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

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 

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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 

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

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

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 

Warhorn Link: https://warhorn.net/events/ttrpg-pickup-con/manage/scenarios/mile-s-end-a-standard-one-shot-in-the-foretold-system-led-by-nona-de-koning-ttrpg-pickup-con

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 

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

System pitch: Land of Eem is often pitched as LOTR meets the Muppets. It's a pretty lighthearted fantasy game about adventurers exploring and discovering the remnants of a forgotten, better age. The game emphasizes player creativity and collaborative storytelling, with character abilities that allow players to invent and shape the world around them. Play is more about roleplaying, teamwork, exploration, and finding lost treasures than it is about always fighting monsters...though that's definitely part of the game! It's a whimsical and almost cozy post-apocalyptic fantasy experience. It has the usual fantasy tropes such as lore-seeking travelers, fortune-seeking pioneers and adventure-seeking heroes in a time devoid of them. But in Land of Eem, you can play as various unique and colorful characters such as a Gelatinous Goo, Bogril (frog) or Gnome! 

Session pitch: Not too long ago, Lester Gofer, CEO of the Hasty Hippogruff Shipping Co, tried to purchase a special recipe from a gnome named B. Burgell Burger. This magical recipe called soothberry jam is rumored to pacify hippogruffs. But when B. Burgell wouldn’t sell, Lester and his Dratch mooks jumped the helpless gnome while he was out foraging for berries. They stole B. Burgell’s cookbook and left him tied to a tree. Now B. Burgell is looking for payback and it just happens that Lester Gofer is throwing an extravagant party for potential business partners on his riverboat, the Spiffy Scull. And you're the party B. Burgell has hired to infiltrate and steal back his cookbook! Keywords: hijinks, fun, goofy, lighthearted 

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

• New players are welcome. 

• The GM is very familiar with this system. 

• Pre-generated characters are provided to pick from. 

• Hosted on the Pickup Con server, spectators welcome. 

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

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

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

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

This game will be great if you like roleplay, heavy gameplay, and exploring the consequences of a post-apocalyptic setting.

• We will build level 2 characters in session. https://avas-adventures.itch.io/undead-paradise-ttrpg

• New players are welcome.

• This system was written by the game runner.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

This game will be hosted in room #1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game runner will use AlchemyVTT. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Blood; Violence against animals, people, and environments; Body Horror, Death, Guns, Illness, Insects, Rats, Memory Erasing, Dismemberment, Paralysis, Pandemic, Discussions of Colonialism, and war.

Tags: Post-Apocalypse

Check out the Rules: https://avas-adventures.itch.io/undead-paradise-ttrpg

Ava’s Game Runner Profile: https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/avas-adventures

Dragonbane is a classic fantasy TTRPG, OSR/NSR in spirit and full of magic, mystery, and adventure. Carefully explore, creatively solve problems, and treat combat like the dangerous thing it is! Dragonbane is designed from the ground up to facilitate fast-and-furious play, with room for laughs at the table, while still offering brutal challenges for adventurers.

Archmage Kalisial has a bet with Magistrate Stalomer. In their youth, the two of them came upon a magical necklace. To decide who gets to wear it, they meet once a year for a game of smickleboard. Kalisial always wins. For the first ten years, Stalomer thought he would be victorious. He practiced with masters and studied classic games, but still lost every time. Now Stalomer wants to win just once before he departs this life. In recent years, Stalomer has been studying the artifacts Kalisial wears during their games. She always wears a wig that hides her scalp, a pair of gilded spectacles, and carries an exquisite game board of onyx and silver with expertly carved, ruby-encrusted pieces. Stalomer believes these three artifacts are why Kalisial keeps winning. He has therefore had replicas made of these items, and you have been tasked with replacing the artifacts with the replicas before the party begins.

Today you'll play the Magistrate's Gambit scenario, designed specifically for convention play. Players will need to work together to complete their quest in just two hours, as the IC part has a strict time limit! The session is scheduled for 3 hours to allow for introducing characters, teaching, a midway break, and a short wrap-up revealing your score! The latter is just a fun nod to those old-school tournament-style games, as always, telling a good story together is more important 🙂

• Pre-generated characters provided. 

• New players welcome. 

• The GM is very familiar with this system.

This game will be hosted in room #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server, and spectators are welcome. Using Miro whiteboards. https://miro.com/

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profilehttps://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning 

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

This game will be great if you like roleplay, heavy gameplay, and exploring the consequences of a post-apocalyptic setting.

• We will build level 2 characters in session. https://avas-adventures.itch.io/undead-paradise-ttrpg

• New players are welcome.

• This system was written by the game runner.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

This game will be hosted in room #1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game runner will use AlchemyVTT. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Blood; Violence against animals, people, and environments; Body Horror, Death, Guns, Illness, Insects, Rats, Memory Erasing, Dismemberment, Paralysis, Pandemic, Discussions of Colonialism, and war.

Tags: Post-Apocalypse

Check out the Rules: https://avas-adventures.itch.io/undead-paradise-ttrpg

Ava’s Game Runner Profile: https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/avas-adventures

"After surviving a crash landing in the jungle, a daring archaeologist sets out to retrieve a legendary treasure. Are you ready to enter? [Y/N]

Come play this 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 find your way through this Jungle Adventure? You only have 90 minutes to make it out alive! 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 mean GAME OVER! ;-) "

This game will be great if you like Indiana Jones, 80s computer RPGs, choose your own adventure books

• Players control the protagonist together.

• 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 run in room # 3 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)

Check out the Rules: https://jaredsorensen.itch.io/parsely-preview-n-play-edition 

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

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

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 and 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 one-shot is for 2-4 Halflings and will take about 3 hours. Our session pitch: "Rogert Bumblestaff's vegetables have gone missing from his garden overnight during the past few weeks, and he suspects his old rival and neighbour Cotter Mugwort of stealing them. He wants the Halfings to prove Cotter’s misdeeds and shame him before the village. Can you catch the thief red-handed? And is Cotter or someone else? Play to find out!"

This game will be great if you like cozy mysteries, community, small-town village life, rhymes and tales, The Hobbit, PbtA, and/or Carved from Brindlewood games.

• New players welcome.

• The game runner is very familiar with this system.

• The game runner will provide playbooks in advance, so you can customize your character.

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

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profilehttps://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning

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

This game will be great if you like roleplay, heavy gameplay, and exploring the consequences of a post-apocalyptic setting.

• We will build level 2 characters in session. https://avas-adventures.itch.io/undead-paradise-ttrpg

• New players are welcome.

• This system was written by the game runner.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

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This game will be hosted in room #1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game runner will use AlchemyVTT. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Blood; Violence against animals, people, and environments; Body Horror, Death, Guns, Illness, Insects, Rats, Memory Erasing, Dismemberment, Paralysis, Pandemic, Discussions of Colonialism, and war.

Tags: Post-Apocalypse

Check out the Rules: https://avas-adventures.itch.io/undead-paradise-ttrpg

Ava’s Game Runner Profile: https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/avas-adventures

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

This game will be great if you like roleplay, heavy gameplay, and exploring the consequences of a post-apocalyptic setting.

• We will build level 2 characters in session. https://avas-adventures.itch.io/undead-paradise-ttrpg

• New players are welcome.

• This system was written by the game runner.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

This game will be hosted in room #1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game runner will use AlchemyVTT. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Blood; Violence against animals, people, and environments; Body Horror, Death, Guns, Illness, Insects, Rats, Memory Erasing, Dismemberment, Paralysis, Pandemic, Discussions of Colonialism, and war.

Tags: Post-Apocalypse

Check out the Rules: https://avas-adventures.itch.io/undead-paradise-ttrpg

Ava’s Game Runner Profile: https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/avas-adventures

Call of Cthulhu is a TTRPG based upon the worlds of H.P. Lovecraft. It is a game of secrets, mysteries, and horror. You're not heroes, just ordinary people who investigate things that turn out to be beyond their imagination. You travel to strange and dangerous places, uncover foul plots, and stand against the terrors of the Cthulhu Mythos. You encounter sanity-blasting entities, monsters, and insane cultists. Within strange and forgotten tomes of lore, you discover revelations that man was not meant to know. You and your companions may very well decide the fate of the world. Today's scenario is The Necropolis, a 1920s scenario from the Gateways of Terror, a collection of introductory scenarios that play in two hours tops! 

What ancient horrors lie slumbering in a newly discovered tomb deep in Egypt's Valley of the Kings? Are you allowing local superstitions and the unfortunate events surrounding the opening of Tutankhamen's tomb to play on your mind as you wait to step down into the darkness… 

Content warnings: this is a horror game; you can expect the usual loss of sanity and cosmic horrors that CoC games deal with. 

This game will be great if you like Indiana Jones (although this is regular CoC, not Pulp CoC!), The Mummy, Cthulhu, horror. 

• New players are welcome. 

• The GM is very familiar with this game. 

• Pre-generated characters are provided to pick from. 

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

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

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

Shadowdark is a OSR/NSR style game where the world is dangerous, you are no big hero and both your character's supplies and your own creative problem-solving are an important part of survival rather than abilities on a character sheet. It pitches itself as modernized oldschool gaming, fast, familiar, intuitive, and deadly. Built for sword-and-sorcery adventures where fell monsters slither in darkness and ancient gems glint upon forgotten thrones, waiting to be discovered. A unique feature is that torches flame out in real-time, making adventures full of tension! Balance staying on the move with taking your time to plan ahead, all to stay alive.

You may have heard of DCC funnels, where each player runs several 0-level characters through an adventure, hoping at least 1 survives and becomes a full-fledged Level 1 Character. Shadowdark's Gauntlets use the same principle, but each turn you pick only 1 of your characters to act with instead of all at once, less multitasking! Once one perishes, the next one will show up to take their place!

Today's Gauntlet is called Trial of the Slime Lord. This cursed dungeon serves as a sort of crucible for an ooze-worshiping cult. Those who survive are granted a boon from the Slime Lord. Those who do not, wander the halls as the unquiet dead, doomed to serve the ooze for eternity. The player characters have just been kidnapped from their village and thrown in a pit to face the Trial of the Slime Lord. The adventure begins as the cultists slide a heavy stone lid over an opening in the ceiling. With nothing more than their wits and the clothes on their backs, they must escape or die! Are you brave enough to attempt it?

• This game will be great if you like OSR/NSR style RPGs, creative problem-solving, dungeon crawls.

• You'll be handed a set of four pregenerated 0-level characters.

• New players are welcome. 

The GM is new to this system, but very familiar with NSR games.This game will be hosted in room #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server, and spectators are welcome. Using https://miro.com/

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profilehttps://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning

For the Spoils is a zero-prep GMless game and a hack of For The Queen. In this game, we collaboratively tell a story about scoundrels looking to score big. For this month's Pickup Con theme of High Seas, I've predetermined we'll play as a crew of pirates! We'll tell the story of our crew planning, executing, and facing the fallout from what they hope is a big score. As is typical of heists in film and TV, your story will be told in a non-linear fashion - with point-of-view shifts, flashbacks, and other common tropes of the genre.

This game will be great if you like For The Queen, heist movies, pirate crews, and collaborative prompt-based storytelling.

• This system is especially great for new players.

• The game runner is very familiar with this system.

Hosted in room #3 of the Pickup Con server, only using Discord, as always, spectators are welcome.

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

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

About the game system:Beakwood Bay is a PbtA/Carved from Brindlewood roleplaying game for 2-4 ducks and a Keeper (GM), but not just any ducks. Inspired by Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics, in this hack of Brindlewood Bay you play as bipedal Mallards hired to hunt down treasure instead of solving mysteries. Beakwood Bay is a thriving port city inhabited by all sorts of anthropomorphic animals, where anything can happen, and adventure is always on the agenda. The city’s aesthetics are rooted in the early 20th Century, but there are all manner of scientific advancements, such as an experimental rocketpad, a bustling university, and many factories. The oligarchs who control these technology-focused businesses often act as patrons for working ducks and adventurous mallards. No one comes to Beakwood Bay without a plan of how to leave richer. But there’s a curse that comes with this pursuit, and many fall victim to the so-called Coin Fever. Ducks who are sitting on vaults of gold are frequently cruel and miserly in later years, pushing away family and friends to slavishly protect the gold they’ve acquired.

But for now, you are just a middle-class mallard who dreams of adventure with your friends. Your ducks work in service of the city’s wealthy benefactors, trying to make a fortune to call their own all while working to avoid the crippling greed and exploitation that is rampant among the city’s elite. Hindered by NPCs after the same treasure, players do their best to gather clues (represented as helpful information and tools to recover the treasure) before finally attempting to retrieve it. There is no prewritten canon path or method; instead, it's up to you to cleverly combine all that you've found to obtain the treasure! Will you succeed? Play to find out!Session pitch:New-money billionaire Silas Pepperbeek has had just about enough of trying to ingratiate himself in Beakwood Bay society. But he has a plan that will make him a fortune and get him in good with the other oligarchs! He decides to send the Mallards off to uncover the remains of the recently sunk so-called unsinkable freighter, the Lampooned, hoping to find the Shining Beak, a stunningly detailed diamond bust of the legendary Morganna le Duck. The ship went down while crossing the North Atlantic, supposedly after striking an iceberg and sinking in frigid, inhospitable waters. He offers to pay handsomely if the Mallards recover it."This game will be great if you like Ducktales, Indiana Jones, cartoons, comic books, Brindlewood Bay, PbtA games, and collaborative storytelling

• Players should build characters ahead.

• New characters (this system has no levels) Character creation is a really quick multiple-choice process. 

• The game runner will contact players in advance to share handouts (rules reference & character sheets) and make your selections.

• New players are welcome., Players need to have played some RPGs.

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

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ SeriousCombat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬This game will be played in room #1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.CW: greed, capitalism, social class differences

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profilehttps://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning

Check out the Rules: https://jackson-adams-rpg.itch.io/beakwood-bay  (free download of character sheet)

"A rustic, peaceful village sits atop a labyrinthine system of caverns full of dangerous and delectable creatures. Such tasty threats are usually held at bay by a magical ward and tend to only be the concern of courageous adventurers. However, when an important shipment of foodstuffs needed for an upcoming festival goes missing, the bravest villagers in town must take it upon themselves to descend into the cave system and save the day. 

In this Beast Feast campaign frame of Daggerheart, you’ll play everyday heroes diving into the caverns in search of delicious beasties from which you might cook up delicious dishes. Sure, you may be a baker armed with a rolling pin and a prayer, but how hard can adventuring be, really? Anyway, welcome to a culinary world of zoophagous delight, where the beasts you fight become the food you eat!"

This game will be great if you like lighthearted dungeon crawls, the Delicious in Dungeon anime or Monster Hunter video games.

Level 1 pregen characters will be provided and players can work with the GM to build a character ahead of time, if desired.

New players 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 hosted in room #2 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Violence against delicious animal-adjacent monsters, consumption of said monsters

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

"Your ship of mighty heroes sails through the mists arriving at the isle of Kyonia where a feast and games are about to be held to honour Poseidon and the safe return of King Clymenas, thought lost at sea. But not everyone is pleased at the King's return and omens point to strife in the land. Will your heroes discover the secrets of Kyonia and bring peace to the island?

This game will be great if you like mythic heroes, myths and legends and narrative games. We will build characters in session.

New players are welcome.

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

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬

This game will be hosted in room #1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Combat, monsters, meddling gods.

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

You have come across a treasure map that marks a secret cave somewhere in the Bahamas. Will you find your fortune? Or fall to dark magic and darker horrors?

• This game will be great if you like playing Heroic Fantasy Characters in a Pirate Adventure. 

• The game runner will provide characters. Returning characters welcome

• Pre-generated characters: https://bit.ly/AoA-Pre-Gens

• New players are welcome.

• This system was written by the game runner.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

This game will be hosted in room #1 of The TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game will be live-streamed on YouTube with permission from all players. The game runner will be using QuestPortal for VTT. 

 https://www.questportal.com/

CW: Potential Character Death

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