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

Never Split the Party is a party game designed for large groups to all play an RPG at the same time. The design focus is on streamlining action economy and maintaining immersion and active time in play. Expect to spend most of the session moving from one action set piece to the next, with "taven" and "camp" phases to rest and focus on RP. 

• This game will be great if you like playing with lots of people but hate waiting forever to take your turn.

• This game will be great for new players.

• We will build characters in the session

• New players are welcome.

• The game runner is very familiar with this system.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬

This game will be hosted in room #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

The adventurers are hired by a local lord to look into the matter of some suspicious events reported by one of his landowners. Can you resolve (and survive) whatever peril has befallen the farmstead?

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 #2 The TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server, and the game will be live-streamed with permission from all players

https://www.questportal.com/

CW: Potential Character Death

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

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

"Once the world was fair and bright and happy, but then the fog came, and all became dark and strange and fearful. 

Hilda of the Red Cloak, the village's best hunter, went missing in the Fog on the last hunt for food, and now the sound of wolves can be heard in the Forest. 

Maybe she found her way to the safety of the Foghouse, maybe.

But you owe her your life and need to venture into the fog to check. 

Before the howls get even closer and the Wolves are at the door.

Fatherfog is the new game of fantasy fairytale horror from the people who made Mothership (Fatherfog/Mothership geddit? No, I'm not sold on the name either, but the game seems cool) and uses a variation of the same system. It's brand new and still in zero edition, so this'll be new for all of us. "

This game will be great if you like Mothership and Fairy Tales (Grimm, not Disney).

• We will build characters in session.

• The PDF is free from Tuesday Knight Games if you want to check out the rules/ character creation.

• New players are welcome.

• 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. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Fairy Tales and Horror, dark, Forrest, being lost, animalistic monsters, violence and death or even Death.

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

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

Never Split the Party is a party game designed for large groups to all play an RPG at the same time. The design focus is on streamlining action economy and maintaining immersion and active time in play. Expect to spend most of the session moving from one action set piece to the next, with "taven" and "camp" phases to rest and focus on RP. 

• This game will be great if you like playing with lots of people but hate waiting forever to take your turn.

• This game will be great for new players.

• We will build characters in the session

• New players are welcome.

• The game runner is very familiar with this system.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬

This game will be hosted in room #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 precious religious relic has been stolen from the local monastery! 

Some visiting wizards are suspected of the theft, but they have disappeared into the wilderness. The brothers offer a hefty reward for its return.

This game will be great if you like Gonzo phantasy mayhem and fun

Bring your Level 1  PC or I will provide one for you

New players are welcome.

The game runner is very familiar with this system.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

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

CW: You might hurt your funny bone

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

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

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

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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: 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