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Event deck
Events you wrote or ours, triggered every few rounds or at random moments. Nobody knows when.
Made by the PaperCarnival team · Updated
44 events left in the deck
Events land when you draw one, and not before.
A ready-made set
Playing with 44 ready-made events. 0 of your own are saved here.
When an event lands
Events land when you draw one, and not before.
Sound
A low thud when an event lands, so a table looking elsewhere looks up. The event is written across the screen either way.
The hour where a long game sags
Most games have a stretch in the middle where everybody knows what they are doing and nobody is enjoying doing it. One player is far ahead, two are out of it, and the rest are going through the motions. An event deck is the cheapest fix there is: every so often something lands that nobody planned for, the board looks different, and the table is paying attention again.
The ready-made sets are written so they do not need to know what you are playing. Turn order reverses. Everybody passes one thing to the left. The player in last place takes two turns. They work over a board game, a card game, a quiz or nothing at all, and if they do not suit you, the whole deck can be replaced by typing your own.
It sits well beside the tools that run the rest of a session: the scoreboard for points, the turn order for whose go it is, and the countdown timer when a round needs a hard stop. Everything one group needs is on one screen, and nothing needs an account.
Kept in this browser under pph.events.deck, pph.events.trigger and pph.events.muted, and nowhere else. Accounts, printing, storage and what the page loads are answered on the FAQ.
Questions
- Can an event land at a random moment?
- Yes. Choose the hidden timer, set the soonest and latest number of minutes, and each event is drawn somewhere in between. The next gap is picked again every time one lands, so the pattern never becomes guessable.
- Can I see which event is coming next?
- No, and that is deliberate. The deck is shuffled when it is built and the top card is never shown, so the person running the game is surprised along with everybody else.
- What happens when the deck runs out?
- The events that have already landed are shuffled back in and the deck carries on, with a line on screen saying so. Nothing repeats until everything has been used once.
- Can I use my own events?
- Yes. Type them one per line, up to sixty, and press Use my events. They are kept in this browser between visits and they never travel in a share link.
- Does the timer keep going if I switch tabs?
- It works out the time from the clock rather than by counting frames, so a throttled background tab does not slow it down, and it holds the screen awake while it is running. There is more on why that distinction matters in our guide to timers in background tabs.
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