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Talking RPG Cities
What makes a good city in a role-playing game? People, places, factions, rumors? We're going to be talking about that and bringing together your insights. This communi...
A Different Kind of Hex Ep. 6 - The Gift of Offers
As the first installment in a series of episodes on improv tools at the gaming table, Ian & José are joined by Karen Twelves, the author of Improv for Gamers, to discu...
Roll for Origin: Supers TTRPG History: Ep. 6 Godlike & Wild Talents
Roll for Origin: Supers TTRPG History looks at two related RPG systems. First Godlike, the World War II supers game that leans into realism and consistency. Second Wil...
Open Hearth Podcast Ep 15: Mythic Bastionland, Villa Encantata, Rapscallion
In this episode host Lowell Francis is joined by Kieron Gillen and Cat Rambo to talk about recent games, plans for future games, current writing projects, and more.Kie...
Open Hearth Games of the Year 2025
A collection of favorite tabletop RPGs of 2025 from our community members. It's split into three sections, with host picks in-between.Find out more about the Open Hear...
Open Hearth Podcast Ep 14: Going for Broke, Grimwild, Band of Blades
In this episode host Lowell Francis is joined by Michael D. and Alun R. to talk about the ups and downs of "funny" game mechanics, a modern approach to traditional fan...
Roll for Mutation: Post-Apocalyptic TTRPG History: Ep. 3 Paranoia
Note: we had some audio issues with this recording (apologies)! In our third episode of Roll for Mutation, a look at the history of Post-Apocalyptic TTRPGs, we bow in ...
A Different Kind of Hex Ep. 5 - Playing to Fail
Content Advisory: character death, ritual sacrificeIan & José are joined by Wyllora to explore what it means to fail in an RPG, and why we might want to do it on purpo...
Talking Space Opera
Lets talk widescreen, big idea sci-fi. Games of space fleets, interstellar empires, sometimes aliens-- big ideas and lasers. Games like Star Trek Adventures, Traveller...
Roll for Origin: Supers TTRPG History: Ep. 5 Base Raiders
Roll for Origin: Supers TTRPG History jumps forward significantly in time to just after the d20 boom/bust cycle. Today's focus is Ross Payton's independently produced ...
Roll for Mutation: Post-Apocalyptic TTRPG History: Ep. 2 Twilight 2000
In our second episode of Roll for Mutation, a look at the history of Post-Apocalyptic TTRPGs, we tackle Twilight 2000 from GDW, focusing on those original editions but...
Talking White Whales and Inadvisable Ideas
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 th...
Design Chat: Pedro Barrenechea & Rotted Capes 2e
This week we present a bonus episode for both Roll for Origin & Roll for Mutation. Lowell chats with Pedro Barrenechea, lead designer for Rotted Capes 2nd Edition, a p...
Talking One-Shots
For this episode we've cleaned up the audio from an older community seminar on running one-shots. Like several of our other "Talking" episodes, this has Lowell Francis...
Open Hearth Podcast Ep 13: Ex Tenebris, Wise Women, Star Trek Adventures
In this episode Host Lowell Francis talks with Becky Annison and Josh Fox of Black Armada games about what they've been playing, herbal witches, the final frontier, th...
A Different Kind of Hex Ep. 4 - Bleed
Content Advisory: colonialism & imperialism; sexual violence in a horror/vampire context; death of loved ones, including miscarriage; excessive immersion; grief & blea...
Roll for Origin: Supers TTRPG History: Ep. 4 Champions (1st-3rd Editions)
Roll for Origin: Supers TTRPG History returns to one of the earliest and most important superhero ttrpgs: Champions. Hosts Jay Brown and Lowell Francis talk about a ga...
Open Hearth Podcast Ep 12: Rangers of a Broken World, Aberrant, Masks
In this episode Host Rae Nedjadi (Apocalypse Keys, Once More into the Void) talks with Sebastian Yūe and Matthew Arcilla about games, superheroes, villainy, gender, an...
Tribes in the Dark Kickstarter: Roll for Mutation Bonus Ep
In this "bonusode*" for Roll for Mutation: Post-Apocalyptic TTRPG History, we talk with Wil Hutton aka Rivetgeek, lead developer for Tribes in the Dark. TitD reworks a...
Roll for Mutation: Post-Apocalyptic TTRPG History: Ep. 1 Gamma World
First episode of Roll for Mutation, a new series looking at the history of Post-Apocalyptic TTRPGs. In this one hosts Lowell Francis and Marc Majcher cover the extende...
