With only your wits and torches to find the path, journey into the deepest parts of the world where creatures lurk on the very edge of survival and desperation. Will you become a tasty meal for the caustic beast? Will your heart stop at the sight of the vile portent? Will you fall victim to the envenomed blades of deep cultists? Only the soothsayers might guess. 

This game will be good if you like classic dungeons, escalating stakes, easy to learn rules, and Ronnie James Dio.

We will build characters in 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 #1 The TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server, spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

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

"Most of the time, you live a quiet life with your beloved witch and fellow familiars. The cottage is cozy, the baked goods are plentiful, and the visitors are few. But ever so often, she must attend a conclave with the other witches. Strange and unknowable beings they are; their congress is raucous and frightening. 

All night, you and your friends have waited in the tent for her to return, but the morning dawns quietly, and still no sign of her. Now you and other familiars must set out to rescue her from this bizarre land…"

This game will be great if you like witches and animals 

We will build characters in session.

This session will be perfect 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 #2 of The TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game runner will be using Schmeppy whiteboards for mapping. schmeppy.com

Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Mild-moderate violence against animals is possible. Possible inclusion of cults.

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

Check out the game rules- https://gshowitt.itch.io/the-witch-is-dead

If we're going to keep up the public image of heroes in Halcyon City, we need to be seen doing some unambiguously good stuff. Lady Indomitable keeps vaporizing bystanders by accident and Comandante America just will not stop expressing his outdated views in post-heroics interviews. We need some real image rehabilitation, and plucky teenagers seem like the way to go. This game is perfect for fans of superheroes, teenage shenanigans, and emotional drama. Players should build characters ahead. Playbooks will be provided before the session. Characters played in this universe previously are welcome to return.

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 The TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server

CW: none.

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

The savannah has always been a place of competition and survival, even more so now that the Dominion of Lions has reformed the government around birthright, no more with the helter-skelter groping for power that our foremothers knew. Instead, now, from one generation to the next, power will follow cleanly. At least, that was the plan. With the death of Malkia, the families are in disarray, and power is ours to claim. Will your family take the throne? Will you wear the crown?

This game will be good if you like playing as an animal, messing with power structures and politics, heavy RP games, and interesting game systems.

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: Romance and family conflict are significant parts of this game.

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

In Nancy Druid, you will play as a druid scout who solves mysteries along with a trusty animal companion! Your magic is drawn from the natural world, the day-night cycle, and the turning of the seasons. Will you be a sun druid, who brings brightness and a warm glow to all, with the help of your scout troop's companion critter? Or will you be a moon druid, versed in all things celestial and able to transform into an animal yourself? Nancy Druid runs on the Polymorph system, where each player only ever uses ONE polyhedral die: a d4, a d6, a d8, or a d10. Each die represents a different character “role” in the group, making you better or worse at certain types of actions. It helps characters feel unique and encourages teamwork! Do you wanna join a troop of scout kids and come solve a mystery?

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

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

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

Hunter. Ranger. Keeper. Chef. In Wilderfeast, you are a Wilder. You are human, though you might not look like it, as with every hunt, you incorporate part of another monster into yourself. Once upon a time, the first Wilder dedicated their lives to containing the Frenzy, the incurable curse that amplifies hunger, pain, and rage in a vicious cycle. But despite their best efforts, it now circulates with virulent speed across the One Land. Wilders spend their time between hunting monsters that cannot be saved and helping those that can. As the Frenzy spreads, the Wilders fight to maintain harmony between humanity and nature. They kill the creatures they must, nurture the ones they can, and consume the ones they fail to save. In doing so, Wilders transform into half-human chimeras, for like all monsters, they derive their power from the One Law of the One Land: You are what you eat. The game offers a nice blend of exploration, roleplay, and combat in its gameplay loop: Travel and discover plants and monsters in the One Land. Forage and cook meals. Track and hunt down a frenzied monster. Honor its sacrifice with a feast that will forever change you (literally!) In today's adventure, poachers have captured the Wilders, along with several wild monsters they hope to sell to the Charter. But one caged monster has the frenzy and escapes! To secure their own freedom, to keep the infection from spreading, and to ensure no one else gets hurt, the Wilders must band together and hunt it down.

This game will be great if you like cooking, exploration, nature, animals, monsters, Dungeon Meshi and Monster Hunter. 

New players welcome. 

The GM is very familiar with this system. 

Pregen characters provided. 

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 mapping. https://miro.com/ Spectators are welcome.

Content warnings: harm to animal-like monsters

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

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

With only your wits and torches to find the path, journey into the deepest parts of the world where creatures lurk on the very edge of survival and desperation. Will you become a tasty meal for the caustic beast? Will your heart stop at the sight of the vile portent? Will you fall victim to the envenomed blades of deep cultists? Only the soothsayers might guess. 

This game will be good if you like classic dungeons, escalating stakes, easy to learn rules, and Ronnie James Dio.

We will build characters in 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 #1 The TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server, spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

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

Elevator Pitch: 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

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

This game will be great if you like RPG fantasy.

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

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

The savannah has always been a place of competition and survival, even more so now that the Dominion of Lions has reformed the government around birthright, no more with the helter-skelter groping for power that our foremothers knew. Instead, now, from one generation to the next, power will follow cleanly. At least, that was the plan. With the death of Malkia, the families are in disarray, and power is ours to claim. Will your family take the throne? Will you wear the crown?

This game will be good if you like playing as an animal, messing with power structures and politics, heavy RP games, and interesting game systems.

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: Romance and family conflict are significant parts of this game.

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

"Most of the time, you live a quiet life with your beloved witch and fellow familiars. The cottage is cozy, the baked goods are plentiful, and the visitors are few. But ever so often, she must attend a conclave with the other witches. Strange and unknowable beings they are; their congress is raucous and frightening. 

All night, you and your friends have waited in the tent for her to return, but the morning dawns quietly, and still no sign of her. Now you and other familiars must set out to rescue her from this bizarre land…"

This game will be great if you like witches and animals 

We will build characters in session.

This session will be perfect 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 #2 of The TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server. The game runner will be using Schmeppy whiteboards for mapping. schmeppy.com

Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

CW: Mild-moderate violence against animals is possible. Possible inclusion of cults.

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

Check out the game rules- https://gshowitt.itch.io/the-witch-is-dead

If we're going to keep up the public image of heroes in Halcyon City, we need to be seen doing some unambiguously good stuff. Lady Indomitable keeps vaporizing bystanders by accident and Comandante America just will not stop expressing his outdated views in post-heroics interviews. We need some real image rehabilitation, and plucky teenagers seem like the way to go. This game is perfect for fans of superheroes, teenage shenanigans, and emotional drama. Players should build characters ahead. Playbooks will be provided before the session. Characters played in this universe previously are welcome to return.

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 The TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server

CW: none.

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

With only your wits and torches to find the path, journey into the deepest parts of the world where creatures lurk on the very edge of survival and desperation. Will you become a tasty meal for the caustic beast? Will your heart stop at the sight of the vile portent? Will you fall victim to the envenomed blades of deep cultists? Only the soothsayers might guess. 

This game will be good if you like classic dungeons, escalating stakes, easy to learn rules, and Ronnie James Dio.

We will build characters in 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 #1 The TTRPG Pickup Con Discord server, spectators are welcome in the Discord room.

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

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. It's the gamerunner's birthday, so we'll for sure play the chapter called Gertrude's birthday this time around!

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

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

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

Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

This game will be hosted in room #3 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

System Pitch: Brindlewood Bay is a PbtA-style game about a group of elderly women—members of the local Murder Mavens mystery book club—who find themselves solving actual murder mysteries in their quaint New England town. Being retired but with plenty of time and wits left, they've used what they learned from their favorite books to solve all sorts of cases. And you're invited to come solve the next one! There is no canon solution to the mysteries, instead, players must collect and piece together many different clues and come up with a convincing theory, then play to find out if they are right! Players are often encouraged to contribute to the narrative, not just when coming up with a solution, but also when exploring new locations and meeting new characters! 

Session Pitch:This time we are playing a Sweeps Week mystery, which takes the Mavens on a trip to a different town with more futuristic/scifi/alternate-universe elements. In addition to the alternate setting, the case to solve isn't a murder, but the question is still whodunnit ;-)

The Mavens are visiting Dr. Marry’s Majestic Animals Petting Zoo, or MAPZ, on its grand opening. MAPZ is located off a twisting, rarely used highway connecting Brindlewood Bay to its neighbor city, Mucky Point. The zoo sits on a former dairy farm previously owned and operated by generations of a Danish family until its sudden closing 30 years ago. Rumors swirled in the past year as large equipment deliveries were spotted on the road to the farm. Many were surprised and delighted by the opening of what is described as “the world’s most innovative petting zoo.” Dr. Marry is an expert in animal genetics and has been doing unconventional research to create hybrids and evolved animals. Some notable zoo residents include bioluminescent rabbits, pygmy goats that smell like french fries, and highly intelligent geese. Some locals are concerned about the unusual nature of the zoo, while others look forward to new tourism. The Mavens have come to see it for themselves. This game will be great if you like cozy murder mysteries, PbtA games, collaborative storytelling, improv, Murder She Wrote, Riverdale, Pretty Little Liars, One Of Us Is Lying Players should build characters ahead. 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. You may bring an existing character with 0-1 advancements. New players are welcome. 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. The game runner will use Miro whiteboards for mapping. https://miro.com/ Spectators are welcome. 

Content warnings: includes genetically modified animals (who we will not harm) and an artificial intelligence character (as an in-game character, not in the way of OOC AI-generated content, to be clear) 

Tags: mystery, modern 

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

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

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. 

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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.

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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.

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Combat: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬

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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. 

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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. 

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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

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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

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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: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

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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: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬

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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