I have circled this book for literally years now. It is an albatross but I'm finally gonna eat it. That's what you do to albatrosses, you eat them up.
I am working at a rate that hasn't been matched since Troika got written. Since...
2020-10-02 22:47:31 +0000 UTC View Post
If you hadn't noticed my approach to work is to do everything at once and sometimes things escape. This is a map for one of my chapbooks. It will be an adventure/GM guide.
It's an adventure in so much as there'll be content to play, it'll be...
2020-05-30 22:24:03 +0000 UTC View Post
So here's how it is. Since Troika released I have been stuck doing maintenance. Post, emails, post, accounts, social media, marketing, project management, more post etc. I kinda hate all that stuff, but it's what needs to be done. It's been a year...
2020-02-20 19:17:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Getting Troika moving has been a slog. I've been working away on everything except creative endeavours for almost a year now. This has resulted in 11 books for Troika being put in motion. One is already out (2020-01-22 01:16:44 +0000 UTC View Post
These should be universally applied to all possible encounters regardless of attitude or anatomy
PROCLIVITIES
I have this issue with messing with structure. I'll fiddle and fiddle for months and months and nothing much happens. But then a form appears and the writing just pours out into it.
Gnosis may have arrived at a form. Random generation is not...
2019-09-17 15:12:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Social combat like physical combat is merely an impasse.
I want your things, you don't want to give them, impasse. Fight.
I sneak up on a guy, stab him in the kidney, dead. No impasse no fight.
I want them to tell me...
2019-08-30 00:34:20 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been sitting on this map for a long time. It's time to use it.
One of the chapbooks will be about two extra dimensional towers leec...
2019-07-24 00:22:39 +0000 UTC View PostTROIKA! Numinous Edition has managed to scrape up a Best Writing nomination in this year's ENnies. Right here: http://www.ennie-awards.com/vote/2019/ <...
2019-07-18 20:48:10 +0000 UTC View PostBlog post over here regarding what's up at the moment, including some possibly interesting Troika stuff. All good news I hope.
Hello long-suffering patrons, we've finally got to a milestone moment: Troika turned up! We'll have them up for sale either tonight or tomorrow.
Without wasting time, simply put, use the voucher ABOUTBLOODYTIME at checkout on www.mel...
2019-03-14 16:46:48 +0000 UTC View Post
PAINTED WARRIOR
Your body is a canvas. When you left your home you left it covered in goodbyes, since then you have been painted in hellos and destinations and peoples. You are a a spray-paint golem, freely following the command...
2019-03-05 00:42:06 +0000 UTC View Post
SPIDER FINANCIER
Metropolitan travellers might remark on how strange it is to see a Spider outside of a bank teller’s window and you might remark in turn on how insensitive that is. Indeed, the thought that someone could hurt ...
2019-03-04 23:26:54 +0000 UTC View PostLIMITANEI
The daedal borders of the commonwealth are largely forgotten by the Phoenix Throne, maintained only by inertia and the institution of the limitanei. You were one of the young volunteers of these rural militiae, received the a...
2019-03-03 01:29:19 +0000 UTC View Post
SISTER-BROTHER OF THE MENDICANT ORDER OF St. SELFRIDGE
You wear the bulbous and ballooning habit of the Order of St. Selfridge, you don the many layered wigs, you paint your skin in the Adequate Hue, you receive every donation w...
2019-03-02 22:38:06 +0000 UTC View Post
GIANT KILLER
They never stop growing. The limitanei can get them young, while they’re wild and reckless with their head still below the treeline, but for anything more they are outmatched and far from the Green Palace. Whole t...
2019-03-02 16:40:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Tzarina Dunwicket IV, upon learning of her long expected pregnancy, took to wearing dresses with the a hole in the front through which all could witness the ongoing gestation. It was eventually revealed through a series...
2019-02-28 21:09:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Troika nights are brief and have the habit of sneaking up on a fellow, much like the Lamplighters themselves. As night descends so too do the Worshipful Companions, brandishi...
2019-02-28 17:03:18 +0000 UTC View Post
You are a student of the Unweighted Scale and can see beyond the firmament to the piscean creatures that float amongst us, transposed on our dry reality. With effort you can reach beyond and whorl the ethereal wate...
2019-02-28 14:30:37 +0000 UTC View PostTroika is at the printers. I've hopefully linked you all a raw print document minus endpapers and covers. The finished pdf (which you'll all get) will be hyperlinked and fancy.
Over the next week or two there is going to be ...
2019-02-18 17:01:34 +0000 UTC View Post
You sat days and nights at the ancient controls of the Autarch’s sky shattering artillery, ready for the word to pivot the canons and fire. At your hands those sleeping machines could wake up and...
2018-12-15 23:23:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Schoom off with their head. Woosh watch it go. No one ever took as much joy in their job as you. If the crowd stormed the stage and removed your mask they’d see your beaming face right to the end. But th...
2018-12-15 22:48:44 +0000 UTC View Post
You would pull on your welly boots just as the sun is rising, every day. You’d walk the quiet streets of Troika with your ladder slung over your shoulder, tapping on doors and asking “bag your owls, guv?”. W...
2018-12-12 15:48:36 +0000 UTC View Post
You need only run your hands over the undisciplined edges of a stone to feel the land within. It almost flinches from your touch, it recognises your protean powers. You are fond of collecting rocks with potential, ...
2018-12-11 02:11:01 +0000 UTC View Post
You are the disciple of a roving monastic order committed to the preservation of reality. You once sailed from sphere to sphere inside your hermetic fortress, plumbed the depths of non-existence, fusil in hand, engagin...
2018-12-10 02:23:38 +0000 UTC View Post
You crossed the sky on flaming horses, you fought Lord Quasar on the shores of Titan and toppled his Blue Glass Conservatories, you fled the War Sphere with an army of brain-broken star-bastards at your back. You stole th...
2018-12-10 02:17:04 +0000 UTC View PostSome of these are new, some of these are old, some of these are double dipping. It's all getting poured in. My records on what's where are pretty bad, and some backgrounds just get lost entirely, so I'll treat it all the same for now.
2018-12-08 18:59:51 +0000 UTC
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Beast Hunter
You are a freelance monster hunter. “Monsters are killed by all sorts of people,” you might say, “anyone with a sword can do it.” Well yes, anyone can do that, just like ...
2018-12-08 18:58:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Up and down the market you go, up and down with your your pickling pot, your jars and jars and jars hung from colourful cord and clanking. You fancy yourself the finest example of the market’s spirit, a true peddl...
2018-12-08 15:59:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Modica don’t recognise the distinctness of the universe from the matter of the Monad, believing that each person, aeon, rock and stream are equal parts of the divine body. When confronted with the violent disharmony of reality...
2018-12-07 16:06:12 +0000 UTC View Post