takes and how it may be destroyed. We'll be using Lines, Veils, the X-Card and an Open Door, and play within the Community Code of Conduct.

<t:1759532400:F> A game about odd people undertaking odd tasks for odd patrons in an odd world. More accurately, Odd Folk is Maxwell Lander's PbtA-inspired modular system for playing OSR and system agnostic adventures. The system focuses on d4s, compounding successes, failure as an interesting choice, and pick lists. I anticipate a whimsical kind of fun! I'll find a short adventure module or prep an adventure site for this session, but who knows what odd places this odd little system will take us! No prior experience is required. Rules will be taught during play. SUBJECT MATTER: Fantasy violence, whimsy TOOLS: X-Card, Lines & Veils, Open Door, Script Change DURATION: One 4-hour session with hourly 5-10 min breaks RECORDING: Maybe? If so, only with consent PLATFORM: Zoom, Google Sheets character keeper I will email players a week before the session to confirm attendance and an hour before as a reminder.

A web of invisible threads holds the fate of the world together. Like thin strands of memories carried by the wind, lifted through the air, tangled in the highest branches. Mythic Bastionland, by Chris McDowall, is a rules-light TTRPG about a dreamlike world of strange knights and weird myths. You’ll play as errant knights travelling through a far away land. Your aim is to seek the Myths, honour the Seers, and protect the Realm. The tone is that of a weird and eerie Matter of Britain tale (touchstones: the novel The Buried Giant and the movie The Green Knight). This session will be structured as a small hex-crawl in which the knights will encounter strange omens, discover the lay of the land, and investigate its myths. Although the openness of the sand-box style that the game provides might very well throw us off in unexpected directions. The game may include horror, injuries, violence, death, religion. But tone and subject matter will be discussed before play. Rules will be introduced during play, no homework needed. We'll be playing on Streamyard with a Google Sheet character keeper. Safety tools include Lines and Veils, X-Card, Open Door. The game won't be recorded.

Venture by Riley Rethal is a Belonging Outside Belonging game of introspective heroic fantasy. Think Dungeon World, but GM-less gameplay (i.e., we're all in a traditional adventuring party with wizards, fighters, clerics, rogues, etc., but the focus is entirely on how our relationships with each other as well as our understanding of ourselves change as we trek through an adventure.) Venture gives us magic-filled forests and looming castles, champions in shining armor and vagabonds with dazzling charm, markets of ill-repute and duplicitous authorities, and uncaring gods high above always asking, “What do you do next?” In Venture, we will play as a group of adventurers traveling through a fantasy world, making their way across the terrain while learning about themselves and each other. They will meet townspeople with storied cultures, criminals with shady agendas, mages with esoteric power, and a strange darkness encroaching on the horizon. The game will run for four hours with breaks as needed. Since this is a GM-less game, up to five players may play including myself. Safety tools (X-Card, Lines & Veils) will be used. The Open Hearth Code of Conduct (https://openhearthgaming.com/code-of-conduct) will be observed. Players will be contacted via email approximately a week prior to the game to confirm their attendance. A Zoom link will be emailed to players 10-15 minutes prior to the game's start time.

THIS SESSION WILL BE RECORDED AND PUBLISHED to publicise the game. Please keep that in mind before RSVP-ing This is a one-shot of my recently published PbtA game 'The Cluster'. It's a game in which players take the role of a rag-tag Crew who are just keeping their heads above water as the economic tides of the eponymous Cluster of seven systems, each many light-years from the others, but connected by Ring Gates, threaten to swamp them and the cramped and reconditioned ship they use to make a living. A touchstone might be 'The Expanse' for gritty 'real-physics' tech and found family Crew. Star Trek and Star Wars this is definatively not ... As this is a one-shot we'll be playing in a pre-generated Cluster of systems, the details of which are here: (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wlRvk9o--PlSjYqMDq0XaCIWACv1rPFD/view?usp=drive_link). Each player will choose one of the available Societies: Harsh, Spacer, Dedicated, Authoritarian, Poor, Sequestered, and that will define the system where they were brought up. They will then choose two Career Playbooks from among Daredevil, Engineer, Fixer, Grifter, Hustler, Investigator, Scientist, Scoundrel, Soldier & Tactician, to reflect what they did between leaving home and joining the Crew. We'll agree which system you start play in and the job you are currently engaged in and then ... play to find out ... We'll be using Lines, Veils, the X-Card and an Open Door, and play within the Community Code of Conduct.

Alien Dark is my own game (free from https://gallusgames.itch.io/) for rules lite play in the Alien (or similar Alien horror) Universe. It's inspired by Cthulhu Dark (by Graham Walmsley) and The Alien RPG (by Free League Publishing). I'm scaffolding this session with material based on Free League's 'Destroyer of Worlds' module. PCs are members of a Colonial Marine squad (with the option of a civilain 'consultant') who have been hurriedly recalled from a routine circuit of oil installations. The Ariarcus colony is under attack from the Union of Progressive Peoples (UPP) and the squad have received orders to 'return for immediate evac'. UPP jamming has restricted comms over the last few hours and the weather has deteriorated to blizzard conditions. They neeed to make it back to Fort Nebraska for evac! We'll create the squad and identify its NPC members then begin play in media res as the squad's APC reachs the northern edge of the colony. Then we'll play to find out how, or if, they make it and what happens when they discover there may be more to worry about then UPP troopers! We, the players, may know lots, but the characters know nothing ... until they do ... We'll be playing with Lines, Veils, the X-Card and an Open Door, and within the Community Code of Conduct.

Dungeon World - 2nd Edition - Alpha Rules Genre : Fantasy Touchstones : Masters of the Universe/Generic Fantasy Series of One Shots. Prior experience with MOTU or PBTA are not required. King Randor of Eternia has requested your party assist the Temple of Zoar near the Mystic Mountains... Will be using Theatre of the Mind and not a Virtual Table Top, that said I have screenshots for locations & monsters to help set the scene, and I am happy to pause and describe things more if required. No Racism, Sexism or Homophobia. X-Card will be available. But this is a horror game so if you are squeamish maybe sit this one out. This series will be recorded for youtube (you can use profile pic if you want camera off). Intend to give feedback to the game creators. If you have any questions hit me up on  bluesky @flyingfox369 Moves and PC Sheets PDF : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XRy9kcJTLwAZvIADzrqeP_tEZURTRSAN/view?usp=sharing

Dungeon World - 2nd Edition - Alpha Rules Genre : Fantasy Touchstones : Masters of the Universe/Generic Fantasy Series of One Shots. Prior experience with MOTU or PBTA are not required. King Randor of Eternia has requested your party investigate the Swamp of Shadows... Will be using Theatre of the Mind and not a Virtual Table Top, that said I have screenshots for locations & monsters to help set the scene, and I am happy to pause and describe things more if required. No Racism, Sexism or Homophobia. X-Card will be available. But this is a horror game so if you are squeamish maybe sit this one out. This series will be recorded for youtube (you can use profile pic if you want camera off). Intend to give feedback to the game creators. If you have any questions hit me up on  bluesky @flyingfox369 Moves and PC Sheets PDF : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XRy9kcJTLwAZvIADzrqeP_tEZURTRSAN/view?usp=sharing

As soon as the ship had emerged from hyperspace the engines shut down. Now you are orbiting a planet with a vast graveyard of derelict vessels. The red emergency lights illuminate black screens and the scared faces of your crew mates. You are dead in the water. But you are not alone ... Blighters is a rules lite FitD hack by Chris McDowall. Dead Planet is a scenario for the horror sci-fi game Mothership by Tuesday Knight Games. We'll be using lines & veils, the X-Card and open table. The session will not be recorded. <t:1759669200:F>

Gotham City. Word on the street is that the Bat is off-world with the Justice League fighting off an alien invasion or soimething. And that means that the Gotham Museum of Natural History is ripe for the plundering! A band of villains from Batman's "Rogue's Gallery" have assembled to pull off the perfect heist while the Caped Crusader is off punching Darkseid or whatever. "We'll all get rich! What could possibly go wrong?" Batman: The Final Rogue is a genre drift of the classic slasher movie story-game The Final Girl by Bret Gillian. We will create a cast of villains that can be used in scenes by any player, and play to find out how Batman captures them and hauls them off to Blackstone Prison or Arkham Asylum... except for the Final Rogue who gets away! Plus: Everyone gets a turn playing Batman!! System: The Final Girl by Bret Gillian. The rules are identical to the base game, except that the "Victims" are now "Villains," and the "Killer" is now Batman himself! Technology: We will be using the facilitator's Zoom for video chat, a shared Google Sheet as a character keeper, and a multiplayer card table at playingcards.io. Recording: With the consent of the players, we will record this session. The GM will make the recording available to players for review, and with their consent, will post the video (or audio only if preferred) for public viewing. Safety Tools: CATS Discussion, Open Door, Lines & Veils, X-Card, and Script Change are all in-play. We will review these tools at the start of the session. The game abides by the Open Hearth Gaming Code of Conduct. The Final Girl is by Bret Gillian and published by Gas Mask Games. The physical edition is out of print, and the PDF is available for purchase at DriveThruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/182628/the-final-girl Special thanks to Jim Crocker, who first introduced me to this drift of the game! HammerTime Code: <t:1759669200:F>

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, October 22, 1902. Dear Magister Reynolds, We have done it! Through Mistress Wentworth's divinations via Tarot and talking-board, the Hermetic Order of the Crescent Moon has contacted a spirit of great power! The entity says its name is "Khulshedra" and that it was once a High Priestess on the lost continent of Lemuria six thousand years ago! We have entreated this spirit to share its wisdom with us, and it has agreed. In exchange, it has provided us with a ritual of summoning that can call its avatar into the world, through which it promises to teach us ancient occult wisdom. But the timetable for this ritual is short: It must be performed under the star Algol as it rises on the eve of Samhain under a new moon... which your almanac will tell you is in but nine days. It will be 27 years before that astronomical event recurs. Furthermore, this ritual can only be performed on solid ground where the sea is no farther than a pistol shot in any direction. It is fortuitous that our cabal is where it is: the Isles of Shoals are a mere hour's sail east of Portsmouth Harbor. I have taken the liberty to rent out the seasonal hotel "The Mid-Ocean House" on Smuttynose Island that night. I sincerely hope that you can join us for this momentous event: Not even Aleister Crowley himself could imagine the hermetic secrets that Khulshedra shall bestow upon us! I remain, dear Sir, your obedient servant, Dr. Arthur Tillinghast, Magus Esq. Trophy Dark is a collaborative supernatural horror RPG. Characters will likely not survive this experience, and those who do will be forever marked. For this is not the beginning of these characters' stories... it's the end. Isle of Water and Blood is an as-yet unpublished incursion written by the GM. The setting is the northern New England coast in the early 20th century. In this story, the PCs are dilettante occultists who travel to a tiny barren island in the North Atlantic to perform a ritual to summon an entity from Beyond. System: Trophy Dark is the original "Rooted in Trophy" game. All rules will be taught at the table. Technology: We will be using the facilitator's Zoom for video chat, a shared Google Sheet as a character keeper, and an online dice roller. Players may choose to roll physical dice if they prefer. Recording: With the consent of the players, we will record this session. The GM will make the recording available to players for review, and with their consent, will post the video (or audio only if preferred) for public viewing. Safety Tools: CATS Discussion, Open Door, Lines & Veils, X-Card, and Script Change are all in-play. We will review these tools at the start of the session. The game abides by the Open Hearth Gaming Code of Conduct. Trophy Dark was designed by Jesse Ross and is published by Hedgemaze Press and Gauntlet Publishing. "Isle of Water and Blood" was written by Mike Ferdinando. HammerTime Code: <t:1759532400:F>

In R'lyehwatch, the player characters are all professional lifeguards who protect the beaches of the southern California seaside community of Sunset Hills. While these lifeguards do rescue swimmers who get into trouble with rip currents and rogue waves, they also tangle with the cultists, sea monsters, and weird paranormal events that also seem to plague the town. The game mashes up the campy melodrama of Baywatch with cosmic horror stories like The Call of Cthulhu. System: This is a rules-light game that uses the Tricube Tales system. No experience is necessary, and what rules there are will be taught at the table. Technology: We will be using the facilitator's Zoom for video chat, a shared Google Sheet as a character keeper, and an online dice roller. Players may choose to roll physical dice if they prefer. Recording: With the consent of the players, we will record this session. The GM will make the recording available to players for review, and with their consent, will post the video (or audio only if preferred) for public viewing. Safety Tools: CATS Discussion, Open Door, Lines & Veils, X-Card, and Script Change are all in-play. We will review these tools at the start of the session. The game abides by the Open Hearth Gaming Code of Conduct. R'lyehwatch was written by Jesse Ross, and is published by Hedgemaze Press. More info at: https://rlyehwatch.com/ HammerTime Code: <t:1759582800:F>

<t:1759600800:f> Welcome to Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, a slice-of-life tabletop RPG about a heartless witch, a peaceful house, and all the folks who have made their home inside. It’s spooky season so we’ll play a chapter about trick-or-treating. You can find the game here:  https://possumcreekgames.com/pages/yazebas-bed-breakfast I won’t record the game. The session will run up to three hours (but we might need less).  The Open Hearth Code of Conduct will be in play. We will use Lines & Veils, the Open Door Policy and the X-Card. If you sign up and your availability changes, please remember to drop from the site and let me know (e.g. on discord) because playabl won’t update me.

<t:1759428000:f> In Mythomorphosis, 1-4 players will explore the relationship between a society’s history and one of its dominant cultural stories as they create and change a myth over the course of generations.  You’ll be telling—and tweaking—this story collaboratively, embodying different characters as necessary if you choose to. There is no Game Master, and no one has more ownership over the story than anyone else. This is for a one shot of Mythomorphosis: Second Edition by Gordie Murphy, a GM-less mythmaking tabletop roleplaying game about how myths and legends change over generations. You can see the Kickstarter campaign here for reference: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gordiemurphy/apotheosis-0/description I plan to record the session but will confirm upload at the end. We will use Zoom for our session. I’ll email all players about a week before with the necessary links. The session will run up to three hours. The Open Hearth Code of Conduct will be in play and we will use Lines & Veils and the X-Card for safety tools. If you sign up and your availability changes, please remember to drop from the site and give me a heads up.

Shared Hearth: <t:1759514400:F> Lady Blackbird is an Imperial noble fleeing from an arranged marriage to be with her secret lover, the pirate king Uriah Flint. To reunite with him, she has hired a notorious smuggler and the crew of his skyship, The Owl. However, The Owl has been captured by an Imperial cruiser. How will Lady Blackbird and the others escape? What dangers lie in their path on the way to the pirate king’s lair? Concept: A classic game by John Harper. The game features an evocative steampunk/retro-sci-fi/fantasy setting, with an open-ended starting scenario and preset characters. Mechanically it's a straightforward tag-based dice pool system focused on action and breaks for interpersonal drama. There's also Keys to guide decisions and earn XP for advances. The PDF is free here: https://ladyblackbird.org/ Aim: We'll play one session of 4 hours, and see how far we get. We may not resolve Lady Blackbird's fate, but there will be plenty of dueling, shouting, stealthy escapes, quiet debate, and possibly even romance! Tone-wise we can decide as we go, but the game lends itself to space operatics in the vein of Star Wars or Firefly. We can play it with goofy hijinks, serious personal moral questions, or with moments of both. Safety/Content: We'll have the Open Hearth Code of Conduct in effect. We'll set up Lines & Veils at the top and use the X-card throughout.

<t:1759604460:F> NOVA is a rules-lite tabletop RPG in a world where the sun exploded, and humanity struggles to hold onto what little light they have left. The players will pilot exosuits, called Sparks, exploring the dark ruins of old earth, searching for the technology and knowledge that may just bring on a new dawn. NOVA uses the LUMEN system, which is designed for action-packed combat, equipping the players with a set of powers that bring the power fantasy feelings of looter shooters to the tabletop. Players will each choose a Spark to pilot, specialized exosuits designed to explore the dangers of the Dusk. Each exosuit was designed by humanity to serve a particular function, and the LUMEN system equips the players with a set of powers and abilities that allow them to excel while on their dangerous missions.

<t:1759669200:F> Mission: ImPAWsible is an improvizational roleplaying adventure game of high stakes and hilarious capers where three raccoons in a trench coat pose as the globe’s greatest super spy to enter the world of international espionage. One raccoon is the head, one is the torso and hands, and the other is the legs and feet. What could go wrong? This crew of unlikely heroes will have to balance the stress of saving the world while maintaining their disguise, all without melting down. Can you outfox the world's most nefarious villains with nothing but your wits, a trench coat, and a trio of raccoons? Probably not... but you'll have a lot of fun trying! ---------------------------- No prior experience is required. Rules will be taught during play. A character keeper and an online dice roller will also be available. Players will receive an email a week before the one-shot takes place to confirm attendance and acquire play materials. SAFETY: This game will be held under the Open Hearth Community Code of Conduct and use the Open Door policy, X-Card, and Lines & Veils. DURATION: Up to 4 hours with a 5-10 minute break approximately every hour. PLATFORM: We will be using StreamYard & Google Sheets.

<t:1759633200:F> Cuck Tent Game by EG Bower is a GMless game about being stuck in a tent with two other people who should not be sharing a tent. One of you is a werewolf, one of you is a vampire, and one of you is human. We’ll choose and play through a series of simple minigames that tell the story of the night’s events.  We’ll use safety tools including lines and veils, the X card and the open door and the game will run under the Open Hearth Code of Conduct. The game is not very explicit but given the theme and setting, you should be comfortable with some level of sexual themes and tensions between the characters.  We’ll play over Streamyard with short breaks on the hour, and the session will not be recorded. I’ll email you a week before the session to confirm availability, so please look out for the email and check your spam folder if it hasn’t arrived.

<t:1759669200:F> “The extent of misery, ignorance and vice amidst all the wealth and great knowledge of the ‘first city of the world’ is, to say the least, a national disgrace to us all.” - Henry Mayhew, 1851. London, January 1862. Queen Victoria weeps. Prince Albert is dead. The streets are slick with gin, mud, and blood. But in the alleys, crypts, and grand halls of the city, the undead stir. You are one of them. A cursed revenant—or perhaps something worse. Play as one of the Dead in this decadent, decaying London at the cusp of nightlife and modernity. Will you haunt the Hollow of Highgate, brawl in the Bucket of Blood, or charm a noble in Parliament’s back benches? You’ll scheme, fight, indulge your passions, and navigate a city bursting with secrets, sorrow, and undead politics. This game may be recorded (subject to everybody's consent at the table). We will use a layered set of safety tools. The Open Hearth Code of Conduct applies.

<t:1759496400:F> WE SERVE AND PROTECT by Kenneth Hite. A long hot summer of protests rocks the streets of Chicago in the 1970s, and you rock with them. Until the cops pen you in, snatch you up, and take you to the precinct house, where worse things than rubber hoses wait in the basement. The Chicago Police Department serves and protects… but what inhuman entity do the cops who have you serve? What dark secrets do they protect? About the Game Lovecraftesque is a GM-less storytelling game of creeping, existential horror. Together, players explore a slow-building mystery through the eyes of a single protagonist, taking turns shaping scenes and contributing details. Roles rotate each scene: Narrator – Describes the setting and introduces mysterious clues. Witness – Portrays the protagonist and reacts to events. Whisperers – Offer ideas, imagery, and suggestions, and may look things up to enrich the story. This is a game of cosmic horror that builds atmosphere, not body counts. The fear here is subtle, creeping, and inevitable. Important Notes This is not a Lovecraft pastiche. While inspired by cosmic horror, Lovecraftesque rejects the racism, ableism, and xenophobia of H.P. Lovecraft’s fiction. Instead, it focuses on human vulnerability in the face of the unknowable. For more on this approach: 📄 Mental Health and Lovecraft 📄 Handling Race in Lovecraftesque This game may be recorded (with everyone's explicit consent). We’ll use a layered set of safety tools including Lines & Veils, Open Door, and X-card equivalents. The Open Hearth Code of Conduct applies. We play respectfully and inclusively.

NOBODY KNEW WHEN IT STARTED, OR WHY. PERHAPS THE LONELY DEATH OF A SPINSTER WAS ONE TOO MUCH FOR ANGELS TO BEAR, OR A CHEMICAL LEAK I N THE GROUNDWATER HAD UNEXPECTED CONSEQUENCES. ONLY ONE THING IS CERTAIN: NOW THE DEAD WALK. This story game is about the zombie apocalypse and the desperate choices of the survivors. Not only do these characters scramble over each other, trying to find safety, but they may also cooperate and even sacrifice themselves so at least a few might survive to tell the story. This is Eero Tuovinen's classic story game Zombie Cinema in which, like it says, we play through a zombie movie! It's GMless, and should handle up to six players (including the facilitator) nicely in three hours or so. We will be playing under the Open Hearth Code of Conduct, and using Lines & Veils, X-card/Script Change, and Open Door. Session will be recorded and posted to youtube only if all participants agree.

<t:1759600800:F> GAME: NO FEAR INTRO/PREMISE: If you can find the remains of the Godwin expedition on the tallest mountain and return his body to his family with proof, then they'll make you wealthier than you can possibly imagine… but while the money's a powerful motivation, it's not the only reason you made the arduous journey to base camp, ready to go up into the white. No Fear is part of the Dark Tidings Anthology by Speak the Sky, Designed for Trophy Dark https://speakthesky.itch.io/dark-tidings PLAYERS NEEDED 2-4 players for this sinister one-shot.  SAFETY: This game will be held under the Open Hearth Community Code of Conduct.  Safety tools available are Script Change, Open Door policy, and Lines and Veils.  Please be aware that this game verges into horror, with mentions of shifting reality, altitude, climbing in severe conditions, threat of avalanche, blizzards, and snowstorms inherent to this incursion. No experience necessary, rules will be taught in game.  A character keeper will be provided, and a dedicated online dice roller will be available. DURATION: Up to 4 hours with at least two 5-10 minute breaks throughout. PLATFORM/RECORDING: We will be using Zoom, and I record sessions for facilitator improvement with consent to be requested for posting on YouTube.

<t:1759514400:F> GAME: The Lovely Somnolent INTRO/PREMISE: The princess is asleep within the bramble-overrun walls - you could awaken her from the curse by whatever means within your disposal, earn her love, and claim a kingdom…or see if there are riches and wealth within those walls available for the taking… The Lovely Somnolent is an incursion designed for Trophy Dark by Mads C. Turley. https://madelancholy.itch.io/the-lovely-somnolent PLAYERS NEEDED 2-4 players for this fairy tale-like one-shot.  No experience necessary, rules will be taught in game.  A character keeper will be provided, and a dedicated online dice roller will be available. SAFETY: This game will be held under the Open Hearth Community Code of Conduct.  Safety tools available are Script Change, Open Door policy, and Lines and Veils.  Please be aware that this game verges into horror, with mentions of shifting reality, temptation, greed, body horror, indulgence inherent to this incursion. DURATION: Up to 4 hours with at least two 5-10 minute breaks throughout. PLATFORM/RECORDING: We will be using Zoom, and I record sessions for facilitator improvement with consent to be requested for posting on YouTube.

<t:1759496400:F> GAME: A Throne of Hollow Feathers INTRO/PREMISE: “If the Gods will not keep to their oath,” roared the King of Otwan, “then we need not keep to ours!  Bring me back my daughter!”  You’ve been tasked to retrieve a princess given up for sacrifice to appease the gods…and if you find any treasure along the way, so be it. A Throne of Hollow Feathers is a one-shot incursion for Trophy Gold by Amanda Mullins. https://iamatrex.itch.io/a-throne-of-hollow-feathers PLAYERS NEEDED: 2-4 players No experience necessary, rules will be taught in game.  A character keeper will be provided, and a dedicated online dice roller will be available. SAFETY: This game will be held under the Open Hearth Community Code of Conduct.  Safety tools available are Script Change, Open Door policy, and Lines and Veils.  Please be aware that content warnings include sacrifice, death, and harm to animals as inherent to this incursion. DURATION: Up to 4 hours with at least two 5-10 minute breaks throughout. PLATFORM/RECORDING: We will be using Zoom, and I record sessions for facilitator improvement with consent to be requested for posting on YouTube.

Hammertime: <t:1759446000:F> to <t:1759460400:t> Kedamono Opera is a game centering on the horrors called kedamono that dwell in the Dark Forest. Kedamono are powerful, ageless beasts who prey upon human souls. Their mere existence is a threat to humanity itself. And yet, there are some who, seeking to sate whatever desire drives them at the time, make deals with humans and lend them their power. Prior experience with the system is not necessary, rules will be taught as we play. DETAILS Subject Matter: Harm, misfortune, and potential violence done to and caused by humans and supernatural horrors. Other themes may vary depending on the scenario elements communicated and agreed upon by everyone at the table. Safety Tools: CATS; Palette Grid with Lines & Veils; X, N, O Cards / Traffic Lights; Script Change; Open Door Policy Number of Sessions: 1 Number of Players: 2-3 players Session Duration: Up to 4 hours with 3 breaks, each on the hour (5-10 minutes each) Recording: No Venue and Tech: Zoom, Witchdice (for dice), Google Sheets (for character keeper) I will be emailing everyone about a week before the session to confirm attendance. Players will be pinged and play material links will be sent an hour before the session by email and in the Open Hearth Discord mustering point. The Open Hearth Code of Conduct (https://openhearthgaming.com/code-of-conduct) will always be in effect.

<t:1759467600:F> Oh Captain, My Captain! is a short form worldbuilding role-playing game (RPG) that explores heroism and the complicated relationships we have with people we admire. It’s approachable for players who have never tried an RPG before and satisfying for players who have been gaming for years. It’s also compact enough to tell unforgettable stories in just thirty minutes. The game revolves around players drawing from a deck of cards with open-ended questions. Each question players answer helps them learn about their character, their world, their captain, and the complicated relationship they have with a living legend. Players use these answers to make connections between their stories leading up one of three final questions that end the game. Groups can change their final question based on the tone they desire for their experience. The open-ended nature of the game allows players to explore any genre or story they can imagine, from a swashbuckling pirate adventure to a space opera with the starship crew, or the adventures of a high school football team or even a team of superheroes! No matter what story you want to tell, Oh Captain, My Captain! helps you create an exciting adventure to entertain your whole game group. We will, of course, be playing within the Open hearth Community Code of Conduct. Session will be played over zoom and will not be recorded. I have a physical copy of the deck and will be drawing cards and presenting questions to the players.