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 1: 04 March 2025 – 18 March 2025. 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 Rune Thief (Continued from previous short block)
Something terrible is about to subvert the order of things in Midgardr, threatening the true foundations of reality and knowledge. Dare you face the Rune Thief?
We pick up where the party has arrived at a shipyard hoping to prevent the destruction of the vessels required to carry out the evacuation of Heill Hofn before the army of the Rune Thief attacks. Will the party succeed, or will the Thief's vanguard reduce the ships to ashes?
- Proposed by: Dev D
- System: Dungeons & Dragons — 5th Edition
- Players: 3-7
- Location: Club Venue
- Weeks: 1-3
No Small Parts
Set around the making of the second season of a breakthrough new TV show, everyone takes on the role of a cast member facing the pressures of recapturing lightning in a bottle. Act out your scenes, demand rewrites. attend press junkets and cope with you very messy personal lives, whilst the GM (that's me) directs your performances on camera with some 'helpful' notes. In Session 1, we'll create characters, with all their attached baggage, but also define the show everyone is working on and shoot the first episode of Season 2!
The system is Best Friends, a game about being Best Friends and all the little hatreds that Best Friends have for each other. Oh, I know. You're gonna say that y'all get along just peachy. Well, that's fine too. No one said any of this was true... But, between you and me: it really is.
Featuring an innovative group character creation system where you define your PC by the things you are jealous of other PCs for and spend tokens to try to outdo them and show everyone how much better you are!
- Proposed by: James M
- System: Best Friends
- Players: 4-6
- Weeks: 1-3
The Alchemist's Lantern Season 3
Your rickety wagon trundles along a dirt road, through a forest as old as time itself. Gnarled branches, thick with autumn leaves, reach out for you like grasping hands within the ever-swirling mist. Up ahead light shines out from grimy windows beneath a creaking tavern sign. But the voices coming from the inn are subdued tonight. The Ghost has been seen again… It is the year 1672 and the world is undergoing a magical industrial revolution. New clockwork technologies are spreading across the land, while magically powered cloudships fill the skies, and the cogs of industry turn ever onwards. In this age of enlightenment, magic is becoming a science, codified and quantified by a host of arcane artificers… But there is more in heaven and earth than is dreamed of in their philosophies… You are travelling folklorists, peripatetic chroniclers, who wander from one small backwater to the next, trying to record the superstitions and practices of an age that is falling into myth… You know what lurks within the shadows: ghosts and demons, spirits and faeries, Dark curses, blood-stained histories, and the echoes of long forgotten pacts. You know all too well that the old powers which the Church denies are just as dangerous as they ever were. They flourish amidst the disbelief of this less credulous age, for there are few now with the tools to face them… This game will by and investigative game of gothic horror set in a fantasy world with an Eastern European aesthetic. It will draw inspiration from Slavic and Germanic folklore, casting the PCs in a role similar to that of the Brothers Grimm. This game might play out over a couple of consecutive short blocks. I have ideas for three or four mysteries and there is plenty of potential for more, but I don’t know whether each will be an evening, or two, or an entire block. Each little ghost story will be fairly stand alone, so players can drop in an out as the desire takes them. There is a slight content warning for this one. Expect horror and mystery, harrowing ghost stories, grim fairy tales, and the shadows of transgressions both old and new… Ghosts arise from bloody events, so we won’t shy away from issues like murder, persecution, social injustice etc. I’ll provide some basic pre-gens which can be customised to suit the players.
- Proposed by: Alex Barrett
- System: RP heavy, combat light D&D
- Players: 2-6
- Duration: 2 weeks
Three Tales of Terror
Lovecraftesque is a collaborative storytelling game in which the players take turns to play the main character, control the narrative, describe the scene and play the NPCs. With the aid of prompt cards we will tell a tale of a lone individual uncovering clues that lead to a terrible evil.
Each week will be a new story, so it's OK if you're not available every week. Scenarios range from modern day Britain to Victorian whaling ships to the ancient city of Pompeii. We'll choose together at the start of each session.
- Proposed by: Sue Savage
- System: Lovecrafteque
- Players: 1-4
- Weeks: 1-3
Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast
"A whimsical slice-of-life tabletop rpg about a found family & their magical home" Set in, to quote the author, a sprawling house where it's always the 15th September, Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast is a nice cozy slice-of-life game. Players work through 1-hour scenarios, aided by the concierge, to help build the story of the Bed & Breakfast. With each scenario seeing the players play different characters and slowly fill the book with stickers, scrawlings, notes and pictures like a literal scrapbook, Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast is open to all looking for a break from the action packed focus of other major ttrpgs, those that want to play a Studio Ghibli film, or anyone that's new to ttrpgs and wants to dip their toes into something mechanically light and easy to play.
- Proposed by: Alex C
- System: Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast
Week 2
The Rune Thief (Continued from week 1)
Continuing from Week 1.
No Small Parts
Continuing from Week 1.
The Alchemist's Lantern Season 3
Continuing from Week 1.
Three Tales of Terror
Continuing from Week 1.
Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast
Continuing from Week 1.
Week 3
The Rune Thief (Continued from week 2)
Continuing from Week 2.
No Small Parts
Continuing from Week 2.
Three Tales of Terror
Continuing from Week 2.
Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast
Continuing from Week 2.