Proposed short-block games

This page is for games that are on offer for the next short block. The Proposed Long Block games are on a separate page. If ideas in here sound interesting to you, please contact the GM in question.

These are the proposed short block games for Block 2: 7 July April – 21 July 2026. Because many short-block games are organised ad hoc on the night, this is necessarily incomplete.

Week 1

(Including pitches for the next long block.)

Age Before Ages: Starfall

It is the Dawn of Time, an Age Before Ages. Yours is a world of stone, fur, fire, and bone. Since time immemorial your tribe has hunted the mammoth herds across the wild plains of Chamca. Then the Hunter’s Eye fell from the heavens, and your world was forever changed…

Now shooting stars light up the evening sky, bringing with them a rain of fire and leaving the land shattered and pockmarked. But there is treasure within the devastation. shining and silvery, thrumming with arcane power stolen from the Gods themselves:

Star-Metal

Such power was never meant for mortal hands, but now a new age is dawning. Those few sorcerers who can master the Riddle of Steel have the potential to reshape the world in their own image.

You are the scouts of your tribe, seeking a path north through the labyrinthine valleys of the Starfall Mountains. You have heard the rumours of star metal but never beheld it… until now. Now a crater looms ahead of you, shards of gleaming metal strewn across your path, but will these newfound riches be a blessing or a curse?

• GM: Alex Barrett
• System: Dungeons & Dragons (5.0)
• Players: 2d4
• Weeks: 1–3

Wildest West — A Cruise Gone Wrong (7th-14th July)

The Queen is a grand paddle steamer, churning its way down the Mississippi River. Oil lamps flicker against polished brass, the wealthy sip bourbon while the desperate chase fortune at the card tables.

But something’s about to go very wrong.

This will be a playtest of a new homebrew system. Expect rules to change based on how broken they appear at the table. Or if they are ineffectual. All in the name of balance.

Note: As this is a play test, come in prepared for PvP as I'll be trying to figure out how the system works overall.

• System: Homebrew
• Players: 4 Max
• Duration: Weeks 1-2 (returning players expected)

Card-based story games

There are a good few card-based story games out now. This is a chance to play a few. The games are zero-prep and collaborative story games

The games include:

• For the Queen
• Fedora Noir
• Women are Werewolves
• The Quiet Year
• Villagesong
• Our Mundane Supernatural Life
• Decaying Orbit
• Saltfish and Almanacs

Depending on who's around, we'd pick a game (or two) and see what happens!

• Proposed by: Neil Smith
• Players: 2-5
• Weeks: 1–3

Week 2

Age Before Ages: Starfall

Continuing from the previous week.

Wildest West — A cruise gone wrong

Continuing from Week 1.

Card-based story games

Continuing from Week 1.

Week 3

Age Before Ages: Starfall

Continuing from the previous week.

Card-based story games

Continuing from Week 2.