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Becky Annison 🔜 Dragonmeet
@beckyannison.bsky.social
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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/
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Today is shaping up to be an exciting day.
Packet of gingerbread flavoured Doritos and a gingerbread flavoured Pepsi.
October 24, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Putting together my 'what tasks do I need to shepherd people through for session 0' so I don't forget anything.

Devil Tarot Card to remind me to be tempting the players down dark paths from session 0 ;)

#rpg #ttrpg #playtesting #darkcircus
List of rpg session 0 tasks to take the players through in order to prep the set up for the game. 1. Get players to introduce themselves 2. Safety tools 3. Intro to the vibe of the game 4. System overview 5. Choose character playbooks and fill out plus relationship questions and roles. 6. Fill in the Circus Playbill 7. Intro the scenario 8. Fill in the scenario questions 9. Get the players to intro their characters. Plus a picture of the Devil Tarot Card from the Light Seer's Tarot.
October 20, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Now into the final week of Ex Tenebris, our gothic space horror #ttrpg

If you like investigation games, dark gothic settings in a star spanning universe and being a frail line of defence against horrors from another realm...

Check it out!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...
Picture of a futuristic hive city with alien structures. Interior art for Ex Tenebris a ttrpg currently kickstarting.
October 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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As I'm designing my next game I'm have this scrawled on my big notepad to make sure it is front and center in the design process.

#ttrpg #gamedesign
Diagram with labels reading 'fiction', 'mechanics' and 'mouth feeling and arrows going to and from each one to each of the others.
September 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Guess what I found today @ursidice.bsky.social. I think you gave this to me one Dragonmeet but I can't remember which one.
Old sticker sheet created by Ursidice.
September 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Hobbit witch... see what I mean.

I probably need a hat though.
Picture of Becky in front of a rose bush wearing clothes that make her look like a hobbit witch
September 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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New snack alert in the house! They taste like After Eight mints only better
Dark green packet with a large picture of an almond on the front covered in chocolate. Text on packet reads peppermint cream dark chocolate almonds.
September 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Had to replace my well loved rucksack today. After 6 years and lots of mending it was so shredded I couldn't mend it anymore.

Testing out locations for the new patches I'm sewing on it. I've rescued the old patches but they are being washed.

#sewing
Petrol blue rucksack with decorative patches placed on it ready for sewing.
August 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Excited to start digging into this before my next round of writing on 'Untitled Post Apocalyptic Circus Game' in September.

#ttrpg #gamedesign
Picture of a notepad and pen and a copy of 'Worldbuilding for Game Designers' by Steve Dee
August 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Nice!

@armadajosh.bsky.social
Screen shot of the Ex Tenebris pre-launch kickstarter page with 69 followers
July 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Off to play some Ex Tenebris tonight with my usual crew. Been a while because of holidays and diary clashes but I am SO ready for this.

Got my tragic character background and a fistful of dice and I'm ready to go!

#ttrpg #gothicspacehorror #scifi
A strange eldritch portal with the limbs of a monster starting to emerge into the space city. Front cover of the Ex Tenebris roleplaying game by Josh Fox.
June 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Just finished reading this from @armadajosh.bsky.social's massive pile of Ravenloft novels. #books
Front cover of a book with a Knight on the front standing in front of a set of stairs. Novel is 'Knight of the Black Rose' by James Lowder.
June 20, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Finally getting into playing the Alamanac of the Sanguine Paths by @montfordtales.com - doing the solo version where I play both sides of the letter writing conversation. Really loving exploring the same theme them from different angles and personalities.

#solorpgs #solojournaling #werewolves
A flat lay comprised of the following items - fountain pen, written journal entries for the game, two tarot cards face down and a copy of the Almanac of the Sanguine Paths by Rori Montford.
June 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
June 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Well, this heist rpg pratically writes itself.

God hordes light refracted through a million water droplets making the most powerful symbol of hope after dark times... you are going to steal it, pick your team.

#happypridemonth
Text of a twitter thread reads: Bryan Fischer: Worst example of cultural appropriation ever: LGBTs stole the rainbow from God. It's his. He invented it. Gen.9:11-17 Give it back. Reply by Christ Stedman: One of my favorite things about pride month is celebrating the many achievements of the LGBTQ community, like when we collectively stole the rainbow from God.
June 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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I barely left the stall at UKGE this year but Deb of @miserymakes.bsky.social dropped by with these awesome mini zines for me which I LOVE! I finally got a copy of @montfordtales.com Almanac of Sanguine Paths, which I've been meaning to get for ages. #ukge2025 #solojournallinggames #ttrpg
Copy of the book The Almanac of the Sanguine Paths by Montford Tales and 4 black and which mini zines by Misery Makes.
June 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Last few hours of UKGE - but still time to head to Hall 2 Stall 822 and pick up a Lovecraftesque...

Or the final copy of the Last Fleet Deluxe edition!

#ukge2025 #rpg #ttrpg
Picture of Josh in front of the Black Armada Stand holding a copy of Lovecraftesque.
June 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Last day of UKGE! Come and play with the hidden UV art on Lovecraftesque and maybe buy it.

Hall 2 - Stall 822

@armadajosh.bsky.social and @ickbat.bsky.social are doing the last shift today and are probably both very tired so please give them some moral support!
Picture of Becky on the Black Armada UKGE stall with a copy of Bite Marks
June 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Josh is finally on his way from from Birmingham UKGE set up day having done a Herculean job setting up the Black Armada stall!

Please make sure you come along to Hall 2 - Stall 822 to admire it ;)

#ukge2025 #ttrpg #rpg
Picture of the Black Armada Stall at Dragonmeet with a large display of Lovecraftesque games. 4 large purple tentacles are sprouting from the back of the display Another view of the Black Armada Games stall with the large banner, books piled up on the front table.
May 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Black Armada is excited to be taking part in the @uktin.bsky.social Stamp Quest again at UKGE 2025.

We even have a brand new stamp. I love it so much I'll probably stamp anything that stays still for too long. Including customers (especially customers!).

#ukge2025 #ttrpg #rpg #stationarylovers
Stamp of the Black Armada name and logo on a test piece of paper.
May 28, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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UKGE we are coming! @armadajosh.bsky.social even bought this new banner to celebrate ;)

Hall 2 - Stall 822, come and admire it this weekend!

#ukge2025 #ttrpg #rpg
Picture of Becky in an orange t-shirt standing in front of a giant Black Armada banner. Banner features artwork from the front covers of ttrpgs Last Fleet, Lovecraftesque and Bite Marks!
May 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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When I finish reviewing the contract cluse on my desk... I will crack open this bad boy!

How long before I get the urge to wrote on the cards that come with it? Bets now please!
Picture of the Mappa Mundi rpg boxed set.
May 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Last year at UKGE I remember reading a really exciting bit of Flight of the Eisenstein while both kids were in a short RPG session.

Already prepared for this year...

How time flies when you are chugging through the Horus Heresy.

#ukge2025 #warhammer40k #horusheresy
Picture of the front cover of the Know No Fear book by Dan Abnett. Space Marine in the middle of a fight.
May 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Black Armada Games coming to UKGE - stall 2-822

Come and see the UV hidden art in Lovecraftesque, browse our range of zines and say hi to our special guest @ickbat.bsky.social who is bringing Chiron's Doom among other games!

#UKGE #ttrpg #rpg
Green sigil on a black background with the words: Lovecraftesque - A storytelling game of cosmic horror by Joshua Fox and Becky Annison.
May 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Black Armada Tales has a new epsiode out and we are starting a new game!

Chiron's Doom by @ickbat.bsky.social !

#actualplay #ttrpg #rpg

open.spotify.com/episode/2Xa7...
Turquoise background and the words that read - Black Armada Tales Presents: Chiron's Doom. With 3 silhouette figures of adventurers in the foreground.
May 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM