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 4: 31 October 2023 – 14 November 2023. 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.)

The Expanse Universe – Alestrandra’s Run

Year 2370. You are the crew of the Cornucopia class supply ship named Alestrandra. Your task is simple. The 16 cargo holds of the ship is packed to its limit with unknown containers from Earth. You have to deliver the cargo to the colony planet Auberon, through the Ring Gates and the slow zone. But be wary, for the Transport Union doesn’t like undeclared cargo passing through Medina station, yet honesty may cost you in more ways than just credits…

Dramatic Pitch: Humanity once colonised the entire solar system. Earth’s Moon. Mars. The Astroid Ceres. For hundreds of years it seemed that no corner in the Sol system will remain untouched by the sentient species that had evolved to fight itself.

That is until the Eros incident. The arrival of protomolecule fired across the universe two billion years ago by a hive mind species made it’s way into human hands. The Protogen Corporation sacrificed the entire station - nearly 1.5m people comprised mostly of Belters - as experimental biomass to the protomolecule. As the matter gained a twisted sentience of its patient ‘0’, the asteroid evaded humanity’s last ditch effort to destroy the out of control experiment. Instead of orbiting down the gravity well into the Sun, it flew to Venus. And eventually it rose again into the stars to form the 1000 kilometres wide wormhole gates known as the Ring Gates.

Gates that lead to the “Slow Zone” and onto 1,372 other systems. Systems containing the ruins and technology of the alien hive mind Ring Builders. Systems which are habitable by humans. Thus, the colonies of humanity no longer spanned the Sol System. It spanned galaxies, and the infinite expanse between.

• System: AGE system
• Players: 3-4
• GM: Dev
• Duration: Weeks 1-3

Serenade of Moonlight Hill

The moonlit hill glows beautifully in her memories. It’s been years since then, but that night sleeps in her heart, its colours never fading with time. She has to see it again. Protected by Floria, she leaves the shining city. She has to see him one more time, before she sets foot on a journey from which she’ll never return.

Floria is a Japanese indie feelgood game of plant-using magicians, who act as bridges between the world of man and the Endless Forest.

Week 1 of the Japanese Trio.

• Proposed by: Neil Smith
• System: Floria: The Verdant Way
• Players: 3–4
• Duration: 1 week
• In person (masks preferred)

Week 2

The Expanse Universe – Alestrandra’s Run

Continuing from Week 1.

• System: AGE system
• Players: 3-4
• GM: Dev
• Duration: Weeks 1-3

The Black Mirror

The Black Mirror has been stolen by a renegade ninja. The mirror is to be used in three days by a sorcerer named Cale. Cale's ritual will open a rift to the demon realm, allowing demons free rein over the world of man. Certain ninja clans see benefit in this; others will do everything they can to stop the ritual.

Shinobigami is a Japanese game of action, intrigue, and melodrama where ninja fight for supremacy in the shadows of contemporary Japan.

Week 2 of the Japanese Trio.

• Proposed by: Neil Smith
• System: Shinobigami
• Players: 3–6
• Duration: 1 week
• In person (masks preferred)

Week 3

The Expanse Universe – Alestrandra’s Run

Continuing from Week 2.

• System: AGE system
• Players: 3-4
• GM: Dev
• Duration: Weeks 1-3

Monster Of The Week

This is a role-play heavy game with less rules and rolling than D&D. You are monster hunters in present day. You know what goes bump in the night and how to protect the general public from all the things they really don’t want to know about. Think Supernatural, X-files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Fringe. So if you think you’ve got what it takes, grab your D6’s and join the table.

I have several one shots that can be done in one night as well as a couple that can take the three weeks.

• System: Monster Of The Week
• GM: Heather
• Duration: Weeks 3

The Witch's Garden

Two children from town are arguing in the field where you were planning to play. They're angry because they're scared of the witch who lives nearby. Whether you want to help them, or whether you just want to help them be quiet, you have to intervene.

Golden Sky Stories is a feelgood Japanese game of animal spirits helping each other, and the humans living in the small rural town nearby.

Week 3 of the Japanese Trio.

• Proposed by: Neil Smith
• System: Shinobigami
• Players: 3–4
• Duration: 1 week
• In person (masks preferred)