Becky Annison 🔜 Dragonmeet
@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/
Games website: https://blackarmada.com/
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Coming soon: Ex Tenebris: A gothic space TTRPG
Unravel mysteries, battle horrors, protect the stars
www.kickstarter.com
Ex Tenebris has launched!
Beyond the dark emptiness of space, beyond dreaming, lies the Tenebrium. Only you can unearth its mysteries, defeat the twisted horrors that lurk there, and keep humanity from becoming prey.
Please share the link and back (if you want)
#ttrpg #kickstarter #spacegothic
Beyond the dark emptiness of space, beyond dreaming, lies the Tenebrium. Only you can unearth its mysteries, defeat the twisted horrors that lurk there, and keep humanity from becoming prey.
Please share the link and back (if you want)
#ttrpg #kickstarter #spacegothic
Game design is 90% cycling through 'this is amazing, my system is an elegant piece of genius' and 'what the heck is this - how do all these moving parts even work, why even am I!!' an 10% filing the serial numbers of your fav book, computer game, tv show, movie.
#ttrpg #gamedesign
#ttrpg #gamedesign
November 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Game design is 90% cycling through 'this is amazing, my system is an elegant piece of genius' and 'what the heck is this - how do all these moving parts even work, why even am I!!' an 10% filing the serial numbers of your fav book, computer game, tv show, movie.
#ttrpg #gamedesign
#ttrpg #gamedesign
With a fair wind the Black Armada team and special guest @ickbat.bsky.social will be at Dragonmeet this year with a stall and all our lovely games.
I'll share a map nearer the time, but excited to see how different it is being at the Excel. Where will the Indie Designers go for dinner afterwards?!!
I'll share a map nearer the time, but excited to see how different it is being at the Excel. Where will the Indie Designers go for dinner afterwards?!!
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
With a fair wind the Black Armada team and special guest @ickbat.bsky.social will be at Dragonmeet this year with a stall and all our lovely games.
I'll share a map nearer the time, but excited to see how different it is being at the Excel. Where will the Indie Designers go for dinner afterwards?!!
I'll share a map nearer the time, but excited to see how different it is being at the Excel. Where will the Indie Designers go for dinner afterwards?!!
This reminded me, I'm overdue reading the next Horus Heresy book! Time to dig out 'Fear to Tread'.
November 12, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This reminded me, I'm overdue reading the next Horus Heresy book! Time to dig out 'Fear to Tread'.
Less than 24 hours left on this years Bundle of Tentacles!
Some fantastic products in here include Lovecraftesque 2e, Stealing Cthulhu and Cthulhu Dark by @gramjd.bsky.social and the @farhorizonscoop.bsky.social' guide to cults!
Please check it out
#ttrpg #cosmichorror #lovecraft
Some fantastic products in here include Lovecraftesque 2e, Stealing Cthulhu and Cthulhu Dark by @gramjd.bsky.social and the @farhorizonscoop.bsky.social' guide to cults!
Please check it out
#ttrpg #cosmichorror #lovecraft
Bundle of Tentacles 7
Investigator! This Bundle of Tentacles 7 is our seventh all-new library of Sanity-shattering tabletop roleplaying ebooks inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos. Illuminate your position in the cosmos with fiv...
bundleofholding.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Less than 24 hours left on this years Bundle of Tentacles!
Some fantastic products in here include Lovecraftesque 2e, Stealing Cthulhu and Cthulhu Dark by @gramjd.bsky.social and the @farhorizonscoop.bsky.social' guide to cults!
Please check it out
#ttrpg #cosmichorror #lovecraft
Some fantastic products in here include Lovecraftesque 2e, Stealing Cthulhu and Cthulhu Dark by @gramjd.bsky.social and the @farhorizonscoop.bsky.social' guide to cults!
Please check it out
#ttrpg #cosmichorror #lovecraft
Running another playtest session of Carnival Tenebris tonight and suddenly remembering this is a one shot - I only have 2 sessions left to fully wrap the mystery and the players only have one clue so far.
Moving from 'let the game breathe' to 'and you stumble on another clutch of clues'.
#ttrpg
Moving from 'let the game breathe' to 'and you stumble on another clutch of clues'.
#ttrpg
November 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Running another playtest session of Carnival Tenebris tonight and suddenly remembering this is a one shot - I only have 2 sessions left to fully wrap the mystery and the players only have one clue so far.
Moving from 'let the game breathe' to 'and you stumble on another clutch of clues'.
#ttrpg
Moving from 'let the game breathe' to 'and you stumble on another clutch of clues'.
#ttrpg
New episode of Black Armada Tales is out!
In Ex Tenebris, we play a ragtag team of investigators, protecting the Republic of Stars from terrifying supernatural threats. We have stumbled on a horrifying cult and hopefully we are about to break the case wide open.
#actualplay #realplay #ttrpg
In Ex Tenebris, we play a ragtag team of investigators, protecting the Republic of Stars from terrifying supernatural threats. We have stumbled on a horrifying cult and hopefully we are about to break the case wide open.
#actualplay #realplay #ttrpg
Ex Tenebris part 15 (episode 183)
Podcast Episode · Black Armada Tales · 11/11/2025 · 39m
podcasts.apple.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
New episode of Black Armada Tales is out!
In Ex Tenebris, we play a ragtag team of investigators, protecting the Republic of Stars from terrifying supernatural threats. We have stumbled on a horrifying cult and hopefully we are about to break the case wide open.
#actualplay #realplay #ttrpg
In Ex Tenebris, we play a ragtag team of investigators, protecting the Republic of Stars from terrifying supernatural threats. We have stumbled on a horrifying cult and hopefully we are about to break the case wide open.
#actualplay #realplay #ttrpg
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Hi all, we're currently looking for feedback on how you, as our community, feel about our current stance on generative AI. www.patreon.com/posts/uk-tin...
UK TIN GenAI Policy Feedback | UK Tabletop Industry Network
Get more from UK Tabletop Industry Network on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Hi all, we're currently looking for feedback on how you, as our community, feel about our current stance on generative AI. www.patreon.com/posts/uk-tin...
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two days left to buy the @bundleofholding.com BUNDLE OF TENTACLES 7, which has amazing stuff by @farhorizonscoop.bsky.social, @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social, @ravengodgames.bsky.social, @armadajosh.bsky.social & @beckyannison.bsky.social, Mind's Vision, and Late Gaming Company. a bargain at $25.04!
November 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
two days left to buy the @bundleofholding.com BUNDLE OF TENTACLES 7, which has amazing stuff by @farhorizonscoop.bsky.social, @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social, @ravengodgames.bsky.social, @armadajosh.bsky.social & @beckyannison.bsky.social, Mind's Vision, and Late Gaming Company. a bargain at $25.04!
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Cover reveal for Mud Ghost Estate Redux! 👻
Mud Ghost Estate is a TTRPG inspired by folklore and urban legends of Hong Kong, where you play as teenagers in the 90s exploring a haunted public housing estate.
Launching soon on Kickstarter!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...
Mud Ghost Estate is a TTRPG inspired by folklore and urban legends of Hong Kong, where you play as teenagers in the 90s exploring a haunted public housing estate.
Launching soon on Kickstarter!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...
November 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Cover reveal for Mud Ghost Estate Redux! 👻
Mud Ghost Estate is a TTRPG inspired by folklore and urban legends of Hong Kong, where you play as teenagers in the 90s exploring a haunted public housing estate.
Launching soon on Kickstarter!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...
Mud Ghost Estate is a TTRPG inspired by folklore and urban legends of Hong Kong, where you play as teenagers in the 90s exploring a haunted public housing estate.
Launching soon on Kickstarter!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...
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Here We GO! Come along, my dearies!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Here We GO! Come along, my dearies!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
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Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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@beckyannison.bsky.social has said something similar to me... at least once.
Every ttrpg is required to have a 'freak' class. Like one that objectively stands out as "What the fuck is wrong with you" compared to the others
November 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
@beckyannison.bsky.social has said something similar to me... at least once.
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Want to play Lovecraftian horror but not sure which system to use?
Tentacles 7 bundle collects indie Cthulhu TTRPGs like Lovecraftesque and Cthulhu Dark
The "Tentacles 7" bundle at Bundle of Holding collects several complete, standalone Lovecraftian TTRPGs from different independent publishers.
www.geeknative.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Want to play Lovecraftian horror but not sure which system to use?
That feeling before you GM a session that you have no understanding at all of a system that you've not only read and played but actually wrote.
The brain weasels are the worst. Le sigh!
The brain weasels are the worst. Le sigh!
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
That feeling before you GM a session that you have no understanding at all of a system that you've not only read and played but actually wrote.
The brain weasels are the worst. Le sigh!
The brain weasels are the worst. Le sigh!
Time to confess my 'Currently Reading Pile' (fairly under control atm)
The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights
The Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros
Six of Crows Leigh Bardugo
Ancestral Grimoire Nancy Hendrikson
City of Last Chances Adrian Tchaikovsky
#booksky
The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights
The Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros
Six of Crows Leigh Bardugo
Ancestral Grimoire Nancy Hendrikson
City of Last Chances Adrian Tchaikovsky
#booksky
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Time to confess my 'Currently Reading Pile' (fairly under control atm)
The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights
The Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros
Six of Crows Leigh Bardugo
Ancestral Grimoire Nancy Hendrikson
City of Last Chances Adrian Tchaikovsky
#booksky
The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights
The Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros
Six of Crows Leigh Bardugo
Ancestral Grimoire Nancy Hendrikson
City of Last Chances Adrian Tchaikovsky
#booksky
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New episode of Black Armada Tales is here!
I've been a bit slow in posting recently because the kickstarter kinda wiped me out.
But we are playing Ex Tenebris the star spanning, gothic space investigation game and if that sounds like your jam the please check it out!
#actualplay #realplay #ttrpg
I've been a bit slow in posting recently because the kickstarter kinda wiped me out.
But we are playing Ex Tenebris the star spanning, gothic space investigation game and if that sounds like your jam the please check it out!
#actualplay #realplay #ttrpg
Ex Tenebris part 14 (episode 182)
Podcast Episode · Black Armada Tales · 04/11/2025 · 45m
podcasts.apple.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
New episode of Black Armada Tales is here!
I've been a bit slow in posting recently because the kickstarter kinda wiped me out.
But we are playing Ex Tenebris the star spanning, gothic space investigation game and if that sounds like your jam the please check it out!
#actualplay #realplay #ttrpg
I've been a bit slow in posting recently because the kickstarter kinda wiped me out.
But we are playing Ex Tenebris the star spanning, gothic space investigation game and if that sounds like your jam the please check it out!
#actualplay #realplay #ttrpg
Reposted by Becky Annison 🔜 Dragonmeet
Lovecraftesque 2e is in the current Bundle of Tentacles 7!
We are in amazing company with @farhorizonscoop.bsky.social' guide to cults and the book that inspired Lovecraftesque... Stealing Cthuhlu by @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social.
Total bargain for those books alone
#ttrpg #cosmichorror #lovecraft
We are in amazing company with @farhorizonscoop.bsky.social' guide to cults and the book that inspired Lovecraftesque... Stealing Cthuhlu by @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social.
Total bargain for those books alone
#ttrpg #cosmichorror #lovecraft
Bundle of Tentacles 7
Investigator! This Bundle of Tentacles 7 is our seventh all-new library of Sanity-shattering tabletop roleplaying ebooks inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos. Illuminate your position in the cosmos with fiv...
bundleofholding.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Lovecraftesque 2e is in the current Bundle of Tentacles 7!
We are in amazing company with @farhorizonscoop.bsky.social' guide to cults and the book that inspired Lovecraftesque... Stealing Cthuhlu by @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social.
Total bargain for those books alone
#ttrpg #cosmichorror #lovecraft
We are in amazing company with @farhorizonscoop.bsky.social' guide to cults and the book that inspired Lovecraftesque... Stealing Cthuhlu by @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social.
Total bargain for those books alone
#ttrpg #cosmichorror #lovecraft
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On some level, every RPG design is an argument for how things could be better. Few things motivate design like seeing another game and being inspired by what it could be, but is not.
So you make this beautiful argument with your soul, and the overwhelming response is *always* to keep playing D&D
So you make this beautiful argument with your soul, and the overwhelming response is *always* to keep playing D&D
November 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
On some level, every RPG design is an argument for how things could be better. Few things motivate design like seeing another game and being inspired by what it could be, but is not.
So you make this beautiful argument with your soul, and the overwhelming response is *always* to keep playing D&D
So you make this beautiful argument with your soul, and the overwhelming response is *always* to keep playing D&D
My introvert soul just fled my fucking body
Two
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Twenty
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The world’s biggest board game fair, Spiel Essen, secured a record-breaking 220,000 attendance this year after expanding into a seventh massive hall – while the decision to scrap 4-day passes secured a hefty boost to visitor numbers on its often quieter final day:
boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
My introvert soul just fled my fucking body
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I am BACK at Dragonmeet this year and we're doing things a bit differently. There's no all-day PoC Lounge this year but the midday hangout is STILL ON so come join us at any time between 12:30 and 2:30. We're also doing one panel where EVERYONE is welcome so catch us on Seminar Track 3 at 3:30💜
November 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I am BACK at Dragonmeet this year and we're doing things a bit differently. There's no all-day PoC Lounge this year but the midday hangout is STILL ON so come join us at any time between 12:30 and 2:30. We're also doing one panel where EVERYONE is welcome so catch us on Seminar Track 3 at 3:30💜
Lovecraftesque 2e is in the current Bundle of Tentacles 7!
We are in amazing company with @farhorizonscoop.bsky.social' guide to cults and the book that inspired Lovecraftesque... Stealing Cthuhlu by @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social.
Total bargain for those books alone
#ttrpg #cosmichorror #lovecraft
We are in amazing company with @farhorizonscoop.bsky.social' guide to cults and the book that inspired Lovecraftesque... Stealing Cthuhlu by @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social.
Total bargain for those books alone
#ttrpg #cosmichorror #lovecraft
Bundle of Tentacles 7
Investigator! This Bundle of Tentacles 7 is our seventh all-new library of Sanity-shattering tabletop roleplaying ebooks inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos. Illuminate your position in the cosmos with fiv...
bundleofholding.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Lovecraftesque 2e is in the current Bundle of Tentacles 7!
We are in amazing company with @farhorizonscoop.bsky.social' guide to cults and the book that inspired Lovecraftesque... Stealing Cthuhlu by @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social.
Total bargain for those books alone
#ttrpg #cosmichorror #lovecraft
We are in amazing company with @farhorizonscoop.bsky.social' guide to cults and the book that inspired Lovecraftesque... Stealing Cthuhlu by @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social.
Total bargain for those books alone
#ttrpg #cosmichorror #lovecraft
New episode of Black Armada Tales is here!
I've been a bit slow in posting recently because the kickstarter kinda wiped me out.
But we are playing Ex Tenebris the star spanning, gothic space investigation game and if that sounds like your jam the please check it out!
#actualplay #realplay #ttrpg
I've been a bit slow in posting recently because the kickstarter kinda wiped me out.
But we are playing Ex Tenebris the star spanning, gothic space investigation game and if that sounds like your jam the please check it out!
#actualplay #realplay #ttrpg
Ex Tenebris part 14 (episode 182)
Podcast Episode · Black Armada Tales · 04/11/2025 · 45m
podcasts.apple.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
New episode of Black Armada Tales is here!
I've been a bit slow in posting recently because the kickstarter kinda wiped me out.
But we are playing Ex Tenebris the star spanning, gothic space investigation game and if that sounds like your jam the please check it out!
#actualplay #realplay #ttrpg
I've been a bit slow in posting recently because the kickstarter kinda wiped me out.
But we are playing Ex Tenebris the star spanning, gothic space investigation game and if that sounds like your jam the please check it out!
#actualplay #realplay #ttrpg
Reposted by Becky Annison 🔜 Dragonmeet
UK Games Expo promoted a tabletop RPG on Instagram that claimed to use "fully ethical and transparent" generative AI. Everything went downhill once the publisher began responding to criticism.
UK Games Expo criticized for promoting RPG with generative AI imagery
Gates of Krystalia’s creators insult commenters, struggle to explain provenance of LLM training material.
www.rascal.news
November 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
UK Games Expo promoted a tabletop RPG on Instagram that claimed to use "fully ethical and transparent" generative AI. Everything went downhill once the publisher began responding to criticism.
Finally finished a route the next grade up at the climbing gym this morning. Slow baby steps - but progress :)
November 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Finally finished a route the next grade up at the climbing gym this morning. Slow baby steps - but progress :)
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In other discount shopping news, we're taking part in Backerkit's holiday market. It's a chance to grab bundles of our existing products at a discount. Sign up on our launch page to be reminded when the offer goes live!
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Get Ready for Black Armada Christmas bundles
From Black Armada Games - Get Ready for Black Armada Christmas bundles
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November 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
In other discount shopping news, we're taking part in Backerkit's holiday market. It's a chance to grab bundles of our existing products at a discount. Sign up on our launch page to be reminded when the offer goes live!
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...