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

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

#booksky knocking it out of the park with crossover advice for #ttrpgsky

Finished our game of The King Is Dead by @lumpley.bsky.social and @megueyb.bsky.social last night. I might not have won the throne but I sure as hell married the King and I bet I was the real power in the end ;)

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

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

Struggling with game writing today - I think I have said 'a strange and unknown alloy' one too many times but it is getting hard to tell.

Well this will be my reward for getting my writing done today! Tomorrow is another problem

I am very happy to announce that we have released Black Hole Sun; a mission for After the War which is perfect for one-shot convention games. Check it out and spread the word! #IndieRPG #SciFi www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

If you're making something for the #RomantasyTTRPG jam, boy does Ramona have something for youuuu

Don't forget that Lovecraftesque isn't just a cracking hit in Italy (thanks to Narrativa) but an awesome game in English to :) #ttrpg #rpg #lovecraft #horror blackarmada.com/product-cate...

Going after Parkrun – a non-competitive event which has no changing rooms – perfectly illustrates that it's never been about fairness in sport, women's safety or anything else. It's about bullying and demonising trans people, hounding them out of public life in every space possible. It's disgusting.

welp

This actually happened sooner than I expected

Here's the second part of my series about how to design tabletop RPGs. It looks at the tools you can use, using Lady Blackbird by @johnharper.bsky.social as an example. (Please repost this, it helps!) #ttrpg www.patreon.com/posts/how-to...

*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

brb have to move house so I can support @mazistyping.bsky.social !!!!

Speaking of Lovecraftesque... Two full games of Lovecraftesque are running at UKGE this year. One Friday night from 8pm and one Saturday night from 8pm. Slots are still available for both if you want to sign up. www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/events/3263-...

Don't forget that Lovecraftesque isn't just a cracking hit in Italy (thanks to Narrativa) but an awesome game in English to :) #ttrpg #rpg #lovecraft #horror blackarmada.com/product-cate...

Today I have been wrangling the character keeper for the upcoming Carnival Tenebris playtest pack. It is 90% done and I am so tired of cutting and pasting text now :(

This list needs more werewolves: Bite Marks by @beckyannison.bsky.social

It's #gothic writing season on The Raspy Raven (see link in bio). We've been tasked by @groewe.bsky.social to write a #TTRPG game or scenario by 31/Aug. But what is Gothic? What are the key tropes? How do you make it gameable? What system? What genre? Any thoughts? Please share this post 🙏

But when are you going to run it for me! That is the important question here @ickbat.bsky.social

Currently playing The King is Dead by @lumpley.bsky.social and @megueyb.bsky.social and it is giving me BIG design thoughts and inspiration! It is also absolutely loads of fun. #ttrpg #rpg #parlourgaming

New episode of Black Armada Tales is out! We had a solid plan to deal with the horrific existential threat... and then Hamda aka: @ickbat.bsky.social opened his big mouth and it all went wrong! #actualplay #realplay #ttrpg #rpg #spacegothic

Hello new followers! I'm Alasdair! I'm one of the hosts at @escapepod.org which is up for the Best Semiprozine Hugo this year. I do a bunch of other stuff including hosting for @pseudopod.org , the horror sister show of Escape Pod and voice acting in Roguemaker, The Magnus Archives and others.

The playtest pack for Carnival Tenebris is done and player handouts are off to some light layout. It took a couple of days longer than expected and I am exhausted. But I am so close to opening this. and that playtest pack is about 120 pages so you are basically getting a game! #ttrpg #rpg

Discovered yesterday that Lovecrafesque has an Italian Wikipedia page! Mind blown (there isn't a English wikipedia page for it, only Italian and something about that appeals to me) #ttprg #rpg

A lot of the people terribly worried about the echo chamber of social media are awfully quiet about Claude telling everyone how clever and insightful they are.

Only 7 DAYS left to back the Magic of Inventorying Kickstarter. Huge thanks to everyone who already pledged.♥️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/rol...

This was probably my favourite band when I was 14-16 so I loved this article. I did not love realising it has been 35 years since Levelling the Land came out. What happened to the time?

I don't have the patience to get good at layout but I sure appreciate everyone who hones this craft!

#Longcon is on 27-28 June at the Garrison Hotel in Sheffield, UK, offering a different convention approach - you play a mini-campaign over the whole weekend. We've 8 fantastic games, and would love to see more folks there - please have a look and register via the link below! longcon.ttrpg.uk

✨Hey, gorgeous gargoyles! A new cathedral inspired freebie set just dropped ✨ Always and forever - free for personal & commercial use. ko-fi.com/s/c330df47a4

Famously Sauron's eye never missed any intruders upon his land

E3G released a report last year showing that the UK can meet all its energy needs without wood burning power stations like Drax www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try." Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

To my fellow goths: Happy NINE INCH NOIZE release day. We are blessed.

'And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.'

I never got the stock boomer "I hate my spouse" humor. Whaddaya mean I get to see my favorite human every day? We sleep in the same bed, we're always there for each other, we do our favorite activities together, and they're there when I wake up? Fuckin' awesome!

Let me draw for your thing. I've been told I'm quick, friendly, and affordable!

Hello #PortfolioDay 👋 I'm Ramona - an illustrator who loves to draw ornate and vintage inspired things for indie game designers and authors. ✨I also have a freebie library for those on a budget ✨ 🔗 alderdoodle.co.uk/custom-art 📮 [email protected] 🆓 ko-fi.com/alderdoodle/...

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

I promise you - if any of my idea achieve full life then we are all in so much trouble...

Were Were those the only two options

I'm on a strict budget so I limited my purchases to one from each store: Wreck This Deck by @beckyannison.bsky.social and Two-Hand Path by @wilkiescandylab.com . Very nice to have physical copies of both!

Hang on a minute! We have raccoons in the UK!!!???

Thanks ♥️ I think LOVECRAFTESQUE and MAGIC OF INVENTORYING, while wildly different in themes and tones, are both within an exciting storytelling space where TTRPG and board games enthusiasts can come together. I hope more games will deliver that. 😊 For the Queen, Fall of Magic also come to mind.

Hang on a minute... is writing evocative #ttrpg setting, 90% cool names for things?

probably time for me to listen to the whole lot again then!