@beckyannison.bsky.social
Award winning RPG Game Designer: Wreck This Deck, Bite Marks, Lovecraftesque and many more. Works in climate crisis prevention and knits all the things. (she/her) Games website: https://blackarmada.com/
A new episode of Black Armada Tales launched yesterday!
Come and catch up with the latest mystery, The Wrecking Yard.
A Tenebrium capable ship arrived at The Forge shipyard needing emergency repairs. Carrying deadly cargo and hidin deadlier secrets.
#actualplay #realplay #ttrpg #spacegothic #rpg
My upcoming draft playtest pack for Carnival Tenebris is:
- written
- double checked
- updated for current playtest feedback, and
- sent to @armadajosh.bsky.social for a brutal edit.
time to eat a hot cross bun and get started on some Ex Tenebris editing!
#rpg #ttrpg #circusgothic #indiedesigner
Ministers in the House of Lords have refused to rule out a Corporate Research Exemption in AI scraping regulations.
This must be lobbied, and I've asked my MP to do so.
@jessicatoale.bsky.social
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
🧵 1/4
Will we suddenly get a lot of cheap chips for laptops and have them come down in price?
02.03.2026 14:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0that is so depressing, our green party is very real and beautifully earnest.
27.02.2026 07:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Loving waking up to this news!
27.02.2026 06:59 — 👍 28 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0definitely real... what is the green party in the US, is it not a real thing?
27.02.2026 06:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I've launched 4 (very) successful TTRPG crowdfunding campaigns in as many years. One like = one no-nonsense take on indie TTRPG crowdfunding.
25.02.2026 19:31 — 👍 285 🔁 46 💬 44 📌 13
Reminder: you can follow the Play Unsafe Kickstarter now without worrying that it'll hit a round number of followers or anything. It just passed 333 and there aren't really any interesting numbers approaching.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra...
A black and white scrollwork bookplate illustration. It has large oval frame in the centre with a small banner at the bottom. Both are surrounded by symmetrical scrollwork on a starry sky background.
Recently completed bookplate illustration for an indie author ✨
24.02.2026 17:58 — 👍 64 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
Black Armada Tales has a new episode out!
We play Ex Tenebris an underfunded team of investigators protecting the republic against dark forces in the Tenebrium.
A moment of reprieve for the team to relax won't last long.
#realplay #actualplay #ttrpg #rpg #spacegothic
Watching the death of thought with ai in realtime at work, as a guy continually prompts a model until it changes a single word in a paragraph, instead of just.. y'know, writing that word himself
17.02.2026 11:25 — 👍 47 🔁 9 💬 6 📌 1
Apparently nothing moves my beloved friends faster from 'I'm too busy' to 'I can make Monday' than...
'Well I suppose I could run Monsterhearts again'
Love you guys!
#ttrpg #rpglife
hang on , what did I miss?
25.02.2026 07:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I love this series and was over the moon to do an episode of the Appendix N Book Club, on the first book, a couple of years ago.
Check it out!
#booksky #ttrpg #rpgs #appendixN
model of a giant toad wearing a massive fly agaric backpack or hat. his tongue is extended in the process of trying to grab some dinner.
everyone's heard of a toadstool, but how often have you seen a stooltoad?
Our lifesized/giant (depending on if you're a human or a 28mm miniature) toad, Kenneth, comes with alternate open and closed mouth pieces so you can have him schlorping or sitting smug under his agaric hat.
Starmer arranging an emergency press conference for 11am to tell the entire nation to get back to work.
19.02.2026 10:51 — 👍 144 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 0
I don't use Chatgpt or any similar and this article basically sums up (one of the reasons) why. I feared that without being able to see the underlying sources that this it what might happen and it looks like... it is.
But I guess a lot of people have bet the farm on convincing us this is all fine.
We reach the brilliant Betrayer by beloved Aaron Demski Bowden, 472nd book in the Horus Heresy series and the sequel to Know No Fear! What a great book and I get to discuss it with everyone's fave Warhammer lore YouTuber @arbitorian.bsky.social too! Enjoy :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NGY...
Reposting with ALT because this kind of phenomenal disdain and disrespect from within the industry literally against two of their own titles and the designer who made them is important to recognize.
17.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 513 🔁 152 💬 58 📌 76Something like 24 hours now…
18.02.2026 06:54 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
just 1 day left to grab this Bundle of Holding with of 7 duet TTRPGs for just $9.95, including my game I Have the High Ground ⚔️!
want a quick, no-prep 2-player TTRPG about the (oft-though-not-necessarily romantic) tension of pre-duel banter? check it out!
🔗: bundleofholding.com/presents/For...
Photo of Lovecraftesque 2E, showing box, two rules booklets and three sets of supplement card decks.
Interior spread from Lovecraftesque 2E rules booklet, a clean single-column layout using parchment background with 19th century visual details, and inset example card images to illustrate the rules text.
Cover of Wonder x Worlds, an image of a person in the foreground facing a fantastic landscape, vertically divided so that the left side is fantasy-coded and the right sci-fi coded. Title reads WONDER x WORLDS - Colin H. Kuhl - A Roleplaying Game Engine for Limitless Adventure, typeset in clean contemporary style.
Interior spread from Wonder x Worlds, showing a 2-column layout with in-line infographics and callout box on left page, and full-page flowchart diagram for a "Solo Mode" process on the right page. Layout combines a clean contemporary approach with typography referencing classic sci-fi game manuals, and the color coding for this spread is light and dark blues.
I just updated my portfolio page with some of my fav recent projects - Lovecraftesque 2E from @armadajosh.bsky.social & @beckyannison.bsky.social, and Wonder × Worlds from @colinkahl.bsky.social.
I have time coming up, get in touch if you're looking for layout help!
www.ndpdesign.com/portfolio
100% true
17.02.2026 10:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I have started reading Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake (a bit late to the party but hey ho).
It is absolutely mindblowing. Not only what we know about fungi but what we don't. Feel like someone has said 'oh space exists, but no-one wants to fund research so we don't know anything about it.' WTF!
Happy Pancake Day to all who celebrate
17.02.2026 07:27 — 👍 48 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 3
My Zinequest project is live!
In Small Folk in Big Coats you each play as a little guy in a stack masquerading a single big guy. You're unlikely to get caught, but you’re even less likely to work together.
It’s very silly and easy to get playing. Go Check it out!
tinyurl.com/sfibc
Feeling a bit of a post-Valentine's Day comedown?
Why not recapture some of the magic with a bundle of top-notch two-player ttrpgs? Featuring my very own... <checks notes>... Chiron's Doom, a tragic game about a doomed expedition!
(For real, add some romance and the tragedy gets even juicier!)
Generosity of play. They lift up the other players and the GM.
13.02.2026 17:02 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0