If expounding my love for the 6 stat system is lecturing in the community hall to a bunch of bored boomers, then explaining my love for Troika! would be me selling my worldly goods, taking out my savings, buying out the Royal Albert Hall to perform a grand one-man opera with accompanying New York Symphony orchestra to those willing to watch.
It has sparked my love to create, so, so much.
I like my characters like fireworks, they burn bright, hard, and may or may not pop into darkness and disappear, only for a new light to burst again. I inhabit every character with gusto, and lament their death. But am eager to make one anew.
This is Troika! A ridiculously simple system with the explicit instruction to make whatever for it and play whatever you want with it. Dungeon-Crawling? Sure! Cyberpunk? Sure! Parisian Opium Poets fighting Nazis? DO IT!
Creating a character is simple as rolling a couple dice, and making a background is a wonderful exercise in popping that multi-coloured pimple of creativity that pops up in your head once in a while.
Making a monster is literally jotting down a couple numbers, and writing a couple words for a Mien.
So.
Buy it, cradle it, give it to your Gran. Make whatever you want with it, and gods be damned those that think the implied setting is somehow "the one true way to play." Let them molder in their quickly decaying huts of primary colours and scream as you dash their self-etched Troikan commandants upon the earth.
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Or don't buy it. Just have a glance at it, huff, smile, and let its visual scent, its personality and beautiful prose spark a memory or dream. Go to your set of game notes and write rules and ideas and scribble others out. Don't let this post tell you what to do.
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