Everyone in the D&D group I run games for is involved with mock assessments at school or college, so attendance has been erratic. However, those who CAN play are always very keen. So we've been mixing our longer-running story campaigns with a "job board" game when only a couple of people can attend - I made up a noticeboard which lives in the Rapier & Ruin tavern, just inside the city gate of the city which I developed two years ago for a campaign with my nibling which is currently on hiatus (we finished an arc, then paused). The premise is that this is where adventurous people like to hang out between longer journeys or quests, so one off little jobs can be posted here by people in and around the town. Every job is a roughly 2 hour game (allowing for the table being chatty and social), and the players turn up with whichever character they fancy playing that day. If they know each other they take a job together, if not we assume they both grabbed for the same advert at the same time, and agreed to share the job.
I'm enjoying adding little touches to the board - the adverts, the little bits of graffiti. The slip under the "no politics" note is from the "cult" the last game were dealing with, the 'People's Rights' protest is a response to a previous job board game where the players ended up changing sides and siding with some sprites against their client (a wealthy merchant who wanted to clear some bushes to build a new dock along the river) to his financial disadvantage.
Today we successfully rescued Beloved Pet Duke Duffington, so I need to come up with something else to pop into the gap... the two players who turned up agreed that it was a very welcome break from studying so that feels like I did something useful today in making that possible...
Anyway, everything else is pants, basically, so I thought I'd post about something I'm having fun with!