In this game, you'll play as a member of the Ravenswood Paranormal Society, a group of friends researching the creepy and unexplained happenings in Chicago. One afternoon, you arrive at your group's office to find a message on the answering machine:

"Hi, uh this is Jayden Augustine. My husband and I just bought this really cool old house that we're renovating for a bed and breakfast. And like, sure it's a little haunted but it's really old. And that's part of the charm.

But last night Jacques found me sleepwalking. Which I've never done before. And I was... well I was digging in the basement... And now he says if I don't have someone ‘fix it’ that he's gonna call a priest. Could you... maybe come have a look?"

This game will be great if you like playing Monster of the Week, but would like a crunchier combat system.

Players should build level 5 characters ahead.

Human or Human Variant only. Point buy or standard array.

Build a standard D&D character, but do not choose background, weapons, or equip. Those you'll get from my "Modern Backgrounds" list. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a3S38ylklWLSLHQDXdGQhmTMHa3vmlwH9Ci_YyvloJs/edit?usp=drive_link

Your character is already a member of the Ravenswood Paranormal Society. For reasons of your own, you have a drive or interest in researching paranormal events.

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 run in room #2 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. The game runner will use Shmeppy for visuals. https://shmeppy.com/ Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Ghosts, death, homophobia

Check Out These Special Backgrounds- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a3S38ylklWLSLHQDXdGQhmTMHa3vmlwH9Ci_YyvloJs/edit?usp=drive_link

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

In this game, you'll play as a member of the Ravenswood Paranormal Society, a group of friends researching the creepy and unexplained happenings in Chicago. One afternoon, you arrive at your group's office to find a message on the answering machine:

"Hi, uh this is Jayden Augustine. My husband and I just bought this really cool old house that we're renovating for a bed and breakfast. And like, sure it's a little haunted but it's really old. And that's part of the charm.

But last night Jacques found me sleepwalking. Which I've never done before. And I was... well I was digging in the basement... And now he says if I don't have someone ‘fix it’ that he's gonna call a priest. Could you... maybe come have a look?"

This game will be great if you like playing Monster of the Week, but would like a crunchier combat system.

Players should build level 5 characters ahead.

Human or Human Variant only. Point buy or standard array.

Build a standard D&D character, but do not choose background, weapons, or equip. Those you'll get from my "Modern Backgrounds" list. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a3S38ylklWLSLHQDXdGQhmTMHa3vmlwH9Ci_YyvloJs/edit?usp=drive_link

Your character is already a member of the Ravenswood Paranormal Society. For reasons of your own, you have a drive or interest in researching paranormal events.

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 run in room #2 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. The game runner will use Shmeppy for visuals. https://shmeppy.com/ Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Ghosts, death, homophobia

Check Out These Special Backgrounds- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a3S38ylklWLSLHQDXdGQhmTMHa3vmlwH9Ci_YyvloJs/edit?usp=drive_link

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

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

This playtest will be for a new micro RPG based around social media tropes. You'll play as (internet) famous influencers who have become lost in the wilderness. We'll build characters and decide on the exact setting during the setup for the game. Newbies are welcome!

This game will be great if you like Honey Heist, Lasers and Feelings, or Social Media in general.

We will build characters in the 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.

CW: Possibility of dying in the wilderness, plane crash, or natural disaster

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

This playtest will be for a new micro RPG based around social media tropes. You'll play as (internet) famous influencers who have become lost in the wilderness. We'll build characters and decide on the exact setting during the setup for the game. Newbies are welcome!

This game will be great if you like Honey Heist, Lasers and Feelings, or Social Media in general.

We will build characters in the 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.

CW: Possibility of dying in the wilderness, plane crash, or natural disaster

"The Bensfield Detectives Club has tackled wild cases before, from the Skeleton in the Butchershop to the House of Nobody, but they've never dealt with something quite this hairy.

The grown-ups are saying to stay out of the woods, but will you listen?"

• This game will be great if you like Scooby Doo-esque mysteries and scary investigations. Players should build characters ahead.

• Your characters must have a direct connection to the mystery-solving group known as the Bensfield Detectives Club. We will also be answering some backstory questions 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.

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: Wild Animals, Possible Harm to Animals, Gore, Possible Harm to Kids

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/Nona-de-Koning

Check out the Game Rules- https://losing-games.itch.io/mausritter

Mouse parents across Cratchington are worried: the annual Christmas delivery of toys from the factory hasn't arrived. All year long, the mice of the toy factory are hard at work, under the special blessing of the three Spirits of Christmas. Your party of brave mice has traveled to the factory to find out what's going on. Can these mice save Christmas? Play to find out!

This game will be great if you like holiday specials, Christmas, OSR games, Redwall, The Rescuers, The Hobbit, Over The Hedge, and Thumbelina.

We will build Level 1 characters in session.

We'll randomly roll up characters at the start, which is a quick and easy process! No knowledge or preparations are needed. If you have previously played Mausritter and want to bring an old character, contact me upfront.

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 in room #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. The game runner will use Miro whiteboards for maps and visuals. https://miro.com/app/dashboard/ Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: harm or even death of player characters (who play as animals), you can roll up a new character in 5 minutes should yours die. Further lines & veils may be sent to your game runner at any time

David P’ game runner profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/David-P

Check out the rules! https://peginc.com/product/deadlands-the-weird-west-blood-on-the-range-savage-worlds-test-drive-swade/

Schedule link

https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-schedule/the-wild-hunt

The Wild Hunt is a modern-day horror story set in the tradition of a Saturday-night horror movie. In it, the players find themselves unexpectedly stranded in a rural town in the American Midwest, and on the wrong end of a curse more than a century old. With their very souls on the line, they must avoid an unrelenting horde of unholy hunters determined to add the heroes to their host!

This game will be great if you like low-budget rural horror movies

The game runner will provide level 1 characters.

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

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

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬

This game will be run in Room # 1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. The game runner will be using Owlbear Rodeo as a virtual table top for this session.

CW: Undead/zombies/ghosts/Catholic priests.

David P’ game runner profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/David-P

Check out the rules! https://peginc.com/product/deadlands-the-weird-west-blood-on-the-range-savage-worlds-test-drive-swade/

Schedule link

https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-schedule/the-wild-hunt

The Wild Hunt is a modern-day horror story set in the tradition of a Saturday-night horror movie. In it, the players find themselves unexpectedly stranded in a rural town in the American Midwest, and on the wrong end of a curse more than a century old. With their very souls on the line, they must avoid an unrelenting horde of unholy hunters determined to add the heroes to their host!

This game will be great if you like low-budget rural horror movies

The game runner will provide level 1 characters.

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

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

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬

This game will be run in Room # 1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. The game runner will be using Owlbear Rodeo as a virtual table top for this session.

CW: Undead/zombies/ghosts/Catholic priests.

Check out the rules: https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/the-quiet-year

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

The collapse came fast but the fall is taking... longer. Magic hit us like thunder. The world is still reeling at the birth of true alchemy, the revelation of sorcery, and the equality of conjuring but we can't afford to be complacent. This magic is new to us. The study of it is even newer. So, when the true practitioners show up from across the rift, we're going to need to be ready.

This game will be great if you like stories of magic in the modern world. 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: Possible Death, Possible Disfigurement.

Check out the rules: https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/the-quiet-year

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

The collapse came fast but the fall is taking... longer. Magic hit us like thunder. The world is still reeling at the birth of true alchemy, the revelation of sorcery, and the equality of conjuring but we can't afford to be complacent. This magic is new to us. The study of it is even newer. So, when the true practitioners show up from across the rift, we're going to need to be ready.

This game will be great if you like stories of magic in the modern world. 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: Possible Death, Possible Disfigurement.

Check out the rules: https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/the-quiet-year

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

The collapse came fast but the fall is taking... longer. Magic hit us like thunder. The world is still reeling at the birth of true alchemy, the revelation of sorcery, and the equality of conjuring but we can't afford to be complacent. This magic is new to us. The study of it is even newer. So, when the true practitioners show up from across the rift, we're going to need to be ready.

This game will be great if you like stories of magic in the modern world. 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: Possible Death, Possible Disfigurement.

Get caught up in the lucrative (and highly illegal) Los Angeles street racing circuit and win big! Also, you're a bunch of raccoons. Driving the same car. While you may not ascribe intrinsic value to the "paper" that humans call money, it's certainly useful for getting things you want from them. And a local human happens to be selling off their junkyard full of valuable garbage for a fee that only an illegal street racing raccoon could hope to afford.

This game will be great if you like Wacky Races, animals acting like people, making Los Angeles even more dangerous for pedestrians, and general lighthearted chaos

We will build characters in the session.

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 #1 the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Cartoon violence (as in, potential for things that could be seriously harmful to real people but without lasting injury), smoking (character gear mentions cigars, but may not come up)

Check Out the Game Rules- https://youtu.be/-g0EIql8wW0

Ansel's Game Runner Page- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/ansel-burch

Fiasco is a hilarious game of high stakes and poor choices. In this session, we will be playing in an original time travel playset. Anything can happen but we will definitely be traveling through time, building relationships, and trying to maintain a handle on increasingly challenging goals.

This game will be great if you like telling stories together, time travel, and plays with too many doors in them.

We will build characters in the session.

We will be playing together in this session. So the game runner will be playing along with you and just facilitating

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 in room #2 of The TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Being lost in time, character death outside of gameplay

Check Out the Game Rules- https://youtu.be/-g0EIql8wW0

Ansel's Game Runner Page- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/ansel-burch

Fiasco is a hilarious game of high stakes and poor choices. In this session, we will be playing in an original time travel playset. Anything can happen but we will definitely be traveling through time, building relationships, and trying to maintain a handle on increasingly challenging goals.

This game will be great if you like telling stories together, time travel, and plays with too many doors in them.

We will build characters in the session.

We will be playing together in this session. So the game runner will be playing along with you and just facilitating

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 in room #2 of The TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Being lost in time, character death outside of gameplay

Rayne's Game Runner Page- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/rayne-bakcheious

"On the fifth floor of gilded-age brownstone building, in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood, an ancient answering machine clicks on. “You’ve reached the Edgewater Supernatural Society. Please leave your name and the nature of your paranormal experience at the beep.”

“Hi, my name is Lyla Coleman. I own a dress shop in Boystown and I well, I think it's haunted? For the last couple weeks, the mannequins are in different poses when I come back in the morning. And I think they might be.... building something in the basement? It’s... I dunno an altar maybe? Can you guys send like an exorcist or someone?” "

This game will be great if you like Buffy or Angel, Supernatural, and X-Files.

Players should build characters ahead.

• D&D 5E | Level 3

  • Use point-buy or standard array for stat generation.

  • Any officially published content for classes, feats, etc is fine. Permanent flying features excluded. Non-licensed content needs to be run by me, (a screenshot is probably fine) just don’t do it the night before the game.

  • HUMANS ONLY. Human variant is fine.

  • Do not choose a regular background. A modified list will be provided. DO NOT choose additional equipment.

This game is recommended for those that are comfortable with D&D 5E, as I won’t be creating new modern classes. We’ll be playing fast-and-loose in the interpretations of the flavor text if we need to keep things feeling “modern”.

If you have any backstory notes, please feel free to let me know. Please send me a copy of (or link to) your character sheet at least 2 days before we play. "

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 in room #1 of The TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. The game runner will use http://shmeppy.com/ for visual aids. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Creepy mannequins, death, and the undead

Rayne's Game Runner Page- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/rayne-bakcheious

"On the fifth floor of gilded-age brownstone building, in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood, an ancient answering machine clicks on. “You’ve reached the Edgewater Supernatural Society. Please leave your name and the nature of your paranormal experience at the beep.”

“Hi, my name is Lyla Coleman. I own a dress shop in Boystown and I well, I think it's haunted? For the last couple weeks, the mannequins are in different poses when I come back in the morning. And I think they might be.... building something in the basement? It’s... I dunno an altar maybe? Can you guys send like an exorcist or someone?” "

This game will be great if you like Buffy or Angel, Supernatural, and X-Files.

Players should build characters ahead.

• D&D 5E | Level 3

  • Use point-buy or standard array for stat generation.

  • Any officially published content for classes, feats, etc is fine. Permanent flying features excluded. Non-licensed content needs to be run by me, (a screenshot is probably fine) just don’t do it the night before the game.

  • HUMANS ONLY. Human variant is fine.

  • Do not choose a regular background. A modified list will be provided. DO NOT choose additional equipment.

This game is recommended for those that are comfortable with D&D 5E, as I won’t be creating new modern classes. We’ll be playing fast-and-loose in the interpretations of the flavor text if we need to keep things feeling “modern”.

If you have any backstory notes, please feel free to let me know. Please send me a copy of (or link to) your character sheet at least 2 days before we play. "

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 in room #1 of The TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. The game runner will use http://shmeppy.com/ for visual aids. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Creepy mannequins, death, and the undead

Yazeba, the witch who owns the B&B, has lost her shadow. Now it is running amuck, causing chaos and spooking residents and staff alike. Yazeba, the robotic housekeeper Amelie, and a cast of other staff and guests must team up to keep the specter's shenanigans in check and capture it before it can cause too much damage!

This game will be great if you like Saturday morning cartoons (especially Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends), goofing off with friends and strangers alike, and exploring fantastical settings with a modern twist

The game runner will provide characters.

This a game system without character levels. New players are welcome.

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

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

Spectators are welcome in the Discord room. This game will be run in room #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Rules and characters will be provided in the VTT (One More Multiverse), using the official Bed&Breakfast verse on that platform.

CWGhost/haunting

“Me and the guys were out kinda late, and we’re trying to get back to my friend's house quick. We’re hungry. So we decide to hop a fence and take a shortcut through this tunnel. It’s just a short one for an overpass, you could run it in 10 seconds and there’s nothing coming.

But the moment we step inside, it’s pitch black. It’s like the thing is a mile long and we hear that whistle behind us so we run. The lights make everything look really strange, but we just keep going for the opening at the end, and then...

We got hit by a train? But it passed through us like a ghost. We’re screaming and that whistle is blaring. And then we get to the end of the tunnel and there’s just, there’s nothing there man.”

So says a young man coming to the Edgewater Supernatural Society for help. This game will be a modern twist on D&D 5E, where you’ll play as amateur sleuths in Chicago, IL. Your group of meddling misfits works to help everyday people that encounter the sometimes dangerous world of the supernatural. "

This game will be great if you like Buffy or Angel, Supernatural, Scooby Doo...

Players should build level 3 characters ahead.

Use point-buy or standard array for stat generation.

Any officially published content for classes, feats, etc is fine. Permanent flying features excluded. Non-licensed content needs to be run by me, (a screenshot is probably fine) just don’t do it the night before the game.

DO NOT CHOOSE A BACKGROUND OR EQUIPMENT. To help give the game some modern flavor, I’ll be creating a list of custom backgrounds with equipment for you to choose from.

This game is recommended for those that are comfortable with D&D 5E, as I won’t be creating new modern classes. We’ll be playing fast-and-loose in the interpretations of the flavor text if we need to keep things feeling “modern”.

Please make a character who is part of the Edgewater Supernatural Society. For one reason or another, something compels you to want to learn more about the supernatural and solve mysteries.

This will be a “magical realism” take on modern-day Chicago. (Think Buffy or Supernatural) Most of the population isn’t aware of the seedy, magical world that exists around them. But your characters are aware of some parts of it.

If you have any backstory notes, please feel free to let me know. Please send me a copy of (or link to) your character sheet at least 2 days before we play. "

Players need to be familiar with this system.

The game runner is very familiar with this system.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

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

CW: Mild horror and spooky situations, differences in perceived reality

It has been over 3 months since the dead started rising. You have managed to survive with a small group over these past few months inside a small cabin in the woods. Unfortunately, your supplies are running low and if you don't restock soon, you won't make it another 2 weeks. Tensions are high and your group is starting to get restless. Your only hope is the local High School a few miles away. What awaits you in those dark halls? Can you make it out alive?

This game will be great if you like Survival Horror, Hard Choices, Zombie stuff, and of course The Walking Dead franchise

We will build beginner characters in the session.

This is a new game by Free League that is currently in Beta release.

I would like to play it to see how it runs. It is not happy, it is deadly, there is a chance your character will not survive the scenario. Please be mindful of the personal horror theme of the setting, the more you lean into the horror, the more fun it will be.

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 #4 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Descriptive Violence and Gore. Body Horror. Tense scenarios

“Me and the guys were out kinda late, and we’re trying to get back to my friend's house quick. We’re hungry. So we decide to hop a fence and take a shortcut through this tunnel. It’s just a short one for an overpass, you could run it in 10 seconds and there’s nothing coming.

But the moment we step inside, it’s pitch black. It’s like the thing is a mile long and we hear that whistle behind us so we run. The lights make everything look really strange, but we just keep going for the opening at the end, and then...

We got hit by a train? But it passed through us like a ghost. We’re screaming and that whistle is blaring. And then we get to the end of the tunnel and there’s just, there’s nothing there man.”

So says a young man coming to the Edgewater Supernatural Society for help. This game will be a modern twist on D&D 5E, where you’ll play as amateur sleuths in Chicago, IL. Your group of meddling misfits works to help everyday people that encounter the sometimes dangerous world of the supernatural. "

This game will be great if you like Buffy or Angel, Supernatural, Scooby Doo...

Players should build level 3 characters ahead.

Use point-buy or standard array for stat generation.

Any officially published content for classes, feats, etc is fine. Permanent flying features excluded. Non-licensed content needs to be run by me, (a screenshot is probably fine) just don’t do it the night before the game.

DO NOT CHOOSE A BACKGROUND OR EQUIPMENT. To help give the game some modern flavor, I’ll be creating a list of custom backgrounds with equipment for you to choose from.

This game is recommended for those that are comfortable with D&D 5E, as I won’t be creating new modern classes. We’ll be playing fast-and-loose in the interpretations of the flavor text if we need to keep things feeling “modern”.

Please make a character who is part of the Edgewater Supernatural Society. For one reason or another, something compels you to want to learn more about the supernatural and solve mysteries.

This will be a “magical realism” take on modern-day Chicago. (Think Buffy or Supernatural) Most of the population isn’t aware of the seedy, magical world that exists around them. But your characters are aware of some parts of it.

If you have any backstory notes, please feel free to let me know. Please send me a copy of (or link to) your character sheet at least 2 days before we play. "

Players need to be familiar with this system.

The game runner is very familiar with this system.

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

CW: Mild horror and spooky situations, differences in perceived reality

"Once upon a time, the world was cruel, and there was a witch who knew it well. And so, she sold her heart away and built a house in the woods where the world could never find her.

At first she would let no one into her fortress. But in the long march of days, a strange thing happened: in her own cold and spiteful way, the witch made a friend... and then another... and then several more, until her house was teeming with colorful faces and complicated lives.

The house would come to be known as Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, and it would last for a very long time."

In Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, we'll use established characters to tell stories about the residents and guests, and how they change, grow, and spend their days. Play as SAL, the young night porter and aspiring rock star; PARISH, the cook as well as a former knight, current frog, and part-time dad; AMELIE, the robotic maid and housekeeper; HEY KID, the rambunctious devil-child raised in the Bed & Breakfast; GERTRUDE, the teenage runaway who sleeps on the dryer in the laundry room, or YAZEBA, the cold and heartless owner of the Bed & Breakfast.

We'll be playing through Chapter 9, in which the Bed & Breakfast puts on a theatrical production in the living room."

This game will be great if you like slice of life stories, found families, dice-less & GM-less ttrpgs, and legacy board 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.

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Spectators are welcome in the Discord room. This game will be hosted in room #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server

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Hail Street runs through the heart of an old neighborhood on the outskirts of a major New England metropolis. It’s renowned for its elegiac charm, with an old church and graveyard, a park, several crumbling apartment buildings, and neighborhood lore that runs deep, with more than its fair share of old ghost stories, murders, and missing persons cases.

Now, a new ghost story haunts the street: several people have claimed to hear the sound of an invisible woman crying as she walks down the street. Some of the Latino residents whisper of the myth of La Llorona, the Weeping Woman, while others claim that it’s the ghost of a madwoman who just died, still grieving over the children she lost two decades ago. You may be an amateur paranormal investigator, a concerned resident, or a relative of your Great Aunt Amelia, who has determined to get to the bottom of this and asked you to help, since she can’t leave home, given her health. Who is the Weeper of Hail Street?

This is a playtest of my original, modern horror and mystery RPG system. I've been working on it for years, with excellent reviews, but recently made some overhauls to the system that I'm eager to try out. The premise is that you play regular people in a modern world, and you--out of game--don't know if there's something supernatural going on or not.

This game will be great if you like modern games with an element of mystery, where you actually don't know if there's a ghost, or a monster, or a rational explanation. Consider inspiration sources like X-Files, Twilight Zone, and Monster-of-the-Week shows like Buffy, except when the game starts, you actually have no idea if there's really a monster or a rational explanation.

We will build characters in session (it's very quick!).

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 con discord. Spectators are welcome.

CW: This game includes some very dark themes. It is not appropriate for children. That said, the darkest content will be off-screen, behind a veil. We will use the X-Card protocol for personal safety.

"It's been a lovely afternoon so far. You and the other familiars got to go for a car ride to visit some of the other witches. After lunch your beloved witch decides to stop to pick up candles on your way home... and that's when things start to go south.

Now you and the others must do everything you can to rescue your witch from the horrors of the land of Ikea. "

This game will be great if you like Chicken Run, Untitled Goose Game, the general idea of animal mischief.

We will build characters in session.

This will be an easy game to pick up if you've never played it before. You can check it out before if you want, but it's not needed.

This session will be especially good for new players. New players are welcome.

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

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This game will be hosted in room # 2 of the con discord. Spectators are welcome.

The TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server

CW: There will likely be murder and mayhem, but we'll be leaning into a cartoon aspect.

“YOU are a HALF-HUMAN, HALF-BEAST creature from the DEEP DARK of the WOODS. You are a MIGHTY CHAMPION and you are getting MARRIED. As is TRADITION, you and all your peers are to be wed to THE ARBOREAL SOW: a beautiful and sacred pig the size of a transit van.

You emerge, STEAMING and GLORIOUS, into the forecourt of a PETROL STATION. It is the night before the ceremony and, as is TRADITION, you must secure tribute for your queen from the LANDS OF MAN. You have until dawn to claim something worthy. MAKE HASTE!"

This game will be great if you like silliness, drunken shenanigans, puns, and mythology.

We will build characters in the session.

This session will be especially good for new players.

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

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This game will be hosted in room #1 of the con discord using Miro whiteboards. Spectators are welcome.

CW: Substance abuse, sexualization

A Standard One Shot in the MASKS system, led by Ansel Burch.

A cadre of wizards has taken over Seattle and is trying to bend to coastal city to their will. The adult heroes don't believe that it's a problem. So, it's up to your scrappy team of amazing adolescents to do something before it's too late!

This game will be great if you like Teen Titans, Young Justice, The Young Avengers, Superhero movies in general.

Players should build starting heroes ahead

The Game Runner will provide playbooks.

This game is great for new players.

The game runner is very familiar with this system.

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This game will be hosted in room #3 of the con’s Discord server and spectators are welcome.

CW: Violence

A Standard One Shot of Crash Pandas, led by Ansel Burch

The streets are mean but you can be meaner. Only a tight-knit team of raccoon racers like yours would be able to make it in the cutthroat world of street racing. No matter what curves the track may have, you're going to keep it together, 'cause you're a unit, a group, almost a family of sorts.

This game will be great if you like the Fast & Furious, GTA, and that one dream you had after eating too much questionable takeout right before bed.

We will build characters in the session.

This rules-light game is great for new players.

The game runner is very familiar with this system.

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This game will be hosted in room #3 of the con discord and spectators are welcome.

CW: Over the top violence.

A game in the Zombicide RPG system, led by RPGA-Vicki.

There’s a zombie plague overrunning the world. The recently-dead are roaming around, hunting the living, ready to tear them apart on sight. Some survivors hid away in bunkers or caves, but that’s not you. You’re going to attack these zombies head-on. You’re going to commit Zombicide. In Zombicide: Chronicles – The Roleplaying Game, players take on the role of survivors of the zombie apocalypse. They must learn to work together, trust one another, and form strategies to fight the zombies if they want to stay alive.

This game will be great if you like the Walking Dead Season 1 Episode 1.

Level 1 characters will be provided. The quickstart rules are available from Drive Thru RPG- https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/397413/Zombicide-Chronicles-Quickstart

New players are welcome.

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This game will run in room #1 of the con’s Discord server and use Roll 20 for game tools.

CW: Content Warnings: +18, Adult Language, Adult Themes, Body Harm, Horror, Undead, Survival in the Apocalypse, Hunger.

A game of Hoax: The GMless Roleplaying Game Fabricated Evidence, Fast Talking, and Fallacies in Logic, led by Nathan Cavaliere.

You were tasked with making a great scientific discovery by building a self-sustaining underwater settlement so humanity may spread to the seas. You dubbed what you created the Modern Atlantis. This is an especially apt title because, like Atlantis, it was horribly built and run by bumbling dimwits; also, it's probably going to fall apart on itself so entirely that people in the future will question if it even ever existed. That can't be the story you tell your advisors, though: think of what it would due to your academic reputation! Instead, you will con your advisors into believing that the cursed underwater city you made is totally sustainable and safe to live in for the long term. Creatively "re-interpret" those oxygen level readings, prepare your best empty inspirational rhetoric, and hide that gaping hole in the protective wall, because you are going to need to use everything you have to get someone to think that your disaster of a city is a good idea to continue building.

This game will be great if you like Don Quixote, Documentary Now, Not for Broadcast, Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, Saturday Night Live skits, and other stories of absurdity and satire.

We will build characters in session. There are no character levels in Hoax, only air pressure levels which are much higher than they should be.

This game will be great for new players.

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This game will be hosted in room #1 of the con’s Discord server. Spectators are welcome.

CW: Dark Comedy and Discussion of Natural and Technological Disasters