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

YouTube video by ANIM - Agency of Narrative Intrigue and Mystery Making a Pyrokinetic Punkette in Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy

youtu.be/ioUTlY4A-jM #ttrpg #indiettrpg #rpg

Watch this video to see a picture of a cat

kinda different from our other videos, I wanted to make more character creation videos, and decided to bring a friend. It turned into more of a podcast, and it was so fun I will be doing this again with others.

YouTube video by ANIM - Agency of Narrative Intrigue and Mystery Making a Pyrokinetic Punkette in Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy

youtu.be/ioUTlY4A-jM #ttrpg #rpgs #indiettrpgs #punk #vampire

Financial Status Update August 5th 2025

August Income Quota: $275.78/$3,454.82

Deadline: September 1st

A picture of Corvia, the customer's character, a very tall woman with pale skin and messy short black hair. Her eyes are glowing red her face is streaked with burn scars around them. She is wearing full black three-quarter armor over a green padded doublet and red bases. Her long dark leather boots and gloves are fitted with metal talons, and she is wearing a raven feather cloak off the shoulder. She is carrying a slender flamberge greatsword with a raven hilt, and a similar longsword in its scabbard on her belt.

The early modern bird gets the worm :y
#art

Okay, here's a second chance:

This anthology, which features my sci-fi story "The Storm", has 60% to go. If it's funded in time, I'll post a thread about what it was like to run afoul of Hurricane Harvey in the first week of my second NASA internship

#WritingCommunity #SciFi #ScienceFiction

Woo!

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We'll be happy to look over it; if it's good and follows the setting guide and stuff we might even promote it

Super glad to hear it, we think this kind of thing is super important to any RPG that wants to be played with prepped-but-not-scripted adventures (which is most OSR, Trad, and Neo-Trad type TTRPGs), and we're glad it's making it easier for people to write their own material

awesome!

Sounds creepy! Will this be available publicly or is it just for your own use? Also has the adventure module writing guide section of the rulebook been helpful?

Tell us the hook/premise!

A review for Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy. You can leave a 5-star review for Eureka by going to the top-right of the store page, and it would really help us out! Just note this is one of the rating systems where anything below a 5-star counts as negative. anim-ttrpg.itch.io/eureka-urban...

Teldramir: The Northern and Southern Stillwilds World Guide (physical book) - Adam Ma's Ko-fi Shop Teldramir is a TTRPG world setting compatible with 5th Edition, built from the ground up to be an inclusive land of adventure for experienced players...

Hey friends - this month I'm fundraising for my local @pflagcanada.bsky.social chapter in London, Ontario!

I know I don't have a lot of London locals following me on here, but I'll be donating 100% of the proceeds from my TTRPG sessions to PFLAG. This includes my Teldramir books!

YouTube video by Ludonauts! Gone with the Gnomes pt1, Mork Borg S1E7

It's new Ludonauts day! In the aftermath of the filthy, filthy journey down below Atlassia, the Royal Tax collectors must decide on a new direction - with all the hazards that travel brings...
It's the first part of our play through of GONE WITH THE GNOMES!
#morkborg
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Post by @anim-ttrpgs · 2 images 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 4 · Different Design Frameworks of TTRPGs · A lot of the ineffective discourse surrounding TTRPGs, and way more importantly a lot of the failures of TTRPG creators and players to make…

It is way beyond anything I could ever post in bluesky but I just wrote a huge essay about #ttrpgdesign frameworks which I have identified and posted it on tumblr. #ttrpg

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Its really good, like really really really good. Playing Eureka changes how you think about every other game. Few pieces of art can claim to do that with their medium.

A review for Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy. You can leave a 5-star review for Eureka by going to the top-right of the store page. Just note that this is one of the rating systems where anything below a 5-star counts as negative. #ttrpg anim-ttrpg.itch.io/eureka-urban... #indiettrpg #gamereview

Seriously!

because you didnt also read that each Investigative Roll must have a stated justifiable purpose so the answer of can you roll the Paperwork skill on this chest wound is NO

When you just hear things like “Investigative Rolls give Investigation Points, and it encourages a ‘click on everything’ approach,” it’s easy to kneejerk to “Eureka encourages you to use every single skill on every single thing every scene, making investigation a long slog of busywork”

I’m so adamant about people reading the rulebook instead of just learning Eureka second hand because it doesn’t just tell you the raw numbers, but how to apply them and what they mean, with nuance.

People assume that because some Eureka Traits have gendered names based on gendered tropes from noir and horror media, that Eureka insists on a strict biological gender binary in the mechanical abilities of men and women and that this also must be a -4 Strength situation.

People assume that because other TTRPGs gate seeing obvious features of the environment behind dice rolls, and that in Eureka examining clues is rolled for, that progress will constantly stop because a failed roll makes PCs blind to what is right in front of them.

People assume that investigation TTRPG gameplay with a set-in-stone truth to the mystery will just result in the party getting stuck constantly until the GM gives up and decides that whatever they guessed is correct and therefore a game like Eureka with a set-in-stone truth can not possibly work.

People assume that all TTRPG combat is a long back and forth slug-fest with no strategy that lasts most of a session for a single scene and therefore if Eureka has “deadly combat” it means you’re spending all that time just for your characters to die.

People assume that in a TTRPG it’s always the GM’s job to perform for the players and adjust(break) the rules on the fly constantly to produce a satisfying narrative and therefore our insistence that you not do that with Eureka and that its rules will produce a fun experience on their own is insane.

People assume adventure modules in TTRPG are always linear railroad scripts and so our strong recommendation of using adventure modules with Eureka is bad.

People assume that ability-to-kill-lots-of-people = spotlight time in every TTRPG and therefore that monster PCs in Eureka will get to do everything while everyone else just sits out.

People assume that any sort of feature which could lead to mistrust or conflict between PCs in a TTRPG will create a toxic play environment because they assume that players are their characters.