@beckyannison
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/
What is the name for a small, local collections of businesses. All in the same area who form a loose coalition to do things like 'pool their money to buy street decorations for a celebration'.
@armadajosh.bsky.social very much edits as he goes and polishes things to a final edit is pretty light.
I throw millions of words and then grind my way through many editing passes.
I don't think there is a right or wrong way to do it.
Finished posting another designer diary on Carnival Tenebris for Patrons.
Like the others this is more about my writing process than the nuts and bolts of the system. But that will come in time.
#rpg #ttrpg #darkcarnival #writingprocess
I love Ninefox Gambit by @deuceofgearsmusic.bsky.social for so.many.reasons but I'll give you just one for now...
Naming a weapon 'Threashold Winnower' was so visceral and evocative. I knew it was going to be horrific even before I know what it actually did.
The two modes of writing:
Accumulating words at speed so you feel you've accomplished something.
Brutally editing words to the bone to feel you've accomplished something.
Victoria Wood
People should be REALLY scared by this, it's normalising refusing healthcare to a section of the community for entirely ideological reasons with absolutely no medical reason
One of the most generous creators I know in the space @alderdoodle.bsky.social constantly gives people access to incredible art at no cost!
Not only that, she creates fantastic art for covers, cards, clothes and more 💕
www.alderdoodle.co.uk
and GMing for actual play has another set of needs entirely about audience, trends and pacing for episodes which I'm not particularly knowledgeable about.
Maybe I need to build it out by doing some episodes on successfully GMing different types of games and different types of system.
Different games/genres have one set of needs, different systems have another set and being a great GM means picking the right tools for both.
#ttrpg #rpg #GMingadvice
My 'how to GM' series focused on prep because in most situations 'how to be a great GM' comes down to agreeing expectations and choosing the right tools and system for the game experience you want.
Even railroading is just a useful technique in the right circumstances.
#ttrpg #rpg #GMadvice
A new episode of Black Armada Tales launched yesterday!
Come and catch up with the latest mystery, The Wrecking Yard.
A Tenebrium capable ship arrived at The Forge shipyard needing emergency repairs. Carrying deadly cargo and hidin deadlier secrets.
#actualplay #realplay #ttrpg #spacegothic #rpg
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
Ministers in the House of Lords have refused to rule out a Corporate Research Exemption in AI scraping regulations.
This must be lobbied, and I've asked my MP to do so.
@jessicatoale.bsky.social
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
🧵 1/4
Will we suddenly get a lot of cheap chips for laptops and have them come down in price?
that is so depressing, our green party is very real and beautifully earnest.
Loving waking up to this news!
definitely real... what is the green party in the US, is it not a real thing?
I've launched 4 (very) successful TTRPG crowdfunding campaigns in as many years. One like = one no-nonsense take on indie TTRPG crowdfunding.
Reminder: you can follow the Play Unsafe Kickstarter now without worrying that it'll hit a round number of followers or anything. It just passed 333 and there aren't really any interesting numbers approaching.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra...
A black and white scrollwork bookplate illustration. It has large oval frame in the centre with a small banner at the bottom. Both are surrounded by symmetrical scrollwork on a starry sky background.
Recently completed bookplate illustration for an indie author ✨
Black Armada Tales has a new episode out!
We play Ex Tenebris an underfunded team of investigators protecting the republic against dark forces in the Tenebrium.
A moment of reprieve for the team to relax won't last long.
#realplay #actualplay #ttrpg #rpg #spacegothic
Watching the death of thought with ai in realtime at work, as a guy continually prompts a model until it changes a single word in a paragraph, instead of just.. y'know, writing that word himself
Apparently nothing moves my beloved friends faster from 'I'm too busy' to 'I can make Monday' than...
'Well I suppose I could run Monsterhearts again'
Love you guys!
#ttrpg #rpglife
hang on , what did I miss?
I love this series and was over the moon to do an episode of the Appendix N Book Club, on the first book, a couple of years ago.
Check it out!
#booksky #ttrpg #rpgs #appendixN
model of a giant toad wearing a massive fly agaric backpack or hat. his tongue is extended in the process of trying to grab some dinner.
everyone's heard of a toadstool, but how often have you seen a stooltoad?
Our lifesized/giant (depending on if you're a human or a 28mm miniature) toad, Kenneth, comes with alternate open and closed mouth pieces so you can have him schlorping or sitting smug under his agaric hat.
Starmer arranging an emergency press conference for 11am to tell the entire nation to get back to work.
I don't use Chatgpt or any similar and this article basically sums up (one of the reasons) why. I feared that without being able to see the underlying sources that this it what might happen and it looks like... it is.
But I guess a lot of people have bet the farm on convincing us this is all fine.
