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Friday
You have just joined a new family of goblins and want to make yourselves useful. Clearly, the best way to do so is by running errands for your new community: Buying vegetables at the market or procuring the services of a local wizard to get your wise leader unstuck from his chamber pot. Sounds easy, right? Well, unfortunately, you've got to contend with a world built for folk much bigger and stronger than you. And on top of that, you're both easily distracted and full of energy! Clearly a winning combination! Pick from various entertaining Goblin types like the Rascal, the Rambler, the Nibbler or the Whiz-Wart. Play to see how things go wrong, complications mount, and these ordinary, everyday tasks spiral into hilarious (mis)adventures. This game will be great if you like PbtA, goblins, being tiny, creative problem solving, shenanigans. This system is especially great for new players. The game runner is very familiar with this system. The game runner will provide playbooks ahead of time, so you can customize your character.
Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬ Serious
Combat: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬
Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬
Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬
Hosted in room #4 of the TTRPG Pickup Con server, spectators are welcome.
Content warnings: n/a
Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile
https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning
Desperation is a dark collaborative storytelling game about people pushed far past their limits. It's unique because you don’t decide what is said, **you decide who says it**. And in a small community, who says “I burned a house down with the family trapped inside” makes all the difference in the world. Great for fans of games like For the Queen and The Quiet Year, but with a darker tone. This GMless card-based system comes with a world of characters that form a web of relationships you will then apply agonizing pressure to and, in most cases, destroy. It also includes the isolated locations where all the action will take place, as additional characters in the unfolding horror. Finally, the bulk of the deck consists of prompts that follow the inexorable passage of time. Some will drench the experience in unforgettable color, and others will drench it in blood or worse. And each time, you will have to decide who among the survivors is saying the words.
Dead House is set during the great blizzard of 1888, and in it you will meet the people of the tiny town of Neola, Kansas, who find themselves unprepared in the teeth of the storm. As supplies and sanity dwindle in equal measure, who will live and who will be added to the dead house?
__Content warnings__: themes of death, murder, genocide, impurity, religion, claustrophobia, hopelessness, mental decline and self sacrifice. Safety tools will be used, but be aware that it's a fairly realistic dark and bleak tale at its core.
Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪ SeriousCombat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬⚬Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬
Players need to have some TTRPG experience. New players to the system are very welcome. The GM is very familiar with this game. This game will be hosted in room #4 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The GM will use a Miro whiteboard for the game. No prep is needed. Spectators are welcome.
Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profilehttps://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning
Warhorn Link: https://warhorn.net/events/ttrpg-pickup-con/schedule/sessions/e9f8404f-d1c5-4ac1-9527-dff24699038d
Foretold is a way of playing narrative story games driven by a series of prompts; following in the footsteps of games like For The Queen, Women Are Werewolves and In a Wicked Age, the prompts for the story are determined by drawing cards from a deck. Each iteration of the basic form of Foretold tells a unique story and puts its fingerprints on the standard rules with a few minor variations to them.
This one is Mile's End, described as a Foretold game of Melancholy Nostalgia. It's a contemporary tale of nostalgia and the waywe recall the past as a better place to live. Taking inspiration from The World’s End, the main characters embark on a pub crawl to relive past glories and reconnect with friends they haven’t seen in a long time. As they revisit the pubs they once frequented in their youth, they will relive painful experiences, make peace with their past and maybe even find out that not everything is as it appears to be here.
The cards will determine what pubs we visit, who we run into and what's on our minds. But it's up to us to bring these prompts to life. We also decide when to leave a pub behind, only to see it inevitably change and close down. The game ends with a short epilogue reflecting back on our hometown and the friends left behind.
Themes: melancholy, nostalgia, loss, friendship, memories, changing times.The x-card will be used to ensure everyone remains comfortable.
Players need to have some TTRPG experience. New players to the system are very welcome, just make sure you're comfortable improvising answers to specific prompts. The GM is very familiar with this game.Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬ SeriousCombat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬⚬Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬
This game will be hosted in room #4 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server.No prep is needed. Spectators are welcome.
Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profilehttps://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning
Come play Parsely, a party game parlor style RPG that's a love letter to the old text-based computer adventures. With all the laughs, frustrated groans and story paths that you remember :D Can you unlock the best ending? A whole game takes less than 2 hours! Relive the glory days of floppy disks, dot-matrix printers and 128K RAM with this collection of party games inspired by the text adventures of the 1980s.
Before the first 3D video game came out, all video games were text-based adventures. These were simple scenarios with limited interactions. The player would type their actions into the game, and if it was a valid command, the game would respond with new content.
Players will take control of a character together and the GM will play as the parser and control the computer processing your commands. Players will alternate giving commands like GO NORTH, LIGHT LAMP or GET SWORD, which the GM will follow to the best of the imaginary computer's ability. There’s no limit to the number of people that can play and no limit to the fun. So what are you waiting for? It’s time to unplug from your computer and plug into Parsely! Don't forget to hit SAVE and be mindful, because 3 deaths means GAME OVER! ;-)
Today I'm sending you on Enchanted Forest Adventure! An old wizard lives in a tower in the enchanted forest. He mostly keeps to himself, but some nights ago at the stroke of midnight, thick black toxic smoke has been coming out from his tower, poisoning the air around the forest. You are a young elf sent by your village elders to the enchanted forest to stop the smoke coming from the tower.This game will be great if you like choose-your-own-adventure books, 80s computer RPGs, Fairytales and Super Mario.Players will control a single nameless player character together as a group.This session will be especially good for new players. New players are welcome.The game runner is very familiar with this system.
This game will be played in room #4 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.CW: lack of control, character death (but without any gore or explicit details)
Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profilehttps://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning
Check out the Rules:https://jaredsorensen.itch.io/parsely-preview-n-play-edition
Warhorn Link: https://warhorn.net/events/ttrpg-pickup-con/schedule/sessions/9e3f519c-116b-40df-ae15-271d0df4ed08
A green-tailed comet appears in the night sky. Some hail it as a good omen, others as a harbinger of woe. The next morning, a weird tower crowned by a blood-red light appeared in the forest. Is there a connection? Who... or what is inside? The frightened villagers are counting on heroes brave enough to confront what lurks behind the inexplicable walls of this enigma. Seeking the intrepid, the curious, and the foolhardy to plumb the mysteries of the tower!
This game will be great if you like weird phantasy adventure, strange creatures, and gritty combat
Bring your legacy PC, or I can help you make one or provide a pre-generated PC.
New players are welcome.
The game runner is very familiar with this system.
Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious
Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪
Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬
Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪
This game will be hosted in room #1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.
CW: Dungeon crawl style mayhem and violence.
Brucifer’s Game Runner Profile: https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/brucifer
Saturday
There’s no time like the present. Especially when your morning starts with a message from your future selves. Good thing you’re staying overnight at Lady Indomitable’s headquarters for a young heroes retreat. She’ll know what to do.
This game will be great if you like comic books and comic book-based media.
Players should bring a completed character with them.
This session will be great for new players.
The game runner is very familiar with this system.
Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬ Serious
Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬
Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪
Exploration: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬
This game will be hosted in room #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.
CW: none
Ansel Burch’s Game Runner Profile https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/ansel-burch
Your Federation away team beams to the center of a frozen deep-space asteroid, only to find themselves thrust into a war between aliens whose very temperature is in conflict!
This game will be good if you like the Kelvin Star Trek movies (Star Trek 2009, Star Trek Into Darkness, Star Trek Beyond) with fast action, high emotions, and plenty of snark, and if you like or want to learn Powered by the Apocalypse games.
The game runner will provide characters.
This session will be especially good for new players.
Players will be learning this system together with the game runner.
Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious
Combat: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬
Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪
Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬
This game will be hosted in room #2 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server.
CW: Violence, death, war, interpersonal conflict
Andrew Pontius’ Game Runner Profile: https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/andrew-pontious
Taverns are abuzz with rumours of robbers on the roads. Haggard witnesses tell wild tales of brigands composed of naught but walking bones, attacking their caravans and making off with their goods and companions.
All these incidents have taken place near a certain lonely barrow in the woods, built a century ago to inter scores of nameless soldiers who died heroes’ deaths in an historic battle. The barrow, though always a shunned place, has never been known to be haunted—but now, a ghostly, lively music echoes from it.......
This game will be great if you like old-school dungeon crawls
The game runner will provide level 2 characters.
New players are welcome.
The game runner is very familiar with this system.
Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious
Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬
Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬
Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬
This game will be hosted in room #1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game runner will be using Foundry VTT. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.
CW: None
12 miles of wall surround the city of Bira. The siege has lasted three winters already, and both sides need this to end soon before another summer of crops never get into their furrows. General Vier has hand-picked your group to make the journey. Are you the best for the job or are you just the people who happened to be nearby? Either way, you’re about to make history.
This game will be great if you like trying out new systems, driving a new character like you stole them, and white-knuckling it for roughly two hours.
Characters will be built in session. Bring a deck of cards or use a digital deck.
This session will be especially good for new players.
The game runner wrote this system.
Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬ Serious
Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬
Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪
Exploration: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬
This game will be hosted in room #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.
CW: conflict, combat, bugs (probably)
Ansel Burch’s Game Runner Profile https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/ansel-burch
“Saurus City is a haven for all dino-kind, sprawling atop several giant plateaus that break the clouds and are connected by large trams and pteranodon routes. The bustling and packed-in citizens are all dinosaur-human hybrids, some more dinosaur or more human than others. Despite its isolation, there’s always more to see in Saurus City.”
We'll be building off of this foundation, and what each other person has done, in order to tell a story together that spans multiple generations of an entire community. Instead of controlling individual characters, we'll be sharing control of three major factions, but the game has room for scene play where we'll play as individuals within the world we're creating for the duration of that scene.
Within the three hour session scheduled, we should have time to play through around 2-3 generations depending on how quickly things go, and depending on how many people sign up I'll either join in as a player or simply facilitate this otherwise GMless game, walking the group through the rules as you play."
This game will be great if you like collaborative world building or storytelling
No character creation is needed for this game
New players are welcome.
The game runner has run this game a few times now.
Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious
Combat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬
Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬
Exploration: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬
This game will be hosted in room #2 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game runner will use Miro whiteboards for VTT. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.
CW: none
The siege is broken, and it is now time to get home. Too bad we traveled 20 hard days to arrive here three years ago. Now we must delicately pass through all of that territory with thousands of locals without any serious altercation.
This game will be great if you like road movies, exploring new lands, and playing to avoid combat.
Players may bring their own fantasy-inspired characters. Pre-made characters will be available.
This game will be good for new players.
The game runner wrote this system.
Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious
Combat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬
Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪
Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬
This game will be hosted in room #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.
CW: Unreasonable prejudice.
Ansel Burch’s Game Runner Profile https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/ansel-burch
Sunday
Have you ever wondered what bounty hunters do when the galaxy no longer needs them? In this game called A Complicated Profession, they start new careers hosting intergalactic cruises! Reunite your disbanded crew of jaded sidekicks, shabby droids and shady accomplices. Then pick a hosting role on your cruise ship and start a new life together! Gradually leave more of your old Hunter self behind and embrace your new role as Host, although the past will always be a part of who you are. We'll play 1 to 3 cruises, depending on the play speed of the group, each cruise featuring different passengers and three different exciting events.
A Complicated Profession is a GMless collaborative storytelling TTRPG. Players will start by picking a Hunter and Host role from a variety of templates, then go through a mad-libs style fill-in-the-blanks process to create their characters, ship and galaxy. Maybe you used to be the Hotspot Pilot or the Hired Muscle? Well, no more. How about becoming a Chef, the Live Entertainment or simply the Janitor in your new career? Once your crew settles into their new identity, it's time to find some clients and take them through various exciting events! From excursions to meddling in their love life, here you can do it all.
This game will be great if you like collaborative storytelling, worldbuilding, space, cruises, and Saturday Morning cartoons.
This system is especially great for new players. The game runner is very familiar with this system.
The game runner will provide pre-generated characters to pick from.
Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious
Combat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬
Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪
Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬
This game will be hosted in room #4 of The TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game runner will use Miro whiteboards for mapping. https://miro.com/ Spectators are welcome.
Content warnings: n/a
Tags: fantasy, scifi, humor, GMless
Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile
https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning
Goblin Quest is a tabletop roleplaying game by Grant Howitt about slapstick violence, fatal ineptitude, and the most incredible adventure of your life.. Doodle and play five goblins each (in sequence, not parallel) and watch them one by one meet hilarious ends. As you play, you’ll tell stories about goblins trying to achieve basic tasks and meeting fatal misadventure as they do it. You’ll play the goblins, and you’ll steer them through (or, more commonly, directly into) adversity, and you’ll have a fun time doing it. Will they survive the dangerous world and complete all their silly quests? Probably not. But you'll have fun finding out!
Today, your Goblins will go on a Quest we'll call Putting The Band (Back) Together. After the last band got eaten by a dragon, life in the goblin lands has gotten much more boring! How hard can it be to form a band, right? You'll make sure to become the Best Band and get all the fame or glory. Or you'll die trying!
This game will be great if you like drawing, goblins, shenanigans, harebrained schemes, Saturday morning cartoons, and Grant Howitt's games. This system is especially great for new players.The game runner is very familiar with this system.We will build characters in session.
Note: drawing your goblins is a minor but required part of gameplay; this can be done digitally or on paper. If drawing on paper, please be prepared to take pictures of your goblins (using a smartphone) and share/upload them in our game's thread here on Discord.
Hosted in room #4 of the Pickup Con server, only using Discord, as always, spectators are welcome.
Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profilehttps://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning
Warhorn Link: https://warhorn.net/events/ttrpg-pickup-con/schedule/sessions/051f76b6-95e4-41fd-bf43-52e2b77e5fcb
There’s no time like the present. Especially when your morning starts with a message from your future selves. Good thing you’re staying overnight at Lady Indomitable’s headquarters for a young heroes retreat. She’ll know what to do.
This game will be great if you like comic books and comic book-based media.
Players should bring a completed character with them.
This session will be great for new players.
The game runner is very familiar with this system.
Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬ Serious
Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬
Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪
Exploration: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬
This game will be hosted in room #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.
CW: none
Ansel Burch’s Game Runner Profile https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/ansel-burch
The siege is broken, and it is now time to get home. Too bad we traveled 20 hard days to arrive here three years ago. Now we must delicately pass through all of that territory with thousands of locals without any serious altercation.
This game will be great if you like road movies, exploring new lands, and playing to avoid combat.
Players may bring their own fantasy-inspired characters. Pre-made characters will be available.
This game will be good for new players.
The game runner wrote this system.
Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious
Combat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬
Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪
Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬
This game will be hosted in room #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.
CW: Unreasonable prejudice.
Ansel Burch’s Game Runner Profile https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/ansel-burch
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“Dead House” a Standard One Shot in the Desperation system. Led by Nona de Koning.
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Desperation is a dark collaborative storytelling game about people pushed far past their limits. It's unique because you don’t decide what is said, **you decide who says it**. And in a small community, who says “I burned a house down with the family trapped inside” makes all the difference in the world. Great for fans of games like For the Queen and The Quiet Year, but with a darker tone. This GMless card-based system comes with a world of characters that form a web of relationships you will then apply agonizing pressure to and, in most cases, destroy. It also includes the isolated locations where all the action will take place, as additional characters in the unfolding horror. Finally, the bulk of the deck consists of prompts that follow the inexorable passage of time. Some will drench the experience in unforgettable color, and others will drench it in blood or worse. And each time, you will have to decide who among the survivors is saying the words.
Dead House is set during the great blizzard of 1888, and in it you will meet the people of the tiny town of Neola, Kansas, who find themselves unprepared in the teeth of the storm. As supplies and sanity dwindle in equal measure, who will live and who will be added to the dead house?
__Content warnings__: themes of death, murder, genocide, impurity, religion, claustrophobia, hopelessness, mental decline and self sacrifice. Safety tools will be used, but be aware that it's a fairly realistic dark and bleak tale at its core.
Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪ SeriousCombat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬⚬Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬
Players need to have some TTRPG experience. New players to the system are very welcome. The GM is very familiar with this game. This game will be hosted in room #4 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The GM will use a Miro whiteboard for the game. No prep is needed. Spectators are welcome.
Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profilehttps://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning
Warhorn Link: https://warhorn.net/events/ttrpg-pickup-con/schedule/sessions/e9f8404f-d1c5-4ac1-9527-dff24699038d
TTRPG Pickup Con is a free online gaming event for players and game runners of all experience levels. Play new games with new friends every month and become a part of our community on Discord.