319. Hearts of Magic Part 1

One Shot

Dillin Apelyan

Games, Leisure, Comedy

4.8 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

A random intersection of shifting leylines has turned a once unimportant and mostly ignored city into nexus of magical power. The Order seeks to control this power and prevent it from enabling a civil revolution. The Witches, a contingent of untrained citizens seek to harness magical power to throw off their oppressors. The Lords and Ladies, the historic fey rules of the city want to conduct business as usual. In this tumult, we find three people who will soon be important to one another. CONTENT WARNING: Parts 2 and 3 of this series will have sexual content. Pre-order my new book! Non-Amazon link! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We are adventurers.
0:02.0	Big into every place anywhere in the world.
0:06.0	We are adventuring.
0:08.0	We are adventurers.
0:10.0	Hello heroes and welcome to another exciting episode of One Shot. I'm James Damato, your host in GameMaster.
0:16.5	This week we're playing Hearts of Magic. Hearts of Magic is a game about political intrigue, messy interpersonal relationships, and of course the nature of magic.
0:27.0	It was designed by Erika Shepard using Fire Brands as a base, and it's actually my first time playing a firebrand system. I actually gathered the crew that we recorded with to play something else, so Hearts of Magic was a surprise all around, and at every moment I was delighted about it.
0:42.8	Firebrands-based games collect several micro games
0:46.1	that players can use to guide scenes,
0:48.4	which means each scene has mechanics which are tailored to
0:51.2	curate specific feelings.
0:53.0	It's an RPG made out of micro games.
0:55.0	And although I don't have experience with other Firebrand style games,
0:59.0	I feel confident in saying that Hearts of Magic is an exceptional example of this type of game. I had so much fun,
1:06.0	and I can see replaying this over and over, even making almost exactly the same choices I did,
1:12.0	and still discovering new fun with it. the is supposed to be soon. So I recommend everyone go check out Hearts of Magic.
1:24.3	You can get the PDF on Itch, we'll be linking that.
1:27.5	And if you have an opportunity to pick up a physical copy,
1:30.5	I'd recommend that too.
1:32.0	Like I said, I had so much fun with this one. We're going to get to the
1:35.8	episode in a second but before we do I want to remind everybody that right now we have a new
1:41.0	book in the one-shot book club.
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