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

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

@anim-ttrpgs.bsky.social

A team comprised of lgbt and disabled individuals trying to make it in an industry dominated by D&D5e. Authors of Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy.

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5 hours ago

Yeah this is what every D&D (aka mainstream) module has been for like twenty years and why so many people now think the very CONCEPT of premade adventure modules is flawed

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7 hours ago

just a big scary dungeon to explore.

You could run it by itself stand-alone, or slot it in to any location in a larger campaign that there is supposed to be a dungeon at. It's modular. That's why it's called a "module."

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7 hours ago

and a curated set of a limited number of encounters the GM is told to put into whatever rooms they like!

There is no story that has to be followed with mandatory scenes that have to be railroaded towards, no fights the PCs have to win or lose or even engage with if they're clever,

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7 hours ago

Yeah! For anyone who likes dungeon crawl gameplay, old modules like In Search of the Unknown are WONDERFUL! Just a complex dungeon map with a grid, a brief description of each room for the GM including any traps and the price and weight of any treasure,

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8 hours ago

If anyone is thinking "well i avoid adventure modules because they're all just linear railroading scripts and take more work from the GM to fix them than it would take to prep new material" - the fact that you think that is the case IS the phenomenon I'm talking about.

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8 hours ago

It still really sucks that the past 20 or so years of mainstream published TTRPG adventure modules have been so bad that to the average TTRPG player today "adventure module" is almost synonymous with "bad." Like, the entire CONCEPT of a non-bespoke TTRPG adventure/dungeon/whatever has been tainted.

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10 hours ago
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Yvette/Alys Theme Draft 7 Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy OST YouTube video by ANIM - Agency of Narrative Intrigue and Mystery

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Yvette/Alys Theme Draft 7 - Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy OST

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1 day ago
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Contact - Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy OST YouTube video by ANIM - Agency of Narrative Intrigue and Mystery

Contact - Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy OST

Try listening to this on loop during tense scenes where the investigators are meeting someone who maybe shouldn't be talking to them, or maybe they shouldn't be talking to.

Composition by imsobadatnicknames2.tumblr.com

youtu.be/J1GdRdC5O3s #rpgs

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2 days ago

It really has the feel of something with character sprites over text boxes, like a visual novel.

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2 days ago
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Blue Mist (Eureka Edit) - Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy OST YouTube video by ANIM - Agency of Narrative Intrigue and Mystery

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Blue Mist (Eureka Edit) - Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy OST

Composition by imsobadatnicknames2.tumblr.com

Try listening to this on loop when the investigators are investigating, or preparing to investigate, in a relatively low stakes situation or environment. #ttrpgs

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3 days ago
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Hi everyone!

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Following the zombie apocalypse, the undead have reawakened with their memories and identities restored. Equipped with this new freedom, the zombies now explore the wastelands.

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3 days ago

I'm pretty sure @anim-ttrpgs.bsky.social was single handedly responsible for six month run of (small) but steady sales for Unchained Mysteries.

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3 days ago
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4 days ago

1 Penetrative Damage might not sound like much, but in Eureka, Penetrative Damage is very difficult to heal from, and can cause permanent crippling injuries, so even the minimum Penetrative Damage weapon is not to be taken lightly.

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4 days ago
A drawing a of a stilletto switchblade with the blade extended.

Switchblade

This is a switchblade drawn by team artist @qsy.bsky.social for Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy, serving as an example of a weapon that deals 1 Penetrative Damage.

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1 week ago

This is all off the top of my head, and I'm not REALLY a firearms expert, so somebody else may be able to give you a better and more specific explanation than i can.

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1 week ago

"single" and "double" action in the context of revolvers means the number of things a trigger pull does.

In a single action, a trigger pull does a single thing, drops the hammer into the firing pin to shoot a bullet.

In a double action, a trigger pull can set the hammer AND drop the hammer

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1 week ago

Weird fact, this model is qualified as an “assault weapon” under many state laws.

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1 week ago
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Double-Action Revolver

A Modèle 1892 drawn by @qsy.bsky.social for the Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy rulebook, providing a visual example of a Double Action Revolver. #revolver #gun #ttrpg #indiettrpgs #tabletop #indiegame #rpgs #art

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1 week ago
The cover of Noctopolis: An Apocalypse Keys Mystery from Calenmir's RPGs, which is formatted as a comic book newspaper cover. The central image is a group shot of seven superheroes. They include a dark-cloaked figure with a red mask, a Nightcrawler lookalike boosting up a fellow hero using water, a Black woman in powered armor giving the cloaked hero bunny ears, a tan woman with glowing spear & shield wearing hoplite armor, a St. Bernard waving at the camera, a heavyset white guy in street clothes and dazzle paint, and a pink-skinned person in a blue jay onesie. The caption names them as Chiropter, Water Weaver, Hex Wrench, Light Skirmisher, Anymorph, Captain Facepuncher, and Blue Jay, respectively.

The snippet of the "article" begins: Noctopolis, NERZ - After robots swarmed the business district, six Project Paragon heroes and one vigilante arrived on scene

The No ICE in Minnesota bundle is available for 1 more week! For $10, get over 1400 #TTRPGs / supplements (including a PDF of Noctopolis, my horror superhero module for Apocalypse Keys), and support immigrants in Minnesota!

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1 week ago

The few times she leaves her house for more than groceries, she always manages to get caught up in something terrible."

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1 week ago

She's the kind of girl to cram her tall self into the corner without anyone having to ask so she never takes up space just in case somebody else wanted to. She works a minimum-wage 9-5 and spends what little free time she has on the internet, reading books, watching anime, or programming.

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1 week ago
I picture of a woman in a very loose-fitting lavender sweater. She has purple dyed hair with brown roots showing, brown eyes, light skin, and is wearing a black face mask with a stylized cat mouth and whiskers on it.

Gwen Wilson, Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy PC posted with the permission of her creator, swakyflea. #ttrpg #indiettrpg anim-ttrpg.itch.io

"Gwen Wilson is a normal girl who is very tired and has severe anxiety, particularly social anxiety, particularly about lying to or upsetting anyone ever.

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1 week ago

This gun doesn’t have its own category in the firearm categories section, but if I were to stat it it would have RoF 1, standard pistol range, and no Stopping Power, but still of course do a very dangerous amount of damage like any firearm in Eureka.

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1 week ago
a drawing of a small derringer style pistil with two short barrels

Derringer

A derringer drawn by @qsy.bsky.social for Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy. #ttrpg #indiettrpgs #firearm #historicalfirearm #gun #indiegame #rpg

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1 week ago

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

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1 week ago

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.

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1 week ago
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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1 week ago
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1 week ago

Just added confession, penance, mass, and indulgences to Death Bed: An Impenetrably Medieval Dungeon Game. #ttrpg #indiettrpg #tabletop

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