Take the Oath and venture into Mythic Bastionland, a TTRPG inspired by British folklore, Arthurian legends, and our own medieval-era myths. Rooted in GHD's previous games, Into the Odd and Electric Bastionland, the gameplay is fast and streamlined, and the world is dangerous. Nobody ever rolls to hit. You go straight to the damage roll. Every turn you decide to stay in the fight matters. Use the new Gambit system to push enemies, splinter shields, drag them down from their steeds, and deftly reposition yourself. As Knights, you also use Feats to Smite for extra damage, Focus on the perfect tactical maneuver, or Deny the strongest attacks of your foes. But combat is only a small part of the game! Like the other NSR games that inspired this, exploration and clever problem-solving will each play key parts in your adventure!

In Mythic Bastionland, you begin as a young knight errant, seeking the glory to lead warbands, earn a place in court, and rule your own domain. Glory is found in hunting the Myths of this world, manifesting them into reality while protecting the Realm from their strange influence. Each player randomly becomes one of 72 pre-existing Knights, each with personal equipment, a unique ability, and a passion that fuels their spirit. As your glory grows, you might eventually embark on the legendary City Quest, an impossible challenge to find The City itself, a shining metropolis seen only in dreams. Mythic Bastionland was inspired by the lies we tell about history, whether by misconception or design. A past that never was, brought to life, and a place that you can visit if you know the way. Come try it for yourself and discover Omens that lead you to confront the first of 72 Myths this land has to offer you!

New players welcome. 

The GM is very familiar with NSR games. 

Roll for a random Knight ahead of time. 

Hosted in room #3 of the Pickup Con Discord. Spectators welcome.

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

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

“The modern age has nothing higher and more present than our super heroes. We look up to them, build statues to their honor, and call out their names in times of distress. The ones who appreciate this least are those who have been accustomed to being treated as the best. It was only a matter of time before the actual gods manifested to take revenge and claw back some of their relevance. 

This game will be great if you like superheroes, especially teenage heroes and sidekicks. This month, a love for Greek, Roman and Norse mythos will probably also give you extra memberberries. 

Players should build characters ahead. Materials 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 #1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room. 

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

Neon City Blues is a TTRPG where you play as a group of street-level characters, bartenders, street hawkers, dealers etc. The PCs find themselves pulled into the underbelly of the city’s darkest mysteries as discreet and disposable troubleshooters. They don’t live in the shadows of towering megacorporations and gleaming skyscrapers, but on the grimy streets. They’re the ones who hear the whispers, see the deals go down, and know where the bodies are buried. What starts as hustling to survive turns into investigating crimes that no one else will touch. As they dig deeper, they begin to uncover nefarious schemes by corrupt politicians, corporate executives, and the criminal elite, who use the people of Neon City as pawns and sacrifices in their quest for power.

Neon City Blues is a 'Carved from Brindlewood' game, meaning the solution to the mystery is NOT prewritten and unknown to the GM as well.  You'll visit locations, meet suspects and gather clues, then Theorize as a group how to put it all together. The more clues you can tie into your theory, the better the odds that you are right! 

In today's case, Luna V is missing! She is a cultural icon: not only is she one of Neon City's hottest musos, but she is also an MC beyond compare. Her raves at the Grotto, the nightclub where she has a residency, were legendary. Her manager is getting anxious and needs you to solve the case. And prompto, as he's already working on finding a replacement, one who is far more glitchy and far more dangerous...

New players are welcome. 

The GM is very familiar with Carved from Brindlewood games. 

Hosted in room #3 of the Pickup Con Discord. Spectators welcome.

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

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

Ferocious Winged Creatures are terrorizing the lives of the peaceful settlers of the frozen north. You are all members of the Adventurers Guild, hired to neutralize the threat at its heart!

• This game will be great if you like playing Heroic Fantasy Characters

• 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: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

This game will be hosted in room #1 of The TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server using https://www.questportal.com/ for VTT.

Content Warning: Potential Character Death

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

This game will be great if you like Fallout, 28 Years Later, and Mutant Year Zero.

The game runner will provide Level 1 characters.

I have character sheets that have a reference guide on the back for players to attune to their characters.

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 #2 of The TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server.

“When a group of archaeologists put out a call for adventurers to help them escort a valuable artefact back to civilization, you don't expect anything out of the ordinary. However, life has a way of getting complicated when you least expect it. Will you be able to survive the horrors and piece together the mystery?”

• This game will be great if you like a mixture of roleplaying, investigation, and combat.

• The game runner will provide Level 2 Pre-gens.

• This session will be especially good for new players.

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

Content Warnings: Some gore

Check out the Rules: https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tales-of-the-valiant-quickstart-guide-pdf/

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 Kane's Tone’s modern-day scenario with a cast of pregenerated characters to play as. 

YOU WAKE UP.

You sit among trees, lying on soft pine needles.

Your clothes are torn, your hands are scratched. You’re in pain. 

You don’t know how you got here. And you don’t know who you are.

There’s a dim, pulsing yellow light at the top of the hill, nearby.

Something is very, very wrong.

Will you figure out what happened in time to avoid what is coming?

Content warnings: features themes of amnesia, paranoia, loss of control, and loss of sense of self, plus the usual loss of sanity and cosmic horrors that CoC games deal with. 

New players are welcome. 

The GM is very familiar with this game. 

Hosted in room #3 of the Pickup Con Discord. Spectators welcome.

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

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

Swamp Goblin Mysteries is a short, simplified, fun and likely pretty chaotic game using the Carved from Brindlewood engine. You're goblins, you're in a swamp, you solve mysteries! But no one actually knows who the culprit is ahead of time, not even the GM! Embrace the chaos of being a little goblin with custom moves like Agent of Chaos, Cheat and Reckless. You also have one Main Thing. This is a swamp goblin special interest that is very dear to you, such as drunken debauchery or rejecting personal hygiene. It’s up to you how often you bring it up, but when it does come up, you have to be incredibly passionate about it. Get into trouble, find clues, brainstorm theories and end up with a big finale where you try to catch the culprit!

New players welcome. 

The GM is very familiar with Carved from Brindlewood games. Characters can be quickly customized at the start or ahead of time. 

Hosted in room #3 of the Pickup Con Discord. Spectators welcome.

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

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

Murder Most Foolish is a collaborative group storytelling game about crafting the clues of an Agatha Christie-style murder mystery, and then using those clues to determine what happened. However, the twist in this story is that everyone is guilty of the dastardly crime. A detective (NPC controlled by alternating players or a GM depending on player count) first questions the rest of the players who serve as the unusual suspects for a murder that has occurred. Together your group fills out the Evidence Tracker with outlandish clues. Once filled the suspects take turns using those clues to describe how they attempted the murder, the detective weaving each suspects story together into one large murder most foolish. While the game deals with murder and violence, it intends to do so in a comedic and cartoonish manner. Come make your own outrageous murder mystery story full of camp and plot holes!

Players need to have played some TTRPGs before and be comfortable with improv. 

Hosted in room #3 of the Pickup Con Discord. Spectators welcome.

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

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

Welcome to Camp Flying Moose!

Summer camp is a magical experience, isn’t it? The heat of the summer, the excitement of being away from home, and the sense that you are figuring out who you are. Away from your parents, school, and your annoying little brother. Nights spent whispering secrets and toasting marshmallows with a group of girls you don’t see 10 months of the year. Exchanging friendship bracelets, learning new skills, tipping canoes, and identifying animal tracks. It’s always the best part of the year. Don’t forget the afternoons spent deep in the forest, helping the local werewolf break the curse that keeps her in human form or performing the rituals to end the time vortex that keeps rapidly aging the campers… wait…. what?!

Camp Flying Moose for Girls of All Kinds is a PbtA game about teen girls at a summer camp filled with strange supernatural occurrences. Each session has a mystery to solve involving a strange event at camp. Use your skills, friendship, and empathy to help supernatural creatures solve their problems! 

New players welcome. 

The GM is very familiar with PbtA games. 

Characters can be customized ahead of time. 

Hosted in room #3 of the Pickup Con Discord. Spectators welcome.

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

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

“The modern age has nothing higher and more present than our super heroes. We look up to them, build statues to their honor, and call out their names in times of distress. The ones who appreciate this least are those who have been accustomed to being treated as the best. It was only a matter of time before the actual gods manifested to take revenge and claw back some of their relevance. 

This game will be great if you like superheroes, especially teenage heroes and sidekicks. This month, a love for Greek, Roman and Norse mythos will probably also give you extra memberberries. 

Players should build characters ahead. Materials 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 #1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room. 

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

A raging storm has made the waters around Devil’s Reef impossible to navigate safely. The noble galleon, The Royal Dawn, has run aground, and Princess Kaeko from faraway Fu-Lamia is now missing! Untold riches and glory await those who successfully find the princess and safely deliver her to Black Sand Port.

• This game will be great if you like old-school phantasy adventure, gonzo weird creatures, tricky traps, and gritty combat.

• Players may build characters ahead. 

  • The game runner will provide Level 1 characters.

  • I will provide guidance or a pre-gen for new players. 

• 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.

Content Warning: Dungen crawl style violence and mayhem, possible character death.

Lucentis-Beta is a floating research station on a water world at the far end of Frontier space. There's a bio lab and a mineral prospecting lab, crewed by techs and scientists. There are also engineers, maintenance techs, security, etc. You are one of them.

The 12 h shifts are draining, and there isn't a lot else to do, so you pray for something to break the boredom. And what do you know, tonight your prayers will be answered.

• This game will be great if you like the movies Alien and Underwater, the RPGs Hostile and Mothership.

• The game runner will provide characters.

• This system is so level-less and class-less, it's almost a Marxist utopia!

• Basic instructions and pregens available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uPPjQAavpKOxjxmWWoaEH7WdfVgnQU1J/view?usp=drive_link‍ ‍

• This session will be especially good for new players. 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 #1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server and will use Cortexatron. 

Content Warnings: Body horror, parasitism, gore, drowning, creepy crawlies, cold, moral challenges, and cheap thrills.

Check out the rules. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uPPjQAavpKOxjxmWWoaEH7WdfVgnQU1J/view?usp=drive_link

Check out Scallops’ Game Runner Profile: www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/scallops 

System Pitch

Things from the Flood is a TTRPG using the Year Zero Engine, a D6 dice pool system from Free League, and the sequel to Tales from the Loop. You need no familiarity with any of these to play. Play as Teens in an alternate 1990s Sweden, after a decade of change and disaster, with plenty of weird stuff to investigate. There are the leftover remnants of a few decades of science-fiction technology (The Loop) gone awry. The Flood has transformed the once pastoral islands into a dark marshland. Some say that the dark water pouring out of the ground comes from within the Loop itself. Machines are afflicted by a strange virus, turning them unreliable and dangerous. 

Still, your lives go on as before. You go to school, fall miserably in love, and try to do everything possible to fend off boredom. When you hear about other teens going missing, and even turning up dead, you realize its time to gather the group again.

One way or another, you will find out what these Things from the Flood really are. You're still balancing day-to-day life with solving exciting mysteries with your friends. But this is a darker time, and the stakes are higher. You're not a kid anymore, and death is not off the table. 

Session Pitch

When the Teens find another local kid dead, they soon find themselves in the centre of a mystery threatening the whole population of the Mälaren Islands. What kind of creature is the machine fetus? And who are these strange robots guarding the secret?

New players are welcome. 

The GM is very familiar with this system. Pregens are provided. 

Hosted in room #3 of the Pickup Con Discord. Spectators welcome.

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

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

"Some people go off into the world and become too big for their hometown. It happened to my brother. He writes every once in a while and once tried to visit, but this place just isn't big enough for him anymore. 

That's why I had to bring you all here. That's the emergency. We got a letter last week, and it's suspicious. Everything about it raises red flags. I know if you read it, it all seems innocuous and normal. Trust me, if you knew my brother, you'd know that there's no way he could have written anything like this. That's why I'm putting together a group to go to the big city. We're going to find my brother and make sure he's okay. It won't be easy, I don't know. I don't know the first thing about life in that place. How do they get around? What kind of dangers might there be? What is the food like? How much money should we bring? 

Every family in the valley has someone who went off to the big city. So, the way I see we all have reason to worry if something's wrong there. We've got to go and see for ourselves. "

This game will be great if you like switching perspectives, trying something new, and getting into danger.

The game runner will provide characters.

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

CW: Extreme power disparity, high likelihood of serious injury

Warhorn Links

Sun AM: https://warhorn.net/events/ttrpg-pickup-con/schedule/sessions/0720fcbb-7182-40f6-abd8-086af9bb3e05

Sun PM:

https://warhorn.net/events/ttrpg-pickup-con/schedule/sessions/29b80bb7-b164-4377-bf38-00f91f371554

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

Tea, Poetry, and Total Disaster!

 RiverBank is a TTRPG that blends a cozy feel with crunchier mechanics, whereas many such games are very rules-light. RiverBank is meant to be a cozy place where, despite the fluster and fuss of a situation, Animals mostly just enjoy their lives, going on sledding parties, walking their pets, learning French cookery, and listening for the first cuckoo of spring. But that doesn't mean life is boring! From appalling relatives to town gossip to actual hazards, there is always something going on to shake things up. 

In Riverbank, you join an intelligent society of anthropomorphic Animals and enter their life of cake and teatime by the slow part of the river. Here, the charm of cottagecore meets the delight of sophisticated critters as they navigate polite Animal society. Your character choices drive the story. Weave farcical or dramatic tales of elegant characters celebrating friendships, navigating social niceties, and weathering the unique dynamics of Animal life. Attend tea parties, stroll through gardens, and win the prize at the village fair, all while trying to dodge difficult relatives and keeping a stiff upper lip. And don't forget to balance your Animality and Poetry sides, because if you fall too far into one side or the other, total disaster may follow! 

This game will be great if you like Wind in the Willows, Beatrix Potter, Winnie the Pooh, Bridgerton, Good Society, The Secret of Nihm, The Brambly Hedge, the Bastable series, or Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine. 

Players new to the system are welcome, as long as they have a decent amount of TTRPG experience; it is less suitable for complete novices. 

The game runner is new to this system. 

Pregenerated characters are provided to pick from. 

This game will be hosted in room #2 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

Session pitch: Deep within the mangrove swamp lies a lair hidden among twisted roots and heavy mist: the domain of Alabástrea, the snake of a thousand spells. Ambitious and vain, she transforms her own scales into vessels of magic, hoarding stolen spells like a living treasure. Under her command, fanatical crabs and small servants roam the mangrove to plunder nearby villages, demanding or forcefully taking tablets and magical artifacts. Each loot reinforces her power, and the mangrove seems to react to it like a tense body about to burst. You decide you must act now and try to stop her, before it's too late and all is lost... Can you? Play to find out! 

About Mausritter: The settled mice huddle together, hidden in their settlements in trees and burrows and walls, scraping and saving. A tenuous existence. You are not like those settled mice. By choice or by necessity, you are an adventurer. You live by your luck, your smarts, your bravery. With your friends by your side, you will abandon the warmth and safety of the mouse settlements and venture forth into the dark and dangerous places where other mice do not dare to tread. There is great wealth to be found by those who are willing to take it. It's a huge and dangerous world out there. It does not look kindly on a small mouse. But if you are very brave, very clever, and just a bit lucky, you might be able to survive. And if you survive long enough, you might even become a hero amongst mice. 

This game will be great if you like Redwall, The Rescuers, Over the Hedge, Mice & Mystics, OSR style RPGs. 

Character creation is very quick and involves just a few random rolls. We'll do this together at the start of the session. 

This session will be especially good for new players. 

The GM is very familiar with this system. 

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

The GM will be using https://miro.com/ as a VTT.

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

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

System pitch: You are a group of Cottage Core Critters, anthropomorphic animals who have gotten away from a busier life to a small town in the countryside. Out here, the breeze is fresh, and the meadow flowers glow golden as the sun slowly sinks beyond the horizon. The gentle sounds of nature wash over weary travellers as they are greeted by the scent of fresh baked goods from stalls and shops along the main street. Life is merry and full of little comforts for you and your cosy commune of Cottage Critters. The air is thick with excitement as your small town is most likely preparing for one of the many seasonal festivals or events. Everything should be fine, as long as the strange things going bump in the night or the weird lights at the edge of the woods mean nothing... right? The game uses a D6 dicepool system and encourages interactive roleplaying, building friendships & overcoming fears. 

Scenario pitch: Today it is time for the Fallen Lief's autumn artisan festival. Your Critters plan to compete in the Favourites Contest, and you're putting your best goods forward to every V.I.Paw for this year's theme: Sweet and Unique. Stake out the competition, try to get to know the judges, and make the very best display case you can! While you are getting ready, something unexpected happens and you are soon taken on a much larger and possibly more dangerous adventure! The adventure ends with a mad rush to finish their display and present it to the judges. Can you save the day and still get back in time to compete? Play to find out! 

This game will be great if you like Stardew Valley, Beatrix Potter, Zootropolis, and Under Hill By Water. 

New players are welcome. 

The game runner is also new to this system. 

Pregenerated characters are provided to pick from. 

This game will be hosted in room #2 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, something happens that throws a person on their heels, makes them want to hide, makes them shrink. This is bad for anyone, but for a powerful metahuman with the power to affect reality, it's got real potential to change the city

This game will be great if you like Teenage superhero stories, solving problems by breaking stuff, and goldfish crackers.

Players should build characters ahead.

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: Being squished

Warhorn Links:

Sat: https://warhorn.net/events/ttrpg-pickup-con/schedule/sessions/691d7946-2594-4c21-a691-7035d2d56d9c 

Sun: https://warhorn.net/events/ttrpg-pickup-con/schedule/sessions/a867963e-77ee-4502-8c59-65c36f759c3c 

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

You have been hired to transport an important package to a wizard who dwells within the ancient forest of Sablewood. 

This game will be great if you like playing Heroic Fantasy Characters

The game runner will provide characters; returning characters are 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: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

This game will be hosted in room #1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game runner will be using the VTT at https://www.questportal.com/

CW: Potential Character Death

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

GM Age’s Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/gm-age

Household is a TTRPG filled with adventure, intrigue, and social interactions set in a large abandoned House. Well, abandoned by us humans, that is. The house has become a world of its own for tiny folk called Littlings. As players, you take on the role of those Littlings, who represent all sorts of beings from European folklore, such as fairies, boggarts, and elemental spirits. Each room in the house is basically its own nation with a whole new landscape, customs, and culture for you to explore! Together you'll go on to live little great adventures taking place after the First Household War ended. Peace is fragile, but it is a magical period when all Folk came together in new alliances despite old disagreements, a time of ideological and industrial revolutions. All this, always still on the brink of a diplomatic incident, of course. 

Adventures can take all shapes and forms, from taking part in the great ball on top of the Chandelier to investigating on the disappearance of a precious bumblebee or simply trying to cross the Long Hallway and facing its pitfalls! In today's adventure, your Littlings all convene at the Blue Rat, a small tavern in Stairside, where they’ll be involved in an investigation of the Great Imperial Army. Can you get to the bottom of this mystery? Play to find out! 

Mechanically, it uses the Director's Cut system, a D6 dice pool where you're trying to get matches (pairs, three-of-a-kind, etc.). 

This game will be great if you like fey and other small folk, folklore, The Borrowers, Root, Under Hill By Water, Outgunned, and the Broken Compass. 

New players are welcome. 

The game runner is fairly new to this system. 

Pregenerated characters are provided to pick from. 

This game will be hosted in room #2 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

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 the Land of Eem, you can play as various unique and colorful characters such as a Gelatinous Goo, Bogril (frog), Shrym (fluffier shrew), Boggart, or Gnome! 

Session pitch: As if there wasn’t enough trouble and turmoil in the Mucklands realm, rumor has it that an infamous witch is wreaking havoc in the Used T’Be Forest. Making matters worse, the local folk hero dedicated to ending the witch’s reign of terror has gone missing. With no one left to stop her, Chara the Chicken-Foot Witch has petrified the locals with fear. As for the hero, a gnome named L. Dorothy Sandwich, she was last seen at the local watering hole: “Wally’s Waffles and Weorgs.” This is where your characters start their search and journey. 

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

New players are welcome. 

The game runner is very familiar with this system. Pregenerated characters are provided to pick from. 

This game will be hosted in room #2 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

System pitch: Let me tell you a story. There was a night, many, many years ago, when everything ended. Bugs aren’t that great at writing things down, so nobody really thought to record the particulars of the event, but the effects were lasting; no more pesticides, no more deforestation, no more fish hooks or bait boxes or flypaper. Pets ran free from newly-quiet houses, and roach motels showed nothing but vacancies. The biggest change that most bugs noticed that night was that it suddenly got a lot quieter, especially near those black stone ribbons they’d learned not to cross, and the immense above-ground warrens full of beeping machines and smells so succulent they were almost impossible to resist. So bugs, on the whole, flourished. And the world opened up to them in return. Welcome to Pico, a game of tiny bugs in a big world.

Pico is the newest release by Felix Isaacs, based off the same engine as his award-winning game The Wildsea, with a few little bugly twists thrown in to keep things fresh! It is a fiction-first system about playing as tiny bugs in a huge world where humans have disappeared entirely. The game's themes are Cute, Weird, Community, Creativity, and Adventure. It is a game about solving tiny problems, most often in creative ways and often without violence. 

Session pitch: The Mysteriocalypse has been termed, by some bugly historians, as the 'end of an age of order', and perhaps nowhere is this more evident than within the transparent confines of the Skyglass Dome. There are echoes of a less chaotic time - workbenches stacked with rusting tools, sacks of sand that would have dwarfed even a picotitan before they split and spilled, the remnants of a fine iron cage standing stark against the outer sky. But that old world is... Well, not gone, not entirely, but certainly thoroughly reclaimed. The Skyglass Dome now stands as an ecological triumph, a contradiction, and a living chaos. Desert dunes stretch between lush, fertile flowerbeds, and cacti grow in the shade of fruiting vines. The glass panelling that once kept the outside world at bay is bloomcovered, stem-choked, and in some places missing entirely. Some denizens, the spiky sorts, revel in the spilled sands and the heat of a glass-focused sun and wish to keep things as they are. Others want to speed the spread of vegetative chaos, hatching elaborate schemes to break panes and twist metal, and sowing ever more seeds wherever they'll take. The Skyglass Dome is glorious, rowdy, tropical, colorful and above all, ready for you to come visit and explore.

This game will be great if you like exploration, creative problem-solving, playing as small creatures in a big world, The Wildsea, Mausritter, Redwall, The Rescuers, The Hobbit, Over The Hedge, Discworld, Hollow Knight, or Thumbelina. 

New players are welcome. The GM is also new to this system. Pregenerated characters are provided to pick from.

This game will be hosted in room #2 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

“In this gothic-castle-on-a-boat adventure, you'll cross cutlasses with Albrecht the Tideborne, a vampire lord, and his crew. Garlic and sunlight won't save you from monsters hungry for the blood of scurvy-ridden pirates”. This is a special session using the new rules from Down Among the Dead, the new rule expansion from Free League Publishing.

This game will be great if you like pirates, over-the-top action, old school gaming

The game runner will provide characters.

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

CW: Character death and extreme gonzo violence are on the table.

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

"A Zero-level Adventure for Dungeon Crawl Classics

An evil wizard has plundered a vault of ancient lore, causing a seismic catastrophe that traps your entire village and all its inhabitants under the earth, likely to be killed by the malevolent creatures in this strange underworld. Now the former villagers must make their escape from this terrible place, perhaps learning its secrets as they do.

This is a zero-level funnel. Each player will run 4 PCs to gold and glory, or an ignominious death. Any survivors will level up and be ready for future adventures.

Noob friendly, no experience needed."

This game will be great if you like Gonzo OSR action and weird phantasy adventure.

The game runner will provide characters.

Pregens will be provided for this Zero-Level Funnel

This session will be especially good for new players.

The game runner is very familiar with this system.

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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: Dungeon crawl style violence and death.  Gratuitous pottymouth.

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

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

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 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 oneshot 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 that 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 #2 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

Michtims are easily mistaken for hamsters at first glance, yet they have access to magic, technology, and nature's allies. They are in constant struggle with humans' plans to take down their sacred Immergrummel woods. Nevertheless, they also know how to have a good time, because bakery festivals are an important part of their culture. Imagine a cartoon show starring you and your fuzzy gang, in fervent episodes to save your beloved magical kingdom from the machinations of humanity. You will take your finest Glidewing cloaks and most trusted Tome of Frost to blast away at your enemies with the power of your Anger. You will build mechanical support drones to cure your friends from afar. You will define trigger conditions to ward your friends with the power of your Grief. It's about exploring a world that's larger and more hostile, but that holds wonder and amazement. 

Personality is a core mechanic, and Michtims are very emotional. Their abilities are directly based on the five big emotions! Anger is used to attack foes, while Love allows the Michtim to tend the wounds of friends. Joy provides mobility and perception, while Fear is used to hide or evade attacks. Grief, on the other hand, allows the Michtim to weep to reduce incoming damage. Outside of emotions, their culture uses a blend of Magic, Tech, and Nature to deal with issues. Jump into play quickly by combining a Personality like The Creative, The Protector, or the Gloomy One with a Calling such as Daredevil, Cook, or Sorcerer! Who will you be? 

This game will be great if you like Inside Out, David the Gnome, Saturday Morning Cartoons, fluffy critters, and leaning into your character's emotions! 

New players are welcome. 

The GM is also new to this system. 

Character templates are provided to pick from. 

This game will be hosted in room #2 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