Podcast Episodes

Open Hearth Games of the Year 2025

Episode 48

A collection of favorite tabletop RPGs of 2025 from our community members. It's split into three sections, with host picks in-between.

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Published on 5 hours ago

Open Hearth Podcast Ep 14: Going for Broke, Grimwild, Band of Blades

Episode 47

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 fantasy, and facing down what feels…

Published on 1 month ago

Roll for Mutation: Post-Apocalyptic TTRPG History: Ep. 3 Paranoia

Episode 46

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 abject obeisance Friend Computer…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

A Different Kind of Hex Ep. 5 - Playing to Fail

Episode 45

Content Advisory: character death, ritual sacrifice

Ian & José are joined by Wyllora to explore what it means to fail in an RPG, and why we might want to do it on purpose. How do we define "success" i…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Talking Space Opera

Episode 44

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, Fading Suns, Space Wyrm vs Moo…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Roll for Origin: Supers TTRPG History: Ep. 5 Base Raiders

Episode 43

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 and Kickstarted Base Raiders. Th…

Published on 2 months ago

Roll for Mutation: Post-Apocalyptic TTRPG History: Ep. 2 Twilight 2000

Episode 42

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 with some discussion of Twiligh…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Talking White Whales and Inadvisable Ideas

Episode 41

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 actuall…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Design Chat: Pedro Barrenechea & Rotted Capes 2e

Episode 40

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 post-apocalyptic game of superher…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Talking One-Shots

Episode 39

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 giving a talk, mixed in with qu…

Published on 3 months ago