Daniel Sell

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...

Electric Boogaloo

First thing first, I put up a member only room on the Discord for you folks: https://discord.com/channels/474663403470716928/122775407483394457...

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 ther...

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 pr...

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: 2024-01-06 23:06:07 +0000 UTC View Post

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...

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.

2023-12-18 11:58:33 +0000 UTC View Post

Saint Bernadino

BEHOLD! Another enemy. Again, image incoming, which I will update as it happens. Here's my awesome map though:

# Saint Bernadino 2023-12-12 16:24:36 +0000 UTC View Post

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 ...

Dead Letter

Skill 5
Stamina 5
Initiative 2
Armour 0
Damage as Letter Opener or Small Beast

Mien:  
1. Collapsed in a puddle
2. Heckling post carriers
3. Vandalising post
4. Asking others t...

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 happ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 nic...

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 p...

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!<...

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 entirel...

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 understandi...

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 li...

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".

T...