#troika!

[feuer-in-soho]

I made a new token pack!

This pack is a collection started out as a handfull of tokens I made for a home campaign of Troika!. It expanded into some more and since then I have used some of these for Lancer too.

In the pack are included:

30 illustrated tokens of robot knights and other beings (but all robotic in nature), all tokens infront of a hex, square and circle backdrop.

Its pwyw on itch so pick it up if you feel like it!

[prokopetz]

Something I've wanted to try my hand at is a game that basically rips off the central gimmick from Troika!, whereby the game actually has an extremely specific (and very weird) setting, but absolutely no setting infodumps: the milieu is communicated entirely through its character creation mechanics, skill lists, and equipment tables.

You basically start with big chapter full of character archetypes and roll some dice to choose one, and immediately fall down a rabbit hole of "apparently I'm a 'poorly made dwarf'; what does this setting think a dwarf is, and how can one be poorly made?" and "it seems that I begin play with a ruby lorgnette – what the fuck is a ruby lorgnette?"

As a design approach it near-perfectly combines my two loves of excessively long random tables and being deliberately obscure.

[amechyofsorts]

Did the dunmeshi main 4 as Troika! backgrounds, very very lazily, for funzies. I don't think almost anyone else here plays Troika!, but whatever.

Marcille's spell list feels kinda incomplete, but it wouldn't be too hard to add and/or substitute a few more spells that fit specific stuff she casted in the series at some point.

[haveyouplayedthisttrpg]

Have you played Troika! ?

By Daniel Sell and the Melsonian Arts Council

Good question! In theory, troika! Is about fantastical sci-fantasy people exploring the multiverse, but There's been troika! Games about ANYTHING. The way troika content works is that if you make something and go "this is troika content" it is basically now troika content. Anyone can make anything and it's all canon. The setting is very openly "whatever the fuck you want". you can play as a spaceship. You can play as a sentient inkjet printer. You can play as a door to door monkey salesman. You can play as a dog with a gun. There's cowboy settings. There's capitalist bear settings. There's ants heisting a picnic settings. There is so much troika content that I cannot tell you all of it.

This is a game where the teenage mutant ninja turtles can go to a fashion show in the Permian period and that can be your game. Even if you're like "okay. This is too much. I'm just using the Official Official stuff" the numinous edition characters involve robots, locksmiths, children avenging their dead pearents and lammasus, and they're all treated as equal characters. Troika game settings often come written on leaflets and played over a few hours with some pretzels. Troika is a very bizarre game. It's anything, as long as you have a couple d6 to roll.

[micromekas]

Me before: Man, I wonder why people have so much TTRPGs they want to play but haven't. I mean, how many TTRPGs can even interest you? two, maybe 3?

Me now: ok so if I finish my Troika campaign quickly enough I may have the time to start one of the the three campaign ideas I had bouncing around in my head before I even started the current one. I just have to pick between the Lancer one, the Troika one and the FIST one... oh what's that? A new RPG by the author of Lancer? that reminds me, I also want to play apocalypse frame at some point. Maybe I should try mastering a PbtA game too, the Monster of the Week One-Shot was fun. Oh wait a youtuber I like just published a video on a new indie TTRPG that looks quite cool.... oh no

[avernine]

HEY FOLKS WHO ENJOY ACTUAL PLAY PODCASTS?!

Ya like WHIMSY?

Ya like it WEIRD?

Ya like it when you get to see into a world where a garden gnome, a guy clothed entirely in swords, and an anglerfish-faced fella in a coat go on quests for money to buy Wasp Drinks, navigating their way around sapient mandrills and riddling sphynxes?

Do you want to meet Big Jim Concrete?

You do want to meet Big Jim Concrete.

Listen to Ludonauts! on Spotify :D

[arsene-inc]

I finally defeated my Troïka! curse !

It was my cursed game. Every time I tried to play it, something happened and the game didn't happen.

And now finally I played it. I was the GM at the club for the "Blancmange & Thistle" adventure. In 2 week, another session with a personal adventure this time.

[teratocrat]

[traskomancer]

RPG a Day 21-25

Day 21: Favorite licensed RPG

Free League's Alien RPG, hands down. I can't think of any other licensed games I even play off the top of my head, and the Alien game is very well done. The stress mechanic and 3 act structure go a long way to achieving the feel of the source material.

Day 22: Best secondhand RPG purchase

Not even a purchase but a trade; I swapped a 5e book to @marquisnaberius in exchange for the 2e Unknown Armies core book and the 1e One Shots book. As far as strictly things I've bought, I did get a lot out of my set of core books for D&D 3.5 as a kid despite barely actually playing that particular edition. I was used to 4e and the juxtaposition was interesting. Also, I like the sketchy art style in the PHB.

Day 23: Coolest looking RPG product/book

I'm very partial to games that have a diegetic-ish style, like Monsters and Other Childish Things, the Unknown Armies 3e character sheet, and so on.

I also really like the art and feel of the Mothership scenario Gradient Descent. As far as the coolest art, Over the Edge 2e has some great stuff, though there are many others I could mention. Tales from the Loop is obviously designed around its art to some extent. This is definitely a prompt with a lot of answers.

Day 24: Complex/simple RPG I play

I think D&D 5e is the most complex RPG I feel I fully understand, and I do mean I FULLY understand it. I have half the monster manual and spell lists memorized and can improv anything else I need. It is kind of nice having a system of moderate-to-high complexity at my beck and call. I know there are much more complex systems around, including other editions of D&D, but I don't really want to make the mental investment of learning them. That's not what I enjoy in RPGs these days anyway. If I want crunch I'll play a video game.

As far as the simplest game, Fiasco is basically improv with a little bit of dice prompting for structure. So if you consider improv simple, which I feel is a plausible perspective, then that would count. One page games like Lasers and Feelings and Everyone is John of course also count for this.

Day 25: Unplayed RPG I own

Oh god, so many. I've already mentioned Monsters and Other Childish Things a few times in these prompts. Troika!, Ryuutama, Liminal Horror, Vaesen, The Dee Sanction, Mothership, and Fellowship all also fit this category. And that's to say nothing of all the games I've played once or twice and would love to come back to...

[inspirationaljunkyard]

Some samples of my character design work for the Troika! TTRPG adventure THE SUPERMARKET AT THE END OF REALITY, written by The Gonzo DM with additional art by Inkysuns. https://thegonzogm.itch.io/the-supermarket-at-the-end-of-reality

[torgeist]

chad moore (one of bloodlines' lead developers) posted these photos from troika's e3 2003 show over on twitter. thought i'd share this really cool relic for my fellow bloodlines fans out there!

[feuer-in-soho]

the unholy child of the hut of baba yaga and a sphinx

[gamerism]

Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines - Hollywood

[amechyofsorts]

Acid Death Fantasy is basically Caves of Qud tabletop. Hell fucking yeah.

[zegalba]

Troika: 'No Sound of Water' (2021) a waterfall of salt

[micromekas]

Will soon be done with a big work thing. When I am, I will finally be able to go back to GMing the games I want. Now it's just a matter of choosing which one.

God damn it.