So, recently I've been thinking about Troika a lot again, and I've gotten back into creating characters for it. This time I'm going about it, thinking how interesting it would be if they showed up at the Blancmange & Thistle Hotel (the adventure in the back of the book). So I've been treating it a bit as a psychedelic version of the joke where some people walk into a bar. Thinking which types of characters would be fun to play in that adventure. I'm grouping them in sets of six (because you can roll a d6 for them in that way).
Anyway, here they are:
1. Forest Wild Man
Dressed in leaves and your own hair, covered in dirt and rippling muscles, you are a man or woman of the woods. Civilization is confusing, but intriguing. Will you endure the strangeness of it or will you flee back to the trees?
Possessions:
• A Wooden Maul
• Clothing made of leaves
• A small animal friend that lives in your hair. (tell us which animal and give it a name)
Advanced Skills:
3 - Animal Friend
3 - Wrestling
2 - Maul Fighting
2- Surviving Nature
2. Misplaced Teenager
You were just minding your business, trying not to get bullied while also catching the eye of that classmate you find pretty and cool. You should’ve never walked into that new curio shop and bought that mystical book. Somehow now, you are in the book. Will you ever get out? Do you want to? You never finished binging that series!
Possessions:
• Backpack full of school supplies
• Packed Lunch
• 1d6 of loose change
• Weird book. (Describe it)
• School Uniform or Leisurely Teen Clothing.
• Choose One: A) A football, B) Glasses, C) A Sketchbook and pencil or D) A Skateboard.
Advanced Skills:
3 - Hormones
1 - Sports
1 - Maths
1 - Foreign Language of Choice (limit: normal school taught languages. French, Spanish, Latin, Greek, German, …)
1 - History
1 - Science
1 - Social Studies
1 - Arts
Special:
• Add +1 to one of the school subjects and -1 to another. If you want another language, you can add that as well.
• Change one of the subjects to Hate [Subject]. For example: 2 - Hate Maths.
3. Blob
You are a gelatinous blob. You have no bones, no face, no pockets. You are a simple life form.
Possessions:
• Half digested skeleton
Advanced Skills:
4 - Absorb
2 - Assume Shape
2 - Sticking to things
2 - Digest
4. Intergalactic Junkyard Scrounger
These vagabonds scour the multiverse, scrounging in the garbage left behind by all civilizations, looking for treasure.
Possessions:
• A bundle of trash-treasure (heavy)
• Knife for prying
• Lead Pipe for bashing (as Maul)
Advanced Skills:
3 - Scrounge
2 - Wayfinding
2 - Repurposing
1 - Awareness
1 - Climb
1 - Acrobatics
1 - Secret Signs: Junkyard Scroungers
1 - Maul Fighting
Special:
You may Test your Luck to just so happen to have exactly the (common) discarded tchotchke, bauble, or gewgaw the situation requires.
5. Traveling Door to Door Salesman
Traveling door to door and sphere to sphere to sell your goods, you can be encountered practically anywhere.
Possessions:
• A cheap suit
• A suitcase of novelty snow globes (or pots and pans, screwdrivers, encyclopedias, pocket gods, …)
• A crumpled picture of their family
• A cheap, rundown car
Advanced Skills:
3 - Sales Pitches
2 - Fist Fighting
2 - Smiling
2 - Driving
6. Snail Pilgrim
Bound by mystic contract to carry a small giant snail on their back until it finds a place it is satisfied with to live these poor souls can be seen carrying their large burden throughout the spheres. When more than one of them is in the same spot in the same time, things can get sticky, as a battle of dominance over potential spawning grounds commences. Once a spot is claimed and approved by the snail, it will be terraformed for them to inhabit.
Possessions:
• Small Giant Snail (heavy)
• Walking Stick
• Good Walking Shoes
• A terraforming starter kit.
Advanced Skills:
4 - Hiking
2 - Localized Terraforming
2 - Stick fighting
2 - Following Directions
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