Beak, Feather, & Bone is a lightly competitive map-labeling RPG.  Starting with an unlabeled city map, players are assigned community roles before taking turns claiming and describing locations. Draw from a standard 52-card deck to determine a building's purpose and then describe its beak (reputation), feather (appearance), and bone (interior). As buildings are claimed, a narrative for the town and its inhabitants emerges, including major NPCs and shifting power dynamics. 

This game will be great if you like collaborative world-building and birds

We will build characters in the session.

This session will be especially good for new players.

The game runner has run this game a few times now.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

This game will be hosted in room #1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Harm to Animals

Lise Mych’s Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/lise-mych

Ten years ago, the Wildfire Gang rode into Thistleberry Ranch and left nothing but ash and blood in their wake. They thought they’d silenced every witness...ended every life. But vengeance has a long memory. Now, the children they missed have come of age and they’re hunting the hunters.

Saddle up for a gritty, revenge-fueled tale of justice, reckoning, and blood on the frontier of the Free Coast."

This game will be great if you like gritty westerns and high fantasy

The game runner will provide level 5 characters.

Players need to be familiar with this system.

The game runner is very familiar with this system.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬

This game will be hosted on Zoom. The game runner will use Owlbear Rodeo 2.0 for maps. The game runner will be streaming this game.

twitch.tv/reflectgames

CW: Violence, language, adult themes consistent with Western tropes

At night, you dream. Your dreams are not idle imaginings, but visits to a persistent world of wonders and dangers both personal and alien. Will you find power there? Will you find freedom? Or will you slowly slip into Entanglement, and be trapped there forever? Play to find out!

Dreampunk is a PbtA-style game that uses a deck of surreal cards to encourage an improvisational style for inspiring challenges and obstacles. It actively involves both the GM and the players in this process! Rather than the numerical randomness of dice, it uses these cards as both creativity prompts and a resource to power your special abilities. Your character is a Dreamer, someone from a waking world who is drawn to the Dream when they sleep. As a Dreamer, you have powerful abilities to shape the world around you. To do so, you must incorporate elements from surreal art cards into your action using an element of your choice from that card. Lean into dream logic and find out all that your imagination makes possible!

Characters should be created ahead of time with guidance from the GM. The GM will also provide art cards, but if you prefer, you may use your own deck from Dixit, Mysterium, Everway, or a similar game, as long as you can upload images of your drawn cards to a shared virtual whiteboard.

This game will be great if you like PbtA, card resolution mechanics, Belonging Outside Belonging, Dixit, Mysterium, Everway, tarot, art, interpreting images, dream logic, and collaborative storytelling. 

New players are welcome. Players need to have played some RPGs. The game runner is new to this system, but very familiar with PbtA and the board games the game was inspired by.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

This game will be hosted in room #4 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game runner will use Miro whiteboards for mapping. https://miro.com/

Content warnings: minor elements of PvP in the sense that players may create

Tags: collaborative, diceless, cards, surreal, fantasy

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning

Welcome to Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, a sprawling old house outside time and space, where it’s always September 15th and there’s always room for a new visitor. The unusual blend of premade characters, modular rules, and legacy mechanics makes this TTRPG perfect for pick-up play: busy players can drop in and out without ever feeling lost, and anyone who wants to jump in can make a long-term impact without a long-term commitment. Yazeba's is yours to change. Perhaps Residents will leave or change, Guests will become far more important than you expected, or Journeys will take unexpected twists. Take control of one of the 7 long-term residents of the B&B or choose from a cast of 50 quirky guests, each of whom has their own ongoing storylines.

Chapters can be played in any order and include things like lazy afternoons, frightful nights, insurmountable chores, and zany competitions, so every adventure is full of surprises. When we were little, we were taught that a story is a sequence of events with a beginning, middle and end. But that’s not how all stories work: some loop around on themselves, some are told out of sequence, and some never end. After we play one Chapter, we can play another without worrying too much about whether it came before or after the Chapter we just played, or how much time has passed. Think back on that prolific paperback series you may have once read: you might have missed a few issues, or read them out of order, but you were always able to figure out what was going on. That's what Yazeba's is going for!

Chapters are short, so we may play more than one adventure during our session, swapping characters in between! 

If you've played Yazeba's before, feel free to let your gamerunner know which chapters you've played, so you can try some new ones. There are many different types to suit different moods and player counts.

This game will be great if you like legacy board games, trying different things, and collaborative storytelling.

New players are welcome. Players need to have played some RPGs. The game runner is very familiar with this system.

The game comes with pre-existing characters to pick from.

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

This game will be hosted in room #4 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game runner will use Miro whiteboards for mapping. https://miro.com/ Spectators are welcome.

Content warnings: n/a

Tags: fantasy, cozy, living world

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning

Have you ever wondered what bounty hunters do when the galaxy no longer needs them? In this game called A Complicated Profession, they start new careers hosting intergalactic cruises! Reunite your disbanded crew of jaded sidekicks, shabby droids and shady accomplices. Then pick a hosting role on your cruise ship and start a new life together! Gradually leave more of your old Hunter self behind and embrace your new role as Host, although the past will always be a part of who you are. We'll play 1 to 3 cruises, depending on the play speed of the group, each cruise featuring different passengers and three different exciting events.

A Complicated Profession is a GMless collaborative storytelling TTRPG. Players will start by picking a Hunter and Host role from a variety of templates, then go through a mad-libs style fill-in-the-blanks process to create their characters, ship and galaxy. Maybe you used to be the Hotspot Pilot or the Hired Muscle? Well, no more. How about becoming a Chef, the Live Entertainment or simply the Janitor in your new career? Once your crew settles into their new identity, it's time to find some clients and take them through various exciting events! From excursions to meddling in their love life, here you can do it all. 

This game will be great if you like collaborative storytelling, worldbuilding, space, cruises, and Saturday Morning cartoons.

This system is especially great for new players. The game runner is very familiar with this system.

The game runner will provide pre-generated characters to pick from.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

This game will be hosted in room #4 of The TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game runner will use Miro whiteboards for mapping. https://miro.com/ Spectators are welcome. 

Content warnings: n/a

Tags: fantasy, scifi, humor, GMless

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning

Ten years ago, the Wildfire Gang rode into Thistleberry Ranch and left nothing but ash and blood in their wake. They thought they’d silenced every witness...ended every life. But vengeance has a long memory. Now, the children they missed have come of age and they’re hunting the hunters.

Saddle up for a gritty, revenge-fueled tale of justice, reckoning, and blood on the frontier of the Free Coast."

This game will be great if you like gritty westerns and high fantasy

The game runner will provide level 5 characters.

Players need to be familiar with this system.

The game runner is very familiar with this system.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬

This game will be hosted on Zoom. The game runner will use Owlbear Rodeo 2.0 for maps. The game runner will be streaming this game.

twitch.tv/reflectgames

CW: Violence, language, adult themes consistent with Western tropes

"In one day, let us create and destroy a world. Throughout Saturday, we will devise a world using the tools and deck of Decuma, we will explore the pressures of a community living in that world through the lens of language in Dialect, and then you will see how that community ends in a Quiet Year.

The setting we build over the course of Saturday will be the subject of a game run in the Mavericks system on Monday. Sign up for any or all of these games to be a part of the lore."

This game will be great if you like creative exercises, answering prompts, and working together.

We will build characters in the session.

New players are welcome.

The game runner is very familiar with this system.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

This game will be hosted in room #2 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: None

Ansel Burch’s Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/ansel-burch

Age of Adventure RPG is a one-page rules-light heroic fantasy game inspired by the 'Lasers & Feelings' d6 dice pool system. Be prepared for some old-school fun as you dice with death in search of fortune and glory! So grab your pack, sharpen your sword, and ready your spells. Now Onward to Adventure! https://adrian-young-games.itch.io/age-of-adventure-rpg

💰  Cost: Free

🗓️  When: https://r.3v.fi/discord-timestamps/

🎲  Where: Discord for Voice, dice rolls and character sheets (video optional)

🕰️  Duration: 4 hours

🧑‍🤝‍🧑  No. of Players: 2-4

📖  Player Guidelines: Potential Character Death. No rules knowledge required. No PvP.

⚔️  Character Selection: Pre-generated Characters available here: https://bit.ly/AoA-Pre-Gens (returning Characters welcome).

This game will be great if you like RPG fantasy 

Players should build characters ahead. Pre-generated characters are available. https://adrian-young-games.itch.io/age-of-adventure-rpg

New players are welcome.

The game runner is very familiar with this system.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

This game will be hosted on another Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: potential character death

Sometimes, the most important part of teenage superheroing is remembering to be a kid. Every year, Coaster Station opens its gates to all of the kids of Halcyon City and so far, the incidents have been pretty minor. Lady Indomitable has designed a coaster that takes the riders into low earth orbit for a survivable period of time for the ultimate rush of brief near-vacuum and weightlessness. So, the entire super community has been invited to Kids Day for the unveiling. This should be the safest year yet! 

This game will be great if you like comic books, Superhero movies, emotional damage, and working as a team despite your teenage tendencies.

Players should build characters ahead.

This session will be especially good for new players.

The game runner is very familiar with this system.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬

This game will be hosted in room #2 on The TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server

CW: Hubris

Ansel Burch’s Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/ansel-burch

Final Lap is a zero prep GMless game where we collaborative tell the story of racers in a cartoony videogame like Mario Kart and Wreck-It-Ralph's Sugar Rush, trying to take on The Champion in the final race of the season! It is a Descended From The Queen game, using the prompt-based collaborative storytelling mechanics from For the Queen in different themes. In this case, it features themes of racing, rivalry, friendship, and self-sacrifice. No familiarity with any of these things is needed to play, but being comfortable improvising things on the spot based on various random prompts is key. This game is pretty much entirely roleplay. And while this game features a race, the goal of this game is not to win the race. It is likely that the Champion will win it, rather than any of us. There are no game mechanics to simulate the race. The game emulates the story of the race, as do many fictions featuring drivers. 

This game will be great if you like Mario Kart, For The Queen, and collaborative prompt-based storytelling. 

This system is especially great for new players. 

The game runner is very familiar with this system. 

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬ Serious

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

This game will be hosted in room #4 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server.

Content warnings: n/a

Tags: storytelling, videogames, cartoons, racing 

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning

 In this GMless game you create a map of the Dolly Dream House together while you tell the story of its creative and imaginative renovation by your Dolly group. Randomly dropped dice will inspire where rooms can be created and what you may encounter there, but the specifics of the renovations and the stories that take place inside each room are up to you! It's a mixture of drawing and storytelling, all done together collaboratively in a shared virtual space. Please make sure you're okay with drawing on a virtual whiteboard. No skills are needed, MS paint level drawings are 100% fine and basically expected 

You are a group of Dollys in a pinktastic plastic world who bought a Dolly Dream House to move in there together. A Dolly Dream House can be a single mansion or a complex of many gorgeous buildings. Your purchase contract has some basic information about the extravagant rooms of the Dolly Dream House, which are meant to be explored and furnished. You may of course also design the paths between the rooms and buildings according to your excellent taste. And your Dolly Dream House is of course located in an interesting neighborhood where people like to visit each other often. As you make your way from room to room, you’re going to meet folks from this wonderful community. The game ends when renovations finish and the Dollys move in! This game will be great if you like drawing games, collaborative storytelling, cozy games, cartoons, toys, nostalgia, your inner kid, and Cozy Town. This system is especially great for new players. The game runner is very familiar with this system. 

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬ Serious

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

This game will be hosted in room #4 of The TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server.

Content warnings: n/a

Tags: drawing, storytelling, cozy

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning

As a kid in a tiny swamp town like Higgit's Bend, it's hard to make any spending money. So when the owner of the town's general store offers you and your friends an entire gold coin each for watching her dog Nacho -- you'd be a fool not to take the job! Besides, how much trouble could one little chihuahua get up to anyways?  

This game will be great if you like The Goonies, Codename: Kids Next Door, Kids on Bikes Players are welcome to build characters ahead of time, but we will also cover creation at the top of the session. You'll be provided the game doc ahead of time if you would like to build you character prior to session, but you don't have to. 

Players are welcome to reuse characters from previous OFA sessions. 

This session will be especially good for new players.

This system was written by the game runner.

Tone: Silly⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

This game will be hosted in room #4 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game runner will use shmeppy.com for mapping. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

Content warnings: claustrophobia and risk of drowning

Rayne Bakcheious’ Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/rayne-bakcheious

"In one day, let us create and destroy a world. Throughout Saturday, we will devise a world using the tools and deck of Decuma, we will explore the pressures of a community living in that world through the lens of language in Dialect, and then you will see how that community ends in a Quiet Year.

The setting we build over the course of Saturday will be the subject of a game run in the Mavericks system on Monday. Sign up for any or all of these games to be a part of the lore."

This game will be great if you like creative exercises, answering prompts, and working together.

We will build characters in the session.

New players are welcome.

The game runner is very familiar with this system.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

This game will be hosted in room #2 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: None

Ansel Burch’s Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/ansel-burch

Trophy is a strongly collaborative storytelling game with horror themes throughout. It is about a group of treasure-hunters on a doomed expedition into a natural biome that doesn’t want them there. The game tells the story of the physical and mental descent of the treasure-hunters as they move deeper and deeper into their location. Their journey will ultimately bring them to ancient ruins that hold the treasure they seek, and the monstrous entities which now dwell there. This is not, however, a hopeful story of brave and daring adventurers slaying dragons and dragging bags of gold with them back to town. This is a horror story of entitled pillagers meeting tragic ends. It is very likely that all the treasure-hunters will die or — at best — be permanently scarred and haunted by their expedition. Can you trust your friends? Can you even still trust yourself? In this game, Trophy isn't the treasure you seek, but nature trying to take you as its trophy instead.

Trophy Dark is designed to be played as a oneshot with small groups of 2-3 player characters. Players are heavily involved in offering up possible consequences for others throughout the game instead of just playing their own characters, so please be comfortable with this when signing up. Single oneshot adventures are called Incursions. 

Today's incursion is called Throne of the Forest Queen, where the following lures in your characters...

The constant drizzle that has accompanied you through the tangled woods abates as you come into a lush glade baked in golden sunlight. The stink of mud and leaf mold is cut through with a cleaner scent of pine and crisp mornings. A stag at the edge of the clearing casts a lazy glance at you before trotting further into the wood, its flashing tail an invitation to follow. You have reached the Queensweald—rumoured home to salvation, inspiration, cures to fantastical diseases, and wonders conjured only in dreams. Only the stout of heart enter the realm of the Forest Queen—fewer still return. Why then, if her favour is so hard to claim, do so many mortals seek it? Quite simply, it has value beyond gold. The queen’s power is nearly limitless. She controls the fae court of the forest, and can make the dreams of mortals into reality if she so chooses. For so long as people desire the impossible, they will venture in search of her...

This game will be great if you like impending doom, collaborative storytelling, horror. 

Characters will be created together at the start of the session. This can be done in mere minutes, assisted by random tables and dice rolls.

Players need to have played some RPGs. The game runner is very familiar with this system.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

This game will be hosted in room #4 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. Spectators are welcome. 

Content warnings: In general, fear, paranoia, character death, and high chances of other player characters betraying yours. This specific incursion can also include Body Horror, Cannibalism, Graphic Violence, Harm to Animals, Manipulation, Slavery, and Torture. Many of these elements, like Torture and Harm to Animals, will only be mentioned briefly if they occur and not roleplayed out in detail.

Tags: fantasy, horror

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning

System Pitch: Brindlewood Bay is a PbtA-style game about a group of elderly women—members of the local Murder Mavens mystery book club—who find themselves solving actual murder mysteries in their quaint New England town. Being retired but with plenty of time and wits left, they've used what they learned from their favorite books to solve all sorts of cases. And you're invited to come solve the next one! There is no canon solution to the mysteries, instead, players must collect and piece together many different clues and come up with a convincing theory, then play to find out if they are right! Players are often encouraged to contribute to the narrative, not just when coming up with a solution, but also when exploring new locations and meeting new characters! 

Session Pitch: This time we are playing a Sweeps Week mystery, which takes the Mavens on a trip to a different town with more futuristic/scifi/alternate-universe elements. In addition to the alternate setting, the case to solve isn't a murder, but the question is still whodunnit ;-)

The Mavens are visiting Dr. Marry’s Majestic Animals Petting Zoo, or MAPZ, on its grand opening. MAPZ is located off a twisting, rarely used highway connecting Brindlewood Bay to its neighbor city, Mucky Point. The zoo sits on a former dairy farm previously owned and operated by generations of a Danish family until its sudden closing 30 years ago. Rumors swirled in the past year as large equipment deliveries were spotted on the road to the farm. Many were surprised and delighted by the opening of what is described as “the world’s most innovative petting zoo.” Dr. Marry is an expert in animal genetics and has been doing unconventional research to create hybrids and evolved animals. Some notable zoo residents include bioluminescent rabbits, pygmy goats that smell like french fries, and highly intelligent geese. Some locals are concerned about the unusual nature of the zoo, while others look forward to new tourism. The Mavens have come to see it for themselves. This game will be great if you like cozy murder mysteries, PbtA games, collaborative storytelling, improv, Murder She Wrote, Riverdale, Pretty Little Liars, One Of Us Is Lying Players should build characters ahead. Character creation is a really quick multiple choice process. The game runner will contact players in advance to share handouts (rules reference & character sheets) and make your selections. You may bring an existing character with 0-1 advancements. New players are welcome. Players need to have played some RPGs. The game runner is very familiar with this system. 

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

This game will be hosted in room #4 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game runner will use Miro whiteboards for mapping. https://miro.com/ Spectators are welcome. 

Content warnings: includes genetically modified animals (who we will not harm) and an artificial intelligence character (as an in-game character, not in the way of OOC AI-generated content, to be clear) 

Tags: mystery, modern 

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning

"In one day, let us create and destroy a world. Throughout Saturday, we will devise a world using the tools and deck of Decuma, we will explore the pressures of a community living in that world through the lens of language in Dialect, and then you will see how that community ends in a Quiet Year.

The setting we build over the course of Saturday will be the subject of a game run in the Mavericks system on Monday. Sign up for any or all of these games to be a part of the lore."

This game will be great if you like creative exercises, answering prompts, and working together.

We will build characters in the session.

New players are welcome.

The game runner is very familiar with this system.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

This game will be hosted in room #2 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: None

Ansel Burch’s Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/ansel-burch

As a kid in a tiny swamp town like Higgit's Bend, it's hard to make any spending money. So when the owner of the town's general store offers you and your friends an entire gold coin each for watching her dog Nacho -- you'd be a fool not to take the job! Besides, how much trouble could one little chihuahua get up to anyways?  

This game will be great if you like The Goonies, Codename: Kids Next Door, Kids on Bikes Players are welcome to build characters ahead of time, but we will also cover creation at the top of the session. You'll be provided the game doc ahead of time if you would like to build you character prior to session, but you don't have to. 

Players are welcome to reuse characters from previous OFA sessions. 

This session will be especially good for new players.

This system was written by the game runner.

Tone: Silly⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

This game will be hosted in room #4 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game runner will use shmeppy.com for mapping. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

Content warnings: claustrophobia and risk of drowning

Rayne Bakcheious’ Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/rayne-bakcheious

The WorldNet has become clogged with new users who only seem to make everything more difficult or dangerous. Your investigation leads to someone or something wanting you dead. Get to the bottom of the mystery or get derezzed.

This game will be great if you like Cyberpunk, Tron, or other computer/internet-centric games.

The game runner will provide 3rd-level characters.

New players are welcome. Players need to have played some RPGs.

This system was written by the game runner.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

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This game will be hosted in Room #1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

System Pitch Legacy: Life Among the Ruins is a PbtA game about the survivors of a reality-twisting apocalypse, and how they adapt to and rebuild their new world. Unique is the shift between the zoomed-out overview of your setting over multiple generations and the zoomed-in play of individual scenes. Every player gets two different playbooks, one for their family and one for their character. When your own character isn't in a scene, you can grab one of the quick characters and guest-star in someone else's family! As you play, you’ll move between the family and character levels, zooming in to play through a short adventure with a group of characters and then zooming out to show the broad strokes of your families pursuing their agenda. Your family (i.e. faction) is a collection of survivors brought together by blood, loyalty, or ideology, with their own strange powers hard-earned as they survived the apocalypse. They have their own needs, strengths, and doctrine, and you will use their forces to conduct diplomacy, claim resources, and use subterfuge on other factions. Families act slowly, taking days or weeks to take action. You’ll also have an individual character - a particular member of your family who is your story’s focus. They’re in a position to change the course of the family’s history, whether the family intended to give them that power or not. They’ll have their own skills and powers, as well as the ability to command the family’s forces and resources. They’re more flexible than a family, able to act in a matter of moments and call on their friends from other factions for aid. If you play beyond a oneshot, your character's choices can even impact their family for many generations to come!

A CENTURY OF DARKNESS I sometimes wonder what sunlight was like. My grandfather told me stories his mother had told him – how you could stand on a tall building and see the city stretching away from you and bustling with life. How you could stand in a field – a field! – and close your eyes and bask in its warmth. How every day it painted the entire sky, reds and blues and purples. But that was then, and this is now. Now the only light we have is the light we make, burning oil for each moment a fizzing bulb or burning lamp is shining. And every hour of every day they burn, because outside the light they might be lurking. The wraiths came when the sun went out – though maybe they were always waiting. Their bodies are smoke, and their eyes are flames that cast no light, but their claws? Those are most certainly real. Even now I can hear their whispers and songs outside, but in a way I’m grateful – it’s a welcome distraction from the splutters of our dying generator. Something must change. We must make a change. I will head out into the darkness tomorrow, friends at my side, and find a way to bring the sun back. 

New players welcome. 

Players should have played some RPGs before. 

The game runner will provide pre-generated characters to pick from, with room for customization. 

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬ Serious

This game will be hosted in room #4 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. Spectators are welcome. 

Content warnings: wraiths, apocalyptic keystones like resource scarcity and environmental threats, chances of minor PvP 

Tags: post-apocalyptic, collaborative storytelling

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning

Beak, Feather, & Bone is a collaborative worldbuilding tool as well as a competitive map-labeling RPG. It's original setting comes from Ravenfolk myth, but works with any setting. For this oneshot we'll skip past the lore and play as humans in a medieval type of town (which may absolutely include mythical/fantasy/magical elements), to keep the game the most accessible to everyone. In this game we are all a player; there is no GM. You do not control a single character, but speak as the voice of an entire faction within the city. Starting with an unlabeled city map, players are assigned community roles before taking turns claiming and describing locations. We draw from a standard 52-card deck to determine a building's purpose and then describe its beak (reputation), feather (appearance), and bone (interior). As buildings are claimed, a narrative for the town and its inhabitants emerges, including major NPCs and shifting power dynamics. Will your faction take the seat of power at the end? Play to find out!

This game will be great if you like collaborative storytelling, character creation, and worldbuilding. 

New players welcome. Players should have played some RPGs before. 

The game runner is very familiar with this system. 

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

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This game will be hosted in room #4 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game runner will use Miro whiteboards for mapping. https://miro.com/ Spectators are welcome. 

Content warnings: n/a 

Tags: worldbuilding, storytelling, faction play 

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning

“Single Unique Power” is a Standard one-shot in the Possible Worlds system. Led by Nona de Koning. Friday, May 23, 2025 4:00 AM-6:00 AM Minimum of 3, maximum of 5 people. Team up and create an exciting world and its superpowered inhabitants! Single Unique Power is a collaborative cast-building and setting-creation game inspired by the “one person, one power” trope popular in superhero media, manga, and anime. Examples include mutations in X-Men, quirks in My Hero Academia, but also TTRPG staples like PbtA playbooks and class archetypes. In each of these examples, select characters all have unique, personalized powers. Everyone will be asked by the gamerunner to submit several random single-word prompts ahead of time. During the game, those prompts will inspire both our setting and the characters that live in it. We'll learn about their powers, weaknesses, and personalities. For some of them, we'll learn a bit about previous events that once occurred in their lives. You don't own any one character, as character sheets tend to move around the table, making their creations a group project. At the end of this game, we'll have created a setting populated by a colorful cast of characters as well as bits and pieces of their backstories. It's a fun standalone exercise, but it may also inspire you to take these characters into future games! 

This game will be great if you like collaborative storytelling, character creation, and worldbuilding. 

New players welcome. 

Players should have played some RPGs before.

The game runner is very familiar with this system. 

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

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This game will be hosted in room #4 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game runner will use Miro whiteboards for mapping. https://miro.com/ Spectators are welcome. 

Content warnings: n/a 

Tags: worldbuilding, storytelling, superpowers, improv

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning

Welcome to Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, a sprawling old house outside time and space, where it’s always September 15th and there’s always room for a new visitor. The unusual blend of premade characters, modular rules, and legacy mechanics makes this TTRPG perfect for pick-up play: busy players can drop in and out without ever feeling lost, and anyone who wants to jump in can make a long-term impact without a long-term commitment. Yazeba's is yours to change. Perhaps Residents will leave or change, Guests will become far more important than you expected, or Journeys will take unexpected twists. Take control of one of the 7 long-term residents of the B&B or choose from a cast of 50 quirky guests, each of whom has their own ongoing storylines. Chapters can be played in any order and include things like lazy afternoons, frightful nights, insurmountable chores, and zany competitions, so every adventure is full of surprises. When we were little, we were taught that a story is a sequence of events with a beginning, middle and end. But that’s not how all stories work: some loop around on themselves, some are told out of sequence, and some never end. After we play one Chapter, we can play another without worrying too much about whether it came before or after the Chapter we just played, or how much time has passed. Think back on that prolific paperback series you may have once read: you might have missed a few issues, or read them out of order, but you were always able to figure out what was going on. That's what Yazeba's is going for! While I've planned out the first Chapter for each session, they are short and we may play more than one adventure during our session, swapping characters in between! If you've played Yazeba's before, feel free to tell me the chapters you've played, it's really easy to switch to a different new-to-you chapter instead

This game will be played in room #1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning

Sometimes, the most important part of teenage superheroing is remembering to be a kid. Every year, Coaster Station opens its gates to all of the kids of Halcyon City and so far, the incidents have been pretty minor. Lady Indomitable has designed a coaster that takes the riders into low earth orbit for a survivable period of time for the ultimate rush of brief near-vacuum and weightlessness. So, the entire super community has been invited to Kids Day for the unveiling. This should be the safest year yet! 

This game will be great if you like comic books, Superhero movies, emotional damage, and working as a team despite your teenage tendencies.

Players should build characters ahead.

This session will be especially good for new players.

The game runner is very familiar with this system.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬ Serious

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This game will be hosted in room #3 on The TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server

CW: Hubris

Ansel Burch’s Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/ansel-burch

"As a kid growing up in the small, swamp town of Higgit's Bend, there's not much else to get up to besides trouble. Which is why it's especially unfair that you and your friends are grounded on the day the traveling carnival comes to town. But you're not going to let that stop you from seeing the exotic animals and arcane mysteries that await behind those brightly colored carts. It's time to have your first adventure... 

"Our First Adventure" is a (unlicensed fan) modification of the "Kids on Bikes" system, designed to allow for a modern and simpler playstyle in a more traditional high-fantasy setting. This will be my second playtest of the system. 

This game will be great if you like Kids on Bikes, Kids on Brooms, Never Stop Blowing Up

Players should build characters ahead.

We will build characters in session.

I'll be providing a PDF of my new rule-set to players before the game if you would like to build your character ahead of time. We'll also go over character creation at the top of the session if you would like to build it then. It shouldn't take more than 15-20mins. 

You will be playing as a resident of a small town in the middle of a swamp called Higgit's Bend. It's a former mining town on the far, forgotten edge of a large empire. The townsfolk have renounced imperian forms of currency and have built a thriving community that relies on each other for what they need. Your character can any type of body that you can dream up, provided it fits within a high-fantasy, low-technology context. "

This session will be especially good for new players.

This system was written by the game runner.

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This game will be hosted in room #2 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game runner will be using Shmeppy whiteboards for mapping. https://shmeppy.com/ Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Mild depictions of animal mistreatment

Rayne Bakcheious’ Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/rayne-bakcheious

 Pokeymanz is a Pokémon system based off Savage Worlds (no familiarity needed). It captures the cinematic feel of the anime and manga more than trying to emulate the videogames. This means you can expect to use your Pokémon not just for battles, but also for other types of adventures and creative problem solving! Become a Pokémon trainer and set out to experience all sorts of adventures with your Pokémon by your side. There will be options to customize your Trainer and starter Pokémon ahead of time, but you can also opt for pregenerated options offered by your GM.

This game will be played in room #1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning

This is a lighthearted family-friendly RPG with very few rules. You play as an Adorablin, a tiny goblin-like creature. You may think Goblins are monsters, but Adorablins are cute little critters who aren't so different from us! They love adventure, games and snacks! Their world is full of color, fun and magic. They love festivals and celeberations and their birthday parties are legendary! Adorablins are curious by nature, and many tend to experiment with foods, physical feats and magic. Some experiments have opened portals from their world to other places! This is where your adventure begins.. Pick from 11 Adorablin types and 11 Companion pets and join the fun!

This game will be played in room #1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning

About the game system

Beakwood Bay is a PbtA/Carved from Brindlewood roleplaying game for 2-4 ducks and a Keeper (GM), but not just any ducks. Inspired by Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics, in this hack of Brindlewood Bay you play as bipedal Mallards hired to hunt down treasure instead of solving mysteries. Beakwood Bay is a thriving port city inhabited by all sorts of anthropomorphic animals, where anything can happen and adventure is always on the agenda. The city’s aesthetics are rooted in the early 20th Century, but there are all manner of scientific advancements, such as an experimental rocketpad, a bustling university, and many factories. The oligarchs who control these technology-focused businesses often act as patrons for working ducks and adventurous mallards. No one comes to Beakwood Bay without a plan of how to leave richer. But there’s a curse that comes with this pursuit, and many fall victim to the so-called Coin Fever. Ducks who are sitting on vaults of gold are frequently cruel and miserly in later years, pushing away family and friends to slavishly protect the gold they’ve acquired. 

But for now, you are just a Middle Class Mallard who dreams of adventure with your friends. Your ducks work in service of the city’s wealthy benefactors, trying to make a fortune to call their own all while working to avoid the crippling greed and exploitation that is rampant among the city’s elite. Hindered by NPCs after the same treasure, players do their best to gather clues (represented as helpful information and tools that can be used to recover the treasure) before finally trying to retrieve it. There is no prewritten canon path or method, instead, it's up to you to cleverly combine all that you've found to obtain the treasure! Will you succeed? Play to find out!

Session pitch:

Three years ago, famed pilot Bedelia Featherheart and her husband Beauford set flight in their iconic biplane, taking the Azure Claw, a priceless gem intended to be shown at a museum, with them on the journey from Beakwood Bay to Cairo, crossing the Atlantic Ocean. However, the couple never arrived and was feared lost in a storm at sea. Just three weeks ago, a steamer passed through a thick storm and spotted an incredible sight, an unknown island teeming with life revealed in the parting fog. Even more shocking, a part of the Featherheart's plane could be seen! But finding the Azure Claw won't be so easy... There aren't just fellow Seekers but also native tribes and even dinosaurs to contend with! Can your Mallards secure the treasure? 

This game will be great if you like Ducktales, Indiana Jones, cartoons, comic books, Brindlewood Bay, PbtA games, collaborative storytelling

Players should build characters ahead.

New characters (this system has no levels) Character creation is a really quick multiple-choice process. The game runner will contact players in advance to share handouts (rules reference & character sheets) and make your selections.

New players are welcome., Players need to have played some RPGs.

The game runner has run this game a few times now.

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This game will be played in room #1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: greed, capitalism, social class differences 

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning

Sometimes, the most important part of teenage superheroing is remembering to be a kid. Every year, Coaster Station opens its gates to all of the kids of Halcyon City and so far, the incidents have been pretty minor. Lady Indomitable has designed a coaster that takes the riders into low earth orbit for a survivable period of time for the ultimate rush of brief near-vacuum and weightlessness. So, the entire super community has been invited to Kids Day for the unveiling. This should be the safest year yet! 

This game will be great if you like comic books, Superhero movies, emotional damage, and working as a team despite your teenage tendencies.

Players should build characters ahead.

This session will be especially good for new players.

The game runner is very familiar with this system.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬

This game will be hosted in room #3 on The TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server

CW: Hubris

Ansel Burch’s Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/ansel-burch