What Is Your Go-To Pick-Up TTRPG?

[overgeeked]

Lasers and Feelings

That’s another great one. So easy to hack into just about anything you’d want.

 

[MGibster]

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.

 

[Kromanjon]

Nothing prepared and we actually want to play tonight? Not just make characters? I'd probably go with Into the Odd.

 

[thullgrim]

Another vote for SWADE. Teachable in ten minutes, tons of options, lots of short one page adventures.

 

[Aldarc]

Fate Accelerated, World of Dungeons, and possibly Dragonbane.

 

[Dbudzik]

Any of the Borgs, Into the Odd, and now, Mythic Bastionland. Also Knave 2e.

 

[Umbran]

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.

 

[Reynard]

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.

Cool! Do you have the list handy?

 

[Ruin Explorer]

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.