Sunday, November 27, 2016

Baroque Space Troika! Style

Reading over Daniel Sell's rules for Troika! Basic, and I am utterly charmed. I wrote up some backgrounds for Baroque Space using the ruleset. It's a great way to get really setting-appropriately flavored characters easy:

BLEMMYE (ACEPHALOID)
You are a squat, muscular savage, belligerent and possibly anthropophagous, with a face on your torso.

Possessions
War club
Filed teeth (damage as knife)
Fetish or Talisman

Skills
6 Language (their own savage tongue)
2 Awareness
3 Club Fighting
2 Strength
1 Tracking
2 Wrestling

BROTHER OF THE BELT
You are a buccaneer of that rebel society of the asteroids, who find fraternity among thieves adhering to a simple code: No member may  rob or cheat another, loot must be apportioned by established rules, and no captain may command without being elected by the crew.

Possessions
Cutlass
Mechanical eye, hidden mostly behind a patch, but capable of scuttling ambulation on unfolding limbs. It can record what it seems for 15 minutes and relay it upon reinsertion.
Pistol
breathing-dress (counts as modest armor)

Skills
2 Astrology
3 Climbing
2 Pilot
2 Sword Fighting
2 Pistol Fighting

GAMESTER
You are an inveterate gambler, late of the Jovial gaming houses.

Possessions
Deck of Marked Cards
Dueling Pistol of overly elaborate design 
Jovian Dice (d6, in various kaleidoscopic Neoplatonic solids)
Non-Euclidean Laputan Habiliments

Skills
2 Awareness
2 Etiquette
1 Evaluate
1 Sleight of Hand
2 Pistol Fighting
3 Secret Signs - Tells


LUNAR CASTAWAY
You have been recently rescued from the silvery Lunar wastes where you were long marooned.

Possessions
Antique Musket
Fantastical yet rustic clothing
Journal and writing implement
Semi-transparent body owing to long subsistence on Lunar fruit

Skills
3 Awareness 
2 Language - Selenite telepathy
1 Musket Fighting
2 Run
2 Tracking

MERCURIAN COURTIER
What is there in life for you now that you have been compelled to flee the shining court of His Heliocephaliac Majesty, Helios XXIII, Emperor of Mercury? The other worlds are so cold! Still you persevere. 

Possessions
Mercurian Court Fashion: powdered whig, cache-sexe, corset, jabot or a doublet, pantaloons, stockings, and heels --and a mantled cloak.
Mercurian shaded lens on a stick OR goggles
Light-blocking ointment
Muff Pistol
Stiletto

Skills
3 Etiquette
2 Gambling
3 Language - Mercurian
1 Knife Fighting
2 Pistol Fighting

RUDE MECHANICAL
You are a Mechanical android. Glimpses of variegated lights blinking through the crack in your brazen skull tell the tale: You are malfunctioning and masterless, certainly, but also possibly possessed of radical political views.

Skills
2 in a weapon or improvised weapon of choice
3 in a skill related to your primary function (Etiquette, Mathmology, Evaluate, Craft Skill, etc.)
2 in a Language of choice
1 Strength
1 Run

Possessions
Repair kit
Weapon or improvised weapon of choice

Special
Mechanicals do not heal like natural folk, but must spend an evening in repair. For each hour of rest with access to repair tools regain 3 Stamina.
You always have the equivalent of light armor.

SPACE COOK
You are a veteran of many voyages and an essential member of any astronef crew. It is often no mean feat to wring something edible from the bounty of the spontaneous generation vats, and occasionally, you succeed.

Possessions
Bottle of rotgut
Cleaver
Pistol
Vials of salt and various exotic spices
Venerian Jabbering Monkey 

Skills
1 Awareness
2 Cooking
1 Strength
2 Axe (Cleaver) Fighting
2 Pistol Fighting
2 Fist Fighting

1 comment:

Chris C. said...

I like these too (I'm reading in reverse chronological order). I may have to check out Troika.