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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.
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the unholy child of the hut of baba yaga and a sphinx
#jazz-dude#ttrpg#ttrpg art#fantasy#fantasy art#troika!#troika#cat#sphinx#rennaisance villa#scifi#building#architecture#dnd#baba yaga#monster manual#monster art#monster
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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.
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Acid Death Fantasy is basically Caves of Qud tabletop. Hell fucking yeah.
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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.
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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...
#rpgaday2023#ttrpg#alien#unknown armies#dnd#Monsters and other childish things#Mothership#over the edge#Tales from the Loop#Fiasco#lasers and feelings#everyone is john#troika!#liminal horror#ryuutama#vaesen#the dee sanction#mothership#fellowship
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#troika#im going to be thinking about 'altogether a reprehensible blight on creation' for forever probably#troika!
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My Troika! character; Rosaceae Vesca Fragaria III, a Sorcerer of the College of Friends, writing a a thesis on psi-bees. Or as she would put it:
Hi my name is Rosaceae Vesca Fragaria III and I have long curly rose-pink hair (that's how I got my name) that reaches my hips, and rose eyes like the dawn and a lot of people tell me that I look like Mercymorn (an if you don't know who that is get da hell out of here!). I'm not related to Naberius the third but I wish I were cause he's a major fucking hottie. I'm also a wizard and I go to the College of Friends in Troika. I love pastels and the colour pink, and I make sure all my clothes are pink. For instance today I was wearing a soft pink houppelande and a pink wide-brimmed pointed hat. I was walking in the town. It was dawn, which I was happy about. A lot of people stared at me. I blew a kiss at them.
#Troika!#Troika rpg#troika#troika numinous edition#ttrpg#digital painting#my art#fantasy#my immortal copypasta#no I will not apologize for that
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Here are the first two #dungeon23 entries! I'm creating a mega pointcrawl sphere for Troika! system. Should be fun!
PS. if anyone could figure out the theme of my entries then you get a bonus point!
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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
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The magnificent giant gun of the venerable saint Jude. Protector of the realm, collector of mass. Saint Jude was born in the 5th age and then shackled to her sun prison. Her gun was very big.
#jazz-dude#gun#warhammer 40k#wh40k#scifi#scifi art#fantasy#ttrpg#ttrpg art#troika!#troika rpg#artists on tumblr#illustration#my art#dnd#lancer
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We finished our one-shot of Troika! last night, the Blancmange and Thistle hotel, and it was so much fun. Deeply interesting character background to build off of, whimsical and dangerous situations, a deeply delightful magic system. highly recommended find it here
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Evey is a truly wonderful disabled trans anarchist TTRPG creator who's family have been hit horrifically hard by the pandemic and trans laws in the US that have seen her and her family homeless. She could really do with some support. Her work is amazing and contains all manner of awesome things for various games and her own ones too, ranging from absolutely adorable to awesomely transgressive.
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What if... I made a Troika! background
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RPG a Day 11-15
Day 11: Weirdest game I've played
I tend to gravitate to weird games. Unknown Armies and Over the Edge scratch that itch in pretty similar ways: it's the real world, but unimaginably strange people are out there doing strange and fucked-up stuff. Also, Troika! is very much a kitchen sink/gonzo weird kind of game. That can get kind of annoying sometimes but it does encourage wild creativity.
Day 12: Old game I still play
I mean, like I said, Call of Cthulhu should count for this. D&D too, not that I've played it recently. And Traveller, for that matter.
Day 13: Most memorable character demise
Another category where it's hard to narrow it down. Even if I limit myself to player character deaths, even MY OWN characters. Maybe that says something about my playstyle... Anyway, I guess I'd go with my character in a Gardens of Ynn oneshot who broke quarantine on a memetic magical plague because he thought he was smart enough to find a solution, and cause the apocalypse as a result. Good times.
Day 14: Favorite convention purchase
The only con I've been to of any real size is Origins this year, and I already mentioned the dice I bought and the game I backed (Nevermore, check it out). I also got a nice little dice tray.
Day 15: Favorite con module/one-shot
I played a demo at Origins for a new edition of Ecryme that I enjoyed a lot. It used a real-life timer to represent game time, which I was wary of, but the GM made sure to pause or add time when explaining setting details or for concurrent scenes we had to play one at a time. The premise was that we were part of a large group of people being detained while an official killed off four members of the crowd every hour until a suspected terrorist cell was turned over. Lots of drama there.
#rpgaday2023#ttrpg#Unknown Armies#Over the Edge#Troika!#Call of Cthulhu#DnD#Traveller#gardens of ynn#Nevermore#ecryme
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