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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.© 2025 The Open Hearth Gaming Community
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
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