Daniel Sell

On backing and not backing

I understand there is a certain amount of pressure in the fact that your coming and going from a Patreon is broadcast to the creator. Some people feel wedged in by politeness, some people send me sincere emails about why they can't stay. So to you I ...

An aside

I don't say it ever, but I am firmly rattled by the presence of anyone here. You have tolerated my, shall I say, unpredictable work practises with unreasonable calm for a long time now.

I have no insight, just gratitude.

Updated Enemies

This is the updated enemies section, finally finished. Editing will be happening but it's basically done. It's a relief to be finished with any form of large scale draft for the time being, so now onto backgrounds! I have about 150 to write so hold o...

The Updated Bestiary

It's a mess, I apologise. And unfinished and holy baloney this is gonna be right to the wire. Weeee!

Don't you worry, I know what I owe you. Debt is accruing! 

A Map of the Blancmange & Thistle

It's sideways, I know. Don't question it, PDF editors are a pain in the arse.

Maps!

Troika Adventure

Things will start to appear now. I have three weeks of updates to make up for thanks to the Kickstarter timing.

For now here is the adventure that is going in the book. It existed as a framework before the stretch goal was hit, just as an idea I wa...

Where's my update?

If you didn't notice, we tripped over the threshold to do meaty weekly updates about a week ago and there hasn't been one. Well, I've been delayed because of the insane work going on around the Troika Kickstarter. I'm keeping track though! You folks'...

Definitely not needed

I think this is redundant, since you are the Troika super fan elite, but I'm putting it here just in case.

Also remember: anyone who was a patron before the KS started will get the PDFs for free and when the campaign ends will g...

Discord Server

Here we are: https://discord.gg/RpWQhEE It's for the broader publishing endeavour, but has a little troika back room.

This is just a preview!

Live on Monday. You guys have also got to the point of me being obliged to do meaty weekly content. This will happen also!

EDIT: Ok, patreon messes with the link, here's the manual thing: 2018-08-10 09:33:27 +0000 UTC View Post

Yongardy Lawyer

The background illustrations are finished. Now every entry has a tidy little picture like the one above.

We're rapidly approaching the end everybody.

2018-08-02 12:58:55 +0000 UTC View Post

Hugefish

Bramble Masshead 7/12/4

Spell: Explode

Fishmonger with a selection of fresh local catch. Uses huge amounts of ice, it fills the aisles and pours in to the street where children play in it and throw snowballs at customers. Masshead ...

New Character sheet

The scan is a bit rough, but this is the new character sheet going in the next printing of Troika. I also have some more art to show you but it needs to be fiddled with first. Updates coming soon!

Temple of All-Gods

 Bishop of Barley 9/16/3

Spells: Natter, Cockroach, Fear, Read Entrails

More like a hotel than a temple. A lobby with receptionist directing customers to the appropriate room of worship. 1 in 6 chance your god or gods is not represented....

Troika - Raw Text

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qMwUrM8uW-jY-rvWHwRMXzsjACbGuG_0MniymZH_VYY/edit?usp=sharing

Thi...

Work on the reprint is coming along

The text is almost finished being tidied up, the art is happening.

The copious art being created is to act as another stimulus to trigger creative friction in the reader. Without telling anyone anything concrete it will nudge us all alon...

Negative Peculiarities

After some thought on the subject there is a move to get rid of mechanically detrimental peculiarities. Though fun and funny to have minefields of pain during character creation they are impractical from a play standpoint. Consider you have detachabl...

Adventure Logic

Here: http://whatwouldconando.blogspot.com/2018/05/troikan-bumble-logic.html

It's not directly related to anything especially, but I feel...

Where do you currently value focus?

Wrapping the rules in a new body is sucking up an alarming amount of time and energy. I feel bad for the other two books. Where do you value time?

So you know: Gnosis has had a lot of work done to it, but it keeps growing with more work ...

Third Printing

Troika sold out again. The relative quiet here has been due to me preparing for this eventuality, which is ahead of schedule. The plan was to slowly build up a load of art, get a new layout, have a proper character sheet made and then find a couple o...

Still initiative & Gods

The kickstarter is solid, the cards are looking handsome. No one needs to concern themselves with that anymore. Hooray!

Core Troika work has been split between the adventure and Gnosis. The adventure took me down a dead end full of red h...

Inititative & Gods

Those cards are up and out. They're doing ok, reasonably likely to hit their funding.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/846377662/troika-i...

Troika! Initiative Kickstarting

It's not live, don't panic. What you're seeing is a messy preview.

Since this is just between you and me, lemme dump this here: pricing things is hard. After DriveThruRPG have got their hand out of my pocket these things are likely to on...

Initiative Cards

I'm not entirely pleased with using coloured dice as an initiative pool, so I put together some cards with the help of Andrew Walter. They work as you would expect, but with a little deck rather than a little bag.

The art is done, now I'...

Cutaway Towers

A map, for an adventure. The game is broadly ready to go, but there are some things to work out with the solo elements. Such as whether something that is mostly just a novelty is worth such an investment of time and page space.

Cecil How...

Work in progress backgrounds from an upcoming adventure. Sssssh.

1. Chattels Handler

You are duty bound to uphold this most revered of tasks and you perform it with gusto - to lug the stuff. You know where its stored and if you aint got it they aint getting' it! The only item you personally own ...

Kinidymos, Hunter of the Undivided

Kinidymos 

When the inner becomes outer, and the upper becomes lower, when the male and female form the single-backed child who's eyes are replete with eyes and who's image is in place of an image, then you will enter the kingdo...

Cordial of Conduct

Conductors were once an essential administrative arm of the Phoenix Throne, whose duty was to brief exaltants on the applicable procedures for interacting with diplomatic cacogens, undines, and all other possible spherical dignitaries. However since ...

Good Dog (AKA the best background)

Good Dog 

You’re not a magic dog, you’re not a talking dog, but you are a good dog.

Possessions

A neckerchief OR a collar and half a leash OR your ...

Boiled Egg Pedlar & People Pet

Boiled Egg Pedlar

You wake up early every day to set your cauldron bubbling. Before anyone else has awoken there you are, walking the market from top to bottom to top again. You ignore the silk sellers and fire sellers and moss sel...