About us
Welcome to Steel City RPG!
We host RPG events in locations across Pittsburgh for those who share a passion for Role-Playing Games, Sci-Fi, or slaying Dragons in Dungeons. We are a new group working to provide a safe and welcoming environment for public game nights featuring a variety of TTRPGs.
New player? Veteran? Dungeons and Dragons enjoyer? GURPS enthusiast? All are welcome!
Let's roll the dice and embark on epic journeys within the realms of imagination!
Beyond our public game days, we also provide a hub for connecting people for campaigns and general RPG discussion. If you are interested in advertising your campaign or finding a campaign to join, check out our community hub on Discord, a space we created specifically to give more exposure to events and people looking to form or join a group!
Featured event
Knave 2E / Tower amongst the Dust / Lawrenceville RPG Day 7
Time has seem to cycle endlessly as thirst stings within your bones. You and your comrades have been wandering since the raid upon the convoy left you stranded. and now the path has guided you to an ivory tower rising out of the dust. this gargantuan structure seemingly glowing against the dying sun. as your party gazes upon this potential haven, loud skittering pounds as six legs shuffles sideways.
Tower amongst the Dust is a Knave one-shot built for strange, dark, whimsical adventure. Knave is a rules-light OSR system where characters are fast to build and easy to play — you'll be rolling dice within minutes of sitting down. setting will come along through play, and players are encouraged to world build. Strange sword and sorcery, deep future past medieval vibes. spellbooks
are floppy discs, and helmets might be old hockey masks. Knave 2e is very rules light, rewarding player creativity with item usage over sick feats and class abilities.
Your party arrived together. Whatever occurred has lead the comrades to this. Now you're making decisions about what happens next.
Expect dungeon weirdness, absurdist horror, and situations that escalate faster than you can plan for.
No experience required. Characters are generated at the table — quick rolls, no homework.
Not your flavor of strange? Check out other events happening for RPG Game Day.
Upcoming events
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RPG Game Day 7 - Lawrence Hall
Lawrence Hall, 4609 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA, USJoin us Sunday afternoon for a Tabletop RPG Game Day at Lawrence Hall in Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh!
Whether you’re a brand-new player or a seasoned dice veteran, you’re welcome at the table. This event brings together GMs and players for standalone sessions, ongoing games, and experimental systems, whatever our GMs are excited to run.
New players welcome. No experience required. If you’re unsure where to go, ask someone with dice on the second floor; they’ll point you in the right direction.
As usual, we are looking for GMs to run games. Feel free to run One-shots, Mini-Campaigns, System Demos, whatever you’re excited for.
If you’d like to run a game, please submit it via the GM Submission Form
Once games are submitted, we’ll create separate Meetup listings for each session so players can sign up directly.Questions? Reach out via Discord or the event page; we’re happy to help you get set up.
Game List (Updated as Games Are Announced)
4:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Thirsty Sword Lesbians / Escape from SS Closet
DnD 5e / Death House
Candela Obscura / An Unusual Assignment
Dnd 5e / Cove of the Dragon Turtle
Knave 2E / Tower amongst the DustHow the Game Day Works
- RSVP for this main event so we can gauge attendance and coordinate with the GMs.
- Browse the separate game session Meetup listings (added as they’re announced)
- Sign up for a specific game you want to play (This sign-up is the one that matters)
- Show up ready to roll the dice and have fun.
- Arrive early to pick up your Rations and be ready for the Dice Roll at 4 pm.
If a game is full, you’re welcome to join a waitlist or hang out and meet the community.
Join the Guild
We coordinate games, announcements, and community chat on Discord.
Joining the server is the best way to stay informed and connect with other GMs and players.Support the Venue
Lawrence Hall features multiple food vendors and a full bar (Dear James) on the ground floor.
Please support the venue by purchasing food or drinks during the event.We’ll see you upstairs.
Bring your dice, bring your friends, grab your drinks, and let the Dice Gods decide the story.
28 attendees
Thirsty Sword Lesbians / Escape from SS Closet / Lawrenceville RPG Day 7
Lawrence Hall, 4609 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA, USA group of strangers wakes up in adjacent cells aboard the S.S. Closet — a prison ship with no obvious exit and an unclear agenda.
Escape from the Closet is a one-shot using Thirsty Sword Lesbians, a queer-centered RPG built around radical empathy, found family, and the complicated dynamics of people who need each other before they trust each other. The system rewards emotional honesty, messy relationships, and bold choices — but don't let that scare you off from a good jailbreak.
You'll need to form alliances, figure out who's who, and bust out of a ship that doesn't want to let you go. The tone swings between big laughs and real stakes — sometimes in the same scene.
No experience with the system or genre is needed. Pre-generated characters provided.
Not feeling the prison break? Check out other events happening for RPG Game Day.
6 attendees
DnD 5E / Death House / Lawrenceville RPG Day 7
Lawrence Hall, 4609 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA, USThere's a monster in the house. It wants you deeper inside.
Death House is a gothic horror D&D 5e one-shot set in the cursed village of Barovia — an intro adventure from Curse of Strahd that works as a complete, standalone session.
You've been drawn into a semi-sentient mansion with a dark history: a family corrupted by forbidden ritual, two neglected children whose spirits never left, and a cult whose work was never finished. The house knows why you're here. It's been waiting.
As you explore, the story of this place will reveal itself — not in lore dumps, but through what you find in the rooms, the walls, and the things that move when you're not looking.
The session ends with a genuine moral choice. There's no clean way out.
This one is horror in the full sense. Expect dread, dark themes, and decisions with real weight.
No experience with D&D or gothic horror is needed. Pre-generated characters provided.
Not in the mood for horror? Check out other events happening for RPG Game Day.
7 attendees
Candela Obscura / An Unusual Assignment / Lawrenceville RPG Day 7
Lawrence Hall, 4609 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA, USSomething is wrong. It's been wrong for a while. You've been sent to find out how wrong.
Candela Obscura is a horror-investigation RPG set in a gas-lit city where the boundary between the mundane and the supernatural is thin, fraying, and actively dangerous. You play members of a secret society dispatched to investigate an anomaly — something that shouldn't exist, doing things that shouldn't be possible.
The system is built on the Illuminated Worlds engine: no hit points, no action economy, just a small pool of dice and the slow accumulation of scars, trauma, and irreversible change. The closer you get to the truth, the more it costs you.
Come ready to dig in, ask the wrong questions, and find out what's really out there.
No experience with the system is needed. Pre-generated characters provided.
Not the investigative type? Check out other events happening for RPG Game Day.
7 attendees
Past events
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