What Is Your Go-To Pick-Up TTRPG?


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What is your go-to pick up game? What game are you most inclined to, comfortable with, like most, etc... so that you will run it on the fly without much notice. Do you grab a well worn module? Run it completely without prep? How often do you run pick up games anyway?
I typically turn to Savage Worlds whenever I'm running a game for which there's either no RPG for, I don't own the specific RPG, or when I think my players will prefer it to a different set of rules. It's pretty easy to adapt many RPGs to Savage Worlds, I know it well enough that I can come up with basic enemies on the fly, and I like it.
 





For a one-shot? Fate Accelerated Edition.

Some time ago, I put together a short set of questions I can ask a group, from which I can improvise a session without prior preparation.
 


I haven't run anything with zero prep for a couple of years, but when I did, I had the best results with PtbA games, particularly Dungeon World and the fan-made Star Wars World.

I would also consider Grant Howitt's one-page RPGs.

Astonished that people are picking SWADE given my impression was it needed a fair amount of prep/material to really function, but I guess some people have that to hand.
 

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