#the troika

[monkberries]

Why are some Paul fans LITERALLY the fun police

#like do you know what a friend group is. #heydullblog #the troika #fab four #get back

[magic5ball]

Outside the Terminal, 2023

Nothing had been decided, but everything was solved. Nothing had been repaired, but everything was fixed. Nothing had been cured. Yet everything was healed.

Outside the Terminal, it started to rain.

Thank you, Stepan Chapman, for bringing this beautiful story into the world.

#my art #artober #fanart #the troika #Stepan Chapman

[vanadiel]

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!

#the troika team had matching custom work shirts that go HARD #troika #vampire the masquerade bloodlines #vtmb #vampire the masquerade #world of darkness #white wolf #vtm

[zegalba]

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

#troika #art #sculpture #waterfall #salt #installation #white #2021

[gamerism]

Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines (2004) dev. Troika Games

#vtmb #vampire the masquerade bloodlines #vtm bloodlines #white wolf #troika games #reshade #gamingedit #vgedit #videogameedit #indie games #userbrujah #usermorvaris #yennefre #my.gifs #my.stuff

[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.

#gaming #tabletop roleplaying #tabletop rpgs #game design #worldbuilding #troika! #swearing

[technicalgrimoire]

We put SO MUCH work into the digital edition of Bones Deep. Glad to see that work paid off!

You can grab a copy for yourself here: https://www.technicalgrimoire.com/bones-deep

#tabletop #indie ttrpg #ttrpg #osr #indie #rpg #troika #skeletons #underwater #marine biology #review #accessibility #pdf

[thegrabowskis]

Underrated Dynamic: Mike being the No-Nonsense Mom while Rich and Jay goof off (Trivia Time! Marilyn Manson vs The Bloodhound Gang)

#redlettermedia #red letter media #rich evans #mike stoklasa #jay bauman #movie troika #mike #jay #rich #video #trivia

[jazz-dude]

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

[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.

#tabletop rpgs #ttrpg #tabletop rpg #troika! #england #2010s #poll #poll time

[evlynmoreau-blog]

Sofia Ramos: Text and design

Evlyn Moreau: Art and design

Luna P: layout

Goblin Mail

#ttrpg #troika #goblins

[monkberries]

I think on some level it makes fans viscerally uncomfortable to see someone tell Paul and John that what they're doing is dumb and incorrect. I appreciate the last 5 years have been a response to the extreme Paul hate of the 70s, but putting such emphasis on him specifically being a genius seems to have created an impulse in fans to always view him as being in the right. So any time George doesn't nod his head it's overblown and treated as personal.

Yes, I’ve heard this take before and it feels right to me. People bristle when someone contradicts their fave. I’ve seen it talked about in terms of George getting above his station or stepping out of line and it’s like, fuck me, if george, an original member of the fucking Beatles since 1958, doesn’t have the right to tell john and Paul what he thinks, then no one does

#anonymous #the troika

[magic5ball]

From the Desk of Watterson Tostig

In 1997, Stepan Chapman published ‘The Troika’, a surreal, science fantasy about a talking jeep, a brontosaurus, and an elderly Mexican woman wandering through a desert. It is, in my opinion, the single greatest novel ever published by an American. 

In a career spanning over forty years, it was his only novel, and his only published work that could not be read in under fifteen minutes. 

In 1926, Weird Tales published ‘The Night Wire’, a story so short it could be read in half an hour. The author, H. F. Arnold, wrote two more short stories before disappearing completely. 

‘The Night Wire’ is widely considered one of the greatest horror stories ever written and a pinnacle of the ‘Weird Fiction’ subgenre. 

In 2004, Steve Young wrote ‘Winchell Mink: the Misadventure Begins’. He would go on to write one more children’s book before fading to obscurity. 

I can’t say ‘Winchell Mink’ was the best book ever written. I can’t even say it was good. But it had dinosaurs and made me smile and that’s what counts. 

How many aspiring writers base their worth on how many novels they can manufacture in a month? Why are novels seen as worth more than short stories? Why is literary worth seen as number first, quality second? Who taught us this? 

#My writing #Stepan Chapman #the troika #weird tales #H. F. Arnold #steve young #Winchell mink #writing #nanowrimo #capitalism

[aaronsrpgs]

RTFM talks Troika! We're joined by Aaron Lim to discuss game mechanics as lore and originality blooming from a compost bin of inspiration.

#indie ttrpgs #podcast #troika

[critterspaws]

“who’s that madman knocking people over running people down”

HE’S GOING 12 MILES AN HOUR. WHO IS HE HITTING.

#oh no i see a troika in the distance how cool #it’s getting closer i should probably get out of the way #12 mph is so slow #balaga #the great comet

[gamerism]

VAMPIRE THE MASQUERADE: BLOODLINES - CONFESSION INTERIOR

#vtmb #vampire the masquerade bloodlines #vtm bloodlines #troika games #vampire the masquerade: bloodlines #gamingscenery #videogameedit #gamingedit #gamingnetwork #gamediting #userwolfkissed #userbrujah #usermorvaris #my.gifs #my.stuff