Sci-Fantasy RPG Troika Makes Its Core Rules Available For Free
Troika, the delightfully modern sendup of old school RPGs, is now free from its publisher, the Melsonian Arts Council.
In an unexpected but entirely delightful move, the publisher of the cosmic fantasy RPG Troika has made the rules freely available online. You can get the core rulebook in PDF format, as well as their first adventure, ask you’ll have something to play with your newfound ruleset.
And if you haven’t given Troika a spin yet, you absolutely should. This game is wild. It’s a sendup of old-school RPGs that still manages to be the thing it lives. There’s a lot of cheeky fun to be had. If you’re looking to move away from the shores of WotC, Troika is a wildly different take on the fantasy RPG genre that you won’t want to miss.
Troika RPG – Core Rules are Free Along With 1st Adventure
Troika is a science-fantasy RPG in which you and your cosmopolitan, cosmos-hopping fellow travelers explore a strange and wondrous multiverse.
It’s cosmic fantasy at its finest. If you want to fly on mystic barges, explore vast cities that sit at the heart of a multiversal hub, if you want a decadently rich game of storytelling with hundreds of options and no prior knowledge or skill required, Troika is a phenomenal way to jump in.
It’s esoteric and strange, but if you like the sort of adventures that might take you from plane to plane, landscape to landscape, Troika will open up whole weird worlds within you that you never knew existed.
A big part of what resonates for me is the sheer joy that comes from reading through the book. People often bring up authors like Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams when talking about this game. And it’s not hard to see why.
In this game, where you pack your items matters, and it manages to be a fun mechanic while also lampooning the weird bookkeeping that many games of the 80s made you do:
If you need to get something out that you weren’t already holding in your hands roll 2d6 and score equal to or higher than its position on your Inventory list. If you succeed you can pull it out and do what you intended. Otherwise you spend your entire action finding it. Double 1s always indicate a failure. Retrieving an arrow counts as an item retrieval. Make sure they’re packed on top!
If that doesn’t convince you, I don’t know what will. But it’s free! What have you got to lose?
Check out Troika in full today!
Troika has a robust and active 3rd Party community as well!
