Beak, Feather, & Bone is a lightly competitive map-labeling RPG.  Starting with an unlabeled city map, players are assigned community roles before taking turns claiming and describing locations. Draw from a standard 52-card deck to determine a building's purpose and then describe its beak (reputation), feather (appearance), and bone (interior). As buildings are claimed, a narrative for the town and its inhabitants emerges, including major NPCs and shifting power dynamics. 

This game will be great if you like collaborative world-building and birds

We will build characters in the session.

This session will be especially good for new players.

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. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Harm to Animals

Lise Mych’s Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/lise-mych

Ten years ago, the Wildfire Gang rode into Thistleberry Ranch and left nothing but ash and blood in their wake. They thought they’d silenced every witness...ended every life. But vengeance has a long memory. Now, the children they missed have come of age and they’re hunting the hunters.

Saddle up for a gritty, revenge-fueled tale of justice, reckoning, and blood on the frontier of the Free Coast."

This game will be great if you like gritty westerns and high fantasy

The game runner will provide level 5 characters.

Players need to be familiar with this system.

The game runner is very familiar with this system.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬

This game will be hosted on Zoom. The game runner will use Owlbear Rodeo 2.0 for maps. The game runner will be streaming this game.

twitch.tv/reflectgames

CW: Violence, language, adult themes consistent with Western tropes

At night, you dream. Your dreams are not idle imaginings, but visits to a persistent world of wonders and dangers both personal and alien. Will you find power there? Will you find freedom? Or will you slowly slip into Entanglement, and be trapped there forever? Play to find out!

Dreampunk is a PbtA-style game that uses a deck of surreal cards to encourage an improvisational style for inspiring challenges and obstacles. It actively involves both the GM and the players in this process! Rather than the numerical randomness of dice, it uses these cards as both creativity prompts and a resource to power your special abilities. Your character is a Dreamer, someone from a waking world who is drawn to the Dream when they sleep. As a Dreamer, you have powerful abilities to shape the world around you. To do so, you must incorporate elements from surreal art cards into your action using an element of your choice from that card. Lean into dream logic and find out all that your imagination makes possible!

Characters should be created ahead of time with guidance from the GM. The GM will also provide art cards, but if you prefer, you may use your own deck from Dixit, Mysterium, Everway, or a similar game, as long as you can upload images of your drawn cards to a shared virtual whiteboard.

This game will be great if you like PbtA, card resolution mechanics, Belonging Outside Belonging, Dixit, Mysterium, Everway, tarot, art, interpreting images, dream logic, and collaborative storytelling. 

New players are welcome. Players need to have played some RPGs. The game runner is new to this system, but very familiar with PbtA and the board games the game was inspired by.

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/

Content warnings: minor elements of PvP in the sense that players may create

Tags: collaborative, diceless, cards, surreal, fantasy

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

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

Welcome to Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, a sprawling old house outside time and space, where it’s always September 15th and there’s always room for a new visitor. The unusual blend of premade characters, modular rules, and legacy mechanics makes this TTRPG perfect for pick-up play: busy players can drop in and out without ever feeling lost, and anyone who wants to jump in can make a long-term impact without a long-term commitment. Yazeba's is yours to change. Perhaps Residents will leave or change, Guests will become far more important than you expected, or Journeys will take unexpected twists. Take control of one of the 7 long-term residents of the B&B or choose from a cast of 50 quirky guests, each of whom has their own ongoing storylines.

Chapters can be played in any order and include things like lazy afternoons, frightful nights, insurmountable chores, and zany competitions, so every adventure is full of surprises. When we were little, we were taught that a story is a sequence of events with a beginning, middle and end. But that’s not how all stories work: some loop around on themselves, some are told out of sequence, and some never end. After we play one Chapter, we can play another without worrying too much about whether it came before or after the Chapter we just played, or how much time has passed. Think back on that prolific paperback series you may have once read: you might have missed a few issues, or read them out of order, but you were always able to figure out what was going on. That's what Yazeba's is going for!

Chapters are short, so we may play more than one adventure during our session, swapping characters in between! 

If you've played Yazeba's before, feel free to let your gamerunner know which chapters you've played, so you can try some new ones. There are many different types to suit different moods and player counts.

This game will be great if you like legacy board games, trying different things, and collaborative storytelling.

New players are welcome. Players need to have played some RPGs. The game runner is very familiar with this system.

The game comes with pre-existing characters to pick from.

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

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, cozy, living world

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

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

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

Ten years ago, the Wildfire Gang rode into Thistleberry Ranch and left nothing but ash and blood in their wake. They thought they’d silenced every witness...ended every life. But vengeance has a long memory. Now, the children they missed have come of age and they’re hunting the hunters.

Saddle up for a gritty, revenge-fueled tale of justice, reckoning, and blood on the frontier of the Free Coast."

This game will be great if you like gritty westerns and high fantasy

The game runner will provide level 5 characters.

Players need to be familiar with this system.

The game runner is very familiar with this system.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬

This game will be hosted on Zoom. The game runner will use Owlbear Rodeo 2.0 for maps. The game runner will be streaming this game.

twitch.tv/reflectgames

CW: Violence, language, adult themes consistent with Western tropes

Age of Adventure RPG is a one-page rules-light heroic fantasy game inspired by the 'Lasers & Feelings' d6 dice pool system. Be prepared for some old-school fun as you dice with death in search of fortune and glory! So grab your pack, sharpen your sword, and ready your spells. Now Onward to Adventure! https://adrian-young-games.itch.io/age-of-adventure-rpg

💰  Cost: Free

🗓️  When: https://r.3v.fi/discord-timestamps/

🎲  Where: Discord for Voice, dice rolls and character sheets (video optional)

🕰️  Duration: 4 hours

🧑‍🤝‍🧑  No. of Players: 2-4

📖  Player Guidelines: Potential Character Death. No rules knowledge required. No PvP.

⚔️  Character Selection: Pre-generated Characters available here: https://bit.ly/AoA-Pre-Gens (returning Characters welcome).

This game will be great if you like RPG fantasy 

Players should build characters ahead. Pre-generated characters are available. https://adrian-young-games.itch.io/age-of-adventure-rpg

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 another Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: potential character death

As a kid in a tiny swamp town like Higgit's Bend, it's hard to make any spending money. So when the owner of the town's general store offers you and your friends an entire gold coin each for watching her dog Nacho -- you'd be a fool not to take the job! Besides, how much trouble could one little chihuahua get up to anyways?  

This game will be great if you like The Goonies, Codename: Kids Next Door, Kids on Bikes Players are welcome to build characters ahead of time, but we will also cover creation at the top of the session. You'll be provided the game doc ahead of time if you would like to build you character prior to session, but you don't have to. 

Players are welcome to reuse characters from previous OFA sessions. 

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 #4 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game runner will use shmeppy.com for mapping. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

Content warnings: claustrophobia and risk of drowning

Rayne Bakcheious’ Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/rayne-bakcheious

Trophy is a strongly collaborative storytelling game with horror themes throughout. It is about a group of treasure-hunters on a doomed expedition into a natural biome that doesn’t want them there. The game tells the story of the physical and mental descent of the treasure-hunters as they move deeper and deeper into their location. Their journey will ultimately bring them to ancient ruins that hold the treasure they seek, and the monstrous entities which now dwell there. This is not, however, a hopeful story of brave and daring adventurers slaying dragons and dragging bags of gold with them back to town. This is a horror story of entitled pillagers meeting tragic ends. It is very likely that all the treasure-hunters will die or — at best — be permanently scarred and haunted by their expedition. Can you trust your friends? Can you even still trust yourself? In this game, Trophy isn't the treasure you seek, but nature trying to take you as its trophy instead.

Trophy Dark is designed to be played as a oneshot with small groups of 2-3 player characters. Players are heavily involved in offering up possible consequences for others throughout the game instead of just playing their own characters, so please be comfortable with this when signing up. Single oneshot adventures are called Incursions. 

Today's incursion is called Throne of the Forest Queen, where the following lures in your characters...

The constant drizzle that has accompanied you through the tangled woods abates as you come into a lush glade baked in golden sunlight. The stink of mud and leaf mold is cut through with a cleaner scent of pine and crisp mornings. A stag at the edge of the clearing casts a lazy glance at you before trotting further into the wood, its flashing tail an invitation to follow. You have reached the Queensweald—rumoured home to salvation, inspiration, cures to fantastical diseases, and wonders conjured only in dreams. Only the stout of heart enter the realm of the Forest Queen—fewer still return. Why then, if her favour is so hard to claim, do so many mortals seek it? Quite simply, it has value beyond gold. The queen’s power is nearly limitless. She controls the fae court of the forest, and can make the dreams of mortals into reality if she so chooses. For so long as people desire the impossible, they will venture in search of her...

This game will be great if you like impending doom, collaborative storytelling, horror. 

Characters will be created together at the start of the session. This can be done in mere minutes, assisted by random tables and dice rolls.

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 #4 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. Spectators are welcome. 

Content warnings: In general, fear, paranoia, character death, and high chances of other player characters betraying yours. This specific incursion can also include Body Horror, Cannibalism, Graphic Violence, Harm to Animals, Manipulation, Slavery, and Torture. Many of these elements, like Torture and Harm to Animals, will only be mentioned briefly if they occur and not roleplayed out in detail.

Tags: fantasy, horror

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

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

As a kid in a tiny swamp town like Higgit's Bend, it's hard to make any spending money. So when the owner of the town's general store offers you and your friends an entire gold coin each for watching her dog Nacho -- you'd be a fool not to take the job! Besides, how much trouble could one little chihuahua get up to anyways?  

This game will be great if you like The Goonies, Codename: Kids Next Door, Kids on Bikes Players are welcome to build characters ahead of time, but we will also cover creation at the top of the session. You'll be provided the game doc ahead of time if you would like to build you character prior to session, but you don't have to. 

Players are welcome to reuse characters from previous OFA sessions. 

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 #4 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game runner will use shmeppy.com for mapping. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

Content warnings: claustrophobia and risk of drowning

Rayne Bakcheious’ Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/rayne-bakcheious

"As a kid growing up in the small, swamp town of Higgit's Bend, there's not much else to get up to besides trouble. Which is why it's especially unfair that you and your friends are grounded on the day the traveling carnival comes to town. But you're not going to let that stop you from seeing the exotic animals and arcane mysteries that await behind those brightly colored carts. It's time to have your first adventure... 

"Our First Adventure" is a (unlicensed fan) modification of the "Kids on Bikes" system, designed to allow for a modern and simpler playstyle in a more traditional high-fantasy setting. This will be my second playtest of the system. 

This game will be great if you like Kids on Bikes, Kids on Brooms, Never Stop Blowing Up

Players should build characters ahead.

We will build characters in session.

I'll be providing a PDF of my new rule-set to players before the game if you would like to build your character ahead of time. We'll also go over character creation at the top of the session if you would like to build it then. It shouldn't take more than 15-20mins. 

You will be playing as a resident of a small town in the middle of a swamp called Higgit's Bend. It's a former mining town on the far, forgotten edge of a large empire. The townsfolk have renounced imperian forms of currency and have built a thriving community that relies on each other for what they need. Your character can any type of body that you can dream up, provided it fits within a high-fantasy, low-technology context. "

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. The game runner will be using Shmeppy whiteboards for mapping. https://shmeppy.com/ Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Mild depictions of animal mistreatment

Rayne Bakcheious’ Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/rayne-bakcheious

"As a kid growing up in the small, swamp town of Higgit's Bend, there's not much else to get up to besides trouble. Which is why it's especially unfair that you and your friends are grounded on the day the traveling carnival comes to town. But you're not going to let that stop you from seeing the exotic animals and arcane mysteries that await behind those brightly colored carts. It's time to have your first adventure... 

"Our First Adventure" is a (unlicensed fan) modification of the "Kids on Bikes" system, designed to allow for a modern and simpler playstyle in a more traditional high-fantasy setting. This will be my second playtest of the system. 

This game will be great if you like Kids on Bikes, Kids on Brooms, Never Stop Blowing Up

Players should build characters ahead.

We will build characters in session.

I'll be providing a PDF of my new rule-set to players before the game if you would like to build your character ahead of time. We'll also go over character creation at the top of the session if you would like to build it then. It shouldn't take more than 15-20mins. 

You will be playing as a resident of a small town in the middle of a swamp called Higgit's Bend. It's a former mining town on the far, forgotten edge of a large empire. The townsfolk have renounced imperian forms of currency and have built a thriving community that relies on each other for what they need. Your character can any type of body that you can dream up, provided it fits within a high-fantasy, low-technology context. "

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. The game runner will be using Shmeppy whiteboards for mapping. https://shmeppy.com/ Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Mild depictions of animal mistreatment

"Cozy Characters (pregens available), Zoom Interface with roll-your-own dice convenience!  This is a modified (heavily-modified) DCC Experience

“Life as a reanimated skeleton was simple when the Necromancer was alive.  His orders were clear, tasks were repetitive, and mindless eternal servitude was pleasantly peaceful.  The Necromancer made every contingency to live beyond his death until he foolishly allowed himself to be flung into a fiery sea of molten magma beneath the volcano.  Now life in the Dark Tower is chaotic and disorderly.  Skeletons have abandoned their duties and try to return to a semblance of life through games, dances, and tea parties.  Defenses have fallen and the master’s head of security, a literal severed head, believes adventurers are closing in to loot the Necromancer’s vaults.  With no way to physically force the skeletons to do his bidding, he resorts to playing on the skeletons’ new playfulness to create a game of tower defense.”

This game will be great if you like skeletons engaging in slapstick cartoon violence and warming their bones by the fire.

The game runner will 0-level provide characters.

This session will be especially good for new players.

The game runner is very familiar with this system.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

This game will be hosted on Zoom, and Zoom Whiteboard will be used for mapping.

CW: Undead

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

Yorkus Rex’s Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/yorkusrex

The pirate ship, The Cauldron is grounded on a big rock just off the coast of Ouness, a small and remote island on the Northern end of the archipelago. The locals seem slow to trust but like it or not, you're stuck together until the weather clears in the spring. The sailors bring with them stories of the wide world and gifts from the edges of believability. The colonists offer a perspective that the sailors might just want to consider and a shelter from the weather to come. 

This game will be great if you like stories of communities on the edge and people finding common ground despite conflicting interests.

The game runner will provide 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. Spectators are welcome. 

CW: Player on player conflict

Check out the Rules: https://the-indecisionist.itch.io/mavericks 

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

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

“You think you know the stories of Little Red Riding Hood, of Hansel and Gretel, of Snow White and Rapunzel. But what if I told you that actually, their stories were not as simple as you've been told? What if I told you that actually, these stories were much more connected and overlapping, and that, actually, everyone didn't live happily ever after?

Join us as we imagine if Into the Woods had been directed by the Coen Brothers. Can our conflicting cast of evil stepmothers, long-lost siblings, fairy godmothers, and secret lovers manage to achieve their hearts' desires? Or will it all descend into a Fairy Tale Fiasco?"

This game will be great if you like improvised story-telling and plans going spectacularly wrong!

We will build characters in session.

New players are welcome.

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

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

Exploration: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬

This game will be hosted in room #3 on The TTRPG Pickup Con Discord serverCW: Witchcraft, Orphan children, Love potions

Every city in Middle Earth has treasures. For the past 30 years it's been the distinct pleasure of the Travelling Appraisers to get a glimpse of the truly wonderous items that are hiding in the attics and cupboards from the Eriador to Belfalas. This week, we find ourselves in the the Shire town of Hobbiton where the heirs of an eccentric collector are looking to get a valuation on some truly exceptional pieces.

This game will be good for you if you like comfort watching PBS and playing poker incorrectly

We will build characters in session.

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 of The TTRPG Pickup Con Discord 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

Age of Adventure RPG is a one-page rules-light heroic fantasy game inspired by the 'Lasers & Feelings' d6 dice pool system. Be prepared for some old school fun as you dice with death in search of fortune and glory! So grab your pack, sharpen your sword and ready your spells. Now Onward to Adventure! https://adrian-young-games.itch.io/age-of-adventure-rpg

This game will be great if you like RPG fantasy adventure

The game runner will provide characters, pre-generated available

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 another Discord server. https://discord.gg/ZMZTHvQYGJ

CW: possible character death

Welcome to Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, a sprawling old house outside time and space, where it’s always September 15th and there’s always room for a new visitor. The unusual blend of premade characters, modular rules, and legacy mechanics makes this TTRPG perfect for pick-up play: busy players can drop in and out without ever feeling lost, and anyone who wants to jump in can make a long-term impact without a long-term commitment. Yazeba's is yours to change. Perhaps Residents will leave or change, Guests will become far more important than you expected, or Journeys will take unexpected twists. Take control of one of the 7 long-term residents of the B&B or choose from a cast of 50 quirky guests, each of whom has their own ongoing storylines. Chapters can be played in any order and include things like lazy afternoons, frightful nights, insurmountable chores, and zany competitions, so every adventure is full of surprises. When we were little, we were taught that a story is a sequence of events with a beginning, middle and end. But that’s not how all stories work: some loop around on themselves, some are told out of sequence, and some never end. After we play one Chapter, we can play another without worrying too much about whether it came before or after the Chapter we just played, or how much time has passed. Think back on that prolific paperback series you may have once read: you might have missed a few issues, or read them out of order, but you were always able to figure out what was going on. That's what Yazeba's is going for! Chapters are short, so we may play more than one adventure during our session, swapping characters in between! If you've played Yazeba's before, feel free to let your gamerunner know which chapters you've played, so you can try some new ones.

This game will be great if you like more freeform roleplay, a push-and-pull between weaknesses and strengths, a cast of colorful characters, pickup style play, unlocking things, legacy boardgames. New players are welcome. The game runner is very familiar with this system. The game comes with pre-existing characters to pick from. 

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Hosted in room #4 of the TTRPG Pickup Con server, spectators are welcome. using Miro whiteboards. https://miro.com/

Content warnings: We're focusing on more lighthearted scenarios. Some characters do touch on more emotional themes like insecurity, not feeling like you belong etc. We'll adjust content as needed to ensure all are comfortable.

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

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

The pirate ship, The Cauldron is grounded on a big rock just off the coast of Ouness, a small and remote island on the Northern end of the archipelago. The locals seem slow to trust but like it or not, you're stuck together until the weather clears in the spring. The sailors bring with them stories of the wide world and gifts from the edges of believability. The colonists offer a perspective that the sailors might just want to consider and a shelter from the weather to come. 

This game will be great if you like stories of communities on the edge and people finding common ground despite conflicting interests.

The game runner will provide characters.

This session will be especially good for new players.

This system was written by the game runner.

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

CW: Player on player conflict

Check out the Rules: https://the-indecisionist.itch.io/mavericks 

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

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: "The village is buzzing with excitement, for the annual baking contest takes place today! Everyone is busy with preparations, for even those who are not entering a baked good into the competition have been pressed into service by someone who is. You arrive very early, only to find a mortified Belinda Sackville, who approaches you in a panic. Can you help find her missing muffin tin? She promised to outdo herself this year and keep up her winning streak!" This game will be great if you like PbtA, cozy mysteries, community, small-town village life, baking, poems, sing-alongs and Carved from Brindlewood, New players welcome. The game runner is very familiar with this system. The game runner will provide playbooks ahead of time, so you can customize your character. 

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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

Every city in Middle Earth has treasures. For the past 30 years it's been the distinct pleasure of the Travelling Appraisers to get a glimpse of the truly wonderous items that are hiding in the attics and cupboards from the Eriador to Belfalas. This week, we find ourselves in the the Shire town of Hobbiton where the heirs of an eccentric collector are looking to get a valuation on some truly exceptional pieces.

This game will be good for you if you like comfort watching PBS and playing poker incorrectly

We will build characters in session.

New players are welcome.

This system was written by the game runner.

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This game will be hosted in room #2 of The TTRPG Pickup Con Discord 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

Monster Care Squad is a non-violent RPG where you play as a member of an elite team of Monster Care Specialists. You work alongside your fellow specialists to investigate trouble, diagnose illnesses, and treat the horrible Wounds inflicted by the False Gold. How you will go about this will largely depend on the Monsters your group decides to treat. Monsters range in scale from titanic megafauna to little bigger than your hand and in damage potential from cataclysmic world enders to mischievous trouble makers. In the world of Ald-Amura, Monsters and Humans live in harmony with one another. Humans care for Monsters, providing food and shelter for them, while Monsters lend their power, magic, and might to humanity. But the peace between Humans and Monsters is now an uneasy one. Monsters are afraid of who might be infecting their kind with the False Gold illness, Humans are afraid of their cities being leveled. Everyone is on eggshells and the beautiful balance that typified Ald-Amura is on the brink of collapse. However, you will find no rules for intentionally inflicting pain on anyone or anything in this game, as the first rule of being a Monster Care Specialist is to Do No Harm. This is a PbtA-style game with three distinct phases of play: Diagnosis (what's wrong and how to treat it), Synthesis (making the right cure) and Symbiosis (applying the actual treatment). We'll go through one entire loop, meeting and treating a single Monster. This game will be great if you like PbtA, playing healers, caring for animals, distinct phases of play. New players are welcome. The game runner will provide pregenerated characters to pick from. 

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

Content warnings: sick creatures Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

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

The Broken Cask Society is a GMless RPG for up to 4 players where we venture across the wilds in search of the finest inns of the land! You create your character using various playbooks (archetypes), and trek through a fantasy world as a member of the Broken Cask Society. Some characters may care more about the journey, others are all about the drinks or care mostly about the food. Together our group will ford rivers, scale mountains, and blaze trails to the most famous (and infamous) inns, pubs, taverns, wineries, drinkeries, alehouses, and meaderies in the land. Through the use of random tables we'll find out what happens and create a wonderful, cozy story as we go. Prepare for the journey and travel across the land to explore a new inn. Once there, we'll take some time to feast & judge its offerings, before resting so we can do it all over again next time. This game will be great if you like PbtA, taverns, cozy fantasy stories, collaborative storytelling and random tables. New players are welcome. The game runner is very familiar with this system. The game runner will provide playbooks ahead of time, so you can customize your character. 

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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

“The Doom That Walked to Shküllheim” is a Standard One Shot in the Dungeon Crawl Classics system. Led by Yorkus Rex

For centuries, the great colossus sat silently brooding on its mountain throne partially covered by landslides of earth and rock.  The Stone Priests claimed their power alone kept the Great Destroyer from rising from its stony slumber and annihilating the city.  With the recent murder of the order’s high priest, the colossus has risen and begun a slow walk towards the city.  The dead are rising from their graves.  Storms roll wild over the plains. Panic grips the populace as many flee. Will your party of reavers and cutthroats be able to unlock the mystery of the approaching colossus and SAVE THE CITY?  Also: get paid fat loot!

This game will be great if you like films like The Jabberwocky and dark comedy.

The game runner will provide 1st level characters.

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 on Zoom and use Zoom whiteboard for mapping.

CW: Undead, violence

Yorkus Rex’s Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/yorkusrex 

Check out the Rules: https://goodman-games.com/store/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/DCC_QSR_Free2.pdf

“Harbour Ends ─ a slasher ordeal for Troika!” is a Standard One Shot in the Troika! System. Led by Sean F. Smith

"The party have been tasked with tracking down a reclusive vagrant, Silas Hansom, who's the only person in town who knows the name of the wizard who built the tower on the bluff. Silas is known to hide out in the commercial docks just upriver and you have to find him tonight.

However, six years ago ─ to the very day ─ prominent militiaman Conrad Zaar was lured to these docks to be murdered by the gang whose secrets he was selling. They tied him up, set him ablaze, and drowned him in the river.

But Conrad did not die.

And each year, on the night of his death, he returns."

This game will be great if you like slasher movies, seaside noir

We will build starting characters in session. Full details here ─ https://troika-srd.netlify.app/#/character-creation ─ but no prior reading is necessary New players are welcome.

The game runner is very familiar with this system.

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This game will be hosted on Google Meet

CW: murder, immortal slasher killer, port and seaside

Check out the Rules: https://troika-srd.netlify.app/

Sean F. Smith's Game Runner Profile www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/sean-f-smith

For the city to survive, it must move. Hammer of the Earth is an adventure game about humans who worship the last machine in a world ruled by vines. You are Outriders, individuals who ensure the fuel supply for Hammer. It's the last bastion of civilization in the form of a gargantuan train, each carriage housing ten thousand souls, navigating an endless network of tracks. If the train stops, they are all doomed. The Navigator (GM) picked you from your various factions to keep the train moving. Presented with a limited clock and numerous obstacles, can you get back in time? Success or failure, you must all work together, even if in the end only one of you is held responsible for the outcome... Hammer of the Earth is part of The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book, an anthology of 2-page games. This means it's very rules-light and very easy to learn, but players should be comfortable using their own imagination without many rules to hold on to. This game will be great if you like rules-light adventures, countdown clocks, an impending sense of doom and trying desperately to be the hero when everything seems to be against you. 

We'll create characters together at the start of the game, it only takes mere minutes. 

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This game will be hosted in room #2 of the 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 

"AGE OF ADVENTURE RPG is a rules-light fantasy hack of the 'Lasers & Feelings' d6 dice pool system. 

You are a member of an adventuring party undertaking a dangerous and heroic quest in a world of magic, might, and monsters! Be prepared for some old-school fun as you dice with death in search of fortune and glory! So grab your pack, sharpen your sword and ready your spells. Now Onward To Adventure!

The game will be hosted in the Age of Adventure Discord server. You will be assigned your own character sheet channel, and there will be background music and encounter images to enhance immersion.

This is a brand new adventure so both new and returning players are welcome."

This game will be great if you like the heroic fantasy adventure genre and lots of dice rolls

select a pre-generated character or play a previous character.

Here are 36 pre-generated Characters you can choose from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18vwRJ5wRFtdQr2G5lXcQoTisKEY_Nioo/view?usp=sharing New players are welcome.

This system was written by the game runner.

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This game will be hosted in another Discord server, https://discord.gg/ZMZTHvQYGJ CW: Potential Character Death

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

Any journey can become a legend! Make up your own campfire story, myth or fairytale in Mythology. It's a GMless storytelling game where everyone collaborates to tell a new tale inspired by the images on a whimsical deck of tarot cards. Players make up their characters by mixing several cards, then take turns drawing cards to set up the initiating event and obstacles for other players to tackle. Together everyone will weave the story of a new legend and discover how the city got saved! No knowledge of tarot cards is needed and we'll use a non-traditional deck of images to inspire us. Mythology is part of The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book, an anthology of 2-page games. This means it's very rules-light and very easy to learn, but players should be comfortable using their own imagination without many rules to hold on to. This game will be great if you like collaborative storytelling, mythology, legends, fairytales, interpreting images and/or tarot. 

We'll create characters together at the start of the game. 

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This game will be hosted in room #2 of the 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