The Guild of Sewermen need help finding a lost worker, and will pay 200gp for his return, dead or alive.

The worker is a new sewerman named Hal. A few days ago, he and several other sewermen discovered an ancient chamber revealed by a tunnel collapse following a month’s worth of rainfall in the region.

Against the advice of his foreman, Hal went inside to take a look. Shortly after, his terrified screams were heard, and the rest of the sewermen took flight. The sewermen refuse to return, and the guild now seeks the aid of adventurers."

This game will be great if you like old-school dungeon crawls

The game runner will provide level 2-3 characters.

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 using Foundry VTT. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Maggots

Check out the game rules: https://necroticgnome.com/products/old-school-essentials-basic-rules

Tony Churro’s Food Truck empire has a new flavor to start off the school year right! Hop on down to your local corner store for the new warmable, prepackaged, orange-flavor churros! Parents not into it? Don’t worry, they’re packed with vitamin C. How much? All of it. 

This game will be great if you like superheroes and related media.

Players should build characters ahead of the session. Heroes from this universe are welcome to return..

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 #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Tainted food

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

“The Stars in our Fault” is a standard one-shot in the Mavericks system. Led by Ansel Burch.

The sea has opened up a new world of mysteries deep beneath the ocean’s surface. The Merfolk have reported that this new trench is widening by the week, releasing ever colder waters into the current. Beyond the frigid event horizon, a galaxy yawns full of winking stars. It’s exactly the kind of adventure a pirate can’t resist, and you’re the crew lucky enough to get there first. 

This game will be great if you like pirate stories, cosmic magics, and focusing on the narrative over tactics.  

Players are welcome to bring their own characters, pre made ones will be available. 

New players are encouraged. 

The game runner wrote this system.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

This game will be hosted in room #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Deep water, drowning, tentacles, too many eyes. 

Check out the Rules- https://www.indecisionist.com/mavericks 

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

Tony Churro’s Food Truck empire has a new flavor to start off the school year right! Hop on down to your local corner store for the new warmable, prepackaged, orange-flavor churros! Parents not into it? Don’t worry, they’re packed with vitamin C. How much? All of it. 

This game will be great if you like superheroes and related media.

Players should build characters ahead of the session. Heroes from this universe are welcome to return..

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 #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Tainted food

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

Once every decade, the tides of the Empyrean Ocean recede far enough to reveal the highest eaves of a mysterious undersea tower. Long ago, this was the eldritch fastness of a powerful mage, but now the tower is known simply as the final resting place of the fabled Black Pearl – an artifact rumored to bring doom upon all who dare to posses it. Tonight the moon nearly fills the sky, and the tides have already begun to recede. You have eight short hours to explore the tower before the dark waters return...

This game will be great if you like old-school fantasy adventure

The game runner will provide level 2 characters. Returning players can bring their PCs from last 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 #1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Dungeon Crawl style violence and mayhem

Check out the Rules: https://goodman-games.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/DCC_QSR_Free.pdf

The siege is broken, and it is now time to get home. Too bad we traveled 20 hard days to arrive here three years ago. Now we must delicately pass through all of that territory with thousands of locals without any serious altercation. 

This game will be great if you like road movies, exploring new lands, and playing to avoid combat.

Players may bring their own fantasy-inspired characters. Pre-made characters will be available.

This game will be good for new players.

The game runner wrote this system.   

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

This game will be hosted in room #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Unreasonable prejudice. 

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

There’s no time like the present. Especially when your morning starts with a message from your future selves. Good thing you’re staying overnight at Lady Indomitable’s headquarters for a young heroes retreat. She’ll know what to do. 

This game will be great if you like comic books and comic book-based media. 

Players should bring a completed character with them. 

This session will be great 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 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 

Goblin Quest is a tabletop roleplaying game by Grant Howitt about slapstick violence, fatal ineptitude, and the most incredible adventure of your life.. Doodle and play five goblins each (in sequence, not parallel) and watch them one by one meet hilarious ends. As you play, you’ll tell stories about goblins trying to achieve basic tasks and meeting fatal misadventure as they do it. You’ll play the goblins, and you’ll steer them through (or, more commonly, directly into) adversity, and you’ll have a fun time doing it. Will they survive the dangerous world and complete all their silly quests? Probably not. But you'll have fun finding out!

Today, your Goblins will go on a Quest we'll call Putting The Band (Back) Together. After the last band got eaten by a dragon, life in the goblin lands has gotten much more boring! How hard can it be to form a band, right? You'll make sure to become the Best Band and get all the fame or glory. Or you'll die trying!

This game will be great if you like drawing, goblins, shenanigans, harebrained schemes, Saturday morning cartoons, and Grant Howitt's games. This system is especially great for new players.The game runner is very familiar with this system.We will build characters in session.

Note: drawing your goblins is a minor but required part of gameplay; this can be done digitally or on paper. If drawing on paper, please be prepared to take pictures of your goblins (using a smartphone) and share/upload them in our game's thread here on Discord.

Hosted in room #4 of the Pickup Con server, only using Discord, as always, spectators are welcome.

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profilehttps://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning 

Warhorn Link: https://warhorn.net/events/ttrpg-pickup-con/schedule/sessions/051f76b6-95e4-41fd-bf43-52e2b77e5fcb

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

The siege is broken, and it is now time to get home. Too bad we traveled 20 hard days to arrive here three years ago. Now we must delicately pass through all of that territory with thousands of locals without any serious altercation. 

This game will be great if you like road movies, exploring new lands, and playing to avoid combat.

Players may bring their own fantasy-inspired characters. Pre-made characters will be available.

This game will be good for new players.

The game runner wrote this system.   

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

This game will be hosted in room #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Unreasonable prejudice. 

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

“Saurus City is a haven for all dino-kind, sprawling atop several giant plateaus that break the clouds and are connected by large trams and pteranodon routes. The bustling and packed-in citizens are all dinosaur-human hybrids, some more dinosaur or more human than others. Despite its isolation, there’s always more to see in Saurus City.”

We'll be building off of this foundation, and what each other person has done, in order to tell a story together that spans multiple generations of an entire community. Instead of controlling individual characters, we'll be sharing control of three major factions, but the game has room for scene play where we'll play as individuals within the world we're creating for the duration of that scene.

Within the three hour session scheduled, we should have time to play through around 2-3 generations depending on how quickly things go, and depending on how many people sign up I'll either join in as a player or simply facilitate this otherwise GMless game, walking the group through the rules as you play."

This game will be great if you like collaborative world building or storytelling

No character creation is needed for this game

New players are welcome.

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 #2 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game runner will use Miro whiteboards for VTT. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: none

12 miles of wall surround the city of Bira. The siege has lasted three winters already, and both sides need this to end soon before another summer of crops never get into their furrows. General Vier has hand-picked your group to make the journey. Are you the best for the job or are you just the people who happened to be nearby? Either way, you’re about to make history. 

This game will be great if you like trying out new systems, driving a new character like you stole them, and white-knuckling it for roughly two hours.  

Characters will be built in session. Bring a deck of cards or use a digital deck. 

This session will be especially good for new players.

The game runner wrote this system. 

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

Exploration: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬

This game will be hosted in room #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: conflict, combat, bugs (probably)

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

Taverns are abuzz with rumours of robbers on the roads. Haggard witnesses tell wild tales of brigands composed of naught but walking bones, attacking their caravans and making off with their goods and companions.

All these incidents have taken place near a certain lonely barrow in the woods, built a century ago to inter scores of nameless soldiers who died heroes’ deaths in an historic battle. The barrow, though always a shunned place, has never been known to be haunted—but now, a ghostly, lively music echoes from it.......

This game will be great if you like old-school dungeon crawls

The game runner will provide level 2 characters.

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 #1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game runner will be using Foundry VTT. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: None

Your Federation away team beams to the center of a frozen deep-space asteroid, only to find themselves thrust into a war between aliens whose very temperature is in conflict!

This game will be good if you like the Kelvin Star Trek movies (Star Trek 2009, Star Trek Into Darkness, Star Trek Beyond) with fast action, high emotions, and plenty of snark, and if you like or want to learn Powered by the Apocalypse games.

The game runner will provide characters.

This session will be especially good for new players.

Players will be learning this system together with the game runner.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

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

CW: Violence, death, war, interpersonal conflict

Andrew Pontius’ Game Runner Profile: https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/andrew-pontious

There’s no time like the present. Especially when your morning starts with a message from your future selves. Good thing you’re staying overnight at Lady Indomitable’s headquarters for a young heroes retreat. She’ll know what to do. 

This game will be great if you like comic books and comic book-based media. 

Players should bring a completed character with them. 

This session will be great 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 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 

A green-tailed comet appears in the night sky. Some hail it as a good omen, others as a harbinger of woe. The next morning, a weird tower crowned by a blood-red light appeared in the forest. Is there a connection?  Who... or what is inside? The frightened villagers are counting on heroes brave enough to confront what lurks behind the inexplicable walls of this enigma. Seeking the intrepid, the curious, and the foolhardy to plumb the mysteries of the tower!

This game will be great if you like weird phantasy adventure, strange creatures, and gritty combat

Bring your legacy PC, or I can help you make one or provide a pre-generated PC.

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 #1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Dungeon crawl style mayhem and violence.

Brucifer’s Game Runner Profile: https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/brucifer

Come play Parsely, a party game parlor style RPG that's a love letter to the old text-based computer adventures. With all the laughs, frustrated groans and story paths that you remember :D Can you unlock the best ending? A whole game takes less than 2 hours! Relive the glory days of floppy disks, dot-matrix printers and 128K RAM with this collection of party games inspired by the text adventures of the 1980s.

Before the first 3D video game came out, all video games were text-based adventures. These were simple scenarios with limited interactions. The player would type their actions into the game, and if it was a valid command, the game would respond with new content.

Players will take control of a character together and the GM will play as the parser and control the computer processing your commands. Players will alternate giving commands like GO NORTH, LIGHT LAMP or GET SWORD, which the GM will follow to the best of the imaginary computer's ability. There’s no limit to the number of people that can play and no limit to the fun. So what are you waiting for? It’s time to unplug from your computer and plug into Parsely! Don't forget to hit SAVE and be mindful, because 3 deaths means GAME OVER! ;-)

Today I'm sending you on Enchanted Forest Adventure! An old wizard lives in a tower in the enchanted forest. He mostly keeps to himself, but some nights ago at the stroke of midnight, thick black toxic smoke has been coming out from his tower, poisoning the air around the forest. You are a young elf sent by your village elders to the enchanted forest to stop the smoke coming from the tower.This game will be great if you like choose-your-own-adventure books, 80s computer RPGs, Fairytales and Super Mario.Players will control a single nameless player character together as a group.This session will be especially good for new players. New players are welcome.The game runner is very familiar with this system.

This game will be played in room #4 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.CW: lack of control, character death (but without any gore or explicit details)

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profilehttps://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning

Check out the Rules:https://jaredsorensen.itch.io/parsely-preview-n-play-edition 

Warhorn Link: https://warhorn.net/events/ttrpg-pickup-con/schedule/sessions/9e3f519c-116b-40df-ae15-271d0df4ed08

Foretold is a way of playing narrative story games driven by a series of prompts; following in the footsteps of games like For The Queen, Women Are Werewolves and In a Wicked Age, the prompts for the story are determined by drawing cards from a deck. Each iteration of the basic form of Foretold tells a unique story and puts its fingerprints on the standard rules with a few minor variations to them.

This one is Mile's End, described as a Foretold game of Melancholy Nostalgia. It's a contemporary tale of nostalgia and the waywe recall the past as a better place to live. Taking inspiration from The World’s End, the main characters embark on a pub crawl to relive past glories and reconnect with friends they haven’t seen in a long time. As they revisit the pubs they once frequented in their youth, they will relive painful experiences, make peace with their past and maybe even find out that not everything is as it appears to be here.

The cards will determine what pubs we visit, who we run into and what's on our minds. But it's up to us to bring these prompts to life. We also decide when to leave a pub behind, only to see it inevitably change and close down. The game ends with a short epilogue reflecting back on our hometown and the friends left behind.

Themes: melancholy, nostalgia, loss, friendship, memories, changing times.The x-card will be used to ensure everyone remains comfortable.

Players need to have some TTRPG experience. New players to the system are very welcome, just make sure you're comfortable improvising answers to specific prompts. The GM is very familiar with this game.Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬ SeriousCombat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬⚬Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

This game will be hosted in room #4 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server.No prep is needed. Spectators are welcome.

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profilehttps://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning 

Warhorn Link: https://warhorn.net/events/ttrpg-pickup-con/manage/scenarios/mile-s-end-a-standard-one-shot-in-the-foretold-system-led-by-nona-de-koning-ttrpg-pickup-con

Desperation is a dark collaborative storytelling game about people pushed far past their limits. It's unique because you don’t decide what is said, **you decide who says it**. And in a small community, who says “I burned a house down with the family trapped inside” makes all the difference in the world. Great for fans of games like For the Queen and The Quiet Year, but with a darker tone. This GMless card-based system comes with a world of characters that form a web of relationships you will then apply agonizing pressure to and, in most cases, destroy. It also includes the isolated locations where all the action will take place, as additional characters in the unfolding horror. Finally, the bulk of the deck consists of prompts that follow the inexorable passage of time. Some will drench the experience in unforgettable color, and others will drench it in blood or worse. And each time, you will have to decide who among the survivors is saying the words.

Dead House is set during the great blizzard of 1888, and in it you will meet the people of the tiny town of Neola, Kansas, who find themselves unprepared in the teeth of the storm. As supplies and sanity dwindle in equal measure, who will live and who will be added to the dead house?

__Content warnings__: themes of death, murder, genocide, impurity, religion, claustrophobia, hopelessness, mental decline and self sacrifice. Safety tools will be used, but be aware that it's a fairly realistic dark and bleak tale at its core.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪ SeriousCombat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬⚬Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Players need to have some TTRPG experience. New players to the system are very welcome. The GM is very familiar with this game. This game will be hosted in room #4 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The GM will use a Miro whiteboard for the game. No prep is needed. Spectators are welcome.

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profilehttps://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning

Warhorn Link: https://warhorn.net/events/ttrpg-pickup-con/schedule/sessions/e9f8404f-d1c5-4ac1-9527-dff24699038d 

You have just joined a new family of goblins and want to make yourselves useful. Clearly, the best way to do so is by running errands for your new community: Buying vegetables at the market or procuring the services of a local wizard to get your wise leader unstuck from his chamber pot. Sounds easy, right? Well, unfortunately, you've got to contend with a world built for folk much bigger and stronger than you. And on top of that, you're both easily distracted and full of energy! Clearly a winning combination! Pick from various entertaining Goblin types like the Rascal, the Rambler, the Nibbler or the Whiz-Wart. Play to see how things go wrong, complications mount, and these ordinary, everyday tasks spiral into hilarious (mis)adventures. This game will be great if you like PbtA, goblins, being tiny, creative problem solving, shenanigans. This system is especially great for new players. The game runner is very familiar with this system. The game runner will provide playbooks ahead of time, so you can customize your character. 

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Hosted in room #4 of the TTRPG Pickup Con server, spectators are welcome.

Content warnings: n/a 

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

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

System pitch: Land of Eem is often pitched as LOTR meets the Muppets. It's a pretty lighthearted fantasy game about adventurers exploring and discovering the remnants of a forgotten, better age. The game emphasizes player creativity and collaborative storytelling, with character abilities that allow players to invent and shape the world around them. Play is more about roleplaying, teamwork, exploration, and finding lost treasures than it is about always fighting monsters...though that's definitely part of the game! It's a whimsical and almost cozy post-apocalyptic fantasy experience. It has the usual fantasy tropes such as lore-seeking travelers, fortune-seeking pioneers and adventure-seeking heroes in a time devoid of them. But in Land of Eem, you can play as various unique and colorful characters such as a Gelatinous Goo, Bogril (frog) or Gnome! 

Session pitch: Not too long ago, Lester Gofer, CEO of the Hasty Hippogruff Shipping Co, tried to purchase a special recipe from a gnome named B. Burgell Burger. This magical recipe called soothberry jam is rumored to pacify hippogruffs. But when B. Burgell wouldn’t sell, Lester and his Dratch mooks jumped the helpless gnome while he was out foraging for berries. They stole B. Burgell’s cookbook and left him tied to a tree. Now B. Burgell is looking for payback and it just happens that Lester Gofer is throwing an extravagant party for potential business partners on his riverboat, the Spiffy Scull. And you're the party B. Burgell has hired to infiltrate and steal back his cookbook! Keywords: hijinks, fun, goofy, lighthearted 

This game will be great if you like The Muppets, Labyrinth, Adventure Time, The Hobbit and LOTR, and Delicious in Dungeon. 

• New players are welcome. 

• The GM is very familiar with this system. 

• Pre-generated characters are provided to pick from. 

• Hosted on the Pickup Con server, spectators welcome. 

This game will be hosted in room #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators welcome

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

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

Roleplay as zombies who have regained their free will and navigate a mutated world long after humanity has gone.

This game will be great if you like roleplay, heavy gameplay, and exploring the consequences of a post-apocalyptic setting.

• We will build level 2 characters in session. https://avas-adventures.itch.io/undead-paradise-ttrpg

• New players are welcome.

• This system was written by the game runner.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

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

CW: Blood; Violence against animals, people, and environments; Body Horror, Death, Guns, Illness, Insects, Rats, Memory Erasing, Dismemberment, Paralysis, Pandemic, Discussions of Colonialism, and war.

Tags: Post-Apocalypse

Check out the Rules: https://avas-adventures.itch.io/undead-paradise-ttrpg

Ava’s Game Runner Profile: https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/avas-adventures

Dragonbane is a classic fantasy TTRPG, OSR/NSR in spirit and full of magic, mystery, and adventure. Carefully explore, creatively solve problems, and treat combat like the dangerous thing it is! Dragonbane is designed from the ground up to facilitate fast-and-furious play, with room for laughs at the table, while still offering brutal challenges for adventurers.

Archmage Kalisial has a bet with Magistrate Stalomer. In their youth, the two of them came upon a magical necklace. To decide who gets to wear it, they meet once a year for a game of smickleboard. Kalisial always wins. For the first ten years, Stalomer thought he would be victorious. He practiced with masters and studied classic games, but still lost every time. Now Stalomer wants to win just once before he departs this life. In recent years, Stalomer has been studying the artifacts Kalisial wears during their games. She always wears a wig that hides her scalp, a pair of gilded spectacles, and carries an exquisite game board of onyx and silver with expertly carved, ruby-encrusted pieces. Stalomer believes these three artifacts are why Kalisial keeps winning. He has therefore had replicas made of these items, and you have been tasked with replacing the artifacts with the replicas before the party begins.

Today you'll play the Magistrate's Gambit scenario, designed specifically for convention play. Players will need to work together to complete their quest in just two hours, as the IC part has a strict time limit! The session is scheduled for 3 hours to allow for introducing characters, teaching, a midway break, and a short wrap-up revealing your score! The latter is just a fun nod to those old-school tournament-style games, as always, telling a good story together is more important 🙂

• Pre-generated characters provided. 

• New players welcome. 

• The GM is very familiar with this system.

This game will be hosted in room #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server, and spectators are welcome. Using Miro whiteboards. https://miro.com/

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profilehttps://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning 

Roleplay as zombies who have regained their free will and navigate a mutated world long after humanity has gone.

This game will be great if you like roleplay, heavy gameplay, and exploring the consequences of a post-apocalyptic setting.

• We will build level 2 characters in session. https://avas-adventures.itch.io/undead-paradise-ttrpg

• New players are welcome.

• This system was written by the game runner.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

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

CW: Blood; Violence against animals, people, and environments; Body Horror, Death, Guns, Illness, Insects, Rats, Memory Erasing, Dismemberment, Paralysis, Pandemic, Discussions of Colonialism, and war.

Tags: Post-Apocalypse

Check out the Rules: https://avas-adventures.itch.io/undead-paradise-ttrpg

Ava’s Game Runner Profile: https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/avas-adventures

"After surviving a crash landing in the jungle, a daring archaeologist sets out to retrieve a legendary treasure. Are you ready to enter? [Y/N]

Come play this party game parlor-style RPG that's a love letter to the old text-based computer adventures! With all the laughs, frustrated groans, and story paths that you remember :D Can you find your way through this Jungle Adventure? You only have 90 minutes to make it out alive! Relive the glory days of floppy disks, dot-matrix printers, and 128K RAM with this collection of party games inspired by the text adventures of the 1980s.

Before the first 3D video game came out, all video games were text-based adventures. These were simple scenarios with limited interactions. The player would type their actions into the game, and if it was a valid command, the game would respond with new content.

Players will take control of a character together and the GM will play as the parser and control the computer processing your commands. Players will alternate giving commands like GO NORTH, LIGHT LAMP or GET SWORD, which the GM will follow to the best of the imaginary computer's ability. There’s no limit to the number of people that can play and no limit to the fun. So what are you waiting for? It’s time to unplug from your computer and plug into Parsely! Don't forget to hit SAVE and be mindful, because 3 deaths mean GAME OVER! ;-) "

This game will be great if you like Indiana Jones, 80s computer RPGs, choose your own adventure books

• Players control the protagonist together.

• 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 run in room # 3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: lack of control, character death (but without any gore or explicit details)

Check out the Rules: https://jaredsorensen.itch.io/parsely-preview-n-play-edition 

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

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

In Something Tookish, you play as a Halfling in a cozy little village, solving various mysteries. Not everything is a crime, and there's nothing as gruesome as murder, oh no, they wouldn't do that! But petty theft or spats between neighbours also require someone to meddle and solve them, right? And you're just the Halflings for the job! This game uses the Carved from Brindlewood framework.

This means (just like in Brindlewood Bay), there is no canon solution to the mysteries. It's up to the players to come up with a clever way to tie everything together. However, there are plenty of clues to find and plenty of locals to meet!

This one-shot is for 2-4 Halflings and will take about 3 hours. Our session pitch: "Rogert Bumblestaff's vegetables have gone missing from his garden overnight during the past few weeks, and he suspects his old rival and neighbour Cotter Mugwort of stealing them. He wants the Halfings to prove Cotter’s misdeeds and shame him before the village. Can you catch the thief red-handed? And is Cotter or someone else? Play to find out!"

This game will be great if you like cozy mysteries, community, small-town village life, rhymes and tales, The Hobbit, PbtA, and/or Carved from Brindlewood games.

• New players welcome.

• The game runner is very familiar with this system.

• The game runner will provide playbooks in advance, so you can customize your character.

This game will be hosted in room #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profilehttps://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning

The Drylands were a place that put the old stories aside. While superstitious miners have long said that the desert's crystals are made from the very life essence of Forgotten Gods, the folk around here had real work to do, and actual deities were left for campfire stories. That is, until a terrible earthquake heralded the birth of a massive colossus, spun into being from the wreckage of a steam locomotive that had been carrying a shipment of magical essentia crystals. Having answered the call of something ancient and apocalyptic, the titanic steel rhinoceros dubbed 'The Cleaver' has devastated the area and stalks the land with brilliantly shining crystals glowing upon its back day and night. 

The bold prospectors, tired laborers, and born-again worshippers in the dusty town of Wyllin’s Gulch were thrown from their routine of industry and exploitation by the quake and subsequent titanic monster rampage, forced to raise scattered armies and watch them die to the behemoth’s strength. And, as legend has it, this is only the first of many titanic beasts poised to terrorize the land. 

In this adventure, you’ll play a heroic posse of mavericks on an unusual and dangerous heist to save the land...or at least buy some time until the next calamity, while also (hopefully) turning a tidy profit. 

Track down the train titan, pilfer all the crystals you can get your hands on, and live to tell the tale."

This game will be great if you like Shadow of the Colossus, Red Dead Redemption, or Deadlands

The game runner will provide level 1 characters.

New players are welcome.

Players need to have played some RPGs.

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

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

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

CW: Potential for violence against rhino-shaped train monsters

Tags: Fantasy, Western, Adventure, Gritty

Sean’s Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/sean

Roleplay as zombies who have regained their free will and navigate a mutated world long after humanity has gone.

This game will be great if you like roleplay, heavy gameplay, and exploring the consequences of a post-apocalyptic setting.

• We will build level 2 characters in session. https://avas-adventures.itch.io/undead-paradise-ttrpg

• New players are welcome.

• This system was written by the game runner.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

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

CW: Blood; Violence against animals, people, and environments; Body Horror, Death, Guns, Illness, Insects, Rats, Memory Erasing, Dismemberment, Paralysis, Pandemic, Discussions of Colonialism, and war.

Tags: Post-Apocalypse

Check out the Rules: https://avas-adventures.itch.io/undead-paradise-ttrpg

Ava’s Game Runner Profile: https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/avas-adventures

Roleplay as zombies who have regained their free will and navigate a mutated world long after humanity has gone.

This game will be great if you like roleplay, heavy gameplay, and exploring the consequences of a post-apocalyptic setting.

• We will build level 2 characters in session. https://avas-adventures.itch.io/undead-paradise-ttrpg

• New players are welcome.

• This system was written by the game runner.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

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

CW: Blood; Violence against animals, people, and environments; Body Horror, Death, Guns, Illness, Insects, Rats, Memory Erasing, Dismemberment, Paralysis, Pandemic, Discussions of Colonialism, and war.

Tags: Post-Apocalypse

Check out the Rules: https://avas-adventures.itch.io/undead-paradise-ttrpg

Ava’s Game Runner Profile: https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/avas-adventures