Since the Bundle of Holding’s initial Troika! deal in 2021, the Melsonian Arts Council and collaborators have expanded this weird RPG universe with numerous new titles.
Worldbuilding Troika!: Books Full of Weird and Astonishing Adventures
Troika! is a true treasure and a great system for world building and running exciting adventures. The science-fantasy RPG includes old, decadent crystal Spheres; worlds hung across a hump-backed sky and reachable by golden-sailed barge, labyrinths of non-Euclidean geometry, and eldritch portals.
Worldbuilding Troika!: A Treasure of an RPG
I’m just going to touch on a few of the rules that bring the worlds of Troika! to life for me. These rules enhance the setting and fill in needed details to the implied setting.
Longshot City: A superhero tabletop RPG with the TROIKA! engine
Longshot City, the place, is a dangerous town and the players are protecting it. Build your own hero team from a huge selection of Archetypes and Origins, covering almost anything you can think of!
Free to Download: Denizen! The Magonian Edition
The RPG is a 282-page full-featured core set. It’s about dungeon crawls and heroics with the usual set of six stats but different rules for character generation and skill testing.
TROIKA! The science-fantasy RPG you might not need Kickstarts again
Daniel Sell’s Troika! is very popular among those in the know and science-fantasy and is a surreal, weird fantasy.
Jumpstart into Troika with Troika Worlds bundle
Daniel Sell’s Troika! is sometimes described as psychedelic fantasy, and the game has been going great guns. It has a permissive third-party license, and people love to write for the game.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #169
I’m still going to Tabletop Gaming Live, a growing RPG and board game expo from Tabletop Gaming Magazine and Warners Group Publications. Due to rail strikes, I was going to struggle through on coach, but now with the death of the Queen, even the roads are chaos.
First 48-hour bonus: The Big Squirm is a hard-boiled Troika adventure on Kickstarter
Daniel Sell has brought Luke Gearing’s Troika adventure The Big Squirm to Kickstarter. If you back for a physical copy in the first 48 hours, then you’ll get a secret dossier.
Genre Police: Choose Your Own Adventure(s)
Last time we talked about new RPGs and how to get players to try them. But how do you even begin to work out what you want to play?
