Adventure Across the Humpbacked Sky!
TROIKA! The science-fantasy roleplaying game where you and your cosmopolitan group of fellow travelers explore the ends of the multiverse. You will fly on mystic barges, help dying gods, solve confounding crimes, plunder dead worlds, and meet strange & wonderful people.
With just one book and a couple of six-sided dice you'll be able to provide years of adventure for you and your friends.
The Other World's Favourite RPG
TROIKA! is designed to be wondrous to play and simple to run. Its character backgrounds allow anyone to dive right into the game with no prior knowledge of the setting, system or campaign and its many published adventures make it easy to get started. With a few easy steps you and your players will have a grasp on the weird of the world and it will grow from there into something entirely your own
No Barriers
The core book for TROIKA! has everything you need to start and stay playing for a long time:
- 36 backgrounds ranging from pond priests to lobotomised aristocrats.
- 70+ unique spells.
- 36 enemies each using our innovative Mien system.
- 1 tutorial adventure to get you and your players comfortable in this bright new world.
And if one book isn't enough there is an enormous amount of supporting material, both official and fan-made, readily available from all respectable RPG outlets.
?If, after all that, you still want more, the TROIKA! system is transparent and accessible enough that anyone can get right in and make new content for themselves and their players. Just let your good ideas flow.
Grounded Weird
The world of TROIKA! will be instantly familiar to anyone who has enjoyed classic New Wave fantasy and sci-fi works such as Dying Earth, Viriconium, Jerry Cornelius, Fighting Fantasy and Book of the New Sun. But if you're not? Well there are no long essays explaining the setting or lore, everything you need to know and enjoy the world is tucked away inside the items, spell, enemies and backgrounds. Before you even realise it you'll be speaking weird fiction fluently.
What’s New?
So you're been playing TROIKA! since forever and you want to know why you'd need this edition? The short answer is you don't! While the text has been fully revised and corrected the rules have remained unchanged and 100% compatible with all previously published books. Additionally there is a complete complement of new art by RPG superstars Andrew Walter & Shuyi Zhang, all in a new travel-friendly softback binding with an integrated GM screen.
The team:
- Written by Daniel Sell
- Lavishly illustrated by Jeremy Duncan, Dirk Detweiler Leicthy, Sam Mameli, Shuyi Zhang and ENnie award winning Andrew Walter
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Publisher: Melsonian Arts Council
166 pages, 15.4 x 1.4 x 21.6 cm softcover book
