The perfect introduction to playing TROIKA! The Science-Fantasy Roleplaying Game
Get It At Sutlers: A Troika Adventure Generator

Get It At Sutlers: A Troika Adventure Generator

An enormous retail adventure generator for inclusion in sandbox campaigns within the city of Troika. Get a job! Meet the locals! Don't die!
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 Get It At Sutlers is an enormous retail adventure system for inclusion in sandbox campaigns. 

The front and back covers of Get It At Sutlers

Get It At Sutlers is the upcoming new book by Daniel Sell, the creator of TROIKA!: The Science-Fantasy Roleplaying Game. This official expansion to TROIKA! gives your characters the ability to get jobs in Sutlers, the chaotic (and dangerous) department store in the heart of the city. Once hired, they will have a sandbox of hundreds of micro-adventures and encounters, easily accessed and introduced into your game at a moment's notice. 

Get It At Sutlers is a tool to add depth and convenience to ongoing campaigns set in the city of Troika. This huge expansion introduces the ability for player-characters to take on dayjobs at the prestigious department store, Sutlers! This can serve as the core for a whole campaign – where players meet endless interesting NPCs and pick up adventure hooks and juicy gossip  –  or as an as-you-need-it encounter generator for when the party needs a little bit of money to purchase a ticket to their next adventure.   

The book starts with a structured adventure to get the party hired and serving their first day at work, and then it opens up into hundreds (!) of random encounters and micro adventures.  Once hired, they can decide to work at the store at any time, without warning, and Get It At Sutlers will make it effortless to guide them through encountering the citizens of Troika across hundreds of strange incidents. Just roll up a day at work, play out what happens, and get those player characters paid. Never again run out of material for your sandbox campaigns! 

For the first time ever, get a deep and detailed look at the titular city of Troika, its citizens, its culture, its peculiarities and infuriating habits! Across the hundreds of encounters with its residents, you will get a feel for the city like never before. It is a rich source of inspiration for your games and world, even if player characters never set foot in the store.



A Rippier transports live fish

The mail must flow
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The perfect jumping-on point for playing TROIKA!

 

Welcome to Sutlers 

In addition to a beautiful hardback copy of Get It At Sutlers you will also be getting an exclusive Welcome Pack. The Welcome Pack contains your contract of employment and a code of conduct leaflet. Please read all documentation thoroughly before attending your first shift. Sutlers LTD takes no responsibility for injury or death while on the premises. 


Welcome to Troika

Get everything you need to play Get It At Sutlers in one economical bundle! This includes all the rules required to start playing TROIKA! The Science-Fantasy RPG and Get It At Sutlers right away, along with all unlocked stretch goals in the Welcome Pack.

Sutlers City Campaign Collection

Beginners start here. Get the book plus months and months worth of games set in the city of Troika for over 25% off the normal price! Includes the Welcome Pack and all unlocked stretch goals. 

The Bespoke Sutlers Experience

Six lucky customers will receive a copy of Get It At Sutlers with a unique Background or Enemy, handwritten by Daniel Sell inside the front cover and hand-illuminated by Sutlers house art staff! 

Get It At Sutler's Hardback Book

Get a copy of the outrageous new book by Daniel Sell, an A5, 150~ page hardback book with a sewn spine for durability. It will match your numerous other Troika books on the shelf seamlessly and make your friends and family jealous. 

Get It At Sutler's Digital Book

The digital version of the book, hyperlinked and cross-referenced for ease of use in a pinch!


Sutlers perfume department on a busy afternoon
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The Welcome Pack is a folder full of Very Important Documents, and is given to all backers at the Welcome to Sutlers pledge level and above, and includes the following very important documents:

  • Contract of employment UNLOCKED!
    A signed contract of employment with Sutlers LTD, outlying your responsibilities and compensation.

  • Code of conduct leaflet UNLOCKED!
    The essential guide to dress and comportment while on and off the premises as an employee of Sutlers.

  • Vermin Identification Guide - Unlocked at 10k
    Know your pests! Quickly tell the difference between a whale flea and a tongue-eating mouse with this handy guide booklet.

  • Incident Report Forms - Unlocked at 20k
    Tripped and fell at work? Mauled by a customer? Bitten by a land-shark? Colleague kidnapped by the Night Manager? Please fill out this form.

  • Do Not Serve List - Unlocked at 30k
    All front-of-house staff must remain alert for these barred customers. Considered armed and extremely rude.

  • Sutlers Catalogue & Recall Notices - Unlocked at 40k
    It is mandatory that Sutlers staff remain up to date on new products and those products which the courts have determined to be "a danger to public welfare". Pfft!


  • Background Check - Unlocked at 50k
    In lieu of an actual background check (Sutlers doesn't judge), this booklet contains six illustrated Sutlers-specific Backgrounds for your consideration and use.

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The Welcome Pack is included in the Troika City Campaign Collection and Welcome to Sutlers, and comes as standard with a contract of employment and a code of conduct leaflet.

Everyone receives the stretch goals marked as "everyone"

Note: Physical stretch goal rewards can only be sent to people receiving physical copies of the book. 

£10,000 

Welcome Pack:  Vermin Identification Guide
Everyone: Name Badge Stickers &  Vermin Identification Guide (digital)
What vermin is this? If we unlock the identification guide you'll know!

   

£20,000 

Welcome Pack: Do Not Serve List (a booklet of enemies)
Everyone: Do Not Serve List (digital)
This fellow comes to your counter. DO YOU SERVE HIM? Your job relies on your ability to identify delinquents!

 

£30,000 

 Welcome Pack: Incident Report Forms
Everyone: Mundifier Maintenance Poster & Incident Report Forms (digital) 

 

£40,000 

Welcome Pack: Sutlers Catalogue & Recall Notices
Everyone:  Sutlers Catalogue & Recall Notices  (digital) 


£50,000 

Welcome Pack: Background Check (a booklet of Sutlers backgrounds)
Everyone: Background Check (digital) 


£60,000 

Everyone gets a Mystery Pamphlet Adventure (digital or physical, depending on pledge type)

A view of Sutlers' private blimp station
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More Sutlers!

Get additional copies of Get It At Sutlers in the add-ons section.

Sutlers Tote Bag

Sutlers is an environmentally minded store, no plastic bags here. Get a genuine Sutlers tote bag, and proudly show your retail allegiances and metropolitan bent.

The Troika Collection

The Troika! TTRPG has a deep back-catalogue of settings and adventures to enrich your campaigns, and we've made them all available as add-ons to this campaign. Bundle everything up and save on postage!
 

Pocket Dimension

A pocket notebook designed specifically for people wanting to make tidy little hex crawls. With blank hex maps and space to populate them it has all you need to design and run your own sandboxes for your chums. 

Sutlers on Foundry

In a continued effort to make our games as accessible as possible, we have produced a Foundry Virtual Tabletop version of the book. It will contain shortcuts and generators based on the mechanics of the book, allowing it to be integrated on the fly into ongoing Troika! campaigns.


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Troika! is played by thousands of people who all seem to enjoy it! Here is a selection of player reviews regarding the systems and its numerous supplements.



'Troika! is just a delightful game. The art is fantastic and weird; really setting the tone for what to expect. The physical book itself of great quality, it feel like it's going to last for a long time'

'Troika! is just the right amount of silliness for the tabletop. It's low-key on information overload for the players, keeping character creation fairly short and dodging the tropes that come with current day RPGs'

'As a game, Troika! is a blast to play. As a book, it's a blast to read. As a design space, I'm addicted. You owe it to yourself to check this out.' 

'Troika! is truly something. It's a love letter to that part of my brain where magic and adventure in strange worlds still felt new... it's alien, it's beautiful and ugly at once, great and terrible like Galadriel's power....'

'For me, I hoped the system would do two things. Firstly, give me a breath of fresh air away from the dragon-shaped shadow looming menacingly over the TTRPG space, and, secondly, let me introduce new players to the hobby in a quick and fun way... and it delivered just that' 

'Feels like some esoteric relic from a perpendicular dimension. Beautiful and weird. Love it.'

'Outstanding, beautiful, liberating RPG that inspires creativity and joy. If you're looking for a game that outshines larger game systems and brands and brings something fresh and exciting to your table, look no further than Troika!' 
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We are working with fulfilment partners, meaning postage will be fast once the books arrive. And because of this partnership, all items will be sent duties paid in all cases where that is possible.

UK: £6
Europe: £10-15
USA/Rest of the world: £16-20

Note, these are shipping estimates based on anticipated item weights. These rates are subject to change. All shipping will include tracking and replacements for lost or damaged pledges.


PDFs will be distributed via DriveThruRPG as they become available


Foundry modules will be distributed via Hod Publishing.
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Crowdfunding can be chaotic and messy, but we've been doing this a long time and believe the following are very realistic estimates for completion times on various parts of the campaign.

Physical:  

All physical items will be finished, printed, and in our hands by February 2025

Digital:  

- Get It At Sutlers PDF - October 2024
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Previously released add-ons - Once Backerkit Pledge Manager closes in November
- Stretch goal PDFs - February 2025
  

Campaign Update Schedule:

- Several times a week during the campaign.
- Once a month after the campaign ends. 
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Daniel Sell is a British game writer and publisher. He has always lived in London.

Also known for, TROIKA!, and Slate & Chalcedony

Andrew Walter is an illustrator and writer in the field of indie tabletop roleplaying games, primarily within the science fiction and fantasy genres.

Also known for, Whalgravaak's Warehouse (TROIKA!), Dolmenwood, Slipgate Chokepoint, and Zed & Two Naughts

Born January 1964 in High Town, Luton, England, middle of three children. His first published works were five illustrations for Games Workshop which appeared in the first Warhammer 40,000 rulebook, Rogue Trader. Tony Hough has also trained as a tattooist.

Also known for, Night Dragon (Fighting Fantasy), & Spectral Stalkers (Fighting Fantasy).

Shuyi Zhang is an artist, exhibition designer, and bookshop owner who has accidentally become intimately familiar with every process in the life of a book.

Also known for, Fungi of the Far Realms, Iglootree.com

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