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Lunchtime is Dicetime! Join me, @armadajosh.bsky.social and @ickbat.bsky.social for a livestream on June 10th 12.30pm BST for a 30 min chat about gaming, game design and probably food and books. This session is all about world building in games. Sign up to be notified at the link! #ttrpg #rpg

Lovely to read reflections on Jesse and Tea's play of the Ex Tenebris quickstart. Sounds like it went well!

Carnival Tenebris enters the ring! Sign up for a playtest copy here: tinyurl.com/47vy2k7c Your circus is the only thing stopping Belphagor the demon from devouring the world. Set in the same universe as Ex Tenebris, on a fantasy steampunk world. The Show Must Go On! #ttrpg #rpg #indiegame

Friends, it was a nothingburger.

Still here folks, good job it isn't an actual emergency.

I am stuck in A&E waiting to be seen by a doctor. AMA. (Doesn't need to be A&E related.)

Last day of UKGE in Hall 3A, Stall 407!! @armadajosh.bsky.social and @ickbat.bsky.social are on the stall all day running 1 hour demos and selling games. Assisted by Seeds also running demo games. Lets clean @ickbat.bsky.social out of stock for Against Time and Death. #UKGE2026 #ttrpg

We are at UKGE this weekend - you can check out our extensive catalogue of games and play 1-hour demos with us - or just drop by and say hi! We're stall 3A-407. We also have @ickbat.bsky.social with us, with his duet game Against Time And Death debuting.

We are at UKGE this weekend - you can check out our extensive catalogue of games and play 1-hour demos with us - or just drop by and say hi! We're stall 3A-407. We also have @ickbat.bsky.social with us, with his duet game Against Time And Death debuting.

Expo is tomorrow so here's my shortlist of stands you should visit, starting with @uktin.bsky.social at stand 3-510, selling a range of RPGs from smaller creators. My own Project Cassandra will be available from them and I'll be working the stand on Saturday so please say hello!

You'll find @armadajosh.bsky.social, @beckyannison.bsky.social and special guest @ickbat.bsky.social over at stand 3A-407 - they're running 1 hour demos of their games all weekend, including of some that aren't out yet.

Keep a weather eye out for Black Armada Games (3A-407), a quest giver on the Stamp Quest trail. Black Armada Games make games that unleash your creativity, bring your favourite genres to life and give you feelings in your heart. Find out more here: blackarmada.com

Come and play games with us at UKGE - we will run you a full demo in 1 hour!

UKGE 2026 is happening real soon! I'm going to be there! Here's a little thread of things you should know: 1. How to find me 2. Against Time and Death's first con 3. Speed Daemons: first demos Come and say hi, pick up some cool games from the stall, and try something new!

Black Armada Games is running free 1 hour demo games on our stall at UKGE this year! You can come along on the day or sign up if there something you want to book ahead. Stand 3A-407 - look for the purple tentacles sign ups: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #UKGE2026 #rpg #ttpgs

Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played. I think for me it's: Ex Tenebris The King Is Dead Rapscallion Monsterhearts 2 Feels like this will be a year for playing lots of new stuff so hopefully that list will be ever-changing.

Just posted my third review, @beckyannison.bsky.social and @armadajosh.bsky.social's Lovecraftesque! eclecticdragonshorde.blogspot.com/2026/05/love... It is excellent - buy it - play it! #boardgame #narrativegame #blackarmada

Hey! You! I have a question for you. Are solo journaling games TTRPGs? I'm not asking for philosophy or taxonomic debate here. I just want to know, do YOU think of them as TTRPGs? Put it another way, do "solo journaling game" and "solo journaling TTRPG" mean essentially the same thing, to you?

This edition of Lovecraftesque is so, so, SO good!

The Big H is now up on the Black Armada Patreon. It's about a superhero who loses their way and becomes a tyrant. You play the lesser heroes who once looked up to them and must now fight them. You can buy it standalone, but patrons get it free, and much more. www.patreon.com/posts/new-ga...

Remember this pic from last UKGE? Black Armada and special guest @ickbat.bsky.social are back at UKGE for 2026 bringing our purple tentacles and this year (for the first time) running demo games on our stall. Free sign ups coming soon so pass the word on! #UKGE2026 #ttrpgs #rpgsky #rpg

Played Black Armada's Lovecraftesque last night for the second time. It was great fun, and even my more competitively minded friends enjoyed themselves. I will be writing a review for it in the coming weeks.

I remember when @armadajosh.bsky.social wrote this in the aftermath of the Brexit vote, although well before either of us heard of #TheBoys comics/tv show. Losing and finding your moral center seems (sadly) evergreen at the moment. The game is out for Patreon members! #ttrpg #rpg #supes

Listening back to our Black Armada Tales audio has reminded me that we have a pair of recurrent NPCs called Tizer and Scooby. I believe they first came up in Apocalypse World game and they always feature in our AW games, as a sort of British version of Roark and Rolfball.

The Big H is now up on the Black Armada Patreon. It's about a superhero who loses their way and becomes a tyrant. You play the lesser heroes who once looked up to them and must now fight them. You can buy it standalone, but patrons get it free, and much more. www.patreon.com/posts/new-ga...

New Black Armada Tales is out! Things reach boiling point. The team move the corrupted Tenebrium Drive into the clean room, but the room itself is sabotaged. Tamzi takes drastic action to fix things with severe personal consequences. #actualplay #realplay #ttrpg #rpg #gothicspace

48 hours to go on this! I found it a fun way to build a character with cool stuff and interesting background details based on the choices made. www.kickstarter.com/projects/rol...

*gasp* the fae who uses the handle greatktulu damn near everywhere owns this baby??? Ya damn right. Lovecraftesque 2E by @beckyannison.bsky.social and @armadajosh.bsky.social

Games I hope to play over the next year. These are all games I've taken from my shelves because I haven't yet played them* but am excited to do so. Time to get cracking! *Except The King Is Dead, which I'm in the middle of playing.

Games I hope to play over the next year. These are all games I've taken from my shelves because I haven't yet played them* but am excited to do so. Time to get cracking! *Except The King Is Dead, which I'm in the middle of playing.

The latest episode of Ex Tenebris is up! The investigation is hotting up, with tense interrogations, a noir detective monologue (sort of), the walls of reality breaking down and another letter from the mysterious Black Gate serial killer. #rpg #ttrpg #actualplay #realplay #spacegothic

It's our 200th episode of Black Armada Tales! 5 years of indie game actual plays! 14 different games, scores of characters, one award nomination and a whole lot of banter about food, regional accents, exercise, and all sorts of other silliness. We're still having a great time making it!

The latest episode of Ex Tenebris is up! The investigation is hotting up, with tense interrogations, a noir detective monologue (sort of), the walls of reality breaking down and another letter from the mysterious Black Gate serial killer. blackarmada.com/ex-tenebris-...

29. Last Fleet by @armadajosh.bsky.social An alien armada has destroyed human civilization. All that remains is a ragtag fugitive fleet of spacecraft, under the protection of a single capital warship. And the enemy is in relentless pursuit. An RPG directly inspired by "Battlestar Galactica."

Been reading Yazeba's and I have something to say. It is ridiculous (ridiculous!) to rank scones as high-diff. If anything pancakes are harder since (as @beckyannison.bsky.social says) you have to turn them. And jumping from scones to croissants is INSANE. My alt baking diff table is PWYW on itch

So true, and would have been in my post if it weren't for the wordcount limit. Proper difficulty analysis * How time-sensitive is it (fried things burn if you don't watch them) * How difficult is the technique (scones are basically just rubbing flour into butter) etc etc

Been reading Yazeba's and I have something to say. It is ridiculous (ridiculous!) to rank scones as high-diff. If anything pancakes are harder since (as @beckyannison.bsky.social says) you have to turn them. And jumping from scones to croissants is INSANE. My alt baking diff table is PWYW on itch

It's Easter Sunday. That seems like an excellent day to fund a murder.

Particularly enjoyed The King Is Dead. It's only the second time I've played a Firebrands-inspired system and I like the way it breaks down situations into a menu of beats and then lightly mechanises them. It inspired us to make some cool choices in play.

Just ran into @newmadras.bsky.social referenced in a book about the British Empire. It's like seeing your teacher in the supermarket, or something. I mean I knew theoretically that Thomas wrote about not-game stuff, but disorienting (in a cool way) to randomly bump into his work.

I'm looking forward to this cool new game from @loottheroom.bsky.social - looks like a different take on GMless mystery and I am always here for that! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...

Woah! Wu Zetian channeling Lovecraft here.

Hey so Loot The Room is going to disappear off the internet if I can't come up with about £250 in the next few days. If you've ever thought about picking up any of my games now would be an excellent time to do that. loottheroom.itch.io

My upcoming draft playtest pack for Carnival Tenebris is: - written - double checked - updated for current playtest feedback, and - sent to @armadajosh.bsky.social for a brutal edit. time to eat a hot cross bun and get started on some Ex Tenebris editing! #rpg #ttrpg #circusgothic #indiedesigner

A selection of comics/game covers accompanied by my logos. Artists are credited in the alt text!

My little duet regency romance/heist game!

Just scored 22 at Hanabi, I can die happy.

Greens won in Manchester, and not by a small margin. In a way it's horrifying that a by-election feels so high-stakes, but it's nice to have some good news. Huzzah.

9-and-a-bit hours left!