The Agency of Narrative Intrigue and Mystery (A.N.I.M.)

arguing with fucking Thomas Aquinas about Hell because of research for Death Bed

A “Shotgun Pistol” isn’t really any sort of real-world firearm terminology, we just needed something to call a gun like this to fit it into the way Eureka categorizes guns mechanically.

This is, like, the iconic “crime” gun.

A drawing of a double-barreled shotgun with a shortened stock and sawn-down barrels. Its breach is open and there is at least one shell visibly loaded.

Shotgun Pistol

A Browning BSS with the barrel sawn off drawn by @qsy.bsky.social for the firearm section of the Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy rulebook, providing a visual example of a Shotgun Pistol. #ttrpg #shotgun #pistol #indiettrpg #indiegame #tabletop #rpg #indierpgs

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International Game Masters Day is tomorrow, March 4th! ... Today, tomorrow, and this week, expect to see a bunch of great bundles, deals and other TTRPG things for the dungeon master/game master crowd!
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Just added confession, penance, mass, and indulgences to Death Bed: An Impenetrably Medieval Dungeon Game. #ttrpg #indiettrpg #tabletop

(correction, I meant USAS-12, not AA-12)

I don’t think an automatic shotgun has come into play in any Eureka game I’m aware of, even though they’d probably be the most effective option against monsters like vampires and wolfmen, not that vampires and wolfmen are realistically much more likely to be encountered than an automatic shotgun.

Automatic shotguns are uncommon and prone to jams in real life because the typical mechanisms that make automatic weapons function dont work as well with shotgun shells as they do regular bullets, but that doesnt mean youd want to have one pointed anywhere near you in either real life or Eureka

A drawing of an AA-12, a shotgun kinda resembling an M-16 rifle. It has a large drum magazine.

AA-12

Another weapon done by @qsy.bsky.social for the firearm section of the Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy rulebook, an AA-12 acting as a visual example for an Automatic Shotgun. #ttrpg #indiettrpg #indiegame #rpg #firearm #noir #neonoir #tabletop

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Before i continue this conversation, i just want to make sure. Am I talking to a real person here behind this account?

That’s a simplified summary of it, isn’t the ONLY theme explored by the playable paranormal monsters, but y’know, bluesky character limit.

Anyway the PCs in this game solve mysteries in a modern setting and sometimes the villain OR protagonist might be something spooky.

Eureka asserts even someone whose continued life relies on taking indefinitely from others still has as much right to live as somebody who “contributes,” and people should not be valued based on how much blood sweat and tears are required to keep them alive, even if they never repay that sacrifice

This is important because thematically, Eureka uses these paranormal elements to explore certain topics, such as disability. A vampire, for instance, is a person who has to subsist off the painful extraction of human blood from others, which is something a lot of disabled people identify with.

All playable paranormal creatures, such as vampires, are “normal people” who exist within society, not outside it. They have jobs, friends, apartments/houses, etc., and being a vampire is only one part of who they are as a person.

The ways these paranormal people go unnoticed or at least undocumented by wider society is thematically resonant with what the game has to say about “facts” and “truth,” very important things for a game about solving mysteries to grapple with.

Vampires and other paranormal people are not a SECRET being kept by a “masquerade,” it’s more so these things are just so exceedingly rare that, combined with the obvious incentives for a vampire not to reveal their vampirism, means they have largely slipped through the cracks of public awareness.

Despite taking place in the “real world,” the game does feature paranormal elements such as vampires, which most people in-setting don’t know exist.

The default setting of Eureka is just the present-day USA, in the “real world,” with a leaning towards focusing on the South, though the mystery module being played in this video actually takes place in Canada.

Agency of Narrative Intrigue and Mystery

Well, Eureka is a TTRPG primarily meant for “mystery solving” gameplay. We made it because we weren’t satisfied with a lot of similarly-focused TTRPGs and wanted to innovate and improve upon them.

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This is the second episode of our actual play of Muted Swallow, a module for Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy.

Leaving Emily and Maddison's house, Yvette suddenly has a very unexpected encounter with a familiar face, leading to a spontaneous dinner outing. But will this be a "dinner" both of them walk away from? Watch to find out!

YouTube video by ANIM - Agency of Narrative Intrigue and Mystery Muted Swallow Episode 2 - Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy Gameplay

youtu.be/DsIga_drnp8 #ttrpg #indiettrpg #indiegame #mystery #actualplay #actualplaypodcast #rpg #tabletop

Watch an 807-year-old vampire Comtesse and a 19-year-old homeless lesbian go to dinner in this second episode of the Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy playthrough of Muted Swallow!

YouTube video by ANIM - Agency of Narrative Intrigue and Mystery Muted Swallow Episode 2 - Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy Gameplay

youtu.be/DsIga_drnp8 #ttrpg
#indiettrpg #actualplay

The banner for Undead Paradise TTRPG. It shows the book cover and some background art of a ruined city.

Hi everyone!

I'm looking for a #ttrpg actual play group based in Australia to run an introductory scenario for Undead Paradise.

In this scenario, a group of recently reawakened zombies are introduced to the new mutated world and are asked to help locate some missing people in a depilated city.

Classic “film noir” is one of the major inspiration for Eureka’s, like, whole thing. Dark, dangerous crime fiction with anti-heroes who are constantly under threat of violence even if actual violence doesn’t happen “on-screen” all that often. And also there’s dangerous women.

A drawing of a black-and-white polaroid style picture depicting a woman in alow-cut black dress and black gloves going up to the elbow, smoking a cigarette with a long filter. The frame cuts off just above her nose.

Femme Fatale Polaroid

One of the Polaroid pieces being drawn by @qsy.bsky.social for the Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy rulebook. #art #digitalart #polaroid #noir #neonoir #femmefatale #ttrpg #indiettrpgs #indiegame #rpg #tabletop

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The Cog That Remains & Tales from the Cockpit Print Runs A Lost & Found game of a giant robot, its many pilots, and the passage of time, and a Wretched & Alone game of a mecha mechanic.

Final day of #ZineTopia @backerkit.com! Get Tales from the Cockpit, a Lost & Found solo game of a giant robot, its many pilots, and the passage of time! There are also stranded pilots, mecha mechanics, heists, dream hackers, and fleeing starships in the add-ons!! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Eureka may be 700 pages long by page count but if you go by word count (so like, the actual time it takes to read it), it's more like 200 pages long. We use big font. #eurekattrpg #ttrpgs #indiettrpgs

Oh yeah about that, we use big font. The book isn't actually 800 pages long by *word count* AKA time it takes to read, it is more like 200 pages, shorter than nearly every edition of D&D, and 60% of that is character options not rules you have to memorize unless your character has those abilities

I am supposed to be "clocking out" now so i can't give an in-depth response about the design philosophy and stuff right now, but thank you so much!