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Open Hearth Podcast Episode 3
Host Lowell Francis (edige23) is joined this episode by community members Jex Thomas and Mike Minutillo to talk about their recent gaming experiences and in-depth disc...
Open Hearth Podcast Episode 2
Hey! We made it to Episode 2! In this podcast community members join us to talk about their recent gaming and discuss one in depth that they really enjoyed. Host Lowel...
Open Hearth Podcast Episode 1
Hey! It's the first episode of our long-promised podcast. In this podcast community members join us to talk about their recent gaming and discuss one in depth that the...
Open Hearth Games of the Year 2024
A collection of favorite tabletop rpgs of 2024 from our community members. It’s split into three sections, with host picks in-between. To learn more about Open Hearth ...
Talking Game Facilitation
Talk Outline: https://bit.ly/3UDCye3This is a talk/seminar about game facilitation, particularly in our Open Hearth Gaming Community. In this single session, I will be...
GMing Shop Talk: NPCs
Rich Rogers (Hit the Streets, +1 Forward Podcast) and Lowell Francis (Hearts of Wulin, the Gauntlet Podcast) talk NPCs: creating, presenting & working with them. We di...
Announcement: Playing at the Hearth
Open Hearth Gaming's recorded gaming sessions are now available in an audio-only podcast format. For more information, check out Playing at the Hearth at https://playi...
Learning Legacy: Life Among the Ruins
This is a talk by Lowell Francis about Legacy: Life Among the Ruins, a PbtA game of post-apocalyptic families and factions. Lowell (@edige23 on most social media) walk...
Talking Hard Moves, Costs & Consequences
A community event talking about GMing and playing hard moves, managing costs, and balancing consequences for PbtA, Forged in the Dark, and other storygames.
An Introduction to Designing with Cortex Prime
This is a talk Anders did for the Open Hearth gaming community. It contains a brief overview of the history of the Cortex system, an introduction to the mechanics, a l...