Western Canada’s Largest Tabletop Gaming Convention! Join us March 14-16, 2025, at the Vancouver Convention Centre - East (aka Canada Place) in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
The Quiet Year is a collaborative story-telling game by a local trans author - we take turns pulling prompt cards from a deck and drawing/updating our shared map. We all share ownership of a post-collapse settlement struggling for stability, and the leaders of the community (shared characters held loosely). We determine the threats (internal and external), and the projects to secure resources to survive. The seasons pass and resources and threats wax and wane; sometime during the winter the Frost Shepherds will arrive, ending the game and threatening all we've built.
Pensive tone - a game with a big heart. No DM, collaborative and equal. No prescribed setting beyond the post-collapse small settlement - we choose genre and setting, major landscape features. Tends towards a serious tone with themes of want/scarcity/threat - we play to explore themes of community under pressure. Easily understood rules we'll read together.
Safety tools: lines and veils, x card, pause/rewind. Serious themes means we have to be more kind and gentle with each other.
