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“The Rosewood Crown” a Standard One Shot in the Perils & Princesses system. Led by Nona de Koning.
Perils & Princesses is a game of gritty & pretty fairy tale adventure. Steel your resolve, gather your grace and sharpen your wits, and you might just live…Happily Ever After.
Play as Princesses who don't need saving, they'll be their own heroes! With magical Gifts from their Fairy Godmothers to aid them in their quest through the enchanted forest, they set out. With bright sword in hand, they faced threats and saved the realm time and time again. Can they do it once more? Once upon a time, there was a Princess named Elysia, who ruled over the humble village of Willowbrook nestled amidst the lush embrace of the forest. The villagers of Willowbrook revered Princess Elysia. She was their guardian. Her Rosewood Crown, a gift from her Fairy Godmother, gave her the ability to channel the powers of nature and protect the villagers from harm. But even in the most enchanting of tales, darkness has a way of slithering into the hearts of the unsuspecting. A cruel conjurer, Velesar, preyed upon the Princess's kindness. He stole the Princess's crown for his own nefarious purposes and broke her heart. Vanishing into the depths of the forest, the sorcerer left no trace behind, leaving the Princess bereft, her heart heavy with sorrow. Ages passed, and the crown was forgotten. The only relic of Princess Elysia is a moss-covered statue in the town square, with Elysia's mournful likeness carved in stone. A Princess without a crown. Recently, strange occurrences have been frightening the villagers. Crops suddenly rot. Groups of deer and rabbits flee the nearby forest. Reports of strange sounds and mysterious disappearances put everyone on edge. Furthermore, each of you has plagued by the same dream—you see visions of Princess Elysia beckoning you to a giant tree in a clearing deep in the forest. It's time to find the Rosewood Crown.
This game will be great if you like whimsical settings, fairytales, OSR/NSR games and creative problem-solving.
New players are welcome.
The game runner is very familiar with this system.
The game runner will provide pregenerated characters to pick from.
Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious
Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬
Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬
Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬
This game will be hosted in room #2 of the Pickup Con server. Spectators are welcome. The con runner will be using using Miro whiteboards for mapping. https://miro.com/
Content warnings: spiders/bugs/insects
Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile
https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning
“Break Room: After The City Is Saved” a Standard One Shot in The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book system. Led by Nona de Koning.
Saving the city is hard and tiring work. Right now we're at the headquarters of our superhero team after a long day of heroics. And really? Everyone just wants to go home. Break Room is a game about one-upping your coworkers. In this short GMless comedic storytelling game, each player comes up with their own superhero employee. Then everyone takes turns convincing the other players AND characters why they are the ones who deserve to go home early today! You can Rant, Gush, Dish or even Throwdown to get your way. After three rounds that get shorter and shorter as your break ticks down, one character will emerge victorious and gets to go home early! Break Room is part of The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book, an anthology of 2-page games. This means it's very rules-light and very easy to learn, but players should be comfortable using their own imagination without many rules to hold on to.
This game will be great if you like collaborative storytelling, comedy, and superheroes. We'll create characters together at the start of the game.
Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪
This game will be hosted in room #2 of the Pickup Con server. Spectators are welcome.
Content warnings: n/a
Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile
https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning
“Enter, Terror!” - an Episodic One Shot in the Spectaculars system. Led by Nona de Koning.
Spectaculars is a game of comic book heroes and villains in its own entirely new comic book universe using a rules-light percentile % system. However, this universe is not predetermined, it takes more a "legacy board game"/living world approach. You start with knowing just a few basics and creating just a few characters. As more sessions are played, the setting will grow and change and become filled with memorable heroes, engaging villains, and stories of the clash between them. It's perfectly suitable for oneshots, but if you return to the game, you may see old locations and characters reappear. It's a living world, so what happens in a session can affect the universe we play in. Things like your reputation with the public, media and government are shared between games as well. Come play in our city just once or come back time and time again, the choice is yours! Today's adventure takes place in the Streetlight Knights branch of our comic book universe. This branch is themed around street-level heroes, organized crime, gang wars, and intrigue. It hearkens back to comic book stories of defenders of Bad Neighborhoods, shadowy vigilantes, sinister crime lords, assassins, secret societies, and the struggle between the lawless and the heroes who would stand in their way. Join a Neighborhood Watch team and come save the day! Your team is made up of heroes who band together to protect a particular district within the city. Examples from popular comics include the Defenders® (Marvel), and the Birds of Prey® (DC). This time, the Government Agency Chief suspects that a Terrorist Group might be planning something in the city, but their resources are tied up in other matters. Can you save the city? This game will be great if you like superheroes, a living world, rules-light systems, lots of freedom, and creative problem-solving.
New players are welcome. The game runner has run this game a few times now. The game runner will provide pre-generated characters to pick from.
Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬ Serious
Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬
Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬
Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬
Characters start with an archetype and are further customized by combining different cards drawn from various decks to determine team role, identity and powers. Created heroes go into a common pool, so players can select any existing character or pick an unused archetype to make a new one. The game runner will send you your choices in advance. Any last-minute signups can only pick from the pre-existing pool.
This game will be hosted in room #2 of the Pickup Con server. Spectators are welcome. The con runner will be using using Miro whiteboards for mapping. https://miro.com/
Content warnings: terrorism
Tags: Superheroes, Modern Day
Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile
https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning
Sky-High Ambitions - an Episodic One Shot in the Spectaculars system. Led by Nona de Koning.
Spectaculars is a game of comic book heroes and villains in its own entirely new comic book universe using a rules-light percentile % system. However, this universe is not predetermined, it takes more a "legacy board game"/living world approach. You start with knowing just a few basics and creating just a few characters. As more sessions are played, the setting will grow and change and become filled with memorable heroes, engaging villains, and stories of the clash between them. It's perfectly suitable for oneshots, but if you return to the game, you may see old locations and characters reappear. It's a living world, so what happens in a session can affect the universe we play in. Things like your reputation with the public, media and government are shared between games as well. Come play in our city just once or come back time and time again, the choice is yours! Today's adventure takes place in the Explorers of the Unknown branch of our comic book universe. This branch is themed around super science, exploration, and incredible threats of inhuman proportions. It hearkens back to silver age stories of astronaut families, inventors, mad scientists, alien invasions, and artifacts of unknowable science and incredible power. Join a team of Prodigies and come save the day! Your team is full of the brightest and boldest minds, heroes who showed great promise in making their mark on the world even before they gained their powers. Examples from popular comics include the Avengers® (Marvel) and the Justice League of America® (DC). When a band of evil minions invades a government building, taking hostages and setting up strange devices, everything points to the first steps of a villainous plan being set into motion. Can you save the city?
This game will be great if you like superheroes, a living world, rules-light systems, lots of freedom and creative problem-solving.
New players are welcome.
The game runner has run this game a few times now.
The game runner will provide pre-generated characters to pick from.
Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious
Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬
Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬
Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬
Characters start with an archetype and are further customized by combining different cards drawn from various decks to determine team roles, identity, and powers. Created heroes go into a common pool, so players can select any existing character or pick an unused archetype to make a new one. The game runner will send you your choices in advance. Any last-minute signups can only be picked from the pre-existing pool.
This game will be hosted in room #2 of the Pickup Con server. Spectators are welcome. The con runner will be using using Miro whiteboards for mapping. 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
“Mythology: How The City Got Saved” a Standard One Shot in The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book system. Led by Nona de Koning.
Any journey can become a legend! Make up your own campfire story, myth or fairytale in Mythology. It's a GMless storytelling game where everyone collaborates to tell a new tale inspired by the images on a whimsical deck of tarot cards. Players make up their characters by mixing several cards, then take turns drawing cards to set up the initiating event and obstacles for other players to tackle. Together everyone will weave the story of a new legend and discover how the city got saved! No knowledge of tarot cards is needed and we'll use a non-traditional deck of images to inspire us. Mythology is part of The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book, an anthology of 2-page games. This means it's very rules-light and very easy to learn, but players should be comfortable using their own imagination without many rules to hold on to. This game will be great if you like collaborative storytelling, mythology, legends, fairytales, interpreting images and/or tarot.
We'll create characters together at the start of the game.
Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪
This game will be hosted in room #2 of the Pickup Con server. Spectators are welcome.
Content warnings: n/a
Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile
https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning
“Trouble on Quarry Street” is a Standard One Shot in the Masks system. Led by Ansel Burch
Sure, Quarry Street is just the road that connects the big church with the reservoir outside town but it's where we live and there's no way we're letting a supervillain scare away the pigeons, mess up Mz Gall's roses, or disrupt the annual art walk downtown.
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 #3 of the Pickup Con server. Spectators are welcome.
CW: None
Ansel Burch’s Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/ansel-burch
“V is for Going Viral“ - a Standard Oneshot in the City of Mist system. Led by Nona de Koning.
City of Mist is a noir mystery game that takes place in a modern city where legends are real people. Heroes, tricksters, and monsters are reborn inside ordinary people, regular Joes and Janes, who gain supernatural powers connected to their legendary alter-egos. The mystical veil of the Mist hides these miraculous powers from the other, sleepwalking residents of the City. It makes armor look like a flak vest and fire breathing like a cheap party trick or a gas leak explosion, so no-one ever knows about the legendary. Player characters in City of Mist are ordinary people in whom a legend has awakened. You play a unique combination of a real-life persona and a legendary Mythos, from a street-cleaner with the powers of the Monkey King to a fashion tycoon who is the incarnation of Aphrodite. Your life is a game of balance between magic and normality. Together with your ragtag crew of Rifts, you will hit the dark streets to uncover the insidious forces at play in your City and solve various mysteries. This time you'll try to solve a case called V is for Going Viral, a clever reference to both the presence of social media and an actual virus. A new infectious evil is operating in the City, using innocent civilians to spread itself. As more and more university students go missing, can you find the cause and put a stop to it once and for all?
This game will be great if you like solving mysteries, balancing normality and having powers, PbtA or Fate.
New players are welcome.
The game runner has run this game a few times now.
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 #2 of the Pickup Con server. Spectators are welcome. The con runner will be using using Miro whiteboards for mapping. https://miro.com/
Content warnings: infectious disease, possession, strong themes of violence, crime, and immorality, current-day themes like the obsession with social media.
Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile
https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning
“Port Perilous” is a Standard One Shot/ Playtest session in the Deck system. Led by Ansel Burch
Port perilous has long been the provenance of pirates as it is the last island before the vast Open Sea takes ownership of the horizon. Sailing towards the morning Sun from point perilous means going into the unknown with no promise of ever returning. By that same token, Port Perilous is the first place where anything from the wide sea will interact with the known world. This game will be great if you like pirate stories, and RP heavy combat.
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 #3 of the Pickup Con server. Spectators are welcome.
CW: Deep water, drowning
Check out the Rules: https://the-indecisionist.itch.io/mavericks
Ansel Burch’s Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/ansel-burch
“Onward To Adventure!” A Standard One Shot in the Age of Adventure RPG. Led by GM Age
"AGE OF ADVENTURE RPG is a rules-light fantasy hack of the 'Lasers & Feelings' d6 dice pool system.
You are a member of an adventuring party undertaking a dangerous and heroic quest in a world of magic, might, and monsters! Be prepared for some old-school fun as you dice with death in search of fortune and glory! So grab your pack, sharpen your sword and ready your spells. Now Onward To Adventure!
The game will be hosted in the Age of Adventure Discord server. You will be assigned your own character sheet channel, and there will be background music and encounter images to enhance immersion.
This is a brand new adventure so both new and returning players are welcome."
This game will be great if you like the heroic fantasy adventure genre and lots of dice rolls
select a pre-generated character or play a previous character.
Here are 36 pre-generated Characters you can choose from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18vwRJ5wRFtdQr2G5lXcQoTisKEY_Nioo/view?usp=sharing New players are welcome.
This system was written by the game runner.
Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious
Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬
Role Play: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬
Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬
This game will be hosted in another Discord server, https://discord.gg/ZMZTHvQYGJ CW: Potential Character Death
GM Age’s Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/gm-age
Check out the Rules:
“Hammer of the Earth” a Standard One Shot in The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book system. Led by Nona de Koning.
For the city to survive, it must move. Hammer of the Earth is an adventure game about humans who worship the last machine in a world ruled by vines. You are Outriders, individuals who ensure the fuel supply for Hammer. It's the last bastion of civilization in the form of a gargantuan train, each carriage housing ten thousand souls, navigating an endless network of tracks. If the train stops, they are all doomed. The Navigator (GM) picked you from your various factions to keep the train moving. Presented with a limited clock and numerous obstacles, can you get back in time? Success or failure, you must all work together, even if in the end only one of you is held responsible for the outcome... Hammer of the Earth is part of The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book, an anthology of 2-page games. This means it's very rules-light and very easy to learn, but players should be comfortable using their own imagination without many rules to hold on to. This game will be great if you like rules-light adventures, countdown clocks, an impending sense of doom and trying desperately to be the hero when everything seems to be against you.
We'll create characters together at the start of the game, it only takes mere minutes.
Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬ Serious
Combat: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬
Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪
Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬
This game will be hosted in room #2 of the Pickup Con server. Spectators are welcome.
Content warnings: n/a
Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile
https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning
“Stonespire Marsh” a Standard One Shot in the Mausritter system. Led by Nona de Koning
Stonespire Marsh, named for the eponymous boulder at its center, is home to reclusive, sun-basking lizards. One day, amidst the muck and mud, they uncovered an entrance to the Stonespire itself, and their demeanor changed. They opened their island, speaking to visitors about a ""Second Sun.” They promise sanctuary and shelter the lost and needy, ""The Second Sun brings warmth and prosperity to all it shines upon."" However, pilgrims that enter the Stonespire never seem to leave again. What are High Priest Zon and the lizard cult up to? It's time for your brave mice to crawl beyond the stone and investigate what's really going on in Stonespire Marsh!
<b><u>About Mausritter:</u></b>
The settled mice huddle together, hidden in their settlements in trees and burrows and walls, scraping and saving. A tenuous existence. You are not like those settled mice. By choice or by necessity you are an adventurer. You live by your luck, your smarts, your bravery. With your friends by your side, you will abandon the warmth and safety of the mouse settlements and venture forth into the dark and dangerous places where other mice do not dare to tread. There is great wealth to be found by those that are willing to take it.
It's a huge and dangerous world out there. It does not look kindly on a small mouse. But if you are very brave and very clever and just a bit lucky, you might be able to survive. And if you survive long enough, you might even become a hero amongst mice."
This game will be great if you like Redwall, The Rescuers, The Hobbit, Over The Hedge, Thumbelina, OSR style RPGs
We will build Level 1 characters in the session. Character creation is lightning-quick and involves just a few random rolls. We'll do this together at the start of the session. If you've played Mausritter before and want to bring an existing character, contact me upfront to discuss.
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 played in room #2 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room. The game runner will use Miro whiteboards for mapping. https://miro.com/
CW: drug use, cult, imprisonment, ritual sacrifice, possible PC death (you can continue with a new PC if that happens)
Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile
https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning
Check out the Rules:
“Port Perilous” is a Standard One Shot/ Playtest session in the Deck system. Led by Ansel Burch
Port perilous has long been the provenance of pirates as it is the last island before the vast Open Sea takes ownership of the horizon. Sailing towards the morning Sun from point perilous means going into the unknown with no promise of ever returning. By that same token, Port Perilous is the first place where anything from the wide sea will interact with the known world. This game will be great if you like pirate stories, and RP heavy combat.
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 #3 of the Pickup Con server. Spectators are welcome.
CW: Deep water, drowning
Check out the Rules: https://the-indecisionist.itch.io/mavericks
Ansel Burch’s Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/ansel-burch
“Urban Infestation” a Standard One Shot in the Sentinel Comics system. Led by Nona de Koning.
Did you ever want to be a superhero? Today's your day! Join the young teenage superheroes known as Team Daybreak. Play as decisive Headlong, ambitious Rockstar, supportive Muse, cosmic Aeon Girl or ghostly Muerto in the Sentinel Comics RPG! In this system, you creatively combine your superpowers with your ordinary qualities to try and be the best heroes you can be while living up to your principles. The Sentinel Comics RPG uses its own GYRO system, which focuses on quick comic book-style action, where teamwork is key and where your hero becomes more powerful as the situation gets more dire and twists get thrown your way! Today's adventure is called Urban Infestation, where our team is called in to help the hero team Dark Watch over in Rook City. In the wake of the global destruction from the OblivAeon event, Rook City is worse than ever, rocked with rifts of chaos magic causing all kinds of havoc (and let’s be honest, Rook City–the capital of crime and urban decay–wasn’t in great shape to begin with). Myriad, a villain composed entirely of crawling insects whose origin is linked to members of Daybreak, is taking advantage of these magical rifts to cause even more carnage. Being a new team of young inexperienced heroes, victory is not guaranteed! The Sentinel Comics RPG is its own superhero universe with a board game and podcast as well. But this features a team made just for the RPG so no familiarity with any lore is needed. Just be excited to play a teenage superhero and jump right in!
This game will be great if you like comics, superheroes, shenanigans, cinematic action, and creative roleplaying.
New players are welcome.
The game runner is very familiar with this system.
The game runner will provide pregenerated characters to pick from.
Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious
Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪
Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬
Exploration: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬
Modern Day Rules will be taught, so no preparation is needed, but a rules reference will be provided ahead of time for those who prefer not to go in blind.
This game will be hosted in room #2 of the Pickup Con server. Spectators are welcome. The con runner will be using using Miro whiteboards for mapping. https://miro.com/
Content warning: creepy-crawlies (bugs/insects)
Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile
https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning
“Trouble on Quarry Street” is a Standard One Shot in the Masks system. Led by Ansel Burch
Sure, Quarry Street is just the road that connects the big church with the reservoir outside town but it's where we live and there's no way we're letting a supervillain scare away the pigeons, mess up Mz Gall's roses, or disrupt the annual art walk downtown.
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 #3 of the Pickup Con server. Spectators are welcome.
CW: None
Ansel Burch’s Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/ansel-burch
Be the Bestiary is a Standard One Shot/ Playtest session in the Deck system. Led by Ansel Burch
All too often the heroes of our stories stand in their tall boots, wearing fancy hats, or swinging blades. What of the creatures on the fringes of those stories? Who will celebrate their successes and
This game will be great if you like Animal adventures and creative problem solving
The game runner will provide characters with your input.
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 played in room #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.
CW: None
Check out the Rules: https://the-indecisionist.itch.io/mavericks
Warden of the Woods is a West Marches (Roughly Connected) session in the D&D 5E 2014 system. Led by Rayne Bakcheious
"Far away on the island of Faelos, lies a forest under the watchful eye of the Warden of the Woods. This fearsome creature is a giant made of twisted branches and thorns, burning with a heatless flame from within, it stalks the forest in an endless, pacing circle.
Traversing the forest is dangerous, but if you can make it to the center, legend says there lies a fountain of the purest water that can cure any disease. Your party has been hired to bring back this water at the request of an ailing elven man.
This game will be great if you like Labyrinth, Jonathan Strang & Mr. Norel, general fae nonsense
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.
Further details will be posted 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 played in room #2 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.
CW: Fatal illnesses, possible character death, altering memories, general fae nonsense
“While the Alchemist is Away” is a standard One Shot in the Mausritter system. Led by Nona de Koning.
The mouse kingdoms survive on the edge of collapse. A harsh winter or heartless cat could spell the end for all. The settled mice huddle together, hidden in their settlements in trees and burrows and walls, scraping and saving. A tenuous existence.
But you are not like those settled mice. By choice or by necessity you are an adventurer.
You live by your luck, your smarts, your bravery. With your friends by your side, you will abandon the warmth and safety of the mouse settlements and venture forth into the dark and dangerous places where other mice do not dare to tread. There is great wealth to be found by those who are willing to take it.
It's a huge and dangerous world out there. It does not look kindly on a small mouse. But if you are very brave and very clever and just a bit lucky, you might be able to survive. And if you survive long enough, you might even become a hero amongst mice. This time the adventure takes your mice to the once warm and lively home of an alchemist, which is now attended to by his familiar, Fluffy the cat... uh-oh!"
This game will be great if you like Redwall, The Rescuers, The Hobbit, Over The Hedge, Thumbelina, and style RPGs
We will build level 1 characters in the session.
Character creation is lightning-quick and involves just a few random rolls. We'll do this together at the start of the session. If you've played Mausritter before and want to bring an existing character, contact me upfront to discuss.
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 #1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room. The game runner uses Miro whiteboards for visual aids (free). https://miro.com/app/dashboard/
Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.
CW: as you play as animals, there may be harm/death to anthropomorphic animals involved
Check out the rules!- https://losing-games.itch.io/mausritter
Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile
https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning
Be the Bestiary is a Standard One Shot/ Playtest session in the Deck system. Led by Ansel Burch
All too often the heroes of our stories stand in their tall boots, wearing fancy hats, or swinging blades. What of the creatures on the fringes of those stories? Who will celebrate their successes and
This game will be great if you like Animal adventures and creative problem solving
The game runner will provide characters with your input.
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 played in room #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.
CW: None
Check out the Rules: https://the-indecisionist.itch.io/mavericks
“Powers: Awakenings” is a Playtest session in a Modified Kids on Bikes/MisMag 2 Homebrew Hack. Led by Maui Jones
"The city never sleeps, its streets teeming with the Villians and henchmen exploiting the powerless. We need heroes. those who can throw fire, defy gravity, or command the shadows.
Welcome to Powers, A superhero-themed ttrpg. you’ll take on the roles of heroes trying to balance saving the world and managing their personal lives. every action ripples outward, every choice matters and your greatest strengths could also be your deepest flaws. remember...
Power comes with responsibility"
This game will be great if you like Young Justice, Justice League Unlimited, Ultimate Spider-man
We will build characters in the session.
Will provide this weekend
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: Peril, Teens in Danger
Maui’s Game Runner Profile: https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/maui
Warden of the Woods is a West Marches (Roughly Connected) session in the D&D 5E 2014 system. Led by Rayne Bakcheious
"Far away on the island of Faelos, lies a forest under the watchful eye of the Warden of the Woods. This fearsome creature is a giant made of twisted branches and thorns, burning with a heatless flame from within, it stalks the forest in an endless, pacing circle.
Traversing the forest is dangerous, but if you can make it to the center, legend says there lies a fountain of the purest water that can cure any disease. Your party has been hired to bring back this water at the request of an ailing elven man.
This game will be great if you like Labyrinth, Jonathan Strang & Mr. Norel, general fae nonsense
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.
Further details will be posted 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 played in room #2 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.
CW: Fatal illnesses, possible character death, altering memories, general fae nonsense
Bare Bears Bearing Berets is a Standard One Shot in the Honey Heist system. Led by Ansel Burch
"Honey Heist is a surprisingly successful one-page RPG. Here is the plot:
1) You have a complex plan that requires precise timing.
2) You are a GODDAMN BEAR.
That's largely it. It's easy to run and easy to play, and there's a D8 table for hats but this time you'll all be wearing berets. They can be green if you want.
This game will be great if you like Bears, silliness, puns, and thorough suspension of disbelief We will build characters in session.
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 played in room #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.
CW: Possible cartoonish harm to bears
Check out the Rules: https://gshowitt.itch.io/honey-heist
Onward to Adventure! Is a standard one shot in the Age of Adventure RPG system. Led by GM Tavis
AGE OF ADVENTURE RPG is a rules-light fantasy hack of the 'Lasers & Feelings' d6 dice pool system. You are a member of an adventuring party undertaking a dangerous and heroic quest in a world of magic, might and monsters! Be prepared for some old school fun as you dice with death in search of fortune and glory! So grab your pack, sharpen your sword and ready your spells. Now Onward To Adventure! The game will be hosted in the Age of Adventure Discord server. You will be assigned your own character sheet channel, and there will be background music and encounter images to enhance immersion. This is a brand new adventure so both new and returning players are welcome
This game will be great if you like the heroic fantasy adventure genre and lots of dice rolls Players will select a pre-generated character or play a previous character
-Here are 36 pre-generated Characters you can choose from: https://bit.ly/3UouZIi
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 Discord (Another Server), https://discord.gg/ZMZTHvQYGJ
Check out the Rules: https://adrian-young-games.itch.io/age-of-adventure-rpg
CW: Potential Character Death
The Frightful Forest is a Standard One Shot in the Pico system. Led by Andrew Pontious
You are tiny bugs, and you are heading into a frightful forest to solve a mystery!
This game will be great if you like whimsical games with some suspense and danger.
The game runner will provide characters.
This session will be especially good for new players.
Players will be learning this system together with the game runner.
Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious
Combat: ⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬
Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬
Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬
This game will be played in room #2 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server.
Check out the Rules: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a90W8XsqGQYzbyTh8SQhzt_-xkSzFp-g/view?usp=drive_link
CW: Violence, possible death
“The Lost Recipe” is a Standard One Shot in the Beakwood Bay system. Led by Nona de Koning
<b><u>About the game system:</u></b>
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 that can be used to recover the treasure) before finally trying 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!
<b><u>Session pitch:</u></b>
Not a sound has been heard from Frederick Foie’s Fanciful Factory for more than three decades. The conveyor belts haven’t moved, not a spot of smoke has come from the chimneys, and no truck packed with candy has left the loading dock. The factory loomed over Beakwood Bay for nearly forty years when the eponymous candy maker and his assistant, a young duck named Quincy Quackling, left the building behind in pursuit of something they couldn’t find in their whimsical factory. Ever since, the building has been abandoned and a subject of enduring fascination for nearly every duck in Beakwood Bay. While many have tried to recreate the lost sweets, no one has come close to making any “Never Melt Sticky Stacky”. Rumor has it the lost recipe can still be found at the factory... Come find out if your Mallards can succeed in this adventure inspired by Charlie & The Chocolate Factory and Willy Wonka!
This game will be great if you like Ducktales, Indiana Jones, cartoons, comic books, Brindlewood Bay, PbtA games, 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⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious
Combat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬
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 Profile
https://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 Goblin Year”: Quiet Year/Goblin Quest Hybrid is a Standard One Shot using the Quiet Year/Goblins hybrid rules. Led by John
A band of goblins is exiled from their home and must settle anew on an uncharted island. A blend of Goblins RPG and The Quiet Year.
This game will be great if you like mischief and slapstick comedy
We will build characters in the session.
New players are welcome.
The game runner has run this game a few times now.
Tone: Silly⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬ Serious
Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬
Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬
Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬
This game will be hosted in room #2 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.
CW: cartoon violence and comedy mischief
“The Gods Beneath the Hill” a Standard One Shot/ Playtest session in the Mork Borg system. Led by Kody Raslawski
You arrive by happenstance, choice, or against your own will at the town of Hobb's End. A festival is in full swing, a rare sight in the Dying Lands. Treats, games, and competitions offered at every corner. There are prizes to the victors, and to the lucky chosen, or the brave volunteers, a chance at something far greater. Claim your prizes, and perhaps you will get to prove your worth to the Gods Beneath the Hill.
This game will be great if you like Morbid humor, dark fantasy, weird fiction, The Witcher, and Gothic horror.
https://scvmbirther.makedatanotlore.dev/ Please make your characters using this character generator. Enable MBC content, and click Kill This One until you find one you like, then hit Save This One.
Base power level characters.
The character generator is fairly self-explanatory. However, if you want to make your own character instead the rules are in the free rulebook linked above.
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 #1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.
CW- Blood & gore, religious themes, potential animal death, self harm, extremely morbid humor, post apocalypse
“Under the Sea” is a Standard One Shot/Playtest session in the Deck system led by Ansel Burch.
"The Myrfolk have been content in the sea for Brine knows how long. We've swum the currents and ridden the streams from the Great Trench to the Boiling Sea.
Last tide, K'help found a... something. It's covered in strange markings and if we're right in guessing, it was made above the spray, perhaps by the great beasts whose shadows pass over the reef and whose calls sound so much like speech. Wherever it came from and whoever made it. Could this be a new horizon beyond the waves? "
This game will be great if you like exploration, coming-of-age stories, and underwater civilization stories.
We will build characters in the session.
New players are welcome.
This system was written by the game runner.
Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬ Serious
Combat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬
Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪
Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚬
This game will be hosted in room #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.
CW: disorientation, isolation, loss
Check out the Rules: https://the-indecisionist.itch.io/mavericks
Ansel Burch’s Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/ansel-burch
“Parsely: Kringle Krisis” is a standard one shot in the Parsely system led by Nona de Koning
It’s the most wonderful time of the year and Jolly Old St. Nick is in a bit of a jam. Explore the North Pole, make some new friends, and give Kringle back his jingle.
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! ;-) "
This game will be great if you like choose-your-own-adventure books, 80s computer RPGs, 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
Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬ Serious
Combat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬
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: lack of control, character death (but without any gore or explicit details)
Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile
https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning
“Closing Time” is a Standard One Shot in the D&D 5E (2014 Edition) system led by Rayne Bakcheious.
"The chairs are up. The counters are clean. The lights are off. Now's your chance.
Too long have you watched your brethren gobbled up by the unfeeling patrons of this café. But that's not how this cookie crumbles. Not today. As soon as this place is closed, you're making a break for it. "
This game will be great if you like Chicken Run, Toy Story, Crown of Candy
Players should build characters ahead.
Level 3 "—D&D 5E (2014 Edition) | Level 3
Use point-buy or standard array for stat generation.
Your character must be some kind of Food Folk, but you can use the stats of any ancestry or class. Then flavor it to your liking.
The cafe this one-shot takes place in serves a full line of pastries as well as lunch and dinner options. So feel free to create any type of food (or ingredient) you’d like to play.
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 runner will use schmeppy.com for mapping. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.
CW: Action comedy with some lighthearted horror, and implications of being eaten.
Rayne Bakcheious’ Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/rayne-bakcheious
“Big Head Heroes” is a Standard One Shot/ Playtest session using the Big Head Heroes One Page Rules. Led by Ansel Burch
Saturday morning is here again and when the TV comes on a cavalcade of characters ready to have madcap adventures, do musical numbers, and sell toys. Join in for a once in a lifetime adventure rolled into existence using the one page system’s episode generator.
This game will be great if you like Tiny Toons Adventures, Rocko's Modern Life, Rugrats, Doug, and TaleSpin
We will build characters in session.
This session will be especially good for new players.,
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 #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.
CW: Loose relationships with reality.
Ansel Burch’s Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/ansel-burch
“Monster of the Week - Punch the Elf off that Shelf” is a standard oneshot led by Nona.
There Are Monsters Out There Most people don't believe in monsters, but they're real. When someone finds out monsters are real, it's usually just before they get eaten. But some people are mean enough, smart enough, crazy enough, or hurt enough, that they live. And some of those survivors go on a crusade against the monsters. That's you. It could be that you make a stand and defend your hometown from everything evil that comes there. It could be that you take to the road and go hunt them down, wherever you can find them. It could be that you have magic powers to put you on an even footing. It could be that your name came up in prophecies thousands of years ago. No matter how or why, the one sure thing is that you aren't gonna go back to your old safe life. You and your fellow hunters aren't normal people; not even normal for monster hunters. You are the ones who stand out, larger than life and twice as badass. You can change the world – save it, destroy it, or alter it forever. One way or another, you will make a difference. Today's Monster of the Week mystery takes place around Christmas time! The premise: Elfon T. Shalf is pissed. He looks just like the Elf on the Shelf that parents use to scare children into behaving around Christmas time. That’s because he is the original. Someone saw him and used his likeness without his consent and they then sold the idea to make millions! Elfon has spent years tracking them across the country as they have fled from him but he believes he has finally found them. Now he’s going to exact his revenge in the middle of Santa’s Grotto at the local Christmas market. Can you stop him?
Great for people who like PbtA games, mysteries, monster hunting, and Christmas/seasonal games.
Playbooks are provided upfront, we can quickly make characters through some multiple choices found in those playbooks.
Players should have played some RPGs before
This game will be played in room #1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.
“The Murder Mavens” a Standard One Shot in the Brindlewood Bay. Led by Nona de Koning
BRINDLEWOOD BAY is a roleplaying 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. 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! The specific mystery will be one not played at TTRPG Pickup Con before and is selected based on submitted lines & veils :)
The Mavens themselves are all elderly women whose partners have passed away and whose children have long flown the nest. Now, they’re enjoying their golden years in the picturesque town of Brindlewood Bay, keeping their homes the way they like, pursuing their hobbies, and finding comfort and companionship in each other. Their mystery book club has been meeting on the top floor of The Candlelight Booksellers every Saturday evening for the last ten years. The Mavens are particularly fond of The Gold Crown Mysteries series by Robin Masterson, featuring the globe-trotting super-sleuth, Amanda Delacourt (which only exists in-universe and not in our world).
The Mavens' special interest in these books has resulted in them becoming amateur detectives themselves, and by the time the game starts, they have helped local police solve several high profile crimes. Sometimes people approach them to get their help on a case, but usually, the Mavens just stumble onto it—much to the chagrin of the authorities, who almost always resent their meddling.
There are some supernatural elements in play in the background, but those will need to be uncovered through repeated plays and aren't a part of this oneshot. There is also a meta-level to the setting, where the Mavens are actually characters in a TV show that the players are watching. If there is enough interest in it, the gamerunner is willing to offer this system at future cons in a West-Marches approach where both of these elements will feature more prominently.
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.
Characters who played 0-2 sessions (this system has no levels). Character creation is a really quick multiple choice process. The gamerunner 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 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: Murder will be featured (but without gory details) and all mysteries may contain hints of cults and the supernatural. The mystery will be selected based on everyone's submitted lines & veils. Examples of potentially triggering content could include terminal illness, mental illness including mentions of attempted suicide or other self harm, bullying, substance abuse (alcohol/drugs), abandonment, kidnapping of humans or pets, imprisonment and infidelity. Not all of these are part of the same mystery, so I will work around your boundaries to provide a great game for everyone.
CW:
The handouts (rules reference & character sheet) will be messaged to players on Discord ahead of time
Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile: https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/Nona-de-Koning
“Ziggurat of the Megaton Maiden” is a Standard One Shot in the Mutant Crawl Classics system led by Christophor - Ophoric Labs
"The Mutation Nation strives to bring the gift of the atom to all. The Doomsday Clock stands at 2 minutes to midnight and they have taken over Nooktun, a massive Ancients facility that once supplied the power of the atom to the region. They are preparing a ritual that will cause a massive detonation of ancient nuclear technology. This will bathe the region in radiation which they believe will allow all to bask in the mutating glow of the Megaton Maiden and become true Children of the Atom. but it may just kill everyone…..
Can you stop them in time?"
This game will be great if you like 90s schlock post-apocalyptic movies, Gamma World, mutants...
The game runner will provide characters.
If you skim the DCC RPG Quick Start guide freely available online, MCC is based on it and has just a few different mechanics.
New players are welcome.
The game runner is very familiar with this system.
4 This is more of a Michael Caine picture 5 This is a major aspect of the session 3 Balanced 5 This is a major aspect of the session
This game will be hosted on Roll 20. The game runner will be streaming this game on Twitch. https://www.twitch.tv/ophoriclabs
CW: violence, possible character death
Christophor Rick’s Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/christophor-rick
Check out the Rules- https://goodman-games.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/DCC_QSR_Free.pdf
“The Holiday Special That Didn't Happen” is a Standard One Shot using the Rebel Scum rules for Polymorph. Led by Ansel Burch
We have to get our dear friend back home in time for Light Day, a very real holiday we've all heard of before. They may come from a planet that is all one biome but their hometown is still tiny and the planet is poorly mapped. We're going to need all of our astrogation and navigation skills to make it in time. Fingers crossed the space fascists don't give us any trouble on the way.
This game will be great if you like Star Wars, road trip comedies, and making fun of the Star Wars holiday Special.
We will use pre-made characters. https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0582/8372/0819/files/RebelScum_CrewoftheLastHope.pdf?v=1708710365
This session will be especially good for new players.
The game runner is very familiar with this system.
Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬ Serious
Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬
Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬
Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬
This game will be hosted in room #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.
CW: Fascists (you get to fight them)
Check out the Rules: https://9thlevel.com/products/rebel-scum?variant=41357755252851
Ansel Burch’s Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/ansel-burch
“Onward To Adventure!” A Standard One Shot in the Age of Adventure RPG. Led by GM Age
"AGE OF ADVENTURE RPG is a rules-light fantasy hack of the 'Lasers & Feelings' d6 dice pool system.
You are a member of an adventuring party undertaking a dangerous and heroic quest in a world of magic, might, and monsters! Be prepared for some old-school fun as you dice with death in search of fortune and glory! So grab your pack, sharpen your sword and ready your spells. Now Onward To Adventure!
The game will be hosted in the Age of Adventure Discord server. You will be assigned your own character sheet channel, and there will be background music and encounter images to enhance immersion.
This is a brand new adventure so both new and returning players are welcome."
This game will be great if you like the heroic fantasy adventure genre and lots of dice rolls
select a pre-generated character or play a previous character.
Here are 36 pre-generated Characters you can choose from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18vwRJ5wRFtdQr2G5lXcQoTisKEY_Nioo/view?usp=sharing New players are welcome.
This system was written by the game runner.
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This game will be hosted in another Discord server, https://discord.gg/ZMZTHvQYGJ CW: Potential Character Death
GM Age’s Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/gm-age
Check out the Rules:
“Under the Sea” is a Standard One Shot/Playtest session in the Deck system led by Ansel Burch.
"The Myrfolk have been content in the sea for Brine knows how long. We've swum the currents and ridden the streams from the Great Trench to the Boiling Sea.
Last tide, K'help found a... something. It's covered in strange markings and if we're right in guessing, it was made above the spray, perhaps by the great beasts whose shadows pass over the reef and whose calls sound so much like speech. Wherever it came from and whoever made it. Could this be a new horizon beyond the waves? "
This game will be great if you like exploration, coming-of-age stories, and underwater civilization stories.
We will build characters in the session.
New players are welcome.
This system was written by the game runner.
Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬ Serious
Combat: ⚪⚬⚬⚬⚬
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This game will be hosted in room #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.
CW: disorientation, isolation, loss
Check out the Rules: https://the-indecisionist.itch.io/mavericks
Ansel Burch’s Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/ansel-burch
“Closing Time” is a Standard One Shot in the D&D 5E (2014 Edition) system led by Rayne Bakcheious.
"The chairs are up. The counters are clean. The lights are off. Now's your chance.
Too long have you watched your brethren gobbled up by the unfeeling patrons of this café. But that's not how this cookie crumbles. Not today. As soon as this place is closed, you're making a break for it. "
This game will be great if you like Chicken Run, Toy Story, Crown of Candy
Players should build characters ahead.
Level 3 "—D&D 5E (2014 Edition) | Level 3
Use point-buy or standard array for stat generation.
Your character must be some kind of Food Folk, but you can use the stats of any ancestry or class. Then flavor it to your liking.
The cafe this one-shot takes place in serves a full line of pastries as well as lunch and dinner options. So feel free to create any type of food (or ingredient) you’d like to play.
New players are welcome.
The game runner is very familiar with this system.
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This game will be hosted in room #2 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. The game runner will use schmeppy.com for mapping. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.
CW: Action comedy with some lighthearted horror, and implications of being eaten.
Rayne Bakcheious’ Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/rayne-bakcheious
“Sentinel Comics RPG - Urban Infestation” is a standard one shot led by Nona
Did you ever want to be a superhero? Today's your day! Join the young teenage superheroes known as Team Daybreak Play as decisive Headlong, ambitious Rockstar, supportive Muse, cosmic Aeon Girl or ghostly Muerto in the Sentinel Comics RPG! In this system, you creatively combine your superpowers with your ordinary qualities to try and be the best heroes you can be while living up to your principles. The Sentinel Comics RPG uses its own GYRO system, which focuses on quick comic book-style action, where teamwork is key and where your hero becomes more powerful as the situation gets more dire and twists get thrown your way! Today's adventure is called Urban Infestation, where our team is called in to help the hero team Dark Watch over in Rook City. In the wake of the global destruction from the OblivAeon event, Rook City is worse than ever, rocked with rifts of chaos magic causing all kinds of havoc (and let’s be honest, Rook City–the capital of crime and urban decay–wasn’t in great shape to begin with). Myriad, a villain composed entirely of crawling insects whose origin is linked to members of Daybreak, is taking advantage of these magical rifts to cause even more carnage. Being a new team of young inexperienced heroes, victory is not guaranteed! The Sentinel Comics RPG is its own superhero universe with a board game and podcast as well. But this features a team made just for the RPG so no familiarity with any lore is needed. Just be excited to play a teenage superhero and jump right in
This game will be great if you like comics, superheroes, shenanigans, cinematic action, and creative roleplaying.
Pregenerated characters provided.
Rules will be taught, so no preparation is needed, but a rules reference will be provided ahead of time for those who prefer not to go in blind.
This game is especially good for new players
This game will be played in room #1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.
Content warning: creepy-crawlies (bugs/insects)
Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile
https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/nona-de-koning
“The Wedding Ring at The Christmas Market” is a Slightly Modified One-Shot in the Unknown Armies 3rd Edition system led by garhallertie.
"Three days ago, PETRA BELLAGAMBA lost her Wedding Ring at the Christmas Market in a town none of you has actually been to. It's a nice town, but it has too big of a market this year. Nothing on the scale of Nuremberg, but it's pretty big.
That might warrant hiring dangerous people to find a small lost object in a huge, shivering crowd on a snow day. But the real reason is that PETRA lost The Wedding Ring, a unique and indestructible object with strange powers.
Not everyone knows about these powers, but the people who do will stop at nothing to get ahold of it before you do.
Also, there's a really good raclette at this one stall you know about. The cheese is incredible.
PLEASE NOTE: This game is set in the Lost Room Universe (a show that came out on the Sci-Fi channel in 2006), not the normal Unknown Armies Universe.
(Unlike a normal Unknown Armies game, you won't be able to start out with an Adept School. If there's an Avatar identity that really fits, maybe.)
Keep in mind that Unknown Armies is a horror game and may delve into uncomfortably adult areas from time to time. We will still start with a quick Lines and Veils just in case!
You'll pretty much be creating your character, defining your group goal, and building their connection to 5 key NPCs (provided by the GM) as you go along."
This game will be great if you like
competing with NPC parties
making up your own version of a holiday event like Christkindlmarkt
disrupting such an event with weirdness, maybe even a gunfight (but you're probably more sensible than that.)
magic Items that look like 1960s kitsch household objects
gaining skill bonuses from mental health changes
A horror world where there are magic objects and humans, but no other monsters
A consequence-based resolution system.
We will build characters in the session.
Beginner Level ("Street Level" in old UA Parlance) https://www.onarmiesunknown.com/resources/quickstart-ua3-character-concepts-identities/ New players are welcome.
The game runner has run this game a few times now.
Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬ Serious
Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬
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This game will be hosted in an outside Discord server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.
CW: Probably gun violence, definitely scary magic events, adult humor and situations, Christmas May Be Ruined
Check out the Rules: https://www.onarmiesunknown.com/game/methods/character-cabal-creation-guide/
“The Holiday Special That Didn't Happen” is a Standard One Shot using the Rebel Scum rules for Polymorph. Led by Ansel Burch
We have to get our dear friend back home in time for Light Day, a very real holiday we've all heard of before. They may come from a planet that is all one biome but their hometown is still tiny and the planet is poorly mapped. We're going to need all of our astrogation and navigation skills to make it in time. Fingers crossed the space fascists don't give us any trouble on the way.
This game will be great if you like Star Wars, road trip comedies, and making fun of the Star Wars holiday Special.
We will use pre-made characters. https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0582/8372/0819/files/RebelScum_CrewoftheLastHope.pdf?v=1708710365
This session will be especially good for new players.
The game runner is very familiar with this system.
Tone: Silly⚪⚪⚬⚬⚬ Serious
Combat: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬
Role Play: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬
Exploration: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬
This game will be hosted in room #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.
CW: Fascists (you get to fight them)
Check out the Rules: https://9thlevel.com/products/rebel-scum?variant=41357755252851
Ansel Burch’s Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/ansel-burch
“For The Dungeon - Minions and Mayhem” is a standard one-shot led by Nona
For the Dungeon! is a short comedy role-playing game that takes inspiration from PbtA and Fate. You play as minions protecting their dungeon. They serve without question and seek to accomplish their leader’s goals to the best of their abilities. Often this means venturing out beyond the dungeon to spread their agenda. Charging into danger with reckless abandon and causing mayhem is all in a day’s work. Characters are quite freeform and have no stats, but instead have traits. These Traits should be short phrases that describe your character’s Talent, Tool, and Motivation. You also get Shiny to buy any sort of item you can imagine may be useful and a special Perk to make you stand out from the pack. Players should attempt to embody what it means to be a minion. Feel free to explore wild and crazy ideas when it comes to your character. This game is designed to lean into the ridiculous. It has a strong emphasis on improvisation, but offers plenty of tools to help you with that!
This game will be great if you like PbtA, Fate, comedy, improv, minions and mayhem.
Players should figure out their character concepts ahead of time, the game runner will prompt you a day or two ahead of time to do so.
This game is especially good for new players
This game will be played in room #1 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
“Big Head Heroes” is a Standard One Shot/ Playtest session using the Big Head Heroes One Page Rules. Led by Ansel Burch
Saturday morning is here again and when the TV comes on a cavalcade of characters ready to have madcap adventures, do musical numbers, and sell toys. Join in for a once in a lifetime adventure rolled into existence using the one page system’s episode generator.
This game will be great if you like Tiny Toons Adventures, Rocko's Modern Life, Rugrats, Doug, and TaleSpin
We will build characters in session.
This session will be especially good for new players.,
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 #3 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.
CW: Loose relationships with reality.
Ansel Burch’s Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/ansel-burch
“Kaiju? I Hardly Know You!” is a Standard One Shot in the Roll for Shoes system led by Andrew Pontious.
A giant monster is rampaging through your small town, and you are ordinary townsfolk — now what?
This game will be great if you like monster movies, goofy fun, and creative improvisation
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: ⚪⚪⚪⚬⚬
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This game will be hosted in room #2 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server
CW: Cartoonish violence and death
Check out the Rules- https://rollforshoes.com
Andrew Pontious’ Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/andrew-pontious
Wilderfeast - You Are What You Eat
Hunter. Ranger. Keeper. Chef. In Wilderfeast you are a wild-eater, better known as a wilder. You are human, though you might not look like it, as with every hunt you incorporate part of another monster into yourself. The first among your kind 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, the frenzy now circulates with virulent speed across the One Land. Hope remains that you can save the monsters threatened by the supernatural disease, but it is a hope that requires diligence and sacrifice. Wilders travel in packs, but they are not a formal order. No central authority or hierarchy governs them, and each is free to decide both what harmony with nature means and also how they hope to achieve it. Some wilders live like cave-dwelling beasts, clad in rugged furs and eschewing all polite company. Others act like wandering knights, adored by some and hated by others, their artful mutations forever separating them from those who have not sworn their oaths. But though they follow no orders, all wilders still perform the same duties. They spend their time between hunting monsters that cannot be saved and helping those that can. As the curse-virus called 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.
pre-generated characters provided.
This game will be great for people who like cooking, exploration, nature, animals, and monsters.
Players should have played some RPGs before
New players welcome
Content warning: harm to animal-like monsters.
This game will be played in room #1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server. Spectators are welcome in the Discord room.