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: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

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

Call of Cthulhu is a TTRPG based upon the worlds of H.P. Lovecraft. It is a game of secrets, mysteries, and horror. You're not heroes, just ordinary people who investigate things that turn out to be beyond their imagination. You travel to strange and dangerous places, uncover foul plots, and stand against the terrors of the Cthulhu Mythos. You encounter sanity-blasting entities, monsters, and insane cultists. Within strange and forgotten tomes of lore, you discover revelations that man was not meant to know. You and your companions may very well decide the fate of the world. Today's scenario is The Necropolis, a 1920s scenario from the Gateways of Terror, a collection of introductory scenarios that play in two hours tops! 

What ancient horrors lie slumbering in a newly discovered tomb deep in Egypt's Valley of the Kings? Are you allowing local superstitions and the unfortunate events surrounding the opening of Tutankhamen's tomb to play on your mind as you wait to step down into the darkness… 

Content warnings: this is a horror game; you can expect the usual loss of sanity and cosmic horrors that CoC games deal with. 

This game will be great if you like Indiana Jones (although this is regular CoC, not Pulp CoC!), The Mummy, Cthulhu, horror. 

• New players are welcome. 

• The GM is very familiar with this game. 

• Pre-generated characters are provided to pick from. 

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

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: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

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

The shipping magnate Marc Hault-Oberlindes has a problem.

His son Sergei was arrested while visiting Ruie and has been imprisoned in the anti-Imperial state of Nebelthorn.

Efforts by Imperial diplomats on Ruie have failed to secure his release, so Marc has hired you to rescue him…

Rescue on Ruie was originally published in the Journal of the Travelers' Aid Society issue 1 for Classic Traveler, but we’ll be playing it using the simpler/lighter-weight (but still 2d6-based) Solar Winds.

I'll provide a couple of maps as visual aids, but we will mostly be using theatre of the mind rather than a VTT. 

This game will be great if you like SciFi action/adventures like Firefly

• We will build characters in session.

• Characters will be managed via a Google Sheets character keeper, to which I'll provide a link at the start of the game. Character creation is quick and easy, taking only a few minutes.

• Players need to have played some RPGs.

• The game runner is very familiar with this system.

•  Voice (optional video) and dice rolling on Discord. 

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 is not planning on using a VTT, but we might use an online whiteboard.

CW: Potential for violence, political oppression, corruption, and labour camps  (though ultimately this is a SciFi adventure, not a horror one. So, none of those elements will be pushed hard).

Andy Random’s Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/andy-random

Shadowdark is a OSR/NSR style game where the world is dangerous, you are no big hero and both your character's supplies and your own creative problem-solving are an important part of survival rather than abilities on a character sheet. It pitches itself as modernized oldschool gaming, fast, familiar, intuitive, and deadly. Built for sword-and-sorcery adventures where fell monsters slither in darkness and ancient gems glint upon forgotten thrones, waiting to be discovered. A unique feature is that torches flame out in real-time, making adventures full of tension! Balance staying on the move with taking your time to plan ahead, all to stay alive.

You may have heard of DCC funnels, where each player runs several 0-level characters through an adventure, hoping at least 1 survives and becomes a full-fledged Level 1 Character. Shadowdark's Gauntlets use the same principle, but each turn you pick only 1 of your characters to act with instead of all at once, less multitasking! Once one perishes, the next one will show up to take their place!

Today's Gauntlet is called Trial of the Slime Lord. This cursed dungeon serves as a sort of crucible for an ooze-worshiping cult. Those who survive are granted a boon from the Slime Lord. Those who do not, wander the halls as the unquiet dead, doomed to serve the ooze for eternity. The player characters have just been kidnapped from their village and thrown in a pit to face the Trial of the Slime Lord. The adventure begins as the cultists slide a heavy stone lid over an opening in the ceiling. With nothing more than their wits and the clothes on their backs, they must escape or die! Are you brave enough to attempt it?

• This game will be great if you like OSR/NSR style RPGs, creative problem-solving, dungeon crawls.

• You'll be handed a set of four pregenerated 0-level characters.

• New players are welcome. 

The GM is new to this system, but very familiar with NSR games.This game will be hosted in room #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server, and spectators are welcome. Using https://miro.com/

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

For the Spoils is a zero-prep GMless game and a hack of For The Queen. In this game, we collaboratively tell a story about scoundrels looking to score big. For this month's Pickup Con theme of High Seas, I've predetermined we'll play as a crew of pirates! We'll tell the story of our crew planning, executing, and facing the fallout from what they hope is a big score. As is typical of heists in film and TV, your story will be told in a non-linear fashion - with point-of-view shifts, flashbacks, and other common tropes of the genre.

This game will be great if you like For The Queen, heist movies, pirate crews, and collaborative prompt-based storytelling.

• This system is especially great for new players.

• The game runner is very familiar with this system.

Hosted in room #3 of the Pickup Con server, only using Discord, as always, spectators are welcome.

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 to recover the treasure) before finally attempting 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:New-money billionaire Silas Pepperbeek has had just about enough of trying to ingratiate himself in Beakwood Bay society. But he has a plan that will make him a fortune and get him in good with the other oligarchs! He decides to send the Mallards off to uncover the remains of the recently sunk so-called unsinkable freighter, the Lampooned, hoping to find the Shining Beak, a stunningly detailed diamond bust of the legendary Morganna le Duck. The ship went down while crossing the North Atlantic, supposedly after striking an iceberg and sinking in frigid, inhospitable waters. He offers to pay handsomely if the Mallards recover it."This game will be great if you like Ducktales, Indiana Jones, cartoons, comic books, Brindlewood Bay, PbtA games, and 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.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ SeriousCombat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬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 Profilehttps://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning

Check out the Rules: https://jackson-adams-rpg.itch.io/beakwood-bay  (free download of character sheet)

"A rustic, peaceful village sits atop a labyrinthine system of caverns full of dangerous and delectable creatures. Such tasty threats are usually held at bay by a magical ward and tend to only be the concern of courageous adventurers. However, when an important shipment of foodstuffs needed for an upcoming festival goes missing, the bravest villagers in town must take it upon themselves to descend into the cave system and save the day. 

In this Beast Feast campaign frame of Daggerheart, you’ll play everyday heroes diving into the caverns in search of delicious beasties from which you might cook up delicious dishes. Sure, you may be a baker armed with a rolling pin and a prayer, but how hard can adventuring be, really? Anyway, welcome to a culinary world of zoophagous delight, where the beasts you fight become the food you eat!"

This game will be great if you like lighthearted dungeon crawls, the Delicious in Dungeon anime or Monster Hunter video games.

Level 1 pregen characters will be provided and players can work with the GM to build a character ahead of time, if desired.

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: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

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

CW: Violence against delicious animal-adjacent monsters, consumption of said monsters

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

The Village of Ogswell is a small farming town, tucked into the rolling hills between their wheat fields and a river. Recently, they have been plagued by the disappearance of crops and farming equipment. Farmers report produce vanishing from the fields overnight, from locked barns. And even from within their own cellars. They’ve called for adventurers to put a stop to it before they lose their entire winter stores. 

You have been hired by the mayor of Ogswell to figure out why the food stores have gone missing and put a stop to it. While he doesn’t suspect any of his neighbors, he’s asking for outside help, just in case. 

• This game will be good if you like Appalachian mysteries, forcing your DM to do different accents from his hometown. 

• Pre-made characters will be provided.

• 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 a private room on the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. 

The game runner will be streaming this game. https://www.twitch.tv/indecisionist_productions

CW: none

Check out the Rules: https://freeleaguepublishing.com/shop/dragonbane/free-quickstart-pdf/

"Your ship of mighty heroes sails through the mists arriving at the isle of Kyonia where a feast and games are about to be held to honour Poseidon and the safe return of King Clymenas, thought lost at sea. But not everyone is pleased at the King's return and omens point to strife in the land. Will your heroes discover the secrets of Kyonia and bring peace to the island?

This game will be great if you like mythic heroes, myths and legends and narrative games. We will build characters in session.

New players are welcome.

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

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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.

CW: Combat, monsters, meddling gods.

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

The Village of Ogswell is a small farming town, tucked into the rolling hills between their wheat fields and a river. Recently, they have been plagued by the disappearance of crops and farming equipment. Farmers report produce vanishing from the fields overnight, from locked barns. And even from within their own cellars. They’ve called for adventurers to put a stop to it before they lose their entire winter stores. 

You have been hired by the mayor of Ogswell to figure out why the food stores have gone missing and put a stop to it. While he doesn’t suspect any of his neighbors, he’s asking for outside help, just in case. 

• This game will be good if you like Appalachian mysteries, forcing your DM to do different accents from his hometown. 

• Pre-made characters will be provided.

• New players are welcome.

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

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Combat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬

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This game will be hosted in a private room on the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. 

The game runner will be streaming this game. https://www.twitch.tv/indecisionist_productions

CW: none

Check out the Rules: https://freeleaguepublishing.com/shop/dragonbane/free-quickstart-pdf/

You have come across a treasure map that marks a secret cave somewhere in the Bahamas. Will you find your fortune? Or fall to dark magic and darker horrors?

• This game will be great if you like playing Heroic Fantasy Characters in a Pirate Adventure. 

• The game runner will provide characters. Returning characters welcome

• Pre-generated characters: https://bit.ly/AoA-Pre-Gens

• New players are welcome.

• This system was written by the game runner.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

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This game will be hosted in room #1 of The TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game will be live-streamed on YouTube with permission from all players. The game runner will be using QuestPortal for VTT. 

 https://www.questportal.com/

CW: Potential Character Death

Check out the Rules: https://adrian-young-games.itch.io/age-of-adventure-rpg

"In the cavernous depths of a mountain lies a lake of pure milk, inhabited by a tribe of peaceful merfolk. Their king and queen, aided by dwarf servants, use the milk to manufacture the most exquisite chocolate truffles in existence. The truffles are said to be so delicious as to soften even the most hardened of hearts. People from all over the world visit the lake to buy these irresistible creations.

Recently, truffle production has mysteriously ceased, the dwarves have disappeared, and in nearby cities, scores of disreputable merchants have begun hawking inferior products said to be created in the mountain.

Can our heroes uncover the truth about what is going on under the mountain?"

• This game will be great if you like old-school adventuring, fast-paced action with a good helping of humour, and reliving a golden age of RPGs.

• The game runner will provide level 4 characters.

• Pre-gens will be provided

• New players are welcome.

• The game runner is very familiar with this system.

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. The game runner will use Foundry VTT. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: None

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

Over the river and through the woods, to the tower of the Deep Dark Queen, you go.  It's her birthday, and you're bringing the cake as promised.

• This game will be great if you like exploration, strategy, mystery, and creativity

• GM will provide guidance to build level 1 characters ahead

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC0lKn9gT1w

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

CW: entrapment or restraint, perhaps gore, darkness, being buried

Check out the Rules: https://drive.google.com/open?id=17OwLrvD_XemiC6JCl2jhpYv5lTJ_Au10

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

Sailing the high seas comes with the danger of falling to the waves. Not every salt is content to remain beneath the surface. For those souls with the will, there is a road back to the land of rum and plunder. Will you and your crew make it back through the gauntlet of undead with all of your sinews attached?

• This game will be good if you like undead, pirates, and epic-scale adventures.

• We will build characters in the session.

• 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 a private room on the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. 

The game runner will be streaming this game. https://www.twitch.tv/indecisionist_productions

CW: Death, gore, drowning, dismemberment.

Check out the Rules: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/603fdb9fada6165d919a6543/t/63c8e358d175e81f6ae9622b/1674109784614/PIRATE+BORG+Rules+Reference.pdf

A quiet night is shattered by thunder and cries of alarm when a towering obelisk rises from the lake to stab the sky. Monstrous fiends prowl the night. Huts burn, and villagers are taken as slaves to be fed to darksome pits.  But you are no mere peasant or serf, cowering in the dark. You and your companions must rise up to defend your village!

This game will be great if you like gonzo phantasy action, gritty combat and weird creatures! The game runner will provide characters., You may bring a level 1 character or I will provide one for you. 

DM me if you'd like to create a character

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 style violence and mayhem

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

"A rustic, peaceful village sits atop a labyrinthine system of caverns full of dangerous and delectable creatures. Such tasty threats are usually held at bay by a magical ward and tend to only be the concern of courageous adventurers. However, when an important shipment of foodstuffs needed for an upcoming festival goes missing, the bravest villagers in town must take it upon themselves to descend into the cave system and save the day. 

In this Beast Feast campaign frame of Daggerheart, you’ll play everyday heroes diving into the caverns in search of delicious beasties from which you might cook up delicious dishes. Sure, you may be a baker armed with a rolling pin and a prayer, but how hard can adventuring be, really? Anyway, welcome to a culinary world of zoophagous delight, where the beasts you fight become the food you eat!"

This game will be great if you like lighthearted dungeon crawls, the Delicious in Dungeon anime or Monster Hunter video games.

Level 1 pregen characters will be provided and players can work with the GM to build a character ahead of time, if desired.

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: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

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

CW: Violence against delicious animal-adjacent monsters, consumption of said monsters

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

After a tough fight against the cruel villain Mr. Mistoffelees, you come back to his base to clean up. Afterward, you all are going to go out and celebrate the end of months of the cat and mouse game you just played.  However....something wants to celebrate *with* you.

• This game will be great if you like superheroes, comic book fights, villainous puns, mechanics-heavy rolling that allows for very descriptive role-play

• GM will guide characters to build characters

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

• The game runner has run this game a few times now. 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: comic book violence

Learn How to Build a Character: https://drive.google.com/open?id=11ouljKwv3esTY_OCBCGCDXbDXsf9cjVl

Check out the Rules:  https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jMDnaZ3tIxh-BMUNMAdIbIxOB0c04pqG 

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

Deep in the heart of the world, there is a mighty cache of magic. Where rock and soil give way, it leaks up to the surface. Seeping magic fuels the work of the few dozen mages scattered across the width of the expanse. The Prophecy of the Eighth has long held that a mighty warlord will rise from the ranks of the Brague. His eighth assault upon the hamlets of the blue valley will see the rise of the mightiest heroes of the age. 

• This game will be good if you like high fantasy stories on the frontier of magic.

• Players should build characters ahead of time or use a pre-generated option.

• 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: none

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

Clifton Bay connects Halcyon City to the wide ocean and has been the focus of community life in the region since the first peoples built their village here. It is now home to the statue of the Triumvirate, a celebrated symbol of protection. Not many people know that it was originally called “The Statue of Liberation”, sculpted by Marlene Framble. The statue’s three faces looked out with steely (bronze, actually) determination over the city's weak and endangered people. It inspired the birth of the Alliance of Super Saviors and attracted the attention of Lady Indomitable’s people from across the stars. That was a long time ago. Since then, it's been remade about 50 times. Enough that the unveilings only attract the deputy mayor and a handful of onlookers. It’s enough to drive an artist mad…

• This game will be good if you like teenage superheroes and sidekicks, as well as Marvel movies.

• Players should build characters ahead.

• Playbooks will be provided.

• 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: isolation, loss.

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