Tricube Image Oracles

Richard Woolcock's Tricube Tales is a major part of this blog and one of my favorite systems to solo play both for posting here and for playing offline. One aspect I love when playing this system is that the back of each of the one-sheet settings has a d66 image oracle with a variety of icons pulled from games-icon.net that can be used as a quick oracle. You can roll d66 to pick an icon and use it for inspiration and you do not have take it literally. The example Woolcock gives on the back of "Guardians of the Shadow Frontier" is that the icon of a candle could mean a literal candle, flame, heat, a guide, or illumination (both light and inspiration/understanding). 

Since it can be hard to actually show the oracle (much harder than a text-based one) and because my old man eyes sometimes need help to see the dice and icons, I decided to compile the icons in a different format here for references. These are sorted by one-sheet title, alphabetically. I will only post the ones I am currently using. Remember, they are not meant to be used literally, but as inspirational sparks.

The choice of icons is by Richard Woolcock (as provided in various Tricube Tales one-sheets). The icons are created by DarkZaitzev, Delapouite, Lorc, and Skoll of games-icon.net and also provided CC-BY 3.0. 

They are arranged (and colors applied) by Doug Bolden. The short title/phrase for each icon is as it appears on the original site for ease of finding them. Click images to see PDF for clearer readability and for screenreaders. 

Arcane Agents

Used in The GLOW.

Symbols from Arcane Agents


Guardians of the Shadow Frontier

Used in The Bloody Hands campaign. 


Maidenstead Mysteries

Used in Eustace Delmont and The GLOW. 

Various symbolic icons used in Maidenstead Mysteries


Spellrunners

Used in The GLOW.

Various symbols and icons from Spellrunners.



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