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Dive into Acid-Fantasy with the new Troika RPG Warehouse bundle

June 17, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

What’s the story here? There’s a warehouse move on the cards for the Melsonian Arts Council, and this campaign is to raise money for it.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Melsonian Arts Council, troika

Enrique Alcatena’s Liquid Steel Comic arrives in English, accompanied by a new TROIKA! RPG setting

May 14, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Liquid Steel, the comic book series by artist Enrique Alcatena, is being translated into English for the first time.

Filed Under: Comics, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: backerkit, crowdfunding, gavriel quiroga, Melsonian Arts Council, troika

Acid-fantasy gaming awaits: Dive into the Troika! 2024 bundle offer!

September 17, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Since the Bundle of Holding’s initial Troika! deal in 2021, the Melsonian Arts Council and collaborators have expanded this weird RPG universe with numerous new titles.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Melsonian Arts Council, troika

Swyvers: A TTRPG where the PCs aren’t heroes, and it’s always bloody raining

February 13, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Swyvers, which has now surely been safely funded, will have rules for generating your own version of the corrupt city of ‘The Smoke’ and the underbelly of ‘The Midden’.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Melsonian Arts Council

Worldbuilding Troika!: Books Full of Weird and Astonishing Adventures

February 11, 2024 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Troika! is a true treasure and a great system for world building and running exciting adventures. The science-fantasy RPG includes old, decadent crystal Spheres; worlds hung across a hump-backed sky and reachable by golden-sailed barge, labyrinths of non-Euclidean geometry, and eldritch portals.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Melsonian Arts Council, troika, world building

Longshot City: A superhero tabletop RPG with the TROIKA! engine

June 26, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Longshot City, the place, is a dangerous town and the players are protecting it. Build your own hero team from a huge selection of Archetypes and Origins, covering almost anything you can think of!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Melsonian Arts Council, superheroes, troika

TROIKA! The science-fantasy RPG you might not need Kickstarts again

November 15, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Daniel Sell’s Troika! is very popular among those in the know and science-fantasy and is a surreal, weird fantasy.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Melsonian Arts Council, troika

Jumpstart into Troika with Troika Worlds bundle

September 12, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Daniel Sell’s Troika! is sometimes described as psychedelic fantasy, and the game has been going great guns. It has a permissive third-party license, and people love to write for the game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Melsonian Arts Council, troika

First 48-hour bonus: The Big Squirm is a hard-boiled Troika adventure on Kickstarter

July 11, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Daniel Sell has brought Luke Gearing’s Troika adventure The Big Squirm to Kickstarter. If you back for a physical copy in the first 48 hours, then you’ll get a secret dossier.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Melsonian Arts Council, troika

Genre Police: Choose Your Own Adventure(s)

April 3, 2022 by Ben Jackson-Ellery 3 Comments

Last time we talked about new RPGs and how to get players to try them. But how do you even begin to work out what you want to play?

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