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The Melsonian Arts Council folks have a new KS here:
Very Pretty Paleozoic Pals: Permian Nations.
Seems as good an opportunity as any to create a thread about the Arts Council, Troika and the other games and designers working with Daniel Sell.
Troika is essentially Fighting Fantasy with a few tweaks set in a New Weird fantasy setting but the Arts Council puts out all kinds of OSR and OSR-adjacent games. As with most of the better stuff coming out of the OSR they are far from purist with a typically Brit gamer sense of humour and absurdity.
Very Pretty Paleozoic Pals: Permian Nations.
- It is an adorable setting drawing inspiration from the Permian Period of our own simple sphere.
- It expands on what was started in TROIKA! and continued in Fronds of Benevolence.
- It will be a beautiful high quality book. No print on demand here.
- It provides a concrete starting point for a TROIKA! campaign.
- 18 new Backgrounds of playable prehistoric critters.
- A terse-but-evocative overview for all notable cultures and locales of the Wide River Valley, as well as its surroundings.
- Lots of Quick Charts to help you create new villages and non-player characters on the fly as PCs explore this strange, cute land.
- Two introductory adventures! One suitable for Permian Nations and “normal” Troika Characters visiting the sphere. The other written with native characters in mind.
- Dozens of NPCs.
- Fantastic and antagonistic beasts ripped from the paleontological record.
- A positive glut of decadently whimsical illustrations.
- A terrible timeline of the planned conquest of the valley, by the pitiless human Count Joehaund Lizardbane.
- Smyth-sewn binding, ensuring it will lay flat and stand up to years of use.
- Written by Evey Lockhart.
- Illustrated by Sam Mameli and Evey Lockhart.
Seems as good an opportunity as any to create a thread about the Arts Council, Troika and the other games and designers working with Daniel Sell.
Troika is essentially Fighting Fantasy with a few tweaks set in a New Weird fantasy setting but the Arts Council puts out all kinds of OSR and OSR-adjacent games. As with most of the better stuff coming out of the OSR they are far from purist with a typically Brit gamer sense of humour and absurdity.