Tabletop Games & Board/Card Games

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Is there a tabletop game fandom you've been trying to get people into, a board game you're trying to get people to play with you, a card game you just love and want to recommend to others? Rec your favorite tabletop, board, and card games and discuss. (Video games, phone games, and other digital games can be recced here.)

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Type of game:
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Comments: [what you like about the game, why you think people should play it, any notes you have]

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Troika! [free]

[taichara]

Title: Troika!
Type of Game: tabletop rpg
Number of Players: 2+
Description: More retroclones! This time of Fighting Fantasy, a UK rpg. Troika goes its own way, though, with off the wall character backgrounds (make your own, even!) and sailing the spheres of the universe on golden barges. Troika! comes in a few different formats, but like OSE above it also has a free to download Systems Reference Document so you can just pick it up and go.
Comments: This game is delightfully off the wall and also only uses six-sided dice, if funky dice are an issue and you don't have access to a digital dice roller. Writing up new character backgrounds is a breeze (and there's guidelines), so tailoring Troika to the exact kind of game you want to play is no problem. And, again, it's a simple system that plays well as an online game via Discord, Skype, text, etc.