Troika!: OSR Fighting Fantasy RPG Review

This book has now been replaced by the upgraded Numinous Edition of Troika!

A review of Troika!, a rules light OSR RPG inspired by the Fighting Fantasy adventure books of yore.
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[thepoemwhatiwrote]

Thanks for the review Ben! I'm not sure my ego will survive it though.

[adrianbayless]

I am mildly obsessed with the TROIKA! flavor, and was very excited to see you review this game. Thank you!

[RecklawGaming]

Recent sub here, really loving all your content so far! Your vids are a great resource for expanding my knowledge of the wide variety of OSR RPGs are out there!

[ronsilva]

Thanks Ben, congratulations on knave 2e .

[jdcbranco]

Fighting fantasy adventure books was how I got to know about rpg.

[JarlDM]

Recently discovered your channel, picked up a few titles on your recommendation. Really digging your content, keep it up!

[tristan_mcdonald]

So glad to see that you're reviewing this awesome game! The initiative card Kickstarter for it looks great too.

[Bobossboy]

One of FF's legacies is some fantastic fantasy art. Russ Nicholson, Iain Miller and John Blanche all contributed some of their best work. As to whether it was more of a British thing, Unsure if Warlock (the FF magazine) was published in the states, but over here it was as widely known, if not more so, than White Dwarf.

[Labroidas]

This is so nice! The rules remind me so much of how Terry Pratchett would write, it warms my heart. Especially the class and spell descriptions. Thank you for this!

[dani.zambomagno]

From my experience, you can literally make whatever you want with this game, we even got to the point to change some of the few rules. It doesn't have to be necessary fantasy or completely fantasy in the sense that we all intend it

[Torvik]

"it takes the bones of an old game and makes something really fascinating and beautiful out of them"

So it's game scrimshaw, then? :)

[secretmission]

Not to be confused (also) with Steve Jackson's The Fantasy Trip / Metagaming (Melee, Wizard, In the Labyrinth, etc.).

[SirMillz]

The bummer is, most if the game books you cover are out if print, and only the PDFs are available. :(

[questwise]

Nice! I am totally going to seek this one out!

[guyalter]

They just kickstarted a new print of troika with a hard cover and much more art!

[IvoLouro]

I've looked to some of your videos and I'm impressed how you didn't came across Fighting Fantasy gamebooks or even some other gamebooks. It's like liking elves, dwarves or orcs and do not know the existence of Tolkien and Lord of the Rings. Lol! You should do some videos about Fighting Fantasy. ;)

[jefffoulsham]

Nothing happens if you dont put yourself out ther... so here goes...

I heard at the end of the video that you'd like to play in a game of Troika? I am going to be streaming roughly 8 episodes of it on my Twitch channel this coming April/May (probably on a saturday starting around 8 or 9pm EST and each session lasting about 2 hours)

My handle is the same on twitch, twitter, instagram and discord as it is here, and i have the smae profile pic too. Feel free to reach out if you would like to play!

[jeffeppenbach]

I'm surprised that you hadn't heard of FF before.

[sammin]

I can see how Troika was inspired by the Advanced Fighting Fantasy system, AFF manages a D6 combat system with the same type of tables. Troika seems like a fun and compact twist on familiar ground (to me at least). Definitely going to pick up a copy

[Susrek]

Unfortunate to grow up without exposure to Fighting Fantasy or Lone Wolf.