Every city in Middle Earth has treasures. For the past 30 years it's been the distinct pleasure of the Travelling Appraisers to get a glimpse of the truly wonderous items that are hiding in the attics and cupboards from the Eriador to Belfalas. This week, we find ourselves in the the Shire town of Hobbiton where the heirs of an eccentric collector are looking to get a valuation on some truly exceptional pieces.

This game will be good for you if you like comfort watching PBS and playing poker incorrectly

We will build characters in session.

New players are welcome.

This system was written by the game runner.

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This game will be hosted in room #2 of 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

Monster Care Squad is a non-violent RPG where you play as a member of an elite team of Monster Care Specialists. You work alongside your fellow specialists to investigate trouble, diagnose illnesses, and treat the horrible Wounds inflicted by the False Gold. How you will go about this will largely depend on the Monsters your group decides to treat. Monsters range in scale from titanic megafauna to little bigger than your hand and in damage potential from cataclysmic world enders to mischievous trouble makers. In the world of Ald-Amura, Monsters and Humans live in harmony with one another. Humans care for Monsters, providing food and shelter for them, while Monsters lend their power, magic, and might to humanity. But the peace between Humans and Monsters is now an uneasy one. Monsters are afraid of who might be infecting their kind with the False Gold illness, Humans are afraid of their cities being leveled. Everyone is on eggshells and the beautiful balance that typified Ald-Amura is on the brink of collapse. However, you will find no rules for intentionally inflicting pain on anyone or anything in this game, as the first rule of being a Monster Care Specialist is to Do No Harm. This is a PbtA-style game with three distinct phases of play: Diagnosis (what's wrong and how to treat it), Synthesis (making the right cure) and Symbiosis (applying the actual treatment). We'll go through one entire loop, meeting and treating a single Monster. This game will be great if you like PbtA, playing healers, caring for animals, distinct phases of play. New players are welcome. The game runner will provide pregenerated characters to pick from. 

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Hosted in room #4 of the TTRPG Pickup Con server, spectators are welcome.

Content warnings: sick creatures Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

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

The Broken Cask Society is a GMless RPG for up to 4 players where we venture across the wilds in search of the finest inns of the land! You create your character using various playbooks (archetypes), and trek through a fantasy world as a member of the Broken Cask Society. Some characters may care more about the journey, others are all about the drinks or care mostly about the food. Together our group will ford rivers, scale mountains, and blaze trails to the most famous (and infamous) inns, pubs, taverns, wineries, drinkeries, alehouses, and meaderies in the land. Through the use of random tables we'll find out what happens and create a wonderful, cozy story as we go. Prepare for the journey and travel across the land to explore a new inn. Once there, we'll take some time to feast & judge its offerings, before resting so we can do it all over again next time. This game will be great if you like PbtA, taverns, cozy fantasy stories, collaborative storytelling and random tables. New players are welcome. The game runner is very familiar with this system. The game runner will provide playbooks ahead of time, so you can customize your character. 

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Hosted in room #4 of the TTRPG Pickup Con server, spectators are welcome.

Content warnings: n/a 

Nona de Koning’s Game Runner Profile

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

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

GM Age’s Game Runner Profile- https://www.indecisionist.com/ttrpg-pickup-con-game-runners/gm-age

"AGE OF ADVENTURE RPG' is a one-page rules-light fantasy hack of the 'Lasers & Feelings' d6 dice pool system.

""You are a member of an adventuring party on a dangerous and heroic quest set 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 game will be great if you like the heroic fantasy adventure genre

Choose from 12 pre-generated characters, play a previous character, or contact the GM to create a new character. You can look at the pre-gens here, on pages 1-3, at https://adrian-young-games.itch.io/age-of-adventure-rpg-sample-characters

New players are welcome.

This system was written by the game runner.

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This game will be hosted on the Age of Adventure Discord Server. https://discord.gg/ZMZTHvQYGJ

CW: Potential Character Death

"YOU CANNOT HAVE A MEANINGFUL CAMPAIGN IF [THE] TIME RECORD IS NOT [TAKEN]!

Rampaging hordes of goblinoids have been laying siege to follies and keeps in the outer regions of the duchy. The palace mage Xi’Gag has formed a plan to blunt the assault but is missing a key item of power - the time record, which lies ensconced in the mysterious Temple of the Pale Falcon. You have been conscripted to join a party tasked with its recovery.

SGi PERPETUAL TEMPLE OF THE PALE FALCON is the first in the Syzygy line of adventures, whose content is procedurally derived from the birth chart of an individual."

This game will be great if you like Harryhausen films, old-school dungeon bashes, and fantastic locations.

We will build level 1 characters in the session.

New players are welcome.

The game runner is very familiar with this system.

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This game will be hosted in room #1 of the TTRPG Pickup Con Discord Server.

CW: fantasy violence, reptiles, undead

"The hoards are coming and there's nothing to do but batten down the hatches, check your escape routes, and hold on tight. This time it's not monsters we need to contend with (well not literally anyway) but the ravenous, unstoppable force of tourism.

The town's tourist season officially starts this week and the first caravans are already en route. "

This game will be great if you like ticking clocks, low-stakes fantasy adventures, and probably menu planning.

Players should build level 13 characters ahead.

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 con discord. Spectators are welcome.

CW: Bugs

All of England is atwitter about an extraordinary astronomical event as the planet prepares to pass through the tail of the strangely-colored comet discovered by the great English astronomer William Herschel. Across the countryside, the gentry are planning viewing parties to catch the spectacle, though the Northlakes of Tarryford have an ace up their sleeve--the man himself, William Herschel. You are cordially invited to attend. Who knows? Perhaps a star will fall to earth. Wouldn't that be wonderful and absolutely not horrific at all?

This game will be great if you like Jane Austen, The Colour Out of Space, and The Arrival. Players should build characters ahead. The game runner will provide characters. New characters are welcome, and previous Regency Cthulhu characters are also welcome. Character build information and game sheets will be provided by email.

New players are welcome.

Players will be learning this system together with the game runner. Though the game runner has run this game a few times now.

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This game will be hosted in Room #3 of the con discord. Spectators are welcome.

CW: Horror elements, body horror, exsanguination, grotesque animals

A game of The Very Good Dogs of Chernobyl (Polymorph), led by Ansel Burch.

Play as telepathic dogs protecting the world from eldritch evils in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, a forbidden area where only scientists and madmen enter. To you and your pack, this place is your whole world. A world populated with wild animals and beings of dark power. A world that it is your duty to protect. Some dogs remember people, and others have been born into this wild place. That rare breed born during the Great Fall has witch vision that can see things that no one else sees and smell things that no one else can smell.

This game will be great if you like Courage the Cowardly Dog, Bolt, The Fox and the Hound, you know... intelligent dogs solving problems like dogs.

We will build characters in session.

This game will be great for new players.

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This game will be hosted in Room #3 of the con’s Discord server. Spectators are welcome.

CW: Dogs in peril. Gross eldritch monsters.

A game in the Cypher system, led by John Keefe.

The Roaring 20's - Prohibition and organized crime. Tensions of economy, race, and labor. Old power meeting new ideas. You are a gang of misfits at the unofficially-named Office of the Weird, speciality private investigators with a knack for the inexplicable and arcane. A wealthy benefactor's shipment of artefacts has been hijacked by an organized crime ring at the Chicago dockyards. He requires the return of a precious amulet of mysterious power to his collection. You must deal with the criminals in short order - if the amulet is not returned to its buyer by tomorrow, he promises to burn the dockyard to ashes and dredge his item from the lake.

This game will be great if you like Elder gods, weird fiction, body horror, and gangster movies.

Pre-generated characters will be provided.

This game will be great for new players.

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This game will be hosted in room #4 of the con’s Discord with Roll20 used for additional tools. Spectators are welcome.

CW: body horror, death, harm to animals. Similar content to John Carpenter's The Thing.

A game in the D&D 5e System, led by Adam Mc.

Anyone who’s anyone in Giant’s Rest has heard of the Palace of Light. Part nightclub, part arcane research lab. A glowing, buzzing, flickering beacon in an otherwise gray town. Nights are long in the city of perpetual rain, and the nightlife makes them a little more bearable.

But all is not well within the walls of the Palace of Light. A string of disappearances, a mysterious starlet, and strange disembodied voices from out of thin air. Inquisitor Markel has once again sent out the call for assistance, maybe you can get to the bottom of things.

This game will be great if you like Blade Runner, Maltese Falcon, Brazil, Dark City.

This game will be best for those who have played some TTRPGs before.

This game is for 5th level characters. No homebrew please. Standard array or point-buy only. Use average for HP, standard equipment plus one uncommon magic item.

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

A game in the D&D 5E system, led by Ansel Burch.

To celebrate the opening of the Dragon Festival the rotary has declared a new holiday. Bunting Day celebrates the hanging of the decorations and the official opening of the festival grounds. With all that's happened in the last year, this celebration is a much-needed break from the doom, toil and oddity of the offseason. Surely this festivity will go off without a hitch... right?

This game will be great if you like BBC sitcoms set in small towns.

Players should build level 9 characters ahead. You should build or level up your characters ahead if you are able. Otherwise, please let me know (give me any ideas you have) and I will prepare a character for you. You may use either standard array or rolled stats (Roll 4, Keep 3: 7 times, drop the lowest). Your characters should come into the session with five magic items: one "common", two "uncommon", one "rare" and one "very rare". A list is available here: https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items Returning characters who have picked items during previous adventurers in Raptor Peak need not count them towards the magic items granted above.

Players should be familiar with D&D5E.

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

CW: N/A

A game in the Dungeon Crawl Classics system, led by Mihailo Tešić.

The news of the Lord Ancestor's passing has spread fast and wide. His lands, once fecund and populated, are now shrouded in almost perpetual darkness, his rich fields and forests now travesty of unnatural overgrowth, his smallfolk turned to brigands or worse. Stories tell of the dead restless in their graves, of beasts acquiring the faculties of men, and of horrible secrets buried deep underneath the lonely Ancestor's mansion, which still stands there, perched on a ledge overlooking the moors and dark waters of the lake. But stories also tell of Ancestor's incredible magic and his vast treasures, now scattered across his vast holdings - and of an heir who has emerged to reclaim them. And all the stories, news and gossip agree on one point: the heir needs heroes noble, adventurers intrepid or bravos foolhardy enough to venture into the Darkest Dungeons!

This game will be great if you like Darkest Dungeon the video game, and everything it was inspired by.

Players should build level 1 characters ahead using the provided instructions.

Players should have played some TTRPGs before.

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This game will be hosted in room #2 of the con’s Discord server. Spectators are welcome.

CW: Brutal combat against horrific monsters.

A game in the DCC system, led by 2OG Christophor.

While travelling by ship, the watch spots a constant stream of smoke rising from over the horizon. Upon arrival, they find an eerie village full of secrets and danger. This is adventure #1 in The Season of the Sea Lich. If you played Duel of the Elements, you can still play this one and then move on to Revenge of the Sea Lich when that is finished. If you have never played DCC or a 2OG adventure, this is a PERFECT way to start.

This game will be great if you like low key horror in an eerie village where all the residents have gone missing.

First level characters will be provided.

This game will be great for new players.

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This game will be hosted in the 2OGers Paradise Discord server and streamed live to Twitch for spectators.

CW: low key horror movie vibe?

A game in the Bubblegum RPG & Everyone Is John systems led by John Keefe

Two anarchic RPG's for the price of one! In Bubblegum RPG, you shall play as a gang of buffed-up, ultraviolent 80's action stars on a quest to complete a sightseeing tour of Chicago landmarks. Can you get from the Picasso to the Bean without burning the city down? Let's find out! Then to wrap up, we'll play Everyone Is John, a game where you play as voices in the head of a man named John, competing for control over his strange destiny. What are your goals? Where is he going? Which voice will win in the end? Even the GM doesn't know yet! But it will probably involve blowing things up.

• This game will be great if you like comedy, competition, and cartoonish chaos.

• We will build characters in session., Players will have a short survey to fill out to gather material.For Bubblegum, players will be invited to make an Expendables-style action persona. For John, players will decide their own skills, goals, and will offer locations we will cycle through randomly as we play (can be anything from Costco to Grandma's House to Middle-Earth to Mars. No limits, pure anarchy).

• This session will be great for new players!

• These games will be goofy and lean a little toward combat.

• This game will be hosted on the con’s discord server and open for spectators.

• Content Warnings: Humorous violence, humor relating to mental illness (i.e. "hearing voices")

A game using the Gnomesteading- One Page RPG rules led by Ansel Burch

You may be seven inches tall but that doesn't mean you can't have a big impact. With a close connection to nature and the seasons, you have special powers to help make the world a better place, one garden at a time.

• This game will be great if you like David the Gnome, Stuart Little and The Borrowers.

• We will build characters in session.

• This game will be great for new players.

• This game will lean towards silliness and role play.

• This game will be hosted on the con’s Discord server and streamed over Twitch for spectators.

• Content warning: Being very small

A Game in the Dungeon Crawl Classics system run by Bob Brinkman

Come help play test the DCC conversion of one of the deadliest adventures ever written! 7th level DCC characters will be provided. We'll be testing the first level of the adventure.

• Tough gaming experiences, high risk, deadly traps, and dangerous adversaries.

• 7th level characters will be provided.

• Players should be familiar with the DCC system.

• This game will be deadly serious and combat heavy.

• This game will run over Zoom.

• Content Warning: Some dark themes but nothing overt or in your face.