In the midst of a three-sided war, you and your friends - vagabonds all - travel between the clearings, taking on jobs no one else can or will do. You choose whom you serve, if anyone... but everyone knows you may tip the balance of the War.

This game will be great if you like woodland animals, political systems, and outlaws

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 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Possible inner party conflict.

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

Check out the rules: https://magpiegames.com/collections/pdfs-root

Explore the Manse of Bluebeard, packed with secrets, not least of which is the one you carry. Will you defy his wishes, or are you loyal enough to resist the temptation of the hidden truth?

Each player takes on the role of an aspect of the Bride’s psyche—a Sister—who guides the Bride through Bluebeard’s house, armed with little more than a set of keys. Each of you takes turns speaking as these aspects of her psyche would speak, deciding what actions the Bride takes, pushing the Bride deeper into the mysteries of each room, and provoking new horrors along the way."

This game will be great if you like dark storytelling and heavy metaphors.

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 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Horror, fears, neglect, imprisonment.

"For thousands of years, the Spear of the Scalebearer was one of many magical weapons that kept the throne of Dharenlore and the orcish people safe. But when the city fell to the empire, many treasures were lost. Now, generations later, a descendant of the Orcish royal family needs your help to reclaim his inheritance. 

Join Malesh Talway and his team of elite adventurers to infiltrate Horrigan Manor during a festival ball and take back the spear that belongs to his family. "

This game will be great if you like heist movies and class justice 

Players should build level 10 characters ahead.

Character Creation Notes

D&D 5E 2014 | Level 10

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

• Any officially published content for classes, feats, ancestries, etc, is fine. Utilizing elements from established third-party sources is encouraged, but please reach out to run them by me first. 

• More details in the discussion thread. 

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 #2 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game runner is using shmeppy whiteboards for mapping. shmeppy.com Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: I aim for a PG-13 rating (except for swears), but content warnings for class/social injustice and mild cultural appropriation/theft (done by villians). 

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

System Pitch Legacy: Life Among the Ruins is a PbtA game about the survivors of a reality-twisting apocalypse, and how they adapt to and rebuild their new world. Unique is the shift between the zoomed-out overview of your setting over multiple generations and the zoomed-in play of individual scenes. Every player gets two different playbooks, one for their family and one for their character. When your own character isn't in a scene, you can grab one of the quick characters and guest-star in someone else's family! As you play you’ll move between the family and character levels, zooming in to play through a short adventure with a group of characters and then zooming out to show the broad strokes of your families pursuing their agenda. Your family (i.e. faction) is a collection of survivors brought together by blood, loyalty, or ideology, with their own strange powers hard-earned as they survived the apocalypse. They have their own needs, strengths, and doctrine, and you will use their forces to conduct diplomacy, claim resources, and use subterfuge on other factions. Families act slowly, taking days or weeks to take action. You’ll also have an individual character - a particular member of your family who is your story’s focus. They’re in a position to change the course of the family’s history, whether the family intended to give them that power or not. They’ll have their own skills and powers, as well as the ability to command the family’s forces and resources. They’re more flexible than a family, able to act in a matter of moments and call on their friends from other factions for aid. If you play beyond a one-shot, your character's choices can even impact their family for many generations to come!

Session Pitch: Welcome to Hekaton. This world was meant to be paradise. From the first probe flyby, we heard incredible tales of lush jungles, pristine oceans, and fantastic beasts. Our ancestors landed, and there were some teething problems, for sure. The space elevator took longer than expected to build, and the ambient spores caused widespread illness before we worked out the source. Solutions were found, and the colony was prospering. Then the titans came. Maybe they were always there, slumbering in the jungle. Maybe they’re agents of the planet’s immune system, generated to wipe out our infestation. Maybe the research complexes out there in the jungle made something strange that they couldn’t control. They struck like a hammer blow. Towering beasts several stories tall surged out of the jungle, tearing apart our city. With a snap heard around the world, a titan shattered the diamond filaments of the space elevator. We fled into our bunkers or deep into the wild as its shards crashed down, gouging deep furrows in the land. With victory achieved, the beasts melted back into the jungle. We don’t know why nobody’s rescued us. Maybe they think the colony’s dead. Maybe they’ve fallen to their own apocalypse. All we know is that we’re stranded down here, finding homes in the ruins of our grandparents’ palaces. But still we look to the stars, and dream of a life free from the titans.. 

New players welcome. 

Players should have played some RPGs before. 

The game runner will provide pre-generated characters to pick from, with room for customization. 

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬ Serious

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

Content warnings: Kaiju monsters, apocalyptic keystones like resource scarcity and environmental threats, chances of minor PvP 

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 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

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

This game will be great if you like fantasy, action, and adventure.

Pre-generated characters are available here: https://bit.ly/AoA-Pre-Gens (returning Characters welcome). Players may build characters ahead.

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.

No PvP.

CW: potential character death

I'm Sorry Did You Say Street Magic is a GMless and diceless worldbuilding game (a hack of Microscope) about building a city together: filling it with life and vivid detail, exploring its hidden corners, and meeting its strange and wondrous inhabitants. This city that we call home has a magic all its own. It is wonder, and joy, and spirit ̶ and with that spirit, we breathe life into the city together. An archipelago-based fishing town, separated by its various islands, gathers annually to celebrate the turn of the harvest. A collective of magical artists embarks on an ambitious project: a guerrilla public transit system powered by enchanted street art. In a sprawling metropolis decades from now, breakthroughs in biotechnology offer citizens superpowers far beyond mortal ability. 

These are just a few samples of the types of cities and stories this game can create. What will ours look like? Play to find out! For a smoother and shorter experience, we'll use the Easy Streets supplement, providing us with a base framework to guide our worldbuilding. The gamerunner will provide several options for everyone to vote on, to ensure we'll develop a city with themes and a setting everyone is excited about. 

This game will be great if you like worldbuilding, city life, exploring neighborhoods, people watching, architecture, and collaborative storytelling. 

This game is great for new players. 

The game runner is very familiar with this system. 

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

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/

Content warnings: n/a

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

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

From the deck of a ship, adventure surrounds you on every side. Where will you and your crew choose to sail? You may find yourselves going up to the floating flylands, down to the communities of the Myr, landward to the strangling comfort of the colonies, or out to the line where water meets sky like so many pirates before you. 

This game will be great if you like Pirate adventures, mermaids, and story first role-playing.

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 #1 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

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

"For thousands of years, the Spear of the Scalebearer was one of many magical weapons that kept the throne of Dharenlore and the orcish people safe. But when the city fell to the empire, many treasures were lost. Now, generations later, a descendant of the Orcish royal family needs your help to reclaim his inheritance. 

Join Malesh Talway and his team of elite adventurers to infiltrate Horrigan Manor during a festival ball and take back the spear that belongs to his family. "

This game will be great if you like heist movies and class justice 

Players should build level 10 characters ahead.

Character Creation Notes

D&D 5E 2014 | Level 10

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

• Any officially published content for classes, feats, ancestries, etc, is fine. Utilizing elements from established third-party sources is encouraged, but please reach out to run them by me first. 

• More details in the discussion thread. 

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 #2 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game runner is using shmeppy whiteboards for mapping. shmeppy.com Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: I aim for a PG-13 rating (except for swears), but content warnings for class/social injustice and mild cultural appropriation/theft (done by villians). 

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

System Pitch Tales from the Loop is a TTRPG using the Year Zero Engine, a D6 dice pool system from Free League. You play as young teens in the late 1980s, solving Mysteries connected to the Loop. Choose between character Types such as the Bookworm, the Popular Kid and the Weirdo. Everyday Life is full of things like nagging parents and never-ending homework. But there are also Mysteries, where you encounter the strange machines and weird creatures that have come to haunt the countryside after the Loop was built. The kids get to escape their everyday problems and be part of something meaningful and magical – but also dangerous. Session Pitch The autumn wind is brisk and chilly. The calm of everyday life settles over the area. But something else is in the air. A taste of something forbidden, something unnaturally tempting. The Kids notice how adults behave strangely, becoming victims of desire. Can the nefarious plot be stopped in time or will the grown-ups go willingly to their own doom? This game will be great if you like alternate realities, solving mysteries, ordinary people saving the day, engaging with your inner kid and mixing slice of life with adventuring. 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, and 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

A game in the Honey Heist system led by Ansel Burch.

You are criminal bears. The biggest haul of your long and storied bear career will be Honeycon 2016 where the worlds most exclusive and hard to get honeys will be ripe for the picking. Will your team be able to walk in and walk out without raising any alarms?

This game will be great if you like The Oceans Series, Mission Impossible, The Pink Panther.

Characters will be built in session.

This game is great for new players.

This game will be an absolute cartoon and will barely feature any combat in favor of role play and silliness.

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

Content warning: Cartoon violence.

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 that 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, the 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 one-shot 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, and 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 #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server, and spectators are welcome. Optional use of Google Sheets as character keeper & player aid.

Content warnings: In general: fear, paranoia, character death, 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.

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

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

If you need to move an army between Peloria and Kethaela, Dragon Pass is the only way to go. You're going to have to get that army past Wyrms, dragonewts, horse warriors, and terrifying chaos nests. The army must take the royal roads, but you, adventurer, must trek overland to draw danger away in advance. The Lunar Empire demands it!

This game will be great if you like high fantasy, bonkers lore, and over-the-top stories.

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 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

Fantasy, Adventure, Romance

Quickstart Rules: https://www.chaosium.com/content/FreePDFs/RuneQuest/CHA4027%20-%20RuneQuest%20Quickstart.pdf

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

One Shot at Justice is a Standard One Shot in the Rebel Scum system, led by Ansel Burch. Baron Killstar has oppressed this galaxy long enough, and now that we're pretty sure he's not anybody's dad, it's time to blow him into space dust along with the rest of his jack-booted thugs. They won't be able to stop us from loving who we love and expressing ourselves the way we want without their battle station. The catch is that we're going to have to get lucky over and over and over to pull it off.

This game will be great if you like Star Wars, queer people, and fighting space Nazis.

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: Fascists (who you do get to beat up), the open void of space.

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Romance

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

Though elves are rare in your part of the world, the surname “Half-Evlen” is not entirely uncommon. It’s taken by those that aren’t elven by blood, but grow up within their protective groves and call the elves their family. It can be an easy way for you to find each other out in the wider world, and it’s the name that you’re surprised to see emblazoned on a handwritten note in your local tavern. 

Calling all Half-Elven brethren of the Oaken Grove! A strange blight has besieged the edges of our lands, and we fear we are in grave danger. Please return home as soon as you can.

This game will be great if you like found families, protecting nature, and fun twists on traditional high-fantasy. 

Players should build Level 5 characters ahead.

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

• Any officially published content for classes, feats, ancestries, etc, is fine. Utilizing elements from established third-party sources is encouraged, but please reach out to run them by me first. EXCEPT: No elves or half-elves (mechanically)

• Further details in the discussion thread.

New players are welcome.

The game runner is very familiar with this system.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

This game will be hosted in room #2 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game winner will use shmeppy.com for mapping. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Fatal illnesses, possible character death, claustrophobia, speluncaphobia Fantasy

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

A new energy drink has hit the market, and it is giving the non-super kids at Halcyon High special abilities, if only for a short amount of time. Will you be able to help these students come to terms with the things you learn about yourself when you gain powers while also saving the city? Here’s hoping otherwise, the Sadie Hawkins dance is going to be cancelled, for sure.  

This game will be great if you like superheroes, queer people, and combinations of the two. Players should build characters ahead.

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

CW: Thinly veiled metaphor

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! 

This game will be great if you like fantasy RPGs

Pre-Gen characters before the start of the game for new players https://bit.ly/AoA-Pre-Gens

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

Handouts: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DdvFmQ2iZaxN6rtnImZgU3Ubf4NZFOPQ

Fantasy, Adventure

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

A new energy drink has hit the market, and it is giving the non-super kids at Halcyon High special abilities, if only for a short amount of time. Will you be able to help these students come to terms with the things you learn about yourself when you gain powers while also saving the city? Here’s hoping otherwise, the Sadie Hawkins dance is going to be cancelled, for sure.  

This game will be great if you like superheroes, queer people, and combinations of the two. Players should build characters ahead.

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

CW: Thinly veiled metaphor

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

Though elves are rare in your part of the world, the surname “Half-Evlen” is not entirely uncommon. It’s taken by those that aren’t elven by blood, but grow up within their protective groves and call the elves their family. It can be an easy way for you to find each other out in the wider world, and it’s the name that you’re surprised to see emblazoned on a handwritten note in your local tavern. 

Calling all Half-Elven brethren of the Oaken Grove! A strange blight has besieged the edges of our lands, and we fear we are in grave danger. Please return home as soon as you can.

This game will be great if you like found families, protecting nature, and fun twists on traditional high-fantasy. 

Players should build Level 5 characters ahead.

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

• Any officially published content for classes, feats, ancestries, etc, is fine. Utilizing elements from established third-party sources is encouraged, but please reach out to run them by me first. EXCEPT: No elves or half-elves (mechanically)

• Further details in the discussion thread.

New players are welcome.

The game runner is very familiar with this system.

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious

Combat: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬

This game will be hosted in room #2 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game winner will use shmeppy.com for mapping. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Fatal illnesses, possible character death, claustrophobia, speluncaphobia Fantasy

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

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

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.

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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

"In one day, let us create and destroy a world. Throughout Saturday, we will devise a world using the tools and deck of Decuma, we will explore the pressures of a community living in that world through the lens of language in Dialect, and then you will see how that community ends in a Quiet Year.

The setting we build over the course of Saturday will be the subject of a game run in the Mavericks system on Monday. Sign up for any or all of these games to be a part of the lore."

This game will be great if you like creative exercises, answering prompts, and working together.

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 #2 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

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: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

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This game will be hosted on another Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: potential character death

Sometimes, the most important part of teenage superheroing is remembering to be a kid. Every year, Coaster Station opens its gates to all of the kids of Halcyon City and so far, the incidents have been pretty minor. Lady Indomitable has designed a coaster that takes the riders into low earth orbit for a survivable period of time for the ultimate rush of brief near-vacuum and weightlessness. So, the entire super community has been invited to Kids Day for the unveiling. This should be the safest year yet! 

This game will be great if you like comic books, Superhero movies, emotional damage, and working as a team despite your teenage tendencies.

Players should build characters ahead.

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 on The TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server

CW: Hubris

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

Final Lap is a zero prep GMless game where we collaborative tell the story of racers in a cartoony videogame like Mario Kart and Wreck-It-Ralph's Sugar Rush, trying to take on The Champion in the final race of the season! It is a Descended From The Queen game, using the prompt-based collaborative storytelling mechanics from For the Queen in different themes. In this case, it features themes of racing, rivalry, friendship, and self-sacrifice. No familiarity with any of these things is needed to play, but being comfortable improvising things on the spot based on various random prompts is key. This game is pretty much entirely roleplay. And while this game features a race, the goal of this game is not to win the race. It is likely that the Champion will win it, rather than any of us. There are no game mechanics to simulate the race. The game emulates the story of the race, as do many fictions featuring drivers. 

This game will be great if you like Mario Kart, For The Queen, and collaborative prompt-based storytelling. 

This system is especially great for new players. 

The game runner is very familiar with this system. 

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬ Serious

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

This game will be hosted in room #4 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server.

Content warnings: n/a

Tags: storytelling, videogames, cartoons, racing 

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

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

 In this GMless game you create a map of the Dolly Dream House together while you tell the story of its creative and imaginative renovation by your Dolly group. Randomly dropped dice will inspire where rooms can be created and what you may encounter there, but the specifics of the renovations and the stories that take place inside each room are up to you! It's a mixture of drawing and storytelling, all done together collaboratively in a shared virtual space. Please make sure you're okay with drawing on a virtual whiteboard. No skills are needed, MS paint level drawings are 100% fine and basically expected 

You are a group of Dollys in a pinktastic plastic world who bought a Dolly Dream House to move in there together. A Dolly Dream House can be a single mansion or a complex of many gorgeous buildings. Your purchase contract has some basic information about the extravagant rooms of the Dolly Dream House, which are meant to be explored and furnished. You may of course also design the paths between the rooms and buildings according to your excellent taste. And your Dolly Dream House is of course located in an interesting neighborhood where people like to visit each other often. As you make your way from room to room, you’re going to meet folks from this wonderful community. The game ends when renovations finish and the Dollys move in! This game will be great if you like drawing games, collaborative storytelling, cozy games, cartoons, toys, nostalgia, your inner kid, and Cozy Town. This system is especially great for new players. The game runner is very familiar with this system. 

Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬ Serious

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

This game will be hosted in room #4 of The TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server.

Content warnings: n/a

Tags: drawing, storytelling, cozy

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

"In one day, let us create and destroy a world. Throughout Saturday, we will devise a world using the tools and deck of Decuma, we will explore the pressures of a community living in that world through the lens of language in Dialect, and then you will see how that community ends in a Quiet Year.

The setting we build over the course of Saturday will be the subject of a game run in the Mavericks system on Monday. Sign up for any or all of these games to be a part of the lore."

This game will be great if you like creative exercises, answering prompts, and working together.

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 #2 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