Daniel Sell posts
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State of Siege
If I was put on the spot and asked what is the one that that would make me do more and better, it would be 3 days a week every week spent just reading full time. Not spare time reading, full-on 8 hour days with a notepad. If I only have one talent it is using every bit of the animal and making it la...
Guilty August
Skill: 11Stamina: 8Initiative: 3Armour: 2Damage as PolearmMien:1. Wild-eyed and intensely friendly2. Chatty and easily insulted.3. Thousand-yard stare4. Giddy and teary eyed5. Controlled and efficient6. All businessQuiddityAugust returned from the Oblation Wars under a compassionate discharge after ...
Kilitomb
KilitombSkill 9Stamina 24Initiative 3Armour 3Damage as PolearmMien:1. Deep in thought2. Prepared for you3. Baiting an ambush4. Wondering when you would turn up5. Fermenting revolt6. Silent readingQuiddityBehind every gang of armed matachins is a kilitomb, sat in an abandoned workhouse or treacherous...
Malbolg
Skill 8Stamina 14Initiative 2Armour 1Damage as Spear or Modest BeastMien:1. Surveying2. Prodding3. Searching4. Standing deathly still5. Gulping down something unspeakable6. Hunting## QuiddityThe sea caves of Mt. Typhon are the destination of the dead who, in life, ate sea bass on the Feast Day of St...
Peculiarities intermedian-mortem
This list has been kicking around for years now, in various forms. It started as a simple mutation list to create some granular variety in Troika characters, and then spiralled into a fractal infinity that could never be finished. In my project to create Troika 2 I'm ensconcing or burying every ...
Hex Crawl Procedure
This is the current hex crawling procedure we're using in the office campaign. It's missing the detailed encounter charts, but they're specific to the game you're running anyway so they shouldn't be too missed. I'd love to hear about it if anyone uses them in an actual game, ...
What Everything is Worth
As I said last time, work on Troika 2 is proceeding. One of the things on the list is an equipment and price list, which is what you will find attached here. Doing this list has sent me halfway to madness, everything I see now is translated through the lens of how many hours a labourer would have to...
Electric Boogaloo
First thing first, I put up a member only room on the Discord for you folks: https://discord.com/channels/474663403470716928/1227754074833944576It's a place for me to dump smaller bits of what's going on, and for you to make yourself heard if you're into that kinda thing. Secondly, this ...
Organistle
[I've spent the last month doing Kickstarter stuff. This guy has been looking at me funny so long, so I dedicated the weekend to figuring him out. I'll have more time for writing in the period between kickstarter ending and post beginning, so there should be a fair few more soon. More than t...
Bit O' Troika progress
I've been speaking about this for an age. It was meant to be finished in September, but I got stuck doing more fulfilment than I had hoped for. The parts of the map that are crossed out in pencil are finished, which means every building and its primary occupants are described in some way or othe...
Who are they and what do they want?
This was meant to be a cute little table to stretch my fingers but it tumbled out of control. Use it to add a few wrinkles to Troikan NPCs.Start with a name and a job here: https://perchance.org/4tpvv57r56 ## Table 1 - Below the surface 1-2. Very boring, exactly as they appear 3-4. Has a hobby (see...
Adventure design?
Yea I dunno. I make the adventures I want to play/run so they usually end up being exactly what I wanted and therefore perfect inside a narrow band i.e. me. If something is written with sincerity and joy it will find its audience and hit them hard. If something is written with arbitrary best practic...
Saint Bernadino and Cultists
Also added the image to the main post below.
Grigori
One day I'll make a monster that isn't to do with the Saints of Troika, but not today. Enjoy this raw and wriggling first draft.# GrigoriSkill 6Stamina 12Initiative 2Armour 1 (thick hair) Damage as Unarmed or Knife Mien:1. Staring accusingly2. Moving with purpose3. Swaying4. Shouting at some...
Saint Bernadino
BEHOLD! Another enemy. Again, image incoming, which I will update as it happens. Here's my awesome map though:# Saint BernadinoSkill 11Stamina 22Initiative 4Armour 2 (amorphous head) Damage as Barrelling Saint or Head Flail Mien:1. Dribbling2. Mumbling3. Counting4. Snoring5. Compressing6. Oozing...
Spider Bankers of the Bureau of Universal Exchange
I'll put in a picture when I have one. We're working on these a bit at a time. The Spider Bankers have been in Troika since the beginning and I've always meant to get around to using them more. They appeared in Wengle Instrumentality, and they're in the upcoming Streets Of Troika boo...
Dead Letter
Skill 5Stamina 5Initiative 2Armour 0Damage as Letter Opener or Small Beast Mien: 1. Collapsed in a puddle2. Heckling post carriers3. Vandalising post4. Asking others to read their faded address5. Menacing with a letter opener6. Laying in ambush for someone to pick them up In an effort to surmount th...
Slate & Chalcedony digital
Hello hello wonderful people, it is me. I have sent copies of the book out via automatic methods but I don't trust them so I'm also putting it here to be safe.The book is done, tied up and at the printers, and I'm very happy with how it turned out. By the sounds of it players are enjoyin...
Sutler's Opening TImes
Hello. It is time for me to overshare, you can forgive me this indulgence since I have been strong and constant in my flight from social media.Melsonia is an oddity. It is a stubborn company in a poor industry, and at this point I think it has survived longer than most RPG publishers that have ever ...
Slate & Chalcedony
This book has finally entered editing. The cover above isn't final, still wanna play with the text a bit, plus there's still lorem ipsum on it. The text is atttached in pre-edit markup for those brave enough.I've had the map and the rough shape of the adventure for an ungodly amount of t...
New Troika PDF
Just thought you fine fellows might like to see the new Troika before it's ready to go out into the wild. Got to get a Backerkit up and running before the public can see it.
Strict Time Records
Against all expectations I don't run a loosy goosy game. Sessions start at home and end there as well, days pass, training happens, odd jobs are performed and then BACK to the dungeon on Friday. The Troikan week is only 6 days long so it has a nice syncopation with our boring yahweh-ey 7. Is syn...
Megadungeons
It's been a long time since I ran a game. I've run games for something like 20 years and they still fill me with dread and a sense that I am a terrible hack. Writing games and selling then to thousands of people, no problem. Running a game for 6 people, existential doubt. It's how it is....
Work in progress folder moved
Just a quick FYI. Google Drive is a nightmare so I moved the shared folder to my Dropbox instead, which you can find at the above link. Sutlers' has been updated further and is now up to date with my hand written version. Time to pull away again!We just need some more tourists, quiet day events,...
I've Been Holding Back
It's true! I'm always nervous to let something out of my clutches before I'm done with it, ask my editors. I'm ripping that bandage off right now 'cos I'm looking at my work in progress folder and there are 5 almost complete books that are entirely readable. I've linked h...
Wengle Instrumentality
Sometimes I come through. This is a booklet about a magic item and where it comes from. Eminently usable and highly disruptive.
Mikes
If I was a New Wave adventure I would be very concerned with form. Over the time I've been noodling with this city idea I've gone back and forth between extremes of control and conceit but in the end we're settling down on an intuitive understanding of how cities are. It's just an A-...
Original Idea Do Not Steal
Coming soon to no theatres and probably not any book shops either.
It's Books All The Way Down
Where have you been? Work, it turns out, is fractal unless one is disciplined and focused. Jobs spiral off into unlimited detail and are happy to consume you. Did you read that thing by the biologist, the one who said you could spend your whole life studying the life in one garden and not even get c...
This is what I look at every day
I don't know if this is interesting to anyone else, but I enjoy knowing how people work. It's a dirty habit, entirely intended to make me feel better for any shortcomings. Like how mean I am about seeing Wheel of Time books in "shelfies".The shelves here are populated by whatever boo...
