Maybe you’ve got Troika but the setting as presented in the d66 Background Table isn’t doing it for you (I adore it but to each their own) but you want to see the Initiative Stack in action or think the way characters learn skills is keen (it is). Okay, I’ve got you covered.
Roll your 3 stats: 1d3+3 for Skill, 2d6+12 for Stamina, 1d6+6 for Luck.
Troika has a solid list of baseline possessions if you’d like but don’t worry about that. Let’s talk about populating the setting, which is to say, populating your own d66 Background Table.
Using Pathfinder Iconics
Drop your 36 favorite Pathfinder Iconics into each slot. Read the iconic’s entry in the Pathfinder wiki that you rolled up or don’t read anything just riff off of the class name and the cool Wayne Reynolds art or don’t even read the class name and just riff off of the Wayne Reynolds art.
Using Whatever You Remember From D&D
Name D&D NPC’s from settings or old campaigns or novels and/or name settings and exciting vocations.
Asteroid Stranded Spelljammer Sailor.
Dark Sun Gladiator.
Sword Coast Caravan Guard.
Elminster.
Greyhawk Arch-Mage.
Sigil Crimelord.
Escaped Soul from Acheron.
Cultist from Temple of Elemental Evil.
That One NPC you Remember from Homlett.
Your Favorite NPC from the Keep on the Borderlands.
Strahd’s Vampire Spawn.
Vecna’s Apprentice.
That Lady with the 80’s Hair Throwing Lightning on the Spellfire Cover.
The dinosaur-looking lizard guy from the cover of Curse of the Azure bonds with the cool sword-axe-thing.
Etc.
P.S. Now you only need 22 more.
Fantasy Word Vomit Way
Name strange fantasy shit with your friends until you get to 36 total. Order of the Sun Holy Knight, Broken Moon Lycanthrope, Witch from the Edge of the First City, Talking Wolf, etc. Bonus points for naming places or saying something about the world through the title.
If you want to get fancy, give everyone index cards so folks can also write up Advanced Skills and Possessions for each of the 36 entries. If not, whoever rolls the entry up, they make it up on their own.
After each player has rolled up a concept (or, let’s be real, picked their favorite)…
Stat them up, 10 points in total Advanced Skills (what Troika calls skills because Skills is already a stat) and whatever equipment makes sense. Spells are also Advanced Skills. Name the spells you’ve got and come up with a 2 sentence description of the spells you have.
Make your own d66 table or print out the table above.
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